GROUND FORCE REDUCTION (See Page 2) C, r Sir Ii'Lrnl Dadl 9.MD a a Latest Deadline in the State SHOWERS VOL. LXVII, No. 18S ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, JULY 20, 1956 FOU PAGES -Big Check Scandal "May Bring Inquiry Send Senate Banking Investigators To Illinois For On-the-Spot Study SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (P) - The growing $800,000 Illinois state check scandal yesterday touched off steps to recover the public money and a move that may bring a congressional inquiry. In Washington, Chairman J. W. Fulbright (D-Ark.) ordered two Senate Banking Committee investigators to Illinois for an on-the-spot Sstudy, The aim is to determine whether a small-scale committee in- vestigation in warranted. Illinois Atty. Gen. Latham Castle announced he had taken the first steps to retrieve for the state "an estimated $800,000 paid out ' upon fraudulent or forged war- Senate Defeats Hells Canyon Dam Bill; Bitter Debating Ends With New Steel. Wage Offer Discussed PITTSBURGH (P})-The nation's three biggest steel companies yes- terday were reportedly discussing with the United Steelworkers a new contract offer for three years, r duration in an effort to end the - 19-day-old nationwide strike. The offer was believed to repre- sent modfications in wage and other benefit proposals originally submitted by the companies. The union was believed cool to the pro- posals. The offer apparently was placed on the bargaining table when representatives of U.S. Steel Corp., Bethlehem Steel Co., and Republic Steel met with union President David J. McDonald and other union officials. , Closed Doors None of those attending the hour and three-quarter session would discuss what went on behind the closed doors. However, both union and company said they will arrange to meet again today. The union was reported to be holding out for a 15-cent hourly wage increase and time and a half pay for Sunday work. Exact terms of the industry proposal were not learned. Newsmen learned of the devel- opments after the negotiating ses- .sion ended and industry and union officials reported to the federal mediation director, Joseph F. Finnegan. Like the participants in the conference, Finnegan de- clined to discuss anything that went on in the conference, or re- ports from either of the parties. Rejected Offer The proposal is believed to be the first under consideration since the union rejected an industry offer for a 52-month contract six hours before the 650,000 steel- workers struck mills producing 90 per cent of the nation's steel. The industry said its original of- fer would give workers a 17 2/3 cents hourly package increase in the first year. In rejecting this proposal McDonald said the pack- age value would come to 14 cents. The steelworkers were earning an hourly average of $2.46, in- eluding overtime before the strike. The union leaders in discussing the three-year offer are reported to have, termed it no concession, whatever. They say the union has never in its 20-year history signed a contract for more than two years' duration and always with a one- year wage reopening clause. The report that McDonald is seeking a 15-cent hourly wage in- crease is the first suggestion that he has put a price on his wage demand. The union originally asked for a "substantial" pay boost. Ike To Travel To Panama WASHINGTON (AP) - President Dwight D. Eisenhower is still a convalescent, the White House said Thursday, and will travel to Pan- ama as one. This word came from Asst. Press rSecretary Murray Snyder, who was asked by newsmen .to check with Eisenhower's doctors. This means the physicians have extended their original estimate of the period needed for Eisen- hower's recovery from his June 9 operation to relieve an intestinal obstruction. On the day of the operation, the rants" issued by the state auditor's office. Had Been $540,000 Orville E. Hodge resigned as state auditor in the Republican state administration Monday. At that time - and until the attor- ney general's announcement yes- terday the amount involved in the case had been estimated at around $540,000. The mushrooming inquiries re- volve around a series of state checks - called warrants in offi- cial usage -- that came out of the auditor's office. Investigators have said that some of these checks were cashed by persons who were not listed as payees and some were endorsed on typewriters instead of in custom- ary hand writing. May Justify Inquiry 1 Sen. Paul H. Douglas. (D-Ill.) started the move in Washington for Senate intervention with a re- quest for action by Sen. Fulbright Douglas said a congressional in- vestigation may be justified be- cause checks in the case were cashed by banks whose deposits are insured by the Federal De- posit Insurance Corp. Fulbright said two investigators -one a Democrat and the other a Republican - will fly to Chica- go, perhaps Friday. Assigned to what he termed a preliminary in- vestigation were Robert Wallace, the Banking Committee's chief of staff, and Don Rogers, another member of the staff. Give Affidavits Atty. Gen. Castle's statement said he had given State Treasur- er Warren Wright affidavits signed by two Springfield 'men, who asserted six warrants for a total of $107,922 were issued frau- dulently in their names. The affidavits set forth that the sums specified in the warrants were not owed to them and that they did not receive the money. Five of the warrants, for a total of $97,537, were made out in the hame of Elmer J. Bretz, a.Spring- field #contractor. One was made out to the Reuter Business Sys- tems for $10,385. Bretz and Clarence J. Reuter, head of the firm bearing his name, signed the affidavits. Castle instructed Wright to de- mand reimbursement from the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, the last endorser of the warrants. The attorney general said similar recovery steps will be taken later as additional affidavits are ob- tained. Crick Speaks At Final Symposium Dr. Francis H. C. Crick, Caven- dish Laboratory, Cambridge, Eg- land, addressed the last meeting of a three week session organized by *the biophysics research cen- ter, University of Michigan, yes- terday. He discussed the molecular structure and biological function, summing up the findings of the s neetings. It is his belief that the work being done by Dr. S. Benzer of Purdue University in the past two years is extremely significant. It is "the beginning of molecular genetics, I feel sure," said the British scientist. He further stated that it constitutes a new set of ideas regarding mutation. At the meetings which began July 3, thegeneral review lec- tures were given by Professors G. Pontecorve, Genetics department, he University of Glasgow, Scot- land and R. C. Williams, Virus: Laboratory University of Califor- -Daily-Don Watkins LINGUISTIC FORUM SPEAKER-Robert B. LePage from the University College of the West Indies, spoke last night on "Creole English n the British Caribbean." His report was part of the Summer Session Linguistics Institute. 'YES SIR': Testify McKeon Drank, Napped Before March PARRIS ISLAND, S. C. (IP)-A brother drill instructor testified yesterday S. Sgt. Matthew C. McKeon drank vodka and napped before leading six Marine recruits to death in a swamp. Cpl. Richard J. King of Eugene, Ore., also told the court-martial board that the recruits of the ill-fated platoon No. 71 had been given 10 hours swimming instruction. McKeon, 31, of Worchester, Mass., is the former drill instructor who led the 74-man platoon inc Carroll Play To Be Given On Wednesday Irish Carroll Speech playwright Paul Vincent provides Department ofj witi its third play on the summer playbill. Under direction of Prof. Jack E. Bender of the speech department, "The Wayward Saint" will begin a four-day run in Lydia Men- delssohn theatre at 8 p.m. next Wednesday. "The' Wayward Saint" is a comic-fantasy, was presented on Broadway during the 1954-55 sea- son. Costumes and scenery for the production are designed by Mar- jorie Smith and Edward Andrea- sen. Providing the basic action for Carroll's plot is a St. Francis-like Irish canon who is able to talk to birds, heal children and make plums grow on cherry trees. He acquires the reputation of being a' saint, and likes this no more than the bishop who banishes him to a remote country parish. There, in the form of a wordly baron, appears an emissary of the devil who is eager for such a trophy as the soul of a saint. Prodded by the baron, the canon begins to think he heally is a saint, starts meddling in lives and dabbling in miracles and soon commits some serious clerical errors. Only at the last minute is he retored to former humility. Walter Kerr of the New York Herald Tribune has praised "The Wayward Saint" for being a "light, droll antic." column of two's into the marshes 4around Ribbon Creek about 8:30 p.m. April 8. Six drowned. McKeon is charged with involun- tary manslaughter, oppression of recruits and two counts of drinking on duty. McKeon Speak's Yesterday the usually impassive McKeon spoke his first word in court. He was asked by the court if he agreed to a concession by his civ- ilian lawyer that six Marines were led to their death by him. McKeon grabbed a microphone and almost shouted "yes." -He omitted the "sir," customary when addressing a senior officer. Under cross-examination King was asked, "Isn't it true that extra instruction is encouraged on the part of drill instructors . . . to as- sist the recruit in becoming good basic Marines?" 'Yes Sir' The slender and blonde corporal with a "flattop" haircut, replied smartly, "Yes, sir!" Defense Atty. Emile Zola Ber- man of New York City contends that the night march into the tall grass and water of the tidal marshland was in reality "extra instruction." King was the fourth of five wit- nesses to take the stand in the steaming school auditorium con- verted to a courtroom. He said that on that fateful April 8 he had gone into the squad bay at the rifle range "to get the re- cruits squared away for their re- turn. to mainside-the permanent base area. "About that time Sgt. McKeon came in and ordered a field, day- Marine - parlance for a general clean up. I picked up my gear and went back to the drill instructors quarters." The young Marine said there had been a report from other drill instructors that members of the platoon had been "lolling around on the grass and smoking." MYSTERIOUS: Germans Threaten Troops BONN, Germany (P)-A myste- rious German underground outfi wrote U.S. Ambassador James B Conant in Nazi-like terms yester day that it is ready to fight t drive foreign troops from "ou holy soil." German officials also wer threatened. "We will deal mercilessly with our traitors," the letter said. I called Chancellor Konrad Aden- auer's pro-Western government" willing lackey and spineless dog.. obedient to Jewish money anc foreign lords." "We can no longer stand by in- active, abused by dirt," said th group, which calls itself the "Fighting Assn. for an Independ ent Germany. "We have sufficient strength position of power and means o power to carry this fight throug to a victorious end . . . Only a independent and strong German can protect world civilizatio against the certain penetration o Bolshevism." The ominously worded letter part of a go-home campaign pre viously aimed at high America military officers in Germany sought to solicit Conant's aid, say- ing: "In the spreading of ou thought, you must and can hel us:" Disclosed by the U.S. Embassy the letter becomes part of the fil of American Intelligence and Ger- man FBI agents seeking to ru down the underground group. No "Fighting Assn. for an In dependent Germany" is known t the Interior Ministry, which i charged with protecting the Bon Republic against subversive move ments. Initial German speculation wa that Communists-not averse t using other colors to stir up tur moil-were behind the campaign. Throughout the campaign, man of the letters have been post. marked Munich, H i t e r's ol stamping ground. The campaign coincides with un easiness among Germans ove crimes-including rape, killing and robberies-attributed to U.S servicemen. "A midnight curfe has been ordered for enlisted me by the U.S. Army in Europe a one way to reduce'such incidents Wheat Vote Today WASHINGTON UP) - Nearly a million farmers will be eligible t vote in a 36-state referendum to day on continuing federal market ing quotas on the 1957 wheat crop The quotas, which has been pro. posed under farm law by the Agri- culture Department, are designe to keep present record-breaking surpluses of the grain from be coming larger. The controls have been in effect on wheat sinc 1954. ictory for Republicans Southerners, 43 of GOP' I t{join Forces Wiley and Langer Vote for Measure WASHINGTON (M)-The Senate yesterday rejected the Hells Can- a yon Dam bill. giving the Eien- r hower administration a elear-cut victory over the Democratic lead- e ership and public power advocates. 1< The Democrats lost, by a 51-41 roll call vote, a long and bitter t ffight for authorization of a federal -' dam in the Snake River bordering Idaho and Oregon, where the ad- . ministration has licensed construe- d -tion of three smaller private power Eight Democrats, all from the e South, sided with 43 Republicans e --Daily-Don Watkins to defeat the legislation. Only two - 'THE. GLORIUS FIGIT'-W. Beverly Carter, publisher of Ptts. Republicans-Senators Alexander burgh Courier, extols Negro press and its purpose. Wiley of Wisconsin and Langer of North Dakota-voted for the bill. f i The Democratic leadership which f e r r s M r has been accusing the Eisenhower 1 administration of "giving away" y natural resources, had pressed the f obattle for a 485-million-dollar fed- f " M ----- Geral dam project in Hell's Canyon. Some of the seven debating Re- publicans termed the measure a By ADELAIDE WILEY political device being used to help n Fighting for equality of opportunity for all people-not merely the coming campaigns of Demo- Negroes-is the main objective of the Negro press today, W. Beverly crats in the Pacific Northwest, - Carter said yesterday in University series, "Patterns of American It has long been a prime politi- r Culture: Contributions of the Negro." cal issue in the Northwest whether P- Carter is publisher of the largest Negro paper in the country, Hell's Canyon should be dammed The Pittsburgh Courier, by federal structure, or the three , Th Pitsbrgh oure1.smaller dams planned by the Idaho "In the tradition of their early white counterparts, the first Negro Power Co. - newspapers in a sensational, poorly constructed manner shouted loud Idaho Power has said it can n and long on wickedness of slav-i build three dams for 133 million Weny EgrTisTold dollars of its own money. S Wane heThingsV Idaho Power already has one "After some years, Negroes dam under construction although s wanted to hear other things-soIrthevalidity of its license is being n church, labor and fraternal organ- II * O"" challenged In the U.S. Court of - ization came in."1 . Appeals by public power groups, In,1876, the position of the Ne- Cancelled s gro press, "born to protest", be- o gan to decline. 'The Glorious WASHINGTON ()-The UnitedP . Fight' was over. States cracked down on Egypt last rs However, in 1910, he pointed night by cancelng a previous offert y out, the Courier and other papers to help finance the $1,300,000,000 Late Outstate were established to "meet the Nile River, d challenge of Negro positions then. Aswan Dam on the Negroes wanted to be told they The sudden action left the wayApplications - were once something, and would clear for Russia to step in-if it r be something again. Negroes then can and desires-to aid President LAFAYETTE, Ind. ()-Purdue s felt that they were inferior to Gamal Abdel Nasser's government University disclosed yesterday it - whites.," in launching the huge irrigation. will not accept out-of-state male v Discrimination 'Less Raw' power project. . students for the first semester this n During the 1930's, discrimina- The State Department, i an- fall unless they were signed up s tion was "less raw, more subtle," nouncing the decision, said blunt- before June 1. - but Joe Louis and Haile Selassie ly that "it is not feasible" any longer for the United States to go Prof. Sterling L. Shaw, associate appeared to keep a sense of ahead with the offer extended last director of admissions, said the December. It said developments ban already has affected 50 male Papers were then more bal- within the past seven months have students. Women students are not anced, with entertainment fea- rendered uncertain Egypt's ability included in the new restriction be tures, pictures, columns, and wo- to carry her share of the financial ause of their limited number. men's interest page. Huge circu- ure Shaw said the ruling became _ laion wee biltuprater hanburden.Shwsiterungbcm lations were built up, rather than The statement did not say so necessary because university facil- advertising and, there "were no but the United States had been ities in general are overcrowded Uncle Toms in our papers." growing cooler toward the dam, and "must be saved for Indiana - Carter added that Supreme Dispatches from London Thurs- students." d Court decisions showed "maturing day said that Nasser's government The immediate cause of the re- g of the Court." He noted that in is believed to have mortgaged its striction, he said,, is the extreme "Misery-sipi" the governor claim- important cotton crop for some shortage of housing accomoda- e ed the Court had been "unAmer- years to come to pay for the jet tions for men and the overcrowded 9 ican." bombers, fighters, tanks and guns freshman enrollment in engineer These decisions by the Court it is getting from Red Czechoslo- schools. again call up Negro Press to voice vakia. Cotton is the basis of the School officials have forecast an protests: "the historical pendulum Egyptian economy. enrollment of 13,000 studentsaon may allow us again to make an- __________ the campus this fall, compared other glorious chapter. with 11,831 last fall. By 1970, they Civil Rights Discussions House Continues said, the enrollment is expected He said the daily preset must to be 30,000. continue publishing civil rights Civil Rights Debate The last Legislature heard sug- discussions - "must give success gestions for limiting the number stories of places which have al- WASHINGTON P-The Houe o -sate stuents permitted ready integrated." refused yesterday to kill the civil to attend Purdue or increased The press must encourage regis- rights bill. tering and voting among Negroes, It also defeated a move to strip However, Dr. Frederick L. Hovde, and other, regardless of race, col- the bill of everything but authority Purdue president, recently *an- or or creed, hating no men, fear- to set up an investigating com- nounced a fee increase for this ing no man. mission. fall, "At the Courier we're getting A motion to void the measure ready for the time when people, by striking out the enacting clause, ' eration Alert' not just colored people or white offered by Rep. William E. Miller people, but people, are considered (R-NY), was rejected on a teller's Staged first-class Americans." vote of 104-91. To B In conclusion, he said Negro Miller told the House he had press' existence today is in ful- come to the conclusion that the WASHINGTON (I)-The coun- fillment of leading "the world bill was dangerous. He compared try will undergo a make-believe away from racial and national an- it to "Hitler decrees" he said he atomic attack Friday to test civil tagonism when it accords to ev- had encountered as a prosecutor defense measures. ,* VIENNA-BORN: Harpsichordist To Perform Vienna-born Alice Ehlers, harp- sichordist, will present a public concert at the University Tuesday at 8:30 p.m. Mme. Ehlers is a graduate of the Hochschule for Musik, Berlin. A member of the faculty of the Uni- versity of Southern California, she is a guest lecturer in the Univer- sity School of Music this summer. The first half of Tuesday night's program will be devoted to the music of Bach (1685-1750.) Mme. Ehlers will open the evening with "Fantasy in C Minor," following it with "Chromatic Fantasy and ~'1mipnt" And ~"PA,-+itn.Nn,-9')in-. MIA