I D FUTURE 1Mw 43UU Sep page 2 Sixty-Six Years of Editorial Freedom No. 32S ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, THURSDAY, AUGUST 8, 1957 5. Jury In diCts p Soviet Agent onel Who Posed As an Artist IRadio Contact with Moscow" ORK (P)-A slight, quiet Russian colonel, who posed for iondescript Brooklyn artist, was indicted yesterday as a al grand jury said his specialty was military and atomic udolf Ivanovich Abel, 55, the highest ranking Red agent. i for espionage in this country. Links with Kremlin xently had links with the hierarchy of the Kremlin's spy eal his own background, Abel borrowed the birth certifi- ntity of an American child who died 55 years ago. hods, the government said, involved microfilms hidden in t objects and short wave radio contacts with Moscow. e of the spy plot was said to have resulted from the the West of Reino Hayhanen, named a co-conspirator Diin the Abel indictment. Described, Senate Debate Passes Ended News tmdup Asseiated Press NAMA, Bahrein A minia- army ' British troops and deseir warriors prepared rday td move' against forces te rebellious Imam of Oman., ireatening in the background t te"up war was a new gen- r1in for British Middle East ,y. B-itish jeep force, along with nate soldiers and scouts from flucial ,bnan, moved into the g. of Isz without opposition. to now, the army has not tered the enemy. It has ad- ed across 80 miles of desert southeastern Arabia unop- d. ie rmy'a object is to take :ebel stronghold at Nizwa, a rt fortress, 12 miles north- -of ,zz. ie British hope for a quick out blow to end the three- kold rebellion of the Imam, seeks to set up an indepen- Ssultanate 'of Oman. * , * ib Testimony .... ASH IN tTO N-A top official ' e Roto-Broil Corp., of Ameri- Sew York, testifiad yesterday It -held back: $23,000 of its °oyes' union dues and used the ey for company operations. ere was testimony, in the e hackets Investigatig Com- t, . Rackets Investigating mittee, that-the money sup- dly was diverted through col- in ybetween union and man- nerit, but this was not nailed :1. ie big reason it was left in the ras that Bernard Tolkow, bus- I manager of the. union local erned took the Fifth Amend- t and refused to say whether new about or had condoned. arrangement. ish A-Tests.. . ,ETAIDlE, Australia -Brit- is expected to. begin a new s of atomic device 'tests at Maralinga Desert testing nds in southern Australia in it four weeks. ero scheduled explosions -in It believed to be of a type not ried by the British. * *. * ii, Hf, . negie Hall ... W YORK' -Carnegie Hall, Ltural landfnark in New York since 1891, will be razed in to make way for a 44-story raper. , e $22 million structure will je ted at '7th Ave. and 57th urrounded by a sunken plaza with cultural exhibits. ruts . Glickman, chairman of 0lick Ina Corp., bought Car- 1~lls year for $five mil- * *' * aer Hardy Dies . . . RTH HOLLYWOOD, Calif. dliver Hardy, the frowning n who lumbered like a tipsy iant through more than 200 tick movies, died yesterday. was 65. ** rdy, the heavier half of the nan-thin man comedy team aurel and Hardy, had been ally incapacitated since last when he suffered a stroke. nie Improves .. . a rr r Trncn.. as a trained Red espionage agent, he spent six years in this country. After his return to Europe, he reportedly defected to the free world. Flown to U. S. He was flown to this country and went before the grand jury in Brooklyn Tuesday to tell what he knew. Presumably, he' will be the key government witness against Abel. The indictment linked Abel to principals in two of the major Soviet spy organizations uncover- ed in the Western Hemisphere since World War II. He .apparently' was connected, with a Kremlin master spy who was involved in the free world's' first big post war espionage scan- dal. Russians Named Named as co-conspirators with Abel but not as defendants were four Russians, including Vitali G. Pavlov. The latter headed a Rus- sian secret police network based In the Soviet Embassy in Ottawa, Canada. It was broken up in 1945 after the arrest of atomic-traitor Dr. Alan Nunn May. Ramificatidhs from this Cana- dian spy case led to the arrests later of Dr. Klaus Fuchs in Eng- land and Julius and Ethel Rosen- berg in the United States. From. them, the Soviet Union got early, 'secret data on the atom bomb. Another co-conspirator, A. M. Korotkov, figured in the recent espionage indictment in Manhat- tan of George Zlatovski and his wife, Jane, accused as members of a' Soviet spy ring headed by Jack Soble. The government is trying to get the Zlatovskis back from Paris, where they are living. 'Mastermind' The government called.Korotkov, the mastermind behind Abel's op- erations. He was described as the head in Moscow of the American section of the NKVD, the Russian secret police. Abel's rank--colonel of Russian intelligence-made him the most, obvious of potential spies. But apparently he concealed it well by posing as an obscure photographic artist in the heart of crowded Brooklyn.; Then the indictment came just in time. Abel was in Texas awaiting de- portation, a move that would have given, him safe haven /outside this country. Abel's activities, as described by the government, are in the classic- pattern of the fictional spy - microfilmed secrets transmitted to his Kremlin masters in hollowed- out coins, pencils, bolts, cuff links and ear rings. Frank Gambuzza, who runs an electronics shop in the Brooklyn area said Abel bought a short- wave radio antenna and somej tubes from him. He regarded the Russian officer as a man learned in electronics. Eienhower Reaffirms Policy Basis Answers Criticism; Cites Logic as Base WASHINGTON () - President Dwight D. Eisenhower said yestre- 'day he would be, the first to ad- mit that maybe "I have not done as well as might have been done" to push his civil rights and other bills through Congress. He told a news conference, however, he is going to keep right on dealing with Congress as he has been: "Never employ threats ... and try to convince people by the logic of my position." The President looking cool in the hot conference room in a tan suit complete with buttoned-up vest, fielded more than his usual quota of questions about what he personally has done or failed to do. A few questions concerned poli- cy matters; such as' disarmament. He said lie had "utmost hope" in that field. A good many questions were aimed directly at Eisenhower the individual. As to self-criticism, Eisenhower did have some: "Now, I would be the first to say that with the difficulty that many, of the administration pro- posals have run into, that some- where along the line I have not done as well as might have been done "I, as you know, never employ threats. I never try to hold up clubs of any kind. I just say, 'This is what I believe to be best for the United States,' and I try to~ convince . people by the logic of my position.- "If that is wrong politically, why then I suupose you will just have to say I am wrong. But that is my method, and that is what I try to do." 'House, OK's Miltary Allotments WASHINGTON (P)-The House yesterday passed and sent to the Senate a $1Y2 billion money bill for military construction and some miscellaneous activities. Included were funds to begin work on an Air Force Academy chapel of controversial design. Inclusion of the chapel funds marked a change of mind by the House. It voted tentatively Tuesday, to bar the Air Force from using any money in the bill to build the chapel at its Colorado Springs, Colo., school., Wednesday a standing vote of 147-83 rejected an amendment to this effect which had been tenta- tively approved 102-53 a day earlier. As sent to the Senate, the bill carries $1,581,590,587 compared with President Eisenhower's ori- ginal request for $1,860,748,967. 'Tender Trap' Opening Set 'THE TENDER TRAP'-Presentation will open at,8't30 (tonight. It plays through Saturday at the Little Theater in the new Ann Arbor High School. The comedy concerns a young bachelor sales- man from a midwest drug firm and his eventual "trapping." The production stars George Webb, Ted Heusel, Mary Anne Stevenson, Ruth Livingston, Marian Mercer, Eras Cochrane, Larry Guss- man, and Alan Schreiber. ke MobiZes Defenses To Prevent Ik e Asiatic. InfluenzaEiei nUS WASHINGTON (J) - President funds for use against any large So far, Dwight D. Eisenhower took steps both in foreign cou yesterday to buttress the nation's epidemic of the disease. tries and in the United State defenses against any large-scale Specifically, the a d d i t io n a 1 death rates have been low (twc outbreak of Asiatic flu this fall $500,000 would be used for the tenths of one per cent) and ti or winter, following purposes: duration of the ailment relative 1. To prepare educational ma- short. Surgeon Gen. Leroy Burney of terial to encourage people to take But its onset is sudden, attar the United States Public Health advantage of a new commercially rates in the Far East have bee Service already has said "there is manufactured vaccine. (The gov- rather high - about 20 per cen a very definite probability" of ernment doesn't plan to buy vac- fever of 102 to 104 degrees las such a large occurrence of the cine, except for the armed forces, three to five days, followed I disease which, as of Aug. 2, 'had 2. Developmentof materials weakness for several more day struck 11,000 persons. in the used in detecting the disease and the patient suffers headach United States and caused three which recently spread from Asia sore throat, cough and musc deaths, presumably from compli- to the Western Hemisphere. aches. cations. 3. Making 10 new specialists in The disease is caused by a new epidemics available to work with strain of flu virus, state authorities. President Eisenhower asked The White House also an- Congress for $500,000 to enable nounced that, in the event of an the PHS to be perpared for any outbreak which constituted an. epidemics of the malady. emergency, the secretary of the The surgeon general has said Health and Welfare Department that if epidemics should occur would be authorized to use about "they could spread from 'San $2 million to call 100 PHS reserve Secretary Francisco to Boston in a period officers to duty and to provide as short as perhaps four weeks." supplies. WASHINGTON ( )-Neil I The chief executive also re- The disease for which the na- McElroy, a super salesman of soa quested authority to transfer tion is thus marshaling prepared- for the past 32 years, was name about $2 million of public health nes forces, is relatively mild. - sy. a. p inf ab BOMB EXPLODES:, Pacifists WthBat Pray forHatof Tests ATOMIC TEST SITE, Nev., (R) -- A jolting atomic blast flared spectacularly over the desert before dawn yesterday. But a group of pacifists, praying at the edge of the test site, said they ignored the awesome display. Atomic bombs, said aspokesman for the demonstrators, are "evil and obscene . . . contrary to American and Christian ways." The bomb, suspended 1,500 feet above the desert floor from a tethered balloon, sent forth a powerful shock wave that collapsed a Navy blimp moored 100,000 yards away and hit observers on News Nob, 10 miles distant, with the force of a blow. The pacifists prayed during the 5:25 a.m. test at Camp Mercury, which is on the edge of the test area 65 miles from the detonation point. They said they paid the CONSUMER RESEARCH: Ox ford Economist Compares Data By ERNEST ZAPLIT14Y Britain is not "as strong eco- nomically in relation to the United States as in the 1930's, but in rela- tion to pre-war conditions the British people as a whole are better off," Prof. Harold F. Lydall of Oxford University said yester- day. The British economist presented his findings of an extensive com- parison of consumer economics in the two countries. He said comparative differences in employment income were sig- nificantly greater in the higher 'Kr rl .. 19fM ir a- - o a flan there are sveen times' as many farmers in the United States. The income of 'the British farmer is about twice the size of the average industrial workers and roughly equal to the small businessman's, he said. This compares to the $3,500 average for.American farmers, be- low that of wage-earners. "The difference may explain why many Americans are leaving farms," he observed. Educational Differences Concerning Negroes, he attri- buted their economic position to difference in eicatinna llevei. financial, he said. Forty-seven per cent of total assets are in the form of securities and currency, "liquid assets" here. Disparity Homes and durable goods, not included in the "total assets" cited above, show an even greater disparity, Lydall said. Against 66 per cent of families in America, only a tenth own cars in Britain. The same comparison for refrigerators shows 70 per cent heie to five per cent in Britain. Almost half the homes in America are occupier-owned com- pared with 22 per cent there.