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L. LXVIII, No. 4S

ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, JUNE 27, 1958

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Ike Sends Envoys
To Nuclear Talks
Geneva Parley To Begin Tuesday;
Russian Cooperation Still Uncertain
WASHINGTON (P)-President Dwight D. Eisenhower sped three
United States scientists to Geneva yesterday with instructions to carry
on, if possible, a series of nuclear talks with Russia.
He told them the United States must persevere in its quest for
controlled disarmament "in the face of whatever difficulties the Soviets
may raise."
A reversal of Russia's stand on the technical talks Wednesday
night left it uncertain whether the sessions would begin next Tuesday
at Geneva, as scheduled.
However, a Moscow announcement that a Romanian scientist had
been named to take part led to speculation here that the Soviets would


FRANCES GREER
...soprano
U'Concert
To Feature
Greer Today
Frances Greer, soprano, of the
School of Music faculty will give
a public concert at 8:30 p.m. today
in Trueblood Auditorium, Frieze.
Building,
Prof. Eugene Bossart, of the
School of Music will accompany
the performance. Miss Greer, a
former opera and concert stage
personality, will present a varied
program.
Opening the concert, Miss Greer
will sing "Fingo per mio diletto;"
"Tantin Tantino" by Traetta-
Trucco; "Batti Batti," from Don
Giovanni by'Mozart; "Trois Chan-
sons de Bilitis" by Debussy; "Les
Gars qui vont a la fete" by Pou-
lenc; "Chanson d'automme" by
Hahn; and "Ah fuyez a present
malheureuses pensees" by Gaubert.
Miss Greer will sing a group of
folk-songs from around the world:
"10;000 Miles" from the United
States; "Xango" from Brazil;
"Roving in the Dew" from Great
Britain; "Vidalita" from Argen-
tina; and "Coco de los Santos"
from Panama.
"Cinco canciones populares Ar-
gentinas" by Ginastera will close
the program, the fifth concert in
the 1958-59 series.
World News
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show up after all. State Depart-
ment officials said they were not
sure that this was the meaning of
the announcement, but they hoped
so.
Memo Given
Press officer Lincoln White said
the memorandum naming Roma-
nian Professor Horia Hulubei was
given to United States Ambassador
Llewellyn Thompson Wednesday
night, Moscow time.
That was shortly after Russia
threatened to boycott the confer-
ence unless the United States
agreed that the scientific talks on
detection of nuclear tests should
lead to an agreement to halt such
testsr
Eisenhower wired his message to
the three men at New York's Idle-
wild Airport as they were about
to board a plane for Switzerland.
"You leave under uncertain con-
ditions," Eisenhower wrote, 'but
I and all the American people con-
tinue to hope that the door to
understanding is still open."
Caps Exchange
During recent weeks, Russia had
indicated'readiness to hold techni-
cal talks among scientists of four
nations from each side at Geneva
starting next Tuesday. Their goal
was to try to agree on methods,
techniques and instruments needed
to detect cheating on any East-
West agreement to suspend nu-
clear tests.
Reds About-Face
Two days ago Russia sent a
memo saying this was agreeable
but voicing hope that the techni-
cal talks might lead to a quick ban
on nuclear tests.
In an overnight about-face, Rus-
sia sent another memo Wednesday
saying the talks would be useless
unless the United States gave as-
surances that they would lead to
a test suspension.

Committee
Votes Aid
Fund Slash
Chairman Charges
Information Leak
WASHINGTON WA) - Rep. Otto
E. Passman (D-La.) confirmed last
night that a House Appropriations
subcommittee has cut 482 and one-
half million dollars from foreign
aid funds.
Passman, head of the subcom-
mittee, did so indirecty in saying
there has been what he termed an
accurate leak of information to
that effect. Passman blamed "the
spenders and the wasters" for the
leak.
Passman said reports of the sub-
committee's action were "deliber-
ately leaked to give top-echelon'
people downtown more time to
conduct their unprecedented pres-
sure campaign for more money."
If sustained, the subcommittee
action would mean a total cut of
about '750 million dollars from the
amount originally requested by
President Eisenhower. Congress,
cut $266,500,000 from the original
request in a separate authorization
measure.
Nixon Raps
NiX01 a
Pessimists
PORTLAND, Maine ') -- Vice-l
President Richard M. Nixon,
launching an offensive against
the Democrats yesterday, called
the five years of the Eisenhowert
administration "the best years of
our lives.'
A crowd of about 2,000 at the1
state Republican co n v e n t i o n
cheered and applauded lustily as
the Vice-President d e cl a r e d:r
"Economic prospects today aret
better than they have been at any1
time since the first of the year. 1
We have reached the bottom of
the recession."
Ruddy, smiling and trim, the
Vice-President hammered hardt
on his contention that the GOP
has no reason whatever for going '
on the defensive.
"I have little patience with1
those Republicans who have a
hangdog down-in-the-mouth at-1
titude about the Republican par-
ty's chances in 1958 and 1960," hej
said.

Fighting
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Adams Calls
Accusations
'Falsehood'
WASHINGTON () - Shermanj
Adams last night branded as a
series of malicious lies testimony
by John Fox of Boston that Adams
had some interest in Bernard Gold-
fine's mills and once promised to
help Goldfine in a federal agency
case.
"Deliberate and malicious false-
hoods," said Adams, President
Dwight D. Eisenhower's No. 1 aide.
Later he called newsmen to
White House press secretary's of-
fice and dictated a statement in
which he said:
Denies All
"Mr. Fox's malicious accusa-
tions are made largely in terms
of what he alleges someone else
told him.
"While I have no way of know-
ing what someone else is supposed
to have said to Mr. Fox, I do
know what I myself have said,
heard and done.
"It is difficult to separate the
many falsehoods in Mr. Fox's in-
credible testimony. Virtually ev-
erything he has said about me-
in one way or the other-is false."
Testimony

NEGLECTED BY JOURNALISTS:
Religion Influences Politics-Littell

Strife Ends

By ROBERT JUNKER
Journalists in general fail to note that the East-West struggle
goes deeper than economic-political conflict, Franklin H. Littell,
representative in Germany of the Franz Lieber Foundation, said
yesterday.
Delivering the second lecture in the summer session series on
"Religion in Contemporary Society," Littell asserted that there is a
shortage of religious news from the Continent. "Thus the average
observer misses one of the most , -


important areas of European poli-
tics," he explained.
There are both church parties
and anti-clerical parties through-
out northern Europe, he said, and
both influence policy and hold
power. Thus religious decisions in
Europe are very important to the
United States. Most newspapers,
magazines and wire services with
correspondents in Europe make no
effort, however, to cover religious
affairs, he said.
Bias Charged
Discussing biased reporting of
European affairs in some maga-
zines, Littell said, "'The Christian
Century,' our leading Protestant
journal, has for years followed a
pacifist and isolationist line, and
applied this accordingly to Ger-
many."
This magazine, "with its politics
of the wish," has prepared its
readers for great German displays
against rearmament, conscription
and use of atomic weapons, dis-
plays which have never occurred,
he declared. It has also made "un-
documented inuendos" against
Chancellor Konrad Adenauer.
'False View'
Even religious news coming out
of Germany, Littell noted, tends
to be biased. A German protestant
news service, which each day
issues a bulletin on religious news,
is controlled by left-wing Evan-
gelicals who give their group mem-
bers exaggerated importance. he
said. This gives a "false view" of
the German religion to the out-
side world.
Churches have more influence
in Germany today than at any
time in the last 200 years,aLittell
observed, with their position on

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the border of Communism ac-
counting for this.
Religious Influence
German religious movements
have influence in government up
to the Cabinet level, he said. "Prot-
estant groups in this country have,
not been able to call out a com-
parabale list of positions" like that
in present-day Germany for over
a hundred years.
"The faith will survive In Eu-
rope," Littell concluded, but brain-
power should match the dedica-
tion of these religious groups.

FRANKLIN LITTELL
. . . religion in politics

BY SOUTHERN OBJECTION:
loVe To Expedite Alaska
Statehood Bill Blocked
WASHINGTON (P)-A Southern objection last night blocked an
attempt to limit debate and start voting on the Alaska statehood bill
next Monday.
Sen. Strom Thurmond (D-S.C.) interposed the objection to a
unanimous consent requested by Sen. Mike Mansfield (D-Mont.), act-
ing majority leader.
Mansfield then said he planned to keep the Senate in session
last night until at least midnight and possibly all night. Late sessions
also will bw hel1d todi~ nd thpi

Goldfine's attorney, Roger Robb,
also challenged the story Fox told
the House subcommittee on legis-
lative oversight. The subcommittee
has been looking into gifts and
other favors bestowed on Adams
by Goldfine, a Boston industrialist.
Fox said, among other things,
that Adams once promised to help
Goldfine in a case pending before
the Federal Trade Commission.
Adams, in his denial of Fox's
testimony, termed it incredible for
any committee of Congress "would
permit a completely irresponsible
witness to use the committee as a
forum for making such vicious ac-
cusations."
Denies All
Adams also said:
"1) I categorically deny that I'
have ever said to Mr. Goldfine or,
to anyone else that I would take
care-or had taken care-of his
affairs with any federal agency.
"2) I categorically deny that

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Rocket Failure Probed;
New Engine Developed



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U.S. Warns
About Fliers
WASHINGTON (IP)-The United
State has notified Russia it views
with grave concern the prolonged
detention of nine United States
Army men in East Germany.
The State Department made
public Thursday, a formal note to

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (P)--Navy scientists worked feverishly Mr. Goldfine hasE
yesterday to piece together shattered bits of evidence on the fifth or any member
Vanguard satellite launching failure in six attempts. financially, while m
All they had, however, was reams of telemetry tape relayed back in school. I-and
mychildren's bills,
The rocket and its 21 and one-half pound gold-plated satellite M. GoIn chas e
were somewhere in the Atlantic ocean. Vanguard fizzled early yesterday any ventures for m
morning when the second stage vehicle failed in flight after an has never purchas
apparently smooth liftoff. participated with:
The only solace came shortly after the Vanguard failure when chase of any sec
General Electric Co. announced the development of a new rocket property.
engine which could launch a sat-
tellite weighing as much as 10
tons. DID PRELIMIN ARY WORK:
The engine, described as a radi-
cal new concept in rocketry, is an (r, ) ~EJ1
outgrowth of the Vanguard test
program. General Electric said it
will pour out between a half-mil-
lion and a million pounds of thrust
and theoretically could carry a
satellite seven times heavier than
Russia's massive Sputnik III.
The new power package still is
under tight security wraps, but the £
company said it will be compara-
tively light, weighing only 4,000
pounds. It will use a liquid oxygen-
kerosene fuel mixture, the same
combination that burns in the first
stage Vanguard vehicle.

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Senate is to meet tomorrow, too.
Matter of Time
A principal backer of statehood,
Sen. Henry M. Jackson (D-Wash.)
had said in advance he didn't ex-
pect success for the effort to limit
debate.
Jackson and Sen. Thomas H.
Kuchel (R-Calif.), co-managers of
the bill on the Senate floor, agreed
the House-passed bill eventually
will pass the Senate without
change.
''It's just a matter of time,"
they said.
Amendments
Two amendments made their
appearance but sponsors made no
effort to call them to a vote.
One, by Sen. A. S. (Mike) Mon-
roney (D-Okla.) and George A.
Smathers (D-Fla.), would give
Alaska commonwealth status in
lieu of statehood, and accompany
it with exemption from federal
income taxes on all money earned
within its borders.
The second amendment was of-
fered by Sen. Strom Thurmond
(D-S.C.).

ver bought into the Soviet government holding
ne. Mr. Goldfine Russia responsible for seeing to it
sed for me, or that the men and the aircraft are
me in the pur- freed without further delay.
urity or other Russia has yet to reply to the
protest, sent last Friday.

protest, sent last Friday, (D-S.C.).

Senate Acts
Ont Tax Bill
WASHINGTON ()-The Sen-
ate gave quick and easy approval
yesterday to a compromise tax ex-
tension bill, that would drop the
three per cent tax on freight.
The compromise was worked
out by a Senate-House conference
committee which decided against
dropping the 10 per cent tax on
passenger fares for travel by
train, bus, plane and ship.
It was adopted by the Senate
without objection. The House de-
layed action until today.
Sen. George A. Smathers (D-
Fla.) said he would try again later
in the session to get the passenger
tax eliminated.
It was the Senate which had
voted to repeal the freight and
transportation taxes, which were
imposed as a war measure to dis-
courage unnecessary shipments or
travel.
The'administration sought to
continue these and other taxes at
their present rates in view of the
need for revenue.
House Re*ects
TCatch-A i' Bill
WASHINGTON (M)--Denounced
as a tax on milk and bread and
derided as "an economic mon-
strosity," a catch-all farm bill died
a sudden death in the House yes-
terday.
A coalition of Republicans and
Northern big-city Democrats suc-
ceeded in barring it from con-
sideration on the House floor. The
214-171nroll-call vote appeared to
erase any chance of general farm
legislation at this session of Con-
gress.
Democratic farm leaders backing
the bill had conceded in advance
that it had little chance of pass-
age. Their fears were quickly con-
firmed in a brief debate on a
resolution which would have clear-
ed the bill for House consideration.

Truce Week
UN Secretary Fears
Western Intervention
BEIRUT, Lebanon ()-ierce
fighting blazed in Tripoli yesterday
as United Nations Secretary-Gen-
eral Dag Hammarskjold was re-
ported working fast to prevent
Lebanon's rebellion from dragging
| the entire world into a crisis.
At least 10 persons were reported
killed and 20 wounded in the fight-
ing that broke out almost im-
mediately after the secretary gen-
eral ended his seven-day visit to
the Middle East. An unofficial
truce prevailed while he was here.
Rebels Shelled
Government forces in the north-
en port city shelled rebels en-
trenched in the circling hills and
demolished at least one fortified
house. They used armored cars to
attack roadblocks,
Skirmishes also were fought
Wednesday night in the Bekaa
Valley of central Lebanon.
Hammarskjold, on his departure
for New York, took a plea by
Premier Sami Solh for an armed
UN force to stop the border traf-
fic in arms and reinforcements,,
Solh said the UN observer te
were unable to stop it.
But Hammarskjold said on his
arrival in New York that he hoped
the observers could do the job.
Fears Intervention
Sources close to the UN observer
corps here said Hammarskjold
was fearful that Lebanese govern-
ment leaders may create a situa-
tion which would invite direct
Western military Intervention and
thereby produce a worldwide crisis
The Soviet press and radio
opened up with an attack on any
plan to turn the UN observer corps
into an armed unit, labeling it an
undercover scheme for United
States and British intervention.
Meanwhile, Lebanon's President
Camille Chamoun yesterday ruled
out direct United States or British
.inttrvention in Lebanon except as'
part of a UN force.
In a CBS radio interview re-
corded yesterday morning in Bel-
rut, Chamoun added that he feels
United States forces are entitled
to intervene under UN auspices
"any place where the United States
has vital interests."
Indonesian
Army Takes
Rebel Capital
JAKARTA, Indonesia (P)-Crack
government troops captured the
rebel capital of Menado in North
Celebes yesterday, apparently
crushing the last organized resist-
ante In the rebellion.
An army spokesman said the
picturesque city of 60,000 people
was occupied after what was prob-
ably the stiffest fighting of the
four-month-old civil war.
Government forces that hit the
beaches of the North Celebes on
June 15 made the final drive into
Menado from the town of Kairagi,
about two and one-half miles east
of the city. Army Intelligence
sources previously said government
troops have been fighting inside
the city since Saturday.
No casualty figures have been
disclosed in the North Celebes
fighting.
The fall of Menado, 300 miles
south of the Philippines, appar-

ently left the rebels with part of
the surrounding area but with no
major cities, no airfields and no
shipping,
The fate of the rebel leaders was

e In Mackinac Bridge

By The Associated Press
Cambodia Accused . ..
SAIGON - South Viet Nam ac-
cused Cambodia yesterday of com-
plaining of an invasion while its
troops actually were trying to
take Vietnamese territory.
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French Claim 113 ..
ALGIERS - French officials
have claimed that 113 nationalist
rebels were killed and 52 taken
prisoner in a series of skirmishes
Wednesday and yesterday.
Meeting Planned . . .
OTTAWA - Prime Minister
John Diefenbaker said yesterday
he and President Eisenhower and
their aides will have at least two
conferences during P r e s i d e n t
Eisenhower's July 8-11 visit to
Canada.
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House Grants
Special Power
WASHINGTON W)-The House
passed by voice vote and sent to
the Senate yesterday a bill ex-
tending for four years emergency
powers of the Civil Defense Ad-
ministration, now due to expire
next Monday,

By MICHAEL KRAFT
Daily Co-Editor
Five miles of cement and steel now connect the two parts of
Michigan, but the history of the Mackinac Bridge spans over seventy
years of proposals and planning.
Much of the work was done by University and faculty members,
from examining the rock structure beneath the bridge to preparing
calculations for the graceful suspension.
Suggestions to directly connect the Upper and Lower Peninsulas
arose as early as 1884, but it wasn't until 1934 that the State Legisla-
ture created the Mackinac Bridge Authority. The chief engineer
proposed a plan which included 17 miles of bridges and causeways
passing through Bois Blanc and other islands in the straits.
A more direct route was proposed the following year by Prof.
James Cissel, of the School of Engineering.
Between 1938 and 1940, Prof. William Housel was engaged to
supervise the coring and investigation of the bottom of the Straits of
Mackinac.
In 1943, the Michigan Conservation Department contracted Prof.
Kenneth Landes and Prof. George Ehlers of the geology department'
to make a detailed geological study of the Mackinac Straits region.
World War II halted any additional progress on the bridge and
interest dropped until 1947, when the Legislature abolished the
Mackinac Bridge Authority. However, three years later, with an eye

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