University Daily Kansan Thursday. Jan. 14, 1954
West Calls Off Talks On Big Four Planning
Berlin—(U.R.) The West broke off four-power talks on a site for the Big Four Foreign Ministers conference today and said only a miracle could bring the statesmen together on Jan. 25.
ArmyReplanning SuggestionsMade
Washington — (U.P.)— An advisory committee set up at President Eisenhower's suggestion today proposed top-to-bottom reorganization of the Army to overcome costly weaknesses and prepare it for the demands of modern war.
The five-man group outlined measures for strengthening civilian control, tightening Army purse strings, making military men responsible for actual operations and modernizing continental Army commands and supply services.
Headed by Paul L. Davies, president of Food Machinery and Chemical Corporation, San Jose, Calif., the committee was set up by Army Secretary Robert T. Stevens last August after Mr. Eisenhower had called for "badly needed" improvements in the Army Navy and Air Force.
The committee made these major recommendations:
1. Stevens (and therefore all service secretaries) should attend meetings of the National Security Council to be "informed of basic national decisions."
2. The Army's chief of staff should be designated "operating manager" of all Army activities.
3. Congress should create a third assistant secretary in charge of financial management.
4. There should be a new vice chief of staff, in charge of supplies
5. A supply command should be set up to control the Army's technical services.
6. A continental army should be set up to take over army field force functions.
Reds Still Get Blood Money
New York—U (P, U)—Strong family ties and Oriental customs have led some Chinese Americans whose loyalty otherwise is unquestioned to continue sending money illegally to relatives in Communist China.
That's the opinion of "Mayer" Shavey Lee of New York's Chinatown. The treasury department disclosed recently in San Francisco that a crackdown had produced $170,000 from China-bound letters since Dec. 19.
But, Lee said, the money now being sent is a trickle compared with the family-support sums sent in years prior to 1950, when suchmittances to Red China became illegal. Also, American Chinese resistance to the Communist shakedown and ransom - for - relatives rackets has been an effective damper to them, he said.
Those statements are seconded by treasury agents. When the ransom racket broke out more than a year ago—it was estimated that at its height the "take" for Chinese Communist racketeers exceeded $1,000,-000 in one month—the treasury department plunged in with an education program to combat it.
The Army Signal Corps maintains a total of 11 telephone channels connecting the United States with Alaska.
Western officials expressed strong doubts that the Soviets want a conference at all.
Maj. Gen. Thomas Timberman, U.S. Berlin commandant, called off the talks with the permission of the British and French commandants and Sergel A. Dengin, chief commissioner in Berlin, after they had negotiated for 14% hours at their fourth meeting.
Gen. Timberman said he saw no point in continuing the futile sessions.
An American spokesman said Dengin blocked any agreement on a site by refusing to relax his demand for holding two in every four foreign ministers' meeting in Communist East Berlin.
Dengin refused to give an inch, even though the Big Three representatives had withdrawn from their stand that all meetings should be held in the "neutral" Allied control authority building in the American sector. They offered to hold one meeting in Berlin.
The Soviet negotiator took the position that the conference was a meeting of two power blocs rather than four separate nations and insisted on alternate meetings in East and West Berlin.
Gen. Timberman said the western commandants would refer the dead-lock to their governments but observers here thought the next move was up to the Kremlin.
They said if the Soviet Union really wants Foreign Minister Vyacheslav M. Molotov to sit down with the Big Three Foreign Ministers to discuss Germany and other issues, it would tell Dengin to change his tactics.
DC-6 Crashes Near Rome
Rome — (U.P.)—A giant Philippines Airlines DC-6 plane crashed near Rome's Ciampino airport today with an impact that scattered flaming wreckage and the mangled bodies of those aboard over a wide area.
Police said 13 persons were aboard the plane—six passengers and seven crewmen—and that all were killed.
Two crewmen were identified tentatively as Americans—Pilot Ira Broome and Co-Pilot William Rose
The plane was on its way from Manila to London. It had stopped at Beirut, Lebanon, to refuel. Without any word that anything was wrong it started circling Ciampino airport on the outskirts of Rome. It was raining but visibility was good.
Witnesses said two of the plane's motors went dead. The pilot banked.
Students in Editing II class are managing the University Daily Kansan this week and next as part of their final examination in that class.
Al Traldi journalism senior, was managing editor Tuesday, Valera ebben, journalism senior, yesested, and Allen Poley, journalism today.
Editing II Students Manage Kansan
Rich Clarkson, journalism junior will be managing editor Friday, and Jim Baird, journalism senior, on Monday, and Tom Stewart, journalism senior, Tuesday.
Hanoi, Indo-China (U.P)-Communist artillery believed to have been shipped from Red China pounded French positions at Dien Bien Phu today, while Communist "suicide squads" probed the outer defenses of the beleagued fortress.
Gen. Gene Cogny, French commander in Indo-China, said the Reds have suffered 21,925 casualties—10,025 men killed and 11,900 captured —in the past six months.
The Red scouts advanced through a shower of flaming gasoline-jelly bombs, giving credence to the French belief that Communist Gen. Vo Nguyen Giap is prepared to sacrifice "thousands of troops" to take Dien Bien Phu.
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Late reports said the Communists lost 112 men during the last 24 hours. Cambodian troops killed 20 Reds in Kompong Chmang province, while 66 more were killed and 26 captured in scattered clashes in the Red river delta.
Miss Jersild Wins Instrumental Prize
Action at Dien Bien Phu still is on a relatively small scale, but the Reds are believed to be massing for an all-out attack on the outpost captured by French airborne troops in November. A spokesman expressed confidence that the defenders can hold the town.
Miss Marian Jersild, University of Kansas piano instructor who is studying in New York this year, has won the annual instrumental award of the New York Madrigal society.
The prize is a joint-recital appearance with the vocal award winner in New York's Town Hall, Feb. 19.
Cogny said the loss of Dien Bien Phu would be a "severe defeat," but he said the Red river delta is still the key to French positions in northern Indo-China.
Winning of prizes is no novelty for Miss Jersild, a native of Blair, who has taught at KU since 1947. She won the Philhrist prize and the Chicago Young Artists scholarship while studying in that city. For three consecutive summers she was a scholarship student of Carl Friedberg in his master classes in Kansas City. Mo.
Reds Hit Hard At French In Indo-China War
Her bachelor and master of music degrees are from the Chicago Musical College.
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Educators Back Using Baby As 'Prop' in Home Ec Class
Charleston, Ill.—(U.P.)-Educators across the country today joined Eastern Illinois college in defending the use of a six-month-old baby as a prop to teach coeds home management.
McCarthy Says Farmers Bilked
Washington—(U.P.)-Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy (R.-Wis.) charged today that "old Wallace and Brannan holdovers" in the Agriculture department are trying to "sabotage" farmers.
That was Sen. McCarthy's reaction to Agriculture Secretary Ezra T. Benson's declaration that his "conscience" probably will force him to set lower dairy price supports this spring.
The prospect evoked loud protests from several dairy state Congressmen. But Chairman George D. Alken (R.-Vt.) of the Senate Agriculture committee said Secretary Benson had no choice and called it a matter of law rather than conscience.
"This illustrates why it is imperative that we get a new farm law by April," Sen. Aiken said. "If we can do something effective with surpluses, the impact on prices will not be so severe."
Although attention shifted to the dairy problem, controversy continued in Congress over President Eisenhower's proposal to abandon rigid high price supports in favor of flexible price pegs.
But there were dissenting voices, and the Illinois Welfare department stuck to a plan to investigate the case.
The coed "mothers" themselves said the baby boy was normal and happy and said they did not believe that "too many mothers" during his first year of life would warp his "personality structure."
A United Press survey showed that the use of live babies in home management college courses was widespread, although it has stirred controversy before.
Ohio State university officials said a U.S. Department of Education bulletin listed 41 home management courses in the country which used live babies, mostly orphans.
Ohio State uses two babies at a time and each girl in the home management course gets to take care of a baby for a week under the constant supervision of an instructor.
The Ohio State plan drew unfavorable publicity in the press about eight years ago, but school spokesmen said they were well pleased with the course.
Pennsylvania State uses orphanage babies.
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