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Becomes Top Ace After 12th MIG
Friday, March 13, 1953
An Advance Air Base, Korea-U.P.)—Col. Royal N. Baker became the world's leading jet ace today with his hat off to the man whose record he beat.
"Major Davis got his 11 jets in a few days where it took me almost a year to do it." Col. Baker said today after knocking down his 12th Russian-built jet in what he called an "easy fight."
He was referring to Maj. George A. Davis, Lubbock, Texas, now missing in action.
"I wish I could have gotten two," said the McKinney, Texas, pilot as he climbed out his Sabre to the acclaim of a large group of pilots and ground crewmen who gathered around him. "That would have made a proper Baker's dozen."
Baker, who commands the 4th group of the 4th fighter-interceptor wing, was flying his 127th Korean combat mission. He is slated to leave March 27 for reassignment to the air defense command at Wright Field, Dayton, Ohio.
His record kill, which was also number 600 on the 5th Air Force's MIG destruction tall sheet, was scored after a flight of four Sabre jets he was leading spotted a "big gaggle" of MIGs about halfway between the Chongchon and Yalu rivers in Northeast Korea.
Official Bulletin
TODAY
Hillel Service: 7:30 p.m., Danforth
chapel.
FRIDAY
Episcopal Communion: 7 a.m. Dandorf Christian Fellowship Mission meeting in
Chicago
SUNDAY
YMCA Rock Chalk Revive: 7:45 p.m.
Hoch auditorium, Friday and
Saturday.
Dandorf Chapel service: 8:30 a.m.
Sempervivum by Lutheran Gamma
Delma. A welcome.
Gamma Delta: Lutheran student group,
fulton county church.
Luthner Church, Jih and Vermont,
5:30 p.m. Sunday. Special speaker: Dr.
Hahn, Chicago. All students invited.
MONDAY
Episcopal Communication: 7a.m.丹forthorn
Christian Fellowship Conference meeting:
6:30 p.m.
USA: 7:30 p.m. Monday, 365 Union.
49 p.m. Monday, 305 Union.
Engineer Dr. R. A. Schweitzer, p.m.
Union Dr, Br A. S. Schwetzer
FACTS: 8 p.m., 305 Union. Discussion of student government, filing of applications for ASC elections, consideration of revised constitution and by-laws.
TUESDAY
History club: 7 p.m. Pine room, Union Panel discussion of memory testimony. To request information, visit www.historyclub.org.
Interviews
Personnel representatives for four major companies and the U.S. Navy will be on the campus next week to interview students with majors in chemistry, mathematics, physics, geology, and engineering. Interested students can obtain further information and sign application forms in 111 Marvin hall.
MONDAY
Shell Oil company—electrical, civil,
and mechanical engineers.
THURSDAY
TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY, and
U. S. Naval Civil Engineering Research Education laboratory—civil and mechanical
U. S. Naval Ordnance Test Station Culver Lake, UT. Mechanical, industrial, and aeronautic engineers. It will also interview physicists, metallurgists, and mathematicians.
U. S. Naval Radiological Defense laboratory; U.S. Navy Electronics laboratories; National Bureau of Standards laboratory; National Bureau of Standards laboratory; mechanical, electrical, and aeronautical engineers. They will also in-
General Electric company—chemical, electrical and mechanical engineers.
Dowell Inc.—mechanical and petro-
leum engineers. It will also interview
geologists and students for summer
work.
FRIDAY
Owens-Corning Fiberglass corporation—mechanical, industrial, chemical, elec-
tric materials.
The following companies will interview students at the School of Business next week. Anyone interested may sign the interview schedules, secure information or applications in 214 Strong.
Owens-Corning Fiberglass corporation:
It also will interview liberal arts major
MONDAY
TUESDAY
Washington National Insurance company. salgs in insurance majors.
Union Wire Rope corporation; sales and
warehousing, construction, and any other
School of Business major.
Ford Motor company; sales, accounting,
business management, and general
business majors. It also will interview
science and engineering majors.
Sears, Roebuck and company; retail merchandising, general business, marketing, accounting, and industrial management majors.
WEDNESDAY
Marathon company: accounting, production control, personnel, and sales
THURSDAY and FRIDAY
THURSDAY and FRIDAY
Oscar Mayer and company: business administration, economics, and labor management majors.
Geologists Check Library's Use
Dr. Raymond C. Moore, chairman of the geology department, recently met with geology representatives from other member institutions at the Midwest Inter-Library center in Chicago. The group explored possibilities for the co-operative acquisition of less-use but important library materials in the field of geology. KU is linked to the center by teletypewriter and has overnight access to all its resources.
mittee demanded that the Eisenhower administration "get tough" and "fight fire with fire."
"When they come across the border into our territory we should shoot hell out of them," he told reporters.
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Sen. Styles Bridges (R.-N.H.), president专tempore of the Senate, said American planes should be "armed and have instructions to shoot if attacked."
Red Attacks on Planes Disturb Statesmen
Washington—(U.P.)—An gry Congressmen and worried diplomats agreed today that two Red attacks on Allied planes in rapid succession is about all the Western world will take at this time.
"If it happens again right away, me may be headed for trouble." one high administration official said.
One Congressman said that if any Communist planes crossed into American territory "We should shoot hell out of them."
The general feeling throughout the capital was that East-West relations had been pushed to the danger point by the trigger-happy Communist pilots who roared across the battlefield. The next twist, twice this week to shoot down first an American jet fighter and then a British bomber.
The tension was heightened by uncertainty. No one here knew, for
sure, whether the attacks were separate "border incidents" related only by a coincidence in time, or whether the new leaders of Soviet Russia were deliberately trying to make trouble.
It was learned that military intelligence officers do not regard the attacks as evidence that Russia wants war. Defense department sources said there have been no reports of recent large-scale troop movements or other warlike preparations behind the Iron Curtain.
The Air Force said its pilots have had authority all along to shoot back if enemy pilots made any "hostile moves." Authorities said no new orders had gone out as result of the communist attacks.
The State department meanwhile prepared to deliver a blistering note to Czechoslovakia in connection with the first incident. The MIG fighters which shot down an American F-84 jet Tuesday crossed the German border from the Communist satellite country.
Congress, which had taken the first attack fairly calmly, was shocked and angered by its quick repetition. Chairman Dewey Short (R.-Mo) of the House Armed Services com-
Diplomatic and defense officials admitted they could only guess at the motives behind the sudden attacks.
One popular theory was that they may reflect a Moscow order calling for increased vigilance all along the Iron Curtain.
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