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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
TUESDAY, MAY 15, 1951
UN Army Bogs Down As Reds Mass Men
Officers said the bad weather probably would speed up Red movements by at least two days. After 24 hours of rain, roads still were passable for Allied heavy equipment, but the Allied aerial eye was blinded.
The moment the rain started falling, the Reds began their expected moves. They massed their forces and poured into a bridgehead which stabbed five miles into South Korea. American troops patrolling no-man's land said the bridgehead, south of the Soyang river, appeared to be widening.
Tokyo (U.P.)-Allied and Chinese Communist troops exchanged artillery fire across a rain drenched no man's land in Korea today. Small enemy groups were reported merging into one large striking force for the expected major assault on United Nations forces.
The weather was the chief Allied enemy at the moment. U.N. forces contented themselves with building up their barbed wire and sandbag barricades on an 80 mile-line and sowing mine fields in the enemy's path.
The spring rains for which the Communists have waited patiently finally came. The U.N. army was bogged down in the sticky mire and Allied warplanes were driven from the skies.
Allied patrols stabbed repeatedly at the river in efforts to reach the north bank and find out what was going on. Each time they were forced back by heavy Communist fire.
Chinese artillery shelled allied west central front positions in preparation for the big drive.
On the eastern front, South Korean troops fought continuing sharp battles with Communist forces ranging in size from platoons to battalions.
Although U.N. planes were grounded, Allied warships continued to pound Red supply lines along the east coast. Among the rail and highway towns they hit were Wonsan, Chongjin and Songjin.
State To Get New Roads
Topeka (U.P.)—The state highway commission today had approved bids for $2,670,000 for construction and maintenance on 570 miles of Kansas highways and county secondary roads in eastern Kansas.
Gale Moss, director of highways,
said more than $1,500,000 of the bids
were for 35 miles of heavy construction.
Moss said several of the jobs will complete sections of important highways and raise them to the standard necessary for modern traffic. A 13-mile stretch of concrete pavement on U.S.-24 in Pottawatomi county between Manhattan and Wamego heads the list. Another important project is the concrete paving of five miles of U.S.-50S east of Emporia in Lyon county. The Lyon county pavement will be 24 feet wide with 10-foot shoulders on either side.
The U.S.-24 paving calls for a concrete slab 22 feet wide with 9-foot shoulders on either side. The job begins 2/3 miles east of Wamego and joins the present road west of Manhattan. There will be a short section of four-lane pavement at the intersection of U.S.-24 and K-99 at the north end of Wamego.
Highway U.S.-54 in Allen and Bourbon counties will be surfaced with sheet asphalt for a distance of nine miles and U.S.-50 and U.S.-50 near Baldwin junction in Douglas county will be widened and surfaced for a 74-mile stretch.
Other highway projects were approved for Atchison, Cherokee, Leavenworth, Riley, and Shawnee counties.
Flute Recital At 8 Tonight In Hoch
Joan Templar, flutist, will play her senior recital at 8 p.m. today in Strong auditorium. The recital is free.
The program will consist of Sonata No. 2 in E flat major (Bach);
Three Pictures (Goossens); Syrinx (Debussy); Cantabile et pres-
t (Enesco); and Serenade in D major, opus 25 (Beethoven).
Collision Toll Is Scaled Down
Norfolk. Va. (U.P.)—Navy rescue workers went through the flame-seared seaplane tender Valcour today and scaled down the casualty toll from its collision Monday with a coal ship to 1 known dead, 6 missing, and 16 injured.
The navy announced officially Monday night that 11 men were killed when the Valcour, loaded with high test gasoline, swerped into the path of the Collier Thomas Tracy six miles off Cape Henry, Va., in Hampton Roads.
Both ships burst into flames when the Tracy, its bow acting as a trigger, rammed into the smaller ship and ignited the fuel.
A Navy public relations office announced the revised casualty figures this morning and blamed the early erroneous reports on "hasty estimates" from rescue ships that criss-crossed the wreckage area picking up the injured and scores of sailors who leaped into the water to escape the inferno.
Chemistry Talk Set For May 16
The third annual E. C. Franklin memorial lecture will be given at 4 p.m. Wednesday in 305 Bailey Chemical laboratories. The public is invited.
Dr. Henry Gilman, professor of organic chemistry at Iowa State college will talk on "Some Aspects of Organometallic Chemistry."
The lecture honors E. C. Franklin, an alumnus of the University, who received his bachelor of science degree in '88 and a master of science in '90.
He was an associate professor of chemistry at the University from 1894 till 1899 and a professor from 1899 until 1903. He went to Stanford university in 1904 where he taught till his death in 1937.
The lecture is sponsored by he Alpha Rho chapter of Phi Lambda Epsilon, honorary chemical fraternity.
Dollar In Danger, Johnston Warns Senate Group
Washington (U.P.)—Economic Stabilizer Eric A. Johnston warned that "the dollar is in danger today" and inflationary pressures are poised for another big push to send the cost of living skyhigh.
Proposing a six-point program for achieving a stabilized economy and endorsing the administration's drive for more rigid controls, Johnston told the Senate banking committee:
"Unless we have a stabilized economy, unless we hold inflation in check, unless we can defend the value of the American dollar against infiltration and ambush in the months ahead, we cannot mount the defense effort we need."
1. A "new pay-as-we-go tax program, which would avoid the necessity for the creation of new money. Spending borrowed money is inflationary."
Johnston urged these steps, which the administration has asked, to fight inflation:
Bradley is the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff. The other members are the heads of the three services. He followed MacArthur and Defense Secretary George C. Marshall on the witness stand in the investigation being made by the combined Senate military-foreign relations committee.
2. "Pay-as-we-go credit policies" for everyone because "where credit is necessary to achieve increases in production, it should be encouraged."
3. Increased savings because "income which is not spent does not put pressure on prices . . . the money we sock away now and hold on to is going to assure a continuing high level economy."
4. General economy to wipe out "non- essential consumption and waste by government, business and individuals."
5. Materials control to "allocate materials both for defense purpose and civilian needs."
6. Strengthening and continuation of direct controls "to stop the inflationary spiral so that we can control all parts of it."
Home Ec Instructor Appointed To ACEI
Mrs. Luella M. Foster, instructor in home economics, has been appointed an active member of the nursery school committee of the Association for Childhood Education International.
Mrs. Foster will serve for a two-year period. She is director of the University Nursery school and is teaching child development courses.
M'Arthur Plan Risks War, Bradley Says
The Korean war, he said, is "just one phase" of the worldwide struggle against Communism, which Bradley said has meant five years
She is state chairman of the division of child development and family relations for the Kansas Home Economics association, an active member of the National Association for Nursery Education, and chairman of the Lawrence Preschool association.
Washington (U.P.)—Gen. Omar N Bradley, the nation's top-ranking military officer, told senators today that he and the joint chiefs of staff believe the Korean war proposals on Gen. Douglas MacArthur would "increase the risk of global war and that such a risk should not be taken unnecessarily."
Bradley also told senators investigating MacArthur's dismissal that if Rusisa ever gains control of the Europe-Asia land mass, the Soviet-satellite imperialism may have the broad base upon which to build the military power to rule the world."
of "guerrilla diplomacy." In actions of this cold war, he said the U.S. has "risked World War III," but each time has used methods short of total war.
At the outset he told the senators that the troubles with MacArthur were based upon "no personal consideration," but on "differences of opinion" over policy matters.
He promised to say nothing to "discredit the long and illustrious career" of MacArthur, but said that he had "different views on certain aspects our government's military policy." Bradley said this in itself is "not unusual."
"When the joint chiefs of staff express their opinion on a subject, it is from the military point of view, and is given with a full realization that considerations other than military may be overriding in making the final decisions," he said.
"When all of these aspects are considered, the government's policy is determined," he said. "As military men we then abide by the decision."
World Wide News
British Military Alert For Trouble In Iran
Tehran, Iran (U.P.)—Iran threatened today to expel all British oil field workers from the country if they oppose seizure of the British-owned oil industry by the Iranian government.
Indications were the seizure might come quickly. Britain retaliated by alerting 3,000 men of the crack 16th parachute brigade for possible duty overseas—perhaps in the Persian gulf where the big refineries of the Anglo-Iranian Oil company are situated.
Red Spy Had UN War Plans
Tokyo (U,P) — The Communist ringleader of a North Korean spy ring had the "top secret" plans for the Inchon landing a full week before the operation took place last September, a United States Army prosecutor charged today.
The prosecutor said the information possessed by the Japanese spy could have turned Gen. Douglas MacArthur's dramatic "behind-the-lines" landing into a debacle had the North Koreans made proper use of it.
Maj. Robert M. Murray, chief prosecutor for the International Provost court, said the secret document containing the information on the nchon landing was found in the possession of Yoshimatsu Iwamura, 38, the spy leader.
Instead, U.S. Marines stormed ashore at Inchon Sept. 15, 1950, in a landing that quickly overwhelmed Inchon and captured Seoul. U.N. forces at the same time burst out of the Pusan bridgehead and, together with the marines, annihilated the bulk of the north Korean army.
Iwamura and Chang Man Ko, who came to Japan to help Iwamura set up the spy network, are the key defendants in the trial of 16 north Koreans and two Japanese Communists accused of spying for North Korea.
The 18 defendants pleaded "not guilty" to the charges. They were the first to be tried from a group of 45 suspects rounded up recently in Japan and accused of espionage and "acts inimical to the security of the occupation."
New Guns To Aid GI's
Somewhere in Korea (U.P.)—Some of the new "wonder weapons" developed by the U. S. army may go into action, on the Korean battlefield within a few months, informed sources said Monday.
Among them may be an electrically controlled .60 caliber machinegun, a 25-ton airborne tank that can destroy the Russian-made T-34 tank, a new automatic rifle weighing only $6 \frac{1}{4}$ pounds, and a recently-developed helicopter capable of delivering three tons of supplies.
The new helicopter will be used in combat this summer, during the June-July rainy season, if they can be delivered by then. They will supplement the 50,000 South Korean civilians organized into human pack trains to carry supplies to the front when the rains bog down supply trucks.
Once available in quantity the new rifle is expected to replace both the Garand M-1 rifle and the carbine. A squad equipped with the new guns will have more firepower than a combined light machinegun crew and Browning automatic rifle team, with none of the burden of the heavier weapons.
The electrically-operated machinegun fires a heavier slug than the present .50 caliber and its muzzle velocity is the greatest of any weapon of its type. It is air cooled. Its rate of fire still is secret.
But if British troops intervene in the oil field seize it "will mean the beginning of the third world war." the secretary of the Iranian Parliamentary Oil committee warned.
The tense situation brought British Foreign Secretary Herbert Morrison hurrying back to London from a holiday on the Isle of Wight.
Grady said he also suggested thatran delay nationalizing the oilindustry until a mixed commissioncould make a report on the issue.
U. S. ambassador Henry Grady urged Iranian Premier Mohammed Mossadegh to avoid "any precipitous action" in seizing the fields, it was disclosed.
Grady's recommendations were made before Mossadegh retired to the sanctuary of the Iranian Majlis (parliament) building to escape threats of assassination and, possibly, pressure from the Westernowers on the nationalization issue.
US Gives $6 Million For Yugoslavian Aid
Washington (U.P.)—The Economic Cooperation administration today authorized Yugoslavia to spend some $6,098,000 for commodities under the new U.S. aid program for that Balkan nation.
The authorization, issued out of mutual defense assistance program funds, was the first under the program established last month when President Truman set aside $29,000,-000 from M.D.A.P. appropriations to help Yugoslavia. The program is designed to help the nation come shortages of raw materials and other supplies vital to her military defense effort.
New Delhi, India (U.P.)—India is negotiating with Communist China in connection with that country's offer of one millions tons of food and grain. China already has furnished 50,000 tons of grain and 30,000 tons of rice on a cash basis out of the offer. Two Russian food ships meanwhile were en route to India and newspapers here said they were bringing about 6,700 tons of wheat.
Reds May Send A Million Tons of Food To India
Colorado's Wheat Damaged
Denver (U.P.)—Thirty-five per cent of Colorado's wheat crop has been abandoned because of drought and insect damage, according to Floyd K. Reed, agricultural statistician. He said that 1,205,000 acres planted in wheat in eastern Colorado last fall had to be abandoned because of wind, cold, and lack of moisture.
Rains Flood Colorado Town
Holly Colo. (U.P.)—A flash flood which followed a torrential downpour struck this southeast Colorado community of 1,500 today washing out bridges, filling streets and stores with water and causing thousands of dollars worth of damage.
Dr. Canutson Will Attend Cincinnati T.B. Meeting
Dr. Ralph I Canuteson, director of University health service, will attend the meeting of the National Tuberculosis association in Cincinnati Wednesday through Friday.
Dr. Cauteson is a member of the board and president of the Kansas Tuberculosis and Health association.
Methodist Group Has Picnic
Forty members of the Wesley foundation, Methodist student organization, had a picnic Sunday at Clinton park. Softball and volleyball were played until time for supper. After supper the meaning of religion was discussed, and worship services were held.