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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
THURSDAY, MAY 10, 1951
General Awarded DSC For Mission Behind Enemy Lines
Tokyo (U.P.)—An American general risked his life on a top-secret mission deep inside enemy territory to investigate a deadly epidemic felling Red troops, it was disclosed recently.
The exploit by the Army physician produced information vital to protection of the health of United Nations troops.
For "extraordinary heroism" in accomplishing his mission, Brig. Gen. Crawford Sams of Atherton, Calif., was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross—the nation's second highest military decoration.
He and three companions set out at 10 p.m. on March 13 in a powered Navy whaleboat 20 miles off the coast of North Korea.
Sams, 49. Chief of the U.N. command public health and welfare section, volunteered for the mission last March to investigate reports that bubonic plague was rampant among enemy troops. It was feared the plague might spread to U.N. forces.
An amphibious landing was planned almost under the enemy's nose and Sams was warned that the Reds knew about the operation.
A few hundred yards offshore, the party transferred to a small rubber raft and paddled through
pounding surf to the enemy-held beach.
They crawled and ran across the mine-strewn beach working inland to a North korean village. There Sams questioned his pre-arranged contacts about their reconnaissance of enemy hospitals and sick bays.
From their description of stricken men, Sams was convinced the epidemic was one of hemorrhagic bruises and insult of the reported巴痪ophile.
It was unnecessary to order mass vaccines for the protection of all U.N. forces who were already vaccinated against the smallpox epidemic.
After 90 minutes in enemy territory, the party returned to a rendezvous point on the beach and were picked up by the Navy.
The Communists later executed 25 Korean families in reprisals for helping the U.N. men.
The MacArthur Family Is Looking For A New Home In Connecticut
Darien, Conn. (U.P.)—Gen. Douglas MacArthur will be neighbor to Charles A. Lindbergh, famed flier, if he rents a vacant mansion in an exclusive colony where he is reported househunting.
The general visited the neighborhood amid reports he was planning to move into a sprawling English-type of house so big even local realtors "don't know how many rooms it has." But it has at least 30.
He and his wife Jean, visited industrialist James H. Rand president of Remington Rand, Inc., the firm which has offered MacArthur a $100,000 a year job.
Survey Claims College Men Serious
Syracuse. N.Y. (U.P.)—The college man is a serious-minded youth with little interest in dancers, football games and fraternities.
At least that's the opinion of Dr. Clifford J. Craven, assistant dean of men at Syracuse university. He bases his claim on a survey he made of 285 male students.
The main interests of most collegians nowadays are personal contact with fellow students and professors and academic preparations for a vocation, according to the survey.
Alpha Tau Omega Fraternity Elects 10 Officers April 30
John S. Porter, engineering junior, was elected vice-president of Alpha Tau Omega fraternity April 30. David Sailer and James Kubik had been elected president and treasurer respectively in an earlier election.
Others elected were William Dickinson, secretary; Arthur Wahlsstedt, historian; Robert Mallory, pledge trainer; Kenith Howard, house manager; Donald F. Stephenson and Donald L. Stevenson, ritual officers; James Houghton, Richard Klassen, and Clarence Cain, executive committee.
Snowshoe Tire Keeps Trucks From Getting Stuck In Mud
Akron, Ohio (U.P.) - The B. F. Goodrich company has designed a new "high flotation" tire to keep military trucks from getting stuck in mud and sand.
It is so designed that when the vehicle is in muddy terrain, half the air can be let out. That presents a broader surface to the earth and has the same effect as a snowshoe.
Racing and truck drivers have used this trick for years, both for mud and for snow.
The tires must be pumped to normal pressure again when the vehicle reaches hard ground.
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The Rand estate is only a short distance from "Contentment Island"—a Long Island sound peninsula area inhabited by 15 exclusive families including the Lindberghs, who employ a private police guard to patrol the entrance to their estate areas.
MacArthur, his wife, and Maj. Gen. Courtney Whitney, his personal adviser, slipped away from the general's suite athe Waldford-Astoria hotel and drove to Connecticut at the head of a three-car motorcade.
Whitney refused last night to say whether the MacArthurs were interested in settling down in the big house known as "Shennemere."
IFC Will Collect Clothes Saturday
A clothes drive to collect wearing apparel for French refugees will be conducted by the Inter-Fraternity pledge council Saturday. The organization will pick up clothes from all organized houses between 8 a.m. and 1 p.m.
Foundation To Honor Hull
New York (U.P.)-Chancellor Harve Branscomb of Vanderbilt university today announced the creation of a "probably multi-million dollar" educational foundation honororing former secretary of state Cordell Hull.
Branscomb said that the foundation to bear Hull's name and to include a headquarters building named "Hull Hall" in Nashville, Tenn., would be designed to provide scholarships and fellowships for foreign students at any American college or university approved by the foundation's trustees.
The foundation also will bring outstanding personalities to lecture and teach subjects connected with international relations. It also will send faculty members abroad to study and teach, and will underwrite research in international relations.
KFKU Has Busy Week Of Programs
Mrs. Robert H. Jennison, wife of state representative Jennison of Healy, and Mrs. Orville Walker, wife of state representative Walker of Sharon Springs, were interviewed on KF KU Wednesday. It was the third in the series of programs on "Meet Your Legislative Wives."
Mrs. Jennison was interviewed by Mrs. Leland Pritchard, and Mrs. Walker was interviewed by Mrs. Verner Smith, Mrs. Pritchard and Mrs. Smith are both University faculty wives.
At 7 p.m. Friday, KFKU will feature highlights from "Die Fledermaus." This program will be in connection with its regular "Opera Voices to Remember" series.
Richard Beahm, special student in fine arts, will be the narrator.
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