UNIVERSITY DAILY
Thursday, March 1, 1951 hansan
UN Army Continues 'Killer Offensive'
Topeka, Ks.
Tokyo—(U.P.)—Spearheads of a mighty 100,000-man UN army smashed ahead up to three and a half miles on a 50-mile front today in a renewal of the Allied "killer offensive" in central Korea.
They seized an east-central mountain village only 31 miles south of the 38th parallel, dented the center of the Communist "no-retreat" defense line, and seized hills dominating the strategic no-man's-land towns of Yongdu and Hoengsong.
FACTS Against ASC Decision On Labor Bill
F. A.C.T.S., student political party, disapproved the All Student Council action on non-support of the proposed state fair employment practice bill at a meeting Wednesday night.
"It's too bad that a student council in a liberal institution such as our University would not support such a bill. I was glad to see all F.A.C.T.S. members vote for the endorsement."
James Logan, party chairman,
said:
A mild alarm was caused in the meeting when two members of the rival party, Pachacamac, were discovered in the meeting. The two left without comment.
The minimum wage paid to students employed in the University libraries is 50 cents, a committee reported at the meeting.
FA.C.T.S. favors an increase in incident wages and is investigating wages of University students.
The committee reported that some students are paid higher salaries The criterion used in determining higher salaries is tenure, responsibility and efficiency.
deFafayette Reid, Jr., assistant director of libraries, gave three reasons for present student wages:
F. A.C.T.S. instructed another committee to draw up a plan revising polling sites for the coming student elections. The party claims that the sites designated by the All Student Council are not sufficiently allocated for ample voting.
Influenza vaccinations will be given at the University beginning Monday, Dr. Ralph I. Canuteson, director of University health service, announced today.
"student competition for jobs prevailing local wages, and the University's desire to employ students in spite of the fact that permanent employees might be more efficient."
Vice, administrative Student, faculty members and their families, and K.U. employees may receive the vaccinations.
Polling locations, as determined by the Council, are in Lindley hall, Fraser hall, the Union, Marvin hall, west强 hall, and Green hall.
The hours of vaccination are from 8:30 to 11:30 a.m. and from 12:30 to 3:30 p.m. Stations will be set up according to the following schedule: Monday and Tuesday, Strong hall rotunda; Wednesday, Marvin hall; Thursday, Lindley hall; and Friday, Union lounge.
Flu Shots To Begin Monday
Gean Reese To Attend Pharmacy Meetings
Dean J. Allen Reese of the School of Pharmacy will leave Friday to attend the sixth district meeting of the National Association of Boards of Pharmacy and the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy.
Altogether eight U.S. and South Korean divisions and a British Commonwealth brigade hit the Chinese and North Korean Reds along a front stretching from Yongdu, 37 miles east of Seoul, to the eastern mountains.
U. S. marines in the center of the front ran into the stiffest enemy resistance. They hacked their way across a bloody mile and a half of strategic mountain ridges west of Hoengsong with bayonets, grenades and rifles.
The Chinese counter-attacked the leathernecks on one hill a mile west of Hoengsong. The marines beat them off in hand-to-hand fighting. When it was over, 88 enemy bodies were counted.
U. S. forces on the western front also lashed out at the enemy. Reinforced American platoons stormed across the Han river in assault boats four miles southeast of Seoul and landed on a two-mile-long island.
The sole objective of the renewed offensive was to kill as many as possible of the estimated 15 Chinese divisions and possibly three battered North Korean corps guarding the central approaches to the 38th parallel.
They hoped to establish a bridgehead that would act as a springboard for an armored advance into the flaming flatlands east of Seoul, but were driven back across the river after advancing a mile to the island villages of Chamsil and Sinchon.
Allied artillery and swarms of planes added to the carrage with bombs, bullets, rockets and napalm 'hellfire'—flaming jelled gasoline.
U. S. marines just west of Hoengsong clambered up almost perpendicular mountains and fell upon Chinese who were well entrenched in dugouts and foxholes in the opening hours of the assault.
The renewed central offensive got under way soon after dawn under a bright sun.
JOHN L. EBERHART, graduate student, has received the first Fulbright scholarship to be awarded to a University student this year.
The Fulbright scholarship provides for the study of political science in Australia during the coming year. Seven University students received the awards last year.
While doing graduate work at K.U., Eberhart has been an assistant in the department of human relations.
Honorary organizations who have purchased a page in the third issue of the Jayhawker must hand in their copy to the Jayhawker office not later than Friday.
Friday Deadline For Honor Group Copy
The copy should consist of an alphabetical list of the members, the officers, and a brief write-up of the activities of the organization. Picture identification must also be made by either obtaining a copy of the picture from the photographer, or sending a representative to the Jayhawker office to identify the picture.
KANSAS: Generally fair extreme east, increasing cloudiness central and west; not so cold tonight. Friday increasing cloudiness, showers and local thunderstorms beginning in southwest late tonight or Friday morning and spreading over the central and west portions Friday.
THE WEATHER
Washington—(U.R.)—President Truman today reiterated his full confidence in Defense Mobilizer Charles E. Wilson. And he told a news conference that he did not regard as very serious organized labor's sharp break with the administration on the defense mobilization program.
Swarthout Gives Carillon Bells Final Approval
Rebellion Of Labor No Truman Worry
The 53-bell carillon to be placed in the Memorial campanile has been approved by D. M. Swarthout, professor of piano.
In a letter to Fred Ellsworth, secretary of the Alumni association, Professor Swarthout wrote, "We have given the S3-bell carillon a thorough going over on two different occasions, testing each and every bell separately, by its various octaves and where there was any doubt by the tuning forks themselves.
the carillon is most satisfactory in every detail, and I recommend our acceptance at the University without reservation."
Ine bells were manufactured by the John Taylor & Co. foundry at Loughborough, England. Professor Swarthout arrived in England Feb. 20 to examine the bells.
The leading English carillonneur, W. Eric Jordan of Loughborough, played the carillon for Professor Swarthout.
The carillon is scheduled to arrive here about six weeks before the dedication of the Memorial campanile, which will be held Sunday, May 27.
Professor Swarthout wrote, "Without question, according to the several experts in charge of getting it in shape, it is the finest set of bells that has gone out of the John Taylor & Co. foundry so far."
"The richness and sonority of the bells from the lowest to the highest is amazingly fine."
Professor Swarthout is expected to arrive in Lawrence Friday evening. Regarding his stay in England, he wrote, "We have never been the recipient of more courtesies and attentions than have been accorded us here."
Frank C. Godfrey, member of the Loughborough bell foundry staff, will come to Lawrence to supervise the installation of the bells. He will leave England in April.
A Fight To Finish, Miss Higgins Says
Rv JACK ZIMMERMAN
The United States is ina struggle to the finish, either diplomatically or militarily, with Soviet totalitarianism.
That was the personal observation of Marguerite "Maggie" Higgins, New York Herald Tribune correspondent, as she spoke to a near capacity crowd in Fraser theater Wednesday. The title of Miss Higgins' talk was "The Terrible Days in Korea—A Brief Moment in History."
"There will be one world, but it will not be the one world Wendell Wilkie envisioned," Miss Higgins said. "It will be either their (the Russians') kind of world or our kind of world."
The slender, blonde correspondent detailed many of her experiences in Korean battle areas.
"In the opinion of men whose judgment I respect, we are faced by a series of unpleasant alternatives in Korea which affect the rest of the world," she said.
Miss Higgins said if we should take one alternative and pull out of Korea we would in effect say to the Russians "your eastern front is secure." Our other alternative is to fight detaining action until we are able to build our strength at home."
"They (the Communists) have shown in Korea that they will attack when they think we are so weak that they can hope for success.
"Russia is a country with two fronts, one on the Pacific, and the
Calling the landing at the port of Inchon a "technological marvel," she added that "the tides in the harbor change as much as 30 feet. You must have a successful landing there, because there is no way to retreat, once the tide has gone out."
Miss Higgins told how inexperienced and poorly equipped our troops were in the first terrible days after the war started. "With better training and better equipment fewer men might have died."
other in Europe. With the Soviet world fighting on the eastern front and having a bad time of it they probably won't attack in Europe."
Miss Higgins first encountered Chinese Reds when she was with the marines at Changjin reservoir. The U.N. force there was surrounded by Chinese and the only prospect of escape was in fighting their wav out.
"I talked to Chinese prisoners to
find out why they stood the cold better than we did. They didn't. They surrendered simply because they were cold, hungry, and their feet hurt. They did not surrender for political reasons."
Marines and soldiers made a fighting withdrawal from the reservoir to the defense perimeter around the port of Hungnam. Communists were on three sides of the city.
"It took 10 days to load the ships," and all the time the perimeter got smaller. But "as the perimeter shrank our firepower grew stronger. During the last two days there were no casualties.
"The successful withdrawal at Hungnam shows Americans need never have a Dunkirk," Miss Higgins said.
"Chinese prisoners said the main shift of the Chinese Red army to the north began in July. It reached its greatest strength in September.
Asked why the U.N. failed to use the Chinese Nationalist troops Miss Higgins said "we felt that if the Nationalists entered the war it would make any negotiations with the Reds impossible." This strategy failed.
She said she did not think our crossing the 38th parallel had anything to do with bringing the Chinese into the fighting.
At his weekly meeting with reporters, the president for the most part was cautious about making any specific statement on the action of the United Labor policy committee in directing the withdrawal of all labor representation from federal defense agencies.
Asked whether he felt confident that labor by and large would continue to meet defense production needs, the president said that the present emergency program is one that will help keep the nation prosperous and that this prosperity affects all groups, including labor, business, agriculture and the white collar workers.
Asked whether he expected labor representatives to return to the mobilization agencies, he said he would tell the reporters about that in a couple of weeks. Did this indicate that he would sit on the problem that long before acting? The president had a dual answer—he said first it might be one week or three months, but that he never sat on any problem and that actually he was not posing any specific time limit.
The chief executive said the labor crisis in no way would affect his plans to leave tomorrow for more than three weeks in Key West, Fla.
At the outset of his conference, the president praised the 15 non-operating railroad unions and railroad management for reaching an agreement this morning through collective bargaining without the threat of strikes. Secretary of Labor Maurice J. Tobin conferred with the president this morning and then accompanied him to the news conference, but the president would not discuss their talk.
The president brushed aside an inquiry about any possible change in the status of Defense Mobilizer Wilson, telling a reporter that he was not aware of any labor objection to Wilson's tenure in office. Later, asked whether Wilson still had his full confidence, the president said yes.
The manpower shortage produced by the defense effort will be a temporary relief but no cure for the economic problem among persons over 65, the 175 persons attending the Kansas conference on aging at the University were told Wednesday.
Aged Job Need Told
Participants in a panel on the economic aspects of aging were Ralph D. Johnson of the Federal Security agency, Kansas City, Mo.; John Morrison, employment security division, Kansas labor department, Topeka; Miles Pulford, state board of vocational education, Topeka; Warren Peterson, Community Studies, Inc., Kansas City, Mo., and Frank T. Stockton, dean of University extension.
Pulford said the nation's labor force could meet the challenge only if the elderly and the teenagers are drawn upon. However Dean Stockton pointed out that there would still be the economic problem of the aged in non-industrial communities.
Morrison reported the job outlook for older workers is good at the moment. They can easily be fitted into the assembly line, he said.
Johnson reported that with the 1950 amendments to the social security act, about 90 per cent of all workers are covered by a retirement plan of some type, government or private.
Activities Heads Meet Today
The Statewide Activities chairmen will meet at 5 p.m. today in 106 Strong hall to discuss the presentation of high school assembly programs during the spring vacation.