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UNIVERSITY DAILY
48th Year No.92
Tuesday, Feb. 20, 1951
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Lawrence, Kansas
MacArthur Tells UN Troops To 'Resume The Initiative'
Tokyo (U.P.)—Gen. Douglas MacArthur flew to the Korean battlefront today and ordered his forces to take the offensive against Red armies already reeling from one of the bloodiest defeats of modern times.
The U.N. supreme commander's order to "resume the initiative" came while Communist resistance was fading above Chechon in the east-central mountains—the last enemy salient threatening the 8th army's present line.
American Negro rangers wadedicy, hip-deep waters of the Chuchon river and captured the town of Chuchon itself in an over-all unopposed 10-mile advance for the day.
Field officers said the North Koreans vanished after throwing two companies against the American perimeter in a wild bunzai charge shortly after dawn. The attack was beaten off with heavy enemy casualties.
Allied casualties 'were negligible. F-80 Shooting Star jets, U. S. Navy Corsairs and British Navy Seafires paved the way for the American advance with a blazing attack on Chuchon, 18 miles east southeast of Wonju, soon afterwards.
Allied casualties were negligible
Smoke is billowing from the town when American tanks rolled into it. It had been abandoned by the Reds, but there was sporadic small arms and automatic fire from the surrounding hills. Tanks and machine-gun fire silenced that within 20 minutes.
By sundown, the Americans had
seized high ground north of Chuchon to send the U. S. 8th army surging north toward the 38th parallel along a broad front in a new "limited offensive" that may topple Seulol, former capital of South Korea.
But General MacArthur said he would not arbitrarily send U.N. forces north of the 38th parallel again if U.N. members advance "cogent political" objections.
He said President Turman had indicated that crossing the old border between North and South Korea "is a military matter to be resolved in accordance with my best judgment as theater commander."
But, he said:
"I want to make it quite clear that if and when the issue actually arises, I shall not arbitrarily exercise that authority if cogent political reasons against crossing are then advanced and there is any reasonable possibility that a limitation is to be placed thereon.
"Meanwhile, I repeat that at this time the question is academic."
'Waters Muddied Again,' Says Lonborg Of Cage Fix
Three members of the City College of New York basketball team were arrested Sunday night on charges of accepting bribes of from $500 to $1,500 a game to "fix" three Madison Square Garden contests.
"This is a terrible thing to have happen to such a fine sport," he added.
"The waters have been muddied again." Arthur C. Lonborg, director of athletics at the University and head of the N.C.A.A. basketball committee, said in commenting on the scandal.
Dr. Forrest C, Allen, K.U. basketball coach, said he thought the sport should have a commissioner such as in baseball. This official would have the power to keep gamblers from influencing the outcome of any games. He could clean up the whole system without having to cater to alumni for funds.
"College presidents have the power, but they don't use it," Dr. Allen said.
"I know of two college boys who were given $1,000 each in 1946 to throw a game," he said. The boys were from Brooklyn and when gamblers found their plans were discovered they persuaded the boys to give the money back. The affair was hushed up.
"Someday the lid is going to blow up," Dr. Allen said, "and it's going to stink to high heaven."
"The boys are not to blame. It is a matter of environment." Big eastern schools are in large cities, which makes it handy for gamblers to contact the boys, he said.
Dr. Allen said field houses are the Middle West's answer to the problem. The games aren't held in big cities where the gamblers operate.
Asked if he thought this scandal would put an end to having basketball games in Madison Square Garden, Dr. Allen said, "This is not the end of Madison Square Garden, but it must be considered."
Homecoming Queen Dies Of Leukemia
Naperville, III. (U.P.)—A college homecoming queen died of leukemia as fellow students held around-the-clock "prayer watches" for her recovery.
Phyllis Ebinger, 21 - year - old campus leader at North Central college, succumbed to the cancerous disease of the blood last night in Copley hospital at nearby Aurora. Ill.
Students who had kept prayer watches going continuously for six days greeted the news of her death with tears.
"We're all heartbroken," one coed said.
They offered prayers for her soul and her family, then slowly disbanded.
Each day 75 to 100 students gathered in the school auditorium from 5 to 5:30 p.m. to offer silent prayers for her recovery.
Meanwhile, her close friends ano other students worked out a 24-hour prayer watch, each taking a half-hour period during the day or night. Some students arose in the small hours of the morning to make their watch.
General MacArthur's statement indicated that there will be high-level conferences among U. S. diplomats and those of other countries such as Britain known to oppose crossing the parallel while there is even a slim chance of negotiating a settlement with Red China.
An 8th army spokesman estimated that the Communists have massed 30,000 troops in the Hongchon area 25 miles north of Wonji and another 10,000 east of Wonji for a new thrust toward the Chechen corridor.
Her illness became general knowledge on the campus last Wednesday and prayer movements sprang up "spontaneously," school officials and student leaders said.
Miss Ebinger, a lovely brunette who was president of the Y.W.C.A. and one of the most popular students on the campus, was stricker
Platoon and company-sized clashes were reported nine miles north-northwest, eight miles north-northeast and six north of Chechon, which in turn is 20 miles southeast of Wonju.
with acute leukemia Feb. 12 and taken to the hospital.
The deadline for freshman men to apply for membership on the Kansas Relays student committee is Thursday. This committee is ir charge of the annual relays.
No European War In'51,Say Envoys
By UNITED PRESS
"They have admitted they took money for shaving points on games," Hogan said, "and they operated with Salvatore Sollazo and
The three broke down after being questioned by Hogan in an allnight session that began yesterday afternoon and lasted more than 12 hours.
Hogan said the three were involved in "fixing" other games though he declined to specify which they were during the team's 20-4 season.
Applications should be submitted to David Mordy, senior manager of the committee, at 105 Robinson gymnasium. The Kansas Relays will be held this year on Friday, April 20, and Saturday, April 21.
The three were charged specifically with taking $3,000 in bribes to reduce the margin of points by which they won the opening game of the present season—L.U.'s 60 to 59 victory over Kausas State in Madison Square garden, Dec. 2, 1950.
1. Germany. The Russians are not going to move until they are ready for an atomic war. Their troops would run into a small force made up of American, British and French soldiers stationed in western Germany. Once the Russians had exchanged shots with the Allied forces there would almost certainly be an atomic attack on Russia, and that is something she apparently does not want to face now.
Frosh Committee Bids Due Feb. 22
Applicants for vacancies in the maintenance, installation and engineering branches of aeronautics are sought. A schedule for appointments may be signed in the office of Dean T. DeWitt Carr of the School of Engineering and Architecture.
A representative of the Civil Aeronautics administration in Kansas City, Mo., will interview February and June graduates in electrical engineering today.
LIU Cagers Accept Bribes In Contest With K-State
District Attorney Frank S. Hogan charged the three—Sherman White, rated by many as the year's outstanding player, Leroy Smith and Adolph Bigos—with taking part in the same betting ring he broke up over the weekend with the arrest of five other college basketball players and a former convict.
New York (U.P.)—Three basketball stars of Long Island university—including the nation's top score—confessed today taking money from gamblers to juggle game scores and were arrested for bribery.
The Americans who are supposed to know the most about it say there isn't going to be any European war this year.
Engineering Grads To Be Interviewed
Based on what the U.S. diplomats have learned and what newspaper correspondents in the three vital areas have been writing, the situation is about as follows:
The International Business Machine interviews, which were scheduled for Feb. 16, have been postponed until Friday.
one first one was held at Paris and was attended by our envoys stationed in nations behind the iron curtain. The second one, in Istanbul, was made up of U.S. diplomats in the Middle East.
They are the United States diplomats stationed behind the iron curtain and in the danger spots in the Middle East. Recently they have attended two meetings which were called so they could compare notes and give Washington their best opinion on the chances of World War III breaking out in the near future.
Eddie Gard to set up betting coups."
Eddie Garder to set up betting coups. Sollarz姜, 45-year-old jeweler and apartment house neighbor of gambler Frank Costello, is under arraignment for bribing three City College of New York players and a New York university player. Gard, former Long Island university player, also is under arrest in the scandal, described by police as the "middle man."
White, six-foot, seven-inch Negro forward, was the nut's highest scorer with an amazing average of 27.7 points per game. He had been regarded as a leading candidate for All-American honors and already had been named basketball's "player of the year" by the sports news.
Short Causes Gemmell Fire
A small blaze caused by defective electric wiring burned a part of the porch at Gemmell's Cafe, 1241 Oread, at 8:45 a.m. today.
Chief Paul Angels of the Lawrence fire department said the fire was probably due to an electric short. At one time a neon sign had hung on the porch front. The sign had been removed but the wiring remained. The rain may have caused this wiring to short, he said.
WEATHER
KANSAS: Fair west and clearing east with diminishing winds tonight. Wednesday fair, warmer west and central portions, low tonight 20-25; high Wednesday 45-50 northwest to 35-40 southeast.
2. Yugoslavia. This is a tempting target for international Communism, which would like to stamp out Marshal Tito before his revolt against Moscow's dictation can spread. The way the Russians probably would like to do it would be to have such allies as Hungary, Romania and Bulgaria attack Yugoslavia while Moscow stood on the sidelines pretending she had nothing to do with it. But the American diplomats seemed in agreement that those nations could not make a war against Tito a sure thing.
3. Iran, American envoys in the Middle East noted that Russia had stopped talking tough to Iran laterly. They attributed the changed attitude to the fact that it has become known in that section of the world that the United States is stepping up its military and economic assistance.
Russian Moves May Stall Talks
The state department said it had reliable reports that the Soviet Union has moved 35 fully-armored or mechanized divisions into the two areas.
Washington (U.P.)—Reports of Russian troop movements into eastern-Germany and Poland cut the chances today of a successful Big Four foreign ministers meeting.
Russia, the state department said, also has repaired east German rail lines in "the event of war ... would be the supply line from Russia proper."
It was understood they suggested the foreign ministers discuss Austrian and other European problems as well as various disputes over Germany.
The disclosures came at a delicate stage of east-west negotiations over a possible foreign ministers meeting. Russia proposed the meeting to discuss the West's alleged rearmament of western Germany.
The United States, Great Britain and France replied yesterday, suggesting that Big Four deputies meet in Paris Monday, March 5, to draw up an agenda for the foreign ministers sessions.
A state department appraisal of the German situation, meanwhile, said it would be "absurd" to hold a foreign ministers meeting concentrating on the western German rearmament question. Eastern Germany, it said, is being rearmed; western Germany is not.
Home Ec Teacher To Topeka
Miss Ruth McNeilly, instructor in home economics, will speak Thursday on the 4 and 5 year-old child to the Winter Wives club in Topeka.
Government Research Analyst Resigns
Jack F. McKay, senior analyst at the bureau of government research, has resigned, it was announced today by Ethan P. Allen, director of the bureau.
Mr. McKay will leave on Thursday, March 1, to become a social science research associate at the University of Texas institute of public affairs.
Dr. Allen said of the resignation: "In the four years Mr. McKay has been with the bureau, he has devoted his energy and ability to a study of the financial picture in the state of Kansas. He has achieved for himself a position of outstanding authority. All of us at the bureau are, of course, sorry to see him leave, but we rejoice with
him in this opportunity for real professional advancement and wish him the best of luck."
Mr. McKay received his master of arts degree from the University, after graduation from Emporia State college.
He is author of several publications, including "Property Assessment in Kansas," "An Introduction to Municipal Finance," "Recent Trends in City Finance," and several articles in the periodical, Your Government.