UN'Meat Grinder To Be Continued
Tokyo (U.P.)—Gen. Douglas MacArthur said today on his return from a flying trip to the Korean front that the U.S. 8th army will continue its "meat grinder" tactics of killing the Chinese Communists in Korea without attempting to seize or hold any particular territory.
Whether or not United Nations' forces cross the 38th parallel in this war of maneuver against the Communists' superior numbers is "purely academic," General MacArthur said.
$ \mathrm{H_{e}} $ reiterated his basic strategy to keep the Chinese Communist supply lines extended so they may be lashed from the air while superior U.N. tank and artillery forces grind up the Reds at the front.
"We are still engaged in a war of maneuver with the object of inflicting as heavy a punishment upon the enemy as possible, striving constantly to keep him off balance to prevent his obtaining and holding the tactical initiative while at the same time avoiding hazards inherent in his numerical superiority." General MacArthur said.
The supreme commander cautioned however that the Chinese Communists could not be considered defeated no matter how successful these tactics may seem in numbers of enemy killed.
The Chinese Reds, he said, still
have a vast reservoir of manpower and material within the sanctuary of their Manchurian borders which they can call upon at will to replace losses in Korea.
General MacArthur admitted frankly he couldn't see clearly the outcome of the war under the present limitations. United Nations forces are outnumbered and the source of supply for the Reds in China still is protected from air attack.
"What the future has in store in Korea continues to be largely dependent upon international considerations and decisions not yet known here," General MacArthur said. He did not elaborate on what these "decisions" are or by whom they were taken.
Meanwhile, The command is doing everything that could reasonably be expected of it," he said. General MacArthur's flying trip to the front was his second in recent days. However, on his previous flight he was unable to land in Korea because of a snowstorm.
Driving Snow Hits Campus As Temperature Plummets
Snow flurries that were preceded by thunder and lightning brought a temperature drop of 15 degrees during the night in Lawrence.
A layer of warm Gulf air was sandwiched between two layers of cold air. The warm air, rising through the upper layer of cold air, generated electricity and the
Kansas State Historical Society Topeka, Ks.
requent thunderclaps, an offence of the egraphy department, said.
The building and grounds department put sand on several streets this morning.
C. J. Posey, professor emeritus of the geography department, said the temperature dropped from 27 degrees at 7 p.m. Monday to 12 degrees early this morning. The temperature previously dropped from 67 degrees at 7 p.m. Sunday to the Monday reading of 27.
The United Press reported the clear, cold weather was bringing relief to flood-stricken western Washington, where 5,000 persons had been driven from their homes.
Lawrence police reported no accidents during an 18-hour period since 3:00 p.m. Monday.
The ice storm, 100 miles wide, moved south through Missouri, northern Illinois and Indiana and southern Michigan. It was followed by snow that piled up five inches in Madison, Wis., and was expected to cover the north central states today.
Temperatures were falling from Wisconsin to Texas, where the mercury dropped 26 degrees in 29 hours. The weather bureau said sub-zero temperatures would clamp down on Wisconsin, Iowa and northern Illinois tonight.
Houghton, Mich., was the nation's coldest spot early today, with a reading of 27 below zero. It was 25 below at Bismarck, N.D., and 16 below at Grantsburg, Wis.
BULLETIN
The weather bureau warned ice
Parsons (U.P.)—An air force B-29 crashed and exploded on the outskirts of Parsons today after at least 12 of the 15 men had bailed out. One man was killed, and three were unaccounted for.
The B-29, flying out of Barksdale air force base, Shreveport, La, crashed in a sleet storm. Witnesses said "it sounded like it was in trouble" just before it exploded and scattered wreckage over a five acre patch of land two miles north of the city.
sleet and snow would make driving hazardous throughout the area.
The rest of the country enjoyed generally fair weather, and the cold air slowed down rampaging rivers in the Pacific northwest, where floods have taken at least seven lives, covered more than 50,000 acres and caused damage estimated at 50 million dollars.
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Chinese Reds Drive Wedge Into Battered UN Fronts
Tokyo (U.P.)—Spearheads of up to 170,000 counter - attacking Reds drove a menacing wedge between the western and central Korean fronts today.
The new threat arose as battered United Nations forces broke contact with the enemy south of fallen Hoengsong and retreated to a new defense line protecting Wonju, 10 miles to the south.
Red patrols already have penetrated to within $2^{1/2}$ miles west of the key road junction of Wonju in
the central Korean mountains, nearly 20 miles south of their jump- off positions two days ago.
With the fall of Hoengsong, however, the Communists shifted the main weight of their assault southwest and struck across rugged hills toward the vital Wonju-Yoju lateral highway. Once the Reds reach the highway, they could swing west against the flank of victorious U.N. forces besieging Seoul, east against
Urges Senate Slowdown On US Troops Question
The bill, with emergency brakes applied, will probably sidetrack to the house ways and means committee Wednesday and final action will not be taken until next week. An extension of contractor's bids would make the delay possible. The bill would provide new buildings for seven Kansas educational institutions.
Washington—(U.P.)—Another senate Democrat urged a go slow attitude today on the troops-for-Europe issue.
The bill will make funds available immediately for construction of a $2,500,000 fieldhouse and armory for the University of Kansas. About $750,000 of the total was supplied by
Sen. Walter F. George, (D., Ga.), said congress ought to have more information on American commitments before giving approval to the troops question.
Rents: Congressional sources reported that communities had better not depend too much on congress to vote a rent control extension before March 31. They said it will be a tight squeeze to pass one by that time. Rent controls end March 31 unless extended for an additional three months by affirmative vote in local communities.
Draft: The senate armed services committee was ready to approve a
In other congressional developments;
George is a member of the armed services committee which together with the foreign relations committee is expected to approve a resolution approving U.S. troops for Europe under Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower's Atlantic pact command.
draft of 18-year-olds. Final committee approval is expected tomorrow after Sen. Wayne Morse, (R. Ore.), gives his objections.
Subversives: The senate judiciary committee is expected to hold public hearings on President Truman's nominees for the subversives activities board.
RFC: Chairman Burnet R. Maybank of the senate banking committee argued that President Truman's five nominees for the Reconstruction Finance Corp. should be "voted up or down." Three of the nominees have been criticized by a banking subcommittee for being involved in an "influence web" in loans made by the agency.
Topeka—(U.P.)—Action to rush a $5,006,646 educational building fund bill through the house on an emergency provision apparently struck a snag today after passing the senate by an overwhelming margin of 31 to 2 on Monday.
Senate Okays Fieldhouse Grant
THE FINAL ARCHITECTURAL plan-drawing of the new fieldhouse which will seat 16,000.
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Rushed through the senate because contractors' bids will expire on Saturday, the sum will be added to the 7½ million dollars appropriated two years ago. The fieldhouse is expected to seat 16,000.
Sen. Wilfrid Cavaness, chairman of the ways and means committee, announced that four other items will be added to the bill if bids are received during the present session.
a 1949 appropriation and the new bill would provide another $1,863,000 for the structure.
Other appropriations in the education fund bill include: Kansas State college, $1,273,500; Kansas State Teachers college, Emporia, $192,500; Fort Hays Kansas State college, $422,346; Kansas State Teachers college, Pittsburg, $340,000; State School for the Blind, Kansas City, $83,000; Kansas Vocational school, $130,000; and University of Kansas Medical Center, $700,300.
A $440,000 appropriation for boilers in the power plant of the School of Medicine passed, after a motion to strike it out was defeated.
Bids for one item, the science building, will be received on March 6. since $1,972,000 has already been appropriated for this purpose.
Wonji or south toward the 8th army's rear.
Farther west, however, U.N. troops hit back against the Communist pocket south of the Han river and captured a commanding hill in a one-mile advance some 25 miles southeast of Seoul.
The fight for the 1,700-foot hill seven miles northeast of Ionch had see-sawed back and forth for three days. When the Allied troops reached the crest, they counted 831 enemy bodies. In the same area, 26 of 34 Allied troops trapped last night in a Chinese attack on their outpost 15 miles northeast of Ionch made their way back to the Allied lines.
Reports from the central front indicated that the Communists have thrown elements of six Chinese and two North Korean army corps—a potential force of 24 divisions to-telling 140,000 to 170,000 troops—against the Allies on a 40-mile front.
Only about one-third of the forces were believed to have been committed to battle so far, and they already have forced a general Allied withdrawal of 10 to 15 miles in 36 hours.
U. S. and South Korean troops held out in Hoengsong for nearly 24 hours under attack from three sides. There was hand-to-hand fighting in the city's streets.
An 8th army communique announced that outnumbered United Nations forces on the central front broke contact with the counterattacking Reds on the central sector early today after abandoning the mountain stronghold of Hoeng-song around midnight.
Up until tonight, the Reds had not reached the new U.N. line above Wonju. Exact whereabouts of the new defenses were a military secret. However, the Chinese were reported, moving relentlessly south across the rugged hills between Hoengsong and Chipyong, 20 miles farther west, toward the Wonju-Yoju highway.
School Lists 10 For Honors
Five seniors and five juniors today were listed on the Fall semester honor roll of the William Allen White School of Journalism and Public Information by Dean Burton W. Marvin. The students on the list comprise 10 per cent of the school's enrollment for the Fall semester.
Leading those honored was Mrs. Dorothy Oglesbee of Kinsley, a Junior, with a 2.87 average. Each of the ten made a 2.23 average or better.
The other juniors were Kenneth Meinen and Alan Marshall of Kansas City, Mo., Joyce Brown of Leavenworth and Mona Millikan of Bronson.
The seniors were John Bannigan of Brooklyn, N.Y., John Corporon of Arcadia, and Janet Ogan, William DeLay and Virginia Coppedge of Kansas City, Mo.
WEATHER
Topeka—(U.P.)-Kansas: Light snow or snow flurries this afternoon and over the south portion of the state tonight, clearing west and north tonight and southeast Wednesday morning. Low tonight zero to 5 below west and north to near zero southeast. Fair Wednesday with rising temperatures in the afternoon except in southeast. High 20 to 25 east and 25 to 20 west. Fresh to strong winds of 20 to 30 miles per hour from the north this afternoon diminishing tonight.