1951
Kansas State Historical Society Topeka, Ks.
Troops Advance Toward Seoul
Tokyo—(U.P.)—United Nations troops advanced their main from to within six miles of Seoul Wednesday. They were paced by American infantrymen who swept the Reds off a hilltop in a spectacular bayonet charge within sight of the city.
Covered by a curtain of artillery fire and spearheaded by three fast-shooting tank task forces, the U.S. 8th army shoved the reeling Communists back one to four miles all along the Korean front.
Spectacular hand-to-hand fighting raged south of Seoul as American, Turkish and Puerto Rican infantrymen pushed their lines forward to within four miles of the Han river. At one point American infantrymen rescued a task force of Negro tank men who were pinned down by entrenched Communists on a hill.
Allied artillery moved up behind the troops, bringing Seoul within easy artillery range. But they ignored the city temporarily to blast 10,000 to 15,000 Reds dug in below the Han river for a last-ditch defense stand.
Capt. Lewis F. Millett, of South Dartmouth, Mass., led his infantry company in a wild charge up the hill. The yelling Americans cut down 47 Communists with their bayonets and shot another 50 "like rabbits" as they attempted to flee down the north side of the hill.
On the central front, a three-day-old U.S. 10th corps attack gained more than two miles and sent one spearhead within 25 miles of the 38th parallel.
Freed from the trap, the Negro tankers—Task Force Bartlett—swept on north and linked up with Task Force Dolvin, which had cut four miles deep into Red lines south and southeast of Seoul. Between them the two columns clamped an armored pincers on an unreported number of Red defenders south of Seoul and northwest of Anvang.
A delayed report from the east coast said South Korean troops there were battling desperately against two Red battalions dug in on hills three miles east and five miles southwest of Kansung.
The Communists launched several counter-attacks south of Seoul during the day but were driven off each time. The U.S. 10 corps drive north in central Korea smashed within six road miles of Hongchon, important road junction supplying the Communists on the entire central front.
At this point the Americans were within 25 miles of the 38th parallel. The Reds fought back in forces ranging from 13 men to a battalion, trying desperately to hold the main road against the battering of Allied artillery, tanks, infantry and planes.
In the mopup that started late in the afternoon Allied forces captured 27 prisoners. Five were Chinese Communists and the rest were North Koreans.
The mighty battleship Missouri, aided by a cruiser, destroyers and rocket ships, supported the South Koreans with a naval barrage of more than 1,000 rounds.
A third tank group, task force Fisher, heavily supported by infantry, blasted the Reds in an area ranging from 10 miles east of Anyang to seven miles southeast of Seoul.
Justice Department Wins Authority Over Prices
Vincent Starts AWS Series
The surest way to be mentally healthy is to be a good leader, Wanda Mae Vincent, Topeka, assistant director of Kansas high school activity activities, told women students Tuesday night in the Kansas room of the Union.
WEATHER
Miss Vincent, speaking at the first of a series of Associated Women Students' leadership workshops, said, "There are things that you can do in K.U. and in life, if you want to be a leader, but first you must find a cause that makes you want to do something about it."
Enthusiasm, a sense of humour,
and a sense of direction should be present in all leaders. In having a sense of direction the leader must not only know where he is going, but must also present a plan for obtaining his goal, she said.
Above all, the leader should have faith in himself and in others. He should want to "develop responsibility in other people." The leader should "get so interested in his cause that he forgets about himself. There is a balance in believing in oneself and in being extremely humble; it isn't the leader who is great, but the cause."
KANSAS: Partly cloudy tonight and Thursday. Warmer Thursday and in the west tonight; low tonight 10-15 east to 20-25 in the west. High Thursday 34-40 east, 45 west.
There are piffalls and problems in being a leader but there are also rewards. The feeling of reward comes with the "satisfaction of making some positive contribution to the community or to your job." Storing your period of leadership, enriching your followers so that they will take over and do as well, or better, than you have."
Washington (U.R.)-The justice department won complete authority over price control enforcement today over the protests of price stabilizer Michael V. Disalle.
An official spokesman for economic stabilizer Eric A. Johnston, said the enforcement issue was settled at a conference between Johnston, and deputy attorney General Peyton Ford yesterday. The spokesman said Disalle would make a formal announcement of the decision today and also issue an order regulating slaughter of livestock.
1. Chairman Burnet R. Maybank of the congressional watchdog committee on economic controls was called to a White House conference with President Truman at 10 a.m. E.S.T. The South Carolina Democrat said he did not know what the president wanted to discuss.
In other developments:
2. Johnston scheduled a return meeting today with top labor and industry leaders who had discussed the mobilization program with Johnston before he became economic stabilizer.
Wednesday, Feb. 7, 1951
UNIVERSITY DAILY
48th Year No. 83
Lawrence, Kansas
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The course will cover such subjects as medical aspects of hearing losses, hearing tests, effects of hearing loss in school children, techniques and aids for helping the hard of hearing child.
The entire program emphasizes the "how it is done" aspects, Ingham said.
Dr. Schott N. Reger, associate professor of otological acoustics, University of Iowa, and Stanley Roth, superintendent of the Kansas School for the Deaf, Olathe, will be the guest instructors.
The need for improved hearing conservation programs is so great and the field still so undeveloped that the course is being offered without fee, according to H. G. Ingham, director of the extension program in medicine. School officials and other lay personnel concerned with hearing problems may attend.
The Mineral Industries council State Geological survey advisory body which is composed of 12 Kansas directly connected with industry, business, and agriculture, met Tuesday.
Cites Trends In Geology
This year's meeting consisted of a morning session devoted to a review of Geological Survey activities during the past year and an afternoon inspection tour of survey offices and laboratories.
The council meets annually with officials of the State Geological Survey to keep them informed of industrial trends and needs.
According to Dr. John C. Frye, executive director of the State Geological Survey, a feature of the morning meeting was an illustrated talk on industrial trends in Kansas through the past 50 years by Earl K. Nixon, member of the economic geology division of the survey.
Because the program is of interest to health officers and public health and public school nurses, it has been scheduled to follow immediately the annual refresher course in public health and preventive medicine Monday. Feb. 12 through Wednesday. Feb. 14.
Hearing Health Course For Medical Center
A postgraduate course in hearing conservation tests and techniques will be presented Thursday, Feb. 15 and Friday, Feb. 16, at the University of Kansas Medical center in Kansas City, Kan.
Death Toll To 81 In Train Wreck
The dedicatory recital for the new baroque organ in Spooner-Thayer museum was played Feb. 2 by Carl Weinrich, organist of Princeton university. A large crowd was present at the concert.
The organ was given to the University by Arthur Weaver, '15. The services of Charles McManis, '36, were also donated. It is now possible at the University, when playing the organ music of Handel and his predecessors, to reproduce in a fair measure some of the aural effects of the baroque period.
By HELEN LOU FRY
Gives Recital To Dedicate Museum Organ
Although the organ was built to reproduce the tonal effects as Bach and Handel visualized them, Mr. Weinrich showed that the organ was an excellent instrument for contemporary composers, too, by presenting works of Hindemuth and Milhaud.
The "Hindemuth Sonata in E flat minor" was especially beautiful.
The chorale-prelude on "How Brightly Shines the Morning-Star" by Buxtehue, a contemporary of Bach and Handel, displayed the beautiful and variated tones of the new organ.
Woodbridge, N.J.—(U.P.)The death toll of the worst train accident in 33 years reached 81 today and the Federal Bureau of Investigation assigned four G-men to investigate "the possibility of sabotage."
In his encores, Mr. Weinrich played works of Hayden and Bach. One of the pieces from Haydn's "Mechanical Clock" was most enjoyable.
Following the recital, the audience was served punch and cookies while viewing the newly acquired acquisitions of the Museum.
Carnival Receipts Total $650
Net receipts from the Student Union carnival were $650, James Burgoyne, director of Student Union activities, said Tuesday.
"There will be a rebate to each house that sponsored a booth of at least 15 per cent on all tickets taken in by the booth," he said. Burgoyne estimated that 1,100 persons attended the carnival.
Communism And Tibet Do Not Mix
Tibet, land of the lost horizon, is the "last place on earth where Communism would spring up on its own accord," Lowell Thomas, Jr., told an overflow attendance in Fraser theater Tuesday.
Mr. Thomas, whom Chancellor Deane W. Malott introduced as the "most modern of world explorers," narrated the color movie, "Out of This World: a Journey to Lhasa." The film was photographed on a recent expedition to Tibet by Mr. Thomas and his father, Lowell Thomas, Sr., noted radio commentator.
Tibet, a land of isolation, has consistently refused admittance to foreigners. Nevertheless, in the summer of 1949 the 16-year-old Dalai Lama, ruler of Tibet, granted the Thomases permission to enter the land. With Communist China at her northern border, the Tibtens granted entry in order that their
slight might be placed before the world, Mr. Thomas said.
The film revealed the feudal living conditions of the people, the monasteries and official buildings.
Because of their stringent adherence to religion, Mr. Thomas believes that communism will find infertile soil among the Tibetans. He said that the officials were extremely pro-American, but that the average peasant has not even heard of the U.S.
Mr. Thomas, Jr., 27, was born in London while his father was there on visit. Mr. Thomas has been on six expeditions, the first at the age
of 15 when he was assistant to a cameraman on a sea voyage around South America.
After the Tibet expedition, the youthful explorer wrote a book, "Out of this World," about the trip. He is presently conducting a nationwide tour, showing movies of the journey.
Since then he has visited Alaska, Persia and Turkey and has flown around the world. It was on the latter trip that he participated in the Bikini atom bomb test, which Mr. Thomas describes as "one of the most spectacular experiences of my life."
Mr. Thomas is in the air force reserves and like many University students, Uncle Sam holds the key to his future. If he is not recalled, he hopes to return to India soon.
But state Attorney General Theodore Parsons and a staff of assistants rushed here from the capital in Trenton and began a minute investigation based—one official said—on the possibility of "there having been criminal negligence."
Hours after daybreak, wreckage workers still were tearing into the twisted, crumpled steel of two coaches of the Pennsylvania railroad's "Brokers' Special" which plunged off an embankment at 5:47 p.m. Tuesday and injured 500 of its 900 passengers.
Parsons established "a questioning center" in the local police station. His assistants and state police
BULLETIN
Woodbridge, N. J—(U)P)—T he engineer of "The Brokers' Special" which left its rails and killed at least 81 persons in the nation's worst train wreck in 33 years, admitted to New Jersey investigators today that he was traveling at twice the regulation speed.
were bringing in railroad workers and the construction men who helped build the temporary trestle which gave way under the weight of the train and dumped eight of its 11 cars over a 26-foot embankment.
Samuel McKee, FBI chief for New Jersey, said: "I am making an inquiry" into the chance of sabotage. He rushed here from his headquarters in Newark, accompanied by three other G-men.
Parsons rushed one of his assistant attorneys-general, Benjamin Van Tine, to Perth Amboy hospital to question Joseph H. Fitzsimmons, 57, engineer of the "Broker's Special." Fitzsimmons was thrown out of his cab and escaped with only fractured ribs.
Among those questioned at "The questioning center" were Barney Webb, P.R.R. track foreman for the section where the wreck occurred, and Kenneth J. Silvey, P.R.R. chief division engineer.
The disaster already was rever-
berating through state officialdom.
New Wonder Drug Found
New York—(U.R.) A new wonder drug can be used as a blood plasma substitute or an internal-external germ killer, says its discoverer, Dr. Morris Shelanski of the Philadelphia General hospital.
The new chemical miracle, polyvinylpyrrolidone, will be known as P.V.P.
Tests have proved it an excellent substitute for blood plasma and, when mixed with ordinary iodine, it becomes a powerful germ killer.
Dr. Morris Shelanski of the Philadelphia General hospital said he used it to treat the common cold with remarkable results, and found it effective in treating venereal disease and skin ailments.
The use of iodine has been stricly limited, Dr. Shelanski said, because it is poisonous and cannot be taken internally. However, when mixed with P. V. P. it is perfectly harmless to the body but kills germs. A doctor can give his patient a dose to drink, inject it into his patient's bloodstream, or paint a wound with no risk of injury.