Kansas State Historical Society Topeka, Ks.
University Daily Kansan 48th Year No.74 Friday, Jan. 12, 1951
STUDENT NEWS PAPER
Lawrence, Kansas
Ernest K. Lindley Will Speak Here
Ernest K. Lindley, chief of the Washington bureau of Newsweek magazine and son of the late Chancellor E. H. Lindley of the University of Kansas, will deliver the William Allen White Foundation lecture at the University on Friday, Feb. 9.
Mr. Lindley's talk will be given $ ^{ \textcircled{1}} $
Lancaster, NY. at 9:20 am. In Hooh auditorium at an all-university convocation, it was announced by Burton W, Marvin, dean of the William Allen White School of Journalism and Public Information.
The lecture will be the principal feature of the annual meeting of the board of the William Allen White Foundation, which was held for the first time last Feb. 10, the birthdate of the late William Allen White, world-famous editor of The Emporia Gazette. This year's meeting is being held on Feb. 9, Dean Marvin explained, because Feb. 10 falls on a Saturday, an unsuitable day for the lecture and Foundation session.
A veteran newspaperman and for 13 years chief of the Washington bureau of Newsweek, Mr. Lindley is author of a weekly column of news analysis called "Washington Tides." He has been recognized on numerous occasions as one of the leading Washington correspondents and in 1950 he received the Overseas Press Club's plaque for the best news reporting and interpretation on television.
World as a political writer. From 1331 to 1397 he was with The New York Herald-Tribune, serving the last four of those years as a member of that newspaper's Washington staff.
After receiving his Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Idaho in 1920, Mr. Lindley attended Oxford University in England as a Rhodes Scholar. He went to work as a reporter on The Wichita Beacon in 1924 and later in the same year joined the staff of the New York
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Mr. Lindley is author of a number of books on President Roosevelt and the New Deal and has written numerous magazine articles.
Army Ups Manpower Goal
Washington—(U.P.)—Assistant Defense Secretary Anna M. Rosenberg disclosed today that the armed forces have raised their goal to 3,462.205 men and women in service by next June 30.
The figure is 262,205 over the previous goal.
Mrs. Rosenberg said President Truman approved the increase this morning.
Mrs. Rosenberg indicated it is possible that even higher figures will be set within the next few weeks. She told the committee that the announced increase and any new ones will require a complete revision of manpower charts which she has submitted the
The higher manpower figures can be met only by revising present draft procedures, she said. Unless 18-year-olds are called, she said, the armed services will have to ask for husbands who are veterans or fathers who are non-veterans.
past few days. These will be ready Monday, she said.
Ihaca, N.Y., Jan. 12—U.P.)-Deane W. Malotl, president of Kansas University, is high on the list of candidates for president of four other universities, a Cornell university spokesman said today.
Neal Dow Becker, chairman of the Cornell Board of Trustees, said that no decision has been made in the choice of president for Cornell.
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Becker said that four major universities, including Cornell, are looking for new presidents and Malott stands "high on the list" with each of them.
Bombing Causes Reds To Retreat
Washington—(U.P.)—A high ranking army officer today said the Chinese Communist threat to United Nations forces on the Korean right flank "has been diminished to a great extent."
Tokyo—(U.P.)U.S. 2,nd division troops smashed to within 2,000 yards of Wonju and its important airfield today after an estimated 7,000 Reds broke and ran under a combined Superfortress saturation raid and artillery blasting.
US Was Fat,Dumb After Past War,Says Captain
For five years after the war we were "fat, dumb, and happy, making money and thinking nothing at all about the Russian menace."
Dr. Carroll P. Hungate, United States Navy Captain, also told a Fraser theatre audience Thursday, "Now we have to educate the people on what to do in case of a disaster, and educate them in a hurry."
Dr. Hungate is on active duty with the navy, and is co-developer of the display on the atom bomb which was set up in the lobby of the Union building Wednesday.
"For years we have treated civil- ian defense as a blackboard exercise. For five years we sat back and thought Stalin didn't mean it when he said that capitalism, socialism, and communism couldn't live together in the same world."
"In 1945 we were ushered into an atomic age. We should have an atomic powered submarine within three years and perhaps an atomic powered airplane by 1960."
Dr. Hungate said that a shielding material for an atomic power plant is all that stands between man and perpetual motion. We have not yet developed a material that would withstand the heat and radioactivity produced by an atomic plant, he said.
There is very little high percentage Uranium ore in the continental United States, but we have the richest mines in the world as far as we know. We think that the Uranium mines in eastern Germany and Czechoslovakia have been worked out for years, he said.
"It takes the Russians 25 times as long and .5 times as much money to produce one pound of Uranium as it does us."
"We must develop a strong civilian defense." Dr. Hungate said.
"The only defense for the bomb is the evacuation of large industrial centers. The politicians say that it is unsound and that it would cost 300 billion dollars. We built the Panama canal, but we cannot afford to protect ourselves." he said.
Speaking on the Hydrogen bomb he said that it might be 1,000 times more powerful than the atom bomb, but that there were many research problems to be overcome.
Maj. Gen. Robert B. McClure, the 2nd, division's commander, said "we're heading in that direction" when asked if his forces intended to recapture the strategic highway hub guarding the mountain passes leading into far South Korea.
The stage was set for the United Nations attack with an earthshaking, 19-minute. Superfort, raid, which rained 80 tons of death and destruction on Red forces entrenched in and south of Wonju.
Air reports said the Communists threw four new regiments south from Wonju into the front line fighting area as darkness began to fall Friday. Other Red troops began reinforcing the north side of a hill southeast of Wonju.
Fighters and light bombers joined the Superforts in blasting the Reds Friday, flying 380 sorties in perfect weather. They reported another 1,400 enemy killed or wounded, 700 in the Suwon area south of Seoul where the Communists were reported attempting to renew their drive south on the main highway to Pusan.
The president promised that his new budget would provide only for the most urgent non-defense government needs, plus the overall se
Truman Asks Higher Taxes
He estimated that the cost of the "primary national security programs" for the fiscal years 1951 and 1952 would be more than 140 billion dollars.
Washington—(U.P.)—President Truman called on congress today to increase taxes "much more" than the eight billion boost voted in 1950.
Mr. Truman held up specific details on his tax proposals pending completion of a message to congress on the subject. He said the message would go to the house and the senate "in the near future, after further consultations with legislative leaders."
curity program. He said many government programs outside of the security field would be "sharply curtailed."
Direct price and wage controls, in addition to higher taxes and credit restrictions, were mandatory in the fight against inflation, he said.
He pictured the foreseeable future as relatively austere for everyone.
"All economic groups must pay much higher taxes," he said. "American families must make sacrifices."
He said the average family would have to make their household goods, their automobiles and appliances, their linen and clothes last much longer. Many families, he continued, will have to postpone buying new houses.
Military Spotlight Is On Eighteen-Year-Olds
By FORREST MILLER
While the armed services are engaged in a tug-of-war for the country's most discussed crop of boys—the 18-year-olds, M/Sgt., Jack D. Urbanek, of the Lawrence recruiting board, reports that only 25 college students, most of them 19 or 20 years old, have actually enlisted since Jan. 2.
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A U.S. News and World Report story reveals that the number of men annually reaching the age of 18 is strictly limited. It will be about one million a year until 1960 when it will jump to almost one-and one-half million.
Orders were received at the Lawrence recruiting board Thursday making it possible for any student with at least two years of college (60) hours to enlist in the air force and be accepted immediately. However, he must bring his transcript when he enlists. Enlistments to non-students and non-veterans in the air force are closed Sgt. Urbanek said.
Aviation cadets who have been accepted for cadet training but deferred for four months may begin training immediately by bringing
the telegram they received from the Tenth Air Force to the Lawrence office.
The squadrons of the Naval Air reserve at the Olathe Air station are almost completely filled now, according to Capt. James H. Flatley, commanding officer at the base.
The Marine Air Reserve squadron at the base is also practically at full strength, except for some vacancies for veterans in the non-commissioned ranks, said Captain Flatley.
However the Air Force reserve at Olathe has several vacancies remaining for both recruits and rated men.
The Marine Air detachment has a limited number of openings in the fields of engineering, clerk-
typists, radiomen, and all phases of aircraft mechanics, with or without previous service from private to master sergeants. :
Military officials would like to take every physically fit youth when he reaches the age of 18. However the other services are skimming the cream of youths through voluntary enlistments at 18 before the Army gets its share by drafting them at 19. Congress is now debating whether to authorize the drafting of 18-year olds.
Four plans, universal military training, universal military service, military education, and civilian science training, have been presented to meet the Army's problem. No matter which plan is chosen, the decision will govern the destiny of virtually every youth, probably beginning this summer.
All 17 or 18-year-old youths except the physically handicapped would go into a special training corps under the universal military training plan. After that a youth could take his 'choice of ten programs, including another six months in the training corps.
Under the universal military service plan, every 17 or 18-year-old would be put into the armed forces for two years. After that period of non-combat duties, a man would be free to do what he pleased with no fear of being drafted again unless full-scale war should occur.
However, armed forces officials say they cannot spare instructors for such a program and other opponents of the plan say that graduates of the plan would not volunteer in sufficient numbers to meet man-power needs. However the plan has one powerful backer—the American Legion.
The military education plan would have the one million men reaching 18 each year report for induction into the armed forces. About 200,000 physically unfit men would go to "collateral service," such as hospital orderly duty. The remaining 200,000 would be divided impartially among the army, navy and air force
and given six months training in the United States.
The trainees would be graded and those who received lower rating would continue in the armed force for 21 months. They could be sent anywhere.
The higher-rated trainees, from 150,000 to 300,000, could go to college perhaps as cadets in uniform. When they graduated, they would owe the government more service and the armed forces could recall them a needed.
Practically all professional societies and most educators advocate the civilian science training plan be cause it keeps interference wit higher education at a minimum.
Under this plan, all college senior would be required to take a college aptitude test. Those who made score equivalent to 120 on tf army's General Classification test probably about the top 16 per cent—would be considered college material. The other 84 per cent won't report to the armed forces for training and service.