FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1951
UN Forces Advance
In Central Offensive
TOKYO, Friday, Feb. 23-0 3 )—Nearly 100,000 United Nations
troops, including four American divisions, gained up to 12 miles
Thursday - in a powerful offensive against. Chinese and North Korean
Communists imbedded in the wet brown hills of central Korea.
The attack, involving both the
Ninth and Tenth Corps of the
U. S. Eighth Army, stretched
along a 55-mile-wide battlefront.
"Operations Killer"—personally
ordered by General MacArthur
only two days ago—sent an esti
mated 60,000 American tr o op' s
slogging northward through the
Korean mud, together with Al
lied forces from Britain, Canada,
Australia, New Zealand, and
South Korea.
One Republic of Korea (ROK)
division sliced• through a moun
tain pass within 35 miles of the
38th parallel.
Opposition was spotty. Some
North Koreans were pulling back
rapidly M near panic. At other
points, stubborn pockets of Chin
ese held firm in deep foxholes
and barricaded dugouts.
Chinese Hold or Die
An estimated 40,000 Commun
ists were in the line, including at
least one fresh Chinese division
under orders to hold or die.
The battlefront stretched from
Yangpyong in- the west, thence
eastward to a point north of Won
ju and continued southeastward to
positions three miles south of
Pyongchang in the wild moun
tain .country of interior Korea.
Yangpyong is 27 air miles east
of Seoul and a like distance from
Wonju in the center. Pyongchang
is 25 air miles east of Wonju.
• ' Allied Objective
The first objective of the pow
erful Allied offensive apparently
was Hoengsong, ten miles north
of Woriju. Steel claws were clos
ing slowly on Hoengsong Thurs
day night from both east an d
west, while a third U. N. force
smashed from the south head-on
into defending Reds.
Behind the Allied advance
came huge convoys of trucks,
guns and tanks, lumbering
through slushy mud over narrow
mountain roads.
Temperance Forces Suffer
If Primary Date Moved Up
HARRISBURG, Feb. 22—(JP)—
Pennsylvania temperance forces
will suffer more than liquor in
terests this year if legislation
changing the primary election
date from Sept. 11 to July 24 is
passed.
That is the opinion of Grant
Peterson, President of the Retail
Liquor Dealers of Pennsylvania.
The primary date change is
proposed in order to grant key
stone servicemen and women
time to vote by absentee ballot.
The bill is now before the senate
for final passage.
Peterson said the July 24 pri
mary date will mean a reduced
time limit for dry forces to work
College Marks 96th
Birthday Celebration
You couldn't tell it from walking around the campus. No one
would know if you asked him. But nevertheless yesterday was an
important day in Penn State history.
For yesterday, Feb. 22, 1951, was the 96th birthday anniversary
of the Pennsylvania State College.
It was back on Feb. 22, 1855. that Governor Pollock signed the
bill granting• the charter to the
"Farmer's High schbol." The
granting of the charter marked
the successful end to the efforts
of the Pennsylvania State Agri
cultural society to establish an ag
ricultural school.
Start of Era
But rather than the end, it was
the beginning—the beginning of
hard work to get the school built
and on its feet, and the beginning
of an era of progress.
Almost immediately after the
charter was granted, of f e r s of
land donations poured in from all
over the state. But it wasn't till
Sept. 12, 1855, that a site for the
new school was adopted. The
House Gets
New Draft
Compromise
WASHINGTON, Feb. .22(W)—
Chairman Vinson (D-Ga) of the
House Armed Services committee
today introduced a compromise
bill calling for drafting boys of
18 and a half years. It bears
tentative committee sanction.
However, another round of
hearings on the bitterly debated
subject opens up Monday. Final
committee action is expected
early next month. The present
draft law expires in July.
The• bill is designed to prevent
any youth being sent into com
bat or overseas before his 19th
birthday. It provides four months
basic training. Leave and travel
time is presumed to occupy the
other two months.
Like a bill approved by the
Senate Armed Services commit
tee and awaiting action in the
Senate, the proposed House
measure would, stretch the pres
ent period of draft service from
21 to 26 months.
The Senate bill permits induc
tion of youths of 18, provided all
available young men in the 19
through 25 years bracket are call
ed first.
Both bills differ from the or,
iginal Pentagon proposal which
called for lowering the draft age
to 18, without restrictions, and
providing for a system of univer
sal training.
A main objective of both Sen
ate and House bills is to set up
a universal training program.
up sentiment for local option
contests over the question of sale
of liquor and beer.
Since local option petitions
must be filed 60 days before the
date of the primary election, pass
age of the absentee voting bill
would mean that such,
petitions
would have to be filed no later
than May 24.
"This wouldn't hurt us nearly
as much as the dry forces," Peter
son commented.
Liquor interests concentrate
most of their effort in maintain
ing present grounds, while tem
perance , groups aim at adding
more dry communities to their
ranks.
By PAUL BEIGHLEY
board of trustees set up by the
charter met at that time and de
cided to accept the offer of 200
acres of land from Gen. James
Irvin of Centre
.county.
The land offered by General
Irvin was located in an isolated
area in the exact geographical
center of the state—a site which
President Sparks later termed as
"equally inaccessible f r o m all
parts of it." The site was thought
to be desirable by many, how
ever, because it was away froin
the distractions and temptations
of city life.
The new school opened Feb. 16,
1859, with the enrollment of 119
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN, STATE COLLEGE, PENNSYLVANIA
In Isolated Area
Cops Off Duty?
School Holiday
BALTIMORE, Feb. 22—(JP)—
An impatient motorist called
police headquarters at the height
of a two-alarm fire today to ask
why no cops were around to ease
a traffic jam near the blaze.
"At this hour, all our officers
are on duty by the schools," ex
plained the voice of the law.
'This is Washington's birth
day," the motorist reminded him.
"No school today."
Within a few minutes five
squad cars arrived to direct the
traffic.
Chase Charges
Trainmen Were
'Black-Jacked'
WASHINGTON, Feb. 22—(IP)—
A railway labor leader today
bitterly denounced government
handling of the rail dispute and
declared White House Aide John
R. Steelman once indicated Presi
dent Truman would "ram a
settlement down our throat"
W.E.B. Chase, vice-president of
the Brotherhood of Railway
Trainmen, also told the Senate
Labor committee:
"I never thought I'd be in the
position of being black-jacked in
the east wing of the White House,
but that has been my experience."
The office of Steelman, assis
tant to Mr. Truman, is in the east
wing. Steelman has played a lead
ing role in trying to arrange a
settlement of the two-year-old
stormy dispute between the rail
road operating unions and the
carriers. The workers are de
manding higher pay and revision
of working conditions.
Before Chase testified, the
committee—which is investigat
ing the dispute—got a demand
from Roy 0. Hughes, President
of the Order of Railway Conduc
tors, that the government im
pound the carriers profits during
the period of federal control. He
contended it would help spur a
settlement. The roads were seized
by the government last August.
Chase's union of trainmen was
fined $75,000 in federal court
here Monday after pleading guil
ty to contempt of court charges
stemming from "sick" strikes of
yard switchmen this winter. The
same union recently was fined
$25,000 in Chicago for a work
stoppage there.
Johnston Claims
He Will Break
Wage Deadlock
WASHINGTON, Feb. 22—(EP)—
Economic Stabilizer Eric Johns
ton asserted today he would
shatter the deadlock over a wage
formula for the immediate emer
gency without further notice to
labor leaders.
Concluding a three-hour meet
ing with the four chiefs of the
United Labor Policy Committee
(ULPC), Johnson said he had
heard "all their gripes" and had
learned a lot.
But he told reporters he would
make his own decision, notify
Mobilization Director Charles E.
Wilson what it was, and then an
nounce it. But he made it clear
that under Defense Mobilization
act he considers he is the one to
settle the impasse.
Meanwhile, two senators offer
ed to propose public hearings if
it would help solve a dispute in
which labor leaders have chal
lenged the handling of the mobili
zation program as unfair.
O'Brien To Talk
J. F. O'Brien, professor of pub
lis speaking at the College. will
address the teachers from six
central. Pennsylvania counties at
a one-day speech workshop for
high school teachers at Gettys
burg college today. The topic of
his speech will be "Speech As a
Social Tool."
students. Students enrolled for
session beginning in 'the middle of
February and ending in the mid
dle of the next December. A fee
of $lOO covered costs of• tuition,
room, board, washing, fuel, and
light for the whole session. How
ever, life wasn't all a bowl of
cherries, for each student was re
quired to work three hours on the
farm daily.
O'Brien Denies Records
Witheld In N.Y. 'Fixes'
NEW YORK, Feb. 22 (/P)—A newspaper report of a fix involv
ing every metropolitan basketball team that played in Madison
Square Garden last season was denied today by New York's former
top policeman.
The Brooklyn Eagle said wiretap recordings of such a fix were
in the hands of police more than a year ago but the evidence was
suppressed by some unnamed
high authority.
Former Police Commissioner
William P. O'Brien, who was in
charge of the department then,
replied:
"I want to make a general .de
nial that any recordings were
ever suppressed. To my knowl
edge, no recordings were ever
made. Positively none were ever
called to my attention."
Earlier, O'Brien's successor,
police commissioner Thomas F.
Murphy—in of fi c e only five
months— . Said he had no informa
tion on such evidence of its sup
pression.
But he asked Chief Inspector
August Flath to dig into the files
and see what he could find.
The Eagle described the evi
dence as 40 wiretap recordings
made during the 1949-50 basket
ball season.
Bulletin
NEW YORK, Feb. 22 (EP)—
Another basketball honor
the national maj or college
scoring leadership—was taken
from Long Island University's
Sherman White today as a re
sult of the fixing scandal.
This week, White overtook
Temple's Bill Mlk vy, and
swept into the lead with an
average of 27.7 points per
game. That was on the basis of
games through last Saturday.
Mlkvy dropped to second, with
a 26.7 average. .
The NCAB, making note that
White had taken the lead with
a record-breaking aver a: e,
said at the same time that his
performance would be stricken
from the books.
The newspaper said the wire
taps indicated a huge fix "involv
ing every metropolitan team that
played in Madison Square Gar
den."
The Eagle did not say who al
legedly suppressed the wiretaps
but referred only to a "higher
authority." The newspaper added:
"The publication of this data,
it was said, would result in driv
ing every college team in the
city out of the Garden."
District Attorney Frank S. Ho
gan, in the midst of a probe into
the latest and biggest of four col
lege basketball scandals since
1945, said he knew nothing of any
such evidence.
Hogan has said that wiretaps
helped him crack the present col
lege fix case involving eight play
ers from Long Island University.
City College of New York, and
New York University.
Auto Firm-
' (Continued from page one)
The subcommittee's inquiry
drew an admission today from
RFC Director William E. Willett
that he helped an old friend of
his obtain a $300,000 RFC loan by
personally assigning the RFC ex
aminer who made the recom
mendations on the application.
The friend is C. Edward Rowe.
principal owner of the Harring
ton and Richardson Arms com
pany of Worcester, Mass. Rowe
subsequently joined the RFC
directorate and is now vice chair
man of the board.
Senator Douglas (D-I11) asked
Willett if he had not departed
from regular procedure in per
sonally assigning the examiner.
"Yes sir, it is very unusual,"
Willett said. ". . . I did it as a
personal favor to Judge Rowe.
Judge Rowe has been a personal
friend of mine for years."
The loan was made to Harring
ton and Richardson last April 10.
Willett said it was a good loan
and already had been repaid in
full.
The enrollment of students of
the Pennsylvania State College
for the fall semester of 1950 rank
ed 20th among the nation's col
leges.
PAGE THREE
Britain Hits
Selection Of
U.S. Admiral
LONDON, Feb. 22(/?)—Winston
Churchill stirred the Hous'e of
Commons today by charging Brit
ain had been "brushed out of the
way" with the nomination of an
American Admiral to command'
Atlantic Pact sea forces.
The Conservative leader asked
Prime Minister Attlee indignant
ly: "Was there not a British Ad
miral capable of discharging these
functions?"
Churchill's sharp questioning
of Attlee roused the House to
fever pitch. Other Conservatives
and some Laborite members
shouted queries across the cham
ber, cheered and booed.
The Prime Minister declined to
disclose the man named. but it
has been known here for days
that Vice Adm. William N. Fech
teler, now Commander-in-,Chief
of the U.S. , Atlantic fleet with
headquarters in Norfolk, Va., is
the nominee.