WEDNESDAY, MARCH 7, .1951
Senators Reject
Enlistment Curb
WASHINGTON, March 6—(N)—Senator Morse (R-Ore.) accused
the Air Force, Navy and Marines today of "stockpiling" manpower
by high pressuring youths into enlisting for four years in order to
avoid the Army.
But he lost out by a 77-14 Senate vote in a move to curb the
practice by reducing all the armed forces' voluntary enlistment per
iods to 36 months. That is the
present minimum for enlistment
in the Army. •
Then the Senate, working to
ward early action on the admin
istration's combined plan - for an
18-year-old draft now and uni
versal military training after the
immediate service need is past,
headed into what promised to be
a slam-bang battle over the whole
UM idea. The Senatcirs may hold
a night session tomorrow in an
effort to get a final decision.
Hard Fight Foreseen
Meantime the , House,• where
th e universal military training
and service bill is still in com
mittee, showed signs of a hard
fight of its own over the general
training plan.
Simultaneously with the Sen
ate debate there were these re
lated developments on the mili
tary manpower front:
1. The Army, called on Selec
tive Service for 60,000 men in
May, 20,000 less then it has been
calling monthly since January.
The May inductions will bring to
590,000 the number drafted for
the Army since last year. The
other services still get all their
men by voluntary enlistment.
Army officials said the reduced
call-up represents no change of
plans but was plotted weeks ago.
The rate of induction is controlled
by such factors as the availability
of training facilities and the
planned size of the Army. UnOf
ficially the service has been es—
timated to reach 1,500,000 men
some time this summer.
ROTC Deferments
2. Selective Service advised
draft boards that only students
actually selected for Reserve Of
dicers Training corps programs
are eligible for draft deferment
on that account. Aides to Selec
tive Service,,-director Lewis B.
'Hershey said the bulletin was is
sued because many b - oards mis
takenly believe a College student
is automatically deferred by
ROTC service.
Morse, arguing for his amend
ment to cut the enlistment period
of the Air Force, Navy and Ma
rines down to three years, told
the Senate that the recruiting
drive of those services amounted
to "grabbing more men than
they can absorb"-or train proper
ly'.
Their failure to take any men
from Selective Service, he , said,
turns draftees into "second class
service men."
He urged that they be required
to get some of their men by way
of the draft.
Wilson Warns
Labor Leaders
KEY WEST, Fla., March
Defense Mobilization Director
Charles E. Wilson came out of a
huddle with President- Truman
today with a warning to organ
ized labor leaders that "nothihg
and nobody" will be permitted to
impede defense production.
The red-faced, big, bespectacled
mobilization czar told an eight
minute press conference on this
naval submarine base:
"The President is in agreement
with the general idea that th e
general mobilization program
which he approved must go on.
"He is very much in agreement
that the chances of having world
peace will be advanced as we
grow stronger. Nothing and no
body must...interfere with that."
Truman apparently gave th e
former General Electric president
100 per cent backing for his de
cision to place manpower alloca
tions under a "neutral body" in
dependent of labor control.
Bridge Tournament
The recreation committee of the
Hillel foundation is organizing a
bridge tournament which will get
under way in the near future.
Anyone wishing to enter the tour
nament should see Howard Wolf
son chairman, at the Hillel office
before Friday.
T I RE DAILY COLLEGIAN, STATE COLLEGE: PENNSYLVANIA
Reds Strike
As Allies
Cross Han
TOKYO, March 7 (VP) Red
forces launched an attack on the
east-central Korean fro n t last
night and early today, and Allied
soldiers plunged across the Han
river east of Seoul this morning,
the Associated Press reported.
The Communist move was
viewed by officers as the possible
opening of an expected Red coun
ter-offensive; the A.P. said. Red
forces were reported to have
struck "in strength" against
South Korean lines north of Ami
dong, and first reports indicated
they had penetrated Allied posi
tions.
The Allied strike across the
Han came after an artillery bom
bardment of the north bank, the
A.P. said.
TOKYO, Wednesday, March 7
(R)—American Second Division
troops slogged forward more than
a mile in a blizzard Tuesday on
the trail of casualty-riddled Kor
ean Reds retreating deeper into
the mountain wilderness of east
central Korea.
Field dispatches said that while
the snowstorm grounded Allied
planes it helped the Ameripan
troops to follow the tracks of the
elusive Communists. Along the
route lay the frozen bodies of
"hundreds bf enemy dead;' killed
in recent fighting.
Eighth Captures Chancjpyong
Farther east the U.S. Seventh
Division was reported by Lt. Gen.
Matthew B. Ridgway, U.S. Bth
army commander, to be in pos
session of the highway communi
cation center of Changpyong.
A field dispatch, however, said
a tank-led force that entered
Changpyong Monday withdrew •at
nightfall. An Eighth army brief
ing officer - reported a Seventh
Division armored patrol drew
stiff Communist anti-tank and
mortar fire Tuesday one mile
south of the town.
In the center of the United Na
tions line of attack Chinese Com
munists battled stubbornly at
two road approaches to Hongchon
—headquarters of the Chinese
66th army corps:
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Red Parliament
Meets To Talk
On 1951 Budget
MOSCOW, March 6 (?P)—The
Soviet Parliament met today with
adoption of a 1951 budget as its
chief item of business for the
five-day session.
Foreign diplomats, oil hand at
the opening, were keenly inter
ested in whether the defense
budget, which will be presented
tomorrow night. by Finance Min
ister Arseny G. Zyerev, will show
a big increase.'
The .1950 budget provided for
total expenditures of 427,900,000,-
000 rubles ($106,975,000,000 at the
Soviet rate of 25 cents for the
value of the ruble). The Defense
budget was 79,400,000,000 rubles,
up 400,000,0.00 rubles from '1949.
The two houses of the Supreme
Soviet, the Council of Union and
the. Council of Nationalities,
meeting separately, agreed quick
ly on an agenda which includes,
besides the budget, the adoption
of a "law for the protection of
peace," election of as. supreme
court and the confirmation of
laws passed by the presidium
since the last session.
279 MORE CASUALTIES
WASHINGTON, Marbh 6 (2 1 1 ) )
The Defense department today
identified 279 additional casual
ties of the war in Korea.
The-243rd list issued _since the
start of hostilities repotted 34
combat deaths, 211 wounded, four
missing in action and 30 injured
in accidents.
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Opposition By Gamblers
Foreseen For Penal Code
• HARRISBURG, March 6—(I?)-- A House lawmaker today pre
dicted "strong opposition from gamblers" to a streamlined penal
code sharply increasing gambling penalties.
The proposed penal code, which won committee approval, con
solidates and modernizes Pennsylvania's entire crimes code. The
committee action sent the bill to
the House floor for debate and a
vote.
Murray Defends
RFC Hotel Loan
WASHINGTON, March 6—(W)
—Senator Murray (D-Mont.) de
fended today his support of a
$1,000,000 RFC loan for a Florida
hotel and challenged investigat
ing .senators • to make' public a
complete list of congressional
contacts with the Reconstruction
Finance Corporation.
Publication of "all phone calls,
interviews and letters" between
members of Congress an d the
RFC , since its 'inception would
show that his own action in the
Florida case was routine, Senator
Murray contended. ,
A Senate Banking subcommit
tee inquiring into alleged political
influence on the lending policy of
the RFC heard evidence yester
day that Murray went to bat for
a loan for the Sorrento hotel of
Miami Beach at a time when his
son, James Murray, was acting as
'attorney for the hotel in loan ne
gotiations.
Murray said in a statement to
day his son was a lawyer "con
ducting proper and ethical ser
vices for his clients." He added:
"I can see no reason why, be
cause he is my son, I ,should treat
him any differently than I would
any other lawyer."
"Silvana Mangano is
full-bodied and gracefully muscular, with a rich
voice and a handsome pliant face, she handle s
with vigor and authority the characterization
of a tortured libertine. It is not too excessive
to describe her as Anna Magnani minus fifteen
years, Ingrid Bergman with a latin disposition
and Rita Hayworth plus twenty-five pounds.
Passion toils and tumbles through 'BITTER RICE'.
It is as earthy and elemental as any picture
You are likely to see."
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VO"';
introducing the new star
SILVANA MANGANO
with DORIS DOWLING • RAF VALLONE
A drama of women workers in
the Poe Valley Rice Fields
"Sexy and strong.
`BITTER RICE' is a swift,
vigorous and .racy mei-
ma."
SEYMOUR PECK, Compass
'Rep. Edwin W. Tompkins (R-
Cameron), co-sponsor of the bill,
said that
_provisions for heavily
increased penalties on all forms
of gambling will run into bitter
opposition from gambling inter
ests.
The proposed new crimes code
would increase fines for operat
ing lotteries and gambling places
from $5OO to $l,OOO. It also would
double gambling fines to $l,OOO
and specifically names slot ma
chines and punch boards as gamb
ling devices.
Bookmakers would be made
subject to $l,OOO in fines or two
years in jail, or both. The same
penalties would be imposed on
anyone receiving or holding bets
or wagers.
The new code would introduce
for the first time in the state a
double verdict method in jury
trials.
That method would give juries
a chance to act separately on the
auestion of guilt and on the ques
tion of punishment. Once a jury
found a person guilty of first de
gree murder, it would then hear
arguments before fixing a pen
alty of lif e imprisonment or
death.
The proposed code also raised
from $5OO to $l,OOO the penalty
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BOSLEY CROWTHER. N: Y. Times
De SANTIS'
'Mangano is a vital per
sonality, an unwashed
beauty of the Ingrid Berg...
man type and a good
actress. !Lis a fast moving
melodrama. De Santis.
who directed 'BITTER RICE',
has put everything into the
action."
KATE CAMERON, Daily Wirt
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