The daily collegian. (University Park, Pa.) 1940-current, April 07, 1951, Image 3
SATURDAY, APRIL 7, 1951 GOP Gives Support To UMT In House WASHINGTON, April 6_W—The combination Draft-Univer sal,Military Training bill got some Republican support.today as the House ended its general debate on the controversial measure. UN Must Keep Up Fight-- Lie LAKE SUCCESS, April 6 (iP)— Secretary-General Trygve Lie said today the U.N. must. fight with all the force it can safely commit in Korea until the other side signals it is willing to ne gotiate for a cease-fire. He said also he does not now expect a third world war, though it will take time to restore calm. The top secretariat o f ficial shied away at his news confer ence from the storm over state ments by Gen. Douglas Mac- Arthur, U.N. commander in the Far East. He said any questions relating to MacArthur should be addressed to the unified com mand (actually the United States government), to which Mac- Arthur is responsible. He refused to say whether U.N. forces should cross the 38th par allel, but insisted the U.N. aim is a unified and independent Korea. "There has been no sign for many weeks that the North Kor eans or those supporting them (Communist China and, some delegates charge, the Soviet Un ion) are willing to open negoti ations for a cease-fire," Lie said in a prepared statement. • Church Groups Plan Activities For Tomorrow Dorothy Briant, assistant pro fessor of physical education, and several students will present modern dance interpretations of passages of Scripture at the Luth eran Student association tomor row night at 6:45 o'clock. The program will include: "And God Spoke," "Jeremiah's Lamentations," "Go Down Mos es," "Solomon's Prayer at th e Dedication of the Temple," and "The Twenty-third Psalm." Soph omore Lutheran Students will prepare the fellowship supper which will be served in the LSA fellowship hall at 5:30 p.m. "Rip" Engle To Speak Coach Charles "Rip" Engle will speak on "Character Building Through Athletics" at the West minster foundation tomorrow night at 6:30 o'clock. At the meeting of the Sunday school class tomorrow at 9:30 a.m. Methodist students will hear Minoo Karkhanavala talk on Zor oastrianism. After a fellowship supper tomorrow at 5:30 p.m., Dr. Samuel Blizzard of the So ciology department at the College will speak to the Wesley founda tion on "The Church and Mass Society." A discussion will fol low." United Student Fellowship will meet at 6:30 p.m. tomorrow to discuss "Let's Be A Christian." Young Friends Young Friends will meet at 6:30 p.m. tomorrow to continue their discussion of Quaker faith and practice. Members of Roger Williams fellowship not going on deputa tions tomorrow will meet at the home of the Rev. Robert H. Eads, 811 W. College avenue, instead of at the Baptist church. Canterbury club will meet at 6:30 p.m. tomorrow, Evangelical United Bretheran student fellowship will meet at 5:30 p.m. tomorrow. Hillel Cultural Group To Present Movie The cultural committee of the Hillel foundation will present "Grand Illusion," another in its series of film classics, tomorrow at 7:30 p.m. in the Hillel audit ‘r iura. THE DAILY COLLWIAN, STATE COLLEGE, PENNSYLVANIA Rep. Cole of New York, a lead ing Republican on the House Armed Services committee, said: "The foreseeable future offers no reasonable • expectation that times will remove the need fpr a strong military establishment to protect this country." And Rep. Gavin (R-Pa.), an other committee member, argued with those who say the bill, if passed, will be a step toward militarizing the country. "Nothing could be further from the truth," Gavin said. On the other hand, Rep. Shafer (R-Mich.), who also is a member of the committee, said there's only one reason why the UMT ques tion is before ,the House now. Shafer said: "Gen. George C. Marshall, sec retary of Defense, has decided that now is the strategically proper D-day for establishing a firm beachhead in the U.S. for his brand—and the Pentagon's' brand —of permanent universal military training and national service." Glee Club To Begin Annual Spring Tour The traveling unit of the Penn State Glee club and the Varsity Quartet will begin the club's annual spring tour Monday. The group of 56 men will be directed by Frank Gullo. Charles Hughes will serve as accompan Delaware and four Pennsylvania To Appear At Academy The highlight of the trip will be the group's appearance at the Philadelphia Academy of Music at 8:30 p.m. Friday. Fred Waring will serve as guest conductor for several of the club's numbers. Other stops on the tour will in clude the high school auditorium at Pottsville. Monday at 8 p.m., Reading high school auditorium on Tuesday at 8 p.m.. the auditor ium of Allentown Central high c'clioo/ Wednesday at 8 p.m., and Du Pont high school auditorium in Wilmington, Del. - on Thursday at 8 p.m. Trip Sponsors The five day trip is being spon sored by the Penn State clubs of Berks and Lehigh counties and the Penn State clubs of Philadelphia and Wilmington. The program for the concerts during the tour is similar to the one presented in Schwab auditor ium last Sunday. Following the tour, the traveling unit will pre sent another concert in Schwab auditorium. It will be held on Anril 15 for those who were un able to attend the earlier program. Club Officers Tickets for the five concerts will be available at the doors. Officers of the club are Emerson Jones, president; ' Robert Neff, vice-president; Peter Farrell, sec retary; Ettgene Stohn. treasurer; Charles Swartz, Publicity man ager; and William Detweiler, man ager. Members of the touring unit of the Glee club are first tenors, T)avid Burke, John Cox, Larue llurrwachter, James Erb, George -Jeffries, John Laubach, Thomas Lewis, Charles Naginey, Edy,rin Rohrbeck, Harry Salmon, Eugene Stohn, James Vivian, and Daniel West. Second tenors: Robert Bowers, CA To Paint School The Penn State Christian as z:ociation will sponsor a work Party this afternoon at the Stony Point schoolhouse. Members of the party will continue painting the school, a project which was beeun last fall. Students will meet at Old Main at 1:15 p.m. WRA Heads To Meet Mary Ellen Grube, present president of WRA, Marilyn Wil liams, newly elected president, and Betty Lou Jones, WRA senior adviser, will attend a national convention of the. Women's Ath letic association this weekend at Ann Arbor, Mich. Late News BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON A record making 43 percent cut was made today by the House Appropria tions committee in President Tru man's $843,463,579 emergency budget for non-military defense programs. Veteran committee members said that never before in their memory had the committee slash ed so deeply on a major bill. The bill is still subject to house and senate action, whichwill determ ine the final extent of the reduc tion. WASHINGTON Oscar Col lazo, the fiery little Puerto Rican who tried to assassinate President Truman last fall, was sentenced today to die in the electric chair Oct. 26. Collazo's lawyers have an nounced that they plan to appeal the verdict. NEW YORK Atom spy Da vid Greenglass, accuser of his doomed sister and brother-in-law, was sentenced to 15 years in pris on today for his part in the Rus sian spy ring. The 19-year-old former army sergeant's testimony formed the bulwark of the case against Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, sentenced yesterday to death in the electric chair. st during the tour covering one ities. William Detweiler, Jack Enter line, William Greenham, Ronald Kinsey, William Knarr, Charles Land,' Alan McChesney, Theodore Myers, Carl Netscher, Richard Teubert, Lloyd War.neke, Richard Wrentrnore, and David Young. Baritones: Albert Andrews, John Burrell, Raymond DeAnco na, Charles Falzone, Leo Fetterolf, Richard Gayley, William Harral, Robert Lambert, Norman Mitter ling, Robert Neff, Charles Rohr beck, Andrew Schoerke, Gordon Seward, John Wurst, William Yerkes. Basses: Frank Allison. Robert Enterline, Peter Farrell, Paul Gingher, Glenn Goss, Emerson Jones, Michael Jordan, William Park, Douglas Schoerke, ' Paul Simpson, John Stefahovicz, Char les Swartz, Robert Sweeney, and Bruce Tharp. Members of the Varsity Quartet are John Cox, William Detweiler, Robert Neff, and Bruce Tharp. Eugene Stohn will accompany the quartet. Pulitzer Prize Play JAMES STEWART "HARVEY" SYlgt r. FRED ASTAIRE JANE POWELL • "ROYAL • WEDDING" REX ALLEN in "UNDER MEXICALI STARS" Red Troops Pull Mystery Retreat TOKYO, Saturday, April 7 (M—Chinese Communist troops broke contact with advancing allied forces on the west-central. Ko rean frOnt and retreated Friday under a hail of artillery and mortar 'John Bull' Tickets To Go On Sale Tickets for the forthcoming Players' production of "John Bull's Other Island," a George Bernard Shaw satire, will go on sale at the Student Union desk in Old Main 1:30 p.m.. Monday. The show will run at Center stage for six week-ends starting next Friday and Saturday night. Prices are 90 cents for Fridays and $1.25 for Saturdays. Refresh ments are served after Saturday performances. Warren S. Smith is the director. In featured roles are Charles Schulte, who portrays "Thomas Broadbent", English civil engin eer who sets out to "conquer" the little Irish village of Rosscullen; Lee Farr, as "Larry Doyle", Broadbent's practical - minded business associate; James Beav er, as "Peter Keegan", philosoph ical Irish defrocked priest; and Margaret Mulligan as "Nora", Irish village heiress who waits 18 years for her man to come back to her. Others in the cast are J. Paul O'Brien, Robert Klein, Daniel Meckes, Morris Shanken, Joseph Rynewicz, Jonnie Breyer, Allen M. Adair, and Bernard Friedman. Extras are Robert Lansberry, Bernard Seltzer, Charles Teacher, John Note, Michael Forgacs, and Neil Llewellyn. Debate- (Continued from page one) "Resolved: That the non-Com munist nations should form a new international organization." Six Debate Rounds Six rounds of debate were scheduled. The last two , rounds will be held this morning pt 9 and 10:30 o'clock. The first four rounds were debated yesterday. Tournament headquarters is 10 Sparks and all information may be obtained there. J. F. O'Brien, men's debate coach, is chairman of the tourna ment. His assistants are faculty members from other participating schools. O'Brien is chairman of the District VII committee. Brenner, also debate manager, said yesterday that this tourna- PAGE THREE The Red retreat was made on a 17-mile sector north of Uijong bu, but how far it had gone was not disclosed. The sudden disappearance of the Chinese north of Uijongbu surprised front line troops who had spent the preceding two days doggedly digging the Reds out of defensive positions only four miles north of the 38th parallel.. Observers agreed the with drawal may have been ordered for one of two reasons: 1. The• Chinese Communists may be badly hurt and forced to regroup or 2. The Reds might be baiting a trap, set' to touch off a mighty spring counter-drive. A force of 280,000 Chinese still was deployed north of the 38th parallel in a sector loosely em bracing the Hwachon-Kumhwa- Chorwon triangle: Hwachon, eight miles north of the old political boundary, was the immediate .objective of ad vancing U.N. troops. Field dispatches said the ad vance on Hwachon moved ahead slowly but thoroughly. The Reds were being destroyed or forced to yield ground. Coed Debaters To Start Tour Three women from the College debate team will leave tomorrow on a debate tour of four men's colleges, Princeton, Rutgers, Le high, and Lafayette. Yvonne Carter, Janet Horger, and Peggy Crooks will compete with the men in one non-decis ion debate a day beginning Mon day. Lois Pulver, women's debate manager, said Penn State wom en were the only female group to debate Princeton. They have been meeting Princeton since 1936, Miss Pulver said. She said the women will have their picture taken at Rutgers for the Report From Rutgers magazine. Miss Pulver added that the magazine would also include a feature story on the team. Topic for the debates will be the national intercollegiate de bate question, "Resolved: That the non-Communist nations should form a new international organization." ment is the biggest and most representative tournament ever held in District VII. He said the debates are open to the public.