X*JESDAY, APRIL 17, 1951
UN Moves Forward;
Cenorship Ordered
' * TOKYO, Tuesday, April 17—-OP)■ —The United Nations drive irito
North Korea stalked forward Monday on the heels of.bitterly resist
ing Communist rear guards. One major Red buildup area was
wiped out; . •
> Rigid new censorship regulations ordered by the new Supreme
Allied Commander, Lt. Gen. Matthew-B. Ridgway, forbade all ref
erences to the size and location of Chinese and North Korean Reds.
The Reds, however, continued
their slow retreat. For the third
straight day the Communists
burned smudge pots and set for
ests ablaze to screen their posi
tions from devastating Allied air
and artillerv' attacks.
It was the same device the
Chinese used last November to
hide their d before
pl'Mrmrng into United Nations
forces in northwest Korea..
: Lost Key Towns
Chinese and North Koreans
lost two’ key towns and some val
uable real estate on the east cen
tral front in a two-day fight end
ing Monday. ; '
Yanggu. six miles north of the
3th parallel and at the eastern
tip of the strategic Hwachon res
ervoir, fell first to Allied tanks
and infantry. Then Red ‘ units
yielded Yachon. on, a parallel
road three miles northeast of bat
tered Yanggu.
The capture of Yanggu elimi
nated the last Communist packet
on the south shares of the Hwa
chon reservoir. It ripped up. the
eastern -anchor • point for Red
lines which had used the 11-mile
long lake as a formidable water
obstacle against the Allies.
Yanggu was the key to a maior
Communist buildup area in this
sector wKjch now was eliminated.
South Koreans
Eleven mil e s southeast of
Yanggu, South Korean troops
drove North Korean troops out
of ridges above captured Inje.
The heights dominated an im
portant road, running eastward
to the coast.
The Communists, however,
clung desperately to the 275 foot
high Hwachon. dam. on the. west
ern end of the reservoir. They
fought bitterly against Allied pa
trols probing toward the town
of -Hwachon itself.
On the western front the Al
lied offensive crept forward
slowly against Reds stubbornly
defending the approaches to
Chorwon, a five-point road hub
17 miles north of 33.
; The Reds abandoned a large
supply dump east of Yonchon in
what looked like a general with
drawal in. that' sector.
Oleo Billßack
In State Again
HARRISBURG, April 16 (£>)
*r-r Legislation, to ..permit sale of
colored .oleomargarine in Penn
sylvania comes up before the
Senate Agriculture committee to
morrow after, weeks of back-stage
maneuvering. ,
' Sen. George B. Scarlett, (R-
Chester), chairman of the Senate
Agriculture committee said the
group will discuss all sides of
the. controversial issue.
The legislature also will be
ask e d to invite Gen. Douglas
MacArthur to appear at a joint
sessions.of the General Assembly.
- Rep.. Delbert W. Dalrymple (R-
Efie) said tonight he would 1 in
troduce a resolution in the House
tomorrow to make the invitation.
The date ,of the general’s visit
to Harrisburg—should ,he accept
the invitation—would ’be, left to
hiiri.
’ The General Assembly passed
a bill tonight authorizing the
State Fish commission to. study a
plan to truck shad around dams
oh' the: Susquehanna river.
The measure went to the gov
ernor after the House concurred
in amendments submitted, by the
state.
- .Young men entering college
should consider engineering, pro
vided they have the interest and
aptitude. This advice comes from
Dr. H. P. Hammond, dean of the
School of Engineering. The short
age of engineers threatens our
national defense and is opening
mhimr jobs. in -indufe*.
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN; STATE'COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA
Rep. Brehm
On Triar
For Fraud
WASHINGTON, April 16 (£>)—
Rep Walter E. Brehm (R-Ohio)
went on trial in federal court
today, charged with unlawfully
receiving campaign contributions
from two women employes in his
office.
The twp-hour court session to
day was devoted to picking , a
jury in the court of U.S. District
Judge Burnita Shelton Matthews.
. All government employes were
excused from serving at the sug
gestion .of defense attorney Leo
A. Rover. The prosecutors did not)
object.
Immediately, after the jury was
sworn. in, Judge Matthews ad
journed the trial until tomorrow.
She did not explain the reason
for the short session. Courtroom
observers .noted, .however, that
today was. supposed to be the
opening of the baseball season
here. Rain later necessitated call
ing off the game.
Many of the questions directed
at prospective jurors by defense
counsel Rover concerned what,
if anything, they had read or
heard about- the case. He also
asked whether any of the pros
pective jurors had ever been ac
tive in Republican or Democratic
politics. All said they had not.
Phila. Votes on;
Charter Issue
PHILADELPHIA,. April 16
(AP)—Philadelphians will decide
tomorrow if they want a new type
of city government.
The voters will go to the polls
to decide for or against a new city
charter. A total, of 999,369 voters
is eligible to cast ballots.''
Three questions, are, oh the bal
lot. They, are: ’ .•
(1) The question of the new
charter, which would replace. one
dated 1919. Administrative and
legislative functions of the mayor
and of city, council wduld be dras
tically.-changed.:
(2) Setting up of a new methpd
to elect councilmen. Under this
proposal* council membership
would be cut; from •22 to 17, with
at least two councilmen to - be
elected from the minority party.
(3) Realigning the tax bureau.
The elective office of receiver of
taxes would be . abolished and the
entire tax bureau would, go under
civil service. The head of the' tax
bureau would be appointed by the
mayor.
Suit Filed Against
Secretary Acheson.
PITTSBURGH, April 16 (/P).—
A former; Altoona ..student filed
suit against Secretary of State
Dean Acheson today for .restor
ation of American Citizenship re
fused him because he accented a
municipal job as a clerk'in Italy.
Misio 'Berardi, 28, claims citi
zenship by virtue of naturaliza
tion of his father, Carmine A;
Berardi, of Altoona. . The, elder
Berardi has been a • U.S. citizen
since 1928. • ’...
; The suit filed in Federal Dis
trict court claims, Nisio Berardi
came to America with a sister in
1929, attended schools in Altoona
for two years, arid then' returned
to Italy with his mother. .
He took the Italian municipal
job in 1942. Nisio did nothing to
jeopardize‘his American citizen
ship, the suit states, although he
voted. in> Italian and, national: elec
tions “under duress and. threats
o€ penalities and ~
Korean Reds
Qrder U.N.
To Leave
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y.,
April 15 (JP) —North'Korea, boast
ing that-the Communists are sure
to. win, demanded today that the
United Nations, get out of Korea,
. In identical cables to Nasrollah
Enezanr of ; Iran, President of the
General' Assembly, and to Hol
land’s Daniel Von Balluseck,
President of the Security Council,
it „also demanded that the U.N.
punish what it called “monstrous
American atrocities.”
It made no.'mention of the pres
ence of Chinese Communist
troops in Korea.
This was the 18th such com
munication received from North
Korean Foreign Minister Pak Hen
En. The previous cables have
been “shrugged off by unimpress
ed U.N. delegations and officials.
The same fate probably awaits
this one. i .
A close, comparison with the
17 previous communications—the
first dated June 28 and the last
Feb. 11—shows no modification
in the Red position which mi'dit
indicate any intention of negotia
ting peace in good faith.
U.S. Passes
New Grant
To Aid Tito
WASHINGTON, April 16—CAP)
—The .United States gave Yugo
slavia a new $29,000,000 grant to
day to help Marshal Tito’s Com
munist regime stand up against
Soviet bloc.pressure.
President Truman notified Con
gress he has authorized the diver
sion of this amount from arms aid
funds to enable the Yugoslavs to
import critically needed raw ma
terials fpr its armed forces.
Hides for shoes; and cotton and
wool for uniforms, .are the most
urgent needs, officials E-rs
machine: tools, also may be pro
vided, but no military equipment
is included. Most of the supplies,
officials said. wo"’d be obtained in
the United States.
, Yugoslavia, has a request pend
ing for .arms assistance like that
the. United States is supplying
Other, countries resisting threats
from Soviet Russia and its satel
lites.- . ••
Truman announced the grant in
a letter to chairmen of the Senate
and House Armed Services and
Foreign Affairs committees. He
explained that the drought of last
year..; Which resulted in a recent
$72,000,000 American gift of. food,
made.it impossible for Yugoslavia
to-export farm products to pay for
critical, imports of.raw materials.
, .“This development seriously af
fects the security, of the North At
lantic area;’’ he said.
Before the Chief Executive acted,
the other North Atlantic pact coun
tries were-COnsUlted andgave their
assent ; to the use of aid fends for
the. urpose. Approval of Congress
was not required, as under terms
of the 1949 legislation the Presi
dent was authorized to take such
emergency action Where the treaty
countries: agreed it was needed to
cope with developments affecting
the security of all.
Nothmg But Admirals,
Generals Near Doug
' PEARL HARBOR, April 16—(/P)
. rA lone U, S. Marine stood sentry
’.uty "today ip the center of the
-oad .leading to the guest house
->f ' Adm. Arthur W. Radford,
where General MacArthur was
resting.
: Asked if there had been any
movement up and down the road;
,Pfc. Norman Zuk of .5966 Whit
tier street, Detroit,' replied: '
“Nothing but Admirals and
Generals;” .. :.
“Popeye” of t h e comic strip
may, have hit upon a more scien
tific principle than he realized in
-tuffing .himself with . spinach,
which contains vitamin A. Ex
periments'with rats at the Col
lege haVe .thus far shown that
foods-containing this vitamin are
-
Radioactive Poisons
Found For War Use
"WASHINGTON, April 16 —(3*) ■ —Atomic and military experts
may have found deadly radioactive poisons can be put to practical
use in war.
, That is the conclusion to be drawn from a plea by Representative
Gore (D-Tenn.)- that President Truman order the use of such “cata
clysmic” poisons to “dehumanize”
a belt of territory across the Ko
~oan peninsula.
/‘We have it. Please consider
us’ing it,” Gore said in a letter to
the President. As a member of
the House Appropriations sub
committee which handles funds
fpr the Atomic Energy commis
sion, he is in a position to know
about Atomic Energy
Declines Comment
The AEC declined to comment
bn Gore’s suggestion. So did the
White House.arid Pentagon offi
cials.
Radioactive poisons are. chemi
cals which give bff dangerous
atomic-energy rays, like those
riven off, in the explosion of an
atomic bomb. But; theoretically
at least, such materials could pro
vide a weapon distinct from an
atomic bomb.
The objective would be to
.pread them in the form of dusts
ar sprays, contaminating an area
with radioactivity without using
an A-bomb, and without causing
'.he physical doctr”"tion. to ter
' and buildings caused by ar.
A-bomb explosion.
Radioactive Wastes
The objective would be to .deny
an enemy use of a certain area—
.at least for any extended time.
The poison materials can be
made as by-products of the pro
cess for producing materials for
use in A-bombs. Some such ma
terials are known to exist in
crude form as radioactive wastes
ar “garbage” from the. big plu
tonium plant'at Hanford, Wash.
In his letter to Truman, Repre
sentative Gore indicated he be
lieved spreading radioactive ma
terials over a Korean area—rind
repeating the contamination per
iodically— would make it unfit
for all life and thus' a barrier to
air military ground operations.
"srasl Government
launches Protest
TEL AVIV, Israel, April 16
(AP) —Another sharp Israeli pro
test charging. Syria with a “flag
rant breach” of the armistice was
lodged tonight with Col. .Ben’net
de Rjdder, acting chief of United
Nations observers.
Lt. Col. ’ Saul Ramati; ' senior Ist
raeli delegate to the Israeli-Syrian
mixed armistice commission, de-'
dared Col. Adib Shishekly, Syria’s
deputy chief of staff, had made an
official statement that the “whole
Syrian army is now. concentrated
on the Israeli .border.”
Ramati said the “Syrian army
exceeds ,the forces permitted in
the defensive area” by'the armis
tice agreement, and demanded that
the U.N. commission see that these
forces are withdrawn forthwith.
Greek ESeclion
Crushes Reds
ATHENS, Greece, April. 16
(AP) —Nearly complete returns
from Greece’s first municipal elec
tions in 17 years showed today
that right-wing and liberal coali-,
tion candidates scored crushing
victories over Communist and left
wing opponents, in nearly all ma
jor- towns and cities.
Premier Sophocles Venizelos
said there had been “not the slight
est incident” during the elections
yesterday. Women voted for the
first time in modern Greek history
for the communal councils Which
next Way 16 will elect local may
ors. , ’ • '
Oregon Lumbermen
Fight Snow, Fire-
LEBANON, Ore., April 16 (/P)
—Loggers in .eastern, Linn county
are fighting both snow and fire.
Ip the morpings they , work in
hip-deep snow.
When the humidity drops be
low the danger point each after
noon—a quirk of this spring’s
weather—they have,to quit work
because of fire danger., Some of
them have to battle small W**-ub
onlogged'OaerlaMk.
je»AGE THREE
Hawaii Gives
MacArthur
Big Greeting
. .HONOLULU, April 16 (JP)—
Hawaii gave General MacArthur
a hero’s welcome today on Am
erican soil.
It was the first unfolding of
America’s public fanfare for the
general on his flying return home
to present his side, of the Asiatic
policy controversy before Con
gress Thursday.
The five-star general, relieved
from his commands by President
Truman, was paraded in Hono
lulu through crowded streets this
evening.
It started more than 12 hours
after he arrived with his party
by plane from Tokyo where he
got a sendoff ovation from the
Japanese people and the Allied
forces.
Tomorrow he flies on to San
Francisco, returning to an Am
erican mainland -he hasn’t seen
in 14 years; there he is to be
publicly acclaimed Wednesday.
Then he proceeds to' Washington
where he will address a joint
meeting of Congress Thursday at
12:30 p.m.
i His first stop on this after
noon’s public appearance was at
the Punchbowl national ceme
tery. There he placed a wreath
in honor of its heroic dead.
For a full minute he stood in
silence with his Hawaiian host,
Adm.'Arthur W. Radford, Pacific
commander.
Then MacArthur walked to
ward' a group of news photo
graphers and said:
I did not know the dignity of
their dead but I do know the
glory of their death.”
N.Y. Welcomes
MacArthur Friday
NEW YORK, April 16 ()P)—
Mayor Vincent Impellitteri to
day set Friday aside as “Mac-
Ar'thur day” and said it would
be “one of the greatest recep
tions in the history of our
city.”
The . reception, for Gen.
Douglas 'MacArthur, will be a
hero’s welcome with a parade
up lower Broadway, showers
of ticker tape, and an official
reception at city hall.
An estimated 4,000,000 New
Yorkers are expected to • turn
out to greet the General.
Police estimated this was the
number that greeted Gen.
Dwight D. ' Eisenhower when
he came home from Europe in
1945 to be met by throngs des
cribed as “the greatest..crowd
the metropolis has ever seen.”
A 17-gun salute will be fired
when he steps off his plane at
New York International air
port. The First Army band
and honor guard will take
part in the ceremonies.
Sigma Gamma Epsilon
Will Initiate Tonight
The initiation and banquet of
Sigma Gamma Epsilon, Mineral
Industries professional honorary
society, win be held at the State
College hotel tonight at 7 o’clock
with Ptof. S. M. Vinocour as the
speaker.
_ Those who will be initiated at
6. p.m. in the Mineral Industries
arf gallery are: Paul B. Barton,
Robert H. Chilcote, William J.
Englgrt, David Gumbert, Donald
E. Harrison, Dale C. McKissick,
William H. Rice, Walter Showak,
and 'Peter N. Thomas.
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