SATURDAY, .APRIL 21, 1951 MacArthur Debate Ends With Shoves WASHINGTON, April 20— (JP)— Three aroused Senators ended a war of words over Gen. Mac Arthur’s policies today with a shoving match at the door of a radio recording studio. Senator Capehart (R-Ind.), a heavily built man of 53 and a backer of MacArthur, told reporters that he seized Senator Humphrey (D-Minn.) by the lapel and “threw him out” of the studio after .Humphrey called him “a very dirty name.” Then, Capehart said, Senator Lehman (D-Lib.-NY) “jumped me from the back, and I threw him back into the studio.” Senator Welker (R-Idaho), who with Senator Taft (R-Ohio) wit nessed the brief scuffle,' said it "was “a kind of cream-puffy busi ness. The boys were not trained very well.” Sunday Punch But he added “Senator Cape hart had Kis Sunday punch ready when I-stepped in as peacemaker.” . When the' dust had settled Humphrey and Lehman issued a .formal statement in which they said Capehart “has, unfortunate ly, seen. fit to make misleading statements about this incident.” .They said “there was no pro fanity” and “no blows were struck.” Saying they would have pre ferred not “to dignify” the affair with comment, the two Democrats added,' “It is unfortunate that de bate on issues should elicit such violent emotional reaction as that displayed by Senator Capehart.” Sigma XI To Install Officers Sigma Xi, graduate science so ciety. will install its new officers and 77 new members at its annual dinner and initiation ceremonies Monday at 6:15 p.m‘. in the Nit tany Lion inn. i Dr. Harold K. Schilling, dean of graduate school, will address the group at 8:30 p.m. in 119 Osmond. His i subject will be “Graduate Schools Interests in Teaching and Research.” 1 The new officers are H. R. Al brecht, president: E. F. Osborn, vice-president; B. A. Whisler, secretary; and H. L. Krall and M. R. Cannon, admission com mittee chairmen. Dinner tickets cost $2.25 and may be obtained from professors A. C. Richer, 105 A Agriculture; M. R. Cannon, 7 Walker lab; E. B. Van Ormer, 210 A Burr owes; B. A. Whisler, 204 Main Eng.; Corliss Kinney 306 MI; and Wal ter Gordon, 210 Sparks. New members recently elected are Mofizud-Din Ahmed, Herbert Allbritten, Charles Ammerman, Glenn Bressler, Herbert .Charm-, bury. J. Stanley Cobb, John Cook, John Coolidge, William Ear hart, Dorothy Enright, Robert Forker, Louis Friedman, Gershan Goldberg, George Gutheri.e, Chih Chun Hsiao, Ronald Kagarise, David Keeney. MacKenzie Keith, Earl Kesler, Kenneth Maddy, F. I. Mautner, Wolfgang Meyer, John Morgan, Norman Perry. Edward Pietrusza, and Theodore. Williams. New associate members aTe George Barron, Joseph Beard, Sidney Beck, Murray Boobar, Roderic Buller, Gordon Pu-Kong Chu, Elsio Del Bel, Charles Duke, Theodore Flanagan, Katherine Fisher, Roy Foresti Jr., John Fox, James Gallagher, Winfield Geh man Jr., John Gillespie Jr., Clin to-n Grace, Ronald Hanson, Thomas Harper, Lewis Hoffman, James Horton. Frederick Howells, Marvin Kahn, George Keller. William Knight, Sheldon Kohn, George Kunze, John Lewis, Pasquale Li castro, Donald Longenecker, Har old Lovell, Robert Manning, Clar ence Manshy, Annabel Marshall, Paul Marshall Jr., Harold Near hoff, Donald Oldemeyer. Walter Ormsby, Horace Page, Bernard Pollack, John Rakusin, George Rice Jr., : Bernard Rolfe, John Shoulders, John Stanford, John Tucker, Robert Van Atta, Kenneth Vander Sluis, Philip Walker, John Wenzel, Linlie Wright and William Yockey. THE DAILY COLLEGIAN, STATE COLLEGE, PENNSYLVANIA Communists Try To Halt UN Advance TOKYO, April 21 (yP)—Stub born Chinese Communist rear guards sought to delay the United Nations advance on Chorwon Fri day with small but bitter counter attacks while the main Red force backpedaled deeper into ■ North Korea. The U.S. Eighth ..Army’s new commander, Lt. Gen. James •A. Van Fleet, offered no predictions on the next phase of the war during a frontline visit. He said it was “anybody’s guess” what the Communists would do next, but added: “There is a definite buildup and I imagine he (the enemy) would like to take another shot at us. We’re ready for him—if he 'does.” The Communist counterattacks were hurled against Allied units pushing up the Hantan River val ley, eight miles southeast of Chor won, a Red highway and railroad hub which commands access to the main Communist supply network to the North. More than 600,000 Reds have been estimated north of Chorwon, which is 18 miles north of' the 38th parallel. Counterattack Broken One counterattack was broken up in 15 minutes by powerful Al lied artillery fire. The other Red force still re sisted by late afternoon. Butting into high ground from another direction, Allied units Friday night fought a strong Communist force near the. main road leading southwest of .Chor won. The Reds clung desperately to ridges'commanding the south ern approaches -to the city itself. Gibbs To Die Monday In Chair At Rockview Edward L. Gibbs, convicted slayer of a Franklin and Marshall college stenographer, is ' sched uled to die at Rockview peniten tiary early Monday. . His only chance to avoid the electric chair lies in a reprieve by Gov. John S. .Fine or action by state or federal courts. He was convicted of first degree murder for the January, 1950, slaying of Marian L. Baker, Huge Crowds MacArthur In NEW YORK. April 20— (JP)— A roaring multitude today gave General Douglas MacArthur the greatest acclaim this nation has ever heaped upon a returning hero. , The mass outpouring of people and emotion police estimated the crowd at 7.500,000 —swelled into a thunderous tribute to the famed soldier who has' sparked a deep and bitter conflict. over American policy in Asia. The ovation rolled from the green expanse of Central Park down into the gray stone depths of lower Manhattan. during four hours and one minute of urn broken acclaim. MacArthur Speaks With Mrs. MacArthur and their 13-year-old son, Arthur, near his side, the General told a huge crowd, at City Hall: ' “As I watched your throngs, a great pride and a great confidence came upon me, for here I saw in this great city, this melting pot of the world, an indomitable force which cannot fail to maintain our freedom and our way of life, •“This, I said to myself, is America. And this, with God’s Taft Tool Controversial Gen. Douglas A. Mac Arthur 2 Oil Tankers Collide In fog; Death Toll 39 NEW ORLEANS, April 20 (/P) —Two Standard Oil tankers, the 10,000 ton Esso Greensboro and the 26,500 ton Esso Suez collided in a heavy dawn fog in the Gulf of Mexico today with a probable death toll of 39. Only four of the Greensboro s 42 crewmen were rescued, one badly burned. The charred bodies of two other crewmen were re covered. Only one'fatality was reported among the Esso Suez’ 44 crew men. Her first mate, Walter M. Brehm, of Lyndhurst, N.J., was killed. Four crewmen were also reported badly burned. Greensboro Drifting The Esso .New York, standing by the Greensboro', radioed, “No one believed alive on board.” The New York abandoned rescue ef forts during the afternoon, and the Greensboro was left in flames drifting in a sea of flaming oil spilled from her 140,000 barrel cargo. The Esso Suez was also set on fire and had a 20 ’foot hole in her bow. But late today a Humble Oil and Refining Co. spokesman at Houston, Tex., quoted a Coast Guard message as saying the fire had been put out. The collision occurred about 200 miles south of Morgan City, La., a small costal town midway between New Orleans and Lake Charles, La. Greet N.Y. helD, We shall keen America.” Mayor Vincent R. Impellitteri presented the General with a gold medal as a tribute from the people of the city. The medal hears an inscription which says: “In defense of honor and liberty and the fundamental principles on which free institu tions may rest.” MacArthur expressed deep ap preciation for a “heart-warming reception” and declared: We shall never forget it. You have made us feel that we are indeed home.” And home he was, to a stagger ing demonstration • which reflec ted the strange -hold the Mac- Arthur personality has taken on the imaginations of the American people. Dairy Contracts Awarded Electrical work in the new dairy barns will be engineered by Riggs, Distler, and company, inc. A $72,950 contract was awarded to the Philadelphia con cern by the General State author ity. Coils Gen. Bradley Of Administration WASHINGTON, April 20—(/P)—The angry MaeArthur vs-Truman dispute brought from Senator Taft (R-Ohio) to day a charge that the administration is “using” General Omar Bradley to serve its purposes. “The Truman administration is working both sides of the •military and political street,” Taft told a reporter. He said Bradley speaks out or keeps silent as the White House wishes. Gov. Halts Ban On Aluminum WASHINGTON, April 20—(/P) —The Government today can celled a scheduled May 1 ban on the use of aluminum in more than 200 civilian products ranging from automobile trim to cigar ette lighters. The National Production au thority said' it acted to prevent many manufacturers from having to close factories, giving them time to convert to defense pro duction. But even though the ban was lifted, the aluminum quotas of civilian gods makers were sharply reduced. Up to now they have been cut 35 per cent below their average use of aluminum during the first half of 1950. Effective May 1 the cut will be 50 per cent for May and June. The ban originally was sched uled for April 1 but was post poned until May 1. Now it has been cancelled at least until July 1. In another home-front develop ment, it was reported that 70,000 CIO electrical workers at General Electric plants are scheduled to get an “escalator” wage increase of 9 cents an hour. Their contract provides for a raise if the cost of living index of the Bureau of Labor Statistics goes up. It provides for one cent an .hour for every rise of 1.14 points over the level of Sept. 15, 1950. The Bureau’s latest index—for March 15—is to be announced Sunday. Informed persons told re porters it has risen to around 184.5 percent' of the 1935-39, average. The pay raise, which would be permissible under government stabilization policies, would be retroactive to March 15. Maid Accused Of Hofei Thefts NEW YORK, April 20 (JP) —A $3l-a-week chambermaid was ar rested today by detectives who said she stole $350,000 to $400,000 worth of jewels from guests' in 35 hotels. Mrs. Julia Arbotofsky, 44, of Brooklyn, was accused of rifling the rooms "over a period of two and a half years. She was charged with grand larceny and held in $2500 bail. Police said she admitted the thefts and that they found $30,- 000 worth of jewelry and 233 pawn tickets in her apartment. They said her method was to get jobs in one hotel after an other without ever mentioning in her applications that she had been employed in a hotel before. Efficient Defense Can Lessen Deaths HARRISBURG, April 20 (/P) —' Pennsylvania’s borough officers were told today “an efficient civ il defense operation can save 50 per cent of your community” in an atomic attack. “The big. reason for the large losses in Japan was the surprise factor and the lack of civil de fense,” said Col. Lewis F. Acker, head fo the state air raid warning service. Acker addressed the 40th an nual convention of the Pennsyl vania Association of Boroughs, which concludes here tomorrow. PAGE THREE Thus there was no sign of a let up in the great quarrel on whe ther President Truman did right or wrong when he fired MacAr thur from his Pacific commands last week with the explanation that the General didn’t fit in with plans to restrict warfare to Korea. The quarrel is pinpointed now on whether the joint Chiefs of Staff, whose duty it is to advise the President on military mat ters were for or against MacAr thur’s views on how to run the war in the Far East. Group To Investigate Chairman Bussell (D-Ga) of the Armed Services group indi cated it would investigate the •Joint Chiefs’ position. Senators Long fD-La.), Hunt (D-Wyo.), Maybank (D-S.C.) and Duff (R- Pa.) all called for the high com mand to speak up. MacArthur said in his speech to Congress yesterday that he believed his advocacy of air op erations over Manchuria and of blockading Red China had been shared in the past, from a mili tary standpoint, by the Chiefs of Staff. A White House- authorized statement last night said the JCS were among the civilian and mil itary leaders whose unanimous recommendations were followed by the President when he fired the General., Summing Up Taft summed up this way: He thinks the administration per mits Bradley to speak on foreign policy matters when that serves its purpose and presents him as purely a military adviser when that kind of a statement is needed. “Bradley says he can’t discuss political matters, when his whole Chicago speech dealt with politi cal matters,” Taft said. Bolduc Heads A. Forces Day Col. Lucien E. Bolduc, profes sor of military science and tac tics at the College, has been natned co-ordinator for the Armed Forces day ceremonies on Saturday, May 19, it was an nounced at a meeting Monday. Colonel Bolduc explained that this year Armed Forces day will be observed as "a tribute to the Armed forces as an integral and independent part of the total'ma terial and spiritual power of America now being mobilized and as a renewal of faith in our country’s sacred heritage, the ideals of peace and freedom, to the preservation of which our power is dedicated.” Preliminary plans for the day include a parade at 2 p.m., the dedication of the new armory of the 112th Aircraft Control and Warning squadron, Pennsylvania Air National Guard, and exhibits and demonstrations. The plans were laid as a basis for the en tire day of observation. PSCA Sponsors Workparttes'Today The Penn ?'>’ Christian asso ciation will sponsor two work parties this afternoon. The first group will leave from the rear of Old Main at 1 p.m., and will clean up the park at Woodycrest. This worlcparty, originally sche duled for last Saturday, had to be canceled because of weather conditions. The second group will meet at Old Main at 1:15 p.m., and will continue painting the Stony Point schoolhouse. This work party was also canceled last Sat urday because of lack of volun teers.
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