TUESDAY, APRIL 24, 1951
Recall Plan Prompted
By Mac's Dism issa I
WASHINGTON, April 23— (JP)—' The Truman-MacArthur con
troversy churned up today a Senate proposal to change the consti
tution so that future Presidents could be voted out of the White
house by the people. !
Senator Hendrickson (R-N.J.) introduced a resolution calling for
such a constitutional amendment. ,
His office said Hendrickson had
received thousands of letters and
telegrams asking if “something
couldn’t be done” to remove
President Truman from office as
a result of his dismissal of Gen.
Douglas MacArthur.
From a leading MacArthur
supporter, House Republican lead
er Martin of Massachusetts, came
a new demand for the ouster of
Secretary of State Acheson and
his “powerful clique of fuzzy
minded thinkers, global do-good
ers, defeatists and appeasers.”
“Americans are now laying
down their lives in Korea for
Acheson’s mistake,” Martin said
in a speech at Worcester, Mass.
Slates Would Petition
Hendrickson’s proposed amend
ment provides for a nation-wide
vote on recalling a President any
time two-thirds of the state legis
latures petition for such a vote.
Then, if the vote was in favor of
ousting the President, his office
would be declared vacant and the
vice-president would succeed to
the post until the election of a
new President. However, there
could be no recall during the first
year of a President’s term.
White House Silent
The White house maintained a
rigid silence on the still-growing
Truman-MacArthur controversy,
which is expected to flare with re
newed violence when MacArthur
testifies, perhaps next week, be
fore the Senate armed services
and foreign relations committees.
. The President and his Congres
sional leaders talked over the
MacArthur situation at their re
gular Monday morning White
house conference.
Soloists To Appear
With Chapel Choir
Four guest soloists, including a graduate of the College, will
appear, in Schwab auditorium tomorrow night at 8 o’clock when the
Chapel choir, directed by Willa Taylor, presents Verdi's; “The Man
zoni Requiem." ■’* ’ .
The concert, the fourth annua!
appeared, is open to the public. Di
Mrs. Fine Dies
At Penn Hospital
PHILADELPHIA, April 23 (TP)
—The wife of the governor of
Pennsylvania will be laid to rest
in her native Nanticoke, on Wed
nesday.
Services will be held for Mrs.
John S. Fine as the common
wealth mourns the passing of its
first lady. Mrs. Fine died at 12:15
a.m. today at the University of
Pennsylvania hospital. She suc
cumbed of a brain tumor.
All state offices will be closed
Wednesday in respect to Mrs.
Fine.
Legislative leaders voiced “pro
found sorrow” over the death of
Mrs. Fine and called off this
week’s session of the General As
sembly “as a mark of respect to
the governor and his family.”
Grad Mentioned
For Univ. Pres.
Dr. David B. Henry, a graduate
and former instructor at the Col
lege, has been mentioned as one
of the candidates under consider
ation for the presidency of the
University of Louisville.
Since 1945, Dr. Henry has been
president of Wayne university in
Detroit. He received his bachelor
of arts, master of arts, and doc
tor of philosophy degrees at Penn
State and a doctor of laws degree
at the University of Toledo.
From 1926 to 1929 Dr. Henry
served as an instructor' at the
College, both in engineering ex
tension and in English literature.
Three years ago he was the com
mencement speaker.
Whitney Says
Mac In Dark
On Dismissal
NEW YORK, April 23 (JP)— An
aide to Gen. Douglas MacArthur
said today the general still does
not know why President Truman
stripped him of his commands.
“To this day, Gen. MacArthur
never has been informed as to
the reasons for his summary dis
missal and he hasn’t the faintest
idea why the action was taken,”
said MacArthur’s personal advis
er, Maj. Gen. Courtney Whitney.
Whitney talked with newsrpen
at the Waldorf-Astoria hotel,
where the MacArthurs are stay
ing in the lavish presidential
suite.
Whitney said his chief’s dis
missal did not follow military
precedent. He reported the gen
eral’s wife, who had heard of it
by radio, broke the news that he
had been relieved of his com
mands 20 minutes before official
notification arrived from Wash
ington.
The news of the general’s dis
missal was announced in Wash
ington at 1 a.m. (EST) to coin
cide with the 3 p.m. (Tokyo time)
hour it was scheduled to reach
MacArthur.
Help the boys in Korea —join
the Red Cross blood drive May 3
State College Methodist
church.
affair in which guest artists have
‘ring the program a collection will
be taken. Doors open at 7:30 p.m.
The four guest soloists for the
concert will be Barbara Troxell,
soprano; Margaret Tobias, con
tralto; William McGrath, tenor;
and Chester Watson, bass-bari
tone.
4 Spring Concerts
Miss Troxell, who graduated
from the College in 1936, has ap
peared in each of the four spring
concerts presented by the choir.
When she was a student at Penn
State, she sang with the choir.
Last fall Miss Troxell made her
debut with the Metropolitan,
opera in New York. During the
years between her graduation and
her debut. Miss Troxell studied
with the Curtis school in Philadel
phia under Mme. Elisabeth Schu
mann. After four years of study
under the former Metropolitan
star, Miss Troxell was ready to
begin her professional career.
Grand Opera
In 1943, Miss Troxell sang the
“Blessed Damosel,” with the Phil
adelphia orchestra under Eugene
Ormandy. A year later, she was
summoned for the B-Minor mass
by the National Orchestral asso
ciation. And in the summer of
1944, she had her first taste of
grand opera, chosen by Sir
Thomas Beecham for “Pamina
and Elvira” in Mexico city.
The following winter Miss
Troxell sang more oratorio and a
concert version of “Der Rosen
kavalier,” in the “Marschallin,”
under Leonard Bernstein. During
the summer of 1949, Miss Troxell
arepared her audition with the
Metropolitan opera, and last fall
she made her debut
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN, STATE COLLEGE, PENNSYLVANIA
Reds Slash Gaping Hole
In Central Korea Front
Bevan, Wilson Quit
Attlee Labor Gov't
LONDON, April 23— (JP) —A second minister took a walk from
Prime Minister Attlee’s cabinet tonight, joining- Aneurin Bevan who
charged that Britain was shackled to the “wheels of American
diplomacy’,’ in a reckless armaments drive.
• The resignation of Board of Trade President Harold Wilson,
35-year-old “boy wonder” of the Labor government, was announced
by Attlee, whose thin-edged ma
jority in the House of Commons
was further threatened by the
internal party, fight.
N o correspondence between
Wilson and Attlee was made pub
lic, but the resigning Board of
Trade president planned to state
his reasons in a later speech in
the House of Commons as Bevan
did today.
Bevan, the leftwinger who re
signed as labor minister early to
day, charged in an impassioned
speech to a glum and largely un
responsive house that the Labor
government was letting the
United States drag it'into an arms
program which would plunge
Britain into economic chaos and
scuttle her socialistic welfare pro
grams.
He .urged a curtailed arms pro
gram which would let Britain
maintain her standard of living
and social services.
The resignations of the two key
ministers stole most of the politi
cal thunder which the Attlee gov
ernment otherwise could have
made today out of the announce
ment that l a meat agreement had
been reached after months of ne
gotiations with Argentina.
It seemed unlikely, many ob
servers said, that Bevan could
drum up enough support to over
throw the government because the
issues he has chosen are those on
which the conservatives probably
will support the government
Britain Is Last Bastion.
Against Russla—Hsiigias
NEW YORK, April 23—(£>) —Former Ambassador Lewis W.
Douglas today called Great Britain “the last reliable bastion of
strength between the Iron Curtain and our own shores.”
As a result, said the one-time U.S. ambassador to Britain, in
cold war or hot war “an intimate association with Britain is one of
the keystones of the arch of the future.”
Congress Is Asked
To Create Joint
Crime Committee
WASHINGTON, April 23—(^P) —
Congress was asked today to
create a Senate-House committee
on crime and a federal crime
commission to wage war on the
American underworld.
Resolutions calling for the two
new bodies were introduced in
the Senate by Senator O’Conor
(D-Md) for himself and Senators
Hunt (D-Wyo) and Kefauver
(D-Tenn). ,
O'Conor said the joint com
mittee was needed to investi
gate not only interstate gambling,
but also distribution and sale of
narcotics, prostitution, and other
fields of criminal activity.
The federal crime commission
proposed by the, three senators
would,be a permanent body to
study crime on a national basis. It
would be charged with coordi
nating the activities of federal law
enforcement agencies in denying
interstate facilities, such as the
telegraph and telephone, to or
ganized crime.
SWITCH FOR M’ARTHUR
CHICAGO, April 23
cause of the General MacArthur
celebration here Thursday, the
White Sox-St. Louis Browns game
scheduled for that date at Com
iskey park has been moved up to
Wednesday, making the first Sox
double-header of the season.
Newsman Gets
Senate Seat
Of Vandenberg
LANSING, Mich., April 23 (TP)
—A youngish-looking 49-year-old
newspaperman who says he be
longs to no political party was
appointed today to serve the un
expired term of the late Repub
lican Senator Arthur H. Vanden
berg.
' He is Blair Moody, Washington
correspondent of the Detroit
News since 1933.
One of his first acts was to'voice
unqualified support for the bi
partisan foreign policy ideas held
by Vandenberg, who died Wed
nesday.
Moody promptly took the oath
of office following appointment
by 40-year-old Democratic Gov
ernor G. Mennen Williams and
said, in effect, he will run for a
full, six-year term in 1952.
The new senator expressed gen
eral agreement with foreign and
domestic policies of President
Trtypan’s administration.
If Moody votes; along partisan
lines, his appointment will give
the Democrats a 50-46 majority
in the Senate. Until Vandenberg’s
death last week, they held only
a two-vote, 49-47, margin.
Douglas said even a winning
war against Russia would not
mean the extermination of com
munist ideas. Instead, he added,
the desolation of such a conflict
might offer fertile ground for
posfwar Communist expansion.
Britain’s attitude of caution to
ward certain American proposals
about the Far East, he declared,
may stem from their fear that the
U.S. may stumble unwittingly
into a “full-scale war of tremen
dous dimensions and frightful
consequences.”
Douglas said problems in the
Orient will be with us for a long
period of time and cautioned:
“. ... no greater victory could be
achieved and enjoyed by the in
scrutable, cynical occupants of the
Kremlin that the disintegration
of the united front of the U.S., the
United Kingdom, and the com
monwealth.”
Douglas spoke to more than
1,100 persons at the annual lunch
eon of the Associated Press,
worldwide newsgathering agency.
Delta Sigma Pi
Delta Sigma Pi, commerce and
business administration profes
sional fraternity, is sponsoring a
tour for members to the Piper
Aircraft plant in Lockhaven. The
tout' will leave from Lambda Chi
Alpha at 1:30 p.m. today.
A modern production line in
operation will be observed on
this tour. All members with cars
were asked by president Fred
Phillips to contact Dale Campbell
at Lambda Chi Alpha.
UN Withdraws
To Position On
BankOfHantan
BULLETIN
U.S. Eighth Army Headquar
ters, Korea, Tuesday, April 24
(JP) —Chinese Reds have carved
a gaping hole in the United Na
tions front in central Korea and
are south of the 381 h paralleL
BULLETIN
TOKYO, Tuesday. April 24
(JP) —Waves of Red troops forced
a new United Nations withdraw
al today below Kumhwa in cen
tral Korea. Fighting raged with
out let-up on a front more than
100 miles wide in the third day
of the big Red counter-offensive.
TOKYO, Tuesday, April 24 (JP)
—United Nations troops meth
odically retired 15 miles to po
sitions on the south bank of the
Hantan river in west-central Ko
rea Monday as the Chinese and
Korean Reds pressed a heavy
offensive. i
At other undisclosed points on
the 100-mile wide war front,
withdrawals of six and more
miles were made, all in orderly
—and at some spots even leisure
ly—fashion.
AP correspondent Robert Eun
son reported from Eighth army
headquarters that the Commu
nists had crashed to the 38th
parallel at several points on the
blazing western and central sec
tors of the 100-mile wide front.
Not Threatened
However, he said the battle
wise Eighth army was not threat
ened with .annihilation as it had
been when the Chinese plunged
southward in their November and
New Year’s eve offensives.
The deepest reported with
drawal was southward from a
main road and railroad from po
sitions the U.S. Eighth army had
held last week before the big Red
base of Chorwon, which is 18
miles inside North Korea.
A military source at Tokyo
headquarters gave the 15-mile
and 6-mile figures. Eighth army
headquarters censors deleted
mileage references from field dis
patches, but sources there agreed
the 15-mile figure was “realistic.”
Positions Infiltrated
The Eighth army communique
said the Reds “successfully in
filtrated” friendly positions on
the central front and to the east
near Inje. A slight penetration
was made south and southwest
of J£j mhw ? causin S the Allies to
withdraw in good order to new
defensive positions.
AP correspondent Tom Brad
shaw reported “other Allied units
which had been as much as 12
miles above the 38th parallel
now are withdrawn south.”
Bradshaw reported new Allied
defense lines have been estab
lished south of the Imjin on the
western ed of the Korean front.
ihe Chinese counter-offensive
had cracked two bridgeheads
across the stream north of Seoul.
United Nations resistance stiff
ened in the,lmjin river sector.
n ® w , Red effort was expect
ed, Bradshaw said.
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