I. .60 AV.,/ ak. .are All••• British Ship Exploion Kills 10 Injures 1000 GIBRALTAR, April 27—M—The 1,152-ton British ammunition ship Bedenham blew up today with an earth-shaking blast as she unloaded at this Mediterranean rock fortress. Ten workers were be lieved killed and more than 1,000 injured. Naval authorities said 500 tons of ammunition—all abroad the Bedenham--went up in smoke. The blast, described by witnes ses as •the "worst ever heard," smashed nearly all the windows in Gibraltar town at the base of the rock• and shattered others in La Linea, a mile away on the Spanish mainland. Many of the injured Were victims of flying glass. Sabotage Possibility It was understood a fire on a lighter alongside the Bedenham touched off the ship's cargo of ammunition as it was being car ried to storage houses at the ord nance wharf. The • lighter also blew up. Authorities were inves tigating the possibility of sabo tage A British admiralty statement put the number of dead at six and indicated that neither the ship's captain nor any of the crew of 25 were among this number. , The ad miralty said there were some in juries, however, among the crew Most of those unloading the ship were' Spaniards• from the main land. The explosion hurled crewmen and dockworkers into the air and sent up huge. clotiqs of billowing smoke. It caused panic among many residents of Gibraltar town. Women ran screaming toward air raid shelters. British authorities at this guard ian post to the western approaches of the Mediterranean cut off com munications with the Spanish mainland and closed the frontier gates on the connecting causeway. CENTENARIAN DIES OIL CITY, Pa., April 27—(W)— A 102-year-old former Oil City carpenter died today in Huefner, Clarion county, 20 miles from here. He was Henry Hargenrader, one of the few remaining cen tenarians in this section. Churchill Cancels Speech To Avoid -' olitical Dispute LONDON, April 27—K1—Winston. Churchill today cancelled a planned speech in the United States—presumbably to avoid getting embroiled in the American political dispute over General Mar Arthur. The Conservative leader explained that "events have happened" which make it difficult for him to fulfill an engagement to speak on world affairs at the bicentennial of the University of Pennsylvania library, May 8. Only Two Reasons Churchill did not specify what the events were. Obviously; how ever, there could only be two: the dispute in the United States centering around President Tru man's removal of MacArthur from the far eastern commands and the developing split in Britain's labor party, which increases the possibility of an early general election here. While both incidents undoubt edly influenced Churchill, sev eral sources suggested that, of the two, the MacArthur affair carried much the most, weight. - - Difficult For Churchill As the political expert of the British Press association pointed out, it would be difficult for Churchill to make a speech on world affairs in the United States "at the present juncture without geting involved in „issues that are causing much controversy in the Extended Forecast Extended forecast for the period Sat urday. April 28 through Wednesday, May 2: Eastern Pennsylvania, eastern New York and mid Atlantic states: mostly fair and warm weather temperature average 10 to 12 degrees above normal ; Waite warm Saturday, somewhat cooler north portion Sunday and south portion Monday;, warmer again Tuesday; scat tered showers mostly over north portion Sunday and again Wednesday, total rain one-half to one inch north and a quarter of an inch or less in south pcirtipn. Western Pennsylvania, western New York. Ohio and West Virginia: scattered showers or thunderstorms late Saturday or Sunday, and again about Wednesday, total amount one half to one inch north and one quarter to one half , inch south portion; temperature will average 10 to 12 4ilegrees above normal, warmer Satur day, a little cooler north portion Sunday, warmer north portion Monday. ...qataxmari, sriurn coLLEGE, PENNSYLVANIA 13 Men Killed in 2-Plane Collision . CARNEY, Okla., April 27 (JP) A/ giant B-36 bomber and an F-51 fighter plane collided today during a practice bombing run on the state capital. Thirteen men were killed. Witnesses said the six-engine B-36, world's largest bomber, ex ploded when hit, scattering wreckage and bodies over a square mile area. Four other airmen parachuted to safety. The bomber, from Carswell Air Force base at Forth Worth, was believed to have carried a crew of 15 and a civiliah technician. The F-51 carried only the pilot. Officials at Carswell said the B-36 was- making a- ^adar bomh ing iun on Oklahoma City. The F-51 was' making "pursuit tactical passes" at the huge bomber in interception maneuvers, a Cars well spokesman said . Residents in this area, some 50 airline miles northwest of Okla homa City, said the roar of the explosion rattled windows and brought them running frofn their homes. BULLETIN WASHINGTON, April 27—(1P) Rep. Frank Buchanan (D-Pa.) died tonight in the naval hospi tal at Bethesda, Md. After an illness of four weeks. states." Members of Churchill's staff de clined to amplify his brief state ment. 'They explained he and Harold Stassen, president of the University of Pennsylvania, had agreed upon what they would, say about the postponement. Stassen had invited Churchill to make the speech. State General Assembly Tough Job In Next Two HARRISBURG, April 27 (11') Pennsylvania's General Assem bly has been in session four months—but its only been a long warm up for the job still ahead of it. The 1951 session has passed 73 bills. Thirty-seven have been signed by Gov. John S. Fine. To date the session has been divided into three phases of ac tivity. • Marked Time For two weeks after they con vened, the legislators marked time while awaiting the incom ing governor's inauguration. Then the Senate fought a pitched bat tle for six weeks over Fine's cab inet. For the past nine weeks the assembly has debated the gover nor's $2,200,000,000 budget and his $163,000,000 tax program. The pivotal feature of the tax pro gram is the' hotly d4uted state U.N. Troops Continue To Withdraw BULLETIN U. S. Eighthi Army Headquar ters, Korea, Saturday, April 28 —(?P)—U. N. forces today aban doned strategic Kapyong, on one main invasion highway 33 miles northeast of Seoul. The Allies continued their or derly withdrawal all along the front. They ,fell back (four words deleted by censor) north of Seoul. TOKYO, Saturday, April 23 (W) —Allied troops withdrew steadily southward in a pelting, rainstorm Friday along the - 100-mile-wide Korean battlefront, leaving a muddy no man's land behind. The advancing" Chinese Com munists pressed within 10 miles north of Seoul on the western front Friday night, bu t the United Nations retirement was at a faster rate than the casualty riddled Chinese and North Kor eans could advance. Contact Slackened Field dispatches said that while contact was broken or slackened along most sectors of front, thousands of fresh Chi nese troops were moving south ward Friday night toward the central front. It was the familiar Chinese tac tic of passing fresh assault waves through 'the exhausted Commu nist divisions which began the major Red offensive Sunday night. Thus far, in five days of bitter fighting, the Chinese and North Koreans were estimated to have suffered a devastating toll of nearly 37,000 men killed or wounded from allied ground, air and sea action. Chinese . Casualties Mount This boosted total enemy war casualties to more than 862,500 since the North Korean Reds be gan the war by invading South Korea last June 25. A field dispatch from. AP cor respondent George A. McArthur on the west-central front said U.N. troops jammed on trucks and marching in the almost steady downpour moved south ward throughqut the day in a Solid, stream. They passed through Uijongbu. That road junction 11 miles north of Seoul, still was in allied hands but might be, abandoned soon. "It was an army in retreat," McArthur said, "but an army that still maintained its spirit and its capacity to inflict a tre mendous toll on, the enemy." Residents Leave Seoul Flashes of fire from allied ar tillery bombardmentS lit the skies north of Seoul Friday night as 300,00 p Reds pressed south. A half-million residents were or dered by the South Korean gov ernment to leave the city. Allied rearguards north of Uijongbu covered the U.N. with drawal. Of no military value, the capital appeared about to change hands for the fifth time. The Reds have captured it twice and lost it twice. income tax of one half of one per cent. Rejected Tax The House rejected the income tax when it came up for passage the first time.'But parliamentary maneuvering and the vote switch of some Republican legislators squeezed the measure through on 'a second try. The Senate will now take up the bill with the degree of suc cess enjoyed by the bill there indicating when the session will complete its work. With the tax' pr ogr am still churning up the political surface, many other major issues of the session have been shunted to the background, causing both branches to prepare themselves for a lengthy session. Length of Session Estimates of the length of the session range from late May until July, or the latter part of June. The one other major piece of MacArthur Issue Delays Draft Bill WASHINGTON, April 27—(W)—The firing of General Mac- Arthur today brought a delay of at least two weeks—more likely a month—in efforts to reach a compromise on new draft-UMT legislation. "Senators will be completely occupied next week and for some time in the MacArthur hearings," Chairman Russell (D Ga.) of the Taft Backs MacArthur Strategy WASHINGTON, April 27 (in— Senator Taft (R-Ohio) urged to day that the United States not try "to end this war by appease ment of the Chinese Communists" and not be deterred "by any pos sibility the Russians may come in." In an angry Republican-Dem ocrat debate in the Senate, Taft called for immediate adoption of Gen. Douglas MacArthur's strate gy against the Communists. 'Will Wake Up' Interrupted. from time to time by Democrats, the Republican leader also declared that unless Congress takes a firm stand "we will wake up some morning" and find that what he called the ap peasement policies of Secretary of State Dean Acheson have been adopted. Taft upheld the MacArthur pro gram for making use of Chinese Nationalist forces under Chiang Kai-Shek on Formosa and for air operatiorls over Manchuria. Bomb the Reds at their home bases, he urged. Acheson's Policy He said Acheson's policy in volves appeasing the Chin es e Reds by surrendering Formosa and admitting them to the United Nations. He dismissed President Truman'.. announced plan to con fine the war to Korea if possible. That can't go on forever, Taft said. "The choice the country has is between Acheson and MacAr thur. That is the only issue. What I am afraid of is that we will go the way." Fraternities invite Frosh Tomorrow All fraternities will hold open house tomorrow afternoon from 2 to 5 o'clock to enable freshmen to become acquainted with the fraternity system here at the Col lege./ Interfraternity council is spon soring the event, ,with Robert Houseworth and Roger Clinton in charge. Questionnaires for the freshmen will be available at the houses and pledging rules will be ex plained. The fraternities will an swer any questions that may be asked by the freshman. Faces Months legislation which has been acted on deals with lifting the present ban, on the sale of colored oleo margarine in Pennsylvania. The Senate agriculture committee re jected bills to that effect two weeks ago, but a new move is reported underway to seek ap proval for the measure. Under Wraps , 1. Establishment of a Fair Em ployment Practices commission to guard against discrimination in business or labor organizations because of race creed or color. 2. Increase minimum'and max imum levels of the state's un employment an d workmen's compensation rates. 3. Reapportion the state legis lative districts to increase House membership from 208 to 210 members. 4. Grant Pennsylvania's school teachers a $92,000,000 salary in crease PAGE THREE Senate Armed Services commit tee explained to reporters . He referred to the hearings his committee and the Senate Foreign Relations committee will conduct into the MacArthur issue. Iron Out Compromise Russell and Chairman Vinson (D-Ga.) of the House Armed Ser vices committee have been guiding efforts of a Senate-House Conference committee to iron out compromises on legislation to extend the draft and to do some thing about universal military training (UMT). The conferees met for the fourth time today, and reported some progress, although still deadlocked over UMT. Rus sell said Vinson agreed to the delay. The bill the Senate has passed calls for a start on UMT, to go into effect when the draft is deemed to be no longer needed. The House bill would set up a commission to study TJMT and to submit a, report on which Con• gress would have to act, later. Big Dif'erence Another ,big dilfcrence is that the Senate set the minimum draft age at 18 years (at present it is 19) and the House 'voted for 181. House conferees were reported to have suggested an 18-year mini mum for future UMT service, if the actual combat age for draftees were held to 19.. Those things now will have to await a time when the lawmakers are not so occupied with the Mac- Arthur issue. The present draft law. expires July 9, and Russell said he expects to get the Senate- House committee together again "before a month."' Votes To Cut 'Voice' Funds WASHINGTON, April 27 (W)— The Senate Appropriations com mittee reportedly voted today to go along with the House on a 90 per cent slash in State de partment funds for the "Voice of America". Two committee members who asked not to be named said the group voted "very closely" to provide only $9,533,939 to build up facilities used for the "voice" broadcasts. The ' administration had asked $97,500.000. The "Voice of America" item is included in the Hou - :e-passed bill carrying $473,165,363 in sup plemental funds for a group of government agencies. One member of the committee told a reporter at least two of the members were absent when the vote on the "voice" program was taken and a move to re consider later was possible. Alumni Club Holds General Elections In the elections held recently by the Penn State Alumni club, Mrs. Carl Gettig was elected sec retary, succeeding Daniel De- Marino. Other officers who were re elected were Frank Neusbaum, first vice-president; and Reuben Jaffe, third vice-president. Rob ert A. Higgins is president of the club; Musser Gettig, second vice president; Russell Clark, treas urer. Newly elected persons to rep resent the club on the Alumni council were Harold E. Dickson, Betty J. Haugh, and Mrs. Mervin Lucas. Those reelected were Thomas Beaver, William W. Sieg, Ivan Walker, Russell E. Clark, Eugene J. Reilly, and B. M. Her mann. DUFF HONORED WASHINGTON, April 27 (JP) —Senator James H. Duff, Penn sylvania Republican, was one of 10 Senate an d House members presented scrolls yesterday by Liberty magazine as "honest poli ticians."
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