THURSDAY, MAY 3, 1951 Truman Dispute With MacArthur Flares Again WASHINGTON, May 2—(W)—The' MacArthur-Truman dispute blew wide open again today with the' release of a secret report on the Wake Island meeting and a Republican drive to force an open hearing for General MacArthur•s explanation of his Asian policies. Developments came in rapid-fire order: (1) GOP Senators fought to strip the secrecy from MacArthur's testimony tomorrow before the Senate armed services and for eign relations committees. As the Senate met in night session, Dem ocrats tried to block the Repub lican move and keep the hearings behind closed doors. Wake Island Report IviacArthur To Stay In Public's Eye NEW YORK,'May 2 (JP)—Gen. Douglas MacArthur intends to be active "for many years to come" and to present his views firmly at as many public appearances as possible, his spokesman said today. Maj. Gen. Courtney Whitney, the spokesman, said these ap pearances will come after the de posed far east commander ends testimony. at Congressional hear ings starting tomorrow on Far East policy. Asked whether this meant MacArthur was taking his case to the public, Whitney replied: "No. He looks at it in the light that many persons want to hear his views and he feels that in the public interest he should respond accordingly as far as he can." Concerning published reports that MacArthur informed confi dants, that he held Secretary of State Dean Acheson chiefly re sponsible for his removal, Whit ney said: "I am inclined to discount it completely. I never heard any such expression from Gen. Mac- Arthur." - Whitney also told reporters that MacArthur never had re ceived a copy of "Wedemeyer re port"—drawn up by Lieut. Gen. Albert C. Wedemeyer, former commander of U.S. forces in Chi na, following a survey of China and Korea in 1947. Wedemeyer forecast a possible "Soviet-con trolled" invasion of South Korea. State House Seeks To Lift Oleo Ban HARRISBURG, Ma y A new maneuver was underway in the House today to force ac tion on' legislation lifting the ban on the sale of colored oleomar garine in Pennsylvania. Eight Allegheny county Re publican lawmakery , introduced a bill which would permit that county to enact its own controls on oleomargarine. The bill would give Allegheny county the right to fix its own regulations for control of the sale of colored oleomargarine. Present law forbids the sale of oleo al ready containing th e artificial yellow coloring. German Club To Give Play By Von Sallet Th e play "Die Welt Ausser Rarg Und Bauden" by Von Sal let will be presented script-in hand at a meeting of the German Club at 8 tonight in the home living center of the Home Econ omics building. The Meeting is open to the pub lic and refreshments will be served. Earn up to $25.00 in your spare time doing pleasant, stimulating contract selling. Full time work for the summer if qualified. Write: R. G. GREEN 736 P.S.F.S. Bldg. 12th and Market St. Philadelphia, Pa. (2) A report from the Joint chiefs of staff quoted MacArthur as telling President Truman last October at Wake Island that he did not believe the Chinese Reds would enter the Korean War. The general also Was represented as saying that Soviet Russia had no ground troops available for Korea but could put 1000 planes into combat. The secret report was released by the Senate armed services and foreign relations committees. It was labelled as the "substance of statements made at Wake Island conference." MacArthur also was quoted as saying "no commander in the history of war ever had more complete and ade quate support from all agencies in Washington than I have." Ma'cArthur is due to go before the Senate group tomorrow at 9 a.m., EST, to expand the views on Asia policy which he gave to Congress just two weeks ago. An aide in New York described the general as being more concerned over Korea than he was over his own dismissal by Truman. Department Sponsors Student-Faculty Picnic The students and faculty of the Department of Economics and Commerce are jointly sponsoring a departmental pitnic from 3 to 8 p.m. today at Sunset Park, one half mile north of State College. The main event of the after noon will be a softball game be tween the students and faculty at 4:30 p.m. Transportation will be furnished on the hour and half-hour from in back of Sparks. Dr. LeSage To Speak Tonight At French Club , Dr. Lawrence LeSage, associate professor of romance languages, will speak at a meeting of the French Club at 7 tonight in Sim mons lounge. His topic is "Op portunities for Foreign Study." Refreshments will be served. NSA To Hear Report On. Student Gov't Clinic A report on the student gov ernment clinic held at Muhlen berg College last weekend will be given at the National Student Association meeting at 7 tonight in 233 Sparks. Reports on progress and new projects will also be given. KOREAN CASUALTIES WASHINGTON, May 2—(lP) The Defense Department an nounced today that American casualties - since the war started have reached 62,799. This figure includes 9,603 kille d,_ 42,246 wounded, and 10,950 missing in action. The total of 62,799 an nounced today was an increase of 1,055 in a week. STUDENTS! Tat-DAILY COLLEGIAN, STATE COLLEGE, PENNSYLVANIA Allies Turn Red Attack Into Victory TOKYO, Thursday, May 3 (R) —A great Allied victory in the first round of the Communist spring offensive was proclaimed Wednesday. But even heavier Red assaults are expected. "The enemy has failed in the first phase of his offensive," said Lt. Gen. James A. Van Fleet, al lied ground commander in Korea. However, Van Fleet cautioned: "He (the Reds) has the capability of hitting again as hard as be fore or harder. I am confident the results will be the same." Battlefront Lull The lull on the battlefront moved into its fifth day Thurs day: Five Allied tank patrols probed north of their lines on the western and west-central sec tors. They met little or no resis tance. • Since sending their infantry masses 'headlong into the of fensive April 22, the Chinese and North Korean Reds had suffered an estimated 75,000 casualties against furious allied resistance. ' Line Held By Allies The allied line swung back from parallel 38 to about 30 miles southward on the western and west-central fronts, then curved north-eastward to points above the parallel on the east coast. So pronounced was the lull that many soldiers shucked warm bat tle clothing and went swimming in the Han. AP Correspondent George A. MacArthur said it was a balmy 70 degrees on the west central front. The lull didn't apply to the Reds. Fighters and light bomb ers of the U.S. Fifth Air Force rained fire and steel on the re grouping Communists and their supply lines. Forurn-- (Continued from wage one) 50, Brown said, "I hope to survey the moods and ideas, the hopes and joys of businessmen, and workers, housewives and govern ment officials, children and par ents. Europe is not all a story of misery. People there live, eat, have fun, make jokes; women worry about fashions; men get ex cited over sports. I will tell in hu man terms how Europe is faring, drawing parallels between their lives and activities and our own." Pennsylvania born, Brown be gan newspaper work in Ohio fol lowing his education at Western Reserve University and Ohio State University. After working with the International News Ser vice in Rome and the United Press in Los Angeles he entered the radio field. It was in this medium that he achieved his greatest fame, winning the Over seas Press Club's prize and the Peabody Award, the "Pulitzer Prize of radio." In Belgrade he broadcasted his impressions of Fascist Italy, and at Cairo had trouble with censors over his remarks on the Vichy French. He angered British au thorities at Singapore by criticiz ing their attitude towards the Japanese and annoyed the Aus tralians by disapproving of their failure to conscript men to fight overseas. He accompanied the British in to Syria, flew to the Netherlands East Indies while the Dutch still resisted, narrowly missed being shot by advance Nazi motorcycle squads entering Yugoslavia, and saw and broadcast the invasion of Crete and the escape of the King of Greece. PSYCHOLOGY and SOCIOLOGY MAJORS . . The Institute of Living, one of the foremost hospitals in the country in the field of Psychiatric Rehabilitation has vacan cies for you in a lay capacity. Residence is provided on at tractive city campus in addition to basic salary and the use of recreational facilities. There are a limited number of staff appointments available as Psychiatric Aide. Write to: Miss Barbara St. John Personnel Manager 200 Retreat Ave. Hartford. Conn. Mexican-U.S. Relations Unchanged -- Acheson WASHINGTON, May 2—G l o—Secretary of State Acheson said today he sees no evidence that U.S.-Mexican relations have been hurt by the Senate crime committee's chiding of Ambassador Wil liam O'Dwyer. And White House Press Secretary Joseph Short said he was us - of any plan to recall O'Dwyer from his Mexico City post, as demanded by a number of Re publicans following yesterday's publication of the crime commit tee's report. State Crime Probe Urged HARRISBURG, May 2—(W)— The General Assembly was urged today to set up a "Little Kefau ver" crimes commission to in vestigate vice and racketeering in Pennsylvania. The request was made in a res olution offered in the House by 33 Republican lawmakers. The legislation would authorize the Attorney General, with the approval of the Governor, to name five deputy attorneys general as members of the commission. The proposal was immediately attacked by Rep. H. G. Andrews, Democratic floor leader, as a "strictly' partisan" plan. "If the members of this House are looking for an effective crimes commission, they won't staff it by deputy attorneys general," Andrews declared. Instead, he suggested that the proposed commission be made up of private citizens "who are able to operate independently." The commission would operate in much the same manner as the Congressional crime investigation committee headed until this week by Rep. Estes Kefauver (D-Tenn.). Committee Passes Marine Quota Bill WASHINGTON, May 2—( l P)- A bill to double the fighting strength of the Marine Corps was approved today by the Senate armed services committee. Over strong objections of the Defense department, the commit tee recommended a permanent force of not less than four full strength combat divisions an d four air support wings. It fixed a ceiling of 400,000 men for the Leathernecks. At present the Marine corps is limited to not more than 20 per cent of the enlisted strength of the Navy. It is now represented on the Joint Chiefs of Staff by the chief of naval operations. Forty-three Senators are sup porting the bill, and 75 members of the House have gotten behind it. APO To Hold Banquet Alpha Phi Omega, national service fraternity, will hold its anual banquet at 7 tonight at the State College Hotel. Guests at the banquet will in clude President Milton S. Eisen hower and head football coach Rip Engle. WESTERN UNION NEW YORK, May 2—(fl')— Western Union today asked a $14,000,000 a year boost in tele graph rates, with the increase earmarked for pay raises to em ployes. The .company said it feared a strike 'of its commercial tele graphers unless their wage de mands were met, at least in part. PHILOSOPHY CLUB The meeting of the Philosophy Club scheduled for 8 o'clock to night in 203 Willard has been can celled. Failed To Act The committee charged that O'Dwyer, while Mayor of New York, associated with racketeers and failed to act effectively against big time lawbreakers. The report said his actions "impeded" some prosecutions and "contri buted to the growth of organized crime." Sen. H. Alexander Smith (R- N.J.), a member of the foreign relations committee, added his voice today to the Republican clamor for O'Dwyer's dismissal as Ambassador to Mexico. "It is contrary to every good principle of democracy and di plomacy for us to be represented in Mexico by a man whose politi cal activities in this country have been, at the very least, open to question," said Smith in a state ment. No Change Planned The President undoubtedly will be asked about O'Dwyer at his own news conference tomorrow. He said on March 29 that he didn't contemplate any change in O'Dwyer's status. That was after the former mayor had testified before the crime committee at a televised hearing in New York. The crime committee, mean while, started drafting laws which would put into effect many of the 22 anti-crime recommendations it made in yesterday's report. Malayan Rubber Sold To Chinese LONDON, May 2 (P') The Colonial office disclosed today British Malaya sold 120,000 tons of rubber to Communist China and 40,400 tons to Soviet Russia in th e nine months ended in March—all since the outbreak of the Korean war. Angry words on the handling of this strategic material bounced about Parliament. The sales to Red China had increased heavily since United Nations forces un dertook to stop Communist ag gression in Korea. During all 1949, Malaya sent only 27,500 tons to China. "LADY IN THE DARK" May 10, 11 and 12 STARLITE DRIVE-IN ON BELLEFONTE ROAD Shows 7 and 9 p.m THURSDAY "THE PETTY GIRL" (Technicolor)• ROBERT CUMMINGS JOAN CAULFIELD Also Selected Short Subjects FRIDAY - SATURDAY "BUCCANEER'S GIRL" (Technicolor) YVONNE DeCARLO PHILIP FRIEND - PLUS - 'ARIZONA THOROUGHBRED' John King Joan Bard PAGE THREE
Significant historical Pennsylvania newspapers