,WEDNESDAY, MAY 16, 1951
Gov't Says Peace
Feelers Talk False
WkSHINGTON, May 15—(IP)—Government authorities said to
day there have been no peace feelers from the Chinese Communists
The high, command's hope is to force the Reds . to seek peace
eventually by-inflicting heavy losses on them, but so far the enemy
has shown no slackening in his determination to throw UN forces
out of Korea.
A flurry of peace feeler rumors
had gone the rounds at the Capi
tol, evidently set off by misunder
standing of \Defense Secretary
Marshall's testimony at the Mac-
Arthur hearing. This prompted
questions to fully informed offi
cials as to just what the situation
is and how bright are the pros
pects for an early peace.
The specific answers was that
all the evidence the American
government can get indicates that
the Reds are still determined to
try, to expel the UN forces from
Korea.
r-givsofine Tax
To Be Raised
WASHINGTON, May 15—(iP)---
Prospective tax increases mounted
above $6,500,000,000 today as the
House ways and means committee
voted to raise the federal levy on
gasoline from 1 1 / 2 to 2 cents a
gallon.
The half-cent increase is ex
pected to bring in an additional
$210,000,000 annually, if approved
by- House and Senate. The treas
ury has asked that the rate be
raised to 3 cents. The committee
boggled at the increase, rejecting
it tentatively yesterday only to
approve it today. An alternative
proposal, to re-establish the $5
a year use tax ("windshield tax")
on cars, was turned down.
The tax-drafting group voted
to' cut the tax on domestic tele
grams from 25. per cent to 20 per
cent, for an estimated $8,000,000
revenue loss. A million dollars of
the loss would be offset, however,
by raising the rate on bowling
alleys and pool tables from $2O to
$25 a unit.
Senate Passes Amended
Tax' Program For State
-HARRISBURG, May 15—(1P)—Gov: John S. Fine's tax program,
stripped of his disputed income tax bill, passed the Senate today.
A unanimous vote renewed the $400,000,000 in present taxes and
added another $44,000,000 to the tax bill of corporations. The Pro
gram had been approved by the House but most of the bills went
back there for action on Senate
amendments,
But confusion continued to
reign in both House and Senate
on the gap created by rejection
yesterday of the administration's
plan for a one-half of one per cent
personal income levy by Senate
Republicans.
Sticks By Guns
Rep. Charles C. Smith, Repub
lican floor leader, said the House
was sticking by its guns on the
$119,000,000 income tax which
passed the lower branch last
month—but only after a second
vote.
Senate passage of the bulk of
Fine's tax program will make
permanent all of the cent a pint
beer tax, half of which is now
temporary; all of the four-cent a
pack cigaret tax, half of which is
now temporary; and the 10 per
cent liquor tax, all of which is
now temporary.
Corporate-Tax Raised
In addition, the four per cent
corporate net income taxi goes up
to five per cent to raise $44,000,000
but continues on a temporary
two-year basis.
Parking Restriction
All parking will be prohibi
ted in the Osmond parking lot
tomorrow because of the
Spring Carnival.
Eta Kappa Ku
Elects Officers
Eta Kappa Nu, electrical en
gineering honorary, has elected
new officers. Plans were made to
hold a joint picnic with Pi Tau
Sigma, mechanical engineering
honorary, at Black Moshannon
'May 26.
The officers are John Spar
hawk, president; John Tomlin
son, vice president; John Kretz
ing, corresponding secretary; Ray
Markle, recording secretary; John
Wurst, :`bridge" correspondent;
Donald Bock, treasurer, and
Frank Flora, Engineering Student
Council representative.
The faculty adviser is. Prof.
Clifford.. B. Holt Jr.
American diplomatic and mili
tary leaders are now convinced
that they •cannot do this. On the
contrary these experts say that
the Chinese Communists, their
manpower mass offset by a lack
of firepower, can confidently be
expected to take another costly
defeat in the second stage of their
spring offensive now at hand in
Korea.
' But it is one thing to win a
battle and another to conclude
a war, and qtlestions for which
State Department and Defense
Department officials have no an
swer is: "how long will it take
to change the minds of the Chi
nese Communists' and compel
them to negotiate a reasonable
settlement in Korea?"-
ROTC Units
Cancei Common Hour
The Army and Air Force
ROTC common hour sched
ules have been canceled, to
day; instead they will partici
pate in the Armed Forces day
parade at the College Satur
day, according to Col. Lucien
E. Bolduc, professor of mili
tary science and tactics at the
College and Lt. Col. Jack W.
Dieterle, professor of air sci
ence and tactics.
insurance Club
To Hold Elections
The Penn State Insurance Club k
will hold its annual election of
officers at 7 tonight at Sigma
Alpha Epsilon.
Announcements will be made
concerning the six awards to be
given to the outstanding students
in the various fields of insurance
at the senior reception on Thurs
day, May 24.
Hertz Elected New
Hillel President
Hillel Foundation last night
elected Sanford Hertz as its new
president.
Stanley Goldman was elected
men's vice-president and Salessa
Citrenbaum, women's vice-presi
dent.
_ Rosalind Gross was chosen sec
retary, and Julian Gordon, secre
tary.
Members at large elected to
the governing board are Judith
Lippman, Deborah Helfand„ Doris
Sher, Janice Friedman, Myrna
Newman, Aviva • Sare, Allen
Klein, Arlene Teitelbaum, Meyer
Bushman, Eleanor Bobman, Phil
ip Greenberg, and Kay Liner.
PSCA CABINET MEETS
The Penn State Christian As
sociation cabinet will meet to
night at Watts Lodge. Cars will
leave from behind Old Main at
6:30 p.m.
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN, STATE COLLEGE, PENNSYLVANIA
U.S. Forces
Ready For
New Attack
TOKYO, Wednesday, May 16
(4)) Chinese Communist forces
hurdled two river defense bar
riers in central Korea Tuesday
in front' of stout U.S. defense po
sitions braced for the next big
Red blow.
A front line officer considered
the moves preliminary to the next
offensive, which may be the
greatest yet loosed by the Com
munists in-Korea.•
"The expected Chinese offen
sive has not begun," he empha
sized. "There is no Chinese of-'
fensive under way now."
Small probing attacks flared
during the night along the Chun
chon sector. That air and axtill
ery-bashed town, 45 miles north
east of Seoul, is the !key to road
networks leading southward in
the mountainous center of the
peninsula.
Neither side now controls the
town although allied patrols have
entered it almost daily for the
past 10 days.
At U.S. Eighth Army head
quarters AP correspondent Nate
Polowetzky reported the Commu
nists now were believed stronger
than they have ever been before
in Korea.
"They have more tanks, more
artillery, more reserves and most
important, more airplanes based
in North Korea, than at any time
since they entered the war," one
officer said.
Other commanders were just as
firm in their belief that the Com
munists were not capable of fol
lowing through a sustained full
scale offensive because of an
inadequate supply system.
Phi Mu Alpha
Elects Officers
Phi Mu Alpha, men's music
fraternity, elected new officers
at its meeting last week .
They are president, Donald
Smith; vice-president, John Reit
meyer; secretary-treasurer, Jack
Longenecker; alumni secretary,
John Jenkins; historian, Bryson
Craine; warden, Donald Storch;
national councilman, Edwin Gam_
ble, and alumni treasurer, Dr.
Hummel Fishburn.
New Initiates of Phi Mu Alpha
are Harry Neuhard, John Jen
kins, Tom Hahn, Jim Bortolotto,
Sam Moldovan, Robert Betts, Ray
Barr, William Potts, Robert Swiss
helm, Gene Thomas, Robert Gill,
Richard Stinson, Jack Kapitanoff.
Dave Fishburn, Darwin Bist
line, Charles Naginey, Dave Mar
golf, Dick Kartlick, William
Greenham, Albert Koster, Donald
Rentschler, Edward Rolf, Jim
Reider, Grant Price, Bryson
Craine, Frank Klatch, John Reit
meyer, Ea r 1 Baker, Charles
Hughes, Carroll Chapman, and
John Swartz.
Radio Show Planned
For Next Saturday
The Spring Week committee
yesterday announced plans for a
30 minute radio show to be broad
cast from the Corner Room Sat
urday at 10 a.m.
David Schmuckler and Peter
Axford will interview students
on their impressions of the week's
activities. Arnold Taylor's orches
tra will play for the program and
the "Four Flats and a Sharp,"
campus quintet, will sing.
Camera Authority
To Speak Tonight
Barbara Green, associate edi
tor of The Camera magazine, will
speak at 7:30 tonight in Main
Engineering. Mlss Green's talk
has been arranged in connection
with the Penn State Camera
Club, Centre County Camera
Club and the junior and senior
high ,camera clubs of State Col
lege High School.
WINS SCHOLARSHIP
William E. Eggert, instructor in
meteorology, was awarded a Ful
bright scholarship for foreign
study. Eggert, who received his
B.S. from Penn State in 1949, will
study meteorology at the Univer
sity of Melbourne, Melbourne,
Australia
Bradley Refuses
To Tell Senate .
Of Mac Firing
WASHINGTON, May 15—(I 3 )—Gen. Omar N. Bradley today re
fused to tell Senators what he said at the White House meeting
April 6 when President Truman and his advisers first discussed the
possibility of firing Gen. Douglas MacArthur.
The
,refusal immediately brought talk of possible contempt ac
tion to test Bradley's right to re
fuse; but there was no real indi
cation such action would be
taken.
The chairman of the Joint
Chiefs of Staff declared: "If I
have to - publicize my recommen
dations and my discussions, my
value 'as (a Presidential) adviser
has been ruined."
Legion Says
Red Cell Can
Sabotage Navy
PORTSMOUTH, N.H., May 15
—(JP)—Navy intelligence and the
Federal Bureau of Investigation
are investigating American Le
gion assertions that a Communist
cell capable of sabotage is oper
ating at the Portsmouth naval
submarine . shipyard.
The Navy made this announce
ment at Boston today. At the
same time Senator Bridges (R-
N.H.) said he has asked the House
unAmerican activities committee
to inquire into the charges.
The charge of Communist ac
tivity was voiced by Frank Saw
yer, adjutant of the New Hamp
shire American Legion, who said,
"We are convinced that a suffi
cient amount of evidence exists
to warrant a thoyough investiga
tion." He added that the Legion
had passed on its findings to Sen
ator Bridges after investigating
since October.
Tht Maine American Legion
joined its New Hampshire bro
thers in recommending an inquiry.
LA Credit Limit
Is Set At 18
Eighteen credits are the limit
for all students in the School of
Liberal Arts, it• has been an
nounced by the Dean's office.
Loads in excess of this limit must
have the written approval of the
student scholastic standing com
mittee, 130 Sparks, and permis
sion will be granted only where
the average for the latest com
pleted semester warrants such
action.
Discussion Contest
Goes into Finals
The Women's Intramural Dis
cussion Contest moves into the
final round tonight as contestants
argue the subject, "In the advent
of all-out war, should women be
drafted?" The discussion, open to
the public, will be. held at 7 p.m.
in 2 Sparks:
The prize at stake is a gold cup,
to be engraved with the name of
the organization whose represen
tative presents the most effective
argument for or against the ques
tion.
The contest will be conducted
in the same way as the elimin
ations, 'which were held last
night. The women will speak for
a total of six minutes each, in an
informal round-table style.
Members of the speech depart
ment will be judges.
Final Examination
Schedules Posted
Copies of the final examin
ation schedule have been post
ed at the following locations:
The bulletin board in the
West Dorm lounge, Dorm 20,
the bulletin board in front of
Carnegie Hall, Old Main lob
by, the Daily Collegian office,
and the Nittany-PolloCk din
ing commons.
Institute Gives College
$3,000 For Furnaces
The American Iron and Steel
Institute has made a grant of
$3,000 to the College for the in
stallation of two furnaces in the
School of Mineral Industries.
The furnaces, to be used by the
division of metallurgy of the De
partment of Mineral Technology
are a 500-pound electric induc
tion fuinace and a 1000-pound
electric arc furnace.
Present Strategy Best
He said he is under no illusion.
that the present strategy will
guarantee a world war "will not
be thrust upon us." But he in
sisted this course is the best one
at this time.
He declared if a settlement of
the Korean war is impossible un
der this program "then other
measures may have to be taken."
Bradley lashed ou t at critics
who say it is "appeasement" not
to bomb Red Bases in China and
Manchuria, blockade the Red
coast, and use Chinese Nationalist
troops as MacArthur has pro
posed.
He said: "These critics ignore
the vital questions:
"Will these actions, if taken,
actually assure victory in Korea?
"Do these actions mean pro
longation of the war by bringing
Russia into the fight?
"Will these actions strip us of
our Allies in Korea and in other
parts of the world?"
Bradley Makes 2 Points
Then under • questioning by
Chairman Russell (D-Ga.) of the
joint committees, Bradley made
these points:
(1) The Joint Chiefs of Staff
agree' there is "real danger" of
Russian intervention in Korea if
the MacArthur program is
adopted-although the degree of
that danger is "anybody's
opinion."
(2) The State Department has
never overruled by its actions any
proposed directives from th e
Joint Chiefs in the • Korean war,
although there were differences
over Formosa before the fighting
began.
Art Exhibit Continues
Combined A r t s demonstra
tions at the Temporary Union
Building today are:
1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.—Sculp
ture demonstration.
7:00 p.m.—Pottery demon
stration.
Wardrobe Display
Shows Price Rise
An exhibit, showing today's
cost of dressing a ten-year-old
as compared to the cost ten years
ago, is now on display on the
second floor of the Home Eco
nomics building.
The display was arranged un
der the direction of Ruth E. Gra
ham, professor of clothing and
textiles, to show a complete, at
tractive, and inexpensive ward
robe for a ten-year-old child.
In 1951, the complete wardrobe
was purchased for $53.60 while
in 1941, costs of a similar ward
robe amounted to $26.71.
Scabbard, Blade
Club Adds 14
Fourteen men of ROTC units
have been elected as spring
pledges for the Scabbard and
Blade club at a recent meeting.
The men selected were John
Allison, Navy; John Althouse,
Navy; Carl Barnhart, Air Force;
Clifford Dennis, Army; John Don..
nel, Army; John Doppel, Air
Force; Edward Harnett, Array;
Henry Ingram, Navy; Frank R.
Johnson, Army; Edward Scicchi
tano, Army; Keith Smith, Navy;
Richard Tenbert, Army; Lowell
Thorpe, Navy, and Richard White,
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