THURSDAY, NOVEMBER, 1, 1951
Peace Talks, Rain Slow
Fighting on Korean Fronts
U.S. EIGHTH ARMY HEADQUARTERS , Thursday, Nov. 1--VP)
—The rain-soaked Korean battlefront had its ; quietest day in months
Wednesday as peace prospects improved in negotiations for a mili
tary armistice. ' -
The U.S., Eighth Army apparently was holding in check any
sizable ground actions,. pending more developments at Panmunjom
Allied airflights also were cut'
sharply by rain storms and low
. clouds over mdst of Korea.
The U.S. Fif t h Air Force
mounted only 318. sorties by 6
p.m. Wednesday. No 'contact was
reported with Red fighters who
-usually remain at their Manchur
ian bases during stormy, weather.
• Th e Communist PyOngyang
radio claimed 12 Allied planes
were shot down in an air duel
Tuesday over the North Korean
.capital of Pyongyang, but the Air
Force denied it.
The ground fighting action
shbwed Allied troops repulsing a
night' attack by perhaps 200 or
fewer Red troops 'southeast of
Kumsong 'on the central front.
' On the central front 'a UN pa
trol clashed for 30 minutes with
Chinese Reds north of Kumhwa,
about 20 miles north' of the 38th
parallel.
Elsewhere on the , central, east
ern and western fronts, Allied
forces maintained or adjusted po
sitions and patrolled.
In Washington the U.S. De
fense Department issued its lat
est battle casualty report which
continued to reflect ,heavy fight
ing of recent weeks. An increase
of 2,595 since last week brought
the announced casualties in the
Korean War to 95,592.
Council Elections--
(Continued from nage one)•
sentatives were Merle Brubaker,
freshman, and Quentin Rea,
sophomore.
Peter Merkel, freshman,, and
Robert Collins, sophomore, won
seats in the civil engineering de
partment. In the architectual• de
partment Sanford Cook,- fresh
man, and Richard Gibson, sopho
more, were elected.
- Mary Lynch, Gail Green, Lee
Weber, Joanne Sherts, and Elaine
Tocht, were elected to the Home
Economics Student Council.,
Physical Education and Che
m councils will hold elections
today. Presidents of the -respec
tive councils said that too few
votes being cast was the reason
for the change.
•Mineral Industries' will hold its
eleCtion iri Dean Edward Steidle's
lecture .class from 4 to 5 p.m.
Monday because not enough nom
inations were made.
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to lead in singing and cheering.
The Blue'Band will also be pres
ent
The cheerleaders are requested
to meet at '7:45 p.m. on the steps
of Old Main.
Gerald • Maurey, last- y=ear's
freshman class president, asked
the sophomores to show their
class spirit and turn out in force
for the rally. •
Wagner said that he hoped
the rally would produce a spirit
unifying the class as well as a
spirit supporting the team.
Egyptian Elected
CAIRO. Egypt, Oct. 31—(JP)—
The British ejected an Egyptian
police captain from the Suez
canal zone today as an agitator
in a boycott campaign intended
to deprive them of all Egyptian
labor.
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, THE DAILY COLLEGIAN, STATE COLLEGE. •PENNSYLVANIA
teachers
Will Get Pay
:Oost Fine
HARRISBURG, Oct. 3 1— (g)
Gov. John S. Fine said today leg
islation granting a multi-million
dollar salary increase to Pennsyl-
Vania school teachers will be "fav
orably disposed of" by the- gen
eral assembly.
Fine at the same time assured
the Pennsylvania Congress of Par
ents and Teachers he will do his
utmost to maintain educational
standards in the commonwealth.
Discussing the proposed teacher
pay increases, Fine declared:
"We want, and we are going
to have, in Pennsylvania an effi
cient teaching' personnel which is
reasonably compensated. We
want ; too, and we need, to make
teaching in Pennsylvania an at
tractive- career. This bill can help
do that."
The teacher pay bill would cost
the state an estimated $56,000,000
extra the next two years in school
aid.
• It ; would grant the state's some
60,000 public school teachers an
immediate $2OO pay increase and
set up 'new minimum and maxi
mum salary levels for all teachers.
Scholastic Society ,
Invites 67N Students
The local chapter of Phi Kap
pa Phi, scholastic honorary so
ciety, has sent membership .invi
tations to 67 students.
Membership is, open to seventh
'and eighth semester seniors and'
graduate students who have suf
ficiently high all-College aver
ages, Phi Kappa Phi's eligibility
requirements are the highest of
the honoraries on campus.
Prof.. C. C. Dillio, president of
the chapter, announced that a $5O
scholarship will be given again
this spring to a deserving fresh
man who has completed one sem
ester. This will be the second year
this award has been made.
Players to Hold,
'H ei ress i Tryouts
Tryouts for Players' p r!o d u c
tion of "The Heiress" will be held
Sunday and Monday in 202 Will
ard Hall.
AppointmentS for tryouts will
be made in the Schwab Audi
torium Green Room. • ,
Rehearsals for "The Heire'ss,"
which will be directed by Dra
matics instructor Walter Walters,
are scheduled to begin Nov. 12.
"The Heiress" was written by
Ruth and Augustus Goefi an d
first produced on Broadway in
September 194'T. The-idea for the
play came from Henry James'
novel "Washington Square."
The oil of the cashew nut is
much used as a flavoiing foi
ine.
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$3B Federal
Tax Boost
Is in Effect .
WASHINGTON, Oct. 31—(P)—
A $5;700,000,000 tax increase, pil
ing an additional average load of
$3B a year on each of 150,000,000
Americans, goes into effect at
midnight.
Here 9.re the Hallowe'en tricks
the tax collector is playing:
An individual income tax boost
averaging between 11 and 12 per
cent for most persons. The with
holding rate goes up on every
•ay check bearing a November
date. That is the biggest piece
of new' money in the law—s2,-
280,000,000 on a yearly basis but
applying to only a sixth of this
year's income.
Higher excise taxes on a lot
of widely sold items such as cig-
PHILADELPHIA, • Oct. 31---(iP)
—Pennsylvania retailers 4will not
be permitted • to raise the price
of cigarettes more than a penny
a pack under the new tax law
which becomes effective tomor
row. t
The new federal levy increases
cigarette prices one cent a pack
and 10 cents a carton.
arett e s, automobiles, gasoline,
liquor, , and some household ap
pliances.
-Heavier corporate and excess
profits taxes calculated to bring
in $2;207,000,000 a year. The tax
hikes on corporations are retro
active—some of them to last April
1, others to July 1.
A few shafts of sunshine pierc
ed 'the tax cloud.
The levy on telegrams goes
down from 25 to 15 percent of the
message charge. The 20 percent
retail tax is removed from baby
oils, powders, and lotions. The
tax on smoking and chewing to
bacco drops from 18 to 10 cents
a pound. A three and one-third
percent levy on, electric current
is repealed.
Bolduc to Attend
Infantry Conclave
Col. Lucien E. Bolduc; profes
sor of military science and tactics,
has been chosen by the command
ing general, Second Army, to at
tend an infantry conference at
Ft. Benning, Ga. next week.
Similar conferences, all de
signed to increase student interest
in the combat arms,, will be held
at the artillery school, the armor
ed school, and the anti-aircraft
artillery school.
Discussions will center on train
ing literature and aids, changes
lin tables of allowances, summer
camp policies, and distinguished
military student an d graduate
programs.
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Allies,
Closer
MUNSAN, Korea, Thursday, Nov. 1—(W)—Alli0 and Commu
nist truce negotiators today drew closer to agreement than ever
before on a buffer zone across Korea, but the status of Red-held
Kaesong blocked speedy settlement 'of this issue.
The Communists made a major concession Wednesday, abandon
ing demands for a line from five to 15 miles south of the battleline.
They proposed a buffer zone
which, approached that asked by
the Allies
But the Reds wanted to keep
Kaesong, site of the futile 'first
cease-fire talks. The United Na
tions command considered Kae
song essential to guard the mili
tary approaches to Seoul, 34 air
miles to the southeast.
Even if the buffer issue is set-
tied, the truce negotiators still
have three other major 'agenda
items to consider before a military
armistice can be arranged.
These include arrangements for
the exchange of prisoners, •truce
supervision of areas behind the
opposing armies, and recommen
dations for the ultimate with
drawal of foreign troops from
Korea.
Truman Greets
Princess in D.C.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 31—(W)--
Pr esident Truman welcomed
Princess Elizabeth to the U.S. to
day by saying:
"Margaret tells me that when
ever anyone becomes acquainted
with you they immediately fall in
love with you."
The words weren't in Mr. Tru
man's orenared remarks.
But jUding by the way he and
the 550,000 persons acted who
turned out to greet Britain's Eli
zabeth and Prince Philip, they
pretty well filled the bill.
In a voice calm and firm, Eliza
beth told the President and the
millions more watching and lis
tening by television and r adio
that Britain and Canada will
"work with all our strength for
freedom and for peace." •
"F re e men everywhere," she
said, "look towards the United
States with affection and with
hope."
Atr ,
Reds Drawing
to Settlement
Gore Reports
On Atom 'Mast
WASHINGTON, Oct. 31—(VP)—
,
A Congressional eyewitness said
today the latest atomic bomb
blast over the Nevada desert
"looked big enough to destroy
any enemy division" on the bat
tlefield. •
Rep. Gore (D-Tenn.), chairman
of a House atomic energy sub
committee, said he and four other
Congress members witnessed the
.explosion yesterday from "sev
eral miles away," and he told
newsmen:
"The atomic bomb can now be
used on the field of battle. They
are no longer .mysterious un
certainties—they are now speci
fic, accurate arid certain."
Gore indicated that the Con
gress members , would have been
in danger if they had been as
close as five miles •to the dual
action blast which was reported
felt 130 miles away.
Official secrecy blacked out any
technical disclosures on the ap
parently new type of bomb ex
ploded—the 20th major U.S.
atomic blast.
The fouxth in the series of test
explosions on Yucca Flat, north
of Las Vegas, Nev., is scheduled
for tomorrow and is expected to
in v o l v e troops in experiments
with smaller atomic weapons.
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