THURSDAY, JANUARY 17, 1952
Truman Sees
'Year of Strain'
WASHINGTON, Jan. 16—(TP)—President Truman today asked
Congress for roughly five billion dollars in new taxes and warned
that 1952 will be a “year of strain” beset by inflationary dangers as
the nation forges ahead toward peak rearmament.
The President also called for tighter price controls, a check on
private spending, greater productivity, and a return to pay-as-we-go
Red Threats
Disregarded
By UN
MUNSAN, Korea, Jan. 17—(TP)
—United Nations truce negotia
tors brushed aside a Communist
threat Wednesday “to fight to
the end” in Korea if the Allies
dared to turn over 20,000 Chinese
Red prisoners to Chiang Kai-
Shek’s army on Formosa.
The U.N. denied any such in
tent but raised another issue.
Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway’s
headquarters in Tokyo announced
it intended to press charges “at
the earliest opportunity” that the
Reds “have violated and are con
tinuing to violate” every provi
sion of the- Geneva convention
dealing with prisoner of war
camps.
The Armistice negotiations at
Panmunjob delegates were sche
duled to reconvene at 11 a.m« to
day (9 p.m. Wednesday, EST).
The Formosa threat was hurled
by Red Chinese CoL Tsai Cheng-
Wen, senior staff officer in pris
oner exchange.
Tsai declared, “If anybody
dares to hand over any personnel
of the Chinese peoples volunteers
. . . to the deadly enemy of, the
Chinese people, Chiang Kai-Shek,
the Chinese people will fight to
the end.”
Bed violations of the Geneva
convention were charged when
the U.N. command admitted Wed
nesday night its planes were in
the vicinity of Kangdong Mon
day night when the Reds claimed
a pow camp and hospital were
bombed.
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government financing “as quick
ly as possible.”
In submitting his annual eco
nomic message to congress—in
general far milder than his mes
sage a year ago—Truman de
clared:
“It is even more true of 1952
than of 1951 that we cannot have
business as usual, consumer en
joyments as usual, or government
programs and services as usual.
Sail Middle Course
“If we succeed in attaining a
durable peace, our expanding
economy can double our standard
of living within a generation.
“But for the time being, and
perhaps for a long time, we .must
sail a middle course in an uncer
tain • sea. War could come sud
denly
Running, counter to the advice
of his Congressional lieutenants,
Truman called for early and “vi
gorous action” to raise more taxes
by increasing some tax rates and
by plugging -.what he considers
escape routes in the present tax
laws.
Debt Now $259,258,000,000
Without new taxes, the Presi
dent said, the federal treasury
faces a deficit of eight billion
dollars in the current fiscal year
ending next June 30 and a “dan
gerously large deficit” of nearly
twice that amount by mid-1953.
The total national debt is now
$259,258,000,000 or slightly, more
than 15 billion dollars below the
limit set by law.
As expected, Truman’s request
for higher taxes —the fourth in 18
months—met a chilly reception on
Capitol Hill.
Dean Addreses Grange
Dr. Grace M. Henderson, dean
of the School of Home Economics
addressed the Tuesday meeting of
Pennsylvania Women of the
Grange in Harrisburg. Dean
Henderson spoke on the need for
communities to provide for trained
leaders in education for home and
family life.
King Farouk ,
Egypt Cheer
Birth of Heir
CAIRO. Egypt, Jan. 16—(#>)—
Egypt celebrated with artillery
salutes and popular demonstra
tions today the birth of a son and
heir to King Parouk and his young
queen, Narriman.
The 31-year-old monarch proud
ly instructed his government to
announce to “both parts of the
Nile valley, north and south, and
to the rest of the world the birth
of Crown Prince Ahmed Fuad.”
He named his first son after
his own father, the late King
Fuad I, and gave him his own
title when he was crown prince,
Amir A 1 Said (Prince of Said).
Said is that part of Egypt south'
of Cairo.
The baby prince has three half
sisters, the Princesses Ferial. 13,
Fawzia, 11, and Fadia, 8, born to
the king and former Queen Fari
da, whom Farouk divorced in No
vember, 1948. after she failed to
give him an heir. By the constitu
tion, only a male succeeds to the
throne.
The birth came as fresh violence
flared in the Supz Canal Zone.
UMT - Supporters
Disagree on Plans
WASHINGTON, Jan. 16—<^P) —
Supporters of Universal Military
Training (UMT) disagreed today
on whether it could be coupled
with the draft for any length of
time.
Chairman Vinson (D-Ga.) of
the House armed services com
mittee said there was insufficient
manpower to rim both programs.
He said he would propose to Con
gress that the draft be ended 12
months after UMT begins.
Lt. Gen. Raymond S. McLain
said the two programs “can work
ideally, together.” He proposed
starting UMT quickly as a means
of providing military training for
thousands who he said now are
avoiding it.-
The differences arose during an
open UMT hearing by the tom
mittee. McLain is a member of a
five-man commission which has
proposed a UMT organization to
train youths for six months when
they reach 18.
U.S. Recommends
New Atom Controls
PARIS, Jan.' 16— (JP)- —The United States announced today it
will present important proposals on control of atomic energy
to the newly created U. N. disarmament commission when the
commission begins work in New York in a few weeks.
U.S. Ambassador Ernest A.
Gross told the 60-nation political
committee his delegation could
not decide whether revised pro
posals for atomic energy - put un
by Foreign Minister Andrei Y.
Vishinsky last Saturday repre
sented “a step backward or a step
forward.”
- In Washington, however, Sec
retary of State Acheson attacked
Vishinsky’s plan. Acheson told a
news conference the Russians
seek only a “paper prohibition”
against atomic weapons and of
fer no assurance of agreeing to a
control system which would as
sure prohibition of such weapons.
He cited* as one hitch the Rus
sian declaration that the inter
national inspection agency should
have no power to interfere in the
domestic affairs of any state.
The ideas for the new United
States control proposals are be
ing worked out in Washington
by representatives of the Atomic
Energy Commission and the State
and ,Defense departments.
Thailand Official
Tours Farm Show
(Special to the Daily Collegian)
HARRISBURG, Jan. 16—(£>)—
A top Thailand farm official
toured Pennsylvania’s Farm Show
today and said he was most im
pressed by the free admission.
Phanom Semtananda, who is
studying at the Pennsylvania
State College, said the big expo
sition is particularly interesting
to him because of its free nature.
“It is most unusual,” he told a
newsman,” to be able to'visit an
exhibition as’ big and entertain
ing as this and find no charge for
anything except food.”
Smetananda, who is director of
Thailand’s Maejo Institute of Ag
riculture, is spending 31% months
in America as a guest of the
State department studying farm
ing methods.
portrait of a woman //
by R,uth and Augustus Goetz, suggested by Henry James'
novel, “Washington Square.”
KATHYRIN SCHEETZ
FRANCES STRIDINGER
CARL WAGNER
with
CHARLES SCHULTE
Schwab, Jan. 17. 1,8. 19 at 8:00 P.M.
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PAGE THREE
Sabres Damage
2 Red Planes
Over Korea
SEOUL, Jan. 17 —(JP!)— U. S.
Sabre jets Wednesday tangled
with Communist jets in three
batles- involving almost 140 planes
and damaged two of the swift
red-nosed enemy MIGs.
Aground, Allied raiding parties
grappled with Chinese troops in
inconclusive fighting on the west
ern front.
The sun came out, the mercury
rose to the low 40’s but snow still
covered the bleak, 145-mile front.
The air battles were again con
centrated in the clear cold skies
of “MIG Alley” high over north
west Korea. In all, 58 Sabre jets
engaged about 80 MIGs.
The Communists put 120 MIGs
into the air in one of the actions,
but only 33 exchanged firing pass
es with the American planes. The
clear skies gave Allied airmen an
other good chance to hammer
Communist communications, and
they took advantage of it.
Committee to Enlarge
Recreation program
Additional steps to provide
Sunday afternoon recreation for
the youth of State College,. in
cluding College students, were
taken Tuesday by the executive
committee of the community de
velopment committee.
The Rev. Luther Harshbarger,
executive secretary of the Penn
State Christian Association, was
selected to represent the College
on the committee. The group will
study the enlargment of the rec
reation program to provide Sun
day afternoon activities.
“There is more of good nature
than of good sense at the bottom
of most marriages.”—Thoreau '