WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1952 UN Planes Blast Four Red Bases SEOUL, Wednesday, Feb. 6 (AP).—Allied warplanes Tuesday destroyed four Communist am munition and supply bases in heavy attacks, touching off giant fires that lighted the night sky for miles. The- ruined supply centers were Namchonjon and Sinmak, 35 and 46 miles respectively northwest of the truce town of Panmunjom. Marine corsairs blew up the ammunition depots, which were on the east coast of- North Korea. • Ground Action The fifth air force said the planes destroyed a total of 130 supply building and revetments. In the ground war, Allied in fantrymen reoccupied a hill on the western front without firing a shot. They had quite the posi tion . Monday night when the Beds attacked behind intense ar tillery fire. Only small patrol actions were reported elsewhere • along the 155-mile front. Temperatures in the line were several degrees be low zero. Hit Railroads Allied fighter-bombers, in addi tion to attacks on supply centers, struck, anew at Communist com munication lines. Pilots estimated they cut Korean rail lines in 65 places. One flight of jet fighter-bomb ers struck at the railway yards at Pyongyang, North Korean capital. They destroyed one loco motive and damaged another. Sabre jets flying cover for the fighter-bombers sighted 118 Rus sian-made MIG-75 jets in North ing passes with elements of the west Korea. They exchanged fir formations but made no damage claims. Comm iff ee Adopts UMT Blueprint WASHINGTON, Feb. s—(£>) The House Armed Services com mittee today adopted the major provisions of a blueprint for Uni versal Military Training, commit tee officials said. . Meeting in a closed session, the committee approved, with “minor exceptions,” a training plan pre pared by a special five-man com mission. It provides for six months’ training of 18-year-olds, followed by seven and one-half years’ service in the reserves. But the commission also ap proved an amendment under which trainees could not be com pelled, to go into regular military service without congressional ap proval. British to Attempt Egyptian Settlement LONDON, Feb. s— (JP) —Britain will spare no effort to reach a settlement of the British-Egyptian dispute “that takes account of the legitimate rights of both parties,” Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden told the House of Commons tonight. Arab leaders also hunted a way to end the festering quarrel. In the Middle East, Iraq Pre mier Nuri said Pasha joined King Ibi Saud of Saudi Arabia in an approach to ■ bo t h sides which clearly was designed to: 1. Get British troops out of the Suez canal zone. 2. Persuade Egypt to accept a plebiscite in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. 3. Unite the Moslem nations of the Middle East into a security system which would be supported —but not controlled —by the west ern Allies. A 1 Misry, a Cairo newspaper which backs the policies of the powerful WAFDists, reported to day that Nuri Said has received from Britain a six-point formula for settling the dispute. This broadly is what the Arab leaders’ plan looked like: 1. British evacuation of the Suez Canal at a date to be agreed on. 2. This evacuation would be conditioned on the prior return of peace and security in the canal zone. 3. British military installations in the area would be maintained UN Overrides Russia; Reds to Present Truce MUNSAN, ■ Korea, Wednesday, Feb. 6 — (AP) — The Communists may reveal to the world today their plans for Korea. The 36th plenary session of the full Korean armistice delegations convened today to begin discus sions on the final agenda item— recommendations to the belliger ent governments. 1 The session opened at 10 a.m. (8 p.m., EST, Tuesday) in a tent at the conference site of Panmun jom. North Korean Gen. Nam 11, senior Red delegate at the Pan munjom armistice talks, an nounced he would lay before the full five-man United Nations dele gation a draft of Commuist recommendations to the govern- Gen. Nam II ments concerned for a Korean The plenary meeting, the first in two months, was scheduled for 10 a.m. (8 p.m. Tuesday, EST). Regular session of staff officers and a sub-delegation of the main armistice commission will follow, settlement. There was speculation before the meeting as to what Nam U’s plans would cover. These sug gestions were uppermost: 1. Nam would demand that North-Korea and Red China sit down at a high level conference with UN powers to decide the final - terms of a Korean peace settlement. 2. Nam would ask immediate withdrawal of all foreign troops from Korea. This has been a pet demand of the Reds. The Allied truce team, headed by Vice Adm. C. Turner Joy seemed unperturbed. Joy pro posed last week that the final agenda item—recommendations— be considered before agreement was reached on other issues. The Reds accepted on Sunday. for use in case of a threat to the security of the canal. 4. Both Britain and Egypt would agree on the means of maintenance and protection of these bases.- 5. Agreement would be reached on the defense of the Middle East in case of aggression and the basis of this defense would be an Arab security pact. 6. The question of the future of the Sudan would be decided bv a plebiscite in the Sudan, with no pressure from either Egypt or Britain. 1021 Men to Be Called In Second Feb. Draft HARRISBURG, Feb. 5 —(/P) The second draft call for Feb ruary was issued today from state Selective Service headquar ters, calling for induction of 1021 men. State Director Henry M. Gross said a third call will be sent later in the month. The complete Feb ruary Call is for 39971 THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA Embassy Probe Is Set by U.S. WASHINGTON, Feb. S—(AP) —The State Department said to day it will take a new look at the- question whether to shut down American embassies and legations in Russian satellite countries. Top American diplomats to Iron Curtain countries will meet in Paris early next month to dis cuss this along with other prob lems. The United States at present maintains embassies ‘ in Poland and Czechoslovakia and lega r tions, headed by ministers, in Romania and Hungary. Listening Posts Press officer Michael J. Mc- Dermitt confirmed at a news con ference , that the problem of whether to continue diplomatic relations has been placed on the Paris conference agenda. In answering questions, he made it plain the State Depart ment under present conditions favors keeping these diplomatic outposts open to serve as “listen ing posts.” '• Shutdown Proposed Responsible State Department officials, who disclosed the de velopment before. McDermott talked about it, told a repbrter an American embassy has proposed the shutdown. . Up to now the department has endured Communist restrictions largely on the theory that such information as the diplomatic missions would provide about de velopments behind the Iron Cur tain was better than no official, contact at all. Mew Directory Will Be Ready About Feb. 20 A supplement to the student directory, containing the names of all new students on campus, will be ready about Feb. 20, John Laubach, president of the As sociation of Independent Men, announced yesterday. Laubach said that supplement will not carry any changes of ad dresses of students whose names appeared in the student directory as originally published. He said that the present appropriation probably would not be large enough to cover the expense of putting out a supplement of the size which would be required to include all the changes in' ad dress that have been made. Lau bach also said that suitable sys tem for obtaining all the changes could not be worked out in time to allow an early publication of the supplement. Laubach stated that the depart ment of public information is going to aid All-College Cabinet in covering the cost of putting out the supplement. Louis Bell, director of public information, will act as adviser to the supple ment committee. FAtTUFFE PLAYS AT CENTER STAGE 3 MORE WEEKENDS Bth and 9th 15th and 16th 22nd and 23rd Tickets At Student Union And At The Door PARIS, Feb. s— (JP) —The UN assembly today overrode Russian objections and shelved the Ko rean case , until an armistice is reached or a rupture of the Pan munjom talks calls for stronger UN action. It then adjourned its three month Paris session, with • most delegates expressing hope for an early truce. The next session is due in the autumn. Emergency Session The assembly voted 51 to five (Soviet bloc) to delay discussion of the political settlement in Korea until the military talks are successfully completed. The dele gates authorized Secretary-Gen eral Trygve Lie to call the assem bly into an emergency special session in New York to consider more forceful action if the. talks finally break down. The United States fought for this decision through heated com mittee debate last Saturday and today’s vote went as expected. Chile and .Yemen abstained.be cause they felt the delegates should discuss rehabilitation and reconstruction work » now. Dele gates of Peru and South Africa were absent. New Disarmament Group The vote killed another of the pet projects of Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Y. Vishinsky, who returned to Moscow last week, ailing and tired. Vishinsky failed earlier in an effort to con-> demn membership in the North, Atlantic Treaty organization: He was not able to halt a resolution forging stronger bonds of collec tive security and finally had to make new proposals on atomic controls which he himself termed momentous concessions. Perhaps the most important achievements of the sixth general assembly were the creation of a new disarmament commission for a fresh try at international con trol of atomic energy and the ap proval of a broader program for collective security, including re gional-pact forces , such as NATO, whenever aggression occurs. $250,000 Weapon Will Be Revealed WASHINGTON, Feb. S—(AP) —Defense officials took some of the wraps. off • new and highly complex weapons today, includ ing a $250,000 bomb-sighting system which “thinks” faster than the human mind. The closely-guarded exhibition was prepared for a Senate ap propriations subcommittee to help demonstrate: (a) Scientific strides in the field of military weapons, and (b) Why the Defense depart ment has asked for $52,100,000,- 000 for the fiscal year starting July 1. Another exhibit was a model of a new “skysweeper” anti-air craft gun, which Karl R. Bendet sen, assistant secretary of the Army, said was entirely radar controlled. Eden Calls Lahorites 'Anti-U.S/ LONDON, Feb. s—(/P)— Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden angrily accused Laborite critics tonight of “anti-American prejudice.” He insisted there is less fear of war now than when Winston Churchill became prime minister three months ago. Growing anxiety in some Brit ish quarters’ that Korea might lead to a full-scale war in the Far East—with Britain in it— was brought out in the open in an uproarious debate on foreign policy in the House of Commons. Armistice Intentions Eden clenched his fists and pounded a table as he denounced any suggestions the United States does not want a armistice in K< rea. “The Amer cans want an a: mistice and will be signed it can be got,” shouted. turning to hec! ling Laborites, “The United Anthony Eden States is as deep ly anxious for peace in the Far East as we are. There is in some quarters such anti-American prej udice that they will hardly listen to what I have to say.” Eden said he felt the Ameri cans still regard Europe as the “decisive area” in combatting communism and declared: Truce Enforcement “Certainly, it is my opinion that the United States has no desire to become more deeply involved in the Far East.” If the Communists break a Korean truce, Eden said, “the only undertaking, if it can -be' so described, which we have entered into is .that, in that event, con sultation would take place among the interested parties, including ourselves.” . A highly placed informant said m Paris Saturday Britain and France had agreed to join the United States in asking the Unit ed Nations for punitive action against Communist China if a truce, once reached, was violated. Eden had just completed a con ference in Paris with French For eign Minister Robert Schuman. Dilworth Accuses Fine Of Breaking Pledges PHILADELPHIA, Feb. S— (JP) —Richardson Dilworth said to night Republican Governor John S. Fine “has broken virtually every one” of his campaign pled ges, and “has deliberately sold out the people who backed him.” Dilworth, a Democrat, was de feated by Fine in the 1950 guber natorial race. Last fall Dilworth successfully won election as dis trict attorney of Philadelphia as Democrats captured the city gov ernment for the first time in 68 years. PAGE THREE
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