SATURDAY,' MAY 10, 1952
Eighth Army Stands Ready
To Storm Koje for Dodd
SEOUL; Saturday, May 10 (IP)—Battle-tested Eighth Army infantrymen today stood
ready to storm a Koje Island compound of 6,000 surly Red war prisoners and rescue a
kidnaped U.S. brigadier general.
• Their commander warned the prisoners that force would be used if necessary "at an
early date" to release Brig. Gen. Francis T. Dodd, who was seized three days ago.
McGranery
Nomination
Given OK
, WASHINGTON, May 9 (AP)—
The _Senate Judiciary Committee
toc'• - voted . 8 to 4 to approve
President Truman's nomination
of Federal Judge James P. Mc-
Granery as attorney general of
the United States. Senator Fer
guson (R-Mich.), who opposed
McGranery in four-day commit
tee hearings, promptly announced
he will continue his fight to block
confirmation of the 56-year-old
Philadelphia jurist on the Senate
floor.
• Ferguson told newsmen he will
also file a minority report setting
forth the reasons for his opposi
tion.
• Witnesses during the;hearings
Variously described Mc Granery
as a tyrant on the bench who set.
federal attorney
,quaking with
federal attorneys quaking with
lenged integrity and great ability.
Senator Watkins (R-Utah), who
opposed McGranery, told report
ers today he also would speak out
against the nomination on the
Senate floor, but that he assumed
the administration has enough
votes to put the nomination over.
Weekend --
(Continued from nage one)
and a professors' milking contest.
The School of Engineering will
hold open house from 1:30 to 8
p.m. today in all buildings of the
school. A planned tour will be
conducted from Main Engineering
building.
Personally conducted tours of
Osmond laboratory at 15-minute
intervals will be one of the fea
tures of the annual Chemistry
and Physics open house. Guides
will conduct visitors through the
research and undergraduate lab
oratorWs during the open house
from 1:30 to 8 p.m. today.
Th e Interfraternity Council-1
Panhellenic Council sing finals at
7 p.m. tomorrow in 10 Sparks
conclude the Mother's Day week
end festivities and begin Spring
Week activities.
Senior
Prom
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Gen. James A. Van Fleet,
Eighth Army commander, also de
clared he never would yield to
the demands of the tough, North
Korean prisoners for privileges in
exchange for Dodd. He called the
demands "unreasonable" . and said
they "cannot and will not be
granted."
Command Removed
The last word out from' behind
the barbed wire of the grim com
pound was that Dodd was being
well treated. He said so himself.
By telephor e he said he appar
ently was in little dangers
Dodd, however, was shorn of
his command of the rocky island
prison off the southeast tip of
Korea. Van Fleet made this an
nouncement, but did not make
clear whether Dodd would be re
stored to command later.
Investigation Ordered
Van Fleet placed Brig. Gen.
Charles F. Colson in command of
the prison housing 80,000 pris
oners and gave him "full author
ity and command to handle• the
situation."
Van Fleet also ordered an Army
investigation of the incident. For
one thing he said he wanted to
find out "why the guards didn't
rush in for a rescue attempt"
when Dodd was seized at the
compound gate.
Van Fleet made a flying visit
Friday to th e troubled island.
scene of two previous prison riots.
He would not permit correspon
dents to go to Koje, saying the
situation still was "too delicate."
Captured Wednesday
Dodd was captured by the
Prisoners of `.Compound 76 at
3:15 p.tn., Wednesday as he stood
talking at the gate with their
leaders. Lt. Col: Wilbur R. Raven
also was seized, but he grabbed
a gate post and i pulled free.
Dddd could be in a permanent
building, a tent, or hut. He has
a telephone and is alloWed to use
it at will. But the line can't be
traced to any particular building.
The Reds helped install the tele
phone.
Five ®'Clock Theater
Five O'clock Theater will pre
sent "And I Shall Never Cry" at
5 p.m. Tuesday 'in the Little
Tb.later basement of Old Main.
The original one-act play wa
written by Marilyn F.- 4- ewart, sen
ior in the School of Education
and •i 8 being presented as Part of
the Combined Arts Festival.
ti
41 9 Forecasts
Wet Weekend .
Penn State may be in for a wet
Mother's Day weekend, according
to the Associated Press extended
weather forecast.
Showers and thunderstorms are
predicted for today in central
Pennsylvania. Temperatures will
average about five degrees below
the present temperatures, leaving
a rather cool weekend ahead.
Showers are also expected to- -
morrow and possibly Tuesday.
Allies Resume
Korean Talks
MUNSAN, K or e a, Saturday,
May 10 (/P)—The eleventh month
of -Korean armistice talks began
today with no .settlement in sight
barring a switch in Red strategy
in orders of some far-off Com
munist capital.
The Allied negotiators have
nothing to say to their Commu
nist opposite numbers except
"take it or leave it." The "it" is
the final Allied proposal of April
28. So far the Reds have left it.
Yesterday's ten-minute session
produced nothing but the usual
Communist harangue accusibg the
Allies of refusing to negotiate and
preventing agreement on a truce.
This prompted Brig. Gen. Wil
liam P. Nuckols, UN Command
spokesman, to observe that the
Communists appear e d to be
awaiting instructions. This prob
ably would mean instructions
from Peiping, the Chinese Com
munist capital, or even Moscow.
Mine Experts to Meet
PITTSBURGH, May 9 (W)
About 40 U.S. Bureau of Mines
technologists from all parts of the
country meet Monday with in
dustrial leaders and educators
for a thre'e-day session on coal.
Ed Groups Slate Picnic
The Industrial Arts and Voca
-1 - nal Education departments
ill hold a picnic at 4 p.m. Mon
lay, at Foster and Holmes Park.
Anyone may obtain tickets by
calling Edward Burger at 2411.
Special: Pictures will be taken
by the Penn State Photo Shop
Rec Hall . . . .
Semi-formal
$4 per couple
32
To
WASHINGTON, May 9 VP) --The government today ordered op
erators of bulk gasoline plants, terminals and large filling stations
in 32 states and the District of Columbia to reserve supplies of motor
gasoline for possible allocation to maintain essential transportation.
The Petroleum Administration for Defense, which issued the
order, estimated it may affect about one-half of all- filling stations
in the covered area
Bruce K. Brown, deputy pe
the action as another move to
nation-wide strike of oil workers
which has shut down roughly
one-third of the petroleum in
dustry.
Save 3000 Barrels
PAD said. the order is• effective
at 3:01 a.m. EST, tomorrow.
The order declares:
"Operators of service stations in
PAD districts one and two having
storage facilities for at least 3000
gallons of fuel and bulk-plant and
terminal operators in the same
areas must keep on hand at least
3000 barrels of motor fuel or a
quantity equal to five per cent
of their total storage capacity,
whichever amount is smaller."
There was no immediate indi
cation of what effect the order
would have on the nation's motor
ists.
To Maintain Public Safety
States in the- two PAD dis
tricts are: Maine, New Hamp
shire, Vermont, Massachusetts,
Rhode Island, Connecticut, New
York, New Jersey, Delaware,
Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia,
West Virginia, North Carolina,
South Carolina, Georgia, Florida,
North Dakota, South Dakota, Ne
braska, Kansas, Oklahoma, Min
nesota, lowa, MissoM, Wisconsin,
Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio,
Kentucky and Tennessee.
Brown said the action was tak
en to insure that enough motor
fuel will be kept available to
maintain operations of fire en
gines, police cars, ambulances,
transportation and other vehicles
serving the public safety or wel
fare.
"Overall, the nation still has at
this time , adequate supplies of
automotive gasoline," Brown said
in a statement.
La Vie Available
To Eng Seniors
Engineering seniors may pick
up their copies of the 1952 La Vie
at the Student Union desk in Old
Main Monday and Tuesday. At
the same time they may vote for
the senior class gift and the '52
men and women honor students.
Education an d Home Eco
nomics seniors ,may pick up
their yearbooks and vote Wed
nesday and Thursday, and Chem
istry and Physics, Physical Edu
cation, and Mineral Industries
[ seniors, May 16 and 17. ,
May 16
States Ordered
Hold Back Gas
PAGE THREE'
roleum administrator, announced
onserve supplies affected by the
Acheson,
Bradley Hit
Aid Slash
WASHINGTON, May 9 (W)—
Secretary of State Acheson and
Gen. Omar Bradley today op
posed any slash in the adminis
tration's $7,900,000,000 foreign aid
budget. Gen. Dwight D. Eisen
hower said "reasonable cuts"
would not be fatal to Western
Europe's defense.
Acheson and Bradley gave their
testimony at a closed-door session
of the Senate Armed Services
Committee shortly after Eisen
hower spoke out on the same
subject during a farewell tour of
North Atlantic Treaty nations.
'Expanding on an earlier state
ment that a cut of a billion dol
lars would be "heavily and ser
iously fel t ," Eisenhower told
newsmen in Copenhagen, Den
mark, today:
"In an estimate of funds need
ed, there is always some 'little
room for give and take.
The five-star general had pre
viously told Chairman Connally
(D-Tex.) of the Senate Foreign
Relations Committee, ip a mes
sage made public yesterday, that
a cut substantially larger than - a
billion dollars might endanger
American security.
New Band Officers
Blue Band officers for next
year are Torn Hahn, president;
George Georgieff, secretary-treas
urer, Arnold Paparazo, manager;
Fred Orkiseski, librarian; Robert
Hartman, assistant manager; and
Jack, Jenkins, assistant librarian.
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