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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 TM DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA 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. NAME CARDS for graduation announcements Commercial Printing Inc. Glennland 81d7., State College