FRIDAY, DECEMBER 19, =',l-952 Reds Propagandize Seoul Capture Before Christmas SEOUL, Friday, Dec. 19 (11")—The Communists boasted by radio and frontline loud speakers today they would be in Seoul by Christmas. The Allies answered with a pulverizing smash at a huge enemy troop concentration area near the North Korean capital of Pyongyang, 115 miles northwest of Seoul. Ike to Talk In Congress After Oath • NEW YORK, Dec. 18 , (VP) President-elect Dwight D. Eisen hower indicated today he may follow up his inauguration by speaking to Cimgress on his legis lative program and the state of the Union. Word that Eisenhower is con sidering this possibility came from Rep. Joseph W. Martin of Massa chusetts after Martin attended the first . of a series of conferences the President-elect has scheduled with Republican congressional leaders. Little Clue to Details .The address "naturally will deal with his legislative program and the state of the Union," Martin told a news conference at Eisen hower's Hotel Commodore head quarters. The first Eisenhower congres sional conference gave - little clue to the details of the legislative program, except that Martin said the main emphasis would •be on reducing federal spending. Martin, slated to be speaker of the House in the new Congress, said the discussion dealt with gen eral outlines of a program and not with specific legislation. Similar Conference Planned Attending the conference with Martin were Rep. Charles Halleck of Indiana, prospective House ma= . jority leader, and Rep. Leslie C. Arends of Illinois, slated to be come the House "whip." Eisenhower is planning a simi lar conference with Sen. Robert A. Taft of Ohio and other GOP 'senatorial leaderg after Christ mas. Martin, asked whether the pro gram would result in,a tax reduc tion, said today's conferenee did not deal directly with that topic. "We've got to see about reduc ing spending before we get around to taxes," he said. He said the main objective of the next Congress would be a balanced budget, but "I am not precluding any tax reduction." Martin told a questioner there was some discussion whether to extend wage-price control author ity, due to expire in the spring, but that no decision was reached. , . • Record London Fog' •.:- Blamed for 1500 Deaths LONDON, Dec. 18 VID) 1 --The re-. cent record fogs that blacked out London killed up to 1500 Britons, a government spokesman indi cated today. Health Minister lain lilacLeod told the House of Commons deaths in London during the 'foggy _week ending Saturday totalled• - 4703' compared with 1852 the corre sponding week of '1951. "The cold weather had • already caused some increase, but a large part of these increases must be attributed to fog," MacLeod said. Duff Next Governor? HARRISBURG, Dew, 18 (1P)--- State . Sen. M. Harvey Taylor, Re publican state chairman, today ex pressed the hope that U.S. Sen. James H. Duff (R-Pa.) would run for governor in 1954, -7 - PIA L. NEW YEAR and a Very Merry Christmas Kayers,Korner The co m munist propaganda brags were supplemented by the rare appearance of a Communist plane over the quiet front. It dropped leaflets hitting the theme: "Yankee; go home." 70 Buildings Destroyed Answering words with bombs, waves of Allied fighter-bombers winged through 10-degree above zero cold and pounded the Red troop area 20 miles south of Pyongyang. More than 70 buildings were de stroyed and 30 damaged by waves of •bombers laying down a carpet of high explosives, the Air Force said. Speedy Sabre jets flashed on north in a protective screen and knocked down one MIG jet and damaged another. The MIG shot down was credited to Lt. James Low of Sausalito, Calif., ranking jet ace in Korea with nine. Fighter-bombers also swarmed over the front, hitting enemy in stallations. On the ground, only patrol action was reported in the numbing cold. , The enemy leaflet- dropping plane circled high over the Cen tral Front Wednesday and yester day without Allied opposition: Its mission was a part of the new Communist propaganda campaign, which in the main left Allied offi cers as cold as the Korean winter. Air Force Busy The Communists also dug up some old phonograph recordings of Christmas carols by American singers in an obvious effort to make the soldiers homesick and lower thVir morale. The Fifth Air Force and the Eighth Army daily pick out likely fled targets for saturation type plastering in groups of 40 to 70 planes. These blasts shift from one division sector to another. Planes of all the United Nations Command forces in the war parti cipate. Operation Succeeds On Siamese Twins CHICAGO, Dec. 18 (W)—The newly divided Brodie Siamesc twins" went separate ways today after their historic operation, one becoming conscious but the other taking a turn for the worse and then improving only slightly. - Rodney Dee, favored for "survival of the fittest" by choice of surgeons, who separated him from his bigger twin brother, regained consciousness with a cry and a smile this morning. Condition 'Precarious' His „twin, Roger Lee, whose brain circulation was impaired by the operation the 13th on the twins—suffered one relapse but then showed a slight gain. Surgeons said, however, his condition still is "precarious." The latest bulletin on .the con dition of the twins, issued by the University of Illinois at 1:45 p.m., CST, today, gave this report: "Rodney: Ha s regained ,con sciousness. Cries and smiles. Con dition is stable. Seems to be good. "Roger: Still in very precarious To Students Living in the Harrisburg Area! PLAN TO ATTEND THE PENN STATE INTERCOLLEGIATE DANCE Saturday, December 27, 1952 Penn-Harris Hotel, Harrisburg, Penna. 9:00 to 1:00 Dress Optional Music by Fred- Harry and His Orchestra Sponsored by THE PENN STATE ALUMNI CLUB OF GREATER HARRISBURG All Alumni, Undergraduates & their friends are 'invited to attend Undergraduates .... $2.40 couple (tax included) Giaduates $3.60 couple (tax included) • For Tickets, call or write: Mrs. Kenneth Slamp 3614 Rutherford St., Paxtang Pa. Phone 8-7815 . THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA NEA Criticizes 'Pressurized' fidget Sports WASHINGTON, Dec. 18 (2P)— The National Education Associ ation today struck out at what it called high pressure sports com petition among youngsters of ele mentary or junior high school age. A special committee, completing a three-year study, condemned such things as Little League base ball, "little" bowl games, midget football, and "biddy" basketball for , youngster 12-years old or younger. For real mites, by the way, there's even "iddy biddy" basket ball. The committee said highly or ganized competition, patterned af ter high school and college sports, gives youngsters an exaggerated idea of the importance of sports and may even be harmful to them. The views of the committee were summed up in a 46-page booklet entitled: "Desirable Ath letic Competition for Children." These views were amplified by the committee's chairman, Simon A. McNeely, at a news conference. McNeely is a specialist on health and recreation for the U.S. Office of Education. According to McNeely, highly organized sports for youngsters have grown rapidly since the war. HST Promotes Tubby WASHINGTON . , Dec. 18 (iP)— President Truman today promoted Roger Tubby 42, a native of Peru, Vt., to serve as his $lB,OOO-a-year press secretary for the rethainder of the Truman administration. condition, although respiration and other vital factors have im proved slightly during the morn ing." Only One Saggital Sinus, This improvement cheered sur geons who yesterday had to make one of the most difficult decisions they ever faced. At the height of the 12 hour and 40 minutes operation, they dis covered their earlier fears • were well founded. There was only one saggital sinus, the main passage way or Vein draining blood back from both brains. This called for an immediate choice. The incision could be made to give one twin or the other the vital vein. Russian Newspaper Blasts State Judge PITTSBURGH, Dec. 18 (1 )—The battle of a Pennsylvania Su preme Court Justice against Communism reached international proportions :today. The Soviet government newspaper, Izvestia, com pared him to a jackass and he replied in kind. IzVestia attacked Justice Michael A. Musmanno because, it said he attempted to bar the performance of the fifth symphony of American Roy Harris at a Pitts burgh musical festival. Compared in Russian Fable The symphony was dedicated in 1943 during World War II to "the heroic and freedom loving peoples of our great ally, The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics." The newspaper compared IVlus manno to the jackass in a Russian fable which tried to force a night ingale to learn how to sing from a rooster. Musmanno retored: "Izvestia is a fable itself and understands truth as much as a jackass can understand Shakes peare. Izvestia, quoting fables, is like a jackass that believes it is singing opera because it varies the loudness of its braying." Audience Rebuffed Musmanno Izvestia said Musmanno first de manded the festival committee remove the work from its prb gram, and then demanded the removal of the dedication. After failing both times, the newspaper said, Musmanno forbade the audi ence to applaud, ordering it to "sit on its hands." The newspaper said the Pitts burgh audience rebuffed Mus manno by giving tremendous ap plause. to the Harris work. Harris' s y rap h o n y was per formed Nov. 26 and set off a still raging storm of argument. Mus manno, however, did not order the work barred from the pro gram. He merely asked the audi enFe to "sit on its hands" when the symphony was played. ti Health Research Is Radio Topic The school health research pro gram conducted under the direc tion of Dr•. William G. Mather, professor of rural sociology, will be the subject of a radio broad cast 7:30 to 8 p.m. tomorrow over NBC. The program will concern the study by the Social Science Re search Center which attempts to discover factors causing the low per cent of follow-ups of .chool health examinations and develops methods to improve the per cent of follow-ups. Construction Outlay Cut By NATO PARIS, Dec. 18, (JP)—The hard up Atlantic Allies wound up their four-day conference today by agreeing to emphasize quality rather than numbers in building their 1953 barricades for Western Europe. In the face of warnings by their highest military commanders that Europe remains wide open to at tack, the council of the North At lantic Treaty Organization (NA TO) nearly halved the program for construction of airfields, ra dar screens, roads, bridges, and other defense structures next year. The 32 ministers of foreign af fairs, finance, and defense of the 14 nations voted to build $224, 000,000 worth of top priority works, as against the $428,000,000 requested by the military corn. mittee. - The council announced it also had agreed to: 1. Revise its basic strategy to insure defense of the Balkans and Turkey. 2. Build up its economics so it can stand up to the burden of re armament. 3. Support France in the war against Communist led armies in Indochina without physically join ing the battle. 4. Hurry up the project for the six-nation European army in which German ground, air, and sea units would be included. U.S. Assails Russia UNITED NATIONS, N.Y., Dec. 18 (AP)-The United States assailed Russia today for blocking an Aus trian independence treaty. It ac cused the Russians of imperial istic aims and urged the UN to throw its moral weight behind a move for a fout-power settlement on Austria. PAGE THREE
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