arcruruwi x, nazi i al, rsvo Clarity By UN PANMUNJOM, Korea, Saturday, May 9 (W)—UN truce negotia tions today were, expected to tell the Reds what they think about a new Communist proposal which the Peiping broadcasts say has put a Korean "armistice "completely within reach." ' Red Forces Pull Back In Indochina HANOI, Indochina, May 8 (A ) ) —One Vietminh garrison clung mysteriously to a strategic base in the heart of Laos today while the rest of the Communist-led in vasion force pushed northward in a general withdrawal. The rebel command appeared to be pulling back the bulk of its troops through pelting summer monsoon rains after they had managed to sweep over a third of the little Indochinese kingdom in less than a month without a ma jor clash. But one powerful detachment still held its grip on the important town of .Xiengkhouang, seized when the French-Laotian defense garrison gave it up without a fight in the initial Vietminh invasion. From there, troops of the Viet minh's crack 304th Division have stabbed southward to within 35 miles of Pak Sane on the Mekong River, which forms part of the frontier between Indochina and Thailand. Assaults fr o m Xiengkhouang still could be launched against the Laotian royal seat at Luang Prabang, 90 miles to the north west, and the administrative capi tal of Vientiane, 80 miles to the southwest. Both of these towns also are on the Mekong. The French had furiously built up defenses at • Luang Prabang and on the Plaine des Jarres to the east with U.S. military assist ance which was stepped up by emergency American grants at the first news of the invasion of Laos. A French Army spokesman here, reporting progressive Viet minh withdrawals to their home bases in the sister Indochinese state of Viet Nam, said the "im mediate threat to the royal Lao tian capital has been removed." U.S. Jet Damage Three Red MIGs SEOUL, Saturday, May 9 (N)— Communists pilots came out Fri day to challenge U.S. Sabre Jets for the first time in eight days and Sabre pilots said they dam aged three MIGs. On the - ground, U.S. and Brit ish Commonwealth division units on the Western Front threw back light Chinese Red probing attacks, aided by artillery. There were no fresh reports from the Navy on the intense nav al bombardment and carrier plane attacks which through Thursday had hit the Reds • on the East Coast for a week. Friday before dawn, troops of the U.S. Seventh Division on Pork Chop Hill clashed briefly with a Chinese company. Rise in Population WASHINGTON, May 8 (11") The Bureau of the Census esti mated today the population of the United - States had crossed the 159 million mark by April 1. The bureau said its estimates indicated that the population of the nation, including armed forces overseas, stood at 159,068,000 on that date. - Centre Hall Band Boosters TURKEY DINNER 7riturday, May 9, 1953 SERVED 5:00 - 7:00 P.M. at the Grange Hail in CENTRE HALL Route 45—The Main Street Adults $1.50 -Children 75c TiCkets at Keystone Television Co. 112 S. Frazier St., State College Sought Forces It also' seemed likely that the UN team would ask the Reds to spell out the proposal a little clearer when the two sides con vene after a one-day recess asked PA NMUNJO M, Saturday, May 8 (/P)—The Allies, answer ing. a Communist compromise proposal for an armistice in Ko rea, today asked why it was necessary to hand over to a higher level political confer ence the disposition of prisoners refusing to go home. by the Allies to study the latest Red offer. Washington sources suggested that some parts of the Red offer appeared objectionable and that Counter-proposals might be made later. Thursday the Reds had offered an eight-point plan for settling the thorny prisoner exchange is sue. It contained one major con cession but the Communists de clared the Allies would have to take it in total or not at all. , Red Proposal The major concession was that 48,000 Red prisoners refusing to return to Communist rule need not be sent out of Korea to a neutral nation as the Reds had previously had insisted. Instead, the Reds proposed that they be kept in Korea, as the Allies have insisted all along, and placed-in custody of a five-nation repatriation commission—Poland, Czechoslovakia, Swede n, Swit zerland and India. Washington Reports Guarded by troops of these na tions, these balky prisoners then would be interviewed by Red representatives during a four month period in efforts to "per suade" them to go home. If they still balked after that, their fate would be decided in a post-arm istice political conference. Washington reports said strong objection was apparent to intro ducing in Korea the troops of the two . Communist countries of Czechoslovakia and Polan d. New A-Bomb Dropped LAS VEGAS, Nev., May 8 (IP) One of America's mol3e powerful A-bombs blasted_ simulated mili tary installations and set flaming torches, amid a mock forest today on the barren desert of Nevada Proving Ground. Two drone planes flew safely through the rim of the blast which was set off 2500 feet above Frenchman Flat, and Air Force planes, fuly manned, cruised near the atomic cloud shortly after the explosion. The bomb was dropped by a B -50 from Kirtland AFB, Albuquer que, N.M., at 10 a.m. EST, mo mentarily dulling the sun. On the • ground, 2000 A • rmy troops were able to move forward in maneuvers an hour after the blast to observe many fires burn. ing in the area near ground zero. The detonation tested bunkers and simulated fortifications,, both above and underground, and a series of wall segments and. tex tile samples mounted for civilian THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANI! Humphrey Says Balanced Budget Harms Security WASHINGTON, May 8 (EP) Republican hopes of achieving a balanced budget next year were dashed today when. Secretary of the Treasury Humphrey declared it can't be done. "The risks that would involve our security would simply be too great," Humphrey was quoted as telling a closed-door, session of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. "There is no prospect at all for anything but an increase in the national debt at the present mo ment," he was quoted. Thus the administration's chief financial officer acknowledged that the adminiStration does not hope to reach in the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1953, the goal which Republicans set themselves in last year's campaign. The Re, publican platform 'and party speakers declared' the budget should be balanced as soon as possible. They also called for re duced taxes. President Eisenhower, in an flouncing last week that he would cut 8 1 / 2 billion dollars off the ap propriations request made by the Truman administration, said he did not expect this would make possible a completely balanced budget in the corning fiscal year. But he declared his administra tion was making progress in that direction—and thus toward lower taxes—every day. The limit fixed by present law is $275 billion. Today's daily Treasury statement on the gov ernment's finanCial position re ported a debt of $266 billion, compared with $258 billion a year ago. Government officials in close touch with the nation's financial affairs estimated today that Tru man's January forecast of the de ficit for the current fiscal year, which ends June 30, might fall short by a couple billion dollars. Cabinet Likes Seaway WASHINGTON, May 8 (!P)— President Eisenhower and his Cabinet unanimously agreed to day that U.S. participation in the St. Lawrence seaway project is highly • desirable. defense experiments. Twenty-five autos which survived previous tests were also subjected to the blast. This was the eighth shot, and one of the strongest, of the spring series. It was the first this year at Frenchman Flat. The shock hit Las Vegas, 65 miles away, but caused no dam age. The explosion was reported heard in such distant communi ties as St. George, Utah, and Bishop, Calif. is • CLARK GABLE GENE TIERNEY "NEVER LET - ME GO" Mawr FANGS OF THE ARCTIC Starring KIRBY GRANT Irving Berlin's "CALL ME MADAM" ETHEL MERMAN DONALD O'CONNOR VERA ELLEN AFL to - Cleanup—lvteany WASHINGTON, May 8 (IP) President George Meany of the American Federation of Labor roared out today that the AFL— not Sen. Tobey (R.-N.H.)—will decide what the federation should do about cleaning up waterfront racketeering. Meany testified the AFL execu tive council has taken a step un precedent in 70 years by demand ing that the International Long For the latest styles in SHIRTS stop in at 135 S. Allen St. State College, Pa. How to make points with ood look Burt—regular "soft roll" biota-- dawn collar. ogeggt Range— widesprea soft collar stays, " . . . . IS • • • • • • Hatter shoremen's Association get rid of the "shape-up" hiring system and union officials with criminal records. While senator and labor lead ers shouted angrily at one an other at times, they were in agreement that there are evils on the docks that 'ought to be wiped out. Tobey had an idea the AFL and ILA aren't moving fast enough to correct conditions. irt is no problem. h a Manhattan label up in Style. And in Manhattan collar sure to find more ar that makes style m.. You'll like the ; and long wear in tan shirt, too ! 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