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City Of College Station Official Newspaper The Battalion PUBLISHED IN THE INTEREST OF A GREATER A&M COLLEGE Nation’s Top Safety Section Lumberman’s 1949 Contest Number 18: Volume 18 COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS, WEDNESDAY, JULY 5, 1950 Price: Five Cents Bryan-College Station Phone Rate Agreement Reached Offcials of College Station and Bryan have finally reached an agreement with the Southwestern States Telephone Company in re gard to the area’s telephone rates. The rates will be raised begin ning July 11, next Tuesday. An overall increase will give the com pany approximately $36,000 per year more than the old rates. This increase, however is $20,000 less than the original request of the telephone company. Letters To Mayors In a letter to Mayor Ernest Langford of College Statiion and Mayor Roland Dansby of Bryan, representatives of the company said the company had accepted the final proposal sent to them by the mayors. Holiday Deaths Over Expected Fatality Totals The toll of violent deaths soared well above the 600 mark Tuesday night as the nation’s four-day observance of independence neared a close. The number already had gone far beyond advance expectations and the homeward highway crush of millions of travelers is yet to come. This was the toll early Tuesday night: Total killed—780. Traffic Deaths—434. Brownings—154. Deaths from miscellaneous cau ses—192. Fireworks fatalities—none. The National Safety Council had forecast that 385 would be killed in highway accidents in the 102 hour period from 6 p.m. local time Fri day to Tuesday midnight. People were being killed in ac tivities associated with the holiday observance slightly faster than at a rate of one every ten minutes. Last year, only 296 were killed in traffic accidents during the three-day fourth of July obser vance. On a four-day non-holiday week end last month, only 455 persons met violent death—270 traffic, 75 drownings and 110 fatalities from miscellaneous causes. The Associa ted Press made this survey to com pare fatalities on a holiday and or dinary weekend. The postwar record for holiday traffic fatalities was set during last year’s three-day Labor week end—410. The all time record was set in Christmas week 1936 when 761 met violent death—555 in traffic acci dents. The company did not feel that these increases would be “sufficient for its purposes,” according to the letter, signed by E, H. Utzman, district manager for Southwestern States. Proposed rates will be accepted by the company for the time be ing, Utzman wrote, with a stip ulation that the company “be priv ileged to file another application” in the future, in the event such rates were not sufficient. Future Application The telephone company also told the officials that acceptance of the increased rates did not “prejudice any right to file a future applica tion.” Utzman expressed the ap- preciatiion of the company for the fair attitude of the commissioners and councilmen of the two cities in their negotiations over the phone rates. The application of the company for the rate increase was filed Feb. 13. Since that time, four confer ences have been held with city of ficials. Southwestern States also pro posed increases to rural subscrib ers from both cities’ exchanges. New Rates New rates which have been ac cepted by the company and College Station-Bryan officials are as fol lows: Bryan and College Station—busi ness phones: one party (wall phone) $5.25 monthly, a $1.25 in crease; (desk phone) $5.50, an in crease of $1.50: (handset) $4.50, increase of $1.35. Two-party business phones: (wall) $4.25, a 75increase; (desk) $4.50, an increase of $1, (handset) $4.50, increase of 85c. Extension business phones: (wall) $1, a 50c increase; (desk) $1.25, a 75< s increase; and (handsets $1.25, increase of 60< l . Residential Increases For Bryan and College Station residences, the following phone in creases will go into effect July 11: One-party (wall) $3, increase of OOe (desk) $3.25, a 75c increase, and (handset) $3.25, a 60(’ increase. Two-party residential: (wall) $2.25, a 25c increase; (desk) $2.50, a 50e increase; (handset) $2.50, an increase of 35(v Four-party: (wall) $1.75, an in crease of 25c; (desk) $2, increase of 50c; handset) $2, increase of 35c. Extension residential: (wall) 50<‘, no increase; (desk) 75c, a 25c in crease; (handset) 75c, an increase of 10c. Governor Shivers Presents Liberty Bell Replica To College In Grove Ceremony Congressman Defends Korean Defense Plans The future of the free world is at stake today, Congressman Olin E. Teague said in a newsletter to The Battalion today. Teague is the member of the House of Represen tatives from the Sixth Congression al District of Texas, which includes Brazos and seven other counties. “We have an opportunity to stop the Russians today without gene ral war,” Teague said, “but if we fail to make the most of this chance, then at some future time we will have to try to stop them if we are to preserve and main tain our American way of life.” Presidential Order Teague’s letter told of the mes sage to Congress from the Presi dent, in' which Truman told of his ordering action to be taken to “prevent further aggression in the Far East.” Besides ordering sea and air support for the Korean Government forces, the President ordered the strengthejn\ing of U. S. forces in the Philippines and additional military assistance to the French forces in Indo-China. The President emphasized, Teague said, that this action was to carry out the directive of the Security Council of the United Na tions which had called upon the in vading forces to cease hostilities. Soviet Union Demands Withdrawl from Korea Moscow, July 5—<JP)—Moscow’s Newspapers gave their biggest headlines yesterday to demands for che unconditional withdrawal of American forces from Korea. The statement of Deputy For- rign Minister Andrei Gromyko de claring the United Nations should iee to it that U. S. forces are ex- Fachen Islands Invasion Fails Taipei, Formosa, July 5— (AP) — Nationalist Naval headquarters today said its ships smashed a Chinese Com munist attempt to invade the Tachen Islands. The Nationalists said their war ships sank 20 troop-laden Commun ist craft and forced others to turn back to the mainland. The Tachens are tiny islands 20 miles from the Chinese mainland and 220 miles north of Formosa. They are garrisoned mostly by guerrillas, and the Nationalists have tried to develop them as a supply point for guerrilla raids on Communist China. Naval headquarters described Monday’s action as purely defen sive and hence not in violation of Nationalist suspension of opera- tioi.v against the mainland, as re quested last week by President Tru man. The president asked the suspen sion in his statement that U. S. warships would prevent Chinese Communist invasion of Formosa. Nationalist quarters speculate that the Chinese Reds will do their utmost to exploit the suspen sion of Nationalist operations. Defense Ministry sources said they believe the Communists will probably strike at Quemoy Island, the Nationalist defense outpost near Red-held Amoy, and at other islands off the mainland coast such as Matsu near Foochow. polled from Korea was accom panied by reports of mass meet ings throughout the Soviet Union voicing similar opinions. Among the dispatches were re ports of meetings of military men at which speakers declared they would “fight for peace.” Mass Meetings Accounts of the mass meetings, in factories, institutes, clubs and other places, bore such headlines as “hands off Korea,” “out with imperialists in Korea,” “wrathful protest against American, military intervention,” Soviet people unani mously brand with shame criminal action of American government against Korean people.” The Gromyko statement, first broadcast last night from Moscow, declared the United States step by step is involving itself in “open war,” has presented the United Nations with a fait accompli by intervening in Korea and is mak ing that body an appendage of the U. S. State Department. (The fact that it was left to Gromyko to state the Soviet posi tion raised speculation that Andrei Vishinsky, the foreign minister, is not in Moscow. Vichinsky has not been in the news since May 15.) Unobligation In his statement, Gromyko de clared “the United Nations will only fulfill its obligation to main tain peace if the security council demands the unconditional cessa tion of American military inter vention and the' immediate with drawal of the American Armed Forces from Korea.” His statement also charged that President Truman’s orders to the Navy to prevent a communist at tack on Formosa was a direct ag gression against China, Russia’s al ly, and that United States forces intend to seize all Korea as a “military and strategic spring board.” “America has committed a hos tile act against peace and bears the responsibility for the conse quences,” he declared. “Korea is highly strategic mili tarily from the standpoint of both Russia and Japan,” Teague said. “In area it is a third the size of Texas, but with more than four times as many people.” Russia and Japan fought two wars in the past over control of Korea, with Japan winning the 1904-05 war. In 1910 Japan annexed the Korean peninsula and it re mained that way until the close of World War II. “In 1943, the United States, China and Great Britain pledged at the Cairo Conference that Ko rea would; become independent. Russia later subscribed tq this pledge at Potsdam,” Teague point ed, out. However, at the Yalta con ference in 1945, a secret agreeme n t was reported to have been made for Russia to capture North Korea to the 38th parallel when she en tered the Japanese war.” Russians Stayed “The United States was to oc cupy the southern part,” Teague said. “The military occupation was to be temporary with a free demo cratic government being established as soon as possible. We withdrew our 80,000 troops, but not so with Russia.” Russia refused to allow North Korea to hold a free election or join in any sort of united gov ernment. Instead a puppet govern ment in the North was set up, Teague said, asserting control over the South as well. “A free election conducted by the United Nations created the Southern Republic and it claimed jurisdiction over the North where the Russians would not permit an election.” Teague said. In the meantime the United Nations tried to end this stalemate and a UN Commission was sent to Korea to get the facts, he said. The commission was stopped at the 38th parallel and was not allowed inside the Russian domination por tion. By DEAN REED One of the largest afternoon crowds of the summer watched Governor Allan Shivers present Texas’ replica of the Liberty* Bell to the college this afternoon.-Ihis short ceremony, held at The Qroye, began at 2 p. m. Receiving the bell in behalf of the college was Dr. M. T. Harring ton, president of the college. Dr. Harrington announced the tenta tive plans of the Liberty Bell committee to place the replica in the rotunda of the Academic Build ing. Bracewell Emcees Master of ceremonies foF the presentation ceremonies was State Senator Searcy Bracewell of Hous ton, an A&M graduate of the Class of ’38. Gov. Shivers arrived at Easter- wood Field by plane this morning at 11. He had come from Pecos, where he spoke yesterday. The governor was accompanied by his executive assistant, Garland Smith, a former newspaperman of Cald well. Sun Not Helpful Although the ceremony was held in mid-afternoon, the sweltering heat failed to keep the crowd away. Many of the audience expressed their appreciation of the short program planned by the committee in view of the Brazos county weather. After arriving on the noon train from Dallas, Nathan Adams, state director for the Independence Bond Drive and a Dallas banker, pre sented the bell to Governor Shiv ers at the ceremony. Accepting the bell in behalf of the state, the governor then presented it to Dr. Harrington. “Texas A&M is especially de serving of this consideration,” Gov. Shivers said when he first an- Gov. Allan Shivers - Late Wire Briefs - Tokyo, Wednesday, July 5 —(fP)— General MacArthur’s headquar ters announced today that an estimated three or four North Korean Divisions are South of the Han River. The Communists have succeeded in flanking the line from Inchon to Suwon “which has been holding for a few days,” MacArthur’s com- mu'nique said.The movement of American troops and supplies from Japan to South Korea is continuing, the communique added. San Diego, Calif., July 5—UP)—The U.S. Escort Carrier Sicily, its decks loaded with war planes, sailed from here yesterday for an un disclosed destination. Departure of the ship on a holiday, while naval guns in the harbor were firing July 4 salutes, indicated urgency in connection with the Korean Situation. Advanced American Headquarters in South Korea, Wednesday, July 5 —(A 5 )— The first contact between American troops and North Korean Communist forces occurred today, headquarters announced. The contact was made at 11 a.m. (8 p.m. EST) Tuesday, headquar ters said, when American artillery fired upon North Korean tanks ap proaching forward American positions. San Francisco, July 5 —UP)— Leaves for personnel assigned to the Navy’s Big Treasure Island receiving station were cancelled yesterday. The order came from Adm. Arthur Radford, commander in chief of the Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor. The Navy said the action was “an administrative measure” to ex pedite assignment of sailors and officers to vessels moving to Hawaii. Tokyo, Wednesday, July 5 —(A 1 )— Far East Air Forces said today American and Australian planes operated over South Korea yesterday, unchallenged for the first time by Russian-built Yak fighters. A communique said bad weather interrupted allied operations in the morning but improved later to permit 162 sorties, including strafing and cargo flights. Belgrade, Yugoslavia, July 5—(AP)—Yugoslavia claimed last night that Romania has been carrying on “suspicious military maneuvering along the borders of this country.” The report came only 24 hours after a charge that Hungary has been forcibly removing civilians living along the Hungarian-Yugoslav border. Despite Possible War Usual Speeches, Fireworks, Wea th e r Pre va il for Fou rth By The Associated Press America celebrated the long ago birth of its own freedom on a som ber note yesterday while U. S. troops fought on foreign soil to save the independence of Commun ist-invaded South Korea. President Truman set the mood of serious reflection on the dangers to world peace as he passed the day quietly in his temporary resi dence at Blair House. Mr. Truman had no engagements scheduled and was reported keeping in close touch with developments in the Korean war crisis. Advisor Speaks Speaking on the Washington monument grounds, John Foster Dulles said the American fight in Korea is in the true “spirit of ’76.” Dulles, Republican adviser to the State Department, warned that America faces heavy tasks in its struggle with Communism. The country, he said, may have to cut down on its “economic indulgence” to help non-communist nations. Echoes of the far Pacific strug gle reached into the Pentagon, and other key federal agencies where thousands of government workers gave up the Fourth of July holi day to work. But elsewhere—on thousands of beaches, picnic grounds, baseball parks, in cities and vacation spots —Americans sought to dispel fears of another great war and celebrat ed with the traditional “glorious fourth” devices of hot dogs, soda pop and fireworks. Weather Ideal The weather was reported close to ideal over most of the nation, with general clear skies and tem peratures ranging from pleasantly warm to broiling hot. In Washington, a night fire works display around the Washing ton Monument featured huge por traits of George Washington and President Truman bridged by an arch of fire spelling out the legend “faith of our fathers.” At United Nations headquarters in New York, top-level officials worked throughout the holiday on a plan to coordinate UN action to end the Korean war. In faroff Manila, the Filipinos celebrated the fourth anniversary of their independence and, with an xious attention to the Korean war, they heard President Quirino warn of the “not too far distant threat to Philippine independence.” At Azuse, Calif., Navy Under secretary Dan Kimball told an in dependence crowd that fear is America’s potential enemy. Then, referring to the Korean war, he declared: “To turn back from the course which he have charted would be an admission of fear. We cannot com pose with communism imperialism any more than we could successful ly compromise with Hitler’s brand of fascist aggression.” At Valley Forge, Pa., General of the Army Dwight D. Eisenhower joined some 47,000 scouts and lead ers from 21countries at the Nation al Boy Scout Jamboree. Eisenhower was scheduled to touch off a mammoth fireworks display with the words “let ’er rip”—the historic phrase he used to launch the allied invasion of Europe six years ago. At Taipei, Formosa, Nationalist Premier 'Chen Cheng and other leaders attended a reception at the U. S. Embassy. Virtually every im portant political and military figure in Nationalist China attended—ex cept President and Madame Chiang KaiShek. There was no particular significance in their absence. They customarily do not attend foreign diplomatic receptions. Their young er son, Chiang Wei-Kuo, was among the guests. American Troops In Korean Conflict Tokyo, Wednesday, July 5—(A 3 ) ern tanks had been stopped but —American troops went into ac tion today on a South Korean warfront aflame with a Communist offensive that flanked the vast Seoul-Inchon-Suwon triangle. The Americans made their entry into the fighting with an artillery barrage against North Korean tank-led thrust, presumably south of Suwon. General MacArthur’s headquarters confirmed Suwon’s fall today. Han River Crossed His communique also disclosed an estimated three to four Red divisions had plunged across the Han River south of Red-held Seoul and were taking part in an “envel oping” movement against the Seoul-Inchon-Suwon triangle which embraces more than 200 square milfes. Inchon, the port city for Seoul on the West Coast, was not men tioned in the communique. The North Korean high command as serted over the Seoul radio that it fell to the Reds yesterday. An authoritative American source at advanced U. S. headquarters in Korea said it was “highly probably” the Reds had occupied the port and city. It was advanced headquarters that announced the first contact of the American troops with the Reds. Associated Press correspondent O. H. P. King said the barrage came in the rain at 11 a. m. (8 p. m. E. S. T., Tuesday.) Weather Unfavorable The weather was curtailing American air support. It was con ceded at advance headquarters that this might influence the outcome of the engagement. The weather was bad at times yesterday, too, but a U. S. Far East Air Forces communique said American and Australian planes flew 162 sorties—and for the first time were unchallenged by North Korean fighter planes. The Americans, equipped with the newest artillery and anti-tank weapons, were rushed to the front to check just such an attack as the one that gave them their baptism of Korean fire. Weak Defenses King saiid the Reds apparently hurried their advance in an at tempt to hit the sagging South Ko rean defense line before the Amer icans could reinforce it. A headquarters spokesman told King he was confident the North- added: “I can’t say for sure be cause we have not heard from them for two hours.” MacArthur’s communique said the “line from Inchon to Suwon, which has been holding for a few days, was flanked by a strong en veloping movement to the east.” He said the South Koreans had saved most of their personnel in withdrawing from Suwon. Suwon is 23 miles.south of Se oul. Inchon is 20 miles west of the fallen capital. MacArthur’s communique gave no explanatiion of the conflicting reports yesterday that Americans went into action then. His com munique yesterday said they were in battle. A spokesman at advanced headquarters consistency denied it until this morning. Communists Here Fear Legislation Washington, July 6—(A*)—Sena tor Mundt (R-SD) said last night t h a t American Communists are waging a “highly-financed” cam paign to block pending legislation designed to expose them. The legislation is needed, he said, to protect the home front from treachery and sabotage, and de feat Red attempts “to pull the rug out from under American lads now dying on the battle field against communism” in Korea. The bill, sponsored by Mundt and senators Ferguson (R-Mich) and Olin Johnston (D-SC), would re quire the registration of Commun ist party members and bar them from appointive offices in the gov ernment. The Senate Republican policy committee last week called for ac tion on the bill before congress ad journs. Critics of the measure have contended it would drive the Communists underground and make it more difficult for the FBI to keep tabs on them. nounced that the college would re ceive the bell. “In addition to the interest that has been shown by ex students and officials of the .col lege, A&M will celebrate its 75th Anniversary next year with a rec ord of having contributed some 14,000 men and officials in the last war, thousands of others in earlier conflicts, and many thous ands of fine citizens and leaders in civilian life,” he said. Flags Displayed Flags of the United States, Texas, and of A&M’s Corps of Cadets decorated The Grove for the ceremony. A large post flag hung at the rear of the bandshel), while the corps flags were massed on one side. On the right side of the shell, the United States and Texas flags were displayed, flanked by a color guard. Palms decorated the front of the slab and the stage. All decorations for the presen- tatiion ceremony were handled through the committee in charge of the program, with Col. H. L. Boatner, commandant of the col lege, making the arrangements. Others on the committee besides Col. Boatner were R. Henderson Shuffler, director of information for the A&M System; Howard Bad- gett of the Office of Physical Plants; J. B. “Dick” Hervey, exe cutive secretary of the Associa tion of Former Students; C. W. Crawford, head of the Mechanical Engineering Department; and Dr. Ralph Steen, professor of history. One of 49 Bells The bell is one of 49 which tour ed the United States during the six-weeks Independence Bond Drive which ended yesterday. The bell was brought from Dallas, where the Texas tour ended, by truck. Each state and the District of Columbia will be presented with a replica of the Liberty Bell. The governor of the states will decide upon a permanent and suitable lo cation for the bell. Should the bell committee go through with its plans to place the replica in the rotunda of the Academic Building, the trophy case which now occupies the center spot there would be moved, President Harrington said yesterday. Trophies To MSC The trophies will probably go to the trophy room of the Memorial Student Center, he said, while the case itself would be moved to the lobby of the library. All plans now made by the committee are tenta tive and any location decided upon at this date is temporary, he em phasized. “We hope that someday, perhaps, a bell tower might be constructed on the campus where, we could place the Liberty Bell replica and still allow it to be seen by visitors,” President Harrington said. College Professor Receives Award Roy W. Snyder, professor of animal husbandry, was honored at a recent banquet by the Nation al Meat and Livestock Board at their annual meeting in Chicago. At the banquet, held in honor of 11 college meats men who have completed 35 years of service in meats work, Snyder was awarded a carving set in token of his ser vice. ■:v/r.vv:, -i iri Sidney E. Loveless Rites Held Today Funeral services were held at 11 a.m. today for Sidney Ervin Love less, father of Sidney L. Loveless of College Station, in Waco where i he died at 6:30 p.m. Monday. His body will be brought to the College Station cemetery, where in terment will be made at 3 p.m. fol lowing a short graveside service. Born August 8, 1888, Loveless was a native of Mississippi, but spent most of his life farming in the central Texas area. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Effic Chunn Loveless; four daugh ters, Mrs. Ray Cooper and Mrs. Earl Cleveland, both of Waco. Mrs. Joe McLain of Beaumont, and Mrs. Eloise Lampi of Butte, Montana: and one son, Sidney L. Loveless of College Station. At the Grove Tonight Skating and Juke Box Dancing. Skates may be rented. The main dining room of Sbisa Hall is getting a face lifting. Workers are replastering and painting the walls. The dance floor is being sanded and refinished.