yV-'^ a o 0oP ieS Circulated fo More than 90% Of College Station’s Itesiifents Number 30: Volume 51 Battalion Nation’s Top Safety Section Lumberman’s 1949 Contest PUBLISHED IN THE INTEREST OF A GREATER A&M COLLEGE "COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1950 Price Five Cents UN Troops Near Manchurian Border, Resistance Light Seoul, Korea, Oct. 24—(1?)—United Nations troops ap proached the volatile Manchurian border today, the fifth an-1 niversary of the founding of the U.N. They were reported about 30 to 35 miles from Red Man churia. A new U.N. warplgne bomb line was drawn in an arcs 12 miles south of the Chinese Red-guarded border. The Allied bomb line is usually 20 miles ahead of forward foot soldiers, in this case, South Koreans. Tokyo intelligence officers said only about 25,000 Red Korean troops remained north of parallel 38. They said from a military standpoint all organized resistance had ceased. But briefing officers at General MacArthur’s headquar ters said remnants of 16 Red Korean divisions still had divis ional headquarters in Korea and were considered organized ; —: — f units. State Garden Club Construction Started On New Ad Bunding Veteran Singer AI Jolson Dies Last Night San Francisco, Oct. 24—(/P) —A1 Jolson, the veteran jazz singer who was the first U. S. star to entertain troops over seas in both the Second World ami Korean Wars, died unexpect edly last nif>'ht with a quip on his lips: “Hell, Truman had only one hour with MacArthur. I had two!” ' Then . . . “I’m going', boys,” the famous mammy singer told two longtime friends with whom he was playing gin rummy in the St. Francis Ho tel. He died quietly, quickly, of a coronary occulsion . . . and without pain, said the house physician. Jolson, 64, had returned only two weeks ago from Korea, where he sang to Allied troops. He had a two-hour luncheon chat with General MacArthur in Tokyo en- route. President Truman and MacAr thur talked privately just an hour on Wake Island a week ago Sun- ' day in their historic get-acquainted meeting. With Jolson were two old friends, song writer Harry Akst and Martin Fried, Al’s accompanist and ar ranger. They had come with him from Southern California for a scheduled guest star spot on a Bing Crosby radio show, to have been recorded here tonight. Akst telephoned Jolson’s fourth wife, Erie Galbraith, whom he mar ried in 1945. She was at Encino, Calif. She was reported to have collapsed with grief. Jolson was riding the crest of a popularity wave for the second time in an entertainment career that began in 1899. His popularity with the troops was unsurpassed. In World War II, he traveled to Europe, Africa, India and the Pa cific, entertaining GIs for the USQ. Export Cars Permitted For Use by Borderites Laredo, Tex., Oct. 24—I#)—-The Importation of American automo- inles into Mexico for use of border residents will be permitted within a few days, Jesus Vidales Marro- quin, collector of customs in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico,. said today. Wholesale lots of North Korean soldiers continued to surrender. An estimated 32.3,000 had laid down their arms or become war casualties. More were coming in from the hills to surrender. Premier Kim II Sung, the Ko rean Communist leader, had fled. American warplanes dropped leaf lets declaring the man who posed as Kim was an imposter named Kim Sung Chu who was sent to Korea in 1945. The leaflets said the real Kim II Sung, a Korean hero, died 15 years ago in Manchuria. Three North Koreans who lived under, the Red regime for five years said the Kim II Sung they knew in the Red capital was a “robot” leader who answered to Ho Kai Li, a Russian citizen of Korean extraction. But the real boss of North Ko rea they said, was Russian Col. Gen. Terentyi Shtikov was the Sov iet representative on the joint U.S.- U.S.S.R. commission to unify Ko rea. Both Kim II Sung and Shtikov presumably in Manchuria or Siber ia, the trio said. The Moscow radio broadcast a North Korean war communique saying the Reds were fighting on but admitted withdrawals north of Pyongyang, untd last week the Red capital of North Korea. Sporadic fighting continued in scattered areas. At Iri on the northeast Korean coast, Red soldiers swept into the town after South Korean units had gone through. Reports said they killed a large number of civilians who had assisted the South Kore ans. South Korean units later return ed to Iri and drove the Reds out. South of the 38th parallel, by passed Red troops raided towns. Fighting broke out when United Nations patrols foubd enemy groups at Mungyong, Kumchon, Kochang, Hampyang, Yongwong and Chunan. A Red unit contacted at Yongwong still was using one artillery piece, four mortars and two anti-tank guns. But the main North Korean force was reported pulling back near the Manchurian border into the Kang- gye pocket, a triangular area southeast of the Yalu River fron tier. The South Korean Sixth Divis ion was driving in that direction. The division Monday was reported officially to be two miles north of Huichon, a road center 90 miles north of Pyongyang. Elements of the ROK Sixth and First Divisions captured Yongbyon, 54 miles north of Pyongyang. This is one of the ancient walled cities into which the Reds were reported fleeing. By DALE WALSTON Campus construction reached a fast pace today when work began on the foundation of the new Ad ministration Building, adding that project to a number of others on the campus under construction or nearing completion. Drilling of the footings for the new Administration building is ex pected to get underway today with the arrival of heavy drilling equip ment from Houston, according to Oscar E. Telg, construction super visor for the Fisher Company con tractors. As soon as the footings have been poured, excavation of the basement of the $452,433 building will begin. Sewer connections from the center of the drill field to the side of Goodwin Hall are being completed through a tunnel drilled under Houston Street. The new Campus Cleaners Build ing is now complete except for the installation of essential electrical Seated at the speakers (able for the formal ban quet given by the Texas Garden Clubs, Inc. last night, are Mrs. O. K. Smith, president of the College Station Garden Club; Mrs. Steve Barrett; Mrs. Roy Smith; Mrs. C. B. Campbell; C. G. Milne, at uy uaitditon vjniet rnoiograpiiei &