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Number 74: Volume 51
COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS, THURSDAY, JANUARY 11, 1951
Price Five Cents
Marshall Proposes
Immediate UMT
For 18 Year-olds
Washington, Jan. 11—(TP)—Immediate universal mili
tary service starting with a draft of 450,000 18-year-olds this
year was urged on Congress yesterday by Defense Secretary
Marshall.
The proposal to draft at 18 instead of the present 19,
and a companion plan to extend the service period from the
current 21 months to 27, brought immediate sharp question-
irig from the Senate Armed Services Subcommittee.
Marshall and assistant secretary Anna Rosenberg, his
chief manpower aide, stuck tight to their original formula.
Mrs. Rosenberg- stood firm before"f
questioning by Senator Saltonstall
Chicken Colonels’
(R-Mass) which brought out that
trie actual “take” of 18-year-olds
tin's year would be 550,000 counting
75,000 who would be in college un-
^ ter various military schooling pro-
gjrams and thousands of others in
uniform but taking special military
courses in school.
n The questioning revolved more
around the age limit and service
term proposals than the long-range
plan for training all youths in the
future and requiring service by
them.
Question Requirements
K| Many committeemen have indi
cated they favor training for all,
but the universal requirement for
actual service in the armed forces
is something else.
B Marshall advanced the plan as
the best way to meet urgent needs
for fighting manpower now and to
provide guardians for the nation’s
future safety.
■ He emphasized that he was talk
ing about a permanent program
and about actual service in the
aimed forces.
B “Universal military service and
training- represents what I believe
is the best way to meet our imme
diate needs for enlarged combat
forces and at the same time to
provide an enduring base for our
military strength,” Marshall said.
B Mrs. Rosenberg asked for “per
manent legislation, designed to pro
vide the greatest long-termed se
curity with the lowest cost in men
and money.”
B She and Marshall argued it is
needed for the nation’s safety in
an unsettled world and to help
make this country a power for
peace.
■ The program was presented as
(See UMT, Page 2)
UN Committee
Delays Quest
Of Korea Peace
Lake Success, Jan. 11—(IP)
|—The U.N. today faced a new
delay in its quest for a Ko-
, rean peace settlement.
The General Assembly’s
50-nation political committee was
scheduled to meet at 3 p.m. (EST),
but informed quarters said it prob
ably would adjourn until next week
because no one had any formal pro
posals ready yet.
i The assembly’s three-member
cease-fire committee had a 6-point
truce plan, but wasn’t ready to
submit it, because India’s Sir Ben-
Kgal N. Rau wanted to get an okay
first from his chief, Prime Minister
Jawaharlal Nehru.
*1/ Israel had a similar 7-point plan,
i-d ut did not want to formalize it in
'Jk resolution unless it received sub-
ypstantial support.
| The United States had a plan,
calling for condemnation of Com
munist China as an aggressor, but
wanted to give the U. N. another
chance to seek a cease-fire.
The picture was complicated fur
ther by the fact that the whole Far
Eastern problem was under consid
eration by the conference of British
Commonwealth premiers in Lon
don. Many delegates felt they
should at least wait until the Com
monwealth diplomats had received
word of any decisions which might
affect their attitude.
| Diplomatic sources reported,
meanwhile, that the other two
1 imembers of the cease-fire commit-
i flee were getting impatient over
the slowness of the Indian govern
ment in approving the proposed
truce formula which was sent to
I gNehru in London almost a week
ago.
J These two are assembly presi-
'dent Nasrollah Entezam of Iran
■ and Canada’s minister of external
affairs, Lester B. Pearson. One
■informed source said they might
come forward with the cease-fire
appeal, without Rau. unless he re
ceived a go-ahead soon.
Sen. Knowland
Offers Plan
For Rearming
Washington, Jan. 11—UP)
—Senator Knowland (R-Cal.)
proposed today a six-to-one
ratio for arming Western
Europe against Communist
aggression with the United States
ultimately furnishing 10 divisions
and the other North Atlantic na
tions 60.
Knowland said it was vital that
Western. Europe not be allowed to
fall into Comunist hands, but he
held that the bulk of the defensive
land forces should be furnished by
the Europeans themselves.
“If war comes,” he said, “we
must then do with our air, sea and
land forces what the strategic ne
cessities require in support of our
commitments. We will not let our
Allies down nor must they let us
down.”
In a speech prepared for Senate
delivery Knowland pleaded for uni
ty within this country and between
the free nations of the world, say
ing history has taught us “we
must hang together or be hanged
separately.”
Chairman Connally (D-Tex) of
the Senate Foreign Relations Com
mittee also expected to deliver a
foreign policy speech during the
day.
Senate Democratic leader McFar
land of Arizona likewise planned a
speech on foreign affairs. He told
reporters yesterday it would be
primarily a plea for harmony and
unity.
Knowland, a vigorous critic of
administration Far Eastern policy,
strongly urged a reconciliation of
differences between Congress mem
bers and the administration on all
foreign issues.
He said no effective foreign or
national defense policy could be
formulated or executed without co
operation.
Announcements
Now Available
Graduation announcements are
now available for distribution
at the Student Activities Office
in Goodwin Hall, Spike White
announced today.
All students who have order
ed such announcements are ask
ed to pick them up as soon as
possible.
Allies Set Holding Lines
In Calm Before Storm
Tokyo, Jan 11—UP)—Allied forces hack
ed out a holding line on the critical Central
Korean front today after a seesaw battle
south of Wonju.
The battlefront was uneasily quiet late
in the day. The snow-carpeted valley and
hills were splotched with the blood of 2,100
killed and wounded Korean Reds.
American, French and Dutch troops
dealt out death to the enemy in a seven-hour
fight that developed after a tank-led U. S.
Second Division patrol pushed into the aban-
Col. H. L. Boatner, commandant and PMS&T,
second from the right, gives the bird to three
recently appointed full Colonels. Left to right
the new colonels are Col. Cecil M. McGregor, Or
dinance instructor, Col. Walter Parsons, Engin
eer instructor, Col. Edward F. Sauer, Quarter
master instructor, Col. Boatner, and holding the
chickens, CWO Robert B. Mills, adjutant. Infor
mation about their promotions came out in this
months Army Journal.
‘Operation High
Planning Begins
SchooV
Monday
By DAVE COSLETT
The planning- phase for “Opera
tion High School” begins Monday.
For those of you mystified by
the odd-sounding maneuver, it’s
going to be the second launching-
of a plan first evolved and tried
three years ago. The plan simply
involves shipping male high school
students to A&M for a day or two.
But the actual operation won’t
be that simple. That’s why presi
dents and all other interested of
ficers from home-town clubs are
being asked to meet with C. G.
“Spike” White, assistant to the
dean of men for activities, Mon
day. The get-together will be in
room 301 of Goodwin Hall at 7:30
p. m.
The students at the meeting are
going to be psked to make plans
to house and receive the hundreds
of high-schoolers expected down
on March 3, the day set for Opera
tion High School.
Conceived by Elms
First conceived by Grady Elms,
former vice-assistant to the dean
of men in charge of activities, the
idea is to acquaint the lads with
Aggieland by actually having them
here for a day or two.
March 3 was chosen for this year
since Sports Day with all its ath
letic events comes at that time.
The operation will be mainly
student-operated and thus will de
pend on the backing- of the stu
dent body, for its success.
Briefly, here’s how it will tenta
tively work:
Workings
Former students clubs through
out Texas will each try to send a
certain number of boys to the
campus that week-end. The presi
dents of these clubs, who held their
annual conference here last week
end, have indicated their whole
hearted support.
Nobel Winner, Lewis,
Dies after Heart Attack
Draft Board Says No
To Choice of Service
,, Austin, Jan. 11—hP)—Draft
Headquarters said “no” today to
• ■requests from draftees to.join the
''■service of their choice after in-
; Auction has begun.
Rome, Jan. 11—(A 1 )—Sinclair
Lewis, who made a fortune writing-
realistic novels about main street,
died yesterday from a weakened
heart after bronchial pneumonia.
He was 65.
The lanky red-haired author
came last year to spend his last
days in Rome, where he wrote his
Nobel prize-winning “Babbitt” and
met his second wife, Dorothy
Thompson, the columnist.
Except for attendants, he was
alone when death came at dawn.
Suffering from a chronic heart
ailment, he was taken ill with
pneumonia Dec. 31. He surmounted
the pneumonia crisis, but the strain
proved too much for his heart.
A native of Sauk Center, a lit
tle town of 3,000 in Minnesota,
Lewis wrote 22 books, most of them
best-sellers, and .nearly all a
challenging picture of the cul
ture, morals and provincial pat
tern of the small town of mid-west
America.
Nobel Prize Winner
His most famous, “Main Street,”
published in 1920, made him a
celebrity overnight. “Babbitt,”
i published in 1922, won him the
“W e are forbidden by law to per- \ 1930 Nobel Prize and added a new
mit enlistment in such cases,” com-i word to the dictionary. Webster’s
imented Brig. Gen. Paul Wakefield, \says it is a word to describe in a
I State Draft director. ' derogatory sense a person who
“conforms to the respectable mat
erialism of his class.”
Many a sharply-drawn charac
ter in Lewis’ books was picked out
by millions of readers as a true-
to-life person of their own exper
ience. And Gopher Pi'airie and
Zenith, the village and small city
in “Main Street” and “Babbitt”,
were real enough to be on a map.
“Arrowsmith,” “Elmer Gantry,”
“Dodsworth,” “It Can’t Happen
Here,” “Kingsblood Royal,” “Cass
Timberlane,” “The Man Who Knew
Coolidge,” “Ann Vickers,” and
“Prodigal Parents” were among
other better known books. Through
nearly all of them flowed the theme
of life on the main street of a
small middle western town.
“Great Historian”
Together, critics said, they es
tablished Lewis as one of the great
social historians of his generation.
His last published novel was
“The God Seeker,” issued in 1949.
A new book, “World So Wide,”
described as a love story in Italy,
is to be published in March.
His books blasted the foibles of
“typically-American” people and
communities with both biting satire
and down-to-earth realism.
“Main Street” gave a drab pic
ture of life in a smug and com
placent small town. It stirred up
(See LEWIS, Page 6)
Attention of course, will be fo
cused on the student leaders, us
ually the best college prospects.
Included will be class presidents,
cheer-leaders, year-book and news
paper editors and sports team cap
tains.
A&M students will be asked to
supplement the attendance by in
viting home-town teenagers not
likely to be sent down by an exes
club. Trip financing will be left
up to the persons concerned.
Greet High Schoolers
Most of the students should ar
rive on the cainpus Friday at which
time the campus home-town clubs
would take over. They would greet
the boys from their home-town
area and arrange dormitory hous
ing for them.
Saturday would be the day for
big events and would probably
start with either a conducted tour
of various parts of the campus
and departments and schools of the
college. Also possible would be
special programs by schools or de
partments (initiated and carried
out by students within that school
or department) for high school stu
dents who have shown special in
terest in some specific phase of
college.
A possibility for next slot on
the program would be talks by Ag
gie student leaders explaining ex
tra-curricular opportunities avail
able at A&M. At this time a mem
ber of the Military Department
might acquaint the students with
the military status of A&M stu
dents.
See Sports Day
Attendance at Sports Day events
would naturally be on the agenda.
Scheduled for that day are final
spring training football scrim
mage, a baseball game, a track
meet and other events.
A likely prospect for Saturday
night would he a student talent
stage show and movie at Guion
Hall.
The full and final plans for
Operation High School are, of
course, yet to be decided. The fore
going activities are wholly tenta
tive and would have to be inaug
urated by interested students.
The real aim of the plan is to
orient and interest high school stu
dents in A&M. The program may
possibly be exoanded to include
junior college students among the
visitors.
College officials and ex-students
Recruits Running
Over at Lackland
San Antonio, Tex., Jan. 11—</P)—
It looked like the early days of
World War II when soldiers train
ed with wooden guns as Lackland
Air Force Base here tried to cope
with a spectacular upturn in Air
Force enlistments.
Recruits were training in civies.
Mess halls were serving meals in
shifts 24 hours a day. Airlifts were
bringing supplies from hundreds
of miles away. Some uniforms were
borrowed from the army. Recruits
slept in tents.
Lackland is the Air Force’s only
reception center for recruits. Mote
than 20,000 of them have arrived in
the past seven days. Several re
cruiting stations have declared
“holidays” to catch up on process
ing the men.
Lackland officers hoped the crest
of the flood had passed, but they
still faced serious problems.
have indicated their approval and
desire to support the program. The
final implementation will rest in
student hands.
RV’s, Band Attend
Beaumont Oil Day
Beaumont, Jan. 11—(A 5 ) — White
coated members of A&M’s Ross
Volunteer Company and serge coat
ed members of “the fightin’ Texas
Aggie band” got things off to a
precision start yesterday as Ameri
can industry paid tribute to two
men whose vision led to discovery
of the world’s first big oil well.
And movie stars were on hand too.
The Aggie Band furnished ca
dence for the march through the
streets of downtown Beaumont.
The RV’s acted as honor guard
throughout the day-long Spindle-
top 50th Anniversary celebration.
Movie stars'. Teresa Wright and
Robert Cummings were on hand for
the afternoon ceremonies. The
night before, they had been starred
in the “Cavalcade of America”
NBC broadcast from Beaumont.
The radio play had been based on
Spindletop
the discovery of Spindletop, where
the first big gusher in the South
west came into existence — over
100,000 barrels a day at one time.
After arriving in Beaumont this
morning, members of the Company
and Band were taken to Lamar Col
lege, formerly Lamar Junior Col
lege, for lunch. The parade began
at two.
When afternoon ceremonies end
ed, members of both organizations
ate dinner in Beaumont. At seven
p.m., the busses left for College
Station.
It was 50 years ago today that
Capt. Anthony F. Lucas, inspired
by the determination of Patillo
Higgins, brought in his 100,000 bar
rels a day gusher at Spindletop,
a little 300 acre hill South of Beau
mont.
Higgins, now 88, was an honor
guest at ceremonies held at the
Sprindletop monument on the site
of Lucas’ well.
E. De Golyer, eminent Dallas
geologist, told the ample crowd
Spindletop was the “training
school” of the men who built the oil
industry.
“This was the hot bed in which
were nurtured the seeds of great
enterprises, .notably among which
are Gulf Oil Corporation, the Texas
Company and Houston Oil Com
pany”, he said. “This field has been
the insph-ation or testing ground
for many of the ideas and technique
now common in our industry.”
“Only the unwaivering faith of
Higgins and the Louisiana train
ing and vision of Lucas could give
it credit,” he said. “Foremost ex
perts had condemned Spindletop.”
Higgins, who had studied geol
ogy books while working in Beau
mont. became convinced the little
mound that rose only from 10 to
12 feet above surrounding plain
three miles south of town held oil.
Hampered by finances, Higgins’
tests for oil failed. But he inter
ested Lucas, immigrant Austrian
mining engineer who had worked
in Louisiana salt mines, in Spindle
top.
Lucas struck his gusher on his
(See SPINDLETOP, Page 6)
doned road-rail hub of Wonju and then vol
untarily withdrew. At one stage, the Ameri
cans fixed bayonets and charged.
More than 7,000 North Koreans jumped
the company-size entry patrol south of Won
ju on the road to Chonju. The patrol was
reinforced by the other Allied forces and the
Reds broke off the battle Wednesday night.
But the greatest menace to Allied arms
was shaping up in a 50-mile stretch between
Chunju and Red-held Osan in Western Ko
rea.
Chinese and Korean Red foi-ces
estimated at 285,000 were in the
area or moving toward it in an ap
parent bid to cut off the main
forces of the U. S. Eighth Army on
the road south of abandoned Seoul.
In that area roads fan out
through the hills, affording many
avenues of approach to the Allied
forces.
AP correspondent John Randolph
said the Chinese evidently hope to
force the Eighth Army to accept
battle in the rough country suit
able for swarms of night-fighting
Red infantrymen.
Six Chinese armies were in the
general western area, south of
Seoul, and seven armies were north
and west of Wonju. This force in
cluded wiry Mongolian cavalrymen.
Intelligence officers said 500 Chi
nese planes and 200 tanks are
available to back the push.
Reds Challenge
A modern heavy duty oil rig spudden in the Spindletop 50th Asni-
versary No. 1 Sunset Park in Beaumont, opening the celebration
of the 50th Anniversary of the oil discovery. RV’s and members
of the Aggie Band saw the rig as they got a chance to “look the
town over” after yesterday ceremonies.
Council Approves Selection
Method for Best Ag Prof
A basis for selecting the “Best
Professor in the School of Agri
culture” was approved by the Stu
dent Agricultural Council, Wednes
day night, January 10.
Factors to be considered in the
selection include presentation and
coverage of material (40%), abil
ity to develop and hold interest
in the classroom (25%), student-
professor relationship (15%), per
sonal traits-^uch as personality
and dress (10%), and extra-cur
ricular activities (10%).
Approximately 200 students
throughout the different depart
ments in School of Agriculture will
nominate three professors each for
1 the award.
Members of the Ag Council will
distribute the nomination ballots
to representative groups of stu
dents in their departments.
A selection committee will count
the votes, further investigate the
leading nominees, and submit three
of them to the Ag Council for final
consideration.
Ag Council President Marvin
Twenhafel appointed Earl Gilmore,
Calvin Rinn, Malcolm Dyer, and
Wilbur Von Heeder to a committee
for selecting the award to be pre
sented.
Calvin Rinn, senior DH major
from Fayetteville, was elected Ag
Council reporter for the spring
semester.
Eighth Army
Slams Stiff
Censorship On
Tokyo, Jan. 11 —(AP) —
All news of ground fighting in
Korea will go under the con
trol of Eighth Army Head
quarters tomorrow.
The Eighth Army, with its
strict censorship, is taking over
all the ground news from General
Mac Arthur’s Headquarters.
The order applies to military
summaries as well as to censor
ship of dispatches.
News of aerial operators will be
censored and released by the Far
East Air Forces. The commander
of Far East Naval Forces will
control dispatches on naval activ
ities.
Tokyo headquarters will cease is
suing Korean releases pertaining to
military operations, said Col. M.
P. Echols, general MacArthur’s
chief information officer. These
generally have lagged behind front
reports and Eighth Army an
nouncements.
Echols said the Tokyo headquar
ters will release information con
cerning the United States command
as a whole.
This will include intelligence es
timates of Chinese Communist
strength and communiques and
statements signed by MacArthur
personally.
The Eighth Army is commanded
by Lt. Gen, Matthew B. Ridgway,
sent to Korea from Washington re
cently when a jeep accident took
the life of Lt. Gen. Walton H.
Walker of Benton, Texas.
Most spot news of the war has
originated with the Eighth Army
or its divisions.
Another hint that the Reds may
be about to challenge Allied mas
tery of the Korean skies came in
far North Korea. Fifteen Russian-
made MIG-15 jet fighters attacked
a B-29 superfortress as it lagged
behind a formation because of en
gine trouble.
The B-29 took cover in a cloud
bank but its gunners reported the
possible kill of one Red jet. The
bombers had dumped more than
100 tons of explosives on the air
field at Pyongyang, Korean Red
capital, and other cities in North
Korea.
Except for the bombing raids and
few attacks sorties, Allied war
planes had been grounded for two
days because of snow and rain.
But fighters returned to the fray
Thursday and caught hundreds of
Reds in the open.
Plaster Reds
Ten Navy planes dived through
a hole in the clouds and plastered
Red troops on the Wonju front. U.
S. Fifth Air Force fighters fanned
out aaginst enemy troops and sup
plies in the Seoul area.
The blistering local defeat hand
ed the Reds three to four miles
south of Wonju was heartening - ,
although the overall picture was
grim. Eighth Army headquarters
called the action a “successful op
eration.” A foot of overnight snow
fall added to the GI’s miseries.
General MacArthur’s headquar
ters said it was a counterattack
aimed at throwing the enemy off
balance.
After the Reds broke off the en
gagement, the Allied line was sta
bilized two miles south of Wonju.
AP correspondent Don Huth re
ported from Eighth Army head
quarters that Chinese and Korean
Red forces threatened the line at
Chechen, 20 air miles southeast of
Wonju.
200 Engaged
An estimated 200 Communists
were engaged by Allied patrols
eight miles northeast of Chechon,
and another 1,300 were observed
east of the city.
Reports reaching Eighth Army
headquarters said a large number
of Reds was seen eight to 10 miles
south of Chechon and moving
south.
There were no reports of any
action between Chechon and the
Sea of Japan coast on the east side
of the peninsula.
Chinese and Korean Red forces
have been spotted moving south
along the coast, however. Last
week they were between the 38th
Parallel and abandoned Hungnam
in North Korea. It was at Hung
nam that the Navy removed some
200,000 U. N. troops and Korean
civilians in December.
GI Benefits Kept
By Recalled Vets
Veteran students enrolled in col
lege when called to service will
not lose their rights to further
educational benefits under the GI
Bill, according to the veterans’ ad
visors.
To regain the schooling bene
fits, a student must return to
school within a reasonable time
after release from the service.
Veterans who have not taken ad
vantage of the educational bene
fits of the bill must be in training
by July 25 or forfeit further rights.
Veterans expecting to be called
into the service should not with
draw from college between terms
unless actually reporting for duty
during that period. Summer vaca
tions are not counted as an inter
ruption of training.