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Circulated to More Than 90% of College Station’s Residents The Battalion PUBLISHED IN THE INTEREST OF A GREATER A&M COLLEGE Bolshevism: Past and Present Explains Inside on Russian Politics See Editorial, Page Two Number 80: Volume 51 COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS, TUESDAY, JANUARY 23, 1951 Price Five Cents Senate Will Vote Today On T roops-T o -Europe HWashington, Jan. 23——Ad ministration leaders were confident of a favorable result as the Senate faced up to a vote today (2 p.m. EpT) on the first round of the tiloops-to-Europe issue. I Senator Wherry of Nebraska, the Republican floor leader, had ■ending before the Senate an unusual resolution which Senator Connally (D-Tex) sought either to amend drastically or to send to a pigeonhole in the Foreign Relations Committee he heads. ■ Wherry proposed that the Sen ate instruct its foreign relations and armed services groups to rec- Bnmend by Feb. 2 legislation which j^puld bar President Truman from committing troops to the North Atlantic defense force until Con- grcss passes on that action. ■Wherry wrote into his resolution limitations aimed at preventing the committees from changing it ma terially or substituting other pro posals, as administration leaders planned to do. I The GOP leader said that if (he Senate refuses to instruct the committees as he desires he will regard it as a vote against his move to delay troop commitments until Congress acts. Mr. Tru man says he has authority to commit troops regardless of what Congress does. ■.Connally told reporters Wherry’s proposal is “ridiculous and only a sheet of paper.” He said a vote to send it to committee won’t mean approval of the resolution and won’t bind the committees in any way. ^Nevertheless, he was studying the possibility of trying to take the time limit and other instruc tions out of the resolution. ■ The Texas Senator said he is confident that when the Senate gets around to voting on the main issue, it will approve the sending of American ground forces and other units to Europe to join the international defense force being set up under Gen. Dwight D. Ei senhower. Connally is preparing his own version of that proposal. p The committee chairman said Eisenhower will be asked to tes tify in closed session either be fore or after he reports in pub lic to an informal session of all the lawmakers next week. Ill Meanwhile, the Senate’s argu ment over foreign policy brought growing demands for the with drawal of American troops from Korea and criticism of the United ‘Friendly’ Toil Performed On Redistricting I' Austin, Jan. 23—CP)—The House ■districting committee reported things were going along on a “right neighborly basis” Monday. ■ “Members of certain areas are getting together and working out their problems of representation pretty well,” Rep. William S. Fly of Victoria, committee chairman, ^uld the committee. iga Redistricting under the federal PJpmsus is one of the biggest jobs vi the legislature. The committe is working on representatives’ dis tricts at present. Fly said that the lower Rio Grande Valley, which gained a rep resentative by population growth, had worked out its House represen tation. He reported most of South west Texas, the area west of San Antonio, northwest Texas and the Panhandle satisfied with the work ing plan of representation. “In northeast Texas, we’ve got to , do a lot of combining - because we’re going to lose a lot,” said Rep. New- i ton W. McCann of Texarkana. ■“But we want to do it right.” ■ Under the working plan of the | committee, the four big cities would have 29 representatives in | the House—eight from Harris | ICounty (Houston), and seven each ' from Bexar (San Antonio), Dallas alul Tarrant (Fort Worth) coun- Mties. That would leave 121 repre- ■sentatives to be divided among the Vrrest of the state—one for about ■every 43,000 persons. Time Short For Reserving Rooms Organizations will lose their chance for permanent rooms in the MSC unless they get their reservation requests in to the front office of the MSC by Jan uary 30. today warned Miss Bet ty Bolander, assistant social di rector of the MSC. She urged that the groups make their requests immediate ly. Nations and the latest Chinese Communist cease-fire offer. Red China offered Monday to negotiate a limited cease fire in Korea if (A) withdrawals of all foreign troops are started, (B) The Communists are given U. N. mem bership and (C) a conference is called to discuss Far East prob lems, including disposition of For mosa. Senator Knowland (R-Calif) told his colleagues this was mere ly a new “obstructive tactic.” “The U. N. should clearly and frankly brand Communist China as an aggressor, which she is,” Knowland declared. Cornerstone To Be Set For Methodist Church Bishop A. Frank Smith of the Methodist Church will be principal speaker at corner laying ceremon ies February 1 at the new A&M Methodist Church. Between four and five hundred guests are expected for the cere monies, which are scheduled for 11 a. m., according to the Rev. James Jackson, pastor o^ the Church. The Reverend Jackson 1 will preside over ceremonies. Former pastors who are expect ed for the occasion are the Rev. Jesse Thompson, conference exe cutive secretary of Christian Edu cation, Jacksonville; the Rev. R. L. Jackson, College Station; the Rev. James Carlin, pastor of Pleasant Retreat Methodist Church, Tyler; the Rev. Walton Gardner, pastor Grace Methodist Church, Galves ton; and the Rev. R. C. Terry, Dis trict Superintendent Palestine Dis trict, Palestine. Singing Cadets To Sing Former student workers who will attend are the Rev. Carlos Davis, LaPorte and the Rev. Bert Smith, Sealy. The Singing Cadets will sing two numbers, one of which will be “This Is My Father’s World.” The Reverend Jackson issued a special invitation to Aggies and their families and friends to at tend the ceremonies. Aggies Welcomed “This is the church under which Methodist Aggies spend their col lege years and we want all of them to have a part in our program,” the minister said. “All former Ag gies who can come back will be welcomed.” At the noon hour dinner will be served on the church grounds. In the afternoon a special lay men’s meeting will be held, the Reverend Jackson said. Poll Tax Booth Open at MSC The Memorial Student Center House Committee will maintain a Poll Tax Booth in the MSC from Tuesday, January 23rd through Wednesday, January 31. The booth will be located in the east wing of the building and will be maintained through the follow ing hours with the exception of Satui'day and Sunday: 9:30 a. m. until 11:30 a, m. 2:30 p. m. until 4:30 p. m. 5:30 p. m. until 7:30 p. m. Members of the House Com mittee are Robert W. Anderson, P. H. Duval, Jr., C. R. Gallimore, Wil liam H. Haley, L. G. Hardwicke, James H. Rucks, John Samuels, Bill L. Stephenson, Ray Stockard, Stanley B. Wood, Robert W. Young, Robert L. King. The House Committee is charged with planning special open house events for the MSC. It also is in charge of decorating the building, planning coffee hours, and social forums. Rookie Police Wounded by Young Gunmen Dallas, Jan. 23 —hT)— Four young, unshaven gunmen wounded two rookie policemen who stopped their car because it ran a red light Monday. All City Accident Prevention Bu- +reau officers were called out to search for the unidentified gun men. Many other off-duty officers joined the hunt. State and county police helped. A police car was at nearly every major city intersec tion, and others prowled county roads. Earlier, Detective A. L. Clinkin- beard had captured an ex-convict and a cargo of marijuana when he stopped a car on the southern out skirts of Dallas. A second man got away in the car as Clinkinbeard riddled it with bullets. Police Chief Carl Hansson said there was no apparent connection between the two incidents. Both occurred in South Dallas. Patrolman Johnnie Sides, 21, an officer only six weeks, was wound ed in the stomach, and Patrolman H. L. Dawson, 31, an officer less than a year, was shot in the wrist when they stopped the car Monday night. Sides was in critical condi tion. The gunmen were in a 1950, blue Oldsmobile with an Oklahoma license. Dawson said that after he and Sides stopped the car, “I told two of them to get and started to search them. Johnnie was on the other side opening the door, I said, look out. They’ve got a rifle on the back seat. Then the guy on Johnnie’s side started shooting a pistol.” Town Hall Artist Andres Segovia, who will appear March 28 in Guion Hall as a Town Hall attraction, is pictured above with his guitar. Segovia is considered one of the finest guitarists in the world. His pro gram here will feature selections by Bach and his contemporaries, modern composers and some Spanish compositions. Town Hall tickets are still on sale in Student Activities office. Tough Carrier Independence To Be Sunk San Francisco, Jan. 23—hP)—The atom-bomb carrier Independence is going to be blasted to Davy Jones. The Navy says this World War II hero no longer is of any value— even as an experimental laboratory for radiologists. Only the hulk remains of the 10,000 light carrier whose planes destroyed more than 100 Japanese aircraft and at least one ship, the cruiser Oyodo. The atom bomb, scientists and engineers have blasted and stripped the mighty I of every usable ob ject. Decks Battered Her flight and hangar decks and hull above the water line are holepocked and battered — chiefly by the 1946 atom bombing at Bi kini. Her main power plant was sent to the Navy’s rocket experiment project at Point Mugu, Calif. The mighty I’s death will be as explosive as her life through the war and Bikini. Her death date and grave and means of destruction are Navy top- secrets— on orders from CNO — Chief of Naval Operations, (Adm. Forrest P. Shennan) Washington. But the date probably will be early to mid-February. The place: perhaps 500 miles at sea — far enough outside San Francisco’s Golden Gate to avoid snoopers and outside of shipping lanes. The method: “some weapon” placed aboard, presumably on the hangar or flight deck. It will not be atomic. It has been used be fore. It would be identifiable read ily from pictures, even long range shots, if enlarged. Reporters Banned Cameramen and newsmen will not be permitted to witness the sinking. The Independence was commis sioned Jan. 14, 1943 at the Phila delphia Navy Yard and almost im mediately sped to battle in the Pacific. She ranged from Rabaul in the southwest to Hokkaido, northern most of the Japanese home islands, and struck most Japanese bases along the way. She raided as far. west as Malaya. Her air heroes included Lt. Cmdr. Edward H. (Butch) O’Hare, ace of the carrier Lexington who was shot down in one of the war’s first night fights while attached to the Independence; Lt. (jg) Alex ander Vraciu, credited with de stroying 19 Jap planes in the Ma rianas battles, and Cmdr. Turner F. Caldwell, Jr., who destroyed six Jap planes in one sweep on Clark Field, the Philippines. Management Confab to Hear Dr. L Gilbreth Dr. Lillian Gilbreth, whose life was recently featured in a movie, “Cheaper by the Dozen,” will he one of the top-drawer authorities featured on the fourth annual Management Conference to he held here March 1-2. Dr. Gilbreth will speak on “Scientific Management and Executive Development.” President M. T. Harrington will deliver the welcoming address to the delegates and visitors. Theme of the conference will be the development of executive talent in industry. Conference director is R. F. Brucker of the Management Engineering Department, while his department is the conference spon sor. All sessions will be held in the Student Center. Other speakers will be J. L. Mc- Caffey, president of the Interna tional Harvester Co; L. C. Morrow, consulting editor of McGraw-Hill Publishing Co.; Dr. William Ford, consulting psychologist Of Hous ton; F. J. Bell, director of Human Relations, McCormick and Co., Bal timore; Thomas W. Moore, training director, Humble Oil and Refining Co., Houston; and Dr. Tate Miller of Dallas. Talent Auditions, Dance Classes Off Certain activities of the MSC have been cancelled this week be cause of exams, Miss Betty Bo lander, assistant social director of the MSC, said today. Dancing instructions have been cancelled and will not be resumed until Tuesday, January 30. Talent Bureau auditions held regularly on Wednesday and Fri day are cancelled this week. The first audition will be held Wednes day, January 31 from 7 p. m. until 8 p. m. in the social room of the MSC. U.S. Wins Biggest Jet Battle In Korea Skies 4 ROTC Students’ Stay In School — Marshall 1951 Jan 20 am 11 52 President Tom Harrington Texas Agricultural and Mechanical College System College Sta Tex. Defense Secretary Marshall today took two steps to stop enlistment panic students. Announced any student now postponed induction or receiving draft notice will be permit ted volunteer service of choice “if there are openings in such service any time in the two months immediately pre ceding final month of their school year.” Those volunteering in that period permitted finish college year same as students not receiving draft notices. Marshall also strongly urged all R.O.T.C. students stay in college and said panic enlistment college students “waste to the nation and damage to educa tional system.” R I Thackrey (The above telegram was sent to President Harrington by R. I. Thackrey, Executive Secretary, Association of Land Grant Colleges and Universities.) f College students no longer need to worry about being unable to pick their branch of service in the armed forces, provided of course, they are called into service via Selective Service. New rulings issued by the De fense Department permit students called for induction, to finish a school year and still pick their own branch in the armed forces. The change eliminates a kink in the regulations which had caused many students to drop out of col lege to enlist and insure themselves of a choice of branch of service. Hereafter the student getting a draft notice may volunteer for a selected branch within the two months preceding the last month of the school term, and report when the term is over. No longer will college students have to choose between continuing their college education and the privilege of choosing their branch of service. New Club Has Aim of Pushing World Peace A new club, with the prqnounced aim of promoting better interna tional understanding leading to ward world peace, has been formed at A&M. It is called the “United Nations Club at A&M”, and has about 55 members at present, most of them foreign students studying at A&M. The club will hold its next meet ing on Feb. 9 at the YMCA, be ginning at 7 p. m. G. N. Raut of India, its first president, has high hopes for the future of the club, hopes that include a big' member ship not only at A&M, not only in the United States, but also throughout the world. That’s why Raut is urging everyone who is interested in better world relations to attend the meeting and to join the club. He emphasizes that one need not be a student to become a member; you can join even if you are in no way connected with the school. A group of people celebrating United Nations Day on Nov. 24, 1950 started the club. They were gathered in the YMCA. Before the meeting was over, Y Director M- L. Cashion proposed that an or ganization of international char acter, in which individuals could exchange ideas and information about different countries, be form ed. The “United Nations Club at A&M” was the result. Officers of the club are Mom- messin Pierre Robert of France, president; P. V. Popait of India, vice-president; Mr. Stevens, secre tary; and E. Sandoval of Mexico, treasurer. The first group of officers were G. N. Raut, India, president; King - Egger, U. S. A., vice-president; A. M. Leon-Ortega, Mexico, secre tary; and J. A. B. McArthur,. Can ada, treasurer. Information about the club may be obtained by contacting any of ficer or fonner officer of the club. Uniform Typ es Are Asked for Meat Industry Dean C. N. Shepardson of the School of Agriculture called on the livestock industry Monday to standardize its opinions on types of meat animals and to fix its standards on basis of types that will “do the job most effectively.” Welcoming stockmen and county extension agents to the college’s first livestock judging conference, Shepardson said that in the past “we have been guided by individual preference. We need to stop and ask ourselves, ‘are we picking ani mals which will produce the most effective meat-making machine?’ Our entire economy,” he said, “depends on efficiency.” The conference, said Dr. J. C. Miller, head of the Animal Hus bandry Department, is to coordin ate thinking on types of livestock associated with the most efficient production. Eisenhower Ends Talks In Germany Frankfurt, Jan. 23—CP)—Gen. Eisenhower completed his military appraisal of Western Europe Mon day night after private talks with West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, two generals and other German leaders. The Germans said the talks were friendly and communicative. Carlo Schmid, top parliamentarian of the Socialist Party, said afterwards: “World War II will not take place.” Eisenhower flies today to France, with whose officials he already has conferred at great length. His two- day stay in France will see the completion of arrangements for setting up at least an interim head quarters in Paris or its environs. He expects to return to Europe in mid-February. Eisenhower slipped off to a pri vate room for his talk with Ade nauer. He was closeted with the West German chancellor for more than an hour. Twenty-minute talks with the German generals—Hans Speidel and Adolf Heursinger—^fol lowed. There was no report on what they talked about but the general subject matter was certain—Ger man rearmament and the danger of Russian aggression. Speidel, former chief of staff to Field Marshall Erwin Rommel on the Western front, and Heusinger now are part - of the West German Commission negotiating with the Allies on Germany’s proposed new Army to strengthen Atlantic Pact defenses. From both military and politi cal sources here, it was easy to dis cover that one of Eisenhower’s toughest problems is right here in Germany. The Germans don’t want to rearm unless it means real defense of German soil. Moreover, before they commit themselves to taking paiT in an Atlantic army, they will press for a chance to reunite Eastern Ger many with the west, and for re turn of some of the old German Reich, since handed over to Poland. 4 Soviet-Made Craft Destroyed Tokyo, Jan. 23—UP)—American airmen won history’s biggest jet air battle today. It was fought at dazzling speeds in the blue skies of northwestern Korea. U. S. F-84 Thunderjets knocked down four Russian-made MIG fighters, probably destroyed one other, claimed two doubtful kills and damaged or shot down several others. The Far East Air Forces in Tokyo said that 25 of 33 F-84s—the largest jet force to sally forth against Red planes—tackled between 18 and 28 M1GS over Sinuiju, just across the Yalu River from Manchuria. U. S. Fifth Air Force Headquar ters in Korea did not report any of the American planes lost in the big air battle. Eight F-86 Sabre jets shot down six MIGS and a probable seventh Dec. 22. On the ground the heaviest battle in several days flared 10 miles southeast of Tanyang on the eastern central Korean front. U. S. Seventh Division dough boys and other Allied troops had cornered nearly 3,00 Red infil trators and were hammering at them. Artillery and mortar blasts re verbrated against the lofty, cold mountains. Filed reports said 400 of one group of nearly 2,000 Red infiltrators had been killed in the sharp action. Another group of 1,000 Red Koreans and 200 women also was in the area. There was little fighting in any other sector. Intelligence reports to U. S. Eighth Army Headquarters said the Chinese armies in the Seoul area were moving tanks across the Han River south of the burned-out former capital. A.P. Correspondent Tom Brad shaw said the Reds were using pontoon bridges across the half- frozen river. He said also ag gressive Allied patrols had push ed well into normal Communist sectors in the west and central areas without contacting the Reds. The battle in the steep .moun tains south of Tanyang started at 2:30 p.m. (12:30 a.m., EST) Mon day. Tanyang is 37 miles south east of Wonju, the road hub which Allied troops walked away from again Monday night after holding its tiny airstrip unopposed for sev eral hours. The Reds near Tanyang poured small arms and heavy weapons fiiA into the United Nations troops A.P. Correspondent Jim Brad shaw reported two other Commun ist buildups in the central eastern sector. One was around Yongwol, 20 miles northeast of Tanyang. The other was near Andong, 54 miles north of the old Pusan perimeter pivot point of Taeju. About 2,500 Reds, a sizable force of guerrilla- type Communists, were reported there. A. P. Correspondent John Ran dolph at Eighth Army Head- quarters said Allied patrols knifed Monday into Communist lines all across the Korean pen insula from the Yellow Sea on the west to the sea of Japan on the east. Randolph said Allied patrols rolled up to seven miles into low- level land bordering the main road that leads to Osan and Suwon and on to Seoul. Joe T. Rabb Killed At Fort Riley Joe T. Rabb, senior chemical en gineering student at A&M before entering the armed forces was kill ed Thursday at Fort Riley, Kansas during a squad firing exercise. Rabb left A&M when he went into the Army November 18. He had been accepted for officers training school, was on maneuvers and was taking part in a close combat exercise involving the fir ing of live ammunition when he was hit in the head by a .30 caliber bullet from an automatic rifle. An active participant in ROTC when he was in high school, Rabb was citywide colonel in 1946, his senior year at Polytechnic High. He also belonged to DeMolay. Survivors include his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Joe Price Rabb of 3421 Ave. E., Fort Worth. Other survivors are his grandmother, Mrs. J. C. Rabb of San Angelo; grandfather, J. F. Tull of San An tonio; an aunt, Mrs. C. T. Hubbard of Fort Worth, and two cousins, Fain Hubbard of Fort Worth and Thomas Hubbard of San Antonio. Harrington To Attend Meeting Pres. M. T. Harrington will at tend a meeting of the Board of Control for Southern Regional Edu cation, to be held in Atlanta, Ga., January 26-27. Presidents of colleges and uni versities in the south, will attend. The meeting will concern itself mainly with veterinary medical training. It will also enable, “in stitutions interested in the- pro gram to discuss its operation thus far and needs of the future,” W. J. Mcdothlin, associate director of the board says. ID Cards Required For Registration Students will be required to present their ID cards at reg istration, Registrar H. L. Heat on said today. On days of registration, pho tographic and Visual Aids Lab will be set up on the second floor of Milner Hall to accom modate those who do not have ID cars. Telephone Center You can sit down and wait while your long-distance call goes through, if you use the telephone center in the MSC. Pictured above, the center contains several numbered booths for placing of calls. You give your call to the operator on duty. She gets the call through, then routes it into one of the booths. Then you ave told which booth to use. The operator’s desk and switchboard ave pictured at left. Too bad, boys, but the operator is unidentified.