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BugleBlowingReds
Feel for Soft Places
In UNKoreanLines
Tokyo, May 16—(JP)—Bugle blowing Red troops hit Uni
ted Nations lines in Korea today with hard probing attacks.
The Reds were feeling for a soft spot to hit in their next
i ; ’offensive, expected by Monday’s full moon.
A striking force of 390,000 fresh Communist troops was
set for the signal. AP Correspondent John Randolph report
ed Allied officers agree:
“The Chinese are loaded and cocked and can explode
| sotuhward any time they want.”
Probing forces hit Wednesday morning on the Central
and Western fronts.
Chinese drove Allies from their positions east of Chun-
• ♦■chon on the Central front. Then
Allied artillery stopped them.
Council Names
1951 Editors of
Commentator
Jack Brandt, junior archi
tect major from Houston, and
Dale Walston, junior mathe-
miatics major from Woods-
boro, were elected next year’s
j, co-editors of The Commentator at
| a special meeting of the Arts and
Sciences Council last night.
Currently of “A” Squadron,
Brandt has served in various pub
lications capacities during his three
| years at A&M, which include artis
tic work for The Battalion and
! The Commentator. Brandt also did
*- work on the special Battalion safe-
* ty edition last year that won first
: prize in a national contest.
■Walston, of ASA Company, has
( also been a member of The Battal
ion and Commentator staffs. He is
| currently one of the Singing Cadets
and a representative on the Arts
and Sciences Council.
The two corps juniors will as
sume publishing duties in Sept
ember. The magazine, published
now for four years, is the official
publication of the Arts and Sci
ences Council. It appears on the
newsstands and in the boxes of its
subscribers five times per year
jmd has the largest circulation of
any other magazine on the cam
pus.
Douglas Hearne, president of the
council this year, presided at the
election meeting. Suggestions
were made to be put in the min-
u^ps for next year’s council.
- Among these was a stipulation
that a special committee be desig
nated by next year’s council to
work more closely with the editors
of The Commentator and report
'from time to time the progress of
the magazine staff’s work.
Howard Winter
•
Winter Wins
Bryan Ass 'n
Speech Prize
Howard R. Winter, senior busi
ness administration major from
Port Arthur, was awarded first
•prize in the second annual speech
contest Saturday afternoon.
Sponsored by the Bryan chap
ter of the Texas Bar Association,
the finals in the contest were held
in the Cabinet Room of the YMCA.
Narrowed from a field of 12
contestants to six in the finals,
the contest was judged by Donald
D. Burchard, head of the Journal
ism department, Coulter Hop-
'pess, president of the Bryan Chap
ter of the Texas Bar Association
and John Ebbs of the English de
partment.
. Winter, commander of B Com
posite, was awarded a large leath
er brief case for his speech on
“Should Negroes Be Admitted In
to Southern White Tax-Supported
Colleges.”
David Folzenlogan, Chemical
Engineering major from Dallas,
was awarded second prize, a small
er brief case r for his speech on
“We Should Not Fear Russia.”
Korean Reds hit southwest of
Inje, after reoccupying the high
way town on the eastern front.
Skirmishing stepped up on the
western front, too, with several
sharp clashes about 17 miles north
of Seoul. The Reds turned anti
tank guns on one armored Ameri
can reconnaissance patrol.
“It looks as if they are just
about ready and will be on their
way down to us pretty soon,” one
officer said.
Randolph reported all signs
seemed to point to the final moves
before a typical Chinese offensive.
Not Battle Size
Fighting earlier Wednesday was
heavier than the customary patrol
actions. But none of it reached
battle size.
Bugle blowing, whistle tooting
Chinese struck at 1:30 a.m. east of
Chunchon. U.N. troops withdrew
under the grenade-throwing attack
supported by automatic rifle fire.
After the U.N. withdrawal, big
American guns opened up, inflict
ing heavy casualties on the Reds.
The Reds penetrated Chunchon,
45 miles northeast of Seoul, but
were driven out.
Communists also used artillery
heavily in the Eastern sector, sup
porting an unsuccessful attack east
of Inje. Heavy use of artillery is
customary before a Communist of
fensive.
A U.S. Eighth Army spokesman
said the largest Red attack Wed
nesday was an early morning as
sault by two battalions south of
Yongda in the Inje area. This at
tack by about 1,500 men forced
South Koreans to withdraw. Re
publican troops later counterat
tacked and regained their positions.
USDA Director
Will Address
Great Issues
Stanley Andrews, director
of the Office of Foreign Ag
ricultural Relations, U. S. De
partment of Agriculture, will
address the Great Issues class
tonight at 8 in the MSC Assembly
Room.
Andrews will speak on “Needs
of Foreign Countries for U. S. Men
Trained in Agriculture.” He will
also hold a question and answer
session with the Great Issues
class Thursday morning, Dr. S. R.
Gammon, head of the History De
partment said today.
The USDA relations man is
one of the leading American auth
orities on foreign agriculture and
has had a wide and varied ex
perience not only in this country
but abroad, Dr. Gammon said.
He has recently returned from
a visit to the Far East where his
observations at first hand strength
ened his ability to aid in follow
ing through on point four of the
President’s program for backward
countries, Dr. Gammon continued.
Last Order Ring
Favors Arrive
The second order of Senior
Favors may now be picked up
at the Office of Student Activ
ities, second floor Goodwin Hall,
Mrs. Thellis Rush, announced
this morning.
State Weather Situation
Looking Up For Farmers
By ANDY ANDERSON
Battalion Campus Editor
they have lacked for many months-
full up to the brim.
Roads were reported closed over
While the people of College Sta- many sections of the state. Near
tion bask in mild (72-78) tempera- Bandera, the Medina River went on
tures and cloudy skies which re- a seven-foot rise necessitating
leased a small dribble of rain closing of a road into San An-
(.20 in the past 24 hours), the tonio. A 10-foot rise in t the Me
rest of the state is wondering if dina River reportedly closed the
it’s not time to get out the boats highway between Kerrville and
and boots. Hunt.
Rains of flooding proportions Winds and thundershower ac-
have been reported by the Asso- tivity continued over the South
ciated Press in amounts up to 10 Plains area for the fourth straight
inches at Biry, southwest of San day. Lubbock reported wind velo-
Antonio and lesser, but still ben- cities of about 50 miles an hour.*
eficial amounts, of .40 inches at The Wichita Falls area expected
Lubbock, 2 inches at Amarillo and continued showers through the
.13 inches at Del Rio. early morning hours today. Gaines-
North Texas seemed to be the ville had a rain that washed out a
hardest hit as far as general baseball game last night,
rains were concerned yesterday. Slow, soaking rains—considered
Most of the rains were either beneficial to crops and ranges—
gully washers or just dust settlers, fell in the Austin section.
Farmers in the Panhandle were The weatherman could see no
benefitted by the general rains immediate letup in the drouth-
which caused creeks to fill up and breaking as he predicted more of
lakes to take on an appearance the same for today.
Phi Kappa Phi Sets
Initiation May 17
Nugget Vocalist
The annual initiation and ban
quet of the A&M Chapter of Phi
Kappa Phi will be held Thursday,
at 7 p. m. in the Assembly
Room of the MSC. Following the
initiation, Dr. C. Clement French,
dean of the College, will speak.
Phi Kappa Phi, which, means
“The love of learning rules the
world,” was founded in 1897 to
provide an honor society dedicated
to the Unity and Democracy of
Education and open to honor stu
dents from all departments of
American colleges.
Prime Objectives
The prime objects are to empha
size scholarship and character in
the thought of college students
and to foster the significant pur
poses for which institutions of
higher learning have been found
ed.
Undergraduates elected to mem
bership must fall within the top
sixteenth in scholarship in their
graduating class within their par
ticular schools. Of these, a few
are elected at the beginning of
their senior year, and the re
mainder just before graduation.
The following members elected
this month who are scheduled to
graduate in June 1951 in the School
of Agriculture are: Mike A. Ad-
kisson, Odell S. Frazier, Bobbie
J. Griffin, Raymond J. Kunze, Joe
T. Lenamon, Ross M. Maddox,
John M. Oglesby, Lloyd M. Pape,
Charles R. Rouse, Hilmet H.
Schuelke, and Charles, E. Wyatt.
Those from the School of Arts
and Sciences are Royal F. Brown,
Freddie H. Dunn, Billy O. Hos
kins, Claude Onxley, and Walter
D. Wilkerson.
Undergraduates from the School
HTs Sister
Charged With
Fast Driving
Washington, May 16—OP)—Rep.
Keating (R-NY) told the House
yesterday President Truman’s sis
ter figured in a 75-mile-an-hour
speeding incident over the weekend
while “sightseeing” in a govern
ment limousine.
He said the sister, Miss Mary
Jane Truman, was escorted by two
U. S. Secret Service guards.
“The President has been tak
ing everybody else in the country
for a ride for six years. Why not
his own sister?”
Republican House members
chuckled as Keating related details
of the incident, peppered with
gibes at Mr. Truman’s “squander
ing” of American taxpayers’ mon
ey.
The New York legislator said
the episode took place last Sat
urday night when the government
automobile, with Miss Truman as a
passenger, was nabbed for speed
ing at 70 to 75 m. p. h. through
Hopewell, N. Y., South of Ro
chester.
Panel Tonight to Discuss
‘A&M Student Government’
Students will have an opportunity tonight to hear the
pros and cons of student government at A&M.
The occasion will be a panel discussion scheduled for
MSC Room 2B and C this evening at 7:30.
Leading the defense of A&M’s present, student govern
ment system will be Bill Parse, Student Senate President
Presenting the opposition views and possibly some alter
nate proposals will be Student Senator Wilman “Pusher”
Barnes.
Following two rounds of opening remarks by the panel
leaders, questions, suggestions and opinions will be heard
from the floor, Parse told The Battalion.
President Parse extended an open invitation to all in
terested students and college staff members to attend the
panel.
of Engineering are Roy T. Bra-
shear, Phil R. Cobb, Donald D.
DeBorde, Robert D. Dietert, Bob
by J. Gebert, Wallace Hooper,
Jr., Edward L. Kells, James H.
Lemmon, Jr., James W. Mathis,
Jes D. Mclver, Wade H. Oliver,
Melvin M. Parse, Jr., James E.
Pianta, and Robert G. Ransom.
Members elected from the
graduate school who graduate
also in June are Claude B. Free
man, Jr., business administration,
Leonard I. Holder, mathematics,
Robert A. Kirk, business admin
istration; James A. B. McAr
thur, range management; Alvin L.
Parrach, chemistry.
Doyle B. Peters, agronomy;
John B. Singletary, physics; Tho
mas M. Stubblefield, agriculture
economics; Freeman A. Tatum,
electrical engineer; and Carroll
C. Train, physics. McArthur, Par-
rack, and Tatum will x-eceive their
Ph. D.’s.
Faculty
Members elected from the fac
ulty are William W. Armistead,
Veterinary Medicine; Charles B.
Campbell, modern language re
tired; Clifton C. Doak, biology;
C. Clement French, dean of Col
lege; Thomas W. Leland, business
administi’ation; Arthur W. Melloh,
engineer experiment station.
Jack C. Miller, animal husban
dry; James G. Potter, physics;
Isaac W. Rupel, dairy husbandry;
Josef J. Stadelmann, modern
languages; and Gustav M. Wat
kins, plant psysiology.
Newly elected officers for the
society are Px-esident, T. D. Bx-ooks;
Vice-President, L. P. Gabbard;
Secretary, H. K. Stephenson; Jour
nal Correspondent, T. F. Mayo; and
Treasurer, F. J. Benson.
GOP Senators
Question Right
To ‘Hold Back’
Washington, May 16—(H 3 )—Republican senators chal
lenged today the right of witnesses to keep silent their con
versations with President Truman on the ouster of Gen
Douglas MacArthur.
At the same time, the Republicans shied away from any
action that might lead to a contempt citation against Gen.
Omar N. Bradley, chairman of the joint chiefs of staff.
Bradley was scheduled to resume his testimony on global
military strategy and MacArthur’s firing before the Senate
Armed Services and Foreign Relations Committees (9 a.m.,
EST).
But a row over his refusal yesterday to tell the commit
tees what was said at an April 6 White House conference—
five days before MacArthur was fired as Pacific commander
■♦■—remained to be cleared up befoi'e
“Liltin’ Martha Tilton” as she is known in the entertainment
world will furnish the feminine touch to the Senior Ring Dance
and Banquet Saturday night at 9 p.m. in Sbisa Hall. The blonde,
blue-eyed charmer will sing with Will Osborne and his orchestra in
furnishing danceable music for the dance to end all dances as far as
a senior is concerned.
System Insurance
Offers Three Plans
Most group hospitalization con
tracts provide for only one plan,
but Texas A&M College System
employes have their choice of three
plans, today Said Edward G. Bren
nan, group representative for
Pan-American Life Insurance Cam-
pany of New Orleans. Pan-Ameri
can is the earner for A&M Sys
tem’s new conti'act.
Thus each employe should be
able to choose the plan best suited
to his needs, continued Bx-ennan.
This fact should help A&M Sys
tem reach its contracted-for goal
of at least 75 percent participa
tion in the new group hospitaliza-
tiion plan now in effect, he said.
Uses LSU As Example
As an example of what can be
done, Brennan cited Louisiana
State University, which recently
contracted with Pan-American Life
for hospitalization covei’age of its
employes. Although only one plan
of coverage is offered at LSU,
participation in the plan exceeds
85 percent.
Commission Offers
Varied Employment
An employer, sometimes forgot
ten when it comes to seeking a
job, is the United States Civil Ser
vice Commission.
The Commission offers jobs in
a wide and varied field. Typical of
the many positions open is a job
in Washington, D. C. as an Ac
counting and Auditing Clerk, pay
ing $2,875 per year and Account
ant and Auditor (Trainee) paying
from $3,100 to $3,450 a yeai\
Still others are for Industrial
and Production Specialists in the
Southern Air Procurement Distinct.
Pay scales range from $3,100 to
$6,400 per annum.
A geographer, passing the i’e-
quix-ed exams and passing physical
prei’equisites, may earn up to)
$10,000 the Commission states.
They also have openings as physi
cal science aide and engineering
aide positions which pay from
$2,650 to $3,825 per year. The pos
itions are located in the Washing
ton, D. C. area.
They have also announced a
Psychologist examination for fill
ing positions in various Federal
agencies in Washington and in
most states throughout the coun
try. The enti-ance salaries are
$3,825 and $4,600 a year.
To qualify, applicants must pass
a written test and, in addition,
must have had appropriate edu
cation or experience or a combin
ation of education and experience.
In conjunction with the USCSC
jobs in the zone of interiori many
jobs are also open to capable per
sons who wish to travel abroad.
About 14,000 persons are em
ployed under the office of Foreign
Seiwice.
The typical cai’eer officer stax-ts
in his 20’s at Class 6, advancing
a grade perhaps every f ive or
six yeai's a bulletin of informa
tion states.
His salary rises steadily, from
$3,630-$4,730 for Class 6 to $10,-
300 for Class 2, $12,000 for Class
1 and $13,500 for Career Minister.
for rent, light, heat, cost of liv
ing and representation. An excel
lent retirement plan and medical
ti’eatment and hospitalization are
provided, the bulletin adds.
For fui'ther information on these
positions, the local postmaster will
furnish needed details.
Brennan has been working
closely on the new plan with John
W. Hill, director of woi'kmen’s
compensation insui’ance for the
A&M System. Both of them urge
system employes to compax-e bene
fits of the new plan with, the us
ual hospitalization plan.
Benefits Explained
Some of the benefits, as ex
plained by Brennan, are:
1. No exclusions can be added
to the contract. All pre-existing
conditions are accepted by the in
surance cai'rier. Brennan cited the
example of one employe who had
a heart ailment. After paying for
her treatment for one time in the
hospital, the company with whom
she had a private contract refused
to insui’e her again for that ail
ment. Pan-Amexican, says Bren
nan, will accept this employe for
insui’ance under the system plan,
if she applies for the insurance
before May 31.
2. Under the system plan, depen
dents’ benefits are the same as
the employes’. Under most con
tracts, benefits for dependents are
induced.
3. Benefits cover emex-gency
treatment in connection with ac
cidents or sickness even though in
sured is not confined to hospital
as an “in-patient” that requires
hospitalization. Surgery is cover
ed, x’egai’dless of whex-e it is per
formed.
4. Any recognized hospital may
be used by the insui’ed.
5. No individual contract may
be cancelled by the insurance car
rier.
Coastal States
Win Round In
Tidelands Issue
Washington, May 16 —
(AP)— Coastal states won a
round yesterday in their long
fight to keep the federal gov
ernment from taking over
control of the oil-rich tidelands.
The Senate Interior Committee
approved 7-4 “in principle” a pro
posal by Senator Long (D-La.)
that the states x’etain adminis
trative control over the lands un
til congress definitely decides
whether they are owned by the
states or the federal government.
The proposal is subject to action
by the Senate and House.
Long’s proposal was in amend
ments to a bill by Senator O’Ma
honey (D-Wyo.) which would have
given the interior department ad
ministrative control pending pas
sage of permanent legislation..
The states, principally Texas,
California and Louisiana and the
federal government have been dis
puting for several years over which
owns the off-shox-e submerged
lands.
The Supreme Coui’t has ruled
that the federal government has
paramount rights to these lands.
It never has said definitely the
fedei’al government has title. It
has said the question of ownei’ship
is for congi’ess to decide.
Senior Tickets
Taken Off Sale
All tickets, including banquet,
dance and picture tickets must
go off sale by today at 5 p.
m. Dick Graves, ticket chair
man said this morning.
This is necessary so the
proper number of plates can
be provided for the banquet
and arrangements made for a
tentative number at the dance,
he added.
Dance and picture tickets
will be sold at the door, though,
Graves said.
Home in Poor Man’s Pentagon
Perched Atop Field Piece
A&M Gremlin Confesses
Those little men ai’e back again, affoi’d a gremlin suit) sauntered In Ross Hall he claims to i’e-
You remember the Gi’emlins, don’t up to him and started conversing, compute grade avei’ages after M.
you? Well, it’s not them, exactly From the conversation, compli- S. instructors have left for the
—just close relatives. cated by the fact that the little night, rearrange colored code
First news of these ’51 model creature frequently spoke with markers bn 201 files, place names
trouble-makers was repoi’ted over both heads at the same time, our (after hours) on the Bull Ring
the Associated Press wire last reporter gathered some valuable list, supplement the list of foxms
night. AP got word of them fi’om information. to be filled out by cadets and forge
Jim Beckei’, one of its corres- The little man, it seems, is oxders for Corps Reviews,
pondents in Koi’ea. named Imitpmp. A member of the Assisting him, says Imitpmp, are
The culprit—one “Little Man in same clan as his Washington col- special messengers to detain
the Pentagon”—is blamed by Mar- league, he explained that he left monthly checks,
ines in Korea for having left this capital business to his friends
spoons out of C-rations that have in the capitalistic North,
to be eaten with spoons, having The name derives from his in-
omitted can openers for the cans, itials. He claims to be the “little
having invented metal cups with man in the poor man’s pentagon.”
rolled rim that gets so hot you And he admits labeling Ross
can’t dx-ink coffee without blis- Hall in the big, red letters that
still haven’t been scrubbed off.
He explains that exploit as pure
ly a matter of personal vanity,
claiming that he had never heard
of anyone named Ross and saw
no reason why his headquarters
should bear a name of which he
does not approve.
As for his deeds, Imitpmp pro- buckles and tramps on freshly-
fesses to be a busy little character, shined shoes.
Sure enough, thei’e he was, sit- He emphasized that Ross Hall was He considers himself particular-
ting leisurely , on the tip-end of only his headquartei'S. “The opei’a- ly adept at stifling alarm clocks
one of the field pieces in front of tions, thei’e,” say Imitpmp, “are and dulling x’azor blades.
| Ross Hall. Our x-epoifer, disguised too restincted to offer exercise of “And,” adds Imitpmp, “I arrange
There are also liberal allowances 1 as Lou the Schmoo (he couldn’t my versatility.” late-dates—for a fee.”
tei’ing your lips and for having
committed other ati-ocities.
AP Science Editor Arthur Ed-
son, disguised as a 1944 model
gremlin, tracked down the LMITP
to find the answers.
The story got us to wondering
if there might not be such a
creature around here. Se we in
vestigated.
The little man’s favorite
sphere of activity, though, is
the registrar’s office. Here he
romps about student records
changing numbers on courses al
ready completed, inserting non-
transferrable transfer work and
intercepting letters to expect
ant graduates.
In his spare time, the fellow
misguides pencils in the hands of
students taking multiple-choice
quizzes, hides collar stiffeners, in
verts collar brass, corrodes belt-
the five-star general could con
tinue.
Inviting Bradley to return this
morning, Senator Russell (D-Ga)
told him: “I don’t know whether
you will have a chance to testify
or not.”
Russell, presiding at the inquiry,
evidently was referring to the pos
sibility that Bradley’s refusal to.
talk on that one point might touch
off a long argument among mem
bers of the committees.
Before the argument broke out,
Bradley had strongly advocated
sticking to the administration poli
cy of fighting a limited war in
Korea. While he said no one will
promise it will produce decisive
results, he lined up with Secretary
of Defense Marshall in holding
out hope that if the Communists
are badly mauled they may agree
to a negotiated peace.
MacArthur’s strategy for a
broader war, he said, pi’obably
would not “come much nearer” a
decisive result. Its adoption, he
added, would “increase the risk of
global war” and “would probably
delight the Kremlin more than
anything else we could do.”
Lead to “Wrong War”
Bradley said the Joint Chiefs
fear MacArthur’s strategy would
lead to all-out war with China—
“the wrong war, at the wx*ong
place, at the wrong time and with
the wrong enemy,” as he put it.
The dispute over whether to try
to make Bradley tell what was said
at the White House talks pi’eceding
MacArthur’s ouster was the sec
ond major one of the pi’esent in
quiry. Republicans lost the first,
an effort on their part to have
the hearings open to the public.
The sessions are being held be
hind closed doors, but the testimo
ny is beng xnade public after being
combed by censors for matei’ial
they feel would affect national se
curity if released.
Indications were the Republicans
would agree to postpone any Show
down on a ruling by Chairman
Russell that Bradley did not need
to answer a question by Senatot
Wiley (R-Wis) as to what was said
at the White House meeting.
“Senator,” Bradley told Wiley,
“at that time I was in a position
of confidential adviser to the Pi’es-
ident. I do not feel at liberty to
publicize what any of us said at
that time.”
He added that if he and others
in the same position wei’e forced
to divulge such information they
“might just as well quit” because
they would be “ruined” as confi
dential advisers. He said he would
like to consult Mr. Truman about
the matter.
Wiley challenged Bradley’s re
fusal, Russell held for Bradley and
Wiley appealed. Then he withdrew
the appeal—which Senator McMa
hon (D-Conn) and other Democi’ats
said they are confident will be
voted down if x’enewed. Wiley said
it eventually may be.
Bond Buildings
Plans Revision
Scheduled Soon
The A&M Consolidated In
dependent School District
board met last night to con
sider the architect’s plans for
the proposed cafeteria, class
rooms and girls dressing room for
A&M Consolidated Elementary
School and science room and shop
for Lincoln High School.
After discussion, the plans were
submitted to Paul Silber, architect,
and Bob Shipman, consulting engi
neer, for revisions, which included
such details as changes in lavato
ries and positions of book shelves.
Superintendent Les Richardson
said no date has been set for con
sideration of the revised plans, but
it is expected the plans will be
ready in about two weeks in oi’der
that construction may begin as
soon as possible.
The buildings are to be con
structed to meet an inci’ease in en
rollment expected in the next five
years.