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Number 165: Volume 51
COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS, TUESDAY, JUNE 5, 1951
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United Nations Forces Beat
Off Enemy Counterattacks
I
» Tokyo, June 5 —— United
Nations forces beat off a series
of Red counterattacks and moved
slowly North today toward the
heart of the Communist war ma
chine in Korea.
It was a fighting advance, hill
by hill. Infantrymen fought over
the ragged ridges. Tanks lumbered
up the muddy highways.
Reds staged nine counterattacks
Monday. U. N. soldiers fought
them off. In most sectors of the
central fronts they moved about
a mile closer to the bitterly de
fended “Iron Triangle”—Chorwon
i Kumhwa and Pyonggang.
U. N. spearheads were ten or
more miles away from that Red
troop massing area. The main line
was farther back. Censorship ob-
4 scured the exact allied positions.
Sharp fights ranged at every
sensitive spot.
Limited Air Support
Clouds and showery weather lim
ited air suppoil to advancing
troops. But 180 Fifth Air Force
fighter planes struck at the Com
munists Tuesday morning.
Two fighters crashed and burned.
Their pilots were killed. One was
an F-80 Shooting Star jet; the
other an F-51 Mustang.
Another Mustang was shot down
Monday. But the pilot landed be
hind U. N. lines. Monday’s strikes
by 850 land and sea-based planes
concentrated on Communist trans
port.
Two Communist planes, possibly
jets, bombed allied lines near Yang-
gu on the East Central front Mon
day night. If they were Red jets,
it was their deepest penetration
of Korea.
Reds Radio Appeal
China’s Red radio for the third
straight day appealed to workers
for funds to buy planes, armor
and other heavy fighting equip
ment sorely needed by Chinese in
Korea.
Chinese defending the “Iron Tri
angle” were supported by moder
ate amounts of artillery. But gen
erally they depended on grenades,
small arms and mortars—and their
stubbornness.
Their determination was indica
ted by the fact only 300 prnsoners
were captured Monday, AP cor
respondent Nate Polowetzky re
ported from U. S. Eighth Anny
Headquarters. In contrast thous
ands had surrendered at the start
of the U. N. counteroffensive.
“The enemy is fighting a de
fensive campaign along the main
routes to Chonvon and Kumhwa,”
an Eighth Army briefing officer
said, “while they are fighting de
laying actions in the East around
Inje.”
U. N. troops advancing North
west of Yonchon, 13 miles from
Chorwon, were locked in a fight
that continued through the night
into Tuesday.
Twelve miles to the East, near
Chail, allied tanks were turned
back Monday by heavy Red artil
lery fire. Chail is the gateway to
two valleys leading to Chorwon
and Kumhwa. It’s ten miles from
Chorwon, 16 from Kumhwa.
On the Eastern flank of central
forces driving toward the triangle,
U. N. troops engaged in a fierce
fight North of Hwachon.
Hard fighting was reported to
the rear of these spearheads in the
center of the U. N. counteroffen
sive.
Largest action in this sector
Monday was against 2,000 attack
ing Reds North of the Hantan
River in the Yongpyong area.
Eleven Sentenced
Supreme Court
Convicts Reds
Staff Editors
Washington, June 4 —CP)—The
Supreme Court upheld today the
conspiracy convictions of the
Communist party’s 11 top leaders,
holding they “intended to over
throw the government of the Uni
ted States as speedily as the cir
cumstances would permit.”
With Justices Douglas and Black
dissenting from the history-making
decision, and calling it a blow
against freedom of speech, the
court by the same 6 to 2 vote held
the 1940 Smith Act constitutional
—thus opening the way for pros
ecution of thousands of rank-and-
file Communists.
Attorney General J. Howard Mc
Grath indicated plans for such a
Red roundup may be about ready.
Declaring this “a bad day for
the conspirators,” McGrath said
the Justice Department now can
“proceed to give additional pro
tection against those who seek to
overthrow the government by vio
lence.”
Not Specific
McGrath was not specific about
his plans. Indications were that
the department might confine any
roundup to 75 or so state and dis
trict leaders prominent in the
Communist party. One official
pointed out that conspiracy would
be easier to prove against a party
leader than against a mei’e mem-
Bill Aaberg
. . . have been named Sports Editor and City Editor respectively
for the Summer Battalion. Anderson will also serve as Associate
Editor. A senior from Talco, Anderson is majoring in Journalism.
Aaberg is a junior from Blanco and also a Journalism: major.
City Rated High In
Auto Tax Collection
College Station ranked high
among Texas cities in the collec
tion of the city property tax on
automobiles, as shown in a survey
taken by the Texas, League of Mu
nicipalities last year.
The survey showed College Sta
tion to be only 5% delinquent in
collecting the tax, the lowest per
centage being 4%' in McKinney.
The City of College Station levied
a $12,000 tax and had collected
$11,400, with $600 of the taxes un
paid.
Survey Statistics
One hundred and forty-six cities
w ere surveyed, which included
1,662,063 persons and 253,291 mo
tor vehicles. Taxes were paid on
168,861 of the vehicles leaving
84,460 vehicles for which no taxes
had been paid.
The delinquency represented
$470,202 in lost revenue to the cit
ies.
Bills to force payment of the
taxes were introduced in the fifty-
second session of the legislature
but were quickly bottled up. They
would have required the owners of
the vehicles to pay the ad valorem
taxes on the vehicles before they
could purchase their annual license
plates.
The League of Municipalities
said it conducted the survey to
show the need for such legislation.
No Attempt to Levy
Of the cities surveyed, twenty-
nine had made no attempt even to
levy the tax, most having aban
doned it because “the collection of
such taxes on a uniform basis is
next to impossible.”
Towns reported making no at
tempt to levy the tax included Al
amo Heights (San Antonio), Al
pine, Bellaire (Houston), Cedar
Hill, Centerville, Edinburg, Frank-
1 i n, Justin, Kermit, Kingsville,
Lake Jackson, Levelland, Little
field, Los Fresnos, Lyford, Marfa,
Nederland, Odessa, Orange, Pharr,
Port Neches, Raymondville, San
Benito, Seguin, Slaton, South
Houston, Stephenville, West Uni
versity Place (Houston), and Wink.
ber.
For the 11 top leaders, today’s
decision almost certainly meant
prison terms beginning in about 30
days.
The high court, in a decision by
Chief Justice Vinson, ruled they
were “properly and constitutionally
convicted” in New York of conspir
ing to teach and advocate the over
throw of the government by force
and violence, in violation of the
Smith Act.
Justices Reed, Burton and Min
ton joined in Vinson’s opinion,
which held that the Communist
conspiracy “created a ‘clear and
present danger’ of an attempt to
overthrow the government by force
and violence.”
Filed Separate Opinions
Justices Jackson and Frankfur
ter filed separate concurring opin
ions, in which they expressed mis
givings at the possible effect of
the decision on freedom of expres
sion. Justice Clark took no part
in the case. The Communist of
ficials were indicted while he was
head of the Justice Department.
The Red leaders involved are Eu
gene Dennis, general secretary of
the U. S. Communist party, and
these other members of the so-
called “American Politburo”: Ben
jamin J. Davis, Jr., Gilbert Green,
Robert G. Thompson John Gates,
John B. Williamson, Carl Winter,
Gus Hall, Jacob Stachel, Hemy
Winston and Irving Potash.
All But One Sentenced
All but Thompson were sentenced
in Octover, 1949, at the end of
their turbulent New York trial,
to five years in prison. Thompson
got three years in view of his
Pacific war service. Each of the
11 were fined $10,000.
Ten of the defendants have re
mained free in a total of $260,000 j
bail. The 11th, Dennis, was sent to
jail for a year on a contempt of
Congress charge not directly relat
ed to the conspiracy proceeding.
He completed his sentence and was
released on March 12.
1.49 Inches
CS Receives
Good Rain;
Fair Today
College Station didn’t get as
much rain during the past two days
as several Texas spots received
but the weather station did list
at 1.49 inch total for the last 48
hours.
The high temperature for yes
terday was a pleasant 75 with the
low a comfortable 67. Forecast
through 11 a.m. today -called for
widely scattered thundershowers
for this afternoon and evening.
San Antonio was cleaning up be
hind a rainfall that totalled 6.19
inches from 2:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Sunday. Streets were damaged very
badly and the street commissioner
there estimated the damage at
about $200,000. He said it would
take a $9,000,000 bond issue to re
pair streets and install adequate
drainage.
Corpus Christi reported 3.89 in
ches through Monday morning at
6:30. The Associated Press said
late last night that the threat of
further damage was removed
slightly as flood waters drained
away from the Corpus Christi and
San Antonio areas.
Dallas lowland residents were
breathing easier as the waters from
Sunday’s four-inch rain drained
through the Trinity River bottom.
Temperatures over the state
ranged from a high of 92 at Presi
dio to a low maximum of 71 at
Amarillo.
The rains were welcomed by
many farmers the AP reported. It
fell on crops stunted by drouth in
the Corpus Christi - Alice area.
Stock ponds in East Texas were
replenished. Ranges beginning to
feel the year’s first heat wave were
refreshed.
Aggie-ex Gets
Bronze Star
First Lt. Hayward C.
Hosch, 1948 A&M graduate
from Gainesville, Ga., has
been awarded the Bronze Star-
medal for maintaining the
flow of ammunition to X Corps
fighting forces during operations
on the western coast of Korea in
September and October.!
The Georgian, assistant plans
and operations officer of the 328th
Ordnance Battalion, landed with X
Corps troops during the Inchon-
Seoul invasion which broke the
back of the North Korean army
and gave UN forces their first
major success in the peninsula
war.
Lt. Hosch was rushed overseas
in August from Fort Benning, Ga.,
where he had been assigned. As
assistant plans and operations of
ficer of the 328th, he plans move
ments and projects and supervises
defense of American installations
along the battalion sector.
He was commissioned in 1948
after graduation from A&M with
a BS degree in Economics.
Summer Military Program Gets
Underway With 234 Enrolled
Freshmen Meet Deans,
Hear Harrington Talk
Robert Smith, (foreground) Brownsville; Don Barton (upper left),
Texarkana; Joe Ando, Carrizo Springs; Frank Gram, Brownsville;
and Carroll Forrester, Amarillo, were just five of the 234 entering
freshmen who took the qualification tests yesterday morning in
the MSC Ballroom. Almost completely hidden behind Smith is
Jack Smith, Omaha.
Negotiations Fail to Cease
Phone Workers Strike Talk
end also office and clerical work
ers who are members of communi
cations workers of America (CIO).
19,000 Members
T. E. Webb of Dallas, Texas di
rector of CWA-CIO, says there are
19.000 union members in Texas.
The bulk are in the big cities—
4.000 in Houston alone, 3,500 in
Dallas, and 1,750 each in Fort
Worth and San Antonio.
About 4,000 Bell employes are
By Associated Press
A tie-up of telephone service in
Texas for the second time in eight
months was set to begin at 6 a.m.
(CST) today—unless the union
and Southwestern Bell Telephone
management can agree on a new
contract.
“You can take it from me, there
will be no strike before 6 a.m.,”
T. E. Webb, vice president of di
vision 20 of the Communication
Workers of America and spokes
man for Bell employes for all Tex
as, said Monday night.
Webb explained that technically
the old contract ends at midnight
and the workers would be in posi
tion to strike.
But, he said no strike is expected
before 6 a.m., when changes in
shifts begin.
Workers Ready
The workers were ready. Their
picket signs were painted and
their picket walkers assigned.
The threatened strike involved , . o A t T n i o
19,000 Southwestern Bell Telephone at A&M JlIne 7 an(1 8 -
Two hundred thirty-four freshmen reported on the
campus Sunday to become members of A&M’s first Summer
Cadet Corps.
A full schedule of testing, counseling, and orientating
kept the recent high school graduates busy as they pre
pared to don the uniform of the Aggies for the Summer se
mesters. * i#!'’##®’
After supper tonight, the fish will assemble in the
Ballroom of the MSC to hear talks by Dr. C. C. French, dean
of the college, and W. L. Penberthy, dean of men. Dr.
French will speak on “Importance of Academic Achieve
ment,” while Dean Penberthy’s address will be on “Import
ance of Extra Curricula Life on the Campus.”
Movies in Guion Hall will top off the evening entertain
ment for the freshmen.
Classes will commence Wednesday for the fish—one day
after regular sessions begin for other students.
Topping off the orientation pro
gram for the new students will be
a meeting in Guion Hall Wednes
day night when ministers of Col
lege Station churches will be in
troduced.
From 7 until 8:15 p. m. the
fish will divide into denominational
groups for individual services and
talks with the minister of the
church of their choice.
Study time is at 8:30 Wednesday
night.
eligible to join the union but have
not. These might cross the picket
lines, or might not.
The Western Electric Workers—
who do the installing and repairing
for Bell—also may not cross the
picket lines.
The strike threat hunt heaviest
over a few comparatively large
Texas cities which still do not
have dial service. They include
Big Spring, Midland, Denison and
Gainesville.
Veterinarians Set
Conference Here
Veterinary authorities from all
over the United States will dis
cuss topics of vital interest to all
veterinarians at the fourth annual
Texas Conference for Veterinarians
Company workers in Texas. Still
other thousands would face picket
lines.
A strike by employes of Western
Electric—like Southwestern Bell in
that it is a subsidiary of American
Telephone & Telegraph—crippled
phone service in Texas last No
vember.
The new strike would involve
principally the telephone operators,
Highlights of the two-day pro
gram will be a discussion of im
paired fertility in beef cattle by
Dr. G. T. Easley, Turner Ranch
veterinarian, Sulphur, Okla.; a dis
cussion of general practice prob
lems by Dr. W. M. Coffee, presi
dent of the American Veterinary
Medical Association, La Center,
Ky., and a review of current cattle
practice problems by Dr. G. C.
‘Old-Timers’ Notice Abundance of Females
Fish Cadet Corps Gets in Full Swing
During ‘Rare’ June Day--Rain, Mud
By DAVE COSLETT
A sloppy and persistent drizzle
drearily drowned out poetic pro
mises of the famed “rare” June
day for an estimated 2,400 Sum
housing off the campus.
But the females weren’t the
only unusual element in Sbisa.
Staff members and greying grad
students formed a major portion
a certain class, then hasten to
do likewise. Those required hours
could always come later when
only male snores rank through
the halls of learning.
c , , . ^ , , , Veterans of previous summer of the crowd,
mer School registrants yesterday sessions calculated as how the As for the fish, they paid
morning. co-ed crop seemed a bit more scant attention to the collegiate
But there was no dampening ef- abundant this time. Apparently, veterans—their time was well
feet on the zeal with which newly the majority of the ladies have taken. Their introduction to col-
appointed cadet officers took
charge of 234 of that number—the
segment comprising A&M’s first
summer “fish” Cadet Corps.
Students had been arriving since
early Sunday moraing. Some had
merely idled away the week-end on
which their regular Spring term
ended. And a few more continued to
arrive today.
The late-comers found their pre
decessors already in session with
the books—7 a. m. this morning
was kick-off time for classes.
To those hold-overs from the
regular semester spending their
first summer session at Aggie
land, the registration line had a
decidedly different appearance
than any they had seen here be
fore.
The presence of co-eds, for in
stance, was something they had
heard about. To actually see the
females wandering about Sbisa, as
signment card in hand, though,
brought more than a casual stare
from most of them.
Some of the more ambitious boys
even made some last minute
changes in course plans.
Spying a particularly attrac
tive young lady these lads would
wait ’til she joined the ranks of
lege life had begun late Sun
day afternoon. By 8 that night
they were already tackling a
psychological exam in the Chem
istry Lecture Room.
By 7:30 a. m. Monday they
were slogging to another testing
session that lasted til noon. Yes
terday afternoon they began to
taste the distinct flavor of this
military life in store for them.
Their tonsils were already tuned
to the familiar “hut, hoo, heree,
four” off marching cadence when
time came for a 7 p. m. meeting
with the administration in Guion
Hall. President M. T. Harrington
introductions.
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-i An hour later Vera Vague and
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<: “Square Dance Jubilee.”
While other early risers sat in
Moore, professor of veterinary
surgery and medicine, Michigan
State College. Dr. Moore also will
discuss bovine surgery.
Operating Room Technique
Dr. C. L. Blakely, director of
surgery, Angell Memorial Animal
Hospital, Boston, Mass., will talk
on operating room technique and
useful surgical procedures and
Maj. L. J. Murphy, Veterinary
Corps, chief of the virology section,
Fourth Army Area Medical Labo
ratory, Brooke Army Medical
Center Fort Sam Houston, will
discuss recent developments in the
field of virus diseases.
Dr. C. Clement French, dean of
the college, will speak at a ban
quet the evening of June 7.
Dr. J. P. Delaplane, head of the
Veterinary Bacteriology and Hy
giene Department, will talk on
respiratory diseases of poultry the
following morning.
Dr. D. A. Price, Ranch Experi
ment Station, Sonora,, will speak on
“Make Room for Sheep in Your
Practice,” and Dr. G. K. Davis,
animal nutritionist, University of
Florida College of Agriculture, will
discuss trace elements in cattle
nutrition.
Dr. Redman Is Moderator
Dr. H. E. Redmond of the Veter
inary Medicine and Surgery De
partment wijl serve as moderator
for a panel of visiting lecturers
which will close the conference.
Presiding over various sessions
of the conference will be Dr. W. A.
Boncy, Jr., Dr. A. A. Price and
Dr. W. S. Monlux, all of the School
of Veterinary Medicine, and Dr.
P. H. Vardiman of the Texas' Ag
ricultural Experiment Station,
Marfa.
Dr. R. D. Turk, head of the Vet-
erinary Parisitology Department,
is chairman of the arrangements
committee for the conference. He
is assisted by Drs. W. W. Armi-
stead, H. A. Smith, Leon C. Gibbs
and F. P. Jaggi, Jr.
Gazing in amazement from the complicated methods of registra
tion at A&M, Lou Burgess, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Bur
gess of College Station, registers with J. J. Templin for a course
in the Business Administration Department. Lost in his work (at
Templin’s right) is Arthur Stewart, a, business law professor. Miss
Burgess is attending A&M during her “vacation” from TSCW in
Denton.
their first class meetings, the
freshmen cadets were going
through group meetings and
counceling this morning.
This afternoon they picked up a
military wardrobe at the Armory,
then headed for the Administra
tion Building and registration.
Their classes begin tomorrow
morning.
Elsewhere on the Campus today
the summer session got in full
swing with programs for leisure
time entertainment as well as
class-room work fast taking shape.
Some campus old timers were
already looking forward to the
week-end with typical Aggie anti
cipation. Only this one, for once,
would be guiltless—no Saturday
classes to cut.
Jobs Available
On Bait Staff
Several vacancies still exist on
The Battalion Staff roster for the
Summer, announced Joel Austin,
editor.
Positions in the Circulation and
Advertising Departments are open
and a staff photographer is yet
to be selected, he said.
Applicants for the jobs should
see Roland Bing in room 211 in
Goodwin Hall or see Austin in The
Battalion office, the editor said.
Reporters are also needed to
complete the staff for the Summer
semesters.
Weekend Program
The weekend program got un
derway Sunday evening with ves
per services and Basic Division
Night in the Chemistry Lecture
Room at 7 o. m.
From 8 until 9:15 p. m. the
A. C. E. Psychological Examina
tion was administered to the fresh
men.
Seven-thirty a. m. Monday found
the new students marching to the
MSC where they took the regular
freshman tests which are usually
administered during Freshman
week in early September.
Military organization was on
schedule after the noon meal yes
terday, and uniforms were issued
to the entering freshmen at the
completion of the organization
period.
President Speaks
Last night a “Meet the Admin
istration” program was held in
Guion Hall. Members of the Exe
cutive Committee, which is com
posed of deans of the seven schools
of the college, the registrar, and
the dean of the college, were intro
duced at the gathering.
President M. T. Harrington
gieeted the freshmen and welcomed
them to the college in an address
which followed the introduction.
Free movies were shown after
the talk.
Veteran Loan
Program Will
End June 30
World War II veterans
planning to apply for direct
home and farm loans from the
Veterans Administration were
reminded by VA today that
the direct Government loan pro
gram ends by law on June 30, 1951.
The Veterans Administration
said it would scarcely be possible
in most instances to process appli
cations before the June 30 dead
line that was received by the VA
regional offices after June 15.
The Housing Act of 1950 auth
orized VA to make direct loans up
to $10,000 at 4 percent interest to
World War II veterans with which
to buy or build a home, or to
build or improve a farmhouse. The
act stipulated that VA was to
make these direct loans in those
areas of the country where the
regular GI loans were not avail
able from private lender’s. The law
further required VA to designate
the areas as eligible for direct
loans.
Since the program got under
way last summer, more than 2600
counties or parts of counties in the
United States have been designated
as eligible for direct loans. An es
timated 5,000,000 World War II
veterans live in these designated
areas.
As of May 10, about $90,000,000
of the $150,000,000 authorized for
the program had been disbursed
or reserved under pending appli
cations for direct loans to vete
rans.
While the direct Government
loan program ends June 30, 1951,
the regular GI loan program does
not expire until July 25, 1957,