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Red Radios Flay
Ridgway For Stand
Tokyo, Aug. 30—(A 5 )—Red ra
dios accused Gen. Matthew B. Ridg
way today of distortion, slander
and lying.
But Communist leaders made no
reply to his note which inspired
the charges.
The United Nations commander
had refused to investigate again
Red “evidence” that a U.N. plane
bombed Kaesong, site of disrupted
Korean war armistice talks. This
was the basis of the blasts from
Red China’s Peiping radio.
General Makes Offer
Ridgway also offered to resume
truce negotiations whenever the
Reds were ready. Peiping broad
casts ignored the offer.
The Communist attitude tended
to support a theory the Reds want
to delay a decision on Korea until
after the Japanese peace treaty
conference in San Francisco.
Peiping’s broadcasts dampened
a cautious optimism expressed in
a press release from General Ridg-
way's headquarters.
The release suggested the Red
Senator Holds
HST to Blame
For High? rices
Washington, Aug. 30—(A 5 )—Sen
ator Capehart (R-Ind) said Wed
nesday President Truman is re
sponsible for high prices but is
trying to shift the blame to Con
gress.
Capehart virtually invited the
Senate to revise the new controls
law in line with White House de
mands, partly (A) to shift the re
sponsibility back and (B) to head
off “sabotage” which he said he is
convinced the President will carry
out “unless he can write his own
rules.”
He said it was the President
who let prices get out of hand in
the first place and Congress has
only seen to it that controls and
rollbacks shall be equitable.
Capehart told the Senate he was
answering the message to Congress
last Thursday in which Mr. Tru
man denounced the new law. The
President particularly belabored as
“an economic booby trap” an
amendment bearing Capehart’s
name.
Capehart swung his counter-
junch as the Senate Banking Com
mittee got ready for hearings,
starting today, on a Republican
proposal to take out of the defense
production act the sections which
Mr. Truman called its three
“worst provisions.” That list in-
rludels Capehart’s amendment re
quiring that price ceilings reflect
all cost increases, including over
head, advertising and such, from
the start of the Korean war to
July 19, 1951.
Batt Sked-
Ttvice Weekly
Your next Battalion will
reach you Tuesday, Sept. 4.
The schedule for the period
Sept. 3 to Sept. 17 is as fol
lows: A Battalion will be
published on each Tuesday
and Thursday of that period.
proposal to reinvestigate the Kae
song bombing charge “may contain
some hope for resumption” of truce
talks. Communists broke off nego
tiations Aug. 23, a few hours af
ter they said a U.N. plane bombed
Kaesong.
Broadcasts Rap Ridgway
The Red broadcasts said Ridg-
way’s latest note on the incident
“again distorted facts” and was
“full of contradictions because he
is lying.”
It particularly assailed his state
ment that a Red liaison officer re
fused a request for a daylight in
vestigation.
“On the one hand he slanders
our side as refusing to conduct a
reinvestigation,” the radio said,
“and on the other stubbornly re
fuses our request for a reinvesti
gation.”
The broadcast then asked:
“Why is Ridgway so afraid of
investigation, like a criminal afraid
of his final trial? Ridgway’s liai
son officer has said that investiga
tion in the dark of night could mot
be (held). Why then does Ridg
way insist on relying on unreliable
investigation, and yet refuse to
make further reliable investiga
tion?”
New Evidence?
Ridgway’s headquarters has ob
served that the lapse of time be
tween the original investigation,
around midnight Apg. 22, and the
Red offer Tuesday to make a new
investigation allowed the Commun
ists plenty of time to manufacture
new evidence.
The U.N. command said original
evidence did not indicate that Kae
song was bombed.
The Communist broadcast went
into a lengthy denial of Ridgway’s
statement that the Communists re
fused to permit a daylight investi
gation of their evidence.
It documented this with a long
statement attributed to Col. Chang
Chun-Shan, Communist liaison of
ficer who went to the scene with
the U.N. command representatives,
Col. T. J. Kinney and Col. J. C.
Murray."
Former Student
To Join Faculty
Dr. H. 0. Kunkel will join the
faculty Sept. 1 in the Animal Hus
bandry and Biochemistry and Nu
trition Departments, it was an
nounced today.
Dr. Kunkel will teach animal
nutrition courses in the Animal
Husbandry Department and will
conduct research in biochemistry
and nutrition and animal husban
dry. He will be an assistant pro
fessor.
A native of Olney, Dr. Kunkel
is a 1943 animal husbandry grad
uate of A&M. After returning from
service with the armed forces dur
ing World War II, he received a
master’s degree in animal nutri
tion from the college in 1947.
In 1950 he was awarded a Ph D
degree in biochemistry and nutri
tion from Cornell University, and
for the last year he has been on
the staff of the Biochemistry and
Nutrition Department at the Uni
versity of Wisconsin.
He taught a laboratory course
in biochemistry and was in charge
of investigating the effects of rad
iations on animals, a project spon
sored by the Atomic Energy Com
mission.
Quartet On Town Hall
The Revelers, hilled as the world’s most famous
male quarter, have been hooked for a Town Hall
appearance January 17, 1952. They are on a list
which includes, among others, operatic singer
Rise Stevens, the Houston Symphony, and duo-
pianist Morley and Gearhart. The Revelers are
shown above with their accompanist.
Copper Strike Tossed
Back To White House;
Wage Board Steps Out
Consolidated
Opens Sept. 4
The Fall term of school
starts Tuesday at A&M Con
solidated. Since pre-registra
tion was not complete, no es
timate of enrollment has been
made.
But final preparations are
being made by children and
their parents, and the day af
ter Labor Day will find Col
lege Station youngsters back
in harness reciting their read-
in’, ritin’, and ’rithmetic. Sum
mer will be just a pleasant
memory.
Planes Converted
Rome, Aug. 30—(A 5 )—A spokes
man for the defense ministry said
today “some scores” of old Italian
warplanes have been transferred
to the Knights of Malta for air-
ambulance use as one way of keep
ing within peace treaty restric
tions on her air force.
Aggies Set To Open Grid Season
Several Players May
Wear Masks At UCLA
Not only will fullback Bob Smith
wear a mask to pi’otect his face
this Fall, but possibly several of
the Texas A&M football eleven
will wear protective face gear
when it meets UCLA in Los An
geles, Sept. 21.
As the team checks out its equip
ment Sept. !,• athletic trainer Bill
Dayton will fit a plastic mask to
the helmets. Before the 1951 sea
son is completed, the masks may
make a new injury-prevention
wrinkle in gridiron history.
Reduction of facial bruises and
cuts is one of the reasons why the
masks will be worn, but elimina
tion of head injuries and concus
sions is the hope of the Aggie
trainer.
“We want our boys to run, block,
pass and tackle with their eyes
open. If tkey keep their eyes open,
then they are not so likely to
plunge head-first into an oppon
ent’s knee or helmet,” says Trainer
Dayton.
The plastic mask completely
covers the forehead, nose, chin and
most of the cheeks. Molded to
fit the face of each player, the
mask is attached at the bottom by
a strap around the neck and at
the top by a pair of thongs. Ag
gie players will wear the masks
and helmets throughout the game,
both on the bench and the field.
The Aggie mask had a two
pronged history until fullback Bob
Smith had his nose broken in the
Baylor game.
Senate Panel Decision Due
On Excise Tax Increases
Washington, Aug. 30—GP)—Pro
posed sharp increases in, the taxes
on liquor, cigarettes, automobiles,
gasoline and other common Amer
ican purchases were to come up
for decision in the Senate Finance
Committee today.
The House voted excise tax in
creases totalling $1,252,000,000, as
part of its $7,200,000,000 tax boost.
So far, the Senate unit has whit
tled about $1,500,000,000 off the
House total, principally from indi
vidual and corporate income taxes.
If the Senators decide to try to re
coup any of this, the excise field
offers the last big chance.
The House went less than half
way toward meeting the Admin
istration’s recommendation for a
$3,000,000,000 increase in excises
(sales taxes).
Liquor Tax
Under the House Bill, the tax on
whiskey and other hard liquor
would rise from $9 a 100-proof
gallon to $10.50; on beer from $8
a barrel to $9; on cigarettes from
seven cents a pack to eight; on
gasoline from U/2 to 2 cents a gal
lon; on automobiles from 7 per
cent of the manufacturers’ price to
10 percent.
The taxes on wines would be in
creased, and additional household
appliances would come under a 10
percent manufacturers levy.
Beyond this, the House reckoned
on taking in $400,000,000 a year
from a new 10 percent tax on the
gross take of bookmakers and
“numbers” operators.
Income Taxes
After its cuts in individual and
corporation income taxes, the fi-
Rubber Shortage
For Tires Eased
Washington, Aug. 30—(A*)—The
government Wednesday notified the
nation’s tire and rubber companies
their demands for rubber may be
met in full starting Jan. 1.
The National Production Author
ity said stepped-up production in
the government’s synthetic plants
should permit rubber allocation “on
the basis of need” in the first
quarter of 1952.
Until then, rubber allotments for
passenger car tires and most other
civilian products will be based as
now on 90 per cent of pre-Korea
usage. For highly essential pro
ducts, the limit is. 100 per cent.
nance committee Wednesday voted
for $150,000,000 more revenue to be
derived from taxes on mutual sav
ings-banks, building and loan as
sociations, and some now-exempt
co-operatives.
Staff expei’ts said the changes
would bring in $63,000,000 a year
from some 600 Mutual Savings
Banks and $65,000,000 from 5,980
Building and Loan Associations,
both of which are untaxed cooper
atives.
In each case, regular corpora
tion rates would be applied, with
certain deductions permitted.
Large Co-ops Hit Hard
The committee’s decision on co
operatives hits the biggest mutual
organizations hardest, and in gen
eral leaves most small rural co
ops exempt from federal taxes.
Secretary of Agriculture Bran-
nan criticized the move to tax any
farm co-ops. In a statement, he
said the action would reverse a
government policy of 30 years
standing.
“The government would now be
gin to penalize farmers’ coopera
tives which are successful and have
enjoyed normal growth,” Bran-
nan said. “Establishment of new
cooperatives would be, for all prac
tical purposes, prevented.”
While Dayton was trainer at
the University of Miami and ,at
Tulane, he experimented with pli
able steel face pieces covered with
leather. Before Smith wore the
leather-covered mask in 1950, Day-
ton had five players who wore the
masks as protection. But Dayton
was not satisfied with that mask.
Meanwhile. Dr. M. T. Marietta of
Dallas was perfecting a protective
face covering in his dentist office.
When Lindy Berry of TCU had
his jaw broken, Dr. Marietta sup
plied a mask which almost com
pletely housed the player’s head.
This experiment was the forerun
ner of the present plastic masks
being tested at A&M.
Smith wore the leather-covered
mask perfected by Dayton last sea
son.
His performance Avhile wearing
the mask convinced the Aggie ath
letic officials that a player can
still turn in a top performance
with a broken nose, and it paved
the way for the squad to use the
plastic masks.
THDA Group
Slates Pageant
A pageant depicting 25 years of
achievement for the Texas Home
Demonstration Association will be
presented tongiht at Kyle Field.
With a theme of “Wheel of Pro
gress”, the pageant starts at 8
p.m. Three hundred seventy-four
women will take part in the event.
Secretary of State John Ben
Sheppard and Herbert W T ilson of
the State welfare department spoke
at meetings this morning.
Workshops this morning con
cerned recreation, legislation, 4-H,
education, marketing, organization
and publications.
Miss Iris Davenport, women’s
editor of Farm and Ranch with
Southern Agriculturist, addressed
two sessions of the Messenger
workshop on “The Value of Of
ficial Paper”.
Miss Sallie Hill, home editor of
Progressive Farmer magazine, was
scheduled to appear on the work
shop program for the Messenger
during the convention. Miss Hill
was to talk on the topic “Ladies,
Are You Krite-Minded?” Miss
Hill is a former member of the
Extension Service. She now lives
in Birmingham, Ala.
Friday Meeting of Squad, Staff
Called; George to Outline Training
Hospital to Release
Jimmy Jackson
Little Jimmy Jaackson is due to
leave the hospital today, according
to St. Joseph’s Hospital attendants.
His condition has improved con
siderably.
Attendants said he has been out
0 fbed and visiting other patients
around in the hospital.
Jimmy, five-year-old son of the
Rev. and Mrs. James F. Jackson of
College Station, was wounded by a
.22 rifle several days ago.
Sixty football players, six coach
es and a head trainer will be on
hand Saturday at 9 a. m. when
A&M begins its 75th grid train
ing seasqn.
Head Coach Ray George has
called a squad-staff meeting Fri
day night when he will outline the
Fall training program. He plans
two workouts daily until the se
mester begins; then daily work
outs.
Some of the new faces on the
field will be among Ray George’s
coaching staff. Four of the men
tors, including head coach George,
have joined the Aggies since A&M
defeated Georgia 40-20 in the Pres
idential Cup last Dec. 9. New staff
members, other than George, are
freshman coach James “Klepto”
Holmes, line coach Paul McMurty
and end coach Hank Foldberg.
The two backfield coaches—Gil
bert Steinke and Dalton Haircloth
—were on the 1950 staff.
The 60-man Aggie squad will in
clude 26 returning lettermen, 14
numeral winners up from the 1950
freshman team, two junior college
transfers and 18 squadmen. Head
ing this aggregate of gridsters are
co-captains Bob Smith and Hugh
Meyer, fullback and center re
spectively.
Plans are to have a short work
out in the mornings with the squad
wearing shorts. A two-hour after
noon workout in heavy gear will
follow a lecture session at 3:30.
Conditioning will be the main
consideration the first week, with
some time devoted to getting ac
quainted with new plays and prac
ticing fundamentals. Scrimmages
will become increasingly important
as the team gets in shape.
A&M will use the conventional
T as it has the past three years,
with a man in motion or with a
flanker.
The two junior college transfers
on the squad are expected to pro
vide depth at the quarterback and
linebacking positions. Roy Dollar,
quarterback, transferred from Del
Mar Junior College last January
and participated in Aggie spring
drills.
Don Moore, honor engineering
student and starting linebacker at
Schreiner Institute, will join the
Cadet varsity Saturday. The six-
foot 180-pound former Junction
football player will be eligible for
varsity participation and is expect
ed to give strength at the lineback
ing positions.
Moore joins Hugh Meyer, James
Fowler, Robert McCarley, Van
Hetherly, Pete Mayeaux, Cooper
Robbins and Robert Shaeffer as
candidates for the two linebacking
slots.
Head of Press
To Retire Soon
A succesor to J. W. Hall, man
ager of the A&M Press, has not
yet been named. Hall will retire
September 1, after 25 years with
the Press.
“I don’t have any plans,” Hall
said. “I’m just going to sit back
and enjoy life.”
His first step in that direction
will be a visit by all his five chil
dren and six grandchildren at his
ranch home near Kurten on Labor
Day. His four sons are graduates
of A&M and his daughter is mar
ried to an A&M graduate.
Mr. and Mrs. Hall are putting
the finishing touches on a new
home on their 250-acre ranch. Their
plans for the future include having
their friends visit them in the new
home and taking time to visit in
the homes of their friends.
Hall intends to spend part of
his time looking after his beef cat
tle and improving his land, with
the help of his friends in the Agri
cultural Extension Service.
Coming to A&M Jan. 3, 1927,
Hall took charge of the office of
the A&M Press. Gradually his
duties increased until, in 1942, he
became manager of the press.
In 1927 the press, then located
in the old mechanical engineering
shop building, had two small press
es, a cylinder press, a hand cutter,
a folding machine and one linotype
machine. Today it is a modem and
well equipped plant.
American Indian To Get
Hero’s Burial In Arlington
Washington, Aug. 30—GPi—An American Indian killed in Ko
rea, whose body was barred from burial in a Sioux City, Iowa,
cemetery will rest among the nation’s heroes in Arlington Na
tional Cemetery.
Through direct intervention by President Truman Wednesday,
the Indian veteran of two American wars will be given a hero’s
burial.
Mr. Truman made the offer after reading of the Sioux City
incident. The widow, Mrs Evelyn Rice, of Winnebago, Neb.,
promptly said she would be “very pleased” to accept the Presi
dent’s offer.
Her husband, U. S. Army Sergt. John R. Rice, 37, a Winne
bago Indian, was killed in action in Korea. He had also fought in
World War II.
Along with President Truman’s action, protests rolled up fol
lowing the disclosure that the sergeant’s body had been denied
burial in a Sioux City cemetery because of his Indian ancestry. The
Association of American Indian affairs demanded a public apol
ogy from the cemetery.
Union Won’t Work;
Production Slashed
Washington, Aug. 30—OP)—The
four-day-old nationwide copper
strike was tossed back to the
White House today. It seemed a
likely topic for discussion at Pres
ident Truman’s weekly conference
(9:30 a.m. EST).
The wage stabilization board
(WSB) stepped out of the contro
versy late Wednesday night after
the mine, mill and smelter work
ers union refused to call off the
strike.
The board aparently found little
hope of breaking the deadlock
which has halted most of the na
tion’s production of copper, a crit
ically short defense material.
Board to Report
A spokesman said the board will
report to Mr. Truman early today
in the negotiations he asked it to
take over on Tuesday. It held a
90-miriute hearing Wednesday, and
discussed the case again Wednes
day night.
A possible next step would be
for the President to appoint a
board of inquiry to report to him
on the facts in the ca!se, but such
a board would have no authority
to propose an actual peace settle
ment. The strike could continue
while the board investigates.
An Attorney General McGrath
would have to wait until the board
reported before he could seek a
court injunction to end the walkout
under the Taft-Hartley Act.
Mines Could Be Seized
However, if the President should
feel there is little hope of settle
ment and the walkout is creating
a national emergency he could by
pass court action and order gov
ernment seizure of the mines and
smelters.
The strike has already cut off
95 per cent of the country’s cop
per production and dealt heavy
blows to the output of sulphuric
acid—a key ingredient in the re
fining of aviation and high test
gasoline—and lead and zinc.
Union leaders told the WSB
Wednesday the strike will con
tinue unless (1) a negotiated con
tract settlement is reached, (2)
the government seizes the struck
workers, or (3) a court injunction
is issued against the stoppage.
Gambling Halt
Baffles Citizens
Henderson, Ky., Aug. 30—GP)—
Citizens still were puzzled Wednes
day night by a mysterious order
which suddenly stopped gambling
which had flourished wide-open in
their county for years.
Overnight, slot machines, rou
lette wheels and dice tables were
removed from scores of Casinos,
dives and grocery stores in Hender
son Coutny, a westem Kentucky
community of 30,300 population.
One disgruntled operator said
an order to close indefinitely came
from “up north.”
A Kentucky political figure said
the gamblers voluntarily closed
shop to take Gov. Lawrence W.
Wetherby “out of an embarrassing
situation politically.”
The governor was not available
for comment.
The state police, cheriff’s office
and federal authorities said they
didn’t know what had happened.
Track drivers who hauled the
equipment away “wouldn’t talk.”
Burchard Attends
Journalism Meets
Donald D. Burchard, head of the
Journalism Department, is expect
ed to return to College Station
today after attending the three-day
joint conventions of the American
Association for Education in Jour
nalism and the American Associa
tion of Journalism School Admin
istrators in Urbana, Illinois.
Sunday night an executive board
meeting of the A. A. E. J. of
which Burchard is vice-president,
was held in Ubana. Burchard pre
sided at a round table discussion
of departmental administrative
problems Monday afternoon. More
than 250 journalism educators and
their families attended the twin
conventions which closed Wednes
day.
Government officials said it
would take about 10 days to get
a court injunction. Such a delay,
they added, would mean that cop
per stockpiles might sink to a
dangerous level.
The strike has idled 100,000
workers and crippled operations of
scores of copper producers includ
ing the “Big Four” — Kennecott,
Anaconda, Phelps-Dodge, and the
American Smelting and Refinery
Co.
Orville Larson, vice-president of
the striking union, told the wage
board it would be possible to ne
gotiate a contract on the basis of
the 16-cent an hour wage “pack
age” proposed Monday by Cyrus
S. Ching, federal conciliation chief.
Wage Package
The pa#kage would include an
eight-cent wage increase across
the board, plus increases to smooth
out “inequities”; paid vacations*
paid holidays and so on. Previous*
ly a pension plan had been, agreed
upon which Kennecott said would
cost an additional 4 V2 cents an
hour. Kennecott turned down
other union demands.
Wages now range from $1.31 fot
laborers to $1.62 for miners.
Robert Walker,
Film Star, Dies
In Hollywood
Hollywood, Aug. 30—GP)—Rob«
ert Walker, 32-year-old movie star,
found in death Wednesday thi
peace that was denied him during
a lonely and mixed-up life.
Walker, who hit stardom during
World War II as “Private Hat-
grove”, died at his Brentwood home
Tuesday night while under treat
ment for an emotional disturbance.
Two psychiatrists and a police
rescue squad were in attendance at
the time. The doctors, one of
whom had been treating Walker’s
mental troubles for the last 18
months, gave him a barbitunate—
a treatment which had snapped
the actor out of similar spells doz
ens of times before.
However, Walker failed to rally
and died soon afterwards. The
medical men certified the death as
natural due to a respiratory fail
ure (stoppage of breathing.)
The young actor, famed for his
“shy guy” roles, hit the mental
skids soon after actress Jennifer
Jones divorced him in 1945. They
had wed in 1939 and practically
starved together before both hit
fame—and unhappiness—at about
the same time.
Ten days after she was signed
to play the title role in “Song of
Bernadette” Walker was cast as
one of the leads in “Bataan.”
Two weeks after Miss Jones won
the Academy Award, for her per
formance as the French girl saint,
she divorced Walker and eventually
married David O. Selznick, the pro
ducer who had made her a star.
Then Walker became a tragic
Hollywood figure, often arrested
for drunken driving or fighting
with police. He married Barbara
Ford, young daughter of Director
John Ford, in 1948. They separ
ated in one month and were di
vorced six months later.
Only Walker’s di’awing power at
the boxoffice saved his career from
collapse many times.
He had done three pictures re
cently including Alfred Hitch-
cock’s “Strangers On a Traih.”
Many critics called Walker’s per
formance in the latter movie the
greatest of his career. He played
a homicidal maniac.
Bank Official Will
Address Group
Gordon H. Turrentine, vice-pres
ident, South Texas National Bank,
Houston, will be chairman of the
first session, 9:45 a.m., Sept. 6, of
the Industrial Development Con
ference to be held Sept. 6-7.
Chancellor Gibb Gilchrist will
give the address of welcome.
The conference is sponsored by
the Industrial Engineering pe-
partment. Sessions will be held
in the Memorial Student Center.