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V. Page 2 THE BATTALION Tuesday, December 29, 1953 THE DIFFERENCE Korean Truce Biggest News Story of Stalin's Death Ranks Second in AP Balloting By PAUL MICKELSON Associated Press General News Editor In the little mud hut village of Panmunjom, a desolate and for saken place in a strife-torn world, the most momentous story of 1953 was written. There, on July 26, the hard-bar- gained Korean armistice, an un easy truce that stopped the slaugh ter of hot war in a dangerous atomic age, was signed. It ended 37 months of killing that exacted a toll that hurt all over America— 25,604 Americans killed, 7,955 missing with many of them feared victims of unspeakable atrocities, • and 108,718 wounded. A heartache that prolonged war’s agony in many homes was the fate of 22 American boys, who either because of deep convictions Owls Dominate Boards Aggies Fall to Rice, 55-43 HOUSTON — Dominating both backboards throughout, 11 i c e ’ s Owls proved their rating of South west Conference tournament favor ite Monday with a convincing 55- 43 triumph over the Texas Aggies. In rolling to its eighth victory without defeat, Rice thus quali fied to meet Southern Methodist in a repeat of last season’s tour nament finals. Tuesday’s semi final encounter between the Owls and Mustangs begins at 9 pan. A crowd of 4,800 saw the de fense-conscious Aggies limit Rice to its lowest point total of the reason. However, the difference could have been much greater if Coach Don Suman had not pulled his reg ulars with six minutes remaining. The replacements who delivered so well on the eastern trip could not get a field goal, though, and James Beavers’ three free throws repre sented all their scoring. Exceptional guarding by Rodney Pirtle and Don Moon held Rice’s dangerous Don Lance and Monte Robicheaux in check. Robicheaux had to wait until the fourth quarter to get his lone field goal of the night off Moon, and Pirtle allowed Lance only one fielder. However, the Owl forward hit seven of eight free throw at tempts and finished with nine points. As usual, Gene Schwinger led the parade with 22 points. Firteen of them came in the first half, and all six buckets in the opening 20 minutes were scored from far out as Roy Martin and his mates threw un a tight defense around the bas ket. Schwinger tried 16 shots and hit eight of them, and his basket from the side gave Rice the lead at 6-4 and they never yielded it the rest of the way. The blond center shot his team into a 13-8 lead but the Aggie managed to pull up to 14-11. TelHgman sent the advance to 16-11 at the end of the quarter, and the Blue led by 28-20 at the half The closest the Aggies came Steers Beat "Baina Texas’ manpower - rich Long horns wore down Alabama of the Southeastern Conference, 72^52, in the final game as Billy Powell led a second-half surge after a 28-28 tie at halftime. Powell, who scored only one point in the first half, made 16 in the final two periods for a total of 17. Alabama went 25 minutes without a substitution, and was a tired crew at the finish. The Battalion Lawrence Sullivan Ross, Founder of Aggie Traditions “Soldier, Statesman, Knightly Gentleman” The Battalion, official newspaper of the Agricultural and Mechan ical College of Texas, is published by students four times a week, during tho I’egular school year. During the summer terms, and examination and vacation periods, The Battalion is published twice a week. 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The Owls hit 31.5 per cent of their field goal attempts to 25 per cent for the Aggies, who were led by James Addison’s 15 points. SMU Downs Bears HOUSTON—Baylor’s Bears bat tled SMU down to the closing min utes before dropping a 55-50 decis ion to the Mustangs in the first round of the pre-season Southwest Conference basketball tournament here Monday afternoon. The loss dropped the Bruins into the consolation bracket where they will meet Texas A&M in Tuesday’s first game at 2:30 p.m. Bill Henderson’s hustling Bears recovered from a poor first quarter during which they scored only eight points to draw within three points of the Ponies at the half. SMU led at intermission, 31-28. Then with Bill Dalton setting a tremendous pace, the Bears roared off to a 39-33 lead , early in the third period. The Junior from San Antonio hit four straight field goals without missing during the spree. The Mustangs, however, rallied behind Derrell Murphy to regain, the upper hand, and led after three frames, 45-44. | The Bears pulled up to a 47-47 deadlock and then made it 49-all. But the Mustangs won the decision in the final four minutes. Ronnie Morris and Joel Krog hit the dam aging points in the Mustang vic tory drive. Hogs Rip TCU With a whirlwind running and shooting exhibition reminiscent of Glen Rose’s pre-war teams, the Arkansas Razorbacks tumbled Tex as Christian, 60-50, in a first round game of the Southwest Conference tournament at the Rice Gym Mon day. A sagging defense throttled the SWC’s scoring leader, Hank Ohlen, and the Christians were utterly helpless without the 20-point con tribution Ohlen usually offers. The best Ohlen could get from the three-man pocket Rose’s Razor- backs threw up was four points. He failed to get a field goal in the final 32 minutes. Meanwhile Arkansas was re bounding and hustling as it sel dom has since Rose took over a year ago. Razorback scoring was well divided, with Norman Smith getting 13 points to 12 for Donald Trumbo. or because of relentless brain washing, still had to make up their minds whether to come home or to stay perhaps forever behind the Iron Curtain. Koren Truce Biggest Story Newsmen, participating in the annual Associated Press poll to determine the 10 outstanding stor ies of the year, chose the Korean truce as the biggest news of the year of headlines that found seven of the top 10 concerned with death and violence. Only the sudden death of Joseph Stalin and the succession to his power in Russia by Georgi Malenkov came close to the truce story in the balloting. It wasn’t the, death of the man but what the free world hoped would happen that made Stalin’s death a tremendous news story. The 73-year-old Russian dictator, who dominated a third of the world’s peoples, died March 5. Death followed a brain hemor rhage, said the announcement, which plealed for unity. Free world pulses quickened in expectation of either a revolution in Russia or a drastic change in policy as Malen kov imprisoned Lavrenty P. Beria, head of the Soviet blood purge po lice under Stalin. But Soviet stif fening returned. Except for oc casional concessions, the cold war was back in the deep freeze stage of Stalin’s days. The kidnap-slaying of Bobby Greenlease of Kansas City, a crime that shocked the nation was the third biggest story. The story of of how the 6-year-old boy was kidnaped from an exclusive Catho lic School and brutally murdered even as his frantic 71-year-old multimillionaire father gathered the requested record-breaking ran som of $600,000 probably had more emotional impact than the famous Bobby Franks kidnap-murder of the twenties in Chicago. The Franks case was one of perversion and sadism; the Green- lease kidnap and murder by a dis solute playboy wastrel and his al coholic mistress was an outrage of brutality. Carl Austin Hall and Bonnie Brown Heady, his mistress, received the death penalty as aroused Missouri justice moved in record time. Elizabeth’s Crowning Ranks 4th Elizabeth II was crowned queen in June. It was the first corona tion of a woman since Victoria 116 years ago, and newsmen ranked the glorious accession as the fourth biggest story of 1953. More peo ple than ever before saw Britain’s queen crowned because of the mod ern wonder of television. Spy hunters were active all year and getting headlines, but it wasn’t until November that the Jn 5 lire D, omorrow ZJotlat Life, Hospitalization, Polio EUGENE RUSH Phone 4-4666 Aggieland They. Bldg. North Gate greatest hue and cry was raised. On Nov. 6, in an unheralded speech before a businessmen’s club in Chicago, Attorney General Herbert Brownell accused former President Harry Truman of appointing the late Harry Dexter White to a. high government post despite an FBI report that White was, a Com munist spy. Truman, rejecting a subpoena by the House Un-American Affairs Committee, made a dramatic denial over national TV networks, called Brownell a liar and denounced what he termed “McCarthyism” without naming the Wisconsin sen ator, Joseph R. McCarthy. The din of charges and countercharges, climaxed by the appearance of FBI Chief Edgar J. Hoover in testi mony to support Brownell’s charge that the White House had been warned about White, was the fifth biggest, story of the year. Ike’s Inauguration Ranks 6th Dwight David Eisenhower be came America’s 34th president on Jan. 20 but newsmen ranked that story sixth as against No. 4 for Queen Elizabeth’s coronation. His inauguration brought to an end a 20-year era of Democratic rule and embarked the GOP on its “Great Crusade.” Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, si lent arid without emotion to the end, died in Sing Sing’s electric chair June 19 for betraying atomic bomb secrets to Russia. 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