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Number 178: Volume 53
COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS, TUESDAY, JANUARY 26, 1954
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I lighway Police
Warn Drivers
To Get Stickers
Captain E. K. Bi’owning-, Jr.,
commanding officer of District No.
1 of the Texas Highway Patrol
with headquarters at Austin, an
nounced today that Highway Pa
trolmen would begin issuing tick
ets to persons who operate an pito
on the streets and highways after
April 15 without a current inspec
tion sticker.
The Patrol Captain said that the
men in his command have all re
ceived orders to that effect as the
result of a directive issued at Aus
tin by Homer Garrison, Jr., Direc
tor of the Texas Department of
Public Safety. Browning said that
Garrison’s order was made follow
ing definite instructions from the
State Public Safety Commission
that enforcement of the modified
motor vehicle inspection law which
was enacted by the last Legisla
ture would definitely begin fol
lowing the April 15 inspection
deadline.
Captain Browning also pointed
out that local and county police
officers are empowered to enforce
the inspection law.
According to the Patrol com
mander, only about 25 per cent of
the cars in the 13 county area have
been inspected to date. This means,
he said, that car owners who have
not yet had their vehicles checked
will run the risk of being caught in
a last minute “log jam” at the in
spection stations if they delay
longer in complying with the law.
“Our Patrolmen will continue
to issue warnings to motorists
whose cars do not bear a current
inspection sticker through April
15,” Captain Browning said in a
prepared statement for the press
and radio. “After that date, of
fenders will face court action.”
Split Between East and West
Threatens Big Four Meeting
Molotov Opens Session
With Verbal Attack on US
Free Cup of Coffee
If They’re Lucky
CLARKSVILLE, Tex.—GP)_
A traffic summons here is
good for a free cup of coffee
... to violators from out of
town.
“Welcome to Clarksville,”
the ticket says. Then after
listing the violation, it goes
on: “Don’t worry about it
this time.”
“Now that you are here, will
you have a cup of coffee with
us ? ” The ticket is redeem
able for coffee in any cafe in
town.
BING RECEIVES AWARD—Roland Bing, manager of student publications fon leave
from A&M receives a prize from James E. Taylor, executive director of Texas Motor
Trar "tation association. His entry was prepared as a magazine article for part of his
work m a University of Texas public relations class.
“Men
Reds
Wi th ou l Co un try 9 9 A sk
Take Them Back
Dance Set
For* Polio
Tonight
Fund
Communists Send
Letter to Dean
PANMUNJOM— GP> — Attempts
by liaison officers to arrange fur
ther preliminary Korean peace
talks were recessed by the Commu
nists today pending a high-level
Red move to get the stalled nego
tiations started again.
The Reds turned over at a brief
meeting a sealed letter to U. S.
envoy Arthur Dean, now in Wash
ington, from top Communist dele
gates.
They said further sessions of
liaison secretaries would be mean
ingless since their senior delegates
fvere in direct contact with Dean.
Dean was not available for com
ment. A State Department official
said the Red proposal could be
handled by aides on the scene who
Were empowered to act for Dean.
There was no official hint of the
letter’s contents, but the North Ko
rean Pyongyang radio said earlier
the Communists had sent a mes
sage to Dean proposing that ne
gotiations to a .nge a peace con
ference resume Monday.
The U. S. envoy broke off the
talks Dec. 12 after the Commu
nists had accused the United States
of conniving with South Korea in
the release of 27,000 anti-Red Ko
rean War prisoners last June.
Dean said at the time he never
would return to Panmunjom un
less the Reds retracted their charge
of perfidy. In recent liaison meet
ings Allied Liaison Secretary Ed
ward Martin has tried unsuccess
fully to have the Communists
ptrike the charge from the record.
Meanwhile, the U. N. Command
Bgain accused the Communists of
holding back some prisoners and
reiterated its demand for an in
vestigation.
The charge chme as the U. S.
Defense Department in Washing
ton reported that 80 Amei'icans
known to have been prisoners of
the Communists still are missing.
Communist news correspondents
have acknowledged that the Reds
are holding as “political prisoners
an undisclosed number of Ameri
can airmen who presumably para
chuted or crashed in Manchuria,
aci’oss the Yalu River from North
Korea, during aerial battles. The
Red newsmen said their release
would have to be negotiated
through diplomatic channels.
A U. N. Command letter to the
Neutral Nations Supervisory Com
mission today accused the Reds of
pressing into Communist armies
some Allied prisoners. Presum
ably they were South Koreans.
PANMUNJOM—CP)—Twenty-one
self-assured Americans pleaded
publicly today for the Communists
to take them back as “free men”
from their only homeland now—
the barren Korean neutral zone.
The Reds have refused to ac
cept them as war prisoners and
the 21 have rejected the United
States—at least for the presOnt.
A spokesman told a press con
ference they expect to return to
America “at some time in the fu
ture when we can fight for world
peace without being persecuted.”
“We are not Communists,” de
clared Sgt. Richard Corden of East
Providence, R. I., “though some of
us hope to be.” He read from a
prepared statement which he said
was approved by every man in the
group.
The Americans in later individ
ual interviews spouted Red prop
aganda catch-phrases and praise
for the Communist command. They
looked newsmen squarely in the
eye as they answered questions.
Why choose communism ?
Sgt. Lai-i’ance V. Sullivan,
Omaha: “The American people
know how the Negro is treated in
the United States. Definitely this
is one of my reasons . . . Of course,
my desire to work for world peace
is the main reason. I can’t speak
out for peace in America without
being persecuted.”
Cpl. Moris R. Wills, Fort Ann,
N. Y.: “People who voice an opin
ion for peace in the United States
are persecuted and their voices
suppressed. There is not a demo
cratic government in the United
States as long as McCarthyism and
McCarranism are allowed to exist
—the people cannot be allowed to
fight for peace.
‘There is no freedom of speech
. People in office in the United
States were put there by those
who hold monopolies and control
money.”
The 21 Americans looked healthy,
rosy-cheeked and warm in their
huge blue padded Chinese over
coats.
They were cheerful, had good
flesh on their faces and looked
well fed.
All the prisoners were clean
shaven.
They posed readily for photo
graphers.
There was no indication they
were ill at ease among fellow
Americans, although some jok«?d
and laughed about “mike fright”
when they faced radio and tele
vision microphones.
The Americans, 1 Briton and 325
Koreans mai’ched jauntily from
their isolated compound in the
quiet buffer zone between the huge
Red and Allied armies in Korea.
Communist newsmen also attended
'the conference in the Panmunjom
hut where the armistice agree
ment was signed last summer.
The extraordinary news confer
ence appeared designed to get the
Communists off the hook and let
them accept the pro-Red POWs
as free men rather than war pris
oners. ,
In his statement, Corden said
the prisoners understood why the
Communist command refused to
accept them as war prisoners.
“Therefore we ask the Korean
and Chinese side to accept our
return ... to consider us as free
men.”
The men denied they had been
offered any inducements by the
Communists to stay behind.
Students Plan
Ohservation Work
Seven junior agricultural educa'
tion majors will do a week of ob
servation work between semesters.
The purpose of the week of ob
servation is to acquaint the stu
dents with the teaching methods
and procedures used in the school
and the agricultural conditions of
the community.
Clinton L. Bippert, Hugh L.
Byrd, L. T. Cave, C. E. Lawrence,
James SoRelle, Herb Warren and
Bobby Rankin are the students.
Authorities Confused
About Mexican Labor
7^ TURK OH ^
FRIDAY. JANUARY 29
CALEXICO, Calif. — <7P) — The
feeding and housing of some
10,000 Mexican farm laborers
across the border presented a ser
ious problem today while American
and Mexican authorities switched
from one policy to another.
The waiting workers, victims of
the confusion, want jobs in Cali
fornia’s Imperial Valley, where
harvest labor is needed. ,
These developments came rapidly
during the past 24 hours:
The trapped woi-kers increased
alarmingly in number across the
line in Mexicali, where Mexican
guards sought to prevent them
from going over into the United
States because a contract labor
agreement between the two gov
ernments has expired.
In this bordertown on the Ameri
can side, authorities wei'e recruit
ing those braceros—farm laboi’ers
—who managed to cross in spite
of the Mexican guards.
Then, last night, the Mexican
guards suddenly let down the bars.
The braceros flooded through the
A contribution to March of
Dimes will be the admission for
the March of Dimes dance to be
held tonight at Sbisa Hall.
Manning Smith will be master
of ceremonies and he will be assist
ed by several callers. Music will
be furnished by Cecil Hopson and
his string band. The dance is
sponsored by the Promenaders and
the Golden Slippers dance clubs of
College Station and Bryan.
During the evening Nita and
Manning Smith will present their
original dance, Lady of Spain. A
special exhibition will also be given
by Camille Kennedy and Jimmy
Boswell, local dance team, and Bud
dy Allen and JoAnn Norwood from
the Piedmont community dance
club.
Local callers are Sam P. Ken
nedy, Lee Thompson, O. J. Godbe-
here, Carl Lyman and Mrs. H. A.
Luther.
Out-of-town callers include Miss
Olga Emhoff of Anderson, Mark
Towery, Rockdale; Joe Spacek,
Dime Box; Mrs. Alex Moody, Nav-
asota; and Tim Collier of Houston.
Collier is a former resident of
Bryan and an ex-president of the
Promenaders.
Mrs. H. E. Hampton and Rose
mary Burroughs, refreshment
chairmen, have appointed as their
committee, Mrs. Mills Walker, Mrs.
Lou Lavigne, Mrs. Bobby Gold
smith, Mrs. Roy Wingren, Mrs.
P. W. Barker and Mrs. L. L. Stu
art from the Promenaders.
They also chose Mrs; Frank Ish,
Mrs. Lucille Foster, and Mrs. Man
ning Smith from the Golden Slip
pers.
Hosts and hostesses for the eve
ning are Mr. and Mrs. Fred Ben-
1, Mr. and Mrs. Ewing Brown,
Mr. and Mrs, R. R. Lyle, Mrs. Nell
Glasscock, Mr. and Mrs. Donald
Burchard and C. E. Sandstedt.
Bricker Willing To Accept
Compromise on A mendment
border gates. And, just as sudden
ly, the American guards slammed
the door on their side. They in
dicated the flow was jamming im
migration machinery.
U. S. immigration officials said
Impei’ial Valley farmers had near
ly all the Mexicans they needed
The lifting of the bars by Mex
ican authorities last night was ex
plained this way by Mexicali’s im
migration chief, J. Tulio Lopez
Lira:
“We are not permitting our
people to cross. We merely have
stopped using force to keep them
in Mexico. We kept them in the
country until now in order to ex
plain that their contracts under
the new American hiring plan
would be less advantageous than
conditions which had prevailed un
der the old United States-Mexico
labor agreement.”
The Baja California state gov
ernment yesterday appointed a
committee to ai’range transporta
tion for the laborers back to their
homes in interior Mexico at the
rate of 500 a day.
WASHINGTON — OP) — Sen.
Bricker (R-Ohio) said today a de
sire to keep the Republican party
from being “torn apart” would lead
him to accept a reasonable com
promise on altering treaty-making
powers in the Constitution.
Bricker disputed President Ei
senhower’s newly stated conten
tions that the Ohioan’s proposed
amendment would (1) make it im
possible for the United States to
deal with friendly countries on de
fense matters, (2) strip the Pres
ident of his historical role as the
nation’s spokesman, and (3) force
American withdrawal from leader
ship in world affairs.
Ike Writes Knowland
In a letter yesterday to Sen.
Knowland of California, the GOP
floor leader, Eisenhower said he
would subscribe fully “to the prop
osition that no treaty or interna
tional agreement can contravene
the Constitution.” He would back
an amendment to make this clear,
he added.
But the Pi’esident said he was
“unalterably opposed” to Bi-icker’s
proposal, now before the Senate
for debate expected to begin to
morrow, on the ground that “it
would impair our hopes and plans
for peace and the successful
achievement of the important mat
ters now under discussion.” He
added:
“This would include the diver
sion of atomic energy from war
like to peaceful purposes.”
Release of the President’s letter
was regarded in some quarters as
indicating th administration has
decided it must fight the issue out
in the Senate at the risk of split
ting the Republicans. However,
Knowland said compromise at
tempts would continue.
Disputing the President’s stand,
Bricker said his amendment would
not in any way affect negotiations
with friendly nations for mutual
defense or impede Eisenhower’s
plan to pool atomic energy re
sources for peacetime uses.
“I have asked for a bill of par
ticulars on this point and I never
have received it,” Bricker said in
an interview. “My amendment
would not in any way, shape or
form affect negotiations in inter
national affairs and in no way
would it restrict or interfere with
the President in the proper con
duct of his duties.”
Bricke^ , said his aim is to write
into the constitution wording “that
will keep the President personally
or two thirds of the senators from
making laws for the states.” He
said this would be accomplished
by a clause in his amendment
wh-ich says “a treaty shall become
effective as internal law in the
United States only through legis
lation which would be valid in the
absence of treaty.”
It is this language—the “which
clause”—at which the administra
tion balks. Officials have said it
would prevent the President from
executing a valid treaty dealing
with any matters such as narcotics
or divorces which are reserved to
the states by the Constitution.
They have also criticized a sec
tion to give Congress power to
“regulate” executive agreements
Bricker continued:
“I don’t want to interfere with
the President’s international pow
ers in political affah’s—in fact I
have fought for them. But I don’t
want treaties or executive agree
ments to destroy state govern
ments.”
BERLIN—UP)—A wide-open split between Russia and
the Western Powers threatened today to transform the Big
Four conference—focus of hope for a better deal in a war-
weary world—into just another East-West soapbox.
In the opening session of the foreign ministers’ meeting
yesterday Russia’s V. M. Molotov blistered the United States.
U. S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles drafted his reply
for delivery at today’s session.
When Molotov finished, Dulles accused him of getting
away from the main purpose of the conference. He said he
would try to get the parley “back on the track” today.
France’s Georges Bidault and Britain’s Anthony Eden
♦made it clear in their opening
' speeches the West considers
the main purpose here is to
u n i f y Germany, beginning
with free all-German elec
tions, and to complete an Austrian
treaty of independence.
Molotov spent little time on
either subject. But in the tough
game of power politics at the heart
of the Berlin meeting, Molotov ap
peared to Western diplomats to be
pursuing these deliberate aims:
1. To divert attention from what
American officials believe to be
Russia’s weak position in Germany
and therefore Russia’s inability to
negotiate to her advantage on un
ification.
2. To drive a wedge between the
United States and her allies, par
ticularly France. In this connec- -
tion, he sympathized with French
reluctance to join West Germany
in the European Army as desired
by the Americans. Molotov also
invited Bidault to be his first con
ference dinner guest at the Soviet
Embassy in East Berlin tonight.
While this looked like a diplomatic
gesture, it could also be a signifi
cant straw in the wind in Soviet
policy.
3. To press the Western nations
into accepting Communist China
as a world power and a member of
a future five-power conference.
At one point Molotov appeared
to use the possibility of a Korean
settlement as a bargaining weapon.
He said an agreement on a meet
ing with Red China would “con
tribute to a removal of a number
of difficulties existing at the pres
ent time in regard to the Korean
question.” He also charged the"
United States with violating the
Korean armistice agreement on
prisoners of war. ;
He' said the United States had
denied Red China its “lawful
rights,” especially a seat in the
United Nations.
Molotov accused the United
States of menacing the Soviet Un
ion with a global ring of military
bases. He accused the United
States of backing German militar
ists and planning “aggression and
revenge” in Europe, an apparent
reference to German desires to get
back the eastern territoris held by
Poland since World War II.
American officials labeled these
and other points of attack as old
stuff, but deeply disappointing.
They had hoped the new top com
mand in the Kremlin would take
a moi'c conciliatory line.
Bidault was reported to have
voiced similar reaction.
Official British reaction was less
sharp, taking the view Molotov’s
line was not unexpected and, while
disappointing, did not necessarily
seal the failui’e of the conference.
Toward the end of his speech
Molotov put forth his ideas for a
conference work program.
Manning Smith
Caller for Dance
Local Students
Get Degrees
At Graduation
INSULT TO INJURY
OTTAWA, Kan. — CP) — In his
many years as a cafe operator,
Bruce Allison has come across
numerous “lunchers”—persons wdio
carry their own lunch into an eat
ing place and merely order a cup
of coffee.
So he wasn’t too surprised when
two women sat down in a booth
and unwrapped lunches.
But a short time later, Allison
noticed steam coming from the
booth.
He investigated.
The women calmly were brewing
their own coffee with a canned heat
percolator.
Twenty-five students from Col
lege Station and Bryan were
awarded degrees at the mid-term
graduation at A&M College. Four
received advanced degrees.
School of Agriculture, bachelor
of science, agricultural administra
tion, Gordon Lee Smith; agronomy,
Norman D. Flados, Joseph Bowen
Lloyd, Ronald D. Wade.
School of Arts and Sciences,
bachelor of business adminisUa-
tion, accounting, John Ralph Bain
and James Martin Brown; general
business, Herbert Hoover Alford
and Hugo Joe Endler; economics,
William Albert Libby; physical ed
ucation, Johnny Baxter Colley,
Bobby Joyce Pate, James Albert
Prewit and Richard Bleakley Ross.
School of Engineering, bachelor
of science, industiial education,
Milton Eugene Davis, Jr., John
Henry Killough, Wayne Leroy
Strickler, Robert Richard Hollen-
baugh and Kenneth Ray Morrison;
industrial engineering, Donald
Farmer; mechanical engineering,
Donald Harold Niederer.
Advanced degrees, master of sci
ence, agricultural economics, James
Russell Bradley; animal nutrition,
Donald Barton Hudman.
Master of Education, Robert
Roger McAdams. School of Arts
and Sciences, Bachelor of Business
Administration, Accounting, Wil
liam Robert Martin.
Weather Today
CHANGE KITTY GROWS
SEARCY, Ark. — CP) — A bank
here stocked a make-your-own
change jar with $15. Three
months later, after numerous cus
tomers had fished in the kitty for
change, there was slightly more
than $15.
Brrrrrr—
Cloudy with occasional light rain
today. Cold tonight with possible
thunder storms, heavy rain show
ers and light hail with heavy
winds. High yesterday 74. Low
this morning 64. Temperature^ in
the 30’s late tonight.