Page 2 THE BATTALION Wednesday, March 17, 1954' Whoop a! McCarthy Croup To Pro be A mi yRotc WASHINGTON, March 17—GP) The Senate subcommittee headed by Sen. McCarthy (R-Wis) voted yesterday to conduct its own inves tigation of the angry row between McCarthy and Army officials— and to do it in public with the embattled chairman out of the driv er’s seat. This was just about what Mc Carthy wanted and he described himself as “perfectly satisfied.” His Army antagonists couldn’t be reached for comment but asso ciates said they’d be certain to appear at the hearings. The sessions probably will be televised. Today’s action came at a show- clown session of McCarthy’s Per- Jnancnt Investigations subcommit tee. That’s the group McCarthy wapted to handle the probe. Dem ocratic members contended its parent body, the Government Op erations Committee, should do it. Sen. Mundt (R-SD) insisted to the I last some committee remote from the fray should get the job. McCarthy won his point, though, and then all seven members agreed on other ground rules for the inquiry into the bitter contro versy between McCarthy and the subcommittee’s counsel, Roy Cohn, on the one hand and Army Sec- Forest Fires Burn 6,800 Acres Forest fires, fanned by high winds, continued to scorch large areas in Southeast Texas, J. O. Burnside, head of the Fire Control Department of the Texas Forest Service, reported today. The high winds of the past week end caused 100 wild forest fires to spread rapidly, burning approxi mately 6800 acres on Saturday and Sunday. Eight fires remained un controlled Monday morning. “Already this year we have lost twice as many acres of East Texas woodlands in forest fires than were burned in the 12-month period last year,” Burnside said. “More than 50,000 acres have burned this year, compared to only 25,000 in the calendar year 1953.” Incendiarists were , responsible for setting most of the forest fires. Many of the fires .were set at night, which handicapped detection and suppression efforts. retary Stevens and Army counsel John G. Adams on the other. Highlights of the agreement: 1. Cohn will be sidelined for purposes of this investigation and a special staff will be hired. A rumor spread, but couldn’t be nail ed down, that committee Demo crats failed in an effort to have Cohn suspended as chief counsel. 2. Mundt, as second-ranking Re publican, will sit in for McCarthy as chairman. All other business will be shunted aside, another meeting will be held next Tuesday and the public hearings—with wit nesses under oath-—probably will get going later next week. Info Agency Rejects Books By McCarthy WASHINGTON, March 17 (IP)—Sen. McCarthy (R-Wis.) said today the U. S. Informa tion Agency has rejected, as “not suitable reading - ” for its purposes two books he has written. McCarthy told a reporter he had offered the agency a free supply of his books “McCarthyism, the Fight for America” and “Amer ica’s Retreat from Victory” for use in overseas libraries, operated by this government in many for eign lands. He said Theodore C. Streibert, new head of USIA, has written him, rejecting his offered gift on grounds the books are “not suit able reading” for the purposes of the library program, which is to provide foreign readers with easy access to information giving a true picture of life in this country as one answer to Communist propa ganda. McCarthy asserted: “If I was really interested in getting these books into the libra ries, I presume I could accomplish that by joining the Communist party. I’m not that interested.” He obviously was referring to charges he made frequently during an investigation of the overseas library program last year that many books by Communist or Com munist-sympathizing authors were included in the libraries. Airliner Crash In West Texas Has ]N o Injuries MIDLAND, March 17—(TP) A crippled airliner made a forced landing yesterday on a mesquite dotted ranch, skid ding a half mile and tearing off a wing. The pilot and two of the eight passengers aboard the 44-passen ger Continental Airlines craft were slightly hurt. All were shaken up. The plane, a Convair 340 en route from El Paso to Tulsa with sched uled stops at Midland and Wichita Falls about four minutes after takeoff. The airline would not say what caused the mishap. Passengers said the plane lost its power short ly after takeoff, recovered it mo mentarily, then lost it again. The pilot, H. E. Persing of El Paso, evidently was attempting a turn in hopes of making it back to the Midland air terminal. Plane parts were scattered along the half-mile skid path, three miles, southeast of the airport and about eight miles west of Midland. Persing was treated for scalp cuts and bruises. The other two crew members were not hurt. Two passengers, M. L. Sweeney, of Al- tus, Okla., and Paul Shaffer of Odessa, suffered slight injuries. Taxes (Continued from Page 1) page revision bill a proposal re ducing taxes on dividends to stock- holders. He said the dividend proposal “follows the Republican party’s policy of favoring the few.” He estimated the loss in revenue from this proposal alone would amount to 814 million dollars. But only eight per cent of American fam ilies own stock, he said. And six- tenths of one per cent of American families own 80 per cent of all stock and thus would get 80 per cent of the tax benefits, Rayburn added. “Just imagine,” Rayburn declar ed. “Giving e 814 million dollai’S in tax relief to six families out of every thousand in the country, while all other families put to gether would not get anything like this amount.” The human brain reaches al most its full weight in the seventh year. SEEING DOUBLE?—These six-year-old twins, sons of Mr. and Mrs. Bill Burney of Ed inburg, make friends with some more doubles — the three-day-old calf twins born to their Jersey milk cow. The boys, Charles Lee and Chester Wayne, are used to the twins, since another cow gave birth to twins last July. 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 the regular school year. During the summer terms, and examination | and vacation periods. The Battalion is published twice a week. Days ol publications are Tuesday through Friday for the regular school year, | and Tuesday and Thursday during examination and vacation periods i and the summer terms. Subscription rates $9.00 per year or $ .75 pel Jnonth. Advertising rates furnished on request. 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They’ll be here 29. 30, 31 March and 1 April. Meet them at the MSC dur ing their stay. New Weapons List Loses Secrecy Tag DOC HULL will be the master of ceremonies for the Inter collegiate Talent Show. Hull is KVOO’s disc jockey for the Sleepwalker Serendae. State Officer Talks To Water Workers The Texas state health officer said today at Texas A&M College that at last 29 new public water systems were constructed last year to serve communities or sub divisions, the residents of which were utilizing unsafe facilities up to this time. Dr. George W. Cox, speaking at the Texas Water and Sewage Works Association meeting at A&M, also said that 41 new sewage treatment plants or major plant additions were completed in 1953 and 33 other communities had new plants or major additions under construction at the close of the year. “To give better assurance that water of safe quality was being supplied 19 communities also initi ated continuous chlorination or provided additional facilities for disinfection and 47,322 samples of water from public water systems were submitted to our laboratories for check bacteriological analysis,” Dr. Cox said. “To maintain higher standards of water and sewerage system operation and maintenance, the in terest of the members of your pro fession to secure certificates of competency or to renew them has been very encouraging.” he de clared. “During 1953 six hundred and fifteen certificates were issued to water system operators; 303 were issued to sewerage system ope rators and 27 operators of bottled water plants obtained their cer tificates of competency during the first year that these special cer tificates were issued. At the close of last year, there were 2,159 valid water plant operators certifi cates, 673 sewerage system opera tors certificates and 27 bottled water plant operators.” English Teacher Files Slander Suit HOUSTON, March 17— > —A $75,000 slander suit has been filed against three school administra tors by a high school English teacher who was suspended last week after being accused of read ing vile literature to his students. The suit filed by Peter Jaeger alleges the officials conspired to smear him as a “Communist and as being un-American.” WASHINGTON, March 17—