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'Peace 9 Conference
BRITAIN, France and the United States have agreed to a pre
liminary meeting in Paris March 5 of: deputies o draft an agenda
for another Big Four conference of foreign ministers. The U. S. State,
Department termed "absurd" a Soviet proposal to limit the parley
solely to a discussion of German rearmament. Moscow grudgingly
consented to discuss other subjects but is insistent that German mili
tarism be the top topic.
The basic view in Washington is
likely to remain unchanged. That is
if the Politburo really wants peace
the proof must come in action, not
words. The latest public pronounce
ment of Premier Stalin is viewed in
this light.
Stalin Interview
In his Pravda interview, Stalin
maintained that only Russia and her
satellites were following the road to
peace. He denounced the United Na-
' tions majority and predicted defeat
for U.N. forces in Korea unless they
accepted Communist China's terms.
t He claimed that Russia had disarmed
j since the war and charged that west
ern democracies under American
leadership were rearming to attack
Russia.
Gen. J. Lawton Collins, U. S. Army
hief of staff, told a joint session of
the Senate Foreign Relations and
Armed Services Committees "we
know quite certainly Russia has 175
to 200 divisions" and many more from
the satellite countries.
. Gen. Collins pointed out that Soviet
divisions have a strength of 12,000 to
14,000 men and those on active duty
would equal in manpower about 110
American divisions.
Four U. S. Divisions
In contrast, the President is said to
have approved sending of four addi
tional U. S. divisions to Europe in
connection with the build-up of Eu
rope's defense armies under Gen.
Eisenhower. Four U. S. divisions with
rupporting troops would be About
100,000 men.
The State Department went out of
- its way to puncture Stalin's "myth"
that the Russians have curtailed their
war machine. In a 2,000-word report,
entitled "Recent Soviet Pressures on
Germany," it charged Russia has "35
fully armored or mechanized divi
sions in east Germany and Poland
alone."
Rails Come Back
In addition, it said, Russia has re
stored east German railways which
they dug up and hauled away imme
diately after V-E Day. These rail
ways, the State Department pointed
out, would be. vital -supply lines in
the event of war with the west
Gen. Collins explained the west
would not try to match the Russians
in number of divisions. He said the
Atlantic Treaty powers need a ground
force in Europe sufficient to hold the
Russians until the full weight of Al
lied air, sea, industry and manpower
could be brought to bear.
Economics
World Production
World trade and production was
higher in 1950 than ever before, ac
. cording to a United Nations survey.
Using the year 1937 as a norm, U.N.
statisticians figured world industrial
production in 1950 at 160. U.S. and
Canadian production was 180 and
British 122.
The report rated industrial pro
duction in Russia at 250, using the
1937 rate as 100. Western Germany
barely reached 100 again while Japan
had 70 per cent of its prewar pro
duction. While the industrialized countries
made big strides, .undeveloped coun
tries did not share in this prosperity
end made little if any progress, the
report says.
It found the two most serious eco
nomic problems confronting the world
today as the threat of inflation and
impending shortages, of goods result
ing from the Korean war.
U.N. economists said three im
portant features of international
trade during the past year were:
1. Slashing of imports from the
U5. in many countries.
2. Expansion of trade among non
dollar countries.
3. Return to prewar standards of"
living in many lands.
Sidelights
O In Champagne, 111., a college pro
fessor whose annual salary never was
more than $6,000 left almost $1,000,000
to the University of Illinois in his
wflL The late George A. Miller, a
noted mathematician, lived frugally
and acquired his, fortune by buying
stocks and bonds..
O In Baltimore, a convict serving a
20-year term for robbery, escaped
through a tunnel under prison walls
it took him two years to dig.
O In Pittsburgh, local streetcar and
has firms boosted fares for the fourth
time in three years, from 12 to 13 and
3i cents per token.
O In Hungary, men found physically
unfit for military service must pay
an annual tax of $20 to $50 until they
reach the draft-exempt age of 36.
The Russians probably are ahead
of Americans in building atom bomb
shelters, according to UJS. Civil De
fense Administrator Millard Caldwell.
At Selfridge Field, Mich, the Air
Force ' is giving pilots refresher
courses in how to drive automobiles.
They found that jet pilots, skilled at '
00 to 600 mile an hour speeds in the
air, were too prone to highway acci
dents.' -
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Love
Romeo Jailed
A five-judge court sentenced Crete's
modern Romeo to two years in jail
foil carrying arms illegally last August
when he whisked away the daughter
of a rival clan leader.
Both embittered families promise
grimly the last act of this modern
Shakespearean drama has not been
played Whether it will be a tragedy
or comedy is still to be revealed.
The Romeo is dashing, mustachi
oed Costa Kephaloyannis, 32, and his
Juliet iis dark-eyed Tassoula Petra
cogeorgi, 19. Both Costa and the girl
he j wooed and won on the legendary
mountain playground of the Greek
gods were embittered by the verdict.
Costa hinted he might try to es
cape to the mountains and operate as
a guerrilla as he had done during
the war against the Nazis.
Tassoula, who expects a baby soon,
sobbed that she wanted only her hus
band. She has vowed never to give
up Costa despite her father's opposi
tion. The bride's angry father, George
Peracpgeorgi, prominent Liberal
member of the i Greek Parliament,
snorted that twb years in jail for
leading an armed; gang was a "farce."
He was quoted as saying "this verdict
will force me to ithe mountains."
Costa said essentially the same
thing. Both statements were in
terpreted as meaning the pride of
both families had suffered and that
vindictive action! was not excluded.
WHO'S BLEEDING WHOM?
Dates
l Tuesday, February 27
Rural Education Department
j(NEA) meets in Atlantic City.
Thursday, March 1
Red Cross Month starts.
Anniversary i (84th). U.S. De
partment of Education.
Friday, March 2
Texas Independence Day.
Saturday, March 3
National 4-H; Club Week starts.
Anniversary! (60th), first In
ternal Revenue Tax Law.
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T-41 Bulldog tank at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Md. The tank
has been named for Gen. Walton Walker, killed in Korea.
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KOREA: New Tactics
THE battle-hardened GI in
Korea is fighting a different
kind of war now than last sum
mer. In factj this is the third dis
tinct American tactic since North
Korean invaders swept down
across the 38th Parallel eight months
ago.
GIs call it "Operation Broom."
They sweep the countryside clean of
the foe as they advance. There's no
more bypassing pockets of resistance.
The advance is slow in terms of real
estate won back but the goal this
time is wiping out enemy manpower.
Toe-Hold Defense
The first military tactic adopted by
American forces in Korea was purely
defensive.
The second was the lightning
thrust of armored columns in the
breakout from the! Pusan beachhead.
An integral part of this campaign was
the landing at Inchon, a rapier thrust
far in the rear of the North Korean
front.
These break-and-run tactics con
tinued until the iYalu River border
with Manchuria was reached. They
seemed on the verge of succeeding
when entry of the Chinese Commu
nists made it a brand new war.
The current strategy was adopted
after the rollback before Red China's
tremendous manpower. Lt. Gen.
Matthew B Ridgway, U.S. Eighth
Army commander, is running this
kill-as-you-go : show.
His methodical annihilation cam
paign has cost the Reds an estimated
106,666 casualties from ground alone
in the last three weeks.
That's an average of 4,637 Reds
killed, wounded or captured every
day.
York, tovisvilfa Times
Wounded
Medical Advance
Ninety-eight per cent of the
wounded American soldiers treated
in Korea recover, says the Surgeon
General's Office.
In World War; IL the percentage
was 96. In World War I, it was 92.
CoL Laurence A. Potter, assistant
chief of Medical Plans for the Surgeon
General, says five factors contribute
to this steady rise in care of casual
ties. They are:J blood transfusion;
new drugs such as penicillin and
auromycin; specialist services, ability
to evacuate casualties quickly by air.
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THE ROAD BACK U. S. Engineers improvise temporary spans bypassing bombed-out bridges.
One reason for adoption of this
strategy is that the Chinese have
succeeded in bringing the war down
to a manpower level. They have ma
neuvered in such a way to escape the
tremendous Allied superiority in air
power and firepower.
Night Tactics
This is how they do it:
For the most part, Chinese troops
and transport move only at night.
Expert camouflage has enabled them
Science
Space Travel
Designs for a space ship to carry;
two men to the moon, land there and:
return have been completed, says a:
guided missiles expert at the Navy's;
big test center at Port Mugu, Calif.;
Arthur V. St. Germain, senior test;
engineer for Fairchild at the guided;
missile base, said the design, while!
not in production, is practical with
the application of techniques already;
in use.- The fact that he was permitted i
to talk about it at all indicates the;
craft is not an immediate project.
The space ship would tower 325;
feet into the air above the launching:
site, weigh 180 tons and attain a speed :
of 25,000 miles an hour. Power would i
be provided by four rockets, one tele-;
scoped inside the other, which would
drop off one by one as the shipi
roared up through the earth's gravi-
tational layers.
The fifth rocket, containing the i
crew, would coast to the moon once j
it reached outer space. Its fuel would i
be conserved for the trip home.
The return journey would require :
far less fuel because the moon, being ;
smaller than the earth, has little ;
gravitational pull.
St Germain said the landing on ;
the moon would be made tail first,
with jets and rockets acting as brakes. ;
In Short. . .
Fined: By Federal Judge Edward
A. Tamm, the Brotherhood of Rail-
way Trainmen, $75,000 on its guilty i
plea to contempt of court charges
arising from "sick" strikes in the ;
Potomac freight yards.
Lifted: By the government, its ban i
on copper for home water systems ;
effective March 1 for a limited pe- '.
riod to help home builders.
Indicted: By the Middlesex County,
NJ, grand . jury, the Pennsylvania
Railroad on 84 counts of manslaugh
ter, one for each of the fatalities in
the Woodbridge commuter train
wreck February 6.
Estimated: By the Census Bureau,
U.S. population at 153,085,000 on Jan
uary 1, 1951.
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Against the Reds
to conceal the build-up of supplies
and reinforcements from Allied air
attack.
Generally speaking, Chinese Red
attacks come after dark. The com
munist troops swarm into Allied lines
in waves, driven by an iron discipline
and the typical Asiatic disregard for
the value of individual life. The first
waves, of course, are practically sui
cide attempts.
The Communist goal is to create a
confused front. Once that is accom
BASKETBALL: Court Game
College Scandal
For years basketball was one of the
more popular college sports. Foot
ball played to bigger crowds in huge
outdoor stadia but all over the land
basketball fans were being turned
away from little jam-packed gymna
siums and National Guard armories.
The building of big indoor arenas
like Madison Square Garden in New
York made it possible for basketball
teams to play before larger crowds
than ever before. With attendances
of 16,000 to 20,000, college basketball
went big time and began to attract
a following far bigger than their stu
dent bodies and loyal alumni, i
What happened in New York oc
curred in other big cities. There are
monster sport palaces like the Gar
den in Boston, Philadelphia, Chicago,
San Francisco and elsewhere.
Huge Gate Receipts
Some colleges like New York's Co
lumbia University refused to play
off campus but for many colleges in
big cities the big arenas looked like
a godsend. The appeal was strong.
There was a percentage in huge: gate
receipts and all the college alumni
and student body could get in to see
the game. i
The big amphitheaters made j pos
sible intersections! basketball games.
Soon colleges away from the; big
metropolitan centers had to send their
teams on cross country tours if ;they
wanted a national ranking.
Six years ago the bribe first reared
its ugly head in college basketball.
In 1945, two gamblers offered five
Brooklyn College basketball players
$1,000 to throw a game to Akron
University in Boston. The game; was
never played; the fixers got a year in
jail
and the players were expelled.
Fixes' Are Not New I
A year ago, Dave Shapiro, co-captain
of the George Washington Uni
versity team, turned in four gam
blers who tried to bribe him before
a game in Madison Square Garden
with Manhattan College. The four
gamblers were given prison terms.
On January 16 of this year Man
hattan's Negro center, Junius Kel
logg, said five men tried to give' him
fells REMARKABLE PATIENT Mrs.
plished. Allied artillery has no well
defined target. Allied gunners can
not tell whether they are shelling
friend or foe.
It's almost routine procedure now
for Allied artillery and bombers to
operate at night by' the light of flares
set off by GIs on the ground. But
until the U.N. forces are able to pull
back out of contact with the foe, it
is difficult for the Air Force and ar
tillery to throw their full weight into
the battle.
EX-CONVICT BOOKED - Salvo
tore Sollazo hides behind hat In
police station after his arrest
for bribing college players.
$1,000 to throw the DePaul game at
the Garden. Manhattan won in an up
st, 62-59.
Two of the arrested would-be fixers
were Henry E. Poppe and John
Byrnes, co-captains of Manhattan's
team the previous year. Police said
Quotes
Alvin Roth, suspended C.CXN.Y.
basketball player after con
fessing that he took bribes to
"fix" games: "We were the WTiiz
Kids last year. I guess we are
the Fizz Kids now."
Maj. Gen. Lewis B. Ilershey,
Selective Service director: "An
arrow won't kill as many people
as an atom bomb but that didn't
help . the poor guy hit by the
arrow. If you are hit by an atom
bomb, you'll have lots of com
pany (but) youll be no deader
than if you were killed by an
arrow."
Dorothy Mae Stevens, 23, of
Labor &
ense
"CHDUR labor leaders stalked to
X t ie White House for a confer
ence With President Truman. They
were upset about the nation's
mobilization program and they
wanted something done about it.
They .Wanted a more active share for
labor j in policy determination.
They said tiie nation's mobiliza
tion effort had been placed in the
hands! of a few men from Big Busi
ness. hThey charged these men with
believing . they had a monopoly on
experience, good ideas and patriotism.
In ihort, they said, "not a single
policy design so far has reflected in
any way the recommendations o la
bor ok" any ether group."'
A week ago, the three labor rep
resentatives on the Wage Stabiliza
tion Board walked out.
One reason organized labor, de
mands more say on homefront poli
cies than it had in World War II is
its new-found unity. -
' Joint Action
Las
December IS the onions set
tip a United Labor Policy Committee.
John
L. Lewis cf the United Min
Workers did not take part.
The committee is made up of five
top AFL men, five top CIO men, two
leaders of the Internationa Associa
tion of Machinists and two from the
Railway Labor Executives Associa
tion. These groups represent perhaps
15 million union workers.
As a result of the White -House
conference, " Mr. . Truman named
Charles S. Murphy, his special coun
sel, to work with the labor leaders
about the pre gram tbey laid before
him.
Nar. ling of a labor man as a deputy
to Charles E. Wilson, the defense mo
bilize, is being considered. Such a
labor representative, would have,
equal rank with Wilson's other dep
uties, Sen. Lucius D. Clay and Sidney
Weinberg.
s Day in Court
they admitted "dumping several
game: the previous years in return
for a total of $5,000 each,
Lask week college basketball was
rocked with its biggest scandal in his
tory. jSalvatore Sollazzo, 43-year-cld
ex-convict, was arrested charged with
bribing players on college teams in
and about New York City.
Dishonor Soil
Three star players on the College
of the City of New York admitted
accepting about $11,000 for fixing
games this season against Missouri,
Arizona and Boston College. They
were Co-captains Edward Warner
and Edward Roman and Alvin Roth.
Harvey (Connie) Schaff. New York
University player, was under arrest
for offering a bribe to a teammate to
throW a game.
Four players at Long Island Uni
versity admitted taking about $18,500
for fixing seven games, three - in
the. 1 $49-50 season and four this sea
son. The four were Sherman White,
LeRoy Smith, Adolph Bigos, captain
of this year's team, and Eddie Gard,
captain of the 1949-50 team.
Not all of the "fixed" LIU games
were lost. The players sought to win,
but not by more than six points.
The fixed games and scores were:
North Carolina State 55, LIU S2. Jan
uary 17, 1S50; Cincinnati 83, LIU C5,
February 23, 1950; Syracuse 80, LIU
52. March 11, 1950 at tha National
Invitation Tournament; .Kansas State
University 59, LIU 60, December 2;
1950; Denver 56, LIU 53, December 7,
1950; lldaho 57. LIU 59. December 25,
1950; Bowling Green 63, LIU 69, Jan
uary i, 1951.
TheL. players under arrest if con
victed face fines of $10,000 and jfcil
terms! of one to five years. AH were
suspended by their colleges.
CCNY decided to play out its sched
ule but LIU suspended all intercol
legiate sports. ,
Work
In Defense of Griping
"Whistle While You Work" un
doubtedly is a better song title Chan
an index of business efficiency, say
researchers at the University cf
Michigan. -
A four-year study of plant and
factory employes shows (hat "grip
ers" usually are better workers than
-whistlers.""
The study was made by the univer
sity's j Institute of Social Research,
which reports:
"While this type (the griper) will
often spend a lunch hour denouncing
his jdb, the driving urge to succeed
will send this same subject back to
work! fired with more productive en
ergy.? ; ' . '
An! executive for the Insurance
firm, jf or whom the "project was per
formed, said: "On the basis of the
study, it may be that instead of firing
a roan who threatened to punch his
boss in the nose, we should have pro
moted him." -
Additional findings of the survey:
Management efforts to keep work
ers happy with athletic and recrea
tional programs produce no discerni
ble benefits.
; Prodding of slow worker by fore
men usually doesnt help much.
Old fashioned suggestion boxes are
of doubtful value. -
.- Whether an employe worker lies
bis boss makes little difference in bis
production. -