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ARE MEDICAL STUDENTS RATIONED?
One thousand college presidents, deans and univers
ity administrators heard an unusually sharp attack on
the medical profession of this country delivered by a
committee of prominent college leaders, which has been
studying pre-professional education.
The charges were made before the American Confer
ence of Academic Deans, recently meeting in Cincin
nati, and were included in a report made by a commit
tee composed of the deans of Wayne, Ohio State, North
western and Kentucky Universities. The committee
was appointed a year ago to study the problems involv
ed in admission to the medical college.
According to Dr. William S. Guthrie, Dean of the Col
lege of Arts and Sciences, Ohio State University, college
students face strict rationing of careers in medicine,
dentistry and veterinary medicine without respect for
the country’s need. He said reports from seventy-five of
the nation’s seventy-nine medical schools disclose 92,
460 applications for the fall term of 1949, representing
25,000 individual students. There were only 6387 places
to be filled in the freshman classes.
Dr. Guthrie asserted that many of the students re
jected have good academic records and possess the read
ily acknowledged personal qualifications but that, “no
matter how eligible, three-fourths of the applicants just
can’t get in.” He urged the medical profession to expand
facilities to admit a minimum of 1,500 additional stu
dents annually. This could be done, he asserted, by util
izing the medical college to full capacity, as was done
during the war years.
RUSSIA REINTRODUCES SLAVERY
The Russian Government has turned a deaf ear to the
protests and pleas of other nations which seek to ascer
tain the fate of hundreds of thousands of prisoners of
war still unacounted for more than five years after the
end of the second World War.
In the Far East, the United States has requested in
formation on the fate of 376,929 Japanese prisoners still
unaccounted for. It has urged the Soviet Union to per
mit an investigation of their fate by an international
humanitarian organization.
In the country, persons of Hungarian descent assert
that the Russians took some 600,000 men and women
from Hungary and that there still remain more than
200,000 Hungarian men and women in Russia and in
Siberia. These individuals are slaves of the worst type.
The suspicion also exists that there are thousands of
former German soldiers and nationals still confined in
side the Soviet Union. These unfortunate persons make
up a part of the vast horde of “free labor” that the Rus
sians are callously using. They are slaves by the acci
dent of war but their masters seem to be sternly resolv
ed to make these unfortunate people serve their end, re
gardless of their health or their death.
We do not know what the civilized nations of the
world can do about the prisoners of war remaining in
Russia. Nevertheless* the fact that this unhappy horde
exists should serve a$ an indivation of the fate to be ex
pected by any nation which permits the Soviet Union to
defeat it in war. The prolonged captivity of war prison
ers, as practiced by the Soviet, constitutes a blot an civ
ilization that is just as black as that caused by the man
ner in which Hitler treated subject and alien popula
tions.
NO WAR WITHOUT MEN-TO-DIE
Manpower will be eliminated from the battlefields of
World War III, just as horsepower was eliminated by
tanks and trucks in World War II, acording to the pre
diction of Dr. O. M. Solandt, chairman of the Canadian
Defense Research Board.
The doctor believes that push-button warfare will
Sen. McCarthy Says
Many Communists
In U. S. State Dept.
SALT LAKE CITY, (A*)—Sena
tor McCarthy (R.-Wis.) hopped
across the nation by air Friday,
leaving a trail of accustions that
the state department «is employ
ing communists, many of whom
hold influential positions.
1 He declined to reveal any names
to newsmen, but said under cer
tain condiitons he would give sec
retary of state Acheson the names
of “57 card-carrying communists
in the state department.”
In Washington the Senator’s
charges brought from state de
partment press officer Lincoln
White the assertion that “we
know of no communist member in
the department and if we find
any they will be summarily dis
charged.”
McCarthy continued his trip
Saturday to Reno, Nev., where he
was to address a Lincoln Day
banquet Saturday night.
The Wisconsin Senator fired
his first blast Thursday night in
a Republican Lincoln Day dinner
in Wheeling, W. Va. He waved a
paper and said:
“I have here in my hand a list
of 205 that were known to the sec
retary of state as being members
of the communist party, and who
nevertheless are still working and
shaping the policy in the state de
partment.”
Newsmen missed the Senator as
his plane stopped in Milwaukee,
but they found him in Denver,
where he scoffed at White’s de
nial of his charges. He said he had
a complete list of 207 “bad risks”
still working in the state depart
ment and if Secretary AchesOn
wanted to call him later in Salt
Lake City he’d read the list.
The use of plastic buttons dou
bled during the war.
NEWS IN BRIEF
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partment employee more than 23
years.
SEATTLE, (/P)—Converted into
a supply vessel for the Alaska Na
tive Service at a cost of $750,000,
the steel motorship North Star,
formerly the freighter Coastal
Rider, is expected to sail for Alas
ka about March 18.
Work at the Todd Shipyards
was nearing completion today and
it is planned to deliver the vessel
to the Alaska Native Service this
week.
The North Star made a voyage
last year to Point Barrow where
she put 3,000 tons of supplies
ashore. It was twise the capacity
of the old motorship North Star, a
wooden vessel. Alterations to the
North Star included a new deck
house forward of the bridge with
capacity for 32 passengers.
DEN HELDER, The Nether
lands, (/P)—Ten seamen and a
stowaway drowned yesterday in
the sinking of the 2,214-ton Fin
nish freighter Karhula off the
Dutch coast.
Seventeen crewmen, including
Capt. Huge David Groenstrand,
and two stowaways, were saved
by Dutch lifeboats.
The freighter, carrying a load
of wood pulp from Finland to
France, began leaking after shift
ing deck cargo caused it to list.
TUCSON, Ariz., (/P)—A noted
authority on birth control says she
twice has been denied permission
to enter Japan.
Margaret Sanger Slee said yes
terday she applied for permission
last August and was turned down.
In September she asked that the
denial be reviewed.
She said she was told a cable
had been sent to the theater com
mander < Gen. Douglas Mac Ar
thur) and he declined to review
her application.
enable men to send machines out to fight for them. Nav
igation in the air and on the sea would require little
human intervention. Guided missiles would be launch
ed and controlled by machines. Back of the lines, how
ever, men would be needed to devise build, control and
repair the machines.
The idea that future wars will be fought without sol
diers is a pipe-dream. Even if manpower is not needed
to handle the’weapons of the machine age, one should
not overlook the possibility that the attacks of the fu
ture will be directed against the man-power, wherever
it functions.
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Ho’s troops.
Ho’s government has been re
cognized by the Soviet Union. He
is opposing the French supported
government of Bao Dai, which
has won Western recognition.
1 Washington, diplomatic au
thorities predicted Bao Dai would
be dealt a share soonof the $75,
000,000 Far Eastern arms fund
which President Truman has at
his disposal.
Monday, February 13, 1950
East Germany’s commu n i s t
leaders—with able Russian coach
ing—stirred up a hate campaign
today against the United States
and Britain to mark the fifth an
niversary of western air assaults
against the city of Dresden.
The Soviet army’s official news
paper Taegliche Rundschau key
noted the campaign, thundering
to 20,000,000 East Germans “de
stroyed Dresden reminds you—
fight against the imperialist rob
ber.”
Dresden’s may Walter Widauer
wrote in the party organ Heues
Deutschland that the raids were
“a dreadful deed”_ which killed
35,000 civilians, but had not been
a military necessitq.
In London Britain's foreign of
fice pointed out that the Dresden
bombings were carried out to sup
port to advancing troops of Soviet
marshal Georgi Shukov.
Menwhile, in Washington, the
Truman administration was re
ported to be taking an overall look
at American foreign policy to de
termine just where the United
States now stands in the conflict
with Russia.
The study is being made by the
National Security oCuncil. This
agency embraces the state depart
ment, the defense department and
other government agencies.
The survey, observers say, may
lead to some answers of questions
raised by the long argument over
the projected hydrogen bomb, its
possible usees and its impact on
world affairs.
Some lawmakers in the U. S.
capital said that American scien
tists may produce an effective h
bomb, despite recent reports that
*he outlook is doubtful.
A chilling note was sounded
when Albert Einstein, famed sci
entist said in New York that if
the bomb is developed, annihila
tion of any life on earth could be
“within the range of technical
possibilities.” He saw as the meth
od: radioactive poisoning of the
atmosphere.
Word from Formosa said 51
members of the Control Yuan of
Nationalist China have signed a
resolution to impeach acting pres
ident Li Tsung-Jen.
The Yuan has the power to im
peach Nationalist officers. Any
such resolution, however, would
hav to be endorsed by the Na
tional Assembly before Li could
be removed. Li is in the United
States recovering from an opera
tion.
PIONEER WOMEN MET
FRIDAY EVENING
Friday evening the Pioneer Wo
men of Alaska met in regular ses
sion with Mary Rooll presiding.
An interesting meeting was fol
lowed by cards with Ann and
Mary Ellen Walsh as hostesses.
Winning the card games were
Mrs. Charles Pennycook, Mrs. T.
Scott and Christie Waldheim.
Mrs. Robert Baldwin won the
special valentine prize.