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THE STATFS GREATEST NEWSPAPER 61st Year, No. 355 26 Page Phoenix, Arizona, Tuesday, May 8, 1951 Entered at Post Office ecanI cl matter und-r C-- Act of Consreu. March 3, 1879; 91.90 per month SCVcn 11115 ft1 UVj Republic's Reg Manning Captures Pulitzer Prize Befeii Chief se Peril Stresses Phoenician Gains Top U. S. Award Graphic Portrayal Of Korean War Issue Is Selected THE PULITZER Prize, top acco Of oviet War China-Korea Report Author Retirement From Army Asked By Wedemeyer SAN FRANCISCO, May 7 (AP) Lieutenant Gen.

Albert C. Wedemeyer, whose long-secret report warned of a Red attack on South Korea, has asked for retirement from the United States army. General Wedemeyer is commanding general of the Sixth Army, whose headquarters here Monday confirmed that he had applied for retirement Headquarters said the general would not issue a statement at this time because he felt it was "not appropriate for him to make any further statement until the application is acted upon." General Wedemeyer headed a special mission to China and Korea in 1947, then submitted his report to President Truman on Sept. 9, 1947. In the report the general pictured the Communist buildup of North Korean armies.

lie also suggested several steps to prepare South Korea to meet the menace. Some portions of the now famous Wedemeyer report were made public in Washington last week. Other parts remain lade in art and letters, was award ltlifi ed Reg Manning, Republic edi torial cartoonist, Monday. Manning was chosen the coun try's outstanding cartoonist by the advisory board to the trustees of Tougher Blows Against Red China Could Cost Nation Allies Without Bringing Victory, General Declares WASHINGTON, May 7 (UP) Gen. George C.

Marshall Mid Monday that Gen. Douglas MacArthur's plan for tougher blows against Red China might touch off all-out war with Russia and cost this country its allies without guaranteeing Korean victory. A few hours later, President Truman told a national radio audience he, too, feared MacArthur's proposal would signal World War III. He said that any new war will be an atomic war which would wipe out American cities and lives on a wholesale basis. Marshall, secretary of defense and MacArthur's five-star peer, voiced doubt that the Chinese Communists ever can be thrown out Columbia University, New York, which each year awards prizes to one publication or person in the various fields of writing and art.

Just celebrating both his 25th anniversary as an artist and on The Republic staff, Manning suc Mac's Position of Korea if they keep on sending in reinforcements. He gave senate investigators his own win-the-war plan but it was kept secret for security reasons. Marshall also revealed that Mr. Truman and Secretary of State Dean Acheson backed an "urgent" American recommendation thaf U. warplanes be allowed to Could Lead To Allied Mop-Up Raids Jolt Fresh Red Buildup Moves Communist Jet Activity Belies POW Tale Of Chinese Inability To Mount New Attack TOKYO, May 8 (UP) A new Allied limited offensive struck savagely across the 100-mile Korean battlefront Monday to wipe out the enemy's foothold in South Korea before he can mount the second ceeds Jim Berryman of the Washington, D.

Star as the Pulitzer Prize cartoonist. HE IS THE first Arizona artist to win the honor, and one of few Westerners to be chosen. Bruce Russell of The Los Angeles Times won the award in 1946, and a former Arizcwan, Bill Mauldin, won the prize for his war cartoons in Europe. The 46-year-old Phoenician had six of his cartoons nominated for competition with most of the country's outstanding newspaper artists who present public opinion through pictures. His production of last December 14, entitled was selected A-War: Truman chase Red planes Into Manchuria.

But he said this country's 13 u. im. J- Tp" -Mil' allies In Korea vetoed the plan. HE DENIED that either he or Mr. Truman killed a Jan.

13-recommendation by the Joint chiefs President Challenges General's Proposals In Nationwide Speech phase of his spring campaign. New type Communist jet planes struck near the front for the second consecutive day and there were mounting indications the of staff for extending fhe war against China. He said American fliers and seamen have standing the outstanding drawing. enemy offensive may roll southward within 48 hours possibly under WASHINGTON, May 7 (UP) orders to retaliate against China President Truman said Monday if the Reds attack V. S.

forces cover of major air attacks. The heaviest United Nations attacks came northwest of Seoul MANNING SAID 73 editors and publishers of newspapers in which night that Gen. Douglas MacAr outside Korea. his cartoons appear wrote letters thur's proposals for extending the and in the Inje. section at the east end of the line where South Marshall, the administration war against Communist China Koreans reached the 38th parallel first rebuttal witness against Mac- nominating his work for the prize.

Thirty-five of them, including The Arizona Republic, specifically indi Arthur, flatly denied vetoing plsn might lead to atomic war with Russia that would wipe out American cities wholesale. cated the pnzewmning cartoon. of the joint chiefs lor extending; the war against China. MacArthur His work is handled through the Point by point, the President Pay Boosts Put End To Mcis aught Syndicate for 116 news said last week he assumed either Marshall or the President had done so. papers, including -three foreign challenged measures advanced by MacArthur, including bombing of Red bases in Manchuria and usfng Chinese Nationalist forces against publications, on a six-a-week basis.

Manning draws the seventh cartoon But MatKhall said the plan was laid aside by the national security each week for The Republic. the Communists. council and the joint chiefs them Manning's entry was chosen on selves when thj United Nations the following basis: As for MacArthur's demand that But in the central section where the enemy's original breakthrough occurred a strong armored task force rammed into the town of Chunchon without opposition and pushed north a mile to within seven miles of the border. NORTHWEST OF SEOUL, South Koreans backed by American artillery and aircraft tore into Red-held positions menacing the capital, breaking the weeklong lull on the battlefront. They hoped to drive the enemy back across the Imjin river and enable the Allied line to move up and erase a deep enemy wedge.

i Intelligence reports from the western front above Seoul quoted captured North Korean officers asj military position in Korea improv For a distinguished example of ed. It included many of MacAr the U. S. "go it alone" if its United Nations allies reject tougher war policies against China, Mr. Truman a cartoonists work in a United States newspaper, published daily, thur's proposals but not his demand for bombing of Manchurian Sunday or at least once a week, said: during the year, the determining TruckStrike REGIONAL TRUCK line operators expect no further requests for rate hikes to offset a union wage contract signed Monday.

The settlement, providing for an immediate 10 per cent pay boost, ended a strike called last Tuesday by nearly 700 drivers and dock workers. National Honor Reg cartoonist of The Arizona Republic for 25 lidiiuiicti liunui years, grins happily over news he has won a Pulitzer Prize for outstanding achievement in his field. Reg holds the cartoon, entitled The Hats, which appeared last Dec. 14, that was adjudged best in the nation last year. (Republic Staff Photo) "WE CANNOT go it alone in qualities being that the cartoon Asia and go it in company in shall embody an idea made clearly Additional Stories Page 4 apparent, show good drawing and "Going it alone in Asia might striking pictorial effect, and shall be intended to be helpful to some bases and Marshall said they will wreck the United Nations, the North Atlantic treaty, and the commendable cause of public im saying there would be no further Communist offensive as "the war portance, due account being taken Quake Jolts whole system of collective security of the whole volume of the artist we are helping to set up.

work during the year." is about over." The prisoners said the Reds tried Mr. Truman said his entire fou- Britain, France Indicate Red China Embargo Okay THE HONOR carries a $500 cash Two Towns: to send tanks over the Yalu river award. be put into effect if the situation ever warrants. IN A SLASHING attack on Mac-Arthur's China war policies, Marshall said that to put them Into effect now would run the grave risk of atomic war with Russia and probably lose the United States its most powerful allies throughout the free world. "And I have my own doubts Harold Shaw, spokesman for the 14 major carriers, said the firms would stand on freight rate requests new pending with the Arizona Corporation Commission and the Interstate Commerce eign policy, lnciumng me rar Eastern section criticized by Mac-Arthur and his backers, is aimed The top cartoon recognition is added to Manning's many other forestalling the very "real pos L000 Killed achievements.

sibility" of atomic conflict. He said Last Sunday Arizona State Col lege at Tempe honored him with an exhibition of his work. Recently SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador, Under the agreement, additional wage increases are scheduled Nov. 1. Shaw and William Stratton, union spokesman, said a new joint as to whether the actions recommended by General MacArthur would bring the (Korean) conflict to a victorious end," he said.

UNITED NATIONS, N. May 7 (AP) Britain and France indicated Monday they support an American proposal for a world-wide embargo against shipping arms, ammunition and war material to Red China and North Korea. The United States proposal was put formally before a 12-member U.N. committee studying methods of punishing Red China and the Communist aggressors in Korea. Ernest A.

Gross, S. ambassador, outlined the terms of the resolution when the committee met last week. Sir Gladwyn Jebb, Britain, told the Committee he would not give May 7 (UP) A severe earthquake wrecked two sizeable towns and nine other communities in eastern El Salvador Sunday, killing more than 1,000 persons, it-was report The 71-year-old soldier-states man appeared before the senate conference board has been set up whereby many of the industry's this country would win such a war but at terrible cost. While he did not mention the general by name, the President noted the" angry national debate raging around MacArthur's proposals and warned that the issue should not be viewed "as if it were just a political fight." MR. TRUMAN also indirectly accused some of those supporting MacArthur's policies of having political motives.

MacArthur himself has indicated he expects his views to have important we'ght in the armed services-foreign relations ed Monday. he won honorable mention for his work from thg Freedom Foundation. Many of his cartoons have been reproduced by national magazines and the Encyclopaedia Brittanica. Manning's LiT Dudette, a curvaceous cowgirl, and other pen creations have been used in the manufacture of pamphlets, books, and even clothing. HE HAS WRITTEN two books, Reg Manning's Cartoon Guide of Arizona, and What Kinda Cactus (Continued On Page 3, CoL 1) Hundreds of persons fled from a detinue answer now, dui was problems can be handled peacefully.

The agreement provides long the shattered towns and villages possible Britain would feel the time has come to submit such a resolution to the general assembly. FRANCIS LACOSTE, France, to seek safety in the open countryside. Ominous rumblings from volcanic Mt. Chaparrastique increased the alarm of the dazed line drivers with an hourly rate of $1.81 and an- additional cent on their mileage rate. Ridgway Praises Mac In Magazine Court Upholds Job Creation to support the recent offensive but that American bombers destroyed them.

EIGHTH ARMY headquarters sources were skeptical and pointed out that a record number of Communist vehicles have been spotted in recent nights moving toward the front. Allied sources said the mass substitution and resupply of Communist forces may be nearing completion. The activities began more than a week ago after the Reds suffered an estimated 75.000 casualties in the first week of their spring offensive. On the central front an umbrella of Allied fighter planes covered the advance of strong tank-led patrols into and beyond the shell-torn town of Chunchon, 45 mile northeast of Seoul. Although the patrols encountered no enemy opposition, the planes attacked a large concentration of Communist troops farther north.

THE ALLIES evacuated Chunchon little more than a week ago in the face of heavy Chinese pressure, but the town was deserted Monday. One Allied officer said he believed the absence of Red resistance was due to failure of the Communist supply system to catch tip with forward troops. said it was proper to expect the 1952 presidential race. NEW YORK, May 7 (AP Gen. Government and Red Cross re Short line drivers will receive $1.64 on two-axle trucks and $1.70 on larger vehicles.

Dock workers in Phoenix and Tucson will get U. S. resolution would receive sym "The stakes are a lot more im lief parties, traveling by truck, pathetic treatment by his govern portant than the outcome of an ment. $1.43 an hour, and those in EI Paso will be raised to $1.30. An addi election," the President said.

"The thing at stake in this debate may The committee will meet by ambulance and jeep, carried food, clothing and medicines into the devastated zone Monday, and troops were rushed in to maintain order. next Monday or before, with a tional seven cents an hour will be final vote expected at that time given these employes Nov. 1 if government controls permit. It was indicated the resolution State Post Auditor, Aides, Win Approval THE LEGISLATURE'S right to create state offices and fill them with its own appointees was upheld Monday by the state supreme court. The decision meant pay for the first time in six weeks for Kent Matthew B.

Ridgway, in a magazine article, Monday praised Gen. Douglas MacArthur for "brilliant, inspired leadership" and said the crisis was yet to come In, the Korean fighting. Ridgway, who succeeded the deposed MacArthur as Far East commander, wrote in the current Issue of Look magazine the Communists will not abandon their present ion of driving the United Nations forces into the sea or destroying them. would be approved and passed on as well as designed the official insignia for the Arizona Highway Patrol, created Western Christmas cards and postcards. Fellow cartoonists describe him as "lightning fast idea and pen" in getting his work on paper.

Manning, a graduate of Phoenix Union High School, has lived in Phoenix since 1919. He is married, and has one son, Dave, an instructor pilot in the U. S. Air Force. The Pulitzer awards were made possible by a $2,500,000 bequest from the late Joseph Pulitzer, pub- Continued On Page 2, Col.

1) Rescue crews searched the ruins for trapped survivors or the bodies be an atomic war. Our foreign policy is not a political issue. It is a matter of life and death. It is a matter of the future of mankind. "Remember this.

If we do have another world war, it will be an "A joint management-union statement noted that several other to the 60-nation political commit of additional dead. tee of the general asembly for ac changes were involved in the ex tion there. The quake disrupted wire and road communications between the capital and the eastern part of the atomic war. we couia expect many atomic bombs to be dropped on tensive rewriting of the industry's labor agreement. Co-operating in the settlement negotiations was W.

P. Halloran, Britain thus far has opposed any restrictive measures against Red China on the ground it might spur the Communists on to greater mil it difficult to ob D. Lockwood, state post auditor, and his four assistants. IT ALSO means that Lockwood American cities. And a single one of them could cause many times tain full details of the damage.

federal labor conciliator. The towns of Chinameca and itary efforts. (Continued On Page 2, Col. 1) THE AMERICAN resolution was will hold the $6,000 state office under appointment from the governor and legislative leaders until Jucuapa, with a combined population of 29,000, were reported 80 Hoicza Weallia Sex: Meat Strike Feared said to contain these points: I The additional measures com June 30, 1955. Former Sheriff per cent destroyed.

Serious damage was reported from Usulutan, Santa Elena, Berlin, El Triunfo, Unless, that Is, someone elses mittee, the technical name of the punishments group, notes ac Beef Shipments Drop Sharply name is approved oy tne wnoie legislature in the meantime. Lockwood had sued -before the Nueva Guadalupe, San Buenaven tura, Mercedes, Umana and San tiago de Maria. Gets 6 Months tion already taken to deny contributions to the military strength of the aggressor. The committee also high court when Mrs. Jewel W.

Jordan, state auditor, held up the notes its belief priority should be A SIX-MONTHS jail sentence pay of his office. given to recfimmendations on eco Tourist Trade and a $500 fine were imposed upon THE COURT'S unanimous opin nomic measures. Beard. 47. former Yuma ion, written- Dy justice m.

i. The shipment of arms, ammu- Countv Sheriff. Monday by Fed eral Judge Dave W. Ling. Phelps, also held the law creating the post auditor's office did not atomic energy materials, petrole' infringe upon the constitutional A.15-day stay of execution was eranted Beard pleaded guilty to um, and items useful in the pro functions of Mrs.

Jordan's office evadinz $909 income taxes in 1946. It simply dismissed Mrs. Jordan's duction of arms, ammunition and implements of war should be pro A civil tax liability and penalty claim that failure of the last legislature to confirm Lockwood's hibited to areas controlled by Communist China or the North Kore also will be imposed. Probation was granted to: Benjamin V. Mondragon.

35, appointment vacated the post au ditor's office. let them go. Maybe they'll keep them on grass as pets. After all, the cattle are the farmers' property and they can do what they want with them until they see what's going to happen to prices." The Office of Price Stabilization's order will roll back prices on wholesale beef about 10 per cent Wednesday. Prices of cattle-on-the-hoof ill be rolled back to about the same amount May 20.

The spokesman said farmers may have feared that meat packers "planned to start rolling back prices today since their own wholesale, prices will be pushed back Wednesday." However, livestock prices held about steady Monday, apparently due to the sharply decreased shipments. Herman Conway, director of research for the National Livestock Producers Association, doubted Monday's cut in receipts indicated a meat strike was underway. "I think it's simply a natural reaction toward more normal receipts after last week's heavy shipments when farmers were hurrying cattle to market to beat the rollbacks," Conway said. Stockton. Calif- formerly of Phoe CHICAGO.

May 7 (UP) Cattle shipments dropped sharply at midwest markets Monday and one expert said farmers and producers may have started their threatened meat strike against the government price rollback. Another market analyst, however, disagreed. He said Monday's smaller were a "natural reaction to last week when feeders were hurrying animals to market to beat the rollbacks." A third said "nobody knows what the reduced shipments mean." Shipments to 12 major midwest markets Monday totaled 44,000 head of cattle compared to 73,225 a week ago. or a decline of about 40 per cent. The receipts were off 60 per cent compared with a year ago.

One meat industry spokesman, who declined to be identified, said the slash in shipments showed the extreme dissatisfaction among farmers and producers with the rollback order. The grass is growing thick in the midwest now and it's cheaper than corn," he said- The farmers may have decided they've grown fond of their cattle and don't want to ans. Every state determine the ex-tent to which exports fall within the embargo and apply controls nix, charged with embezzling Sloivs Doivn TOURIST travel into Arizona last month went into a slight seasonal decline, the state department of agriculture and Jiorticulture reported Monday. The eight border agricultural quarantine inspection stations checked 109,369 qars into the state in April, a drop of 5,136 under the preceding month. In addition, 1,838 house trailers and 13,590 commercial trucks were inspected.

The inspectors found 4,853 cars, or one out of every "22 entering the state, carried agricultural products infested with insect pests or otherwise dangerous as carriers of plant pests and diseases. Senior Statesman Hull 317.25 from the Valley National Bank; William Murphy. 32, Salinas, charged with violation of the tomake it effective. A A recommendation all states III In Naval Hospital Going Up THERE'LL BE beat WASHINGTON. May 7 (AP) vtrvUviaic tir itianc Tt aim prevent circumvention by trans Serviceman's Readjustment Act; Christopher C.

Howard, 30, Williams Air Force Base, charged with forging and passing a treasury check: and Ben F. Williams, 46, shipment and other methods. Former secretary of state Cordell Hull is in precarious condition at the naval medical center at nearby ords broke, bat the temperature is going op Tuesday maybe as high decree. Bunny and warmer, say the weather experts, with little er brees. FT A reaffirmation of the U.

N. policy for ending the hostilities in Korea and achieving U. N. ob Bethesda, Md. He was admitted to the hospital Litchfield Park, charged with selling mortgaged cattle.

on Saturday. jectives by peaceful means.