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JANESVILLE DAILY GAZETTE VOL. 107. NO. 46. 107th YEAR JANESVILLE, WISCONSIN, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1951.

FOURTEEN PAGES FIVE CENTS Allies Capture Heartbreak Ridge Kenosha Sheriff, Head of Council Indicted by lury Charges Are Listed; Siispension May Result IN Leaders of Britain's three major poliUcal parties and their wives Join members of Parliament in prayer at service in St PauKs cathedra', London. In front pew (from left) are Premier and Mrs. Clement AttUe. former Premier and Mrs. Winston Church: 111.

and Mr. and Mrs. Clement Davles. Attlec heads the Labor party, Churchill the Conservative party and Davies the Liberal party. At left (background) are Anthony Eden and Lord Woolton.

1 (APwirephoto) Kenosha A grand Friday indicted the sheriff of'ries when the car driven Kenosha county on charges of accepting bribes and the president of the Kenosha city council on charges of attempting A former councilman also was Indicted on three counts of offering and accepting payoff money as the ITmembcr grand jury climaxed a six-month probe of reported corruption among public officials In the county. Promptly arraigned in circuit, court u-erc Sheriff Leonard J. 1 Ccmmonweath. who suffer- Jensen. Felix Olkives.

president cd a head injury, of the city council, and former Injuries to Benz and others In Councilman Howard G. Coates. I his car. Cari Benz. M.

Enna Beni Coatcs figured in testimony and Mable Bowder. 55 all of fore the U.S. senate crime in-1 Chicago, were not immediately GIs and French Seize Bloody Korean Heights Flame Throwers Clear Way for Infantry with Bayonets 8 Injured in Jeiterson Accidents persons were injured in three accidents Friday night on Jefferson county highways, county motor police here reported todav. Harold Stockfish, 27. and Jerry Woelffer.

18, both of Cambridge, suffered forehead injuries when the car driven by Stockfish and the car of Harold Woolever, Monroe, collided at 11:10 p. m. on Highway 26 two and a half miles south of Jefferson. Five persons were taken to the Fort Atkinson hospital as the result of a twonar collision at 11:42 p. m.

on Highway 12 three miles west of Fort Drivers were Joseph Benz. 52. to one odds. The Chicago, and AllM oi. S.

Americans lost one plane but C. S. 8th Army. American and French men charging with fixed bayonets behind flame throivci-s. seized virtually all of bloodjfHeartbreak Ridge today.

The fighting flared up suddenly in the eastern Korea mountains as the Allied offensive in the west ground to a most objectives secured. In the air U. S. jets took on the Reds at three to one odds. Beserves to Be Released Soon Enlisted Veterans of World War nWUl Get Discharges Washington The army has put a "home by Christmas" tag on enlisted World War II veterans, called involuntarily Irom the reserve.

Other developments on the military front today: (1) The defense depmrtment congress to give everyone In all branches of the armed private on ten per cent pay raise, with an $800 top. (2) Selective service says draft boards across the nation will begin next week reclassifying childless married men of draft age. Chairman Mahon (D-Tex, of the house appropriations subcoih- isittee read the house a lettcr yesterday from Assistant Secretary' of Defense Anna Rosenberg, announcing the new army release plan for veteran reservists below the rank of conunissioned officer. The army had previously planned to get all enlisted veterans who were called to active duty against their will out of uniform by New Year's day. But, Mrs.

Rosenberg's letter careful reworking of army plans had made it possible to cut the release date to Dec. 20. Officers Excepted Commissioned officer veterans, called involuntarily from the reserve, however, the letter said, will generally have to serve out the full 17 months allowed by law. To let go of non-commissioned and commissioned officers all at once, Mrs. Rosenberg wrote, would too seriously deplete army leadership.

The letter also said: The air force will release all its enlisted men ordered to duty from the volunteer reserve after 12 months service. But again. Officers, "particularly pilots and other trained crew personnel," for the most part will have to stay 17 months. The navy is releasing its listed men in this category after about 15 months service. The marine corps will release by June, 1952, its volunteer and inactive enlisted and were assigned to duty before June 30, 1951.

They will have served an aver age of about 14 montiis. Asks Pay Raise -Another letter from the Pentagon, this one from Defense Secretary Robert Lovett, went yesterday to Speaker Sam Raybum. -It asked "urgently" for a flat teh'per cent pay raise for everyone in service, retroactive to last JWy 1. It would be limited to 9800 a year for any individuaL Gen. Lewis B.

Hershey, dttWtor of selective service, announced draft boards soon will bOagging married men without children for the armed serNices. "They must be in the draft age I8I2 through 25 years. Hershey estimated about are affected, and that something under 200.000 wpuld be classified 1-A, digible for British Malaya Leader Is Slain Sir Henry Gumey Is Killed in Ambush by Communists Singapore VFi Sir lean, intent leader of Britain 's Malayan Jungle war against Communist guerrillas, was slain this afternoon in an ambush on a lonely road in the Malayan mountains. The 53-year-old British high commissioner for the Federation of Malaya, moving boldly along desolate roads and jungle paths, went among the people of the terrorized peninsula more tlian any other offidal. Today 's trip proved fatal portedly ambushed the high commissioner while he was traveling in a convoy along Frasers Hill road in Pahang state, north of Kuala Lumpur.

Was Strong Figure Details of the bushwhacking, however, were scant in Singapore, several hundred miles south of the ambush site. Lady Gumey escaped ed when her husband was shot dead. Radio Malaya reported. Gumey, S3, was known In the British colonial as a strong man in dealing with disorders. He has been described as "a tough egg who gets things done." He was appointed British high commissioner in September.

1048. shortly after the organization of the Federation of Malaya, a semi-Independent govemment set up by Britain in an effort to meet strong postwar demands for Malayan independence. BaHled Red Partisans His main task was to attempt to quell attacks by Communist guerrillas who have raged A large band of guerrillas re-4thTOUgh the tin and rubber producing Malayan states since the end of the war. Before he took the Malayan job he Jiad spent two years as chief secretary of the govemment of Palestine, when the Holy Land was under British piandate. His Job there ended in May, 19-18.

when Britain dropped the tmn- date and withdrew from the country. 22-Year-Old Chiei Quits at Rocklon Rockton. III. Resignation because of "unfavorable publicity" ended the career here of the voungest police chief in the na'- tion. Leonard Schoonover.

22, a former Beloit policeman who was appointed chief here a few weeks ago. resigned at a meeting of the village board Friday eve- nine. He had been suspended Sept. 18. only three weeks after talcing office, on charges of buyine drinks for a 16-year-old Beloit eirl in a Roscoe tavem, but the charees were dismissed for lack of evidence.

The village board had indicated that it would reinstate liim at Friday evening's meeting but found the resignation waiting instead. Schoonover's alleged Indiscretions came to the attention of the viUaee board in connection with a cleanup in the Beloit police department in which six men were Involved. William Castner. former Rockton chief. Is actine until a new appointment is made by the board Oct 15.

Huge Financial Bills 57 Billion Defense and7BilUonAid Measures on Tap of fhe' firambUng." biggest bjlls of the S2nd con-i John O-Jiara fold the vestigating committee last win- All three p'lended Innocent. Judge Alfred Drury Jrn- and Coatcs on bond of S5.000 each and OlkivcS on 53.500 bond. No trial date was set. Hinted None of the men would comment on the indictments. Governor Kohlcr.

who ordered the grand jury probe last April, indicated Jensen might be suspended from office. The governor has power to remove a sheriff, but he emphasized in a statement, at Madison that the sheriff "has been indicted, not convicted." "Maybe suspension is the thing; to do now," he added. I Jensen. 53. who Is his two-year term in office, was charged with accepting bribes $50 and $15 and with two counts of failure to perform his duties by not acting on tips that violations were to occur in county night spots.

Long on Council Olkives. 51. was charged specifically with offering Police Chief Stanley G. Haukedahl on Nov. 5.

1948. Sl.OOO to protect gambling in the city. Olkives has been a councilman for 10 years and council president for five. Long the president of AFL painters local 934, he currently is field manager for the Kenosha Manufacturers' association. The indictment accuses Coatcs.

53. of accepting $200 on July 4. 1916. from John O'Mara to use his influence in the purchase of parking meters; of accepting OOO from on March 10. for infliience in selection of a new cltv manager, and of offering Chief Haukedahl a C600 bride on Jan.

5. 1W9. to protect Kenosha gambling interests. Gambling Protection Coates. who served on the citv council from 19'12 to 1948.

was named before the senate crime committee by John O'Mara one of the two recipients of 500 from him for gambling protection. John O'Mara Is the brother of the OIlie O'Mara. reputed kingpin of local probably destroyed one Red fighter and damaged two. On the east coast the U. N.

Allies jabbed twice at the Reds Friday by and land. The battleship New Jersey led a small task force on a bombarding raid determined Hungnam harbor. 125 miles Roger Meyer. MilK parallel. And suffered a cut scalp and right nenetrated Ko- when his.

car ran nonh Stalin Reveals Tests of Atom Bomb in Russia James Zanias Dies Suddenly Owner of Central Cafe and Long Prominent in Theatre Business off Highway 89 two miles south of Lake MIlLs at 11:01 p. m. He was taken to the Fort Atkinson hospital. Cars of Elgie Bcede. Merrillan, and Francis Schaffer.

Wa tertown. were damaged when they collided at 6:10 p. day on Highway 16 three miles east of Watertown. Subpoena Diary oi Vandenberg? Stassen Urges Record on China Conferenco Be Produced Harold E. Stassen asked senate investiga tors today to subpoena the diary of the late Senator Vandenberg tR-Mich) to corroborate "the essential fact.s" of his earlier testimony about a 1919 White House conference on China aid.

Stassen testified he had been told by Arthur vandenberg Jr. the late senator's son, that "the essential facts I testified to could be corroborated" from the diary and other documents kept by the senior Vandenberg. In testimony before the sen- mle internal last Stassen qnotcd Vandenberg telling him In No- 1030, Secretary of Aches on and Ambas- sador-at-Iarge Philip C. Jessap had proposed at the U'hite House meeting that further aid to the Chinese forces be cut off. Today, however, Stassen did not list the names of the authors of the as OK ol the slowly up another tall mountain 40 parallel.

There was no new move toward reopening truce talks. TTie western offensive along a 40-mile front by 100,000 men from nine United Nations gained up to five miles in four days. It was th? biggest Allied drive In three months. Hold Good Poiiiioas One American patrol was surrounded for six hours on the west central front. But otherwise beaten Chinese appeared to have given up completely.

The Allies moved into the best positions they have held in the v.est in a year and ssnt patrols reaching out as much as three miles in front of their won hills. The new line formed a parapet of defenses north of the winding Imjin river. The long stalemated Iwttle of Heartbreak Ridge erupted suddenly in a surprise night attack by American and French troops. They captured it for the third time In a month, killing 100 Red Koreans in the predcwn fight. Other Reds fled in disorder before th? Americans' flame throw ers and white phuspaorous grenades.

French Capture STope French troops swept up an other slope of the peak with little trouble. Artillerv was credited with killing 900 Reds. Simultaneously the Second di- two other regiments captured two peaks wes: or the ridge. The Infantry regiment, at tacking up the eastern side of Mundung valley, captured a high peak adjoining the ridge and dominating the valley. The 9th regiment, on the west- em side of the valley, fought essential The state department has agreed that such a conference was held on Feb.

5. 1949. that it was called to consider such a proposal from the U. S. militatj- repre.sentative in China and that President Truman turned it down S56.937.808_^ EROI Flynn Sues Alleged Assailant for Heavy Damages Naasau, Bahamas A fight ih a Nas.sau bar last Biliirch cost screen actor Errol Flynn $224,000, he alleges to a suit filed here yesterday.

The statement of claim filed with the Bahamas supreme court said Duncan McMartin, wealthy Canadian gold mine owner, struck the movie actor in a bar at the Windsor hotel on Mareh 5. Flynn was recuperating from wre in the Jefferson county jail spjnai Injury at the time, the today. Both were charged with statement added, and the "vl- desertion and non-support of budget and a $7,483,400.0001 CT'SOO'payment foreign aid slated for a high priority when the senate meets Monday. Administration leaders are confident thev will be pushed through rapidly and with little troub'e. The defense budget measure, biggest peacetime appropriation bill in the nation's hlstorj-.

cleared the house yestrrday. It previously had passed both branches but differences over amounts forced a second trip through congress. Its total Includes S19.88S.0.32.- 303 for the army, S1.5,S77.891.- 000 for the navy and marine corps. $20,642,785,000 for the air force and S529.100.000 for the office of secretarj" of defense. The services have in addition an estimated $37,000,000,000 In carry-over funds from previous aopropriations.

making a total of $94,000,000,000 for soondlne. Of this, an estimated $40,000,000,000 is expected to be actual'y spent during the fiscal year ending next June 20. IXiXElX SITUA-nON Birmingham, Ala James Truelove and Harry Leroy Love their families. THE WEATHER tonpmlnre tmUcht aat Sater. tMlgkt Borib.

MMk. mdMI hmtmj Barometric preuurc: 6 p. 29.93: 12 noon. 29.SB. aoiilir.

Sanct, to MWnHtU Ott. Hour 1 81 9I10IUI12 Temp. MdnUht to Nooa, Oct. four 1 11 31 31 41 SI 61 71 81 Bafiv. clous blow on the head" nggra vated the old injury.

Flynn asked $200,000 for loss of earnings and $24,000 for expenses and damages resulting from the McMartin's attorneys will file a statement of defense and the case probably will go to trial atwut the end of the year. WIS. SAFETY AWARD Chicago The department today received the national safety council's highest safety "distinguished service to the acd- it prevention' lecord of its CfftabllBhiMfit diiring 1950. Pastors Son Is Seriously Hurt in Fort Fort Brown, nine-year-old son of the Rev. and Mrs.

Charles Brown, was taken to Wisconsin General hospital shortly after 5 p. m. Friday, suffering from a concussion that was classed as "rather serious." He was the third child to injuries in accidents here in three days. Gregorj" was riding his bicycle on S. First street between Main and Grant streets when he rode into a hole in the road which threw him off the bicjcle.

No other bicycles or cars were In- wlved. His father is the pastor of First Congregational church. Other children injured here this week were Randy Bullock, five-year-old daughter of Mo. and Mrs. Byron Bullock, and Pete Slefert.

Both were strucic by cars. men denied this. Coates is emnloyed as a supervisor at the Nash Motors plant here. The grand of nine women eight men. which has heard more than 2C0 witnesses since its first session April 23.

also presented a progrcs.s reoort to Judge and asked permission to continue its probe. Judac granted permission. He did not reveal the contents of the jury's reoort. There were no indications of whether further indictments would result. Specific Charges These were the specific charges against Sheriff Jensen outlined in the indictment: (1) of $.10 on April 28.

1930. to permit the showing of an obscene movies at a county tawm. (2) Acceptance of $15 through Deputy Sheriff Eugene Schend. allegedly acting as his a t. from a county tavern owner to overlook late hotir operations.

(.3) Failure to act after being informed Feb. 1.5. 1949. that a stag party, featuring nude women, was to be held at another county night spot. (4) Failure to act after being told May 12, 1949.

that horse betting and bookmaking operations were being conducted in a building on Highway 42 north of Kenosha. McCarthy Says He "Slapped" Pearson Washington Senator McCarthy R-Wis) said Friday he "slapped" Drew Pearson at a Washington dinner party last D-e cember but laughingly replied "No" when asked if his action had lifted Pearson "three feet off the ground." "My bis difficulty was to avoid hurting Drew." McCarthy said. Reference was made to the Sulgrave' club incident during a three and half hour deposition hearing which is to trial of a $3,100,000 suit Pearson has brought against McCarthy and eight others. jected. In its statement of Stassen's earlier testimony, the state department said that Jessup was not present at the conference.

It did not say what position Achc- took on the matter. Sta.ssen told the senators today that the "essential facts" as he them were: Whother the conference was held, whether the proposal to cut off military aid to the Nationalists was made, whether Vandenberg vigorously opposed it, and whether the proposal was rejected. "And further, who proposed it?" put in Senator McCarran chairman of the internal security subcommittee. McCarran said the subcom mittee would decid; later in closed session whether to subpoena the Vandenberg diary. Oriordville GI Wounded in Korea the Far East less than two months.

Pvt. Ingolf M. Haugen has been wounded in action in Korea, according to a letter written to his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Stengrim Hauegn.

Haugen said that shrapnel had glanced off his steel helmet and wounded i below the ear. He is now convalescing in a Haugen hospital in Japan, where he was flown after being wounded. Mr. and Mrs. Haugen said their son sent them a piece of shrapnel removed from his head wound.

Haugen entered service last March and was -sent to Japan i in August. He trained at Fort Leonard Wood. with a unit of the Sixth armed division and attended a chemical school Japan. against stubborn resistance. During the three-pronged attack, a V.

N. task force diverted heavy Red artillery emplacements. It made a bold sortie up Satae valley, east of Heartbreak Ridge. Red artillery was busy firing at the tanks the Reds had nothing left but mortars to shoot at attacking infantrymen. Hold MOM ot Ritige United Natioas forces now hold all but the extreme northern tip of four-mile long ileartbrcak Ridge.

Patrols Ijtrgan moving down from the ridge, 20 miles north of the 3Sth parallel, and probed Mundung valley. It is believed to have been a Red assembly area. The western offensive smashed into the assembly area from which the Reds twice launched invasioas toward Seoul. One VS. 25th division patrol was surrounded by Chinese for six hours Saturday in the Reds' old iron triangle staging area tween Kumhwa and Pjongyang.

It fought its way out with the help of Allied artillery fire. But elsewhere on the central and westem front. Reds made little attempt to stop the U.N. allies. Retreating Chinese left behind them heavily-mined roads.

Pilct Ls Rescned Friday's air battle, 100 miles north of the 38th parallel, ended with the thrilling rescue of an American'Sabre pilot. Lt. Bill Garrett of Bowling Green, was shot down in a 15-mInute fight btwcen 33 Sabres and 100 MIG-15s over Sinanju. He bailed out and landed in a mud flat. Reds fired at him from all directions.

Two jets blazed back at the Reds. A flying boat piloted by Capt. Robert C. Mason of Reno, (CoatlaiKd Fair i. Col.

LATEST! Polo Grounds, New York A five-run explosion by the Giants in the fifth innbig of today's world series game chased Vic Raschi to tlie showers and put the National league champs ahead, 6 to 0 at the end of the fifth. Heam had held the Yankees rrnilc-ss at that point. A home run by Lockman, Giants first baseman, chasing two ruM ahead of him the plate, n-as the highlight of the inninff. JA.MES ZANIAS James Zanias, 72, Janesville businessman since 1908 and co- proprietor of Central cafe, wasj found dead in bed in his room at 203 Center avenue at noon Sat urday. Jlr.

Zanias had worked Thursday and returned to his room at midnight. While he liad not complained of being ill. Mr. Zanias had suffered with a heart ailment for several years. He had planned to retum to his native Greece January to visit relaUvcs.

Having learned something of the confectionery business in Chicago Mr. Zanias took his first job in Janesville with the Candy Kitchen, now when he located here in 1906. Two years later he purcha.sed a part interest In the business, Gus Vlachos being his partner. Pioneer in Theatre Field The two men became interested in the new entertainment medium motion pictures and in 1908 they opened the Lyric theatre, a 5 and lOcent show at 113 W. Milwaukee street.

Business was so profiUble that Mr. Zanias purchased the Nickelodeon theatre it 210 W. Milwaukee street in 1909. By 1911 Mr. Zanias had bought out his partner's interest and sold the confectionery store to the Homsey brothers.

Expanding his theatrical enterprises Mr. Zanias became manager of the new Apollo theatre, which to 1913 opened as a vaude vilic house which also played stock compsnies. He operated the Apollo until 1926 when it was sold to Saxe Brothers of Milwaukee. For a short time Mr. Zanias managed the Apollo and Jcffris theatres, for the Saxe company and in 1927 he resigned and went to Europe where he spent a year with liis mother and sister in Greece.

Operated Myers "nil 1939 Upon retuming to Janesville Mr. Zanias leased the Myers theatre which he remodeled and opened on Dec. 27, 1929. He operated the Myers until 1939 when he suffered a heart attack that necessitated his being hospitalized for several months. On June 1.1940 Mr.

Zanias and his cousin William Mihos purchased the Central cafe, 117 W. Milwaukee street. A native of Eupalion, a village in the northwest part of Greece, Mr. Zanias attended school until he was 14 when he took a job in his uncle's dry goods store in Massalongi, 53 miles west of Ills native For three years he worked for his imcle and then took a job with a commission firm. Six years later he came to the United States locating first in Chicago.

Public Spirited James Zanias was a public spirited citizen who gave generously to community projects and enthusiastically endorsed well- fare and social programs to aid the needy here and In his love for his adopted country he never lost sight of the plight of the Greek people. Mr. Zanias headed the Janesville committee that raised funds for Greek relief and was a leader to Hellenic organizations. His friends in all vralks of life were legion for he liad a genial manner and the gift of understanding the problems of those who came to him in need. His boundless enthusiasm for what ever he undertook was an inspiration to those with whom he came in contact.

Surviving are cousins in the States and four nephews living in Greece. The body is at the Ryan funeral home. CRASH KILL FIVE Toluca. persons were killed last night when an automobile and a truck collided head-on. Tlie trucic driver escaped tajury.

Tells U. S. Purely Defensive for Soviet Union By EDDY GIOIORC SIoscow Joseph Stalin disclosed today Russia recently exploded an atomic bomb in a test and plans more test blasts of "atomic bombs of various calibers." ThLs was the first time the Soviet Union had announced it had exploded an atomic bomb. Stalin made his revelation in- a front page interview with an unnamed correspondent of Pravda, official of the Russian Communist party. The announcement was tele- phoned to U.S.

Amba.ssador Alan Kirk just before he left for the airport to board a plane for the United States. The news did not delay his departure. Stalin advised American leaders not to "get excited and raise the alarm about the atomic liomb explosion in the U.S.S.R." "No Threat to The Russian leader said Soviet bombs are no threat to American security liecause the "Soviet Union is not contemplating an attack on ths'United States or any other coimtry whatsoever at any time." Instead, he said, Russian bomb developments are for her own defense against aggression. "The testing of atomic bombt of calibers will be car' ried out in future also to the plan for our country 's defense against the Anglo-American aggressive front," Stalin said. (In Vista, Gordon Dean, chairman of the atomic energy conunisriaa, said was only confirming what we (the United States) already knew." we wUl watch with great faHerest any fatnra testa Bnssia might make." he said.

(The test bomb was not neoes-' sarily dropped from an airplane, but might have exploded on the ground, he added. (President Tmman made a statement Wednesday saying the Russians had achieved their second atomic explosion. He had announced two years ago that the United States had knowledge of a previous Russian atomic explosion, but this earlier statement was never confirmed by a Soviet announcement.) Advocates "Control" Stalin repeated that Russia wants intemational control of atomic weapons but charged that an American plan put before the United Nations was a "mockery of control." "What do you think about ta- temational control in respect to atomic weapons?" Iiis anonymous Pravda interviewer asked. "The Soviet Union stands lor the prohibition of atomic weapons and for stopping production of the atomic weapon," Stalin replied. "The Soviet Union stands for strict international control, in order that a decision on prohibition of the atomic weapon and on cessation of production of atomic weapons and on the use of already manufactured atomic bombs exclusively for peaceful purposes should carried out conscientiously and with all exactitude." Stalin continued: "American" leaders also speak of 'control' but their is derived not from stopping production of atomic weapons but from the conttoua- tion of such production and in such quantities as correspond to the quantity of raw materials at the disposal of tliis or that try.

'Consequently. American 'control' is based not on prohibition of the atomic weapon but on its No Inspection (The American plan was supported in the United Nations by a majority of members. It called for an intemational commission to keep close control of all production of atomic weapons and atomic energy for peacefiil purposes. (The commission would have been empowered to make spot checks of atomic plants whenever it chose. These inspections wookl have incladed Rnssfam plants and the Bussians tnraed down the plan with bitter insistence it wonid viohife her Moscow radio broadcast this account of Stalin's toterview statements: In the event of a United States attack on our country, the ruling circles of the United States will use the atom bomb.

Precisely this circumstance compelled the Soviet Union to make the atomic weapon to order to i fully armed to meet the aggressor. Of course, the aggressors would like the Soviet Union to be unarmed in the event of their attack on it. But the Soviet Union does not agree with this and tiunlcs that in full preparedness Faca t. Coi..