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Bill Vukovich Beats 90-Degree Heat, Wins Indianapolis Race Story, Pictures, Page I-C AKRON BEACON JOUMNA Taft's Statement Adds Confusion EdHor's Notebook, Psga 2-D FINAL EDITION Fifteen Cents Ohio's Most Com pip In Newspaper NO. 176 114th Year Sunday, May 31, 1953 148 Pages CITY IN SPLENDOR Queen Rests, Awaits Hour SESSION IS SECRET Ike, Top Aids Meet A OfGlo On Korea Crisis ii 11 i -t i A h- A i ph SPLIT FEARED THEN HOPS RACK ON TRACKS Freight Car Runs Wild, Rips 17 Autos LANCASTER, Fa. (AP) One of the weirdest accidents in railroad annals turned up here Saturday. 'ou wouldn't believe it if you saw it. The tag-end ear of a local freight moving down Water st.

jumped the tracks. It mashed 17 parked automobiles, damaged houses, fire escapes and parking meters in a two-block spree. Then the car hopped back on the tracks. i i iti II I Ml I 4 i 4' tracks at a switch. Crewmen on the engine and In the caboose, immediately behind the engine didn't notice anything unusual as the train chugged along.

But back at the nther end things were happening. The freight car careened crazily to the side, lashing at autos parked along the curb. Some were crushed almost flat. One total wreck waa a brand-new sedan with 93 miles on the speedometer. The mashing went on for three blocks until the freight car went back on the tracks.

Residents were running from their homes at the clatter. Radio cars were sent to intercept the train. AT H'ATER and Conestoga 38-year-old Melvin Schloss-man, a resident of the section See, FREIGHT CAR, THge 2 KOREA WAR Red Push Made To Aid Bargaining? Allies Brace For More Attacks SEOUL, Sunday (JP) While Allied guns and planes heavily blasted three Red-captured hills in the west, UN troops braced today for more of what some regard as "bargaining power" attacks. Many officers saw a close tie between the abruptly powerful Red assaults that captured Carson, Elko and Vegas outposts and the truce talks due to resume Monday at Panmunjom. They tylieved the Reds might be showing military muscle in an effort to gain "face" and add bargaining power at the truce tahle.

So there waa an alert for more such savage attacks eNewhere along the 155-mile front. The UN field commander, Lt. Gen. Maxwell D. Taylor, said there was no threat posed to the main line by Chinese Red seizure Thursday and Friday of five hill outposts in central Korea and three in the west within 30 miles of Seoul.

Fifth Air Force fighter-bombers' Saturday hit the three western front outposts with more than a quarter million pounds of bombs and flaming jellied gasoline. ALLIED ARTILLERY and mor tar pounded the smoking hilltops that Turkish soldiers held before the Chinesp hit in wave Thur.rtav night. The Reds captured Carson early Friday morning and held it against: three counterattacks hv Turk unrl American troops Close-quarter fighting, much of it at bayonet and clubbed-rifle range, raged on Elko and Vegas for more than 24 hours before the Turks and Americans withdrew Just before midnight Friday. Turkish officials estimated the Reds threw 8.000 men, in waves that rfvannail tu 1 1 moAa7ani Plank the! thr rt.iI vuiifrnin uihiiik inn isiiruu.l fighti ing. They believed the Chinese two divisions ready to pour had tntn ha haHIa r4 4 4V ANYONE in Decoration Day parade.

Th' at S. Main and Mill at 4 I 1 annual Memorial lay march to Cemetery for special services. Hunter. TALLKST IUilM)lG CHOWS TV Rig Adds 157 Feet To 1st National Tower By HOPE MacLEOD and WILLIAM D. SCHLEMMER AKROX'S TALLEST BUILDING ia still growing.

First steel for WAKR's new television tower and antenna went into place Saturday atop the 330-foot high First National Tower. Crewmen of the train didn't know anything about it until later. They found out when they brought the train to a stop after encountering a citizen who had fallen asleep on the tracks in the middle of the street. He was pushed aside by the slow-chugging locomotive. He suffered brush burns and bruises.

THIS SEQUENCE of events was reconstructed by city police and Sgt. J. R. Frantz of the Pennsylvania Railroad police: The 13-car train was making local deliveries to plants an stores within six blocks of Penn Square, heart of this city. The freight was moving slowly on tracks that, run down the center of Water st.

It was 12:45 a. m. The tag-end car left the More Planes Due Despite Fund Cut WASHINGTON 01 The De- fense Department, striking out at critics of proposed air power budg Saturday that "1nr Air Fnrc and Nav'V "r- uatai than in fiscal 1953. Of the planes to be paid for with appropriations made under the Truman administration 2,300 will go to the Air Force and 800 to the Navy, officials said. Department spokesmen made the disclosure In an officinl explanation of how Defense Secretary "a nrs vwison plan 10 rA'r, while cutting the air arm's ia "V7h8" ft .0.000.000 19M nr K'nninK money" for the Air Force in fiscal 1594.

This new money is largely for spending in future years but enables contracts to he placed during the year it Is appropriated WILSON'S SPOKESMEN' disclosed that he plans to reduce by 1.150 the number of so called craft. Purchase of transports fori rrv, I I 1 Another on Air National Guard and Air Reserve Wings. Spokesmen said 21 such wings would be equipped with modern aircraft by June, 1955. By coincidence or not, 23 is the 1 the Air Force's previously planned expansion gosl of 143 wings. PCT.

i London Crowds Still Growing By RKLMAN MORIV LONDON A night of joyous dancing behind her, young Queen Elizabeth II went into seclusion nt Buckingham Palace Saturday and prepared herself with rest and study for the solemn glory of the rites of coronation. She will receive the St. Edward Jeweled rrown and th nther symbols of sovereignty in Westminster Abbey Tuesday st the fltmflX of renturies-old pageantry that is drawing hundreds of visitors to London hourly to swell the millions already on hand. Until then, no engagements that would take her outside the palace have been announced. But a garden party to salute the memory of another English queen, Elizabeth will he given today on the site of a vanished home in the country and she may atend.

THE PARTY" will be given by the Marquess of Salisbury at Hatfield House, in Hertfordshire, 30 Rute of Coronation rarade Page 8-A miles from London, where the other Elizabeth's home once stood. Members of the royal family and 900 other guests will be present. It was at another historic site, the old Hampton Court Palace where King Henry Mil held his rebels 400 years ago, that Elizabeth danced late at a pre-enrona-tion ball Friday night. The ball waa given by the Brigade of Guards. Radiant In pink and white rhlffnn with a diamond tiara and erklace, Elizabeth didn't get horns until 4 a.

m. Among those who will attend the Hatfield House festivities Is Gen. George C. Marshall, President Eisenhower's representative at the coronation. The general and Mrs.

Marshall arrived in London Saturday. ROYALTY, titled figures, hesds of government and notables from msny lsnds were coming by land, se snd air. The influx was so great that the quen's husband, the Duke of Edinburgh, and other royal dukes, were at various points in and around London to greet them. Gen. Marshall and Adm.

Lynde D. McCormlck, NATO North At-Untie commander, were met at London airport by the Duke of Gloucester. The queen 'i husband assisted Crown Prince, Olav, Crown Princess Martha and their daughter Frinress Astrid of Norway, from a launch that tied up at Westminster Pier on the Thames. He kissed the two princesses and shook hands with the crown prince. The pretender to the throne of Spain, Don Juan de Bourbon, Count of Bsrcelnns, snd his countess csme in by boat train from Southampton.

They were met by the Duke of Algeciras. AT LONDON AIRPORT, slone. officisls estimsted planes were bringing In people at a rate of S00 an hour. The visitors found a city dressed In splendor. The streets are festooned from wall to wall with heavy pink and rose garlands.

Blazing masses of imitation flowers, purple, rose, and red compete for attention with the yellow, crimson, orange and blue in the thousands of heraldic shields. London's famous streets, the Strand. Regent, the Mall. Fleet have been transformed Into rioting tournament of color. Shop windows have been filled with colored photographs of the Queen the Queen smiling from an automobile the Queen regal In tiara and blue shoulder-ribbon the serious Queen who looks so See ELIZABETH.

Fage Uses Gasoline Wash, Burned A 30-year-old Barberton man was seriously burned Saturday while washing the bathroom of his home with gasoline. The victim, John Van Norstran of 83 Circle Is in "fair" condition at Citizens Hospital with burns on his face, feet and hands. Barefooted, Van Norstran was washing the room when the gasoline fumes were ignited by a hot water heater, causing an explosion. Barberton firemen said the explosion peeled the psint off the walls. Mrs.

Vsn Norstran, who wss nesrhy, suffered only minor burns. A Sizzlcr! AKRON AND VICINITY Tartly cloudy, hot snd humid today with possibilities of scattered thundetshowers. High today, P0. Record high this data, In 1895; low, 37 in 1910. Partly cloudy and cooler tonight and Monday with low tonight between S3 and SO and high Monday between 75 and 80.

Sunset tonight, lunrlaa Monday, 5:59. Reply To UN Proposals Due Tonight President Sends Message To Rhee By JOHN M. HIGHTOVVER WASHINGTON (AP) Pres. ident Eisenhower conferred Sat-jurday with top policymakers on a Korean truce crisis whicn, threatens to split the Allied command and wreck whatever chances there may be now for ending the conflict ia Korea. The Chief Executive met with Secretary of State Dulles, Secretary of Defense Wilson and Gen.

J. Lawton Collins, Army chief of staff, in a hastily arranged session. Dulles, just returned from a 20-day tour of the Middle East and South Asia, went to the meeting after conferring at length with assistants on South Korea's rejection of truce terms submitted to the Communists and its threat to break up any armistice reached on those terms. TIGHT SECRECY surrounded the meeting. "All I can say la that It waa on Korea," Assistant White House Press Secretary Murray Snyder told newsmen after the 20-mlnute conference ended.

It was arranged hurriedly at mid-morning. Wilson, Collins and Dulles were summoned to the White House just before Mr. Eisenhower left to attend special 1 Memorial Day services at. Arling ton National Cemetery. They were -hen he returned, and the men went into conference 'J FROM SEOFL came a report dared Friday his government would pull South Korea divisions out of the United Nations command and thereby free them for independent military action if UN negotiators, directed by the United States, signed an armistice based on proposals made May 25.

Officials here said the declared intentions of the Syngman Rhee government have created a most 'erinu at a time when the week-long period of waiting for an. answer from the Communists is almost at an end. The Reds am due to respond Sunday night, Washington time, to the May 25 proposals of the United Nations coniniHiid. These included numher of concessions to the Reds but constitute terms which Washington and Allied governments consider "honorable." But the South Korean government has denounced what It called appeasement the Communists. PRESIDENT EISENHOWER Is understood to have sent a mes-age to President Syngman Rhee in recent days.

While this has been kept secret nut iiul sc. rage I mirflc UI rfl I "i-i I iM)ilfi a II-IHIL' dead of conflicts paat but he was preorcupiei with a wsr of the present, half a world away in Korea, On a phicid hilltop overlooking (he green sweep of Arlington National Cemetery, hallo wad resting place for many American war heroes, the President and Mrs. Eisenhower led th nation In observance of Memorial Day. Mr. Eisenhower applauded warmlv anaPfh in n.v,..k o.

ions and blue delphiniums at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. then stepped back and pressed his gray hat over his heart while a bugler played taps. You'll Find: Kpnrta i to 7-0 Theater lft-B Radlo-TV lg-B' Women's Section l-B Mirkefs 8-0 Parkins Ban On High St. Monday You may not. park on a nine.

block stretch of downtown S. High st- between 8 a. m- and 6 p. m. today.

A 90-day emergency parking; uan on in eireet neiween mest- nut and Ridge sts. goes Into effect ut u.e udu nuif a ju wm sjKiea me now oi traffic. The mayor's traffic safety committee urged the move. IF IT SHOWS results in eliminating some of the traffic jams City Council may make it permanent. Council's traffic committee has' recommended an 8 a.

m. to 6 p. m. ban on the heavilv-traveled north south artery, hut Council is taking some time to study the problem In snother tied-iu effort, City Council last week voted to ban left turns into High st. parking Thst is expected to keep "'no irom siarning up nrmna cars siopprn in ten.

turn Ailing Eden Flying To U. S. For Operation lq.vpON Foreign Secie- Anthony E(1pn will fly toj Boston Friday to undergo sn-i ailment, his Physicians announced i Saturday night. Eden, 55, already has had two operations here but a bulletin operations here but a bulletin igned by five doctors stated an nther operation has become tm- si other operatii i 1 I 1 1 i Headquarters officers of the They also outlined planned econ-Turkish brigade, attached to the 'onues undrrlymg son's propo-25th U. S.

Infantry Division, 5.090 mated .1000 rh.n. niurt "P0-000 from President and wounded between the time the! See KOREA, Page 2 Holiday Death Toll I His 96 If the weather holds, the construction crew of eight expects to have the whole job cleaned up in a week. The antenna will beam a signal from 1ST feet above the roof nearly S00 feet above street level snd easily the hiehest point in the city. A few Akronitcs spendinK 'be Memorial holiday downtown enjoyed a free show as muscles and machines started pulling steel up the side of the Steel beams don't fit In First to go up were huge beams which form the base of the tower. These were tied right in with the framework of the building.

Holes were cut throuch the eicht-lnrh-thlck- roof snd beams welded to the frsme. THE MEN WHO risk their necks climbing around the edge i i Akron loves a the scene the height of of the 30-story building work for the Seago Construction Co. of Dallas, They specialize in radio and TX tower work and this crew recently finished a job In Buffalo putting up a TV tower feet hiijh. The WAKR tower is rompars-tlvety short but Joe Dawson, veteran foreman of the crew, says this is a tough job. Lack of space stop the building Is a handicsp.

So is working in a downtown section. Mill rhotos on Page st. was blocked off from Main to Howard sts. so that the steel tower could be readied for the long haul to the roof. Work has been coing on since Wednesday but the lifting of steel wss scheduled for the SEE TV RIG.

Page 1 a lot of thinps she didn't understand." Judge Rugsdale said there was nothing obscene about either the questionnaire or Miss Pavchall or Miss raschsll's remarks. "Respect must be had to the school, faculty and supervisors," he ssid as he sentenced snd fined Mrs. Reynolds. All Is In Paul Delegate Hauls CLACTON-ON-SEA. Ensland A meeting of the Trade Council broke up because of ants In the psnts.

During the session Delegate Rohert Rutter became fidgety. When the time rama to discuss "any other business" ha leaped to his feet and suggested the town hall authorities do something about the chair he had been sitting on. It wit full of ants. Saturday' Glendale Thoto by William CHICAGO (1.1:) Traffic, deaths, non-comum mrcrmi previously kept pace with advance estimates scheduled for Air Force operation. Saturday as 35.000.000 automo-1 Reduction will he made in a 30-I biles crowded the highways for month period starting July 1 and first big holiday of the sea- will rover trainer planes, trans-Ison.

I ports, helicopters and liaison By Saturday nicht. a United Press survey showed 06 persons! had been killed since fi p. m. Fri day. Of the total 75 died in Akron Uses Every Bit Of Holiday By CARL DANGEL and GEORGE SCRIVEN Akron district residents will come off a long and nearly weather-perfect holiday weekend tonightbut reluctantly.

The Memorial Day weekend-traditionally the "ribbon-cutting" opening of the outdoor recreation season sent thousands to parks, golf courses, swimming pools and fishing spots. Thousands of others hit the open road for holiday motor trips. Airlines, trains and 'busses looked for Jams tonight as the hnmewsrd bound return. Police, state patrolmen snd sheriff's deputies in the district reported record traffic. Up to Sat.

lrday night, rw traffic deaths had narred the holiday In Akron. MANY TOOK time Saturday to visit cemeteries for prayers st the graves of loved ones. Others participated in Memorial Day cere-monies paying tribute to the dead of all U. S. wars.

Brief and scattered early morning showers cut attendance at some Memorial Day services in the district Saturday. John L. Smith of Barberton. past national commander of the Amvets, told a crowd at servlres at East Akron Cemetery that, "We must be vigilant to mske sure that those who died to pro-tert our freedoms did not die In vain." "We sometimes forgpt, the other 3(54 days of the year, thp supreme sacrifice thousands of Americans have made for their country," Smith said. A solemn high mass was celebrated at Holy Cross Cemetery in honor of Summit Countv war dead.

THE OI'TDOOR held st the altar-tombstone of Msgr. Joseph O'Keefe, long-time pastor of St. Mary Parish, was solemnized by the Rev. Thomas Sullivan of St. Mary.

Assisting were the Rev. Lawrence Cahlll of St. Augustine Se AKRON MAKES, Page Of All The Ct7s On The Komi! INDIANA TOL1S (Pi Nineteen- yesr-nld John Allen Hayes of New Bremen, 0 found out shout In- disns's new S.Vmle-sn-hour speed law when ha sped past, a car on iiy nil' ill rt iifcin crash. fense Secretary Roger M. Kyes Ned H.

Dearborn, president ofjcalls for placing heavier reliance PUiNCH COSTS ,30 DAYS. 8300 the National Safety Council, said that the traffic toll was running "ironically and tragically on schedule." The council estimated 240 persons would die In the two- day Memorial Day weekend "It isn't too late vet to saveifigure by which Wilson has cut The dapper Eden was first TlpTi'l stricken in April and has been! recuperating the last several I WASHINGTON President weeks In his country home. Dur-; Eisenhower, himself an old waring his Illness Prime Minister nor. paid homage Saturdav tn Mom Hits Teacher For Explaining Sex To Girl EL DORADO, Ark. (UP)-Municipal Judge J.

Rags-dale sentenced Mrs. E. M. Reynolds to jail for 30 days and fined her $300 for hitting a teacher who gave Mrs. Reynolds' high school daughter a private talk about sex.

Mrs. Reynolds is free on sp- lives over the holiday by driving sensibly," Dearborn said. PHICKS KKDCCKI) 37 Currency Reform Cuts Churchill has taken over control! of the Foreign Office I The medical bulletin said the new operation will be performed Rt Boston's Lahey Clinic by Dr. Richard THE FOREKi.V OFFICE states; that Eden, accompanied by his wife, will fly to Boston in a Royal I Canadian Air Force plane. It saidi President Eisenhower had offered Czech Wages 80 Pel.

VIENNA, Austria (AP) -Czechoslovakia's Red bosses Saturday announced a currency reform which they said will reduce prices up to 37 per cent and slash wages about 80 per cent. It goes Into effect Monday when the Soviet satellite' already dissatisfied workers return to work after the weekend. Prague Radio broadcast an of- to send his own aircraft for Kden Wiley, Wlsconam Republican, as-if It was needed. iserted sternly that America of The slowness In Eden's recovery this decays can no more "gi it from the two previous operations alone." hss given rise to much concern by Before the service, In the amphl-his supporters In the Conservative theater, Mr. Elsenhower placed a who have long hoped thatwreatn or rea and white earn- jdianged to 1A0 crowns to forf1frn would onelt Party peal bond.

She had charged the teacher, Rowena Paschall, with contributing to the delinquency of a minor, but decided to drop the charge. High School Principal Howard Elder said Miss Paschall discovered 16-year-old Beverly Reynolds studying a sex questionnaire In the classroom. The teacher said she took the girl to her automobile after school was nut to explain the questionnaire to her. Mrs. Reynolds and two neighbor women came to Elder's office later snd demanded to see Miss Paschall.

Police were called hut when they arrived all the women hRd gone to police headquarters to mske charges against each nther. MISS PASCHALL appeared before Judge Ragsdale with broken glasses and testimony indicated Mra. Reynolds had hit her with her fist. Mrs. Reynolds charged that Miss Paschall had talked to her daughter "about ficlal announcement which said the currency reform wss submit to the Czech Communist Parliament In Prsgue Saturday by Premier Vilem Siroky and 'unanimously approved.

i The broadcast, heard In Vienna, quoted Siroky as saying the reform was made "on the basis of the experience of the Soviet currency reform of IHU. At the same time, the announcement said, the present foreign ex-change rate of 12 Czech crowns to one Soviet ruble would be i Ha succeed Churchill as party snd perhaps prime nun- 1 jp))( ister. Today Chuckle "Have you been through c. cuius?" Inquired the college professor. "Not unless I passed through it night on my way here," answered the freshmsn.

"I'm from Kansas, you know." -PMlntwe ruble. ine ruoie is n.xea ny in uus sians ai rents, nur. inai is strictly an srtificisl rate since the ruhle is not traded on any free market. The Czech crown ha been quoted at 2 cents U. RADIO FRAGt'E ssid the new bank notes which will be issued this week will carry the Imprint "these bank notes are covered by gold and by other assets of the State Bank of the peoples Repub- Ho of Czechosjjvikli." Indiana 100.

The car he passed was occupied by Gov. Craig snd was driven by State Police Pgt. Arthur Teteraon. The governor directed Sgt. Peterson to overhaul Hayes and the youth was taken to a Magistrate's Court wher was fined $18..