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An Independent NEWSpaper Printing the Newg Impartially U. S. WEATHER BUREAU Tucson and vicinity: Clear and continued cold. Temperatures Yesterday: High 50 Low 38 Year ago: High 74 42 mast jt PRICE FIVE CENTS THIRTY-SIX PAGES VOL. 355 SECTION A TUCSON, ARIZONA, FRIDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 21, 1951 Entrd a aacond-claaa matter.

Post Office, Tucson, Arizona. NO. 110 Highway Slaughter Nears Marker in America NOTIFYING PRISONERS' RELA TIVES VIRTUALLY COMPLETED BY V. S. A.

HOPE IS DIM STEEL TIEUP WONTCOME Government's Mediators Report No Progress in Conciliation Efforts SOVIET BLOC IS DEFEATED TWICEIN UN Greeks Handed Council Seat; Free Elections In Germany Studied PARIS, Dec. 20. (JP) The Tucson Community Chest $40,373 Under Its Goal Appeal Made by Board President Charles Carson Calls Upon Citizens to Meet Challenge and Provide Agencies With All Money Pledged "To meet the needs of the 15 agencies supported by the Tucson Community Chest for the year 1952, it is essential that the chest campaign goal of $253,868 be completely subscribed by Jan. 1," Charles A Carson, president of the chest WASHINGTON, Dec. 20.

Thank God FEW NAMES United Nations handed two (JP) Government mediators board said yesterday. defeats to the Soviet bloc to day. Greece defeated White reported no progress today after all-day conferences seek- ing to avert a threatened New Year's day strike in the steel industry. Hopes for any agreement continued dim. STILL MUST BE CHECKED Local Street Setup Baffling, Mrs.

Luce Agrees After Sortie "Tucson is growing and the needs of the chest agencies are growing with it," Carson added. "We are making an intensive effort to wind up this campaign by the first of the year with all the money pledged. Otherwise 1952 is going to be a hard year for the agencies which depend on the chest for their support. "We are making this appeal to Russia for a seat in the UN security council. And over bitter Russian protests the general assembly named a five-nation commission to investigate the possibility of By ASSOCIATED PRESS The tempo of highway slaughter slowed down a little yesterday as the nation approached the traffic fatality mark.

It reached at midnight Thursday, EST. Extra driving caution and widespread severe wintry weather that kept many cars off the highways apparently were responsible. The National Safety Council has forecast that the 1,000,000 mark will be reached around noon Saturday In the highway race with death that started Sept. 13. 1899.

On that date H. H. Bliss stepped from a trolley in New Vork City and was killed by a horseless carriage. He was America's first traffic victim. The traffic toll rose steadily after that and now has reached the alarming total of more than 100 each day.

The 1931 toll was 30,200 up to Wednesday midnight. The peak of 39,969 fatalities was reached in 1911. The council has promoted (for million) Day in the hope that pinpointing the grisly milestone will slow the slaughter. Nearly all accidents, the council maintains, could be prevented by extra caution. i -y- i i Cyrus S.

Ching, federal me diation service director, said Many Cheered by News; the steel firms had come forward with no offer vet in response to free all-German elections. Victory for Greece came in a record-breaking 19th ballot in the assembly. the citizens of the Tucson com-i CIO President Philip Murray's de Others Are Saddened As Lists Released mand for an average lS'fe-cent-an hour pay boost for steel workers This gave the United States one of its hardest-won victories in WASHINGTON, Dec. 20. "It seems to me tMs is a major domestic crisis," Ching told report contest which split London and munity to meet this challenge and provide the funds that will assure the Old Pueblo of agency service that will prevent serious welfare and recreation problems in the coming year." Figures Given Stanley Steele, chest executive Washington temporarily and pro (JP) The Pentagon virtually wound up tonight its massive voked screams of protest from Moscow.

task of telling American fami ers after the meeting with Murray and representatives of 10 key steel firms. Ching said he had no' deadline on how long he would keep the government-sponsored negotiations Vote Breakdown The final vote was 39 for Greece lies who was on the Communist list of prisoners of war in Korea. to 16 for White Russia. Four eroins: before reporting a dead countries abstained and South director, stated that the total sin scribed to date is $213,485, leaving a shortage of $40,373. A meeting; of the campaign committee has! been called for 3:30 p.m.

Wednes-! Africa was absent. This made the total votes cast 55 and the re To thousands the news was the bes't Christmas present lock to President Truman. He said here was no agreement on any one of the union's 22 demands. Price Relief Stressed quired two-thirds majority was 37, day, Dec. 26, to plan an intensive drive to make up this campaign ever.

10 even more, who waited In vain for messages from It can safely be said that Mrs. Clare Boothe Luce, the Well known playwright and novelist, knows her way around in most circles. Those circles, however, do not take in Tucson with its baffling array of streets. "Magnificently confusing," is the writer's term for what passes as a street system in Tucson. It took her an hour to go from the Arizona Inn to municipal airport a drive that should take about 20 minutes.

Mrs. Luce stepped up her speed a little past the limits in the hope of being flagged down by a patrolman who would be able to direct her. The illegal gesture was to no avail. She found the airport on her own. SLxth street, Sixth avenue and the confusion of each with the other bothered the former con-gresswoman; the lack of street signs added to the difficulty and the final blow descended on her just as on everyone else: "You simply can't see the numbers at night." Mrs.

Luce, here for the first time, probably doesn't know of the occasional Tucson custom of moving and taking along the old house number to the new address. Jt might not have helped even had she been able to find the numbers. the defense department, the holi Ching said the steel companies emphasized again that they will day season was tainted with gloom. need price relief if they are to raise Only a few names, possibly 200, wages. "There is no question but that remained to be processed by the Pentagon, which had sifted through DEATH BECKONS 7 ON HIGHWAYS Arizona Traffic Experts Predict Crash Toll to Rise Even Higher PHOENIX, Dec.

20. (JP) Traffic giving Greece two more than necessary. The ballot was secret but there were well-informed reports that "Britain finally came around on the last few ballots to vote for Greece so she could get. the two-thirds majority. The United States fought for weeks to avoid what would have been its most serious set-back in the UN if White Russia had won the contest.

The Russians were said to have been backed by a more than 3,000 names made public by the Communists. These were "special cases," deficit before the first of the year. The greatest shortage exists in the advance gifts section of the campaign organization, which failed to meet its quota by $32,000. The downtown establishments and residential divisions are short approximately $4,000 each. If these three divisions could meet their quotas, the total amount of the goal would be assured.

"There are people in this community," Steele said, "who should get rid of some money they don't want to give to Uncle Sam. The chest can certainly use it, and in the higher income brackets, the percentage cost to the subscribers will be very low." mostly questions of confused Difficult Checking Task The Communist list included i v-- safety engineers estimate that at" 3,198 American POW's, just about the price angle on this is very important," Ching stated. He arranged to meet with the management group tomorrow at 9:30 a.m. and with the union at 10:30. Asked whether the company and union negotiators seem to feel the gravitv of the situation, Ching said they did.

He added, "I think everybody realizes that." "this is just the beginning," Vice-President John A. Stephens of the U.S. Steel Corporation told reporters as he entered the conference room. Ihe release ot a list of American prisoners oi war held in Korea least seven persons will die on Arizona highways between now and midnight Dec. 26.

Last year between Dec. 21 and 26 the total killed was 11 six on Dec. 21, two on Dec. 23, two on Dec. 24 one-third of the Americans officially logged as missing in action by the defense department.

The original Communist list contained no home addresses, involved a big Job of checking by U. S. officials, so messages could be sent to the home by the Reds brought both joy and sorrow into American homes. To Mr. and Mrs.

Christian Hansen, whose son, Pfc. William C. Hansen, had been listed as "missing in action," the report brought joy and thanksgiving. Here the couple pray at Maspeth, after learning their son is among those in Red POW camps. (NEA Telephoto.) and one on Dec.

26. Gregory O. Hathaway, superin folk. tendent of the highway patrol, said: "The most disastrous year in Arizona's traffic fatality history is In unprecedented fashion, the Needs to Increase Steele said that the needs of the chest agencies will be even greater in 1952 than was anticipated when the budgets were made up to determine the chest campaign goal. The industrial expansion will be Ching told reporters he wants to get the union and management drawing to a close.

positions down clearly, then work for a settlement. The government fears the'effect a strike would have The 1952 Toll? There is no apparent reason to tight coalition of Arab and Asian votes along with some scattered strength from other small nations. Another Defeat Immediately after the security council vote, the assembly administered another defeat to the Soviet bloc. It created a five-nation commission with instructions to inquire into the possibility of holding free elections in all of Germany. The Soviet bloc denounced the commission in advance and made it clear the group would not be admitted to East Germany.

The vote on the German commission was 45 to 6 with 8 abstentions. The Soviet bloc and Israel voted against it. Foreign Minister Moshe Sharett, Israel, explained that the resolution creating the commission did not stress a specific inquiry into the possibility that Nazism still exists in' Germany. The assembly named Brazil, Iceland, the Netherlands, Pakistan and Poland to the commission but Pentagon made public the names with addresses just as soon as the families of the men had been notified. The Associated Press relayed the entire roster, a task which took a day and a half.

GROUP ASSAILS TRAFFTCPLANS North Fourth Property Owners Claim Death Blow to Business far greater than was known at that time. The chest agencies, which are Ridgway Asks Enemy to Allow Red Cross Visit POW Camps MUNSAN, Korea, Friday, Dec. 21. (IPy Gen. Matthew B.

Ridgway today appealed to the top Communist commanders in Korea to open the gates of Red prisoner-of-war camps to the International Red Cross. Reds disclosed Tuesday they hold 11,559 Allied prisoners including 3,19 Americans. The supreme Allied commander I concerned with welfare, recrea See Page 8-B for the final roster of names. tion," family problems, character building of youth and social ad justments, will play a vital part in easing the shocks of community By ROGER O'MARA Thf nnp-wav traffic nlan fnr population growth, bteele said. downtown Tucson took a terrific tow the agencies will func- tion, he explained in a broadcast message said he had'munists had rejected previous re thumping last night.

Tonight the Pentagon's casualty division closed shop. Weary workers sloughed through the ice and slush to tumble into bed after round-the-clock operations which kept many awake for two nights. What processing remains to bs done will go on in daylight hours. In China, the Peiping radio con- quests. He urged them to recon Property owners on North "no other considerations in mind than the welfare of these men and sider so that Red Cross representa tives could bring "physical and the distress of their families." "I earnestly request," he added, moral assistance" to Allied prison suppose the picture for 1952 will be any better.

So far this year the state toll is 389. "It is easy to blame the accident death rate on engineering, enforcement and education. The motorist himself, however, fails to recognize that his own impatience and inattention while driving is mainly responsible for accidents. Doubling the highway patrol wouldn't help this situation." Hathaway added that more patrolmen are needed, however. Glerv Smoot, traffic safety engineer for the highway department, also believes more patrolmen should be employed.

Driver Failure He listed "driver failure" as the main cause of all accidents, combined speed, recklessness, driving on the wrong side of the road, negligence and failure to yield the right of way. The driver caused 93 per cent of all fatalities, Smoot said, and faulty vehicles only six per cent. Jack Acton, director of the governor's committee for traffic safety, on the mobilization effort. Strike Certain: 'Murray Murray said he still considers a strike inevitable. The Steelworkers union, which Murray also heads, is asking a 15-cemVs-an-hour general increase plus a change in job classification differentials estimated to average another 3 cents an hour, plus other benefits.

The men now average just a little under $2 an hour including overtime. U.S. Steel has said it can't raise wages unless the government permits it to raise prices accordingly. How much of a price increase the government would allow is still undecided. INCREASEMATE ON PHONES OK'D ACC Grants $1,730,994 Annual Revenue Hike To Mountain States "that you secure immediate Sent to Ton Men unuea io uroauLasi names wnicn it 'caiH cra tVirtco rf AllioH rtricnnoT The message was addressed tor ization for entrance of the- duly accredited representatives of the international committee of the Red Poland already has announced it would not serve.

The security council, after Jan. 1, will be made up of the five permanent members, Britain, France, Nationalist China, Russia and the United States, six ron-permanent. members, the Netherlands, Turkey and Brazil, (with one more year to serve), and Chile, Pakistan, and! Greece (beginning two-year terms.) I sending greetings home. Several of Fourth avenue and Ninth street administered the beating. They did it twice in fact at 7:30 for the benefit of the city manager and traffic engineer and at 9:10 for the mayor and council who arrived late.

The rehearsal was slightly better than the main show which will be presented again on Jan. 14 when Sixth avenue merchants take their cut at the proposed full scale change. See Death Blow Fourth avenue merchants de Assistance Sought "People coming to Tucson to seek employment are usually in the marginal income group. When they hit town, they may have enough money to enable them to live for three or four weeks, and if they don't get jobs within that time and get on a payroll, they become a community problem. They turn to community chest agencies for assistance.

"There will also be an increased number of children and young people for which chest-supported organizations must provide recreation and counseling. All of this Cross who are now standing by, ready to provide you with their assistance." Ridgway noted that the Com- North Korean Premier Kim II Sung and the Chinese commander in Korea, Gen. Peng Teh-huai. Even before the appeal went out, the Allies had completed plans for the air evacuation to Japan after an armistice of the 4,417 listed UN prisoners other than South Koreans. Allied staff officers today worked doggedly for a break in the snarled Korean truce talks those names were not on the Communist list given the U.S.

The army said 20 names on the Communist POW list were those of American soldiers listed on official U.S. casualty rolls as "killed in action." Insurance Paid In some cases, the soldier's $10,000 government insurance had already been paid to the next of kin. The army said the names of the 20 will not be made public pending the outcome of field investigations by Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway's (takes more money, and now is the scribed making that street one way as the death knell of their businesses.

John F. Caarls, city traffic engineer, told them the plan was an said the committee is justifiably time for the citizens of Tucson to provide it." Extra Heavy Dose of Winter Makes Wide Areas Miserable By ASSOCIATED PRESS Nature dumped a new big dose of weather misery on the storm-buffeted northern two-thirds of the nation Thursday. Ice storms crippled transportation in parts of the midwest and east. Rural areas of South Dakota, battered by a week long series of severe storms, approached a helpless state. Pilots began flying in PHOENIX, Dec.

20. (IP) The aspirin intended to alleviate a which would pave the way for an armistice. Analysis Continued The exchange of prisoners and details of delivery to their ownl state corporation commission today traffic condition it admittedly alarmed at the "staggering, unnecessary waste of lives on the roads." He added: "Every man, woman and youth who drives a car must LOCATIONS TOLD WASHINGTON, Dec. 20. (IP) granted Mountain States Telephone couldn't cure.

headquarters in Tokyo. said'Tne air force said today its Far and Telegraph company an annual "ifs a lethal dose for Contrary to early official warn lines remain to be worked out in East command has given all combat accept responsibility for this. They the truce talks. The Allied sub- tha iar-. ohii have padded the POW lists with committee still was units the location of prison camps must be made to realize that an rate increase of Ben Wallace of Wallace cleaners.

What this will mean in individ-, The audience of 31 was pleasant, ual telephone bills of the firm's no tempers flared but they were on prisoners where the Communists say emergency coal and livestock sup theyfautomobile is an instrument of de- names, Pentagon authorities fake annlvincr iho Pnmmiiniet lict nf plies. Four prospective mothers 161,000 customers win not De adamant Thev demanded that re- are holding war prisoners, ihe struction and death far more 11,559 UN prisoners. It far had not reported a single were flown to hospitals. Gov. Si known until rate schedules can be case of fictitious identification.

purpose is 10 preciuue acciueiuai poweriui in many instances man attacks" on the camps. 'a machine gun." no more meetings with the Reds grurd Anderson discussed with (Continued on Page 2-A, Col. 1) until this job was done. aides the possibility of an airlift for emergency cases. (See story Page 3-A) A blizzard piled up huge drifts in the Hereford-Grover area of northeastern Colorado forcing the Traffic Crush Forces Freeway to Open Ahead of Schedule worked out, Wilson T.

Wright, commission chairman, said. The increase was based on a valuation of $32,747,916 placed on the firm's properties by the commission. It will result, Wright said, in a return to the company of 6.25 per cent on its investment. By LESTER NT. IXSKEEP The press of traffic yesterday forced state highway officials to The corporation commission thn Pen tne rst phase of Tucson's controlled access highway to WITHDRAWAL FROM ISLANDS OK'D PANMUNJOM.

Korea, Friday, Dec. 21. (JP) The UN command today agreed to withdraw from all islands off both coasts of North Korea in event of an armistice. The Allied concession was made at a meeting of UN and Red staff officers who were handed the task of seeking a break in the 25-day deadlock on how to police an armistice. An Allied spokesman said "the implication is that there is not an unbridgeable chasm between them." "The atmosphere at the staff trucks in advance of com- os in Piint I heavy arliSitinnc marto cinno that riatp nrrvi" duced the difference, the commiS' Officials had expressed fear In advance that the enemy might have used names of people that never existed to pad out what tnev called the "pitifully thin" POW list.

Identification experts at the Pentagon were still working to clear up cases involving U.S. soldiers who have been officially reported killed in action but whose names' appear on the unverified Communist POW list. Caution The defense department cautioned at the outset that it could not vouch for the accuracy of the Red POW reports because "the incidence of errors, omissions or fictitious additions" was unknown. For the most part, officials said there were few known discrepancies in the Communist roster. However, there was still no way of knowing, for sure, of course, whether all those listed are still alive or whether the list is complete.

More than two-thirds of the 11,051 Americans missing in action were unmentioned by the Reds CHILLY IX TUCSON, TOO The official beginning of winter at midnight last night was signalled by dropping temperatures as the coldest weather of the month moved into Arizona. Tucson's temperatures were 29 at midnight, with an expected low of 20-25. A total of .15 of an inch rainfall during the 24-hour period which ended yesterday afternoon brought Tucson's rainfall for the year to 11.47 Inches-just .03 of an inch less than the normal total for the year, the Weather Bureau reported. The fast winds of Wednesday had all but ended yesterday at ground level, but at altitude a wind of 231 miles per hour was blowing In a western direction. They would have liked to wait until the final seal coat was applied to all of the black top, but the motorists could not resist the lure of the wide new road, so either removed or destroyed all barricades placed at the north entrance.

Truckers Obedient Only the drivers of the big semitrailers, for which the road primarily was built, scrupulously sion said. Wright said the net revenue increase Mountain States will realize will be about half the total increase. The remainder will be paid out in state and federal taxes, he said. increase granted is "approximately $1,000,000 less than the company asked for," Wright added. Lawson V.

Smith, Arizona dis- (Continued on Page 10-A, Col. 1) OLD JOE REACHES 72ND YEAR TODAY 1 4 Ijgt ff -it- if kr 1 4 hv.w. ir ft fTTX Ji if a if 'fi ji I I I MOSCOW, Dec. 20. (IP) Prime Minister Stalin, will be 72 tomorrow.

He probably will observe the birthday as he has in years past at his desk in the Kremlin. trict manager for Mountain abided by the signs and continued said the firm will not question the their way through the city via the ruling of the commission granting Casa Grande -overpass and crowded rate increases. North Stone Smith said the company is plan-; xhus it was somewhat of an ning a $13,000,000 expansion pro-event when three of the orjgina-gram in Arizona for lo2 now thatjtors of tne -freeway' movement AM "la7- BEXEFTT PAYMEXT closing of schools. Another bliz the rate case has been settled. zard buffeted northeastern New Mexico.

With fresh snow storms raging in already snow-logged Chicago, versary and he will receive hundreds of congratulations. So far as is known, Stalin's health is satisfactory for his age and is as good as it was this time last year. motorists were advised to call off any planned out-of-town trips and "sit at home." gathered unofficially to witness the first of the heavy equipment permitted on road. These men, A. W.

Voorhees, a long-time chairman of the city planning and zoning commission; Andre M. Faure, regional planning director; and George T. Grove, former Pima county engineer, were on hand as William N. Price, resident engineer for the highway department, superintended removal of the barrier at the north end. First truck to continue straight ahead instead of taking "the" over Mayor Martin Kennelly of Chi Today's News Index cago told an emergency meeting of city officials and transportation executives that more snow could paralyze the city.

He said he may order schools closed Friday. Aurora, 111., some 40 miles west of Chicago, buses were taken The first truck rolls down Tucson's controlled access highway when the state, county and city planners removed the last barrier to the northern end of the road. On hand for the ceremony were (left to right) A. W. Voorhees, first chairman of the city-county zoning commission; Grove Grove, former Pima county engineer; William X.

Price, resident engineer for the state highway department; Ed. Carter, agent for the Consolidated Copperstate lines, owners of the first truck to nse the freeway, and Andre M. Faure, city-county regional planning director. (Photo by Levltz.) PROBLEM CONSIDERED WASHINGTON. Dec.

20. UP) The Veterans Administration said tonight no decision had been made yet on whether attempts will be made to recover Insurance benefits paid to persons whose service relatives, once believed killed, have since been reported as prisoners of war. No action will be taken, the VA spokesman said, until formal Identification Is made of the prisoners by direct Inspection of the Communist prison camps, should that be permitted. If it Is then established that money has been paid by the VA to relatives in the belief a man had previously been killed In action, then steps might be taken to recover the money. "If it is apparent that requiring repayment of the money would work a hardship, then the Veterans Administration can waive the right to the funds," the VA spokesman said.

Pedestrian Killed When Hit By Auto Thomas S. Shannon, about 65, of 3S07 North Ninth avenue, Phoenix, died instantly last night when he was struck down by a west-bound car ten miles east of Tucson on the Benson highway. His death brought the highway fatality toll in Pima county to 33 this year. It was the fourth traffic death this week. Highway patrol officers identified the driver of the car as Ellis Dent Shannon (no relation to the dead man) 43, of La Jolla, Calif.

He was on his way to California with his family. He told officers Shannon was walking near the center of the road and said he was unable to tvoid the man ven by swerving the car. pass turn, belonged' to the Consoli Eleven persons feared dead as flames sear ship at Astoria, Ore, 3A. "Mr. Border Patrol" winds up his colorful career, IB.

Opinion closely split on permitting escapees from Russia to enter U.S., 4A. Fertility study may help curb fatal nerve disease, 7B. Reputed St. Peter's burial place covered up again, 2B. off the streets because they kept ding completion of the next section Later the north-bound lanes willjgetting stuck in the heavy, wet From now on, only the heavy equipment with loads consigned to of the freeway.

be constructed, thus widening the This is due to the fact they can snow, schools were ordered closed in Aurora Friday. The weather bureau at New York issued a special bulletin warning not make the right turn at Congress and Main without interfering thoroughfare to four lanes. The second phase has already been started, but a third contract will be required to carry the first dated Copperstate Lines and was driven by Ray Simmons. Ed Carter, local agent for the company, also was on hand-Opened was the first section of a project that eventually will cost between $5 and $6 million. It runs from the Casa Grande overpass to West Congress street, but the heavy trucks are being diverted at the new St.

Mary's road inter of freezing rain in New York City.j Comics 5C Pub. Records 7C Crossword 5C Radio 6C two lanes their entire leneth Tucson will use the mam business streets. That portion of the freeway opened to use eventually will comprise the two south-bound lanes Due to the manner in which construction funds are allocated, the road will be carried through to the Benson highway as two lanes only. A freeway, or partial A new oaten of polar air rolled Editorial IOC Society for Tucson first was envisioned by.town into England and the Financial 6C Sports 1-2C with other traffic. This change, however, removed the trucks from North Stone avenue and the main business district at a time when traffic was heaviest there.

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