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mm THE WEATHER Forecast by U. S. Weather Bureau Philadelphia and vicinity; Tartly cloudy and becoming milder today. Moderate winds, becoming southwesterly. Partly cloudy and warmer tomorrow.

Complete weather data for State and Nation on Pare 2. FINAL CITY EDITION I I' Dljlb Lj jL VJ JLi IV An I re tw p'aipeTfol-l-th-e People December Circulation: Daily, Sunday, 1,138,465 122nd Year TUESDAY MORNING, JANUARY, 23, 1951 Copyright, 1351, by Triangle Publication. Inc. Vol. 244.

No. WFIL 560 First on Your Dial FIVE CENTS lied 'Of er9 Delays Move on China 9 eaten in Korea Air Battle nemy GunBattle in Midcity Foils Peking Amends Conditions i For Cease-Fire, Balks U. S. Holdup; Thug, Officer Shot tr it I I 1 1 J. i Woman Slain By Farmer in Lovers' Lane Wife of Neighbor Left in N.

J. Woods After Bludgeoning Illustrated on Page 3 Special to The Inquirer TRENTON. Jan. 22. Mrs.

Elsie Baus, 44, wife of a well-to-do larmer of nearby Windsor, was found murdered today in a woods r.ear a lovers' lane in Hamilton township. Ten hours after the crime, Prosecutor Mario H. Volpe of Mercer county said that John Updike, 31, a neighbor, had con-Jessed the killing as the climax to an illicit love affair. Updike was booked on a murder charge and held for a hearing tomorrow tn Hamilton township police court after, Volpe said, he dictated a complete confession to members of the prosecutor's staff. Updike, who appears 10 years younser than his age, weighs about 180 lbs.

and looks a football player," told Voipe he killed Mrs. Bans after a violent quarrel as they were parked in his father's car on narrow lane Just off the Yardville-Hamilton square rd. GOUGED WITH KEYS Updike detailed the killing, the prosecutor said, telling how he beat the attractive woman to death with his fists and deeply gouged her neck with car keys in his anger. Dr. C.

'Walter Carroll. Mercer county physician, said Mrs. Baus' windpipe was severed by the keys, but that she had died of a cerebral h'morrhage after repeated blows on the head. Volpe said that Updike told of an Illicit romance with Mrs. Baus, mother of a 22-year-old daughter, Virginia, which began several years ago.

The prosecutor recalled that about a year ago. the victim's husband, Timer, who owns two farms in Windsor and operates a prosperous huck-ater business, came to his office and complained about Updike "running around" with his wife. Baus asked the prosecutor to intervene in the affair. Updike, in his statement, accord-Continued on race 24, Column 3 Boys Fire Slug Through Window A slug, apparently fired from a rifle, shattered a side window in the accounting office of the Ambrose-Augusterfer 247 E. Ashmead Germantown, yesterday afternoon.

Stephen J. Finnegan, the firm's auditor, and a half dozen employes who were in the office escaped injury as the pellet struck the ceiling, then dropped to the floor. Finnegan tcid police he believed the shot was fired, possibly with no malicious intent, by one of several boys he had een playing in a lot beside the eflice. None of the youths could be found when police arrived. Dulles Leaves For Talks Illustrated on Page 3 WASHINGTON.

Jan. 22 (UP). Ambassador John Foster Dulles left for Tokyo today to speed work on a Japanese peace treaty that would build up the former enemy nation as a bulwark against Communist aggression In the Pacific. Just before leaving by plane, he issued a statement asserting he would try to establish V. S.

-Japanese relations "on a long-term friendly basis" as a reward for Japan's "loyal" compliance with U. S. surrender terms. Dulles said the United Statei believed the Japanese were entitled to a peace which "will make them the masters of their own destiny and give them an opportunity to take part in all the varied peaceful aspects of national and international life." Congress to Hear Eisenhower on Europe's Defense By JOHN C. O'BRIEN Inquirer Washington Bureau WASHINGTON, Jan.

22. Gen. Dwlght D. Eisenhower will report his findings on Europe's will to resist aggression at a joint session of Congress, probably on Jan. 31, Senate and House leaders announced today.

Counting heavily on the prestige of the Allied supreme commander to win support for the Administration's aid policy. Senate leaders marshaled their forces to forestall action on the Wherry resolution to prohibit the sending of American ground forces i to Europe when it comes up for a vote tomorrow. The Administration leaders, who wish to avoid a showdown on the issue until after Eisenhower reports, felt confident they had the votes to send the Wherry resolution to the Foreign Relations Committee. After Eisenhower has been heard the Administration leaders plan to offer their own resolution to approve the Administration's European aid policy. In what appeared to be a move to head off a vote on the Administration's resolution.

Minority Leader Continued on Page 4, Column 4 U. S. Liner Saves 19 From Tanker ROTTERDAM, The Netherlands. Jan. 22 (AP).

The U. S. liner Washington today rescued 19 crewmen of the 1290-ton Swedish tanker Bie, which caught fire in the North Sea en route from England to Terschelling Island. The report said one of the Bie's crew perished in the Are and another was badly burned. The tanker is owned by the Transatlantic Co.

of Goeteborg. The crew abandoned the Bie. MEDICAL AID FOR BANDIT SHOT IN MIDCITY GUN BATTLE A Hahnemann Hospital -physician prepares a hypodermic for John Parks, shot through both hands by detectives yesterday when he and an accomplice tried to kidnap two store workers, carrying week-end receipts to a bank, at 10th and Commerce sts. At right is Detective Sgt. Albert Mortimer, struck in the forehead by a ricocheting bullet.

The second bandit was captured after a gun battle. (Other ia aner a gun Daiue. vi'ier noios on rage Trap Is Sprung After Pair 111 11 rhotos on Page 3.) Ousters Asked State Trade School Board Union Hecjd Urges Governor to Act in Gl Training Tieup By JOSEPH II. TRACHTMAN Gov. John S.

Fine was urged yesterday to oust the members of the State Board of Private Trade Schools who have been identified with a heavily financed lobby to obtain additional millions in Federal funds for the GI training program. The reorganization should include the resignation of Louis B. F. Ray- croft as chairman of the board because of his close association with a trade school group. Governor Fine was told by Sal B.

Hoffmann, president of the Upholsterers Inter national Union AFL). Hoffmann also urged drastic amendment of the State private trade school law to bar from ths State board any members having a direct financial interest in trade schools hich benefit from Federal and State funds. 'RAIDING LICENSES' Hoffmann accused Raycroft of "crass partiality toward these private raiding licenses on the United States Treasury Issued the guise of school certifications." "The spectacle of five members serving simultaneously on the State board and in private capacities with schools benefiting from privileges certified to them by their board Is one of the most outrageous examples of setting the rat to watch the cream in recent history," Hoffmann declared in a telegram to the Governor. LAW AMENDMENT ASKED Under the present State law, five of the seven members of the State board must be persons active in the private trade school business. It was this feature of the law.

particularly, that Hoffmann declared should be amended. Two of the five members have been named as active in a campaign to promote State and Federal laws favorable to the GI schools, which Continued on rage 24, Column 4 Senator Applauds 'Bellowing' in U.N. WASHINGTON, Jan. 22 (AP). Senator Kdwtn C.

Johnson Colo.) told the Senate today that the United Nations cannot flRht a war but it remains a very good organization in which to let off International steam. Onm he thotnrht the U.N. should maintain an international police force; now his mind is changed and he believes any such move would destroy the U.N., he said. "The United Nations must remain a place where Austin and Vishinsky can sit across the table and glare and bellow at each other on behalf of their respective nations and meet afterwards in a social function as the best of personal friends," Johnson said. "The world needs that sort of thing desperately.

Somehow I feci that the steam let off at Lake Success and in New York has brought the whole world much closer together." months. He was 67. "Robbie." as he was known affectionately all over the world, was Mr. Track of the first half of this century He competed or coached in every Olympic game since 1904 until his retirement irom the sport because of ill health following the 1947 season. He was a sprinter and jumper on the U.

S. teams of 1904, '06 and '08, at St. Louis, Athens and London. He was assistant coach of the 12 and 20 head coach in '24, '28, '32 and '36. All the teams of which he was head coach were unofficial winners on team totals.

No official team winners are designated in Olympic track NATIVE OF SCOTLAND Robertson came to Penn In 1916. Followers of the sport, who idolized Mike Murphy, never expected to find a successor of comparable stature. But gradually they discovered that the rawlioned, great-hearted Scots- Continued on Page 29, Column 4 3 Soviet-Built Planes Bagged By Thunder jets Illustrated on Page 3 TOKYO, Jan. 23 (Tuesday) (UP). American F-84 Thunder-jet fighters shot down three Soviet-built jet planes today in a large-scale air battle over far North Korea.

It was the fourth successive day that enemy jets engaged U. S. fighters, and the Fifth Air Force said it may have been the biggest air battle of the Korean war to date. Reports did not indicate how many planes were involved. ABANDON WONJU AIRFIELD On the ground, U.N.

forces withdrew voluntarily Monday night from the Wonju airfield and the hills overlooking it on the central front. The airstrip was one of four anchor bases along a 50-mile front; that were seized and held briefly by five powerful columns of Allied I troops, tanks and artillery In a large hit-run scouting sweep. As patrols along the front advanced as far as nine miles into Communist territory without meeting enemy troops, there was sizable activity tar behind the U.N. lines. Peter KaMscher' United Press correspondent, reported that U.N.

patrols battled with some 2000 North Korean Communists southeast of Tan-yang and were said to have killed about 200. rilSli TOWARD TAEGU Another group of 1000 Communists who infiltrated into the So-baek Mountains were reported in the same area accompanied by 200 women. The actions indicated that the North Koreans were continuing to try to push southeast through the wild mountain passes toward Taegu. A spearhead of four Infiltrating Continued on Page 2. Column 4 Lasting Red Peril Seen by Bradley Inquirer Washington Bureau WASHINGTON, Jan.

22. Gen. Omar Bradley, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told the Senate Preparedness Committee today that there was "little real danger now of the continental United States being h.vaded and overrun." but. he urged Congressional approval of a long-range armed forces expansion program to meet the threat of Communism, which "may persist for 10, 15 or 20 years." Bradley refused to indicate an offhand choice- between a universal military training bill that would draft 19-year-olds for 27 months or 18-year-olds for 21 or 24 months. OUTLINES PLANS Senator Wayne Morse pointing out that legislation almost invariably required compromise, asked the general which he would prefer.

"I can't answer that off hand," he said. "I would have to take pencil in hand and figure it out. You have put a bad condition on each of the two." Morse agreed that all compromises "had bad conditions," but he said he would write Bradley a formal letter asking whether one proposal Continued on Page 2, Column 3u Glljr JlmjitttTr TUESDAY, JANUARY 1951 Departments and Features Amusements 16 Bridge 22 Business and Financial 32. 33, 34, 35, 36 Comics 26, 27 Death Notices 30 Editorials 18 Feature Page 23 Picture Paee 3 Port in Storm 221 Puzzles 26, 27; Radio and Television 28 Shipping 28 Sports 29, 30, 31 Women's News 20, 21, 22 Obituaries 11 Frank Brookhouser Page 25 John M. Cummings Pane 18 Walter Lippmann Page 23 Leonard Lyons Page 23 Merrill Panitt Page 28 Louella O.

Parsons Tage 23 Ivan H. Peterman Page 23 Portraits Page 18 George E. Sokolsky Fage 18 Mark Sullivan Page 23 Danton Walker Tage 23 Washington Background Page 23 John Webster Pace 29 Walter WincheU Tage 23 Austin Labels Mao's Bid Ruse To Divide Allies LAKE SUCCESS. N. Jan.

21 (APi Communist China said in a surprise message today that a. Korean cease-fire could be arranged at the start of a conference on Korea, Formosa and all Far East problems. The United States promptly branded the message a "transparent attempt to divide the free world." but lost a passionate move for a quick aggressor verdict against Peking. VOTE 48-HOl'R DELAY Despite American objections, the U.N. Political Committee put off for 48 hours any possible action on an American resolution which called Red China the aggressor in Korea and sought to pave the way for eventual action aeainst Red China.

Warren R. Austin. United States, told the committee that it was "extending 48 hours the time in which our sons will be shedding blood on the field of battle." The vote was 27 to 23 in favor of a movr by Kir Benegal N. Ran. India, to meet Wednesday after deleRatea had time to study Peking's answer.

There were six abstention. PRESSES FOR ACTION The vote was taken immediately after Austin capped a day of tens debate with a demand for the committee to continue discussion tomorrow of the U. S. resolution. The Latin American countries, Turkey, Greece and the Philippines alone stood with the United Slate against delay.

Canada, Britain, France, the Scandinavian countries and others favored time for further examination of the Chinese Communist statement. 'NOT EVEN NEW Using bitter words. Austin said the Chinese statement "is not even new. It is not, a proposition. It 1 not addressed to the United Nations." He said those who wanted to ctud the statement "will have plenty of time." He while those who had not yet spoken or who wanted tn speak again were talking, "they can be hugging thLs to their bo.soms they can extract, from it what comfort that is in it, for their purpose." Communist China said a limited Korean ceasc-rire could be arranged at the flrM.

meeting of a proposed i seven-nation conference on Korea, Continued on Page 2. Column 1 Red China Seizes 26 U. S. Homes HONG KONG, Jan. 22 AP).

Tha pro-Communist newspaper Ta Kung Pao reported today the Red Military Control Commission in Nanking ha taken over 26 former residences cf U. S. officials, including the former i American Embassy, A dispatch said "a big map of China on the wall of the Embassv i was spotted with American flats and military markings which showed that the Embassy was nothing but a hive of aggression and Intrigue." of ruinous inflation" by delaying price-wage controls. Maybank, absent because of illness, said he "would not delay price fixing for one day." Johnston said he did not know when he could impose controls or Continued on Paje 5, Column 2 LOST AND FOUND I.OST Ladira irh Sfrbr1. lo t.ariy hn Imind.

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1 hllc. A while. lon earn. Hew. Til Other Lost and Found Pag 37 Two armed bandits were captured In a Run-blazing police trap at 10th and Commerce sts.

shortly after 5:15 P. M. yesterday when they tried to kidnap two store workers who were carrying more than $4000 to a bank. One of the bandits was shot through both wrists, as the thugs and City Hall's new headquarters detective squad exchanged be and Wallace sts. Doyle said the same pair held up a State liquor store at 2109 Walnut st.

Jan. 13 and escaped with between $200 and $300. The thwarted holdup was staged at the rear entrance of the McCrory flve-and-ten-cent store, which has a main entrance at 919 Market st. Parks was captured when he leaped from the truck, blood streaming from his wounds, and tried to break through the police cordon to 10th st. Tletjen was taken a moment later as he cowered on the floor in the back of the bullet-riddled truck.

In the truck also were the driver, Stanford Arost, 29, of 753 S. 60th Continued on rage 19, Column 3 Snowslides Push Death Toll to 222 ZURICH. Switzerland. 22 'UP). Fresh avalanches touched off by freakish weather charged with the roar of thunder down Alpine slopes today, transforming this winter wonderland into a white hell and leaving 222 dead in their wake.

Officials said the great snowslides had killed 115 in Austria, 15 in Switzerland, 29 in Italy and three France in four days. Hundreds vere injured and hundreds of others were missing and believed dead. WORST IN HISTORY The Swiss Avalanche Research Institute pronounced the death and damage wrought by the series of ivalanches the worst in the history of the Alps and the government ordered out army units to clear roads ind help search for buried victims. At Innsbruck, in Austria, this foreboding weather forecast was is- Continued on Page 36, Column long Frankford lumber yard last of $25,000 and threatening to a dozen nearby dwellings before the third lumber yard blaze in the city within 32 hours. On Sunday, three-alarm blazes caused total damage estimated at $250,000 at'the William Frost yard in Holmesburg and the Mohr yard in Olney.

At the height of last night's blaze, six neighborhood residents volunteered to help city employes drive 40 five-ton trucks from Bureau of Street Cleaning garage at 4200 Leiper st. They did so without injury to themselves or damage to the nearly new vehicles. RESIDENTS FLEE HOMES The flames spread through the entire yard, which extends along Ruan st. from Leiper to Penn sts. and is half a block in depth.

The new trucks, parked inside the yard, became ignited and their fuel tanks exploded, spraying flaming gasoline onto piles of lumber. Fearing that sparks would ignite their homes, residents of 12 houses in the 4200 block of Penn op-Continued on Page 38, Column Third Lumber Yard Fire Causes $25,000 Damage Lawson Robertson Dies; World-Famed Coach 67 Picturt on Page 29 1 Lawson Robertson, track and field coach at University of Senators OK Johnston, Hear Inflation Warning By NICHOLAS P. GREGORY Inquirer Washington Bureau WASHINGTON, Jan. 22.Economlc Stabilizer Administrator Eric Johnston today warned that "the Russians can lick us if don't control our economy." Johnston was approved unanimously by the Senate Banking and Cur- rencv Committee onlv an hour the country to the brin tween 50 and 60 pistol shots with In 200 feet of heavily crowded Market st. Detective Sgt.

Albert Mortimer was struck above the left eye by a ricocheting bullet. GunAre sprayed a stolen laundry truck in which the bandits had planned their getaway, nearby buildings and parked cars. LINKED TO STORE HOLDUP At Hahnemann Hospital doctors said neither Mortimer nor the bandit, identified as John Parks, 30. of 16th st. near Wallace, was in serious condition.

At City Hall. Inspector Richard Doyle, who set the trap on a last-minute tip, identified the second thug as Ralph Tletjen, 29, of 15th Headline Hopping By Ollie Crawford FLUORINE'S use proposed for Philadelphia water. This must be the one thing that's not in it. Before they can put fluorine In, they'll have to make room. Fluorine gives you strong teeth, and that will help you chew the water.

It hasn't any taste, so you'll notice it right away. The trick is to get just enough and not too much, as with gin. Too much fluorine, and your teeth may go into business for themselves. Philadelphia water has made a name for itself, but you're not allowed to say it. The fluorine will cost $400,000 a year, and this is just a drop in the bucket.

It's used in 30 cities, which is where the taxpayer's bark isn't worse than his bite. The only dentists drilling in those towns are the ones who were drafted. They haven't seen a cavity since their last trip to the Grand Canyon. Philadelphia is the place where you ran drink nothing itronger than water. The city can Introduce fluorine to the water, but it doesn't know the names of all the other stuff in there.

Pennsylvania from 1916 to 1947, died last night after an extended illness. Mr. Robertson had been hospitalized for more than two Flames swept through a block causing damage In excess envelop a city-owned garage and being brought under control. Approximately 20.000 square feet' of lumber was ruined at the Frank- ford Lumber Ruan and Leiper ats. Two new trucks and several aheds also were destroyed.

I Firemen from seven companies fought the flames, which at times ehot 50 feet into the air. One fireman was hurt slightly. The fire started at 8 P. M. and was On WFIL Today ms nasT on toi a dial :30 A.

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M. Star Time 11:15 P.M. Faye Emerson Show Compton Gets Hoover Medal NEW YORK, Jan. 22 (UP). Lack of trained manpower, both in industry and in government.

Is the most critical bottleneck in the national defense program, Karl T. Compton, chairman of the board of the Massachusetts Institute of Tech nology, said today. Compton spoice before the winter meeting of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers where he received the Hoover Medal for dis tinguished public service. Compton, lormer chairman of the Research and Development Board, said the need for young leadership was particularly keen in the fields of military technology, where he said there was a "tendency toward obsolescent leadership." after he testified. The Senate must now confirm the committee's action.

URGES CONGRESS ACTION The country, he said, faces ruination if the current inflationary wave is not controlled. The 55- year-old Johnston, who resigned as chairman of the Motion Picture Producers Association, said a sound 'budget and high taxes were just as important to halt inflation as wage I and price controls. i "I sincerely hope that Congress enacts taxes quickly," he declared. "The people are prepared to make the sacrifices." After the hearing Acting Chairman J. William Fulbright Ark.) made public a telegram from Chairman Burnet R.

Maybank S. who charged that President Truman.