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Today's Index MONDAY FORECAST Considerable cloodtaess, not quite to warm. Expected high 65, expected low 4. Sunrise 7:01 a.m., sunset 5:84 p.m. SUNDAY RECORD High 68 at midnight, low 56 at a.m., rata .7 tech. Pearl River at Jackson 5 5 feet, down .2 foot.

AMUSIMINTS CLASSIFIED ADS COMICS EDITORIAL MERRY-GO-ROUND SOCIETY SPORTS Po Pogei 11-11 Pb Page Page Page Page Mississippi's Leading Newspaper For More Than A Century Established 1837 Full AP and INS Reports 5c PER COPY Jackson, Mississippi, Monday Morning, January 21,1952 VOL CXI NO. 22 mm MILD Claims Violence British Troops Seize Forty-One Terrorists American Nun Murdered As New Violence Flares In Egypt; Tanks Patrol Port City CAIRO. Jan. 20 (INS) British, other nuns in the convent by ft bul-troops seized 41 Egyptians on sus-ilet which pierced her heart, picion of terroristic in Is-j The nun is believed to have a malia Sunday after combing the 'brother identified as Lieut. Cmdr.

Suez Canal zone city with tanks! Timbers of the U. S. Navy. State Five" Over i Tne American Embassy in Cairo, Four Persons Die; Nine Injured In Highway Accidents; 3-Year-Old Richton Child Chokes To Death On Peanut Four state residents are dead and nine in jured as the result of four highway accidents, one in Madison county, one in DeSoto county, another in Jones county and the worst accident in the city of McComb. And a freak accident claimed the life of James David Dunn, three year old son of Mr.

and Mrs. Calvin Dunn, of Richton. The child, visitinjr in the home of his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Jim Edwards, choked to death on a peanut and died before he could reach medical help.

and armored cars in a house to house search. Paratropers and Infantry units made a thorough search of Ismalia as a result of new violence yes terday which included the invasion of a convent where an American! mm voc cfafn in fnlA hlsvsisf 5 The troops advanced into the Arab quarter Ismalia at dawn to make the search for terrorists. The entire city was placed under patrol in th. British attempt to track down the slayers of the nun and extremists who threw a bomb at a bridge spanning the Sweet Water canal near Ismalia. In the resultant battle near the bridge two British soldiers were killed and seven others wounded.) a repon xo urnisn neaaquaners Communist soldiers in U.

N. prisoner of war camp on Koje- by an eyewitness said that the nun'2i The nnit v9tnnc' 1 themselves making socks and was shot down when she protested against the attempt of terrorists io uac mic luu.eub vBinas HA nt frnm W-V 1 hurl KAmhc At the headquarters of the Bri iian comminaer, uen. jsir return 10 soum Korea. announced The CommunLsts reacted wairly that tuHnt Th TTnlvprsito jsj Actor Backs Eastland Attack On Commies WASHINGTON, Jan. 20 (INS) I now," and added: "They control Actor Adolph Menjou said Sun- significant segments of our indus-day "the entertainment Industry is trial might.

They are nerve cen- urn aia not iiauy reject it. mey Cairo had Invaded a convent of have agreed previously to the prin-French nuns mailia. After they I ciple of repatriating civilians, but entered the St. Vincent De as part of an exchange of war McCOMB, Jan. 20 An 18 year old youth, J.

W. Butler, of I Liberty, is dead and 7 other persons are hospitalized in McComb hospitals from serious injuries sus tained in the collision of two automobiles on a McComb street at 10 o'clock Saturday night. Young Butler occupant of a car driven by Charlie Rex Moore, 18. and also occupied by Miss Shirley Scott and Miss Mary Ellen Legette all Liberty High school students, is the son of Mr. and Mrs.

J. W. P. Butler, Sr. of Liberty, who farm and operate a Liberty cafe.

Occupants of the other car were Wiley J. Hamilton, owner and his brother, Virgil Hamilton and Henry Lambert, and Miss Nell Loper, all of Monticello, with the exception of Virgil Hamilton who is from Brookhaven. Virgil was driving the 1950 Plymouth. The Moore car was a 1950 Chevrolet. McComb Chief of Police, Clyde Simmons, who with City Policemen investigated the accident states that no charges have been made since all surviving persons remain critically injured.

Miss Scott is reported having a slight chance for recoverv. Ocrunants of the Hamilton, automobile are still too seriously injured to The two automobiles traveling in opposite directions were in collision at the corner of 6th st. and Minnesota Avenue In McComb's residential setion. Services will be held for young Butler pending arrival of a broth er Eugene, military service at Ft. Jackson, S.

in addition to his parents, two other brothers, Donald and Dexter, and a sister, Wydelle Butler, survive. i i LAUREL, Jan. 20 A 20-year-old Hattiesburg youth was killed here late Saturday night when' the automobile he was driving overturn ed as he sped on Highway 11 into tne iringe or ine city's business district. He was identified as Walter Stew art, employee a Hattiesburg printing plant and a student at the Mississippi Southern. State Highway Patrolmen W.

V. "nu ut- vuou aw llivx Lima miles hefore Stewart unnarprtlv -w- curve The vnnth was th- ntomn tuurruk jAA.iuucAo ouuk oio.c. Anvaony. wno was saia ziavei been from Feekskill, N. Y.

She was shot down in front of Five Survivors Of B-17Crash Search Craft Down In Olympic Wilds CHORD FIELD, Tacoma, poisoned with Reds" and supported a Senate resolution 10 jau some 20,000 Communists in the U.S. Menjou's remarks were made In a letter to Sen. Eastland (D) in which he lauded the Senator's proposal' and urged that there also be an effort to "root out" Commu nism in schools and universities. The resolution by Eastland would declare an internal securty emergency and require the President and Atorney General to order a quick roundup of what the Sena tor termed "identifiable, hardened; agents of the Kremlin." He estimates 20,000 of the 50,000 Reds in the U.S. are in that category.

Menjou's letter said: "Your demand for the arrest of all Communist conspirators in this country is the first sensible statement that I have heard for a long lime. I Jan. 20 (INS) Five sur- prisoners lor dispaced ci-, vihans in North Korea provided vivors of eight men aboard a B-17 all civiians who vanted to return Air Force plane which crashed in home were allowed to do so. the wilds of the Olympic pennisula In the past the Reds have vignr-rf Washington while enroute oposed the simultaneous ex-. ir- change of military prisoners and from search for survivors of th "At the same time, root out alliT.riti-v, rv dowTied Tokoyo to tirliftj Allies of wanting to hold captured plane, were found Sunday.

(Red soldiers as "hostages" for ci- Two were critically Injured andlciIaDi- hawh rnptt The Reds admit they hold 11.559 were flown out by Coast Guard AUied prlsoners Xllie sav they helicopter which landed hi thejhave 116,000 bona fide North Ko- snowy, heavily timbered mountain area, and taken to Port Angeles, Wash. Seven persons hava been rescued from the Military Air Transport! service airlift Plane, which nluneed announced, meanwhile, that is will ia.k5jmTedntf,apJ3?tPriate aCV" ir.T'" of Slster Anthony are ue- UN Offers Reds New Concession Give On P0W Issue For Civilian Info mttnkan TCnrpn xtnnAav offered Sunday to reconsider important phase of its armis tice prisoner exchange demands I tne uommunisis would say jhow many civilians they intend to 'prisoners for the U.N command, stirred some life in the truce talks with his reconsideration offer Sunday. This is what Libby offered: "If we could find out how manv civilians you expect to return if you would give us some facts and figures we are fully prepared to reconsider that paragraph of our proposal in the light of your facts and in the light of your promise to repatriate those civilians you hold who desire. to be repatriated." In effect, this meant the U. N.

command would drop its demand for an equal, one-for-one exchange rean ana uninese soldiers and a-bout 50.000 South Korean soldiers and civilians who were activelv helping the Reds or were forced to serve in the Red army. In addition, the South Korean government says about 113,000 TCillOUS rclijious and educational lead! sist them. As to foreign civilians we will unconditionally assist in the repatriation ot them." As the session ended for the day, the Red delegate again promised: "If there are civilians who want to go home, our government will take specific measures. From Lee's answer, however was not clear whether the Red would admit any civilians wanted to leave Communist Korea. Libby also offered Sunday to con- isider extending the parole feature- a promise not to bear arms in thei Korean war to all prisoners of returned, no prisoners from either side would be permitted to bear arms.

Churchill Taking It Easy At Home Of New York Friend NEW YORK Jan. 20 -(INS) British Prime Minister Winston Churchill Li taking it easy Sunday at the New York home of his old friend, "elder statesman" Bernard Baruch. The 77-year-old British Per-mier will stay at i lj. parture for London aboard the liner Queen Mary Tuesday POW'S TURN TO NEEDLE do Island off Korea busy Ta ft Says Policies Differ But Little From Eisenhower's WASHINGTON. Jan .20 (INS) Sen.

Taft Ohio, said Sunday his policy differences with Gen. Eisenhower are relatively minor and can be "reconciled" if Ike is elected President. The Ohio Senator, in a surprise statement, indicated that he considers even his foreign policy views close to those of the man who is recognized as cne of Taft's major competitors for the Republican presidential nomination. Interviewed on NBC's televised "Meet the Press," Taft said his differences with Eisenhower are questions of "degree" rather than "principle." Asked where he would stand if the European commander were elected President, he replied firmly: "I would think it is perfectly possible to reconcile my policies with Gen. Eisenhower." Korean Front Quiel; Sabres-MIGs Clash Allied Jet Pilots Down Two Red Planes SEOUL, Korea, Monday, Jan.

21 A 10 minute exchange of fire on the Central front was the only clash reported along the entire 145-mile Korean crrnunH front Knnrtnv. it was one Of the nuletest davs since the "twilight" war set in last November, as Allied troops maintained position and patrolled. In the air. two Communist MIG fighters were shot down by U. S.

Sabre jets in another 10-minute encounter, high over northwest Korea Sunday. It was the sixth straight day of jet combat. The two Reds were downed when a flight of 18 U. S. Sabres tore into a formation of 60 MIGs north of Sinanju, near the Yalu riv-ef frontier of Manchuria.

Both the Communist pilots parachuted out of their falling planes. The Fifth Air Force also continued daily hammering of Communist rail lines and supply facilities Sunday. Headquarters said 479 sorties were flown by 6 P. M. In South Korea, government troops killed an estimated 800 Red guerillas and bandits and captured 301 in the Chiri mountain sector in a series of 33 skirmishes Friday and Saturday.

The cleanup drive is now in its second month. The North Korean communique claimed a 3.000-ton Allied warship was sunk off the west coast near Ullyul, 20 miles southwest of Chin-nampo but failed to give any supporting detail. The Reds also claimed three Allied Shooting Star jets and propeller-driven Mustang fighter-bombers were shot down Sunday along the Korean northeast coast. This was also unconfirmed. TUNISIA QUIET TUNIS.

Tunisia, Jan. 20 iffi'. Calm returned to Tunisa after three days of nationalist rioting throughout the French protectorate. into the icy waters only 1.000 Koreans, including legisla nffhor from an frnprppnrv lnnrt-itOrs, tors, bile's lone occupant. jn nt crew in the Senate Sun- As the speeding car spun from Liif gV? the Highway it overturned several times, Oubre said, throwing 5jL aed 6ec Personnel by Ui W1C wait ua on nirivai at CANTON.

Jan. 20 Bennie Har ris. 30. a Neero. and Charlie Cohh 16 year old white vouth.

werer tag field at Sandspit, B. C. early!" "eas- e-turdav Ma. Gen. Lee Sang Gho, North 4 4v 'Korean uelegate, replied to Libbv; Forty three persons.

40 of them, came north to avoid military personnel returning from the havoc of war and now reside Korea and Japan on military leave au over North Korea freely. Civil-were aboard the crashed air lift tens in tue areas under your con-plane. Bodies of eight others havejtrol were kidnapped by propr.gan-been recovered and search is con- da and deceitful means." tlnuing today for the remaining 23. As to the factual data Libby ask-lncluding the civilian crew of three. ed for, Lee added: Wreckage of the B-17 air res- "We cannot give you who JJiey etie plane was first spotted at 10, (the civilians) are and where they a.m.

PST (Noon CST. By a CM6 live. If there are civilians who want and the sighting was confirmed to go back home, we will uncon-bv a B-17 which noted two men on ditionally repatriate them and as- UMT Opponents To Air Beliefs Vinson Predicts 'No Major Change' WASHINGTON, Jan. 20 (INS) Opponents of Universial Military Training will have their innings Tuesday before the House armed services- committee. But Chairman Vinson (D) predicts his group will not be swayed.

Vinson said he believes that TJM will be approved by his committee and by Congress "with no major changes" in the plan proposed last week by the Defense Department. The department has recommended that 18-year-olds be given six months basic training, then called UP for 18 months active duty and finally placed in the reserve for seven and one-half years. Vinson's committee expects to hear about 60 witnesses altogether the majority opposed to UMT. Vinson has suggested that the draft be abandoned a year atfter UMT is in actual operation. Defense Lovett thinks the draft and UMT should run concurrently f0r wrhsns twn nr three years.

i. r. but the armed services committee is expected to agree with Vinson on this matter. Lovett told the committee last week that UMT would be started on a limited scale with volunteers six months after Congress gives me green ugnt. Solons Plan Change In Military Pay House Has Passed nn, wimwii-fcUlldl VII! WASHINGTON.

Jan. 20 13- "it's a very expensive bill. junairman Russell D-Ga) of the senate armed services committee told a reporter. "It would cost nearly a billion dollars additional a year. We've cot to examine it very carefully." 71,6 military pay hike would co year.

Ak pea me ouse Dy a 269 to 89 vote. Senator Hunt (D-Wyo). a member of the armed service group which is considering the bill, said some Senators are concerned be- cause so ranch of the increase goes "usii-i aiinuig omcers. "There are also suggestions that be amended to provide special combat pay for the men who are actually fighting," he said. Under the flat-rate increase approved by the House, an army private would get $7.50 on top of his present $75 monthly pay while generals would gain $100 or more monthly.

"More than $300,000,000 of the estimated $332,000,000 of the increase would go to less than fiv. per cent of the personnel." Hunt said, "some of us are considering larger increases for the lower-ranking men and their dependents." Co-Lin Senior -Wins Personality Contest WESSON Recently selected 4-H Personality Improvement winnerof the Southwest District is Miss Anna Margaret King, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Malcolm TCino- VUQ strong Hope Community. Arm.

Margaret, a senior at Col-Lin Agriculture High School, was selected from Copiah County as the winner of the 4-H Personality Improvement Contest, and rnmn. with other county winners in Jack- vn at a oanquet held at the Heidelberg Hotel. Anna Margaret was hnWrt personal apperance, manners, con- poise, sne was also called on to make a talk- hefnr. fv, Judges and also the sponsor of the contest. In this talk she told of her other work and projects that she has complete in 4-H club and also the active parts that she ias taken her club work, such as camps, rallys.

and serving as president of iT 6 out of 8 years that she has been enrolled In 4-H club Faulty Light Blamed For Tower Alarm Fire DeDartmont fni cent light was trie "Vir" i. last night. uliain8T Four eneines anrf tn. trucks answered the call. The fir.

was reported when smoke was smeued on the second floor at 8:50 Garlin Takes Oath Today Will Deliver Short Address Lieutenant Governor-elect Carroll Gartin, 38-year-old former mayor and attorney of Laurel, will! take the oath as Mississippi's second-in-command Monday afternoon at 2:20. The oath to Gartin, and all other state elected officials, will be administered by Chief Justice Harvey McGehee before a joint session of the legislature in the chamber of the House of Representatives. The joint session will be called to order by Speaker Walter Sillers, of Rosedaie, and will be presided over by retiring Lieutenant Governor Sam Lumpkin of Tupelo. Gartin expects to make a brief address to the solons in which he will reiterate his pledge to work in cooperation with Governor-elect Hugh L. White, who will take office the following day.

Both houses will convene in their respective chambers a short time before the Joint session, but it is not expected that any major legis lative business will be transacted before Wednesday by which time the solons will have heard the address of the new chief of state to-gather with his recommendations. Other officials to be sworn in on Monday are Secretary of State He- ber Ladner, Attorney General J. p. Coleman, state Treasurer Newton James, State Auditor Wmiam D. Neal.

State Tax Collector Mrs. Thomas L. Bailey, State Land Commissioner Walter L. McGahey, superintendent of Education J. M.

Tubb, Commissioner of Agriculture Si Corley. Commissioner of Insurance Walter D. Davis, flupreme Court Clerk Tom Q- Ellis and Public Service Commissioners Alton Massey, I. S. Sanford and Howard Little.

The state's three highway commissioners have already taken the oath. a Educators Favor Deferment Change Larger Draft Calls To Affect Students WASHINGTON. Jan. 20 (INS) Gen. Eisenhower has signed a re port, along with several other leading educators, urging a revamping of the draft deferment system for college students.

The report charged that draft calls will be so large during the next two years that there will be 'little room for many (draft) boards to defer young men who should continue their education." The educators offered three al telnate plans to replace present selective service proceedures. Plan one would give a national manpower board authority to de termine which students should be deferred The second plan would automati cally end deferments when students finish college and set up an agen cy to determine the limits of edu cation. Plan three would permit no de ferments except for those college students enrolled in an expanded R.O.T.C. system. The report was drawn up by the executive committee of the A- merican Council on Education and the Educational Policies Commis sion of the National Education As sociation and the American Assoc iation of School Administrators.

Gen. Eisenhower, on leave from the presidency of Columbia Uni versity, was said to have consider ed the report but not to have helped draw it up. The document also was signed by U. S. education com missioner Earl J.

McGrath Spy Hunters Set To Re-Open Probe WASHINGTON. Jan. 20 (INS) Senate spy hunters prepared Sun day to reopen their probe, of the m-4 stitute of Pacific Relations and to call John Carter Vincent and Owen Lattimore as witnesses. Senate Anti-subversives Chair man McCarran (D) said that other witnesses to be called soon will include Julian Friedman, Lawrence K. Rossinger.

New York mil lionaire Frederick Vanderbilt Field, Maxwell S. Stewart, Harriet Moore Gelfan, William Holland and Ed ward C. Carter. Vincent, a career diplomat, and Lattimore, now a Johns-Hopkins professor, are among those attack ed by Sen. McCarthy (R) in his Communists-in-g'overnment charges.

Former Minnesota Gov. E. Stassen charged that Rossinger was a member of what he called "pro-Communist group" which participated in a rund-tabljB discussion on state department Far Eastern policy. I found beside their 1950 wrecked to tne more than 3,700.000 persons Mercury automobile on the side of expected t0 be among the active Highway 16 about 16 miles east retired personnel during next gloves for Korean orphans at ters for Communist propaganda. Meanwhile the House NnAmerl- can Activities committee resumes Tuesday its investigation of Communist activities In Hollywood, broadening it to cover a wider area in California.

The House unit made its first probe of the movie colony in 1947 and has conducted several series of hearings both in Washington and on the West Coast. Nationalists Gather, News Service Claims For April Attack On Southern China Ja" 2" fTKSl The cabled from Rang0on Sunday that chmese Nationalist troons armed with American weapons were re- ported moving through Siam to- ward southern China to launch an I April offensive aeainst the Com- munists. The news agency also quoted a report that Burma's ambassador to Peiping, Hla Mating, has charged the Nationalists are being led by American officers. Reuters said three Burmese opposition leaders in a Joint statement warned the government against the growing Nationalist threat. The three opposition leaders said the movement has "threatened to make Burma a the atre of war." Also quoted in the dispatch was the report that Ba Nyein, foreign commissar of the Communist-led Burma workers, had asserted the Chinese Nationalists are holding 1140 square miles around Mong Hsat in the Burmese state of Cheng Tung.

Burma's wartime head of state, Ba Maw, was quoted as stating that "the strength of Chinese Nationalist troops at Burma's frontier will enable them to take upper Burma any moment they desired." Coopers Taking Daughter To New York Specialist Today Mr. and Mrs. John S. Cooper and their 11 year old daughter. Gail, leave Jackson by plane Monday morning for New York.

There the little daughter will undergo observation, and treatment for a mysterious ailment which resembles leukemia. The case was first disagnos-ed in Jackson as possibly being leukemia, but later tests have proved negative. This prompted the decision to seek the advice of experts a a New York Hospital. Mr. Cooper is the district manager of the Southern Bell Telephone Company.

depend on whether this country has the planes and other arms to fight an expanded war. Hickenlooper declared: "Had MacArthur's policies been followed, the chances of early victory would have been excellent. But now by their aimless, endless talks they have allowed the Reds to build up tremendous forces. I do not know what the balance of power is. We have conceded everything In toe last six months and now it appears we are preparing to settle on the 38th parallel another diplomatic defeat." Sen.

McMahon (D) said he has his own ideas of what should be done if an armistice collapses but is not ready to reveal them. Sen. Gillette (D) Iowa, disclosed he will introduce in the Senate a resolution to revise the United Nations charter, in an attempt to transform that agency into an "effective instrumentality for peace." Gillette said he preferred this course to the other two possibilities, retreat' from Korea all-out war. th ground, signalling. They had laid out a sign saying "land" and uider It was the letter The signal Is a request land a paramedic team.

A paramedic team was dispatched from McChord but the helicopt er reached the area first The MATs plane, operated by; Trans World Airwavs with a North- west Airlines crew. developed trouble in one enetne early Satur-i dav morning. It received permis- sion to come In to the emergency field at Sandspit on the tip of; Moresby Island in the Queen Char lotte group off British Columbia. I war. The field is 480 miles northwest of i Under the current Allied exchan-the plane's destination.

Seattle. Ige proposal, the 11,559 Allied pris-Tfce pilot. John Pfaffinger of loners admittedly held by the Reds Kent. Wash, apparently touched and an equal number of Commun-down too far up the runway to ist prisoners held by the Allies also permit him to make a safe land-l would be exempt from such "pains on the icy field. He gunned; role." But other Red prisoners in his motor and swung off over the Allied hands could not fight again, -hiit rmnrarked into a water The new Allied offer to extend the Reds in schools and universities "Isn't it perfectly clear what the Communltsts are up to? The enter tainment Industry Is poisoned with Reds of every category, and noth- ing is done about It.

"I congratulate you, sir, and wish you luck." The veteran actor letter is ex pected to be laid before the Senate McCarran committee, where several members have indicated privately that they would like to have their probes of subversive activities expanded to cover educational institutions. Eastland's resolution would invoke title II of the Internal Security Act. which is intended to be used in the event of a threat of war. Eastland declared that the U.S. "is de facto at war with the Kremlin," as-well as "technically still at war with some of the Axis.

powers." He asserted that active Communists "are engaged in espionage FAURE FORMS CABINET PARIS, Jan. 20--LP Premier Edgar Faure formed a new French cabinet Sunday made up of moderates and right wing ministers whole-heartedly pro-Western in out look. The League Of Women Voters Urges You to Register And Pay Poll Tax By February 1st. No New Registration Is Required If Yon Have Registered in Hinds County Since Oct. 17, 1949.

cians in Washington and London of this truth. "A blockade of the China coast is long overdue'and can be readily made effective. Apparently Great Britain is ready to agree to this course. "The bombing of supply centers and military installations is the whole secret of modern war. Our experience in "Korea has demonstrated conclusively that 19th century methods are not adequate to the 20th century.

It Is gratifying that our subterranean information indicates the powers that be have come to this conclusion although it leaves their faces very red." Senate republican policy leader Taft, Ohio, shared the expanded war view. The GOP presidential aspirant, who is not a member of the foreign relations committee, said that if the truce talks fail, the United States will "have no choice but to fight an all-out war against Red China." Two committeemen. Sens. Wiley (R) and Hickenlooper (R) Iowa, declared that what is done in the face of a truce collapse, will covered travel bar about parole would mean that, once Canton early Sunday morning. ine car naa leit the highway and1.

crashed into a tree Harris was dead and his body was picked up by the Barnes Funeral Home. Cobb was brought to the King's Daughters Hospital in Canton in a rsaiawin Amouiance. He nas a badly crushed left leg which is broken above the knee, his left arm is also broken near elbow. The two men had made the trip to Canton to take home the cook employed at a roadside resort operated near the county line by Hubert Watkins brother-in-law of Cobb and were returning when the accident happened. HORN LAKE.

Pan. 20 OR A 17-year-old girl was killed late last night when a car skidded out of control on a curve and smashed into a bridge abutment near her home here. She was Miss Lela Allen, a senior at Horn Lake High school. She was riding in a car driven by Harry O. Jacoby, 19.

of Memphis. He was taken to a Memphis hos pital and treated for shock. City Residents Help Themselves To $1,000 Worth Of Free Liquor MERIDIAN. Jan. 20 A number of Meridianites were purportedly in high "spirits" Sunday night as the result of a windfall of illegal liquor in the city.

An unknown person parked an automobile on a street in the "tuxedo" section of the city and walked away. Passers-by soon discovered that the auto was virtually loaded with gin and whiskey. After a few minutes of watchful waiting, one person decided to help himself to a bottle. Others followed suit, and in a short while there was a "parade" to the spot for the "free" stuff. A resident of the neighborhood ascertained what was happening and called the police, who had the car.

and what was left of Its contents towed to City Hall. Police Chief O. A. Booker estimated from the number of empty cases at the scene that 14-15 cases of the "wet goods" went astray. Total value, he said, would be well over $1,000.

Police officers later charged Herschel Reynolds, owner of the car, with violation of ttie liouor law. it in Poll Shows Senators Favor Expanded War If Talks Fail yards off shore The seven remaining aboard the wing were rescued by fishing boats. The fuselage of the plane was raised yesterday and searched but no bodies were found although 10 persons were believed to have been trapped in the plane. Sat. H.

D- Mavnard of Spruce Pine. told of watching Stew-j ardess Jane Cheadle. of Seattle, standing tip to her knees in water on the wing of the plane. He saidj "we were all praying for her but she weakened and slid off. Her last faint words were 'help me." i Pfc DeMetris G.

Apostolan off Hinton. W. jumped into the water to try and rescue her dui tnes ir to climb back on the wing. Pfc William A. Price of Chicago' said thev stood for an hour and aj half on the wing before being res-j cued.

i Others rescued included Lt. Don-: aid E. Baker of St. Louis and Long Beach, CaL. whose daughter died of spinal mengitis in St.

Louis while he was en route home: Sgt. Charles H. and Richard P. Fields, brothers from Temple City. CaL.

and Set. Gregorv Calkins. Van Nuys. Cal. The lost B-17 was en route back to McChord Field yesterday afternoon when McChord rescue operations headquarters requested it to pick up eight recovered bodies and return tnem.

It was presumed that the plane rashed before carying out this mission but lt was not definitely WASHINGTON. Jan. 20 (INS) A poll of the Senate foreign relations committee disclosed Sunday a growing opinion that the Korean war should be expanded if truce negotiations fail. One committeeman. Sen.

Brewster (R) Maine, said that according to his information, the administration is ready to counter a truce failure by adopting two points of the MacArthur program a blockade of China and bombing of Red supply centers. Chairman Connally (D) declared: "I am anxious to have a truce in Korea but if one cannot be secured, there is nothing for us to do except keep on fighting with increasing forces more planes and more weapons, until victory can be achieved." Brewster declared: "We should do what should have been done nine months "Every development of the past nine months has demonstrated that Gen. MapArthur was right. It is extremely unfortunate that it has taken nine months and 50.000 cas ualties to 'convince a few politi nisht. Earlier on Tuesday Churchill will be the guest of honor at a pararieless city hall reception.

He is expected to make an address from the city hall steps durirg his visit with Mayor Vincent Impellitteri. Churchill flashing his famed for victory sign arrived in New York by train last night after completing his official trip to Washington. Baruch and four young servicemen whom the elder statesman met in a crowd of 5,000 welcomers at Pennsylvania station greeted Churchill as he stepped off his train. Also on hand were about 100 youths carrying red and white placards identifying them as members of the young American-Irish Minutemen. known, communications were difft cult wrth the Isolated sandspit air- Tt..

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