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FORECAST Fair and cool tonight and Thursday. i TEMPERATURES Midnight 62 5 a.m. ...58 10 a.m. 1 a.m 6 a.m ...57 11 a.m. ..70 2 a.m.

...60 7 a.m. ...61 Noon ...72 3 a.m. ...59 8 a.m. ...63 1 p.m. ..73 4 a.m.

...58 9 ...65 'Unofficial Highest year ago, 71; lowest, 60. The Minneapolis Vol. LXXIII No. 178 MINNEAPOLIS, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 20 1951 Price 5 Cents Fare Hike Asked Star I Streetcar 2 Pages of Storm Pictures in This Edition Hir t' ''j' Emergency Cited by Company Straight 15-Cent Rate Sought; Wage Raise Is Blamed MP Arthur Declines to Testify Charges Truman 'Gag' Order Hides Full Facts lit; lM n.w, 11 21 'Second Indicted A Team9 Reds Her A wests t-i i T7 Mr. and Fred Plihal and ramily CSCapea daughters, Anne, 12, and Jane, 9, huddled against the west wall of the basement of this farm home near Silver Lake, Minn.

Plihal said he saw the storm funnel dip low time and time again. The C. J. Templin farm home nearby (see pho'to back page) was also leveled. The storm turned the Plihal home upside down and twisted it a half turn.

Mrs. Plihal suffered a cut wrist and Plihal a cut the head. Thev were treated at the Hutchinson nospuai. on Airview (upper right) shows Plihal farm. WASHINGTON CP) Twenty-one members of the Communist party's secondary command were indicted today on charges of plotting violent overthrow of the United States government.

Seventeen of those Indicted by a federal grand jury in New York were seized in an early morning roundup by FBI agents. The four others were being sought. Sixteen of the arrests were in New York, the other in Pittsburgh, Pa. The government moved against the lesser lights in the wake of this montn's supreme court decision upholding the conviction Jacket Blown Onto Twin City Rapid Transit Co. asked the state railroad and warehouse commission today to reopen fare hearings and to grant the company an emergency 15-cent straight cash, streetcar and bus fare in Minne apolis and St.

Paul. The 15-cent fare would be In effect pending action on the request for an increase. No specific amount was asked by the firm. Present streetcar and bus fare In the Twin Cities in 15 cents cash or four tokens for 65 cents. Approval of the request for the emergency cash fare would eliminate tokens for the time being.

The application was made by Clarence O. Holten, Minneapolis, counsel for the company. Present rates have been in effect since mid-year In 1950 and are based on a commission order Issued last July 28. Emil B. Aslesen, president of the company, said In, a statement.

"The June 9 award of an arbitration board, granting unexpectedly large wage increases and other benefits to the nearly 3,000 operating employes of Twin City Lines, has added about $1,500,000 to annual operating costs. "Prior to the award, in an effort to keep out of the red, the company had made every effort to reduce expenses to the practical limit consistent with maintenance of proper service to its patrons. "As an example, officers' salaries have been reduced more than 50 per cent and other economies are being Introduced In every department of the company. "The award has changed the picture. The company now faces a dally average net loss in excess of $3,500.

"Twin City Lines regrets the necessity for today's action but has no alternative other than to seek the help of the state railroad and warehouse commission. "This emergency relief requested the commission would, if granted, meet only a fraction of the increased wage and employe benefit expense resulting from the arbitration award. "The company will do everything in its power to continue a high standard of transportation service, and is particularly hopeful of public understanding of its problem." Seamen Offered Shorter Week NEW YORK (IP) w. East coast ship operations today offered CIO seamen a 44-hour week at sea and a 40-hour week in ports in an effort to end the five-day tieup of Atlantic and gulf ports. The CIO National Martime union has demanded a 40-hour work week at sea and in port, instead of the present 48 hours.

The offer was made by Frank J. Taylor, chairman of the ship owners' committee, as both operators and seamen held their first joint session since the tie-up began at midnight last Fri- day. Russ Ask Talk on Pact, Bases 1 PARIS Russia today handed the three Western pw ers identical notes insisting that the Atlantic Pact and American military bases be included on a list of topics for discussion by the Big Four foreign ministers. The notes said Russia is willing to discuss her own treaties with Communist China stnd with her Communist-governed East- 1 ern European allies. Cohen Convicted LOS ANGELES, CALIF VP Gambler Mickey Cohen was convicted today of four counts of federal income tax evasion.

EXPORT CONTROLS KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYA CP) The Malay government announced today it plans to impose export license controls over certain strategic goods bound for Hong Kong and Red China. WASHINGTON- CP) Gen. Douglas MacArthur declared today that President Truman's orders "silencing; pertinent witnesses" have denied a senate inquiry the "full facts" on his dismissal. But MacArthur said he doesn't care to testify again himself. MacArthur rapped at the President in rejecting hy letter an invitation to appear again before the senate armed services and foreign relations committees investigating his ouster.

He contended, too, that some of the documentary evidence submitted to the senators had been lifted out of context so that it was "misleading," and said there was "lack of accuracy" in paraphrasing documents originally transmitted in code. MacArthur testified for three days when the inquiry began last May 3. The committees had invited him to reply, if he wished, to the testimony received since then, most of it from Truman administration officials. The five-star general wrote Chairman Russell that because "my known personal views" already are 'in the record in great detail, I do not believe it in the public interest" to testify again. However, he added: "Insofar as the investigation dealt with my relief from the far east command, I feel that the full facts have not been elucidated due to the orders of the President silencing the pertinent witnesses as to his own part in the action." HURLEY CHARGES APPEASEMENT POLICY WASHINGTON CP) Maj.

Gen. Fatrick J. Hurley accused the state department today of a policy of "appeasement" both to communism and "imperialism." He called it a "cowardly surrender" of the principles for which World War II was fought. Denouncing secret concessions to Russia at the 1945 Yalta conference, the former ambassador to China declared: "The postwar success of Russia is not due to Russia's strength but to the weakness of American foreign policy." Hurley was testifying at the senate inquiry into the dismissal of Gen. Douglas MacArthur.

He came with a prepared statement which lambasted United States foreign policy and Dean Acheson, secretary of state. At one point, he spoke of Acheson as expressing "both moral and physical fear." The white-haired general had little more than completed his statement when the committees recessed until Thursday. There was this other development in the inquiry: SENATOR KNOWLAND Calif.) requested that the panel seek portions of a diary kept by the late James Forrestal, secretary of defense. He said he understood a part of the diary "is still being held at the White House." Forrestal plunged to his death from a tower at the Bethesda, hospital in 1949 after resigning his cabinet post. Hurley is a Republican who was secretary of war in President Hoover's administration.

President Roosevelt gave him various confidential posts dur-. ing World War II. In bitterly condemning the Yalta agreement, Hurley said Roosevelt "was already a sick man at Yalta." Hurley assailed Acheson's statement in a state department 1919 white paper on China that at the time of the Yalta agreement it was feared that an assault on Japan's home islands would cost up to a million American casualties. At the time of Yalta, he said, America was in a position "to speak the only language the Communists understand, the language of power." Hurley continued: "One quiet sentence to Marshal Stalin in that language could have indicated that America would require him to keep his solemn agreements. That one sentence would have prevented the conquest of all the Balkan states, the conquest of Poland and the conquest of China." Tree, Pockets Emptied By AL WOODRUFF Slr Staff Wriirr Edward Sterling, who lives six miles west of Robbinsdale on highway 53, counted more freaks as a result of Tuesday night's tornado than most persons see in a lifetime.

Sterling, representative of a welding equipment concern, had arrived home about an hour ahead of the twister and put his auto- mobile in the garage as usual. Tornado Damage Appraised By LARRY FITZMAUR1CE Minneapolis Star Start Writer Twin Cities area residents today were appraising the damage resulting from the Hennepin-' Anoka county section of Tues- i i Twisters Hit Hutchinson, Near City Triple tongued tornadoes1 struck Tuesday at areas sepa- rated by 70 or more miles, doing heavy damage at Hutchinson. near Robbinsdale and I Brooklyn Center and in Anoka county. i One woman was killed near Robbinsdale and at least 15 other persons were injured in other sections where the storm struck. Damage was being checked and totaled today.

Whether damage was caused by separate tornadoes or repeated dips of the same storm prob ably never will be known. Tornadoes have been known to travel 100 or more miles, and timing in this case indicated it may have been the same storm which lifted and struck again. First report of damage came from Hutchinson, where the twister struck at about 5:30 p.m. In three minutes it did huge damage, slashing through the center of the city of 4,700 about 50 miles west of Minneapolis. While damage in the Twin Cities area was estimated at $100,000, in the Hutchinson area it was heavier, with $200,000 as an initial minimum estimate.

Most of Hutchinson was without power after the storm. The Hutchinson telephone exchange operated with storage batteries and candles for light, and long distance calls to the city today were subject to an hour or two delay. Hutchinson streets were lined Twisters Continued on Page Pictures Storm pictures on Tage One, front page of section two and on Back Page, unless otherwise credited, are by Minneapolis Star photographers. Earl Sou-bert, -Fack Gillis, Russell Bull, Larry Schreiber, Paul Presbrey and Bill Muster of Acme Newspictures. 10 MILES BUFFALO Holds Door Shut, House 'Explodes' By FRANK MURRAY Minnpi Star KtMf Writ'r Andrew Knoll.

34, Johnsvillc truck fanner, lay on his cot in St. Barnabas hospital today, i laughing a little through puffed lips at his efforts to hold a door shut against a tornado, Down a litrlu in the hospital. his five children--Philip, 9. Timothy. X.

Janice 6. Susan. 4. i and Charlotte, the year-old baby were being washed and cleaned and given a bone-by-bone going over by staff doctors. Down two more flights his wife and her sister, Donna Haines, from separate beds in the same room, were exchanging their recollections of what happened when the twister hit.

Mrs. Knoll and her sister were washing dishes in the kitchen and getting supper ready for Andrew when the wind began to lash about their one-story, seven-room frame house a mile southeast of Johnsville. "The baby, that's Charlotte, began to cry," Mrs. Knoll recalled. "She'd never felt a heavy wind like that.

"So we tried to close the kitchen door. It wouldn't stay shut. We put a knife in it. But that blew out, too. "So I took the baby and Donna and went into the living room." Andrew staved there in the kitchen.

The two boys, Philip and Timothy, were playing cards at the dining room table with their cousin, 9-year-old Judith Knoll. The two girls, Janice and Su san, followed their mother into 1 1, ljvi Back in the kitchen. Andrew first tried putting the knife back into the door. Every time he did, the wind blew it out again. So he braced his body against the sink and held the door firmly shut with his arms.

"I kept it shut, too," he said, laughing a little and trying to Injured Continued on Page Two Quadruplets Born in N. 3 Survive BAYONNE, N. J.t7PV Quadruplets were born today to a Lyndhurst, N. housewife, but one was born dead. Three girls and a boy were delivered to Mrs.

Selma Kronen-berg at Bayonne hospital. The last, a girl, was stillborn. day night tornario the enormous suction of the tor-caused the death of one person, nado iifted tw0 jrj-pound pieces injuries to at least 12 persons of brass welding equipment off and destruction of seven homes the bacR seat floor and out the how tornado swept through the He and Mrs. Sterling were getting ready to have dinner when a neighbor, Mrs. Marie Link, came running with the warning that a tornado was coming.

The twister lifted Sterling's garage from its cement-block moorings and scattered sections of roof, siding, doors, windows and cement blocks all over a cornfield. Sterling remembered today that he had left, a rear window of his automobile open. He said nnn rlnnr wjnfinw. He recovered one of the pieces 500 feet away. The tornado jerked a hunting jacket, its pockets filled with shotgun shells, from the garage wall, emptied the pockets onto the nearby driveway and carried the jacket Into a tree at a farmhouse 500 yards away.

A short piece of thin board i was uiiven two icet imu a uuu of flowers. A two-by-six section of planking, which had formed part of a garage workbench, was driven through the side of Sterling's house. Some quart cans of motor oil exploded, and others were crushed inward by the force of the tornado. Twigs and glass were imbedded in trees and fence posts nearby, Sterling reported. FEATURES ON THE INSIDE Another in the series on the three Rs Tage 6 No.

7 in the university budget series Page 13 Provisions of new draft and UMT law Page 23 Today's article on the Kenny treatment 55 1 of the party's 11 top leaders. Attorney General J. Howard McGrath and FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover said in a statement: "Some of the individuals arrested are members of the alternate national committee, recently formed by the Communisr party to serve as the lop policy making body in Ihe absence of the present national committee members, now convicted." The II leaders were convicted in New York in 1919 of conspiring to (each and advocate the violent overthrow of the United States government. Although the supreme court upheld the conviction two weeks ago, a legal battle for a rehearing is still on.

Each of those seized today was described by Hoover as "a prom Reds Continued on Pii'jC 10 Crime Probers Warn Governor WASHINGTON The senate crime committee today for the third time asked Governor Fuller Warren of Florida to appear before it in Miami. It thieatened "further action" unless he accepts or gives "satisfactory response" before noon tomorrow. Chairman O'Conor Md.) sent Warren a telegram in which he said: "Our committee hereby renews urgent request for your appearance and unless you ac-i cept same or give satisfactory response before noon Thursday, 'June 21, consideration will be given to further action." On the Inside Kditorial Page 26 Radio Page 55 Comics Pages 34, 35 Theaters Pages 24, 25 Weather Data Page 27 Sports Pages 40-41 Women's News Pages 3G-3H Markets Page 45 Thousands have dlscovrrH the perfect mil for cereals. It's Eid Bros new HnmctenuM Golden Guernsey. Try It! Call CH 301.

Adv. Iran Takes Control of Oil Firm By Asiorlatrd Prfia Premier Mohammed Mossadegh of Iran today ordered his government officials to take "full authority" over the billion dollar Anglo-Iranian Oil company. He promised to keep oil flowing from company installations. In London, Foreign Secretary Herbert Morrison ordered the British mission to Teheran to return home. Morrison told a crowded house of commons Britain again would appeal to the international court of justice at The Hague for advice on what "provisional methods" it can adopt to protect its rich Iranian oil interests.

An official said later Britain would ask the court within the next two days to issue an in junction restraining both Iran and Britain from taking any action which would aggravate the dispute. Iran has said previously she does not recognize authority of the court to intervene. Mossadegh's orders were is sued at the end of a five-hour emergency cabinet meeting. In Washington, Dean Ache- son, secretary of state, today called on Iran to reconsider its abrupt rejection of Britain's latest prosopal to settle the dis- pute over Iranian oil. That proposal was a com-i promise financial offer made after Iran had demanded virtu- ally all the profits of the com pany since enactment or the na-; tionalization law in March.

Sir Francis Shepherd, British ambassador, said he has asked that wives and children of British employes be advised it would be "prudent" to get out of Iran as soon as possible. REPORT SUB TRANSFER TAIPEH, FORMOSA The China Union Press said today Soviet Russia turned over 28 submarines to Red China at the end of May. and damage to otners. Early estimates placed damage at about $100,000. The twister, rising out of the southwest, cut a spotty swath over the northeast section of Hennepin county touching parts of Medicine Lake, Hamel, Robbinsdale and Brooklyn Center before heading north along the Mississippi river into Anoka county.

Mrs. Wendla Hakala, 74, who lived with a nephew six miles west of Robbinsdale on highway 55, was the only fatality as a result of the storm. She died in General hospital a short time after the tornado Damage Continued on Page Two ANOKA i.vnc rnN ROCKFORD tiROOKlYN HAMEL fjL CENTER .1 (ROBBINSDALE Metticme L. VVAYZATA MINNEAPOLIS tvr 7re Mumefonka OF TWO TORNADOES other skirted Minneapolis a A rv ilLVER LAKE HUTCHINSON ARROWS MARK PATHS One struck at Hutchinson,.