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nNALEDiriON -IPwUlls dDpeim HJimitill 8 (D)90DcIk TTimilgllQit Tin Sttilll lave Timme tt Vcott LOCAL WEATHER Generally fair and cooler with some periods of cloudiness today; tonight cold with frost likely in suburban areas. Tomorrow fair turning cloudy at night with moderate temperatures. Yesterday's high, 60; overnight low, 38; noon reading, 54. $ntttt EIKflTTIlflDISi 22 PAGES TWO SECTIONS FOUNDED 1884-67th Year PLAINFIELD, NEW JERSEY, TUESDAY, APRIL 17, 1951 FIVE CENTS Guard Added At Dunellen xjMS rff jrf? Ill V. jl I lFir Into CNJ Crossin fwiiiiinr'ir' f-Trrrriii-f'fm-iiTir-iifTiiirnin'' pwmirnnni 11 nniiimrwi8 jMmmmmwmMmm Gets Huge Welcome In Hawaii Dunellen The Jersey Central Railroad is now maintaining two ground men at the Washington Ave.

grade crossing, Mayor Albert Roff informed the Borough Council last night. Only last week the railroad informed Council it had no present intention of employing additional ground men at any of the crossings. Mayor Roff commented that after Council learned of the railroad's refusal a delegation of officials had visited the Public Utilities Commission to ask that the company be forced to add the extra men and to request that an early date be set on the borough's petition for Democrats Agree On GOP Probe of Foreign Policies Washington (JP) Democrats agreed today to demands from Republicans for a full scale investigation by Congress into foreign and military policies. But with the parties accusing each other of playing politics in the controversy over President Truman's firing of Gen. Douglas MacArthur, there was sharp disagreement over the objectives and timing of such an inquiry.

Chairman Taft of Ohio called the Senate Republican Policy Committee together to whip an investigation resolution into shape. It had the advance support of 33 GOP senators. -s-Coronet Photo E. T. Wiggins Ilirschman, Arnold Ileimowitz, Joan Berliner, chairman and Laura Totter.

On the ground (I to r), Barbara Velinsky, Doris Mirkin, club leader checking boxes, Barbara Spevack, Lois Bluine and Patricia Luria. "OPERATION CHAYIL" Plainfield Young Judaea sponsored a one-day drive Sunday, "Operation Chayil." The group canvassed several hundred homes for contributions of food, clothing, books, games, etc. On the truck, 1 to r), Jerry Light Vote l-t7-fc f-k "111 CALiJCClCCl 11 mL JjlJUaneS Newark (JP) One-third of New jersey eligible voters' are expected to turn out for today's primary elections. Polls will be open from 7 a. m.

to 8 p. m. With no statewide issues to be decided, political observers will focus their attention on results in Bergen and Hudson Counties storm-centers for both major parties. Rumblings in Republican ranks also are expected in Burlington, Monmouth and Somerset Counties where intra-party disputes have been reported. Watched for Trends 10-Cent Bus Fare Appeal Slated by Public Service The report said revenues from sales of electricity to customers in 1950 were $137,508,584, a new record.

Net income was $8,557,420 for the frst three months ending Mar. UN Troops, Planes Smash Red Forces Tokyo (JP) Allied troops ripped into Communist forces on Korea's east central front today in the swelling battle for the huge Hwachon Dam. The Reds man-made smoke screen began to lift today. United Nations warplanes roared into action with jellied gasoline bombs, rockets and machineguns. On the ground Allied infantrymen battered the Reds with artillery and rifle fire.

Thousands of combat-ready Communist soldiers were massed in the hills north of the dam. The Allied attack was aimed to keep them elimination, of the crossings. Connection Seen He said he thought it was on the ctrfntJlh rf that mftinT that thp railroad placed the second man at the crossing. The mayor said he saw the new guard receiving in- structions and that the man's hours apparently will be from auuui a. in.

i p. in. lie said ne thought some adjustment should be made with school hours. mi i i 1 aaopiea ai a mass uted through town for signatures is meeting approval, Mayor Roff reported. He thanked residents for aiding the crossing fight.

A citizens' committee to assist Council at the time of the PUC hearing was appointed as follows: Borough Attorney Henry Handelman, Councilman James Markle, Joseph Shepherd, Walter Bruun, Supervising Principal Walter A. Miller Freeholder Joseph Morecraf Wal ter Muller, Mrs. Nelson Forman, W. T. Piddington, Mrs.

A. G. Wilbur, Mrs. Howard Dayton, George Spayth, the Rev. Clarence E.

Getz, I 1 "VI Vtrv Pirrt m.n. TC.I. xkuooirii iiuuvuil cillU IX UV a hearing date on the petition to the Newark office of the PUC. The mayor also reported an answer from Middlesex County Senator Bernard Vogel whose assistance had been sought. Senator Vogel promised to exert every effort to have the crossings eliminated and urged Council to call upon him whenever hiheln ic tippHpH caiH Roff, Councilman James Markle re new safety plan ap-i proved by Supervising Principal! Todays elections will be watched closely for anv trends that mav urch' the Rev James Coley' cu cioseiy ior an irenas mat may rate gt John church, Ed-be attributed to recent ir' British Submarine With 75 Missing Newark (JP) You'll be paying a dime to ride on a bus if Public Service has its way.

Company President George H. Blake broke the news yesterday at an annual stockholders' meeting. He said he figured the giant transportation firm will seek the 10-cent bus fare before its current application for an eight-cent fare is acted on by the Public Utility Commission. Blake cited a $2,190,000 loss in revenue in the first three months of the year as reason for increase. "Even with the seven-cent fare back in effect since Mar.

5," he said, "the company has been losing about $10,000 a day in gross revenue." The PUC allowed the seven-cent fare as a temporary measure on that date until the company's application for a permanent eight-cent fare is decided. Public Service bus fares were a nickle irom juiy iz, iu nyiit iiic Aciduvci Crime Committee. This is the first! probers wound up proceedings ilar. 28. (Senator Pledges Aid Party insurgents in Republican! Ma or Roff noted the Council Bergen and Democratic Hudson 00f x- Portsmouth, England (JP) The Royal Navy submarine Affray with at least 75 men aboard vanished without a trace today after a dive in the English Channel.

Helicopters, airplanes and ships including two American destroyers began searching a stretch of sea 75 miles long and 25 miles wide along the south channel coast of England for the submarine which has schnorkel breath apparatus and escape devices. i Navy Alerted jVT Ploric The radio code signal "Subsmash" JL 1. lClJllO 1950, to Mar. 5. 'marine rescue machinery, was Blake spoke of fare rises of up; flashed tQ aU stations soon ater to 17-cents other cities but add- Wants Full Airing Taft said it ought to be pointed at a full airing of the Truman administration's world policies, and not be just a limited inquiry into the reasons for MacArthur's discharge as Pacific commander.

Senator McFarland of Arizona, the Democratic leader, said he doesn't care how the investigation is made "just so the people get the facts." But Senators McMahon Kerr (D-Okla.) and Gillette (D-Iowa) took another tack. They made it clear Democratic defense of the President's policies is likely to take the form of an attack on the Republican advocacy of MacArthur's theory that the vital fight against Communism is in Asia, rather than Europe. To Address Congress MacArthur, due in San Francisco today, plans to fly here to morrow to address a joint meeting of Congress on Thursday. The House already has extended an official invitation for this speech, which will be carried by radio and television networks. The Senate seemed certain to follow suit later today, after some debate.

A big welcoming celebration was being planned for the general. Mr. Truman ordered release from work all federal employes who can be spared. He designated his military aide, Maj. Gen.

Harry Vaughan, to represent him in greeting Macxrthur at the airport. To Receive Courtesy House Speaker Rayburn of Texas said MacArthur will receive "every courtesy" in his appearance before Congress, but Representative Shafer (R-Mich.) predicted the five-star general will become a target for "a barrage of propaganda, innuendo, smear and denunciation." McMahon said he welcomes an investigation of foreign and military policies, and he added: "The proposal to make an all-out war on China is one that should be carefully examined and the implications of it understood. Let's find out why the isolationists on the European front want an all-out war in the Far East." Red Probe Group To Hear Writer Washington (JP) Sam Moore, a radio writer, was summoned today by the House Un-American Activities Committee for a resumption of its hearings on the influence of communism in Hollywood. Also on hand in response to committee subpoenas were actress Anne Revere and screen writer Harold Buchman. There was no ad vance indication of what the committee wanted to ask any of them.

Upon conclusion of today's session, the committee plans to recess until next week. As many as a score mor figures in the movie and radio fields are slated to appear for questioning then. Miller and Police Chief Patrick J. 'a stockholders meeting ot tfie Tarpey. Very young children at-! Public Service Electric Gas Corn-tending Whittier School, who re-jpany.

He also released a stateside on the north side of the tracks, i ment of income for that utility, will gather at a point in North I Honolulu (JP) General Mac-Arthur leaves the flower-scented hospitality of Hawaii today on his stern mission to challenge in Congress the views of the President who fired him over war policy. His plane, the Bataan, was scheduled to take off from Honolulu international airport at 9:30 a. m. (2:30 p. Plainfield, N.

J. time) en route to San Francisco and Washington. The Bataan should arrive at San Francisco International Airport about 8 p. m. (lip.

Plainfield, N. J. time). After an overnight rest in San Francisco and brief ceremonies there tomorrow morning, MacArthur will depart for Washington and his appearance Thursday before a joint session of Congress. The five-star general and hero of three wars got a foretaste here yesterday of the applause but none of the acrimony that awaits him in Washington.

For two hours Hawaii's polyglot population lining a 25-mile route cheered MacArthur, his wife, Jean, and their son, Arthur, 13. Spontaneous Outburst The spontaneous outburst of acclaim at this starting point of the Pacific war which MacArthur fought from beginning to end presaged pageantry and public demonstrations planned for him in San Francisco, Washington and New York. But there was no note of the antagonism that has split America and the non-Communist world over his views. He urged that the Allies should bomb Chinese Communist bases in Manchuria and use Chinese Nationalist troops against the Reds to end the Korean war. MacArthur's Hawaiian welcome, gushing with a full measure of the traditional island friendship, was shorn of partisanship; it was the acclaim given a conquering hero.

MacArthur smiled and waved in response to the shouts of the crowds. He shook a child's hand. He chatted with an ex-soldier who had fought with him on Bataan. Chuckles at Hula He chuckled as a fat, bare-foot woman danced a hula when his green sedan rolled by. He received an honorary degree of doctor of laws from the University of Hawaii in an amphitheatre jammed with 5,000 persons.

He heard the university president acclaim him "one of the greatest Americans of all times." He stopped at Punchbowl, a national cemetery in the extinct crater of a volcano overlooking Honolulu and Pearl Harbor. He placed a wreath of orchids at the base of a flagpole in honor of 13,000 World War 2 dead buried there. Some of the neat white rows of crosses marked the last resting place of men who perished in the Japanese sneak attack on Pearl Harbor Dec. 7, 1941. After standing rigidly at salute for a minute, MacArthur turned to correspondents, pointed at row on row of the crosses and said, "I know the glory of their death." Suburban Voting Light Today's primary election in the majority of Plainfield area municipalities is being taken casually, a spot survey of polling places showed at 10:30 a.

m. In many places disinterest is charged to lack of local congests. In Somerville's Seventh District 18 Republicans and nine Democrats had cast their ballots by 10 a.vm. At "Lafayette School there the vote was 21 Republicans and one Democrat. In normally Democratic Man-ville only three Republicans had voted in the first three hours.

No Democrat had up until then exercised his privilege. Middlesex, Piscataway and Dunellen also reported little interest: in the primary. A spokesman at Piscataway Township borough hall said "you'd hardly know there is an election." There are no important contests in these municipalities. South Plainfield Borough Clerk Charles Carone said only two persons had voted there in the first half hour in one district. There are four polling places and a registration of 3,800.

No contests was again given as the cause of the lack of interest. 1 1 1 i-k 1 -KT iwnicn aierrs me noyai iavy suu-; me Aiiray ianea to sunace as scheduled this morning. The Affray went into her dive about 25 miles south of the Isle of Wight around 8 p.m. yesterday (3:15 p.m., Plainfield, N.J., time) She was due to reappear about 20 miles southeast of the starting point. This is a small cape jutting into the channel near Devonport, which is nearly 100 miles west of here.

Submarines of the Affray class carry a normal crew of 60. But a spokesman for Admiralty said the missing submarine had at least 75 men aboard. Depth of Channel Depth of the channel in the search area ranges from 30 to 40 fathoms, or 180 to 240 feet. Navy officers refused to speculate on how long the crew might stay alive if the Affray remains underwater. Vessels equipped with her breathing apparatus can stay submerged for weeks or even months, so long as they are undamaged and their breathing tubes remain above water.

RIDGWAY AIDE NAMED Tokyo (JP) Maj. Gen. Doyle O. Hickey yesterday was named chief of staff to Lieut. Gen.

Mat- Ithew B. Ridgway. Ave. on school days to be escorted i over the North Ave. and the Prospect crossings by a special patrolman.

A similar plan will be worked out for St. John's School for children on the south side of the tracks. The plan will be put into effect vithin a week, it was said. China Asked Views On 3IacArthur Ouster New Delhi, India (JP) India has asked Communist China's reaction to General MacArthur's dismissal with a view to determining whether the time is ripe for a new attempt at arranging Korean peace talks, a Foreign Ministry source said today. India's ambassador to Peiping, K.

M. Panikkar, has conveyed the official Indian inquiry on the response by Mao Tze-tung's regime to President's Truman's action, this source said. 31 or an increase of $2,119,447 over the same period in 1950. The balance available for com-monstock dividends increased to $6,186,703, the report said. Its Welcome New York (JP) The Mayor's Reception Committee worked on final details today for New York's welcome of Gen: Douglas MacAr-thur Thursday and a big hero's parade Friday.

Grover A. Whalen, reception Committee Chairman, said the general would be greeted officially but quietly when he lands at Idlewild Airport at 5:30 p.m. Thursday. To ensure a semi-private arrival for the general, Whalen said, the exact part of the field at which the plane will land will not be made public. Nor will the plane's assigned hangar be announced.

Mayor Impellitteri will be at the field. No program has been planned for Thrusday night, at MacArthur's request, Whalen added. For the big Friday parade expected to be witnessed by 4,000,000 persons, including many out-of-town visitors MacArthur will leave the Waldorf-Astoria hotel at 11 a.m. A 50-car motorcade will follow. New Wage Move Awaited Washington (JP) President Truman's Mobilization Advisory Board makes one more try today to set up an acceptable new wage controls agency which would along with other duties, at least some labor disputes arising in the defense program.

Organized labor and management have failed to agree, throughout a long series of past efforts by the board and others, on what type of board they would support. If they do not get together shortly, Mr. Truman is believed ready to name a panel of only public members leaving off labor and industry representation. How soon the President would have to act is a problem. Economic Stabilizer Eric Johnston is reported to have a panel of names ready pending a decision on what kind of a board is needed.

A public board presumably would be more or less temporary, serving probably until July 1. That is when the Defense Production Act au thorizing the present wage and price controls exRires. There seemed little likelihood of agreement between union leaders and management representatives at a huddle today. The full 17- member advisory group, headed by Mobilization Director Charles E. Wilson and also including agriculture and public members, was to meet an hour later at the White House.

off-balance and block their long- expected spring offensive. New Censorship Rigid new censorship regulations issued by Lieut. Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway, new Allied supreme commander, banned all references to the exact size and location of Chinese and Red Korean forces.

On the Western front United Nations troops maintained their pressure south of Chorwon. The town, 17 miles north of the border, was destroyed by artillery and air attacks earlier this month. It is still an important Chinese base and road junction. Yonchon, on the road leading northwest to Chorwon, was abandoned by the Reds. The Allies hold high ground on all sides of Yonchon, but had not entered the town itself.

An Allied tank-infantry force smashed into a Red pocket of resistance on the main road to Kum-hwa, a Chinese bastion on the central front. Fifty of the 250 Reds were killed by tank and rifle fire. Kumhwa is east northeast of Chorwon and northwest of Hwachon. It is a key point in the Red buildup area. Patrol Actions Activity on the east and west coasts was limited to patrol actions.

Dive-bombing U. S. F-80 Shooting Star jets struck Communist rail facilities today for the third straight day. Pilots reported five locomotives and 37 rail cars destroyed. The Reds lighted forest fires and smudge pots in an effort to hide their ground movements from the prying eyes of Allied pilots.

They used the same trick last November, just before they opened their drive down the heart of the peninsula. The new field commander of the U. S. Eighth Army in Korea, Lieut. Gen.

James A. VanFleet, visited his troops today on the western front. Instead, he will receive the Army's salute to a returning five-star hero the booming of 17 guns, the brassy music of an Army band, and the traditional honor guard. MacArthur and his party, including his wife and Arthur, 13, will be brought quickly into the city to spend a quiet evening. The general turned thumbs down on any talks or press conferences.

But Wednesday at 9:45 a.m. (12:45 p.m., Plainfield, N. J.t time) MacArthur will come out of his retreat to join in the great party. have used crime committee dis closures in their campaigns. In Bergen, an independent GOP faction under the name "Clean House in Bergen'" is opposing the regular party ticket led by State GOP Chairman John J.

Dickerson. In Hudson. Mayor John V. Kenny of Jersey City and Hague-Eggers forces are embroiled in an all-Dem- ocratic dispute again. The jenny uemocrais ana a spnnKiing Rpniihlirans have rallied under MM.

UlOi UIWi a Li9 a LX Government banner. Somerset Battle GOP Senate incumbent, Senator Freas L. Hess, is facing a battle in Somerset. He is opposed by business magazine publisher Malcolm Forbes. Lone Democratic state senator being opposed for nomination is Bernard W.

Vogel of Middlesex. Joseph T. Karcher is out to unseat him. The entire 60-member state Assembly and 11 of the state's 21 senators are up for nomination. Boy, 2, Dies In Post Hole Emerson A blue-eyed boy, cbject of a widespread nine-hour search, as found dead in a shallow post hole 50-yards from his home last night.

The body of brown-haired Ralph Bottner 2, was discovered by three children while scores of volunteers and police with bloodhounds combed nearby woods and swamplands. Dr. Kenneth Delafrange of West-wood said Ralph apparently died of suffocation about four or five hours before he was found. The hole in which Ralph was found had been dug for a clothes pole by neighbors who recently moved to Emerson. It was about seven inches across and four feet deep.

Ralph's head was about a foot below the surface of the ground. Police said the tiny body could only be seen if one looked directly! into the hole. Ttfe tot's mother. Ethel Bottner, 24, told police she first missed him at 10 a.m. She said he had been playing with his wagon in the back yard.

The Bottners have one other child, a four-months-old boy. Bottner is an agent with the Prudential Insurance Company, in Engle-wood. The Courier-News TODAY AngeloPatri 15 Births 8 Classified 19-20-21 Comics 18 Crossword 15 Dr. Bundesen 15 Editorials 14 Gardengraph 15 Letters Menu 14 15 Obituaries 21-22 Patterns 15 Radio 11 Social News 8-9 Sports 16-17 Stars Say Television Theaters 15 111 2H MARKETS PAGE 10 ed that the company is aware of the danger of "pricing itself out of business." Blake made his remarks dunnS' Fair Weather Reaches Area Generally fair weather and cooler temperatures will prevail today with some periods of cloudiness. Frost is likely in suburban areas tonight.

Tomorrow is expected to be fair, turning cloudy toward evening with moderate temperatures. Yesterday's high was 60 degrees and the overnight low, 38. Degree days yesterday was 15, making the total so far this month, 242. Rainfall yesterday amounted to .24 of an inch. On this date last year, the mercury climbed to 73 degrees and dropped down to 29 degrees overnight, Mrs.

R. R. Scherer, daughter of Cooperative Weather Observer S. K. Pearson said today.

Mr. Pear son is vacationing in Florida and his daughter is furnishing weather instrument readings. Edward J. Ambry ceived an indication of Ambry's resignation Sunday night. Frank Detweiler, elected to the Board last February, replied that the board is elected "to exercise its own judgement" since "the 4 4 IE.

I A 300 Residents Protest Resignation Of Warren Township Principal Little Pomp Scheduled For MacArthur Tonight San Francisco (JP) General MacArthur comes home tonight to end 14 years of overseas duty, but he will be greeted with little pomp and ceremony. That's the way the general wanted it in the first few hours of his return. And so his arrival will be stripped to the formalities of brief military honors. Warren Township Despite requests not to discuss the matter, some 300 people rose in indignation last night when the Board of Education received the resignation of Supervising Principal Edward J. Ambry at a special meeting in Central School.

Rumors that Ambry would not be reappointed, which grew out of a meeting of the board several weeks ago when it postponed consideration of teacher contracts, precipitated last night's large attendance. Ambry said he had accepted a position at Mont-clair State Teacher's College. Indicating that Ambry's decision was motivated by the board's failure to act in a positive manner on his reappointment, William B. Munger declared "the administration of education in the last four or five years has been deplorable." as any other public officer," board members are elected as "representatives of the people to carry out the policies of the people," Munger said. He asked the board why no action was taken until the board re- members are presumably closer to the problems involved." At the request of the assemblage the board members were as to what their decisions would have been had Ambry not submitted his letter.

In favor of retaining the principal were Mrs. William Leonard, President Charles B. Flint and Raymond Wyatt. Opposed, were William Ol-sen, Rodney Pike and Detweiler. Most vehement of the statements made at the meeting, which lasted until well after midnight, was that made by County Superintendent of Schools Sampson G.

Smith, who declared that "if the Lord Himself were appointed" as principal in Warren Township, "he would be put out in two years' time. Smith, who said he was "standing shoulder to shoulder" with Ambry, asserted that the changing of principals in the school, four changes of which were made in the last six years, "doesn't solve any school problems." He added he would rather "cut off a right arm" than recommend another principal. The city is keeping a lid on its big welcome until tomorrow. Then MacArthur will ride through streets expected to be jammed by tens of thousands of people. He will receive a formal welcome from Gov.

Earl Warren and Mayor Elmer Robinson. The general is due to arrive about 8:00 p.m. PST (11:00 p.m. Plain- field, N.J. time) from Hawaii in his plane, Bataan.

City officials had planned to give MacArthur a rousing greeting at the airport and a full-dress parade into the city to touch off a burst of welcoming applause across the nation..