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THE WEATHER Few Snow Flurries Other weather details on Page 2-A. THE MUNCIE the Spirit of the Lord Is, VOL. 76 -NO. 230 SECTION MUNCIE, INDIANA, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1952 FIFTEEN CENTS EISENHOWER ON HIS WAY HOME ROK'S Repulse New Red Attack on Hill Suspects in Mass Murders WENDELL HALL TRAVIS HALL High Soviet U.N. Official Ousted; Tagged as Russ Spy United Nations, N.Y., (P)-The placed Russian employe who American State Department.

Nikolai Skvortsov, who Constantine E. was the Zinchenko, highest a tariat here. Skvortsov was boss fore he came here in 1950. for Security Council affairs since assistant secretary general post Russians have a always held a the the council first met in 1945. Could See Secret Data This means both Zinchenko and Skvortsov were in position to see some of the most restricted U.N.

political documents from the council's Atomic Energy Commission, the Military Affairs Committee, and the Disarmament Commission, which have held many closed meetings attended by selected personnel. The United States, however, has made clear that it never furnished the U.N. confidential military or atomic information. There was some talk in the U.N. last summer that Lie was restricting chenko's activities then.

Acquaintances of Skvortsov described him as a jovial blond Russian mingled freely with other Secretariat, Russian people, to an do here. unusual The U.S. State Department said that Skvertsov was fired by the U.N. after the department told Secretary General Trygve Lie that, Skvortsov had "violated law." Lie was told in September, a State Department source said. Believed in Bad in Russia Zinchenko was assistant secretary general for Security Council affairs and was press officer for Russian Vice Premier V.

M. Molotov, when the latter was Soviet foreign minister. Zinchenko has been in Russia since last summer. Zinchenko, who is believed here to be in hot water with government, periodically reports he is ill. Skvortsov sent word twice his wife is ill, but nothing further has been heard from him for several weeks.

The news that Skvortsov had been barred from returning broke amidst demands from U.S. officials for the U.N. to clean house and signs that several delegations want whole issue of surbersives in the U.N. aired fully and openly. Admits Slashing Self Joliet, Ill.

(U.P) A 22-year-old worker at the Joliet Federal Saturday night confessed he slashed himself and blamed a mystery woman and two male companions because he wanted to be a hero. Army Capt. R. B. True, stationed at the arsenal where the alleged attack occurred, said that Richard Walsh of Hoopeston, signed a confession that he scattered broken light bulbs in the building and then cut himself.

Dunkirk Glassworker's Child Dies in Montpelier Accident Montpelier, eight-year-old fracture when she fell out of a vehicle at 5 p.m. Saturday in West Huntington Street. Her Blackford County Hospital with a da Dead was Shirley Joan Chapman, R.R. 1, Poneto, south of Chester Her sister, Wilma Jean, was in The younger child fell in front of a car driven by Asa Penrod, Montpelier, before it collided with her father's auto' going east on Huntington Street. Her sister fell behind the Penrod vehicle, going west, after the collision.

Swerved to Avoid Crash State Trooper Albert Merkel reported that Mr. Chapman swerved to avoid striking a car driven by Mrs. Russell Berry, also of Montpelier, which was going south across Huntington Street. Merkel said Mrs. Berry had stopped for the intersection and then started across, failing to see the Chapman auto.

The Berry and Chapman cars vehicle collided with the brushed fenders and the platter car when it swerved to the right. STAR New Government Price Boss JOSEPH H. FREEHILL, appointed administrator of the Office of Price Stabilization by President Truman Friday, posed at his desk Saturday. He has been acting administrator since resignation Nov. 24 of Tighe Woods.

(AP Wirephoto.) Some Two Million Casualties on Both Sides in Korean War United Nations, N.Y. (P) -The Korean War has cost more than two million military casualties to both sides, according to the best information available here Saturday. The figure is based on official announcement of losses by the Allies' and estimates by the command of losses suffered by the Communists. Of the 2,129,310 military casualties, 364,370 been suffered by U.N. forces the remaining borne by the, Communists, mostly by the Chinese Reds.

The figures do not include civilians, estimated in the tens of thousands. They do not cover all the fighting, especially over the last 60 days of bitter war for the peaks of Central Korea, primarily between Chinese and Republic of South Korea troops. Chinese Losses 795,119 It was against this background that Assembly President Lester B. Pearson appealed recently to the Chinese and North Korean Communists to accept the U.N. truce plan formulated by India.

Pearson's letter, which reached the Communists last Saturday, also spoke of the destruction in Korea brought by the war. Renewed Communist thrusts appeared to be the only answer. Estimates available to non-Communist sources say the Chinese Communists have suffered 795,119 killed and wounded. North Korean killed wounded estimated at 497,768, making a total of 1,292,887 for the Communists in those categories. This sum is increased to 887 by counting another 349.000 non-battle casualties including Communist troops wiped out by Please Turn to Page Two, Section A Push Search of Effects of Dead Woman A thorough search of the personal belongings of Miss Helen Griffith, 62, who was murdered Wednesday, will be made Sunday at her home, 813 N.

Macedonia Ave. Det. Capt. Jack Ertel, who is heading the investigation to find the woman's killer, said officers will go through all records, books and effects of the dead woman. One room of the house contains several boxes and cartons of her belongings, Ertel, said.

No persons were being held late Saturday as officers continued the investigation into the stabbingdeath. Capt. Ertel said his department still was checking the loan activities of the murdered woman. Friday's search of effects turned up information that Miss Griffith apparently loaned money to friends and acquaintances with and without interest. said Ertel, "she let her fancy determine whether or not to charge interest loans." Some papers found, said Ertel, indicated an interest of two and per cent was charged.

one $3 loan" he said. "was marked paid full for $3.75." Officers hope Sunday's search will turn up additional information about her business activities and acquaintances. Miss was stabbed to death home Wednesday. Griffith, found, Her body was found by a roomer, Charles Smith, 74. Detectives have questioned and released score of suspects.

Funeral services for Miss Griffith were held Saturday in St. Mary's Catholic Church, Lancaster, O. was in the church cemetery. THE STAR'S COMICS Are the Favorites in Eastern Indiana Homes "Where United Nations has fired a highly was, tagged as a Soviet spy by the was personal and confidential aide to now-absent U.N. assistant secretary ranking Soviet national in the Secreof the Soviet's state farm.

system be- Peace Snag Laid to Russ Soviets Bluntly Accused by U.S. United Nations, N.Y. (UP -The United States bluntly accused Russia Saturday of blocking "any progress" toward world peace. Sen. Alexander Wiley of Wisconsin, ranking Republican member of the Senate foreign relations committee, also charged Russia with "hamstringing" the United Nations by abusing its veto power in the U.N.

Security Council to bar new members. Wiley Warns UN Group "Soviet abuse of the veto on membership applications is only one phase of the Kremlin's deliberate obstruction of any progress in the United Nations, and, in fact, of any progress toward true peace," Wiley said. He rejected Russia's "horsetrade" proposal to accept western-backed nations in return, for the seating of five Soviet satellites in the United Nations. "When you have one rotten apple in a bushel basket," he said, "you don't want any more." Wiley warned the U.N.'s special Political Committee and the General Assembly against any "hasty or ill action" designed to bypass the Security Council veto power. Such action, said, might have "unfortunate results." He said the United States would support a Latin-American proposal for the establishment of a special 15-member committee to study the whole membership problem and report back to the General Assembly next year.

Russia, Britain and the United States would be members of the group. Wiley said the United Nations could "never achieve its maximum effectiveness so long as all those nations qualified for membership are not among us." Russia has used its veto 28 times to keep new nations out of the U.N. Seize Orders for 'Holy War' in Morocco Casablanca, French Morocco. (U.P.) French police said Saturday night they had intercepted Moroccan "orders of the day" calling for a "holy war" against France that included killing as many police, soldiers and civilians as possible. The European quarter of Casablanca was swept by new fears as word spread of the Moroccan plans for isolated and ruthless murders to help them win independence from France for this uneasy protectorate.

A small but significant incident I was reported from Meknes, an interior city southeast of here. An unidentified Arab attacked a European and tried to knife him. When police questioned the Arab he said he was acting "according to the will of God." French police said new isolated acts of terrorism could be expected. Such acts have been carried out in Tunisia for months. of independence movement as Police, quoted an arrested leader isolated Europeans and take their arms.

This would be their answer to France's iron-fisted of using armed force to crush open rebellion. Most of the more than 200,000 Europeans in crowded Casablanca have been moved into "safe" secItions of the city. There Is Cor. Father, Son Arrested in Slaying of 4 Suspects in Deaths of California Grocer and Three Children San Francisco. (P)-An unnamed police informant Saturday brought about the arrest of a young man for questioning in the bludgeon slayings of a grocer and three young children recently at Chester, Calif.

A short time later the young man's father telephoned to inquire about his too, was taken into custody. Lie Detector Test Negative The son and father were identified by police as Travis Hall, 27, and Wendell Hall, 49. Each vigorously denied any knowledge of the iron-pipe slayings of Guard Young, 43; his daughters, Jean, 7, and Judy, 6, and Michael Saile, 4, a neighbor's child, near Chester last Oct. 10. Travis Hall submitted to a lie detector test.

He said was amazed when he was informed by Police Inspector Edward O'Haire that the test "shows Travis Hall has more information about the could have On obtained by reading Chester mass slayings than he newspaper accounts of the tragedy." The younger Hall also declared he was working on Oct. 10, the day of the killings, and office records would prove it. His employer said "our records indicate Hall spent the whole day" installing physical therapy equipment in San Francisco. Chester is nearly 200 miles north of the Bay City--a drive of several hours because of mountain roads. At Fresno, where the elder Hall was taken into custody, his wife said he had been in Fresno during the entire month of October.

The father told newsmen innocent of any wrongdoing. Plan Another Lie Test He was taken into custody shortly after he telephoned the police station at Richmond, across the bay from Francisco, to inquire whether his son "had been arrested in the Plumas County murders." The son, Travis, was in his Richmond home when the unidentified informant walked in, accompanied by police officers. O'Haire said the lie detector "jumped wildly" when three of several questions were put to Hall. He said they concerned Guard Young, the slaying-robbery victim; a question about how Young and the children were beaten to death, and another regarding Plumas County, where the crime occurred. O'Haire said Hall would be put to another test upon the arrival of Plumas County Sheriff Mel Schooler.

Grocer Young was waylaid on a lonely road and slain while he was enroute from bank with $7,128 in cash-mostly $20 bills- to cash loggers' checks at his store. Authorities have theorized the Young children were beaten to death because they knew the killer. One child, Sandra Young, 3, was beaten and left for dead. She later, recovered and said two men committed the crime. Larry Promises He'll Not 'Hold Up' Any More Trains St.

Paul, Minn. (UP) old Larry Meredith promised his mother Saturday he won't hold up any more trains "Jesse James style." Larry, his "six-shooters" swinging from his hips, ambled onto the Great Northern tracks Friday and drew Railroad, An approaching switch engine hauling several cars of coke halted when the engineer, spotted the boy standing between the rails. When asked what he was doing, Larry replied, "I'm playing Jesse James." Foreman Arvid Pokela took the boy to a nearby shed and called police. When officers arrived, Larry pointed his toy guns at them and told them to "draw." Instead, police took him to headquarters, gave him a lecture and took him home. I He got another lecture when he got home.

SHOPPING 952 DAYS LEFT: BUY CHRIS MAS: SEALS Christmas Greetings 3:17. The Day in Indiana Tour Ends Today Snow Slows Train Boys' Town Visited Ex-Hoosier Advanced Publicity Lax Noted By MAURICE EARLY Omaha. TTOOSIER tourists to the Norththis Farm Bureau special train experienced no cold weather until they returned to the Midwest. BUT THEY were lucky in not being snowbound Saturday, morning when the train ran into a heavy snowstorm after leavin Cheyenne. Most the passengers were a asleep.

But the snow on the tracks caused the train to glide along as silently as a sleigh. Speed was cut to a snail's pace. SIGHTSEEING came to an end for this tour at Omaha where the Hoosiers were taken on a specially made famous by Father Flanaarranged trip through Boys', Town, gan. The 10-mile trip to Boys' Town was made modern 80- horsepower busses similar to those used in the city public transit system. ARE anxious to get home.

They will return home from Chicago on the Monon, is scheduled to arrive at Indianapolis before noon Sunday. FROM OMAHA to Chicago the special train traveled over the tracks of the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad, which has just elected Paul E. Feucht, a Purdue graduate, its president. Mr. Feucht formery was vice president of the Division of the Pennsylvania Railroad which operates in Indiana and was a former director of the Indiana State Chamber of Commerce, ON THE HOMEWARD stretch most of the talk of the Hoosier farmers centered around the variety of weather encountered on the trip.

It ranged from flowers in bloom in the around Victoria, B.C., to the deepest snow the travclers had even seen on top of Mount Hood in Oregon. So far coldest has been 18 degrees at Omaha. INDIANA CATTLE men especially were interested in the numerous feed lots along the tracks as the train approached Omaha which boasts the largest beef packing plant in the world. There were thousands of cattle fattening in the lots. DURING THE LONG rides across the country the Hoosiers picked up some information about railroad operation.

W. P. Carney, dining car inspector for the Union Pacific Railroad, reports passengers no longer steal silverware from the diners. THERE IS A LOSER when the waiters dump some in the garbage. He arranges for the cans to be searched at places along the right-of-way where the garbage is left.

During the year a great deal of silver is recovered. THERE WAS little news about Indiana in Pacific Coast papers during the stay of the Hoosiers. But there were front page feature stories about Santa Claus, which were sent over the nation by the press associations. HOOSIER CITIES and towns, all eager for publicity, miss the boat like all their sister municiover the nation. Travelpalities, little to do but wonder where they are and want to know the name of the town.

Except for names on stations, which often cannot be seen from the train, there is no way for their curiosity to be satisfied. INDIANA plentiful steam plant generated electricity. Cities of the Northwest, depending largely on juice made by the river dams, are short of electricity. Even in the hotels at Portland there are notices in guest rooms urging conservation of electricity. Skelton Comfortable After an Operation Hollywood (U.P) Comedian Red Skelton reported resting comfortably Saturday after a "highly successful" operation, to correct an abdominal condition.

Skelton wisecracked his way into the operating room Friday at St. John's Hospital in nearby Santa to undergo three hours of surgery to correct what was called a diaphragmatic hernia constriction at the center of his stomach. Allied Fire Slaughters 120 Chinese B-29s Raid Big Enemy Communications Area With Good Results Tokyo (UP), South Korean troops Saturday night threw back a new 300-man Chinese Red drive against Little Nori, the Korean Western Front peak the ROKs recaptured Saturday after a bitter three-day battle. The Chinese opened their assault with a barrage of 1,500 artillery shells. Allied troops shot flares into the night to light up the battle area and spotted the two Red companies approaching Little Nori.

Repulsed on Central Front "Every gun in the palce opened them, including tanks parked along line," UP Correspondent Fred Painton reported. The Allied fire turned the Reds on their heels before they came within 200 yards of the summit. An estimated 120 Chinese were killed by the barrage. On the Central Front the Chinese sent out three probing attacks day. They repulsed by Allied against Sniper.

Ridge early Sunartillery. American Okinawa-based B-29 Superforts raided a six-acre communications center near Sinuiju at the mouth of the Yalu River Saturday night with "good to excellent" results, Far Eastern Air Force headquarters reported. The South Koreans had routed the Reds from the top of Little Nori and the southern slope of early Saturday. Screaming hordes of took vital Impin River defense outposts in a heavy surprise attack that began Thursday. Red Losses at 2,000 In three days of bloody fighting marked by exceptionally intense artillery and mortar fire from both sides, the Republic of Korea troops inflicted an estimated 2,000 casualon Reds whose mass attacks failed to gain more than a tempohold the Western Front hills.

ROKS with strong support from Allied fighter-bombers, artillery and sharpshooting tank gunners stormed Little Nori for the 10th time Saturday morning and won the crest after 25 minutes of closein fighting with bayonets and hand grenades. A shower of grenades and Chinese mortar shells stopped a simultaneous attack on the sheathed slopes of Big Nori after Please Turn to Page Two, Section A Judge Kerner, of U.S. Appeals Court, Is Dead of Circuit Court of ApChicago, (P)-Judge Otto Kerner peals, died Saturday night of an, apparent heart attack. 68-year-old jurist, a Democrat and a prominent figure in Chicago's Bohemian population, was stricken at a social function he was attending at the Edgewater Beach Hotel. A fire department rescue squad tried without success to revive him.

A son, Otto Kerner, is U.S. District Attorney for Northern Illinois. Kerner was appointed to the Seventh District of the U.S. Appeals Court by President Roosevelt in 1939, after five years as Illinois attorney general. His first elective office was that of alderman in Chicago.

He later held judgeships in the Circuit Court of Cook County and state Appellate Court. Confident Trip Paid, Dividends General to Reach New York Sunday After California Stop En Route With Eisenhower, (A) President-elect Dwight D. hower left for home Saturday, confident his 15-day survey of Korean and Far East war problems had paid dividends, despite the criticism of President Truman. Eisenhower and his party departed aboard an Air Force Constellation at 11:53 a.m. 3:53 p.m.

(CST) scheduled to bring him to New York Sunday afternoon after a single stop in Calitornia. Plane Diverted by Weather Travis Air Force base near San Francisco, Maj. Thomas Barbour said the weather rapidly was approaching ceiling" and the party Constellations had been diverted to Edwards Air Force Base. Edwards is on the Muroc Desert flats about 65 air miles north of Los Angeles. The estimated time of arrival of the Eisenhower's plane was not available immediately.

In a brief statement to newsmen at the airbase Eisenhower declared: "It's time to goodbye to these Hawaiian islands and to the good friends I have here. My three days have been wonderful. If my cold had been better, it would have been perfect." party winged toward the West Coast amid reports that President Truman's charges of "demagoguery" has brought relations between the two to the freezing point. A reliable source said Truman's remark apparently meant "the finish of any informal across-thedesk meetings between the two." He said "it probably would be a cold affair" if there were another meeting prior to Eisenhower's inauguration Jan. 20.

Regrets Truman Remarks Just before his departure. Eisenhower told Adm. Arthur W. Radford, commander in chief of the Pacific Fleet: "We may be sending for you again to talk over some of the things we have to discuss." Eisenhower and his party were scheduled to fly Field, northeast of San Francisco but local weather conditions there may cause a change with an alternate Please Turn to Page Two, Section A 1,764,940 are estimated to have been HST Briefed on Ike's Trip Bradley Reports on Situation in Korea Washington (U.P)-.-Gen. Omar N.

Bradley, tight-lipped and serious, gave President Truman a briefing Saturday on the military situation he President-elect Eisenhower found on a day visit to Korea. It was not learned whether Brad, ley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, gave any views by Eisenhower on a course to bring the Korean conflict to an honorable and quick end. Information Remains Secret with Mr. Truman. He carried a general spent 20 minutes sheaf of yellow note or scratch paper into Mr.

Truman's office for the meeting. Presumably the paper bore notes of what Bradley intended to tell the President. Whatever information he gave remained secret. Neither the White House, Defense Department, nor Bradley commented afterward. Although Mr.

Truman lent every assistance to Eisenhower on his the President characterized it as a the inspection trip to Korea, trip born out of demagogic political campaigning. Eisenhower remained mum on Mr. Truman's blast, but a spokesman for him said: "The world is in a helluva condition. Let's not waste time getting involved in small things." Bradley arrived here Friday night and he had no comment on his Korean trip except to he had been "plenty busy" in Hawaii on the trip home. He and Eisenh hower conferred there Thursday and surveyed their findings.

Meanwhile, the congressional uproar over Gen. Douglas MacArthur's "peace" plans subsided. leaders squelched some demands that MacArthur be called to give the outgoing Congress his ideas on settling the Korean War. Two Children Hunted in a Second Quarry Naperville, Ill. (AP)-A small army of volunteer workers day began draining a second waterfilled Naperville quarry that may hold the bodies of two missing children.

As around-the-clock drainage operations continued for the fourth day at one quarry, searchers began pumping out a second rock shaft short distance away. The missing youngsters, Jean Petersen, 6, and Edward steil, 3, disappeared Sunday while playing near their homes, half a block from the search scene. Authorities ordered huge portable pumps moved to. the second quarry today as the water level continued to drop in the shaft where the search centered originally. The second quarry is about onethird as large as the one to which bloodhounds led searchers Monday.

Meanwhile, Marshall Erb, a contractor who is directing the drainage operations, said the first quarry probably will be pumped dry sometime Sunday. It is a block long and held an estimated 83 million gallons of water. Poneto girl died of a skull car against the bumper of another front of Buckle's Grocery Store on 10-year-old sister was to probable basal skull fracture. daughter of Carl Chapman, Center. serious condition.

Mrs. Arthur Chapman, the girls' grandmother, riding in the rear of the car, almost fell out of the vehicle when she grabbed for the youngsters. Also investigating were Trooper Lewis Boggs and Coroner Herbert Weil, both of Hartford City, and Police Chief Clyde Brown and Patrolman Charles Kirby. Surviving the victim, who with her sister was a pupil at Chester Center School, also are her mother, Mrs. Gertrude Martin, Montpelier; her grandparents, Mr.

and Mrs. Arthur Chapman, R.R. 1, Poneto, and two half-brothers. Her father is an employe of Indiana Glass Factory at Dunkirk. Services will be arranged at the Walker Funeral Home.

Man Slain in New York City for Balking in Test of A-Bomb New York (U.P)-One man was shot to death by a policeman as bustling New York came to a complete stop in the nation's biggest atom bomb raid drill. The big city's rush hour traffic came to a dead halt at 8:30 a.m. Upward of 11,000,000 persons in the metropolitan area were affected. A half million civil defense workers took part in the practice defense against atom bombs from enemy, planes. The test, touched off by the 579 sirens in New York City alone and lasting 15 minutes, in one casualty.

four shots. Flores fell, fatally Refuses to Take Cover wounded. In the Bronx, where a theoretical Otherwise, the test that turned -bomb, bigger than the one which the noisiest city in the world into destroyed Hiroshima, was assumed the quietest went "perfectly," said A to have been dropped, Caeser Flores Lt. Gen. C.

R. Huebner, state civil refused to run to cover. defense director. center of the simulated bomb blast rebellion. One man was He was standing at the dead were only scattered inciThere, when Patrolman Ludwig Schiller arrested in Lower Manhattan for ordered him to get off the street.

shoving a policeman, and in midInstead, Flores defiantly pulled Manhattan took two officers to lout a butcher knife. Schilling fired Please Turn to Page Two, Section A 07.