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YOUR AD IN THIS PAPEB READ BY THOUSANDS DAILY Complete United Press Wire Service Saturday, December 27, 1952 91st Year TI Mclligcnccr Daily No. 37. 8 Pages 5 Cents The Weether Partly cloudy a a through Sunday. A little colder Saturday night Slightly warmer Sunday. Low Saturday night IS.

High, Saturday, 28; low, 20. UN Troops Kill 75 Red Soldiers In Surprise Raid Chinese Group Mowed Down Just East of Deserted Truce Site SEOUL, Korea (UP)-- A commando force of United Nations infantrymen ranged deep into no- man'c-lar-d on the Western Front today to surprise and cut to pieces a group of 75 Communist soldiers. The raiders ran into the Chinese east of the deserted truce village of Panmunjom. They opened up with rifles and burp guns ana left 53 Reds dead or wounded before pulling back to U. lines.

Rair. and snow over North Korea grounded U. N. warplanes until late in the afternoon when a few flights of MTQ-killing Sabrejets and fighter-bombers roared through breaks in the overcast to hunt for targets in North Korea. The snow and cold brought a muddy, miserable "half-truce" to the battle-line.

A Chinese unit probed U. N. positions on the Western Front but was driven off in a 10-minuti skirmish. Other brief clashes north of the Punch Bowl and south of Anchor Hill on the Eastern Front accounted for 20 North Korean troops killed or wounded. Muddy watei and slush drained into bunker- and trenches along the front, where temperatures hovered around the freezing mark at noon.

Roads, frozen in deep ruts during the night, thawed into quagmires under the afternoon sun. Artillerymen pumped a minimum quota of shells at the Communists, and the Reds' sporadic return fire also showed the influence the weather. Friday night Okinawa-based B- 29 Superforts carried the war to the Communists before the weather closed in. Fifteen Superforts blasted two major Red supply and troop centers. The bombers dropped 140 tons Of bombs on a 150-building depot at Chongju, on the nuiin supply route from Manchuria in northwest Korea.

Meanwhile a lone Sunerfort hit the Kyomipo supply center near the North Korean capital of Pyongyang. For the first time in more than year the Communists brought out their four-inch rocket launcher Friday night to bomb.ird Allied bunkers on rugged Arrowhead Ridge on the Western Front. All across the front Friday Allied patrols end outposts reported the communists had lieefed up their patrols. Some enemy patrols contained as many as 60 men, the reports said. However ar 8th Army briefing officer attached no significance to the strengthening of ene- tny patrols.

In a summary of air action the 8th Air Force reported three Allied (Continued on Page 3) Marion Man to Join Alton Pair in Prison A 52-year-old Marion man is scheduled to join two Alton con- at Menard state peni- during the weekend for lis part in the holdup of a Marion couple. Deupty Sheriff Charles Edwards of Mavion said Delmar "Sleepy' 1 Hill probably will be taken to the penitentiary Saturday. Hill pleaded guilty and was sentenced to a five to six-year term as "finger- man" in the $330 holdup of Mr. and Mrs. Albert Kaeser last He confessed he furnished the gun and planned the robbery.

Harvey Dungey, 54, Alton, is serving five to seven years at Menard for the robbery. J. W. McKinney, 53, also of Alton, charged with taking part in the robbery, lias been taken to Menard as a parole violator. Ordill Workers Vote to Strike MARION, 111.

(UP)-- A strike Monday at the Sangamo Electric Company plant at nearby Ordill with a company statement it was "impossible" to meet workers' wage demands. Negotiations have been broken Off and both company and union said no more meetings were sched uled. The company-union contract expired Thursday, The plant's 1,500 members of the Internatio Association of machinists Union have voted to strike as of midnight Sunday unless wage demands are met. H. Laurence Kunz, vice-president of Sangamo and general manager pf the.

firm's capacitor division, Issued a letter to employes which said "the union has requested wage increases which are impossible for the company to grant." When asked by United Press if he thought there would be a strike Monday, Kunz s'aid, "It sure looks like it." Russell business representative of the union, saiu "unless there's some change in the between now and Monday we'll go on strike." Neither Kunz nor Lovelace would reveal the amount of the wage increase the workers were asking But reliable sources at the planl said the requested raise was about td cents an bring the workers' wages to the rate Sanga- ino pays employes at its Springfield plant." The Ordill workers, most oi whom are women, now make about $1.07 an hour. The plant makes capacitors small condensers used in radio equipment. A membei of. Sanga- mo management estimated 80 per cent of the plant's production was for defense. Queen's Crown Shown in its initial plaster form, the design above has been approved for the obverse side of the commemorative crown piece, to be issued through Great Britain's banks during the.

Coronation Year of 1953. The special crown, largest metal monetary unit in Britain's currency, will be of special interest to coin collectors. Queen Elizabeth II is represented as being on horseback, wearing the uniform of Colonel-in-Chief of the Grenadier Guards Truman to Leave Capitol Satisfied February Draft Call Is 53J WASHINGTON (UP) The Defense Department today ordered Selective Service to draft 53,000 men during February, all to be assigned to the Army. This will be the largest monthly draft call since March, 1951, when 80,000 men were called, and one of the largest calls since inductions began in September, 1950. A total of 50,000 draftees were called in September and October of 1950 and 70,000 in November of 1950.

The call dropped to 40,000 in December of that year. The draft calls were 80,000 each for the months of January, February, and March, 1951. Draft calls dropped substantially after that, the lowest calls being 7,000 in December, 1951. The calls picked up again In the fall, rising to 47,000 each for the months of October, November, and December. The call for next January is 48,000.

The call for February brings to 1,255,430 the number of men to be called into military i through the draft. Of this total, 1,174,000 have been for the Army and 81,430 for the Marine Corps. The last draftees taken by the Marine Corps were last May. Defense Department announcement today said the higher calls are to replace men who have completed their two years of active service and to maintain ap proved Army strength of 1,552,000. The announcement said the increase in the February call reflects the number of men who have completed their service and will be eligible for release.

Cardinal Spellman Visits U. S. Airmen in Korea SEOUL, Korea (UP) Francis Cardinal Spellman, wearing a blue flying jacket with a fur hood embroidered with a white cross, visited American airmen today in the fifth day of his Korean tour. The Catholic church prelate visited a 1 and then went to a base where he talked to a group of servicemen and spoke in the base chapel The cardinal celebrated early Mass at the Fifth Air Force chapel and urged the airmen to "always walk In the love of God." After Mass he stood for almost an hour in a drafty hallway while tbe men filed past for his blessing. WASHINGTON (UP)--President Truman feels proudly certain as IB prepa 'es to lepve the White louse that his seven-year battle 'or peace kept the world from the )loodiest war in hiutory.

Mr. Truman is painfully aware of the stalemated war in Korea, jut he believes that his massive defense program at home and his 'oreign policy based on unfliching support of the United Nations pre vented a third world war during lis presidential tenure and possi- jly for some time to come. During the Christmas holidays, the President, in a relaxed and reflective mood, has leaned back in the, big chair of his second floor White House study and talked with old friends about his record as chief executive since he inherited the job from President Franklin Roosevelt on April 12, 1945. In these talks, the President expressed his mood as he packs up and prepares to leave the stately executive mansio.i at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. The Missouri-born chief executive leaves office, not in a vain or cocky mood, but calmly satisfied that he did his level best.

He derives great comfort from his Eirm belief that years from now, tils administration will be remembered in history for broad accomplishments in the turbulent field of world affairs rather than for the "corruption" that flared up in governmen' during the 'A a i ng days of his "Fair Deal." Mr. Truman believes that the Truman Plan of aid to Greece and Turkey, the Marshall Plan, his Point Four and Mutual Security programs of assistance to less fortunate free nations, the Berlin Airlift and his decision to oppose the sweep of Communism in Korea will long outlive the cries of "five per center" and "scandal" that i-ainpd on some of his executive branch officials in the past two years. He feels certain that history will pay far more attention to his far- reaching battle against world Communism than to the charges from some congressional quarters that his administration, notably the State Department, harbored American Communists and Red sympathizers If Mr. Truman leaves the White House with any major regret, it involves the failure of Congress, as he seer it, to give him the powers he requested to combat postwar Inflation In this country. He feels that if the Congress had followed his anti-inflation recommendations In greater volume, the cost of living would be considerably lower now.

He emerged from the recent political campaign in which he fought unsuccessfully for the election of Gov. Adlai E. evenson over Dwight D. Eisenhower in a much more benign mood than some of his younger, more intense subordinates who don't have Mr, Truman's years of experience in the political arena. "I've In politics, too long to go away mad," is one way he expresses his mood of departure from the Washington scene.

Governor-Elect To Name 5 Code Dept. Directors Lyons, Barrett, Sehull Palmer and Cummins Slated for Positions SPRINGFIELD (UP) All but three of the 13 code department directorships 'n the Illinois Cabinet have been filled by Governor-elect William StraUon, it was learned Saturday. Sources close to Stratton said he will name these directors: Richard J. Lyons, Chicago, revenue; Robert Barrett, Chicago, insurance; Glen D. Palmer, Yorkville, conservation; Ben H.

Sehull, Marion, mines and minerals; and Roy F. Cummins, Chicr.go, labor. Stratton has already named five directors. The new governor is also considering either Thomas Humphries, Springfield, his chief clerk in the treasurer's office, or Edwin A. Rosenstone, Cambridge his assistant state treasurer, for director of public works and buildings.

Joseph K. Me Laughlin, aeronautics director under Gov. Adlai E. Stevenson, is still being considered for reappointment. Stratton has given up his attempts to lure Raymond M.

Hilliard, former Illinois public aid executive secretary, back to Illinois as public welfare director. Hilliard resigned in 1948 to become New York City commissioner of welfare. Stralton is now negotiating with another administrator in the welfare field. Lyons was deputy director of revenue under Gov. Dwight H.

Green. He served 10 years in the Illinois House Representatives and ran as the GOF nominee for tlie U. S. Senate in 1938 and 1944, being defeated both times by former Sen. Scott W.

Lucas. Lyons was a strong Stratton campaigner. (Continued on Page Gain New Members CHICAGO OPS--Methodist Church officials today said that more than 100,000 persons in the United States and Its possessions joined the church during 1952. Church membership rolls carried 9,180,428 names at the end of this year, compared to 9,065,727 last year. California Lady Tells of Robberies LOS Calif.

(UP) -A multi-millionaire's daughter, who left a life of luxury and made four unhappy marriages, turned to drink, and finally to crime, appears today in a police lineup for official identification as "grandma," the bank bandit. Mrs. Ethel Arata, 52, alternately laughed cried Friday as she was formally charged with bank robbery. "I don't know why I robbed," she told newsmen, "I expected to get caught sooner or later." The matronly woman, who attended the finest finishing schools, studied music in Europe and was once belle of many lavish parties, was captured without a struggle in nearby Arcadia, on Christmas Eve as attempted to hold up another bank with a toy pistol. She admitted holding up two other banks, but denied a third robbery in which a middle-aged woman made off with $2,000.

She said she told only part ol her life story because "I see no reason to involve and hurt a lol of innocent, reputable people." "Whatever is coming to me, I'll take alone." Mrs. Arata, who said she has been married and divorced four times, netted more than from the two holdups she has admitted. Less than 30 years ago, however, the middle-aged woman traveled in the highest social circles as the daughter of the late Robert M. Catts, New York builder and property developer. After constructing several! buildings in New York, Chicago and Washington and compiling a $20,000,000 fortune, Mrs.

Arata said her father died "broke" 10 years ago. She said she attended Mary mount School in Tarrytown, N.Y. and Smith College in Northampton, and studied voice 3n Europe. In 1949 Mrs. Arata attempted to commit suicide by jumping from the fourth floor of a Los Angeles hotel.

That was a short time after she was released from a mental hospital where she was treated for alcoholism. Mrs. Arata said she became "deeply religious" after her release from the hospital but added "I don't know why I started robbing banks. I needed the money but I gave away the.money I got from the She attempted to plead guilty her arraignment Friday anc shrugged off a court suggestion that she be provided with an attorney, Housing Holds Up 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 Est. The home building boom continued through 1952 with 866,500 units completed during the Eirst three quarters of the year, surpassing last year's estimate for the same period by 800 units.

Above News- chart traces home building In the U. S. from 1946 to the present. Data compiled by the U. S.

Department of Labor. Korean Program PUSAN, Korea (UP)--President- elect Eisenhower is giving "careful study and consideration" to seven suggestions made by the South Korean government, it was disclosed today. Acting Republic of Korea Prime Minister Paik Too-Chit made public a letter from Gen. Mark Clark which the Far Eastern commander wrote on Eisenhower's behalf after the president-elect visited Korea, Clark said Eisenhower was "particularly impressed by the ROK troops which he observed" and added that the president-elect was studying a seven-point program presented to him by the Korean government. Although the letter did not specify the seven points, i a sources here listed them as follows: 1.

Unification of Korea must be completed by force. 2. The South Korean attitude toward the truce negotiations has not changed and any agreement must include immediate withdrawal of Chinese forces from North Korea, immediate dissolution of the North Korean regime and elections in North Korea. 3. A doubling of military aid, including heavy equipment.

4. Long-range economic aid to avert economic chaos resulting from the war. 5. Speedy conclusion of a Pacific security organization patterned after the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Japan could be admitted but must not have a dominant role.

6. Quick repayment of which the Korean government has advanced to United Nations forces, amount to 80,000,000 won (about 7. Inauguration of a full-fledged reconstruction program in Korea regardless of whether the war has ended or not. Granite City Soldier's Body Being Returned The bodies of 288 American casualties in Korea including one from Granite City, are being returned to the United States i 'board the Robin Goodfellow, the Department of Defense announced Saturday. The ship is expected to arrive at the San Francisco Port of Embar kation sometime this weekend.

The body of Army Pfc. Robert D. Hallmark, hosband of Mrs. Mary A. Hallmark, Granite City, is aboard the ship, the Defense'De- partment said.

Next of kin concerned have been notified of the imminent arrival of the vessel. The bodies will be sent with an escort to the point designated by each individual next of kin. Crop and Weed Meeting Slated Here for Jan. 9 A meeting of Madison county farmers to discuss problems in crop production and weed control will be held the afternoon of Jan 9 in the basement of St. John's Methodist church, Edwardsville starting at 1 p.m., Farm Adviser Truman W.

May announced Saturday. Walter 0. Scott, extension agronomist of the Illinois College of A.S- riculture, will speak. He will give the results of experimental work with the different varieties of the more important farm crops. New developments in the use ol chemicals in spraying weeds will be an important topic on the program.

Spraying of weeds has greatly increased, with good results when properly done. Newsettes By United Prtu House Probers Praise Caudle Attorney George Bixler of De- roit has obtained a court order forbidding his estranged wife, to shoot him. The Bixlers are "Suing each other for divorce. Baxter Boozer, 53, of Deitroit was back in jail for the second within a week today for the same offense--drunkenness. Boozer drew a three-day term Monday after Judge Paul E.

Krause asked lim: "Are you trying to live up to your name?" This time Krause said "It looks like you're trying make a career of it. Ten days." Mrs. Ida Gregory, 35, of Toledo, is probably the world's most enthusiastic jitterbug. While attending a jam session recently, one of her steps got out of control and she crashed through a full- length glass door. After having the damage repaired at a nearby hospital she headed back for another session.

Patricia Ambrose, 22, of Toronto appears in court today on charges of defrauding department stores out of $1,000 in the last three years by using 156 fake charge accounts. Detective Sgt. Bob Doran said the girl bought only small articles and by using a different name and card number was able to avoid detection for three years. Joseph Lacoss, 24, of Toronto complained to police Friday that when he gave a taxi driver $4 for a $3.60 ride the driver turned around and snapped "That ain't much of a tip." Then, said Lacoss, the hack jockey beat him and stole his wallet containing $160, Police are looking for the cabbie. Too many kids got ice skates for Christmas, that's all, the New York police lamented today.

They said that 4,000 children showed up Friday at the Central Park rink and caused a near riot when they tried to get on the ice. The two policemen on duty at the time had to call for reserves to restore order and ratiori the ice. The rink holds 2,300 persons The Brodie twins began their 10th day as separate individuals, and doctors said the boys were "about the same." There has been little marked change in the conditions of 15-month-old Rodney Dee and Roger Lee Brodie since they were wheeled out of surgery Dec. 17. Roger Lee was still hi a coma today.

Rodney Dee was listed as "critical;" with little change for better or worse noted. Christmas is over for this year, and Arthur Orlemann isn't sorry Orlemann told Toledo, 0., police a someone yelled "Merry as he was leaving a party. Orlemann turned to return the joyful greeting and was met by a smash in the face by an unknown assailant. Orlemann suffered a fractured'jaw. A son stood charged today with stealing the $50 his mother had saved -for an operation.

Clyde Welles, 57, of Springfield, had spent all but $17.02 of the $50 by the time police apprehended him. He was charged with grand larceny. His mother, Mrs. Jenny Garber, 82, had planned to undergo an operation for goiter. County Poultry Meeting To Be Held Jan.

13 All poultry raisers and then wives aie invited to attend a poultry meeting at Edwardsville the afternoon of Jan. 13. S. F. Ridlen, extension poultry: man of the Illinois College of Agriculture, will discuss efficient poultry management.

The meeting will be held in the basement of St. John's Methodist church, starting at 1 p.m. WASHINGTON (UP) House nvestigators said today that Lamar caudle is an honorable man who was fired by Pitsideut Truman as a "public sacrifice" to cover up Treasury and Justice Department scandals. One of seven House subcommittee members dissented, saying the ousted assistant attorney genera' blamed everyone but Caudle" foi lis "transgressions." He said Cau die's testimony should be referred to the U.S. attorney "for Mr.

Truman fired Caudle then the government's top tax prose cutor on Nov. 16, 1951. for ac tivities the President said were 'incompatible" with his officia duties. The report Caudle's activities was made by a House judiciary subcommittee headed by Rep Frank L. Chelf It said Caudle was a moti vated." 'In every instance where choici was clearly black or white, thi report said, "Caudle's choice appears to have been impeccabl; correct." The Trumn ax fell on Caudle a few days before another House subcommittee investigating ta scandals had disclosed that Caudle had received mink coat at a cut-rate price, a free TV set am other favors from lawyers repre senting persons in tax trouble, ant got a $5,000 commission for helping -ell an airplane to a repre sentative of two persons under in dictment for.tax avoidance.

The Chelf subcommittee, which questioned Caudle later in its In vestigation of the Justice Depart ment, came to his defense today in a 70-page report which de scribed him as "honorably moti vated." Rep. Byron G. Rogers (D-Colo.) protested. He said the subcommit tee was "praising" a man whi "violated his trust." "He (Caudle) received a mink coal, and $5,000 from pers ns interested in cases before him," Roger said. "How 'honorably motivated can one man get? does the com mittee sugges' that President Tru man did wrong when he firec Caudle?" The subcommittee said it wa not trying to excuse Caudle' "shortcomings." It the drawl ing lawyer from Wadesboro, N.C, was "weak and vulnerable" am "made errors in judgment, som of which played their part in de stroying public confidence JK th government." Churchill Anxious Over Ike's Korean Plans LONDON (UP)--Prime Ministe Winston Churchill plans to see personal assurance from Presidem elect Eisenhower that he will con suit Britain before taking any ac tion that might expand the Korea war, it was reported today.

Anxiety over the possible result of Eisenhower's visit to Korea, an his subsequent conference witl Gen. Douglas MacArthur, was sail to be a prime factor in Churchill' sudden decision to visit the Unite States. Churchill today summoned hi cabinet ministers back from thai Christmastlde vacations for a fina meeting early next week before sails for New York New Year' Eve on the liner Queen Mary. Named to Poit WEST.FRANKFORT, HI. Lewis, Benton, brother President John L.

Lewis, has been named a vice-president of Old Ben Coal Corporation. Lewis formerly was underground superintendent the firm, which has five mines In Southern Illinois. The promotion revealed by D. W. Buchanan president of the company, a he announced retirement of threi top company officials.

ke, Douglas Hold Conference New York City Two Believed to Have Discussed Forthcoming Trip of Churchill NEW YORK (UP)- Prestdent- lect Eisenhower conferred today vith Lewis Douglas, former am- assador to Great Bri'in, presum- bly about the forthcoming top evel meeting with Prime Minister Winston Churchill. Douglas, still wearing a black latch over ar. injured right eye, ntered the Eisenhower residence it 9:50 a.m. without comment to newsmen. But the expert on British ffairs was lelieved 10 have dis- with the president-elect the tiplomatic conferences due to begin ivith Churchill's arrival Jan.

4. British sources said two major oreign policy points would be and analyzed at the Sisenhower-Churchill conference. Specifically Churchill was sale be interested in: 1--Korea and the plans Eisen hower has formulated as the result of his visit there and his talk wltt en. Douglas MacArthur. 2--Whether Eisenhower consid ers any new approach to Russia ncluding the possibility of a talk with Premier Josef Stalin.

The latter subject became a matter for far reaching discussion and speculation after Stalin said in a written interview with New York Times reporter James Reston that le looked with favor upon a meeting with Eisenhower and felt Russia and the United States could live in peace. British diplomatic sources said Churchill will want to sit in on any talk Eisenhower might have with Stalin. Whether such a talk would actually occur was still a matter of speculation. Eisenhower has declined to comment on the proposal. His secretary of state-designate, John Foster Dulles, however, said Friday the new administration would welcome any concrete proposals for peace from Stalin.

Sunday the president-elect was expected to announce- more job appointments in his administration. Dulles was here today, but Eisenhower's headquarters said he does not plan to see the president- elect on the Stalin statement, which was published hi the New York Times on Christmas day, or on other matters during the day. Dulles; made his statement on Stalin in Washington Friday night following a telephone conversation with Eisenhower. On his arrival here, he was asked if he would confer with Russiar diplomats to negotiate a possible meeting between Stalin and Eisenhower. (Continued on Page 2) Moscow Papers Applaud Stalin MOSCOW (UP)--Premier Joset Stalin's offer to meet with U.S.

ct Eisenhower to discuss the easing of world tensions was praised today by Moscow newspapers in front-page editorials as a new manifestation of the Soviet Union's consistent peace-loving policey." The United States was charged with being the center and source of world tension. Izvestia said Stalin's answers to questions submitted by the Wash- ingtoi diplomatic correspondent of the New York Times was "a new contribution to the causo of peace." It added that the United States was the principal source of present world tension and was endangering peace by continuing the war in Korea and attempting to expand the conflict to other areas. The newspaper said the United States is sharpening existing tensions by remilitarizing Germany and Japan and stopping trade with Eastern Pravda said that "international public opinion has hailed Use answers (Stalin's reply to the JNfew York Times) with enormous satisfaction." "The answers published on the eve of the new year will give millions of persons fresh strength in the struggle for peace and the cessation of the policy of aggression and violence, the cessation of the war of conquest against the Korean people and peaceful regulation of international questions," Pravda said. All newspapers reaffirmed Stalin's thesis that the Soviet and Capitalist systems can co-exist. No mention has appeared as yet in the Soviet press of the statement by Secretary of State-designate John Foster Dulles that the United States would sympathetically consider any "concrete proposals" by the Soviet Union..