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Today's NEWS Today's PICTURES Today! Fair today and tonight. Cloudy tomes tew with rata tomorrow night tew mow ttat-liM la mountains. Coldsr today w'h frosl tonight. Santa Rosa temperature: Pait 24 hours (up to 7 a.m. today) high low.

32. Rainfall Nona; Seasonal total. tlM Inches; maL 12.11 Inch: aonal total thl date lal yar, 1.14 Inch. Fort Bragg weather. Fair today, cloudy tonight.

Rain tomorrow with snow in mountain. 2 SECTIONS 16 PAGES OCRAT The Evening Press SANTA ROSA. CALIFORNIA The City Designed lor Living FRIDAY AFTERNOON, JANUARY 12, 1951 DAILY AND SUNDAY, $1.50 PER MONTH llies Strike Back, Ml Fair OEM Bloody Red Noses In Wonju Battle Jo) JJJ(0 EJ(Q)EiIIE Octane Gas Rating Limited for Coast fi 'If I 1 i i 1 'Jk and 2 family houses were restricted 3 months ago today. The regulations were not imposed on construction of hotels, motels, rooming houses or club houses. The regulations also do not apply to construction already started.

The government also limited loans on building major additions or improvements on multi-family residences already constructed. In another action today, the Petroleum Administration for Defense announced today it soon will limit the octane or power ratings of gasoline which can be sold to automobile drivers. The limit will affect only the 1 coastal areas where octane ratings are now slightly higher than those in most inland areas. Officials said the limits are not expected to cause any "noticeable effect" on most cars now on the roads. The administration said the order will limit the octane ratings of motor gasoline to 90 for premium grade gasoline, 86 for intermediate grade and 84 for regular grade.

The action is necessary. Petroleum Defense Administrator Bruce Brown said, to build up a stockpile of tetraethyl lead, the active ingredient in antiknock compounds used in the on new construction because of mounting demands for defense materials. The NPA now bans construction of entertainment, amusement and recreational facilities costing more than $5,000. The NPA said 1951 construction" may reach $25,000,000,000 as compared with $27,750,000,000 last year. The new controls apply to 3 and 4 family residences and to apartment houses and apartment hotels.

Construction loans on one Early Deadline For Sunday's Classiiied Ads Have you something to sell, rent or trade? If so, remember that noon tomorrow is the deadline for placing classified advertisements for the big Sunday Press Democrat. Avoid the last-minute rush and phone your ad In early to 54. President Urges $140 Billion Fund production of both motor and aviation gasoline. Cutting the oc-taine rating will allow a saving in the anti-knock ingredient used. Brown told a press conference that the proposed order will be discussed at a petroleum industry meeting here during the week of Jan.

22 before it is issued. Brown said the national average octane ratings reached all-time highs last fall 91 for premium fuel and 84.4 for regular grade. He said however that most octane ratings on gasolines sold in inland sections of the U. S. are below the proposed limits.

UN Ready To Approve Truce Plan By BRUCE W. MUNN LAKE SUCCESS, N. Jan. 12 (UP) The "last chance" 5-point peace program for Korea was slated for overwl "lming approval today in the United Nations main political committee. The committee was to request the General Assembly to put the plan before the Chinese Communist regime.

The program, presented by the U.N.'s 3-man mediation team, provides for an immediate ceasefire in Korea, withdrawal of foreign troops, setting up of a unified Korea with free elections and a big power Far Eastern peace conference with Red China sitting at the table. The United States and Britain promptly endorsed the plan as a "last chance" for Peking to agree to peace in the Far East. BUT RUSSIA, echoed by Its Polish Cominform partner, indicated a rejection of the plan in expressing "preliminary views" on it. There was some indication, however, that Soviet Delegate Jacob Malik, seconded by Poland's Juliusz Katz-Suchy, had not finally scuttled hopes for peace when he told the 60-nation committee: "The Soviet delegation cannot lend its support to these proposals. In reality, there is nothing new in them.

In reality, we see in them the same thing as has been proposed before." Malik made it clear that he intended to talk again, and at length, on the 5-point program. in with their Sunday punch and the Communists couldn't stand up under it. Early Friday the Communist Air Force made 3 light raids against U. N. troops in the western sector.

Later in the morning an American-type bomber bearing U. S. Air Force markings dropped 2 bombs. U. S.

Eighth Army headquarters said it did not know whether the plane had been deliberately disguised as an American ship or whether it was i U. S. pilot who had lost his way. U. French and Dutch unit? pulled back temporarily durinp the 19-minute ground-shaking air raid, then rushed back to their old positions while smoke and dust rose from the stricken city.

They hoped the raid had knocked the Communists off balance. OTHER Red troops, however, cut one of the 8th Army's main lifelines to the old Pusan beachhead in a flanking drive 35 miles southeast of Wonju. The Reds threw a 135-man roadblock across the Chungju-Andong-Pusan highway 9 miles east of Chungju and opened fire on United Nations vehicles. A U.N. patrol sent to investigate found the road mined and was engaged by 50 enemy troops.

Refugees said 1,000 more enemy troops were in the area. The 2nd Division, under orders to hold the highway "at all costs," was expected to attack momentarily to smash the roadblock. Other enemy forces mined the Chechon-Tanyang highway and set up a 100-man roadblock on it 25 miles southeast of Wonju. Some 1,200 enemy troops were reported moving south and southeast in the same area. Manpower Goal Lifted By 260.000 WASHINGTON, Jan.

12 (AP) Senators were told today that President Truman had increased the June 30 manpower goal for the nation's fighting forces by about 260,000. Assistant Secretary of Defense Anna M. Rosenberg testified that Mr. Truman had approved raising the armed forces strength to 3,462,205 by that date or "at the earliest possible moment." The previous June 30 target was 3,200,000 men, although Mr. Truman has talked of having 3,500,000 in the next year or 2.

Mrs. Rosenberg made her announcement as she and top ranking Army, Navy, Air Force and Marine officers appeared before the Senate Armed Services Subcommittee to urge drafting of 18-year-olds. Mrs. Rosenberg said she had just received a telephone call from Secretary of Defense Marshall informing her of the higher total for the armed services. "The joint chiefs of staff requested it," Mrs.

Rosenberg said. (Continued on Page 2, Col. 7) By EARNEST HOBERECHT TOKYO, Jan. 13 (Saturday) (UP) United Nations ground troops and the U. S.

Air Force gave the Communists a bloody nose Friday in the battle of Wonju. The Reds broke and ran from a ridge 2 miles south of the city when American fliers burned and blasted 6,000,000 square yards with 275 tons of bombs. American, French, Dutch and South Korean troops then launched a counter-attack that carried them within a mile of Wonju. After the blazing counter-attack, a United Nations corps commander was asked: "What is your estimate of the situation?" "THE situation is fine," he said. "We've killed a lot of the enemy and we'll kill plenty more.

Our men are aware that they should be here and they will stay. We've got all the artillery we need and all the food we can ever eat. "As long as the situation remains that way we will be here forever." Obviously the U. N. Army intends to hold the Wonju line as long as possible to prevent the Reds from pouring through the "gateway to Southern Korea" on the roads leading to the Pu-san beachhead.

THE AERIAL assault on the Communist position lasted all day. First American fighters and light bombers tore into the enemy. Then flights of B-29's came Cold Steel Of French Routs Foe ON THE WONJU FRONT, KOREA, Jan. 10 (Delayed) (UP) A platoon of French troops out-banzaied the North Koreans today in a daring bayonet charge that brought American GI's out of their foxholes to watch in awe. Led by a French lieutenant with a red scarf tied around his head, they yelled like Indians while making a furious assault from a ridge south of Wonju.

They forced the enemy into a disorganized retreat. The commander of the task force to which the French are attached tried to call off the charge because of impending darkness. But word failed to reach the unit in time. When the attack started, Americans stood up to watch. "My God, they're going in with bayonets," one of them The French objective was a snow-covered crest on the right flank of the American position.

As they charged, enemy bullets whipped up little flurries of snow about them. Within 5 minutes after the start of the attack, the Communists were in retreat and the hill was taken. There were 20 enemy dead. The French suffered only 2 minor casualties. WASHINGTON, Jan.

12 (UP) The government today extended credit controls to construction of virtually all residential buildings in a new effort to halt advancing inflation. The new rulings limit the size of loans and mortgages financed by private or government lending agencies. Violators can be fined up to $5,000 or jailed for a year. Meanwhile, informed sources said the National Production Authority soon may tighten its ban Two Empire Soldiers Casualties Cpl. Alan R.

Coleman, son of cauu 111 o. J-tUU VVlCUiaJl. whisnerin has been reported missing in action. The same casualty list con tained the name of Sgt. John H.

Banister, who told a war correspondent: "I was arming one of the mines which someone had been monkeying with. The damn thing went off and knocked me flat The sergeant was injured Dec. 7 near Hamhung. His parents, Mr. and Mrs.

Frank Banister of 4050 Chico received a clipping of the story from a woman in Compton. They also received a picture of their son in a Tokyo Army Hospital, where he was taken after being evacuated from Korea. The mine exploded in his face injuring his eyes and one hand. An operation was performed on his eyes. He said in a letter re-, ceived by his parents Tuesday that he has to wear glasses.

THE ACCIDENT occurred when Sgt. Banister, a security sergeant in his division, was mining a field in expectation of an attack by the Chinese. In his letter, he said he expected a 7-day leave and that he also expected to go back to Korea. He said he had written his colonel asking if he could rejoin his outfit, the 7th Infantry Division. Sgt.

Banister is a veteran of World War II. He served 27 months in the South Pacific and was wounded twice, earning the Purple Heart with Oak Leaf and the Silver Star and Bronze Star. He re-enlisted and was in Japan one year before sailing to Korea Sept. 9. His wife, Jo, lives at Rt.

1, Box 278, Caruthers, Fresno County. CPL. COLEMAN, 21, entered the Army 2 years ago in September. He was stationed in Guam until December, 1949, when he was sent to Fort Lewis, Wash. He arrived in Korea last September and was with the 2nd Division.

In a letter -received Nov. 15 by his parents, he said he was on his way north. Cpl. Coleman was born in Santa Rosa. He was graduated from Middletown High School in 1947 and attended Santa Rosa Junior College for 1 year.

ARTHUR MacARTHUR, 12, son of Gen. Douglas Mac-Arthur, dances for the first time in public at a Tokyo i. party, riis partner is Joyce Yamazaki, Nisei daughter of an employe in the gen- eral's headquarters. (AP Wirephoto from Life Maga zine) The County 'Digs Out1 After Storm Residents of hard-hit sections of Sonoma County continued "digging out" from under debris left by raging northwest winds which collapsed buildings, ripped off roofs and flattened power poles yesterday. Some of the cleaning-up was carried out in freezing weather, as thermometers dropped to 32 degrees in Santa Rosa today.

The winds which blacked out sections of the county caused widespread damage to power lines, but by this morning Pacific Gas Electric Co. crews reported "everything is normal now." Santa Rosa and the surrounding area seemed to be in a cold pocket with temperatures of 10 or more degrees warmer to the north and south. Low for the night in Healdsburg was 43 degrees and Petaluma's low was 45 degrees. It will be colder today and a heavy frost is due tonight, tha weatherman said. Last night was cold enough to drop a mantle of snow on Cobb Mt.

and Mt. St. Helena. More snow flurries in mountain regions can be expected tonight and tomorrow. Main telephone lines were not hit by the raging winds of yesterday's sudden storm, John Brennan, district manager of the Pacific Telephone Telegraph said, but a few isolated phones were cut off.

"We were lucky this time," Mr. Brennan said. Some phones were still out of service in the Two Rock area where winds demolished scores of chicken houses, whipped a tile roof off "at least one home and toppled another roof onto an (Continued o-i Page 2, Col. 2) Sonoma County will be asked to donate $25,000 during the 1951 March of Dimes which begins Monday, L. G.

Hitchcock, county, chairman, announced today. Mr. Hitchcock said this sum $7,000 over last year's goal "is the minimum needed to care for polio vic puts of emg tims and sustain research activities after the 2nd worst year for infantile paralysis in the history of the country." The first large donation in Santa Rosa, a check for $100, was jmui 15-31 presented to the county chairman yesterday by the Ladies' Auxiliary of Carpenters. Other donations have been received, Mr. Hitchcock reported, and more are expected before the drive is officially opened $25, 112 JJ WASHINGTON, Jan.

12 (AP) President Truman today called on Congress to raise taxes this session by "very much more" than the $8,000,000,000 combined total of the last 2 increases. The President, in his annual economic message, notified the lawmakers that the nation's security will demand lending and spending authority totalling $140,000,000,000 for this fiscal year n(j next The, present fiscal year ends next July 1. As hevget it out, thus total would be for actual military and foreign aid spending plus contracting, lending and loan guaranteeing authority for national security- purposes. Other government expenses would be in addition to this. Mr.

Truman said workers must accept wage restraints and business men must accept lower profits that no one should seek to hike his income to escape his share of the higher tax burden. He told the legislators, too, that 1,000,000 more men and women may be added to the armed forces within a few months. The military manpower goal has been a force of by June 30, but only today this figure was raised to Congress voted a $4,700,000,000 increase in individual and corporation taxes last fall. In December, it passed a bill to get $3,300,000,000 more from corporations through an "excess profits" tax and an increase in existing taxes. MR.

TRUMAN used no specific figure for his new tax proposals but said the total should exceed the ctmbined total of these 2 bills. Mr. Truman said it should be the first principle of policy to "maintain a balanced budget, and to finance the cost of national defense on a 'pay as you go' basis." He added: "Corporations should pay much higher taxes. Individuals should pay much higher taxes. Excise taxes should be higher and more extensive." Mr.

Truman said new tax proposals soon will be submitted to Congress carrying these recommendations as well as recommendations for closing "many loopholes" in present tax laws. The President also informed Congress that staffs are being formed rapidly to apply "broader controls" over prices and wages. "In the case of prices," he said, "the general policy must be to hold the price line with utmost vigor." He asked that the Department TODAY'S EGG PRICES SAN FRANCISCO. Jan. 12 (UP) EGGS: Poultry Producers: Large grade AA, 60c; large grade 59c; medium grade A.

57c; small Grade 55c. Western Dairy Products: Large grade 59c; medium grade 57c; small grade 55c. P. if. Large grade medium grade 55-55 'jc; small grade A.

53-53'2c. BUTTER: 93 score, 74c; 92 score, 74c; 90 score, 72c. CHEESE: Grade A loaf, 45-47c; singles. 43-45c. (Early farm prices on page 7) WHOLESALE INDEX NEW YORK, Jan.

12 The Associated Press weighted wholesale price index of 35 commodities yesterday. Previous day 209.32. ween ago month a 202-M a j95o-5i 1949 194 1947 High 209.32 177.37 208.14 207.94 tSm" 164M (Early stock prices on page of Agriculture be "granted authority to control speculative trading and to strengthen its regulation of commodity exchanges." AS HE DID in last Monday's State of the Union message, the President emphasized the great threat from Communist aggression. He said "large and menacing forces" led by Russia are "arrayed against the free world." "The great manpower under the control of Soviet Commu- nism is being driven with fanatic zeal to build up military and industrial strength," The $140,000,000,000 figure used by Mr. Truman does not necessarily mean the government will spend that much in the 2 years ending July 1, 1952.

The funds may be committed over several" years ahead and Mr. Truman did not hint at the size of the budget to be presented on Monday. But by the end of 1951, Mr. Truman declared, defense and foreign aid spending should hit a rate between $45,000,000,000 and $55,000,000,000 a year. This is roughly double today's outlays.

"THE REAL economic cost of this defense effort is that we must work harder, reduce consumption, and forego improvements in farm, business and household equipment," Mr. Truman said. "This cost cannot be put off into the future. It must be paid by the people now, one way or another, and it should be paid through taxation." Laying great stress on the inflationary hazard, the President then called for "broad extension of price and wage controls" to hold the anti-inflation line for the duration of the emergency. He also asked Congress to provide: EDITED BY Wounded 30 days ago in Korea his 4th wartime wound, incidentally, as he received 3 during World War II Sgt.

John H. (Jack) Banister, son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Banister, 4057 Chico Santa Rosa, is recuperating in the Tokyo Army Hospital. He told of the incident in a recent letter to Fay (Mrs.

Irving) Kurlander, "Mother No. 2" to many Santa Rosa boys in service through her tireless correspondence that includes birthday and holiday greeting cards to them wherever they may be stationed. "As you probably know, I was hurt a little bit in Korea," he wrote, "so I lost all my addresses. I should be out in a few days or so the doctor told me 3 weeks ago. I've just about given up hopes of getting out.

I'll be going back to Korea so I guess I shouldn't be in such a hurry. "I still want to get back to my outfit (7th Artillery) as I have been with it so long it's sort of grown on me. They operated on my eyes and I will have to wear glasses to be able to see much, but it isn't anything to wvrry about. I think I got out of it lucky this time as some of the men didn't as you probably know bv reading the papers, 'l always think maybe it will be worse next time. There is always someth look forward to where thre a fighting.

I Gpi OUR HOME TOWN Classified ads will be taken unt 4:30 p.m. tomorrow for the Monday Press Democrat-Even ing Press. 2 Million Bay Area Storm Loss SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 12 (AP) A driving storm, including a freak tornado, caused more than $2,000,000 damage in the San Francisco Bay Area yesterday. Winds up to 78 miles an hour were recorded.

No fatalities were reported. Four persons were injured. The tornado, a virtual unknown on the Pacific Coast, tore a half-mile wide path through Sunnyvale, 35 miles south. More than 250 homes and 2 large industrial plants there were damaged heavily. Roofs were ripped off, telephone poles snapped like firecrackers.

The wind picked up a 10-ton crane and deposited it almost 100 feet away. At the Westinghouse Electric Co. plant, a 400 by 200 foot roof was carried away. Part of a turbine machine shop collapsed on scores of parked cars. Company officials set damage at $100,000.

Officials said damage in Sunnyvale, a town of 10,000, would approximate $1,500,000. Elsewhere around the Bay, power lines were broken, thousands of windows were smashed and trees fell on dozens of homes. THE TWISTER hop scotched into San Jose, whisking the roofs off a score of houses or damaging them so severely residents were forced to flee. Automobiles were spun like tops and lightning set a 5-unit apartment house afire. oug.

rely on outside help in 1951. (Net receipts of the 1950 drive totaled $22,164.49 as compared with the goal of $18,000. Average donation was slightly over 32 cents.) MR. HITCHCOCK also emphasized the need for more assistance to the National Foundation. "Over 100,000 polio cases have occurred in the United States since 1948 more than the total number of cases reported during the previous decade, 1938-48," he said.

"Indications of immediate need for infantile paralysis victims is such that I hope the people in this county will dig a little deeper into their purses. "Great strides have been made in the treatment and possible prevention of polio, thanks to the March of Dimes. While ap- preciating the generosity of the past, we hope for greater generosity to come. Of 7 nr Jan. 21 Legion Paper Drive Chairman Named imes campaign This was apparently meant that the burly Russian had not received his instructions from the Kremlin and, until they arrive, he will not be authorized either to flatly accept or reject the plan.

S3 MIKE PARDEE have only been wounded 4 times in one war and part of another." Mrs. Kurlander started writing to Santa Rosa boys as soon as the first were called into service. She had followed a similar practice in World War II. To date she is writing to 58 "adopted sons" and keeps a service flag at the Kurlander Cigar Store, 315 Mendocino Ave. of the local boys in service.

To date it has over 150 names, with 4 marked with silver stars for wounds in action and one with a gold star, denoting a casualty. DONALD MONROE Sampson, 20-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. E. I.

Sampson, 601 Nason was graduated from "boot" training at San Diego Naval Training Station Jan. 5 as aagp his company. He was one of 9 men from 2 0 companies accorded the honor on the basis of aptitude and training in the big West Coast training center. DONALD SAMPSON Graduation day saw him and the other 8 Honor Men on the reviewing platform to receive the Honor Roll certificates (his has been shipped up to the home folks) and I. D.

bracelets, and to watch his com-(Contlnued on Page 9, CoL i) 7 I Earnest E. Schmaling will act-as general chairman of the next waste paper drive to be conducted by Theodore Roosevelt Post No. 21, American Legion. Comdr. Harold (Jack) Frost, announced his appointment following a special meeting of the post's board of directors last night.

The drive will be held Jan. 21. George W. Sumner will act as co-chairman. Other committeemen appointed were: Percy B.

Hanson, M. V. (Cliff) Clifton and Harold B. Frost, manpower; Alexander Thiele and Mead Nordyke, trucks and pick-ups: Edward T. Koford and Guy E.

Grosse, weights and measures: Leo V. Connolly, routes and dispatcher; Adolph Canevari, refreshments; R. H. (Bob) Cooke and Walter Eggen, car loading, and Mr. Nordyke and George J.

Rothang, special pick-ups. Other arrangements for the drive will be announced early next week, Mr. Rothang, finance officer, said. SANTA ROSA police yesterday investigated an alleged wife-beating case in Bldg. 9, Veterans Village.

No complaint was filed. FORTY-TWO members of the Santa Rosa High School Drama Club had an outing Wednesday in San Francisco, where they attended a matinee performance of "As You Like It." Dinner followed at a San Francisco restaurant. Club members were accompanied by Glen Guymon, club coach, who has announced that the club plans to go to Modesto for a speech festival Jan. 20. Although the group has no money in its budget for the trip, it will "definitely" attend, he said.

MASON LEWIS will be installed as president of the Santa Rosa Exchange Club at a dinner at 7:30 p.m. today at the Sonoma County Fairgrounds cafeteria. The dinner will be preceded by cocktails from 6.30 to 7:30 p.m. With Mr. Lewis will be installed John Morris, vice president; John Gallagher, secretary, and Denman Daw, W.

J. Strong, Douglas L. Whited, A. Reilly, Rhodes Trussell and Eugene Sa-belman, board of control. Edward Zwerline, retired state officer, will install the new officers.

THE recent mid-century youth conference the subject of a talk by James C. Crase, Peta-luma banker, at a meeting of the Soroptimist Club yesterday. Mr. Crase, who attended the conference in Washington, said Continued en Page 2, Col. 1) MEANWHILE Tom Welch, county chairman for the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, announced that 17 persons were stricken in the county last year, 6 more than 1949 Two of the 1950 victims died.

Over 33,000 cases occurred in the over 2,000 of them in California. "Fifty per cent of the county's March of Dimes funds go See picture, Page 9 to the National Foundation," Mr Welch said. "But during the past 5 years, over $37,000 has been returned to the county to help us care for patients stricken during those and former years. This year the Foundation returned $7,975. In 1949 over $17,000 was given back.

Boti Mr. Welch and Mr. Hitchcock hoped donations would exceed the $25,000 figure, so the county would not have to.