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BE Moa PRESS THE It Will Be Cloudy Today in Santa liosa Partly cloudy today. Mostly cloudy tomorrow with occasional rain. West to northwest winds J5-25 m.p.h. Little change in temperature. Temperatures (past 24 hours up to 5 p.

m. yesterday): high, 54; low, Rainfall (past 24 hours up to 5 p. m. yesterday): .44 inches; seasonal total, 21.82 inches; normal, 12.73 inches; seasonal total this date last year, 8.10 Inches. Rain On the Way In Ultiah Sector Partly cloudy today with a few local showers.

Increasing cloudiness -tomorrow with probable rain. West to northwest winds 20-30 m.p.h. off the coast today becoming westerly tomorrow. Temperatures (past 24 hours up to 5 p. m.

yesterday): high, 52; low, 41. Rainfall (past 24 hours up to 5 p. m. yesterday): .52 inches; seasonal total, 24.67 inches; seasonal total this date last year, 9.00 inches. The Redwood Empire's Leading Newspaper fl.90 PEK MONTH 10c PER COPY SUNDAY SANTA ROSA, CALIFORNIA The City Designed for 94TH YEAR NO.

682 SECTIONS 22 PAGES s. 7 -A home. Windows were broken and the tile roof blown away. In the center foreground is the roofless garage and floor of a long brooder house. At right neighbors help move feed from a new granary which was smashed by the wind.

In the rear left background, the home of Martin Iversen was" untouched by the terrific wind. (Staff photo by John LeBaron) A TWISTER roared through Peter Christiansen's poultry ranch about 8 miles west of Petaluma onsBloomfield Rd. yesterday morning and left this wreckage in its wake. In the left background is the demolished 2-story house in which Mr. and Mrs.

Jack Carson were sleeping when the storm struck. They escaped with slight injuries. In the center is the Christiansen's recently completed $18,000 Tornado's Queer Tricks Play Havoc in Two Rock of roads that fans south from Wonju into the heart of South Korea. An 8th Army spokesman said contact with the Reds Thursday in the Wonju sector was limited to patrol action. The 2nd Division veterans of the Naktong and Chongchon River battles bulled into the abandoned Wonju sector Wednesday night and killed 2,100 en- SGT.

JOHN H. BANISTER GIs Are Casualties Cpl. Alan R. Coleman, son of Mr. and Mrs.

Lon Coleman, Whispering Pines, Lake County, has been reported missing in action. The same casualty list- contained 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 received 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 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 (Continued on Page 2, Col.

1) I i I i J' 1 5 CENTS emy troops of a force. The Americans held doggedly to their hill positions. Correspondent Barnard quoted one officer: "Our artillery is knocking the hell out of them." In the west, where allied planes strafed 5,000 Chinese Thursday south of Osan, reinforcements during the night built the enemy force to 11,000 troops. $1 Billion By MORRIE LANDSBERG Sacramento, Jan. 11 (AP) Governor Warren, laying down a strict economy-for-defense policy, submitted a money-saving 1951-52 state budget of just over a billion dollars to the California legislature today.

He asked for $75,828,248 less than actual expenditures during the past year. The exact amount: WARREN SAID IT can he financed without a cent in new taxes. Not only that, he predicted surplus of $20,736,277 in the state general fund at the closa of the bookkeeping year, Juno 30, 1952. At the same time, he disclosed the state unexpectedly will have $51,794,420 in its jeans when the present fiscal year ends June 30, 1951. The budgetmakers had no way of anticipating the Korean war, and increased spending, when they drafted the 1950-51 budget.

The governor said in a message accompanying his spending document today: "THIS BUDGET, in view of the national emergency, has been held to bare essentials." The big money bill includes $1,738,953 for running the new Office of Civilian Defense. It makes no provision for California's estimated $150,000,000 share of the 3-year federal defense program, still in a formative stage. THIS IS where the taxpayer's money will go: Operation of state agencies down 13 per cent. State buildings and improvement down 47 per cent. Local assistance to cities and counties up 2Vi per cent.

And this is where the money will come from: Retail sales tax, bank and corporation franchise tax, personal income tax, alcoholic beverage taxes, insurance (Continued on Page 3, Col. 3) Casualties Now Stand at 42.713 WASHINGTON, Jan. 11 (AP) Announced American casualties in Korea now total 42,713, an increase of 2,537 over a week ago. sible interpretations in any direc tion later." U. N.

observers and persons familiar with Russian tactics in the U.N. said they did not believe Malik had closed the door. They said he apparently did not have his instructions and that he had not finaly rejected the plan. One point of the plan suggested talks for a settlement of the question Formosa as well as other Far Eastern issues. Austin'? acceptance of this point was said by several delegates to be much farther than the U.

S. has gone and to be the first time the U.S. has even agreed to discuss Formosa with Red China. There was no immediate explanation from the Americans. T.

F. TSIANG, Nationalist China, said the set of principles deserve careful study. He said, however, that it did not provide for withdrawal of North Korean forces from South Korea which he called a retreat from earlier principles. Budget Submitted Living FRIDAY MORNING, TOKYO, Friday, Jan. 12 (AP) A Communist column thrust wide and deep around the U.

S. 2nd Division's east flank today in art end run that threatened the Americans 4 fighting stand around Won ju. Another threat was developing in the buildup of Red armies in western Korea. This force was mounting in strength for a frontal assault against allied lines. Elements of the flanking column swept behind allied lines and set up a roadblock at Ochiri on the, Chungju-Tanyang supply highway.

This was 31 miles southeast of Wonju, the 2nd's northernmost positions. A U.N. PATROL lent to clear the roadblock found the highway mined. A brisk fight developed. A.P.

correspondent Don Huth reported from 8th Army headquarters that civilian Koreans said there were 1,000 Communist troops strung along the Chungju-Tanyang road. This is one vital supply line for the 2nd Division. The 8th Army did not disclose the size of the Communist flanking column. But earlier, A.P. correspondent William C.

Barnard reported from the front that a force of 20,000 Red Koreans the 6th and 10th Divisions was sliding past the 2nd Division's east flank. Some elements of this deep-thrusting spearhead were sighted 10 miles south of Chechon and only. 6 miles from Tanyang. Chech prt'-is 21 miles southeast of Tanyang is a key rail terminal south of the Han River at Its southernmost bend. It is 37 miles southeast of Wonju.

ALLIED FORCES tangled Nagle Takes Post at Sacramento Walter H. Nagle, who retired Monday after 16 years as Sonoma County Clerk, has been appointed assistant sergeant-at-arms of the Assembly. Mr. Nagle is at work at his new Sacramento post today. Mr.

Nagle was offered the position last week end in a telegram from Assemblyman Richard H. McCollister, Mill Valley. He told close courthouse associates here he was debating whether to accept the job, and would go to Sacramento during the week before deciding. He notified Mrs. Nagle in Santa Rosa yesterday by telephone that he had accepted.

MRS. NAGLE said she was pleased with the news, although it meant her husband would be in Sacramento most of the time during the session of the Legislature. She said it would have been difficult for Mr. Nagle to give up all public life immediately after 16 years at his energetic courthouse tempo. the railroad and Reber-plan fa cets of the proposed project, according to United Press.

4. Also at Sacramento, further study by a special legislative SKtf S6S tf prPOSf Mann -Richmond nrnippt onuiri Marin-Richmond project could carry rail traffic was approved by the Assembly Ways and means Committee. THE SAN FRANCISCO super joint meeting of the committee on streets. Associated Press reported. Supervisor James Leo Halley's resolution would put the board on record in favor of the state assuming the maintenance and amortization of the debt" of the Golden Gate bridge in such a way as to "relieve San Francisco of all responsibilities." "This is not done in criticism of the board of directors of the Golden Gate bridge," Mr.

Halley en rae col- ij, visors' action was taken by unan- imous vote of 6 members of the n.mpmw hn3M 4s JANUARY 12, 1951 Thursday afternoon with 200 Reds 8 miles northeast of Tanyang. Results of fight were not reported. The 2nd Division, bulwarked by French and Dutch troops and supported by massed artillery, was making its fighting stand in hills less than 2 miles south of the central Korean road-rail hub of Wonju. The 2nd was guarding the web Defendant Testifies in Death Trial By Staff Correspondent UKIAH, Jan. 11 Samuel A.

Leech, Mendocino State hospital attendant oh trial in Superior Court on a charge of manslaughter, took the stand today in his own defense. Dramatically he re-enacted details leading up to the death of Thomas Simmons, 70-year-old patient at the hospital. Mr. Leech is accused of kicking and "stomping" Mr. Simmons who died of a ruptured liver allegedly suffered during a beating.

Mr. Leech testified: "I unlocked the door to side room 6 where Simmons had spent the night. I turned on the light and told him to get out of bed. He didn't move so I walked over and pulled off the sheet and told him again in a louder voice 'Get out of bed and get He started to get out of bed and I turned toward the window to see what the weather was like outside. The next thing I knew, the old man had hit me from behind on the left side of my face.

"I turned around, took a couple of steps back and pushed him away from me. He fell across the foot of the hospital bed and as he fell, his ear scraped against the wall. Thea he rolled over and slipped off the bed. As he fell off the bed, his other ear scraped against the other wall." THE DEFENDANT said he bent over to pick upthe patient from the floor and that Mr. Simmons punched him in the nose which began to bleed.

"I pushed him down on the floor by his shoulders and he started to get up again. I kept pushing him down as he started to rise. All the time I was working him around so his back would be toward me. When I finally got him in that position, I pinned his 2 arms behind him and lifted him off the floor." Leech said that he then took the patient outside through the ward to the showers where the blood from Mr. Simmons' ears was washed off.

During his testimony, Mr. Leech got down on the floor to describe the patient's position during the struggle. THE JURY of 10 men and 2 women will be taken to the hospital tomorrow to observe location of doors, window, bed and other objects in the room. In an attempt to impeach their testimony, the defense called back to the stand the 2 mental patients who have testified they saw the beating. Both- witnesses reiterated that they had watched the beating and were not lying when they testified.

S.F. Egg Market Highest in U.S. SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 11 AP Tina Innfll rx ..1 Whest ir'thecountry 5 afc present, me eaerai-sstate Mar- ket News Service reported today, but lower prices are indicated for next week. The large grade A eggs, in Angeles, 8- to 9 cents above Seattle, 10 to 13 above New York and 14 to 15 above Chicago.

The situation, it was explained, results from a smaller than expected increase in local supplies of eggs. This is the time of the year when production usually picks up as hens resume laying after the moulting period. The high prices here attract eggs from the Midwest and larger supplies expected from there next week. will hav a depressing effect on price. Buildings Smashed By Storm A rampaging, northwest wind with gusts as high as 45 miles per hour caused power failures that darkened large areas of northern Sonoma County early yesterday, smashed buildings and caused widespread property damage.

Winds which tore into Two Rock at about 6:50 a.m. demolished scores of chicken houses, whipped a tile roof off at least one home and toppled another roef onto an elderly couple in bed. (See story on this page.) Sebastopol, Forest ville" a Green Valley areas were entirely without pewer for more than 3Vfc hours, when toppling trees cut lines from Molino and Green Valley sub-stations of Pacific Gas and Electric Co. Wind-tossed limbs also impaired Santa Rosa and Fulton circuits, cutting off power sup-More pictures on Page 6. plies to Sonoma County Hospital, where several scheduled operations had to be postponed.

Lights at the hospital were restored a few minutes past 10 a.m. IN MENDOCINO County, lightning blew fuses over a large area, temporarily darkening Ukiah and Fort Bragg. Healdsburg and Petaluma reported little damage, according to a P. G. E.

spokesman, who said that Santa Rosa and Sebastopol were "undoubtedly" hardest hit. The power company had 12 crews repairing storm damage. There was little damage in Bodega Bay, where boatsmen anticipated the storm and secured craft accordingly. At the height of the storm, at about 6:30 a.m., the gale downed power poles, trees and television antennae, shaking houses to their foundations and causing several minor auto accidents. Telephone lines were not hit, John Brennan, district manager of Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Co.

reported. He said that a few individual phones were cut off, but that damage was (Continued on Fage 2, CoL 6) Hail Adds To Fury Of Winds By OWEN A. CRUCE Staff Correspondent GUALALA, Jan. 11 Strong winds combed with hailstones crippled a lumber mill, blocked roads and injured one man here today. Ben Fisher, night watchman at the Empire Redwood Lumber suffered bruises, cuts and a broken nose when a tree fell on the watchman's shack on the lumber company's grounds.

He was taken to Redwood Coast Hospital Fort Bragg, for "--a Highway 1, the coast road going through Gualala, was blocked north and south of the Gualala River by fallen trees, holding up transportation until noon. A large redwood toppled on the water tank of the lumber company and smashed it. Operations of the firm will be delayed 3 weeks. THE STEEPLE of an old. unused church building was blown off.

Hail broke windows in several houses. Telephone lines were from 6 a.m. to about 5 p.m. The roof of one residence the Walter Mason house was smashed in by a small tree, but the occupants were uninjured. In Pt.

Arena electric power was off for one hour and an auxiliary Diesel plant went into operation. Manchester was also without power. Gualala homes supply their own power from private generators. 1.500 Chicks Killed in-Cotati COTATI, Jan. 11 Most serious storm damage in Cotati was on the John Skelly ranch dn Reservoir Ave.

One large chicken house was blown down killing nearly 1,500 chicks and one cow. On the James Witmer ranch on Railrqad Ave. 15 trees were blown down, and in the parkway between Park Ave. and Highway 101a number of trees were twisted off about 3 or 4 feet above the ground. In the living room this after noon sat a shivering black and white Cocker Spaniel with a frightened look in his sad "eyes.

Another dog was either carried away by the wind or is still under some wreckage. It hasn't bten seen since the tornado struck. After the wind left the Christiansen place, it whirled across Bloomfield Rd. and swept away about 25 colony chicken houses on the Martin Iversen place. The colony houses, which were unoccupied, vanished, leaving only bare spots in the grass.

Then the wind cut back to flatten the Iverson silo and several cypress trees. Later, driving home, I could see where it had cut a swath through trees, outbuildings and power "lines along Pepper and Mercham Rds. AFTER THE wind had passed and daylight made it possible to see the damage to the Christiansen home, neighbors and friends from Two Rock, Roblar, Bloom-field, Canfield, Petaluma and Sebastopol flocked to the ranch to help clear the wreckage and repair the damage. Tractors, both wheel and tracklayer, appeared on the scene. Farmers with trucks helped move the huge supply of grain and mash to other storage places on neighboring ranches.

A crew started clearing the broken tile from the roof and laying roofing paper. Others boarded up the broken windows. The 2-story building was torn apart and the lumber stacked out of the way. Canvas was found to cover baled hay exposed by the wind. Electricians wired emergency circuits to the chicken houses first and then to the Christiansen home.

With apparently no direction, the' work went forward quickly. I saw Duke Iverson, nephew of Mr. and Mrs. Carson, use his powerful shoulders to move a wall in order to retrieve a tiny bit of Mrs. Carson's jewelry.

(A few weeks back Duke was pushing opponents of the New York Yankees professional footbaU team around with the same shoulders.) His brotfier, Art Iversen, was driving away a truckload of furniture. I also saw Jake Petersen and Leo Pozzi from Bloomfield, Pete Knstensen, also of Bloomfield TM anri enm nf iho from Roblar. Cars were lined for a quarter of a mile on each side of the road. Women made hot coffee inside the house amid the hammering or carpenters, it was the closest -thin to old fashioned "barn v. many years, But it clearly showed that if By ARTHUR VOLKERTS TWO ROCK, Jan.

11 What well may be a preview of how rural America will react if war should strike this nation was enacted here today on the tornado-flattened poultry ranch of Peter Christiansen, Bloomfield Rd. A devastating twister roared over the brow of the little hiU southwest of the Christiansen ranch early this morning and struck the ranch buildings with a force comparable to the wind blast of an atomic bomb. In a matter of seconds it leveled a 2-story house behind the new Christensen home, swept away the walls and roof of a 100-foot brooder house, smashed' a new granary, damaged a new Buick automobile in its garage, tore up eucalyptus and locust trees around the buildings, whirled away the heavy tiles which formed the roof for the new house and hurled lumber through the windows. Sleeping in the 2nd story of the frame house were an elderly couple, Mr. and Mrs.

Jack Carson. They were carried to the ground under a small gable of the roof, suffering slight injuries and shock. The 2nd story was crushed almost to the first floor level. IN THE Christiansen home, the wind played queer tricks. Jt plucked a linen closet door from its hinges, carried 15 feet down a hall and through the bedroom in which Mr.

and Mrs. Christiansen were sleeping and then sucked itout a window at right angles to the hall. The door hasn't been found. The wind also picked a huge circular dresser mirror from its stand and deposited it on the bedroom floor unbroken. It either flung bits of lumber through or smashed outright most of the smaller windows in the house but left big picture windows intact.

Mrs. Christiansen said she "thought it was an atomic bomb. We didn't know that ours was the only house struck in this neighborhood. It was awful." for Tuesday sworn out by the San Francisco man. Mrs.

Leung told Mr. and Police Chief Boyd Miller they had driven to Sonoma from San Francisco at about 4 p. having learned that Mr. Becker allegedly would perform an abortion. Mrs.

Leung was re- wi th with the pharmacist between 6 and 7 p. when they started to drive home. On the way back, Mc Leung said, his wife became hysterical and claimed the druggist had given her! something to drink before performing the alleged act of perversion. Enraged, Mr. Leung then drove back to Sonoma and broke into the pharmacy, smashing show case windows and leaving the place a shambles Tne district attorney's office also is considering" filing itharirae ttm.t haw osuaioi an.

uu iurs. jueungt oi complicity in tne ai leged abortion, according to' bIi Kmhh Attorney uen- rraignmeni in Abortion S.F. Supervisors Wan! U.S. Accepts Plan for Cease-Fire Conference State tor Own Gate Span AiiempS Set Harry E. (Doc) Becker, 55- year-old Sonoma druggist, will be arraigned on charges of attempted abortion and sex perversion at 10 a.

m. next Tuesday, in Santa Rosa Justice Court. The date was set yesterday, at the request of Mr. Becker's San Francisco attorney, J. W.

(Jake) Ehrlich, while the druggist remained in county jail. Although 2 unidentified San Francisco friends were reported to have raised money for his bail bond, John Fant, owner of the Northern California Bail Bond Agency, said that he still was awaiting instructions to secure Mr. Becker's release. MR. BECKER, operator of Sonoma Prescription 214 Napa was arrested Tuesday night by Sonoma police, on the complaint 25-year-old William Leung, San Francisco cab-driver.

The acts were committed gainst Mr. Leung's wife, Tillie, S3 according to a complaint most emand are wholesaling 5ret vf dcTen' That is 3 to 4 cents above Los There were 4 develooments yesterday in the fight to secure better across San Francisco Bay for the Redwood Empire. 1. A majority of the San Fran cisco of Supervisors went on rec- ord as favoring state control, op- eration and responsibility for the Golden Gate bridge. 2.

At Petaluma, Charles Rein-king, a Santa Rosa director of the Golden Gate" Bridge District, He was speaking to the Petaluma Rotary Club at a luncheon meeting. 3. At Sacramento, Assembly man Richard McCollister (R. trn 0 nosed Marin-Richmond bridge and co-nrdinatin the nroiect th PoW nbn wi give the California Toll jsnoge Auxnoruy power axaaj and when disaster strikes, the said tnat 18 not conceivable farmers have the will, equipment that directors will permit the and ingenuity to take care of state to bridge over un-themselves! less it (the state) supplies the money to retire uncallable bonds. LAKE SUCCESS, Jan.

11 (AP) The United States accepted today a new U.N. cease-fire plan for Korea calling for a conference on all Far Eastern problems by the U. S.f Russia, Britain and Red China as soon as the Korean fighting stops. Chief U. S.

Delegate Warren R. Austin okayed the plan shortly after its 5 points were outlined to the U.N. Assembly's Political Committee by Canadian Foreign Minister Lester B. Pearson, member of the 3-man UJ. ceasefire committee.

Britain, France, India, Norway, Israel and Turkey also accepted the suggestions. But Russia said they must be studied fully. SOVIET Delegate Jacob A. Malik declared that there was "nothing new in the substance of the proposals," that they sounded "like an ultimatum' and declared that it could not serve as a basis for peace." He asserted that his "first impression" was that the wording of the plan "is deliberately foggy to maka pos Britisfy Register At Hong Kong HONG KONG. FViHav Ian 1 1 (UP) The Hnn? Vnnf mVAm.

ment today orders thA immoHi. ie registration or ail British subjects in this crown colonv for "possible conscriDtion in view of tne deteriorating world situa-.

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