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VOL. 151, NO. 10 CHILLICOTHE, OHIO, THURSDAY EVENING, JANUARY 11, 1951 20 PAGES 5 CENTS ALLIES CLING TO WONJU SALIENT Youth Dies in Crash Rte. 3 Driver Hits Truck in Passing 2 Cars Charles Johnson, 18, Victim of 6:30 a.m. Tragedy on Route 50 Killed instantly in a wreck 2.4 miles west of here on Route 50 at 6:30 a.

m. Thursday, involving three cars and a coal truck, was Charles T. Johnson, 18-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Marion Johnson, Route 3.

He was an employe of the Ross County Nursery, 512 Buckeye street. State highway patrolmen reported the youth's car crashed almost head on into the coal truck while he was attempting to pass two other vehicles. Coroner R. E. Oliver said he died of a skull fracture and internal injuries.

On Clear Stretch The accident occurred on clear stretch of road, east of the junction with the Anderson station road, Other motorists involved gave the following version of the mishap: Young Johnson, driving east, was attempting to pass cars driven by Myron H. Cottrill, 23, and Huey McComis, 49, both of Route 3. As he did so he crashed into the left front end of a westbound coal truck driven by James Calhoun, 34, of Greenfield. Truck Upsets The truck traveled a short distance and then overturned on the left side, scattering coal over the road. Mr.

Calhoun escaped hurst but the truck was damaged heavily. The Johnson car then skidded on the right side of the around. was struck by the McComis car and knocked backwards into the ditch on the south side. Mr. Cottrill's auto rammed the back of the McComis car.

State patrolmen learned that young Johnson had bought the automobile, a 1934 Ford sedan, only Wednesday evening from William L. Sharenberg, Route 3, a fellow employe at the Ross County Nursery. The car title had not been transferred to his name yet. The youth's body, found lying beside his demolished car, was taken by Ware's ambulance to Chillicothe hospital where it was viewed by Coroner Oliver. Arrangements are being made by H.

D. Smith funeral home at Bainbridge. Funeral-Bound Couple Shaken In Auto Upset CLARKSBURG En route to attend a funeral here Wednesday afternoon, Mr. and Mrs. John B.

Wakefield of Cincinnati suffered shock when their car skidded off icy Route 277, a mile north, and upset in a field near the George Conner residence. The Wakefields were brought to the A. W. Skinner home just as funeral service for Miss Charlotte Skinner was about to close. 1 They were attended there by Dr.

F. W. Taylor. Miss Skinner was a cousin of Mr. Wakefield.

The Cincinnatians were removed to their home later by Richard Kirkpatrick of New Holland. 11 Bail Out As C-47 Falls ALBUQUERQUE, Jan. 11 (P)- A crippled, twin-engined C-47 crashed and burned near Alquerque last night but all 11 people aboard parachuted to safety. Seven were injured. Ground search parties found the three crewmen and eight passengers clustered around fires in a rugged, barren area about 30 miles west of Albuquerque.

Early today, the searchers brought them to Albuquerque where the seven injured were taken to hospitals. The men, all military personnel, including at least one lieutenant colonel and a navy man, bailed out after one engine failed. Labor Wants Long Range Pay- Plan U. Controls Appear Unlikely for Some Weeks, at Least WASHINGTON, Jan. 11 (AP) Major labor leaders said today the government must mould a wage-price policy flexible enough to work for a decade.

They gave that appraisal to the Wage Stabilization Board, an arm of the Economic Stabilization Agency (ESA) which announced last night it will not now put into effect a temporary 30-day freeze on prices and wages. Situation Up In Air That left the controls situation as indefinite as it was a week or so ago before ESA began giving serious study to the wisdom of applying an immediate interim freeze in advance of more permanent controls. The appeal for a long-range policy came from spokesmen for the AFL, CIO, machinists and railroad unions, joining in testimony as the United Labor Policy Committee (ULPC). They said the present emergency a stretch on indefinitely, and we're not planning for a erm situation." Lewis Against Controls The group represented all major elements of the organized labor movement except John L. Lewis.

United Mine Workers (UMW) chief, who was heard separately by the wage board yesterday. He advised against any kind of wage or price controls. The other labor officials today accepted the theory that there must be some kind of stabilization program--although they did not attempt to tell the board what kind of formula to adopt. They made these general points in a prepared statement: 1. There can 1 be no wage controls without an all-out program of price stabilization, taxation to combat inflation through excess profits and higher individual taxes.

2. Wage stabilization is a supplement to collective bargaining, not a substitute for it. Actual adjustment of inequities under a wage control program must be left to bargaining, they said. 3. The wage board, headed by Cyrus S.

Ching, must have real authority to make decisions. "It can't be an adviser to an assistant to Mr. Wilson," they (Please Turn to Page 2, Col. 1) Futile Search Of Divorcee's Property Made WASHINGTON C. Jan.

11-(P)-Sheriff Orland Hays today made a futile search over the 12-acre property of Mrs. Minerva Braddock, 32-year-old divorcee missing since Dec. 17. He found no clue to indicate whereabouts. Mrs.

who lived alone in a five-room, Spanish-type bungalow, two miles northeast of here on Route 3, was last seen at 10:30 p. m. Dec. 17 as she was backing her car out of the driveway. The automobile, with 800 miles added to the speedometer, was found at 5 p.

m. the following day in Cleveland. Sheriff Hays still insists she was slain. Her assailant, he believes, grabbed her as she backed out of the driveway. She was leaving for Columbus and carried $1,000 in traveler's checks, considerable cash and two diamond rings.

Mrs. Braddock was last seen by William Allen, a Fayette county farmer and girlhood friend. He had taken her home from a party and placed her suitcase in her car. He said she was leaving as he drove away. Charles S.

Hire, attorney for Mrs. Braddock, accompanied Sheriff Hays to the house where the woman lived alone. He brought into the city for safekeeping about $1,000 worth of Christmas presents, which she had planned to deliver; a television set and silverware. The sheriff spent an hour and half in searching the grounds, most of it creek bottomland covered with blue glass. I Truman to Consult Congress Before Sending Troops to Europe, Says Sen.

Connally WASHINGTON, Jan. day he understands that the Congress" on the question of The Texas Democrat, relations committee, declared United States must join its Priests Are Forbidden to Join Rotary VATICAN CITY, Jan. '11 (AP) Pope Pius XII has forbidden Catholic clergymen to join Rotary clubs or attend their meetings. A decree of the Supreme Sacred Congregation of the Holy Office--one of 11 congregations that govern Catholic church affairs--was published today in the Vatican newspaper, L'Osservatore Romano, giving that directive. The Pope is the prefect of the congregation.

The decree advised laymen against joining Rotary clubs, but The Rev. F. J. Kreuskamp, pastor of St. Peter's Catholic church, has been a member of Chillicothe Rotary club for years.

He said Thursday he had no knowledge of the decree. did not expressly forbid them from doing so, Vatican sources said. The decree, printed in Latin, was drawn up at the Dec. 20 meeting of the congregation in answer to queries on the subject. It said clergymen could not join the organization or attend its meetings.

Laymen, it added should be exhorted to follow the dispositions of Canon Law Number 684, insofar as Rotary is concerned. The church law to which laymen are referred by the decree states: "Those faithful (members of the Catholic church) are worthy of praise who give their names to associations promoted the church, or, at least, recommended by it. They (the faithful) should guard themselves, however, from secret associations (which are) condemned, seditious or suspected, or that seek to draw away from the legitimate vigilance of the church. Columbus Vies For Sesqui Stamp Honor Chillicothe and Columbus are vying for the honor of being designated the city of issue for the Ohio sesquicentennial commemorative postage stamp which it is hoped to issue on March 1, 1953. Robert D.

West, a member of the state committee on the stamp project, Wednesday night reported to the Chillicothe Philatelic society on a meeting of his committee held last week in Columbus. The society met Wednesday night the council chamber of city hall. Mr. West said that designs are under consideration, and that he, together with several other persons, has been invited to present new drawings. The committee, with Erwin Zepp, executive secretary of the state sequi commission, is encouraging the use of slogan cancellations during the coming months preceding the sesqui celebration, and the local club was urged to continue issuance of special, cachets.

These been issued from time to time with designs by Mr. West. Each commemorates some historic event which preceded the founding of the state Ohio in 1803. At Wednesday's club meeting, about 25 members viewed motion picture films depicting the engraving method in the production of Swiss postage stamps. Plans were furthered for participation in the Central Ohio stamp exhibit to be held in the Southern hotel, Columbus, Feb.

24-25, and at least ten frames from the local club are assured. BAN RUBBER HOARDING WASHINGTON, Jan. 11-P- The government made it unlawful today to hoard supplies of natural and synthetic rubber, 100,000 Reds Massing on Central Front 11-(AP)-Sen. Connally said toadministration "will consult with sending U. S.

troops to Europe. chairman of the Senate foreign at the same time that the Western European allies in a swift effort to build up strength to deter Soviet aggression. He took sharp issue with Sen. Taft (R-Ohio) and others who have cautioned against sending additional American troops to Europe. Taft has argued that this ought to have prior approval of Congress and has contended also that Mr.

Truman usurped authority in dispatching U. S. forces to Korea. Connally said he was confident "that the executive branch will consult with Congress on troop commitments to the integrated European defense now being mobilized." "Indeed," he added, "it is my understanding that administration leaders plan to do so." Connally's remarks were in speech prepared for Senate delivery. In arguing for bold action, he said: "We can not seriously entertain a policy of limited, halfhearted participation in the detense of that area even though it has the appeal of being economical." To do so, he declared, "would be a cosmic example of being penny-wise and pound foolish." In another speech, prepared for Senate delivery, Sen.

Knowland (R-Calif) urged a six-to-one ratio of foreign to American troops in a North Atlantic defense force to resist any Soviet aggression. Knowland said it was vital Western Europe not be allowed to fall into communist hands, but he held that the bulk of the defensive land forces Should be furnished by the Europeans themselves. "It war comes," he said, "we must then do with our air, sea and land forces what the strategic necessities require in support of our commitments. We will not let our allies down nor must they let us down." U.S., Red China Talks Urged by British Nations LONDON, Jan. 11 (P)Informed sources reported today the British Commonwealth nations have proposed a high level meeting between the United States and Red China to discuss a Korean settlement.

The proposed get-toge the would be under United Nations auspices, the informants said. Neither the United States nor Red China has so far reacted to the suggestion. The new move apparently has the support of the leaders of all nine British Commonwealth nations who have been discussing the tense situation in the Orient and in the rest of the world in a conference which began here last Thursday. Few details of the proposal were available, but its immediate objectives were clear. It would seek formulation in the United Nations of a new cease-fire resolution which might prove unacceptable to either the U.

S. or Red China. It would seek to defer offering of a projected U. S. resolution to have the U.

N. brand communist China an aggressor. Debenture Sale OK'd Chillicothe Telephone Co. has been authorized by the public utilities commission of Ohio to issue 20-year per cent debentures in the amount of $550,000. The order was dated Jan.

9. of the total amount, $219,500 will be used to retire outstanding 5 per cent debentures. The balance will be sold for cash to residents of Ohio. The 5 per cent debentures may be exchanged for the new per cent debentures to residents of Ohio, at their request. The commission found that the Chillicothe Telephone Co.

had invested in the last years from its treasury $536,000 in plant construction. From the proceeds of the present debenture issue, 500 may be used to replace that amount in the treasury. The debentures will all be in $500 denominations, U. French, Dutch Kill 2,100 During Seven-Hour Battle First Ross county traffic fatality of 1951 was Charles Theodore wreckage on Route 50 near the Anderson Station road, Thursday Porter.) Two Sentenced to Prisons After Admitting Burglaries Two terms, one in the tentiary, were imposed by Judge morning, when prisoners were three pleading innocence. Pleas Admitting a charge of breaking and entering the Ivan Hyer elevator at Austin, Nov.

21, an event in a series that involved several other entries or attemted entries in western Ross county and theft of a car from Greenfield, Estell Poole, 23, of the Lyndon George Salem Purdum, 20, community of Greenfield, were sentenced. Poole was given a term of 1-15 years in the Mansfield reformatory. Purdum, who is on parole from the reformatory was sentenced to: 1-15 year term in the Ohio State penitentiary. Spurns Legal Help Poole was represented by his appointed attorney, James Cutright, while Purdum refused the services of an attorney, telling the judge he wished to enter a plea of guilty. A new turn was taken in the case of John Stewart, of Co- Parole Officer Goes to Pentagon Leighton Dudley, since April, 1948, a parole officer at the Federal reformatory, is to report Jan.

15 to Wright-Patterson air base, preliminary to assignment to the air corrections division of the provost marshal's office in the Pentagon rank of major. Mr. Dudley, who joined the coast artillery in 1940, served nearly six years in the army, the last year being surplus property disposal officer at the Iceland base command. He was released as a major. A native of Houlton, his college work was interrupted by the war, but he received his degree from Harvard law school in 1947.

He is a member of the Maine bar. His wife, the former Ora Kate Wisenbaker of Valdosta, was for two years associated with the Gazette advertising department. She and their infant daughter, Anne Burton, will continue to reside at 57 East Second street: until living quarters are obtained lat Washington. reformatory and another in the peniHoward Goldsberry, Thursday arraigned, eight pleading guilty, in other cases were deferred. lumbus, who was 17 last Nov.

3, when his appointed attorney, David Barrett, entered a plea of guilty to an indictment charging grand larceny of property valued at $43.52 from Leslie Harrell. The court upon the defendant's age discontinued proceedings and transferred the case to the court of Juvenile Judge Kenneth T. Stevens. It was explained by Prosecutor John S. Philips that the defendant had claimed he was 18.

The alleged offense took place on Sept. 29. Harvey Houser, 46, Frankfort, charged with embezzlement of $1,013 in township funds between June 1, 1948 and July 31, 1950, while serving as township clerk, entered a plea of guilty through his employed attorney, John Bliss. Mr. Bliss said the shortage developed from carelessness on the part of Mr.

Houser who has been a respected citizen of Frankfort. He also pointed out that Mr. Houser, after realizing his offense has repaid $624.78 on the shortage from funds raised from his insurance policies. Prosecutor Philips explained that most of the money was obtained from the sale of cemetery lots controlled by the township with some of the money coming from rent paid by a tenant liviing in township property. Judge Goldsberry upon recommendations of Mr.

Houser's attorney and with no opposition from the state's attorney, placed Mr. Houser on probation for a year. Among the stipulations, he must make restitution of the remainder of the money and pay the costs in the case. Admits Car Theft Also placed on probation for a year was Orville Jones, 34, of Pomeroy, who pleaded guilty to a charge of theft of a car from Ray Griesheimer on the night of Nov. 8.

He was represented by his appointed attorney, Byron Blair, who said the defendant had never been in trouble previously. Plea for a reduction from $1000 to $500 pending later plea was opposed conditionally by Prosecutor John S. Philips, in the case of Woodrow Browning of Circleville, indicted on a charge of acting in a way tending to cause delinquency in a minor. The request for reduction of bond was made by Mr. Browning's hired attorney, L.

M. Day, who said that this amount could be met and the man could return to work. Prosecutor Phillips stated that he would agree to such a reduction providing arrangements are made to have a stepdaughter removed from the Browning home. Judge Goldsberry state that when the child is removed to other quarters the bond will be reduced. Franklin Brown, charged with manslaughter in the second degree.

in connection with the traf- (Please Turn to Page 2, Col. 3). 30S TVOIEOISIH BIVIS 7 Johnson, 18, Route 7, shown in morning. (Gazette photo by Presbyterians Elect Kear As Treasurer O. G.

Kear was elected treasurer, succeeding the late Albert Breinig, and elders, deacons and trustees also were chosen as First Presbyterian church held its annual congregational and corporation meetings Wednesday night. A tribute of silent prayer was accorded the memory of Mr. Breinig. Trustees named for three years, in the corporation session over which W. H.

Herrnstein, vice president of the board of trustees, presided, were W. A. Thomas, Fred R. Keeler and Robert Lapp. In the congregational meeting, M.

B. Hendrickson, George Fayard, Dr. Ranald Wolfe and Robert Bergman were elected elders to serve on the session for three years, and Matthew Borland Walter H. Hall, Claude Vester and Howard Schmitt were elected deacons under three-year terms. Reports Given Reports were given by the moderator and pastor, the Rev.

Harold B. Weir; Frank Simpson, for the session, and Mrs. G. C. Givens, financial secretary.

Reports for organizations were made as follows: Westminster Senior-Hi fellowship, Virginia Lee Cory; JuniorHi fellowship, Jerry Bangle; Cub Pack 5, Harold Barber; Boy Scouts, Robert Powell, who reported that the troop had doubled in size; Old Rock Guild, Mrs. J. I. Vanmeter, who announced that the annual bazaar will be held on Jan. 31; Presby-Weds, W.

A. Thomas, and Presby-Mates, Don H. Placier. Work Relief Strikers Cut From Rolls CIRCLEVILLE Eight Pickaway county families have been cut off from further relief aid after county relief authorities reported a refusal to work Wednesday morning. Six other families face possible similar action.

The 14 men, eight receiving regular county work relief and six on the county soldiers' relief program, had assigned to work on county roads under the supervision of the county highway department. According to County Engineer Henry T. McCrady, the men were sent out to cut brush and weeds but they raised objections, claiming the snow was too deep for grubbing, work. They were taken to another area but still complained of deep snow. Families of the 14 men total 47 persons.

Work reliefers receive orders for groceries, coal or rent in return for the work they perform. HERMANN'S SHOE SALE Broken lots of ladies' shoes, $4.95, $6.95, $7.95 -adv. IVOI50TO OIHO CHI the Clyde TOKYO, Jan. 11-(AP)American, French and Dutch troops clung stubbornly tonight to a salient on the critical central Korean front in the face of 100,000 Reds massing in the Wonju area. United Nations positions were stabilized amid a crackling of small-arms fire two miles south of the wrecked and empty town Wonju, which is 55 miles southeast of Seoul.

Except for the sporadic fire the front was quiet after a 7- hour battle in which 2,100 Korean Reds were estimated killed or wounded. Abandoned Monday The allies abandoned Wonju Monday. On Wednesday, a tankled patrol of the U. S. 2nd division pushed back into the town from the southeast.

Finding no Reds there, the patrol looked around for a while, then voluntarily withdrew towards the overlooking hills in the south. South, on the road towards Chongju, the company-sized patrol was jumped by more than 7,000 North oreans. At one stage the Americans fixed bayonets and charged. After other allied forces reinforced the patrol, the Reds broke off the battle Wednesday night. The greatest menace to allied arms was shaping up in a 50-mile stretch between Chungju and Red-held Osan in western Korea.

Big Army on Move Chinese and Korean Red forces estimated at 285,000 were in the area or moving toward it in an apparent bid to cut off the main forces of the U. S. 8th army on the road south of abandoned Seoul. that area roads fan out through the hills, affording many avenues of approach to the allied forces. AP Correspondent John Randolph said the Chinese evidently hope to force the 8th army to accept battle in the rough country suitable for swarms of nightfighting Red infantrymen.

Six Chinese armies were in the general western area, south of Seoul, and seven armies were north and west of Wonju. This force included wiry Mongolian cavalrymen. Intelligence officers said 500 Chinese planes and 200 tanks are available to back the push, Another hint that the Reds may be about to challenge allied mastery of the Korean skies came in far North Korea. Fifteen Russian-made MIG-15 jet fighters attacked a B-29 Superfortress as it lagged behind a formation because of engine trouble. Takes Cover in Clouds The B-29 took cover in a cloud bank but its gunners reported the possible kill of one Red jet.

The bombers had dumped more than 100 tons of explosives on the airfield at Pyongyang, Korean Red capital, and other cities in North Korea. Except for the bombing raids and few attacks sorties, allied warplanes had been grounded for two days because of snow and rain. But fighters returned to the fray Thursday and caught hundreds of Reds in the Ten navy planes dived through a hole in the clouds and plastered Red troops on the Wonju front. U. S.

5th Air Force fighters fanned out against enemy troops and supplies in the Seoul area. Overall Picture Grim The blistering local defeat handed the Reds three to four miles south of Wonju was heart(Please Turn to Page 2, Col. 1) Put Your 'For Rent' Sign in the Want Ads SLEEPING ROOM furnished with kitchen privileges. Dial 28-231. Mrs.

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