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151, NO. 15 CHILLICOTHE, OHIO, WEDNESDAY EVENING. JANUARY 17, 1951 12 PAGES 5 CENTS Ml t-r Cease-Fire U. S. Escapee French Chief Slates Talks Flames Sweep Old Troopship, Baltimore Pier I I I p4 Rollback to Jan.

Revels Is Expected ESA Chief Reported Rushing Machinery To Carry Out Order WASHINGTON, Jan. 17 (AP) The government will order a general i price and wage freeze within the next five or six days, a high-level government source reported today, A roll-back of prices to Jan. 1 levels is under consideration, this official said. The decision was attributed to Charles E. Wilson, director of the Office of Defense Mobilization.

He reportedly is convinced that neither voluntary nor piece-meal controls can stem the inflationary surge. Economic Stabilization Administrator Alan Valentine was reported ready to carry out the across-the-board ceiling orders, Two-Day Gifts Of Blood Here Total 214 Pints 105 Pts. Collected Tuesday, Second Day Of Red Cross Drive Ross county had completed its January giving of blood to the armed forces and civilian hospitals Wednesday and the total was 214 pints. A total of 105 pints was contributed Tuesday as the Red Cross mobile staff wound up its two-day visit. The total Monday was 109 pints.

F. Zellers, Red Cross blood program chairman, expressed gratitude to those who assisted in recruiting donors. Though above the minimum quota, the total was not up to hopes of Red Cross officials who had wished for 240 to 250 pints for the two days. The next call for blood will be Feb. 14-15.

Industries Set Face Chillicothe industries, as usual, furnished a majority of the blood donors Monday and Tuesday. The total was 110 and by plants was TACU 11; Chillicothe Paper Co. 20; Mead Corporation 42; U. S. Shoe Corporation 31; B.

O. Seven Also Hurt in Multi-Million Dollar Waterfront Blaze BALTIMORE, Jan. 17. (AP) Wind-fanned flames swept down a pier in Baltimore's south harbor last night, spread to a historic old troopship and left it a listing hulk "good for nothing but scrap." The ship, decommissioned in 1947, was the transport George Washington which carried Presi dent Woodrow Wilson to and from Europe for the Versailles peace conference in 1919. Placed back in service in 1941 at a cost of $8,000,000, a similar vessel couldn't be built now for less than 25 or 30 million dollars, according to officials of Bethlehem Steel shipyards and the maritime commission here.

Seven Injured One Coast Guardsman and six firemen were hurt while battling the 10-alarm blaze. Only the serviceman was reported seriously injured. He was guardsman Robert Long, 17, who plunged from the upper deck of the Coast Guard cutter Chinook while manning a fire hose. He was in Marine hospital today under observation for a possible brain hemorrhage. A blazing tug was abandoned to sink near the iniuzbrgerp.ft to sink near the burning pier, and two barges and a huge pile-driving derrick being used in the building of Maryland's Chesapeake Bay bridge were damaged.

Nightgoing Boat Scorched The Gen. Edmund Alcxan- der, another decommissioned troopship tied alongside the George es a with only a scorched port side Even before the flames were out, the Army and FBI announ ced they were beginning immediate investigations. They said nothing to indicate sabotage was suspected. Neither would they speculate the costly blaze could be connected with mysterious fires discovered a few days ago about an hour apart cn two other Baltimore piers. These piers were only about a block apart.

The fires were extinguished before serious damage was done. The George Washington housed offices of the maritime administration, the agency in charge of the reserve maritime fleet. All the agency's records on board were reported destroyed. Six administration officials were on board the ship when the pier fire was discovered by two guards. The six, including Capt.

M. Kaminski, superintendent of the maritime reserve fleet, tried to free the Washington from the pier but were driven back by the quickly spreading flames. They were rescued from the extreme end of the pier by a quick-acting coast guard boat crew a few minutes before the flames swept the length of the pier. The guards discovered flames shifting out of a small shack on tho pier about 4 p. m.

Bid Rejected By Peiping TOKYO, Thursday, (AP) Peiping radio said to day the Chinese communist regime had rejected the latest United Nations Korean ceasefire proposal. It said the U. N. five-point proposals for peace in Korea and other Far Eastern issues was "impossible." The broadcast in Chinese was monitored here by the Japanese Kyodo news agency. Allies Cling To Outposts In West Korea TOKYO, Jan.

17. Allied tank-infantry raider teams held firmly today to three western Korean outposts within striking range of 120,000 Chinese Red troops. The scouting forces are on the third, day of a mission to test enemy strength south of Seoul. They ran into their toughest fight Tuesday at Suwon. The U.

S. Army chief of staff, Gen. J. Lawton Collins, watched Allied tanks, troops and war- planes rout a 1,000 man Red garrison force there. Suwon is 17 air miles south of Seoul and closer still to the massing area of three Chinese armies south of the Han river and the old Korean capital.

Strafe Fleeing Reds The Allied raiders swept into Suwon and with Allied war-planes strafing the fleeing Reds inflicted 500 casualties in an hour-long skirmish. On the central front, a spokes man said Allied forces still occupied Yongwol, 30 miles southeast of Wonwu. Collins saw the Suwon fight on his tour of Korean battlefronts. He and Gen. Hoyt S.

Vandcnberg, U. S. Air Forces chief of staff, left for Washington Wednesday night after their battlefront tours and conferences here with Gen. MacArlhur. Vandenberg told a Tokyo news conference Allied air power aimed to hit the Reds and their sup ply lines around the clock.

The air general, just back from Korea, said the day and night air raids are making it difficult for the Reds to move supplies to the front over lengthening lines of communication. Their supply problem will get tougher as the communists move farther south, Vandenberg said. But he said there was one draw back: "The airplane is an inefficient weapon against the individual soldier." Communist troops can move south along mountain trails or at widely spaced inter vals on main roads. Top Brass Visits Front Two other Washington Penta gon generals visited the front Wednesday. They are Lt.

Gen. Walter Bedell Smith, central in telligence agency chief, and Maj. Gen. Alexander R. Boiling, U.

S. Army intelligence head. All four arrived in Tokyo Sun day for high-level conferences and on-the-spot views of the Korean war. PARKERSBURG, W. Jan.

17 UP) Mrs. Richard Butter- more, daughter of Dr. Gordon Seagrave, famed "Burma sur geon convicted or treason in Rangoon, said today she was "deeply shocked" at the verdict Two of the doctor's three sons are students at McDonogh school near Baltimore, and his wife is there with them. Another son is in training as a navy pilot at Corpus Christy Tex. Mrs.

Buttermore, the wife of a Parkersburg jeweler, said that none of her family had been in direct communication with Dr. Seagrave since his arrest last August Their only word from him has come through friends in i Burma who have visited him. 1 Mrs. Buttermore said Caught, Free Only an Hour Alabaman Captured With Stolen Auto At Washington C. H.

Freedom was short lived for a Federal reformatory fugitive who was captured by Washington C. H. police at 3 m. Tuesday, approximately an hour after he fled here, using a stolen car, for his get away. Warden L.

Clark Schilder said that Mallette E. Davis, 23, Birmingham, sneaked aboard a freight laden truck and hid between tightly packed cartons just as the vehicle was preparing to leave the compound at 2 p. m. Seen In Flight He jumped from the truck when it stopped for a traffic light at High street and Allen avenue at about 2:10 p. m.

A guard saw him running from the truck and alerted reformatory and police authorities. Five minutes later -city officers were notified by Lloyd DeBord of 314 Park street that his car had been stolen from in front of his house. State patrolmen sent out a state-wide alarm, which resulted in the escapee's apprehension in Fayette county. The warden said Davis was sentenced on Jan. 20, 1950, in Cincinnati for transporting a stolen car across a state line and would have been eligible for parole on Aug.

28. Historical Society to Elect Trustees Members of the Ross County Historical society will conduct their annual meeting at 7:30 p. m. Thursday at the historical museum on West Fifth street to elect trustees for 1951. In connection with "National Printing Week" (Jan.

14-20) historical material received by the museum during last year will be on display, featuring Dard Hunter's latest book from his private press at the Mountain House, "Paper Making By Hand In America." Also in observance of "Printing" week, so-named because Benjamin Franklin's birthday falls in this week, a rare Pennsylvania German catechism will be shown. It was published in Philadelphia by Franklin in 1742 when he was 36 years old. The public may view the displays at the museum during the rest of the month from 1 p. m. to 5 p.

m. daily, except Wednesday. Month Ahead To Be Warmer WASHINGTON, Jan. 17 UB The weather bureau predicted today that most of the country will enjoy warmer-than-seasonal weather during the nex 30 days. It said: "The weather bureau's 30-day outlook for the period from mid-January to mid-February indi cates that temperatures will average above seasonal normals over most of the country with greatest departures occurring in the Gulf states and lower Mississippi valley.

In the northwest temperatures are expected to average not far from seasonal normals. "Precipitation is expected to equal or exceed normal values over the mid-west, the northeast and west of the continental divide but subnormal amounts are predicted for the southwest and the western plains." Wilmingtonians Freed As Draft Violators CINCINNATI, Jan. 17 The government today dismissed charges of failure to register for the peacetime draft against Douglas Parker and William E. Probasco, both of Wilmington. V.

S. Attorney Joseph Bullock, who asked dismissal of the charges, said both men were registered in open court on March 6, 1949 and that, therefore, the indictment against them no long- With Truman WASHINGTON, Jan. 17 (AP) Premier Rene Pleven of France will come to Washington Jan. 29 for a two-day policy conference with President Truman. Announcing this today, the state department said Pleven suggested the conference and Mr.

Truman welcomed him to confer on "important questions of mutual interest." Informed government officials said Pleven wants to discuss cold war strategy, particularly the problems of French Indo-China and Western European rearmament. Presumably, too, the agenda will include discussion of the atomic bomb. f. During similar talks with British Prime Minister Attlee early in December, Mr. Truman promised to keep Britain "at all times informed" before he would make a decision to use the atomic bomb.

Surprise Call The announcement of Pleven's forthcoming visit came as a surprise even to the French embassy here. Such a visit had been rumored two weeks ago but American and French officials said they knew of no such plans. American officials said that the Truman-Pleven talks probably will be sweeping in scope, probably including these points; 1. France's desire for more American military supplies to the French and loyal Indo-Chinese forces who are battling communist-led guerrillas. Secretary of Defense Marshall already has assigned these shipments a priority second only to those going to Korea.

2. Flans for boosting arms production in France so as to make it possible for the French to create 20 new army divisions in Europe by the end of 1953. France already has been promised the biggest share by the $5,000,000,000 fund the U. S. has set aside to arm a score of friendly countries.

3. Closer French-American controls over strategic exports to Eastern Europe and communist China. The state department has sent several sharp protests to the French recently over plans of French companies to ship 139,000 tons of steel rails to communist China. France has barred French companies from accepting such orders in the future but has taken the position it can't interfere with contracts made some time ago. 4.

Steps to allocate raw ma terials needed by France for military output and its civilian needs and control their prices. The French have been concerned that scarce materials either would not be available or would be so expensive as to make the cost of rearmament prohibitive. 5. A new Big Four foreign ministers meeting. The French have been pressing for such a conference with the Russians but the U.

S. has been reluctant to assent until it had a more definite Idea what Moscow wants to talk about. 6. France's future attitude toward recognition of communist China. Thus far France has not recognized the Peiping regime but there has been speculation from Paris she might do so.

France's President Vincent Auroii also is planning a visit to the United States. Accompanied by Mme. Auroii, he will make a goodwill trip as a guest of President Truman, probably during the week of March 28-April 3. 16 Medics On Draft List Sixteen physicians, nine dentists and three veterinarians from Chillicothe and Ross county registered at the local selective service office Monday. One physician and one dentist signed up Oct.

16 when the last registration was held, making a total of 17 doctors, 10 dentists and three veterinarians who have reported to the draft office here. Otis J. Story, Ross county selective service chairman, said those who failed to register may still df so, if they report to the office before Saturday. The special registration was arranged Monday for all physicians, dentists and veterinarians of under 50 years who are in doubt as to their draft status. Wheeler V.

Davis Jefferson Trustee Heads County Group Wheeler V. Davis, Jefferson township trustee, farmer and World War II veteran of the Rich mortd Dale community, is the new president of the Ross County Township Trustees and Clerks association, following an organiza tion meeting of the group in pro. bate courtroom. Vice president of the group last year, Mr. Davis Pearl Thatcher, Scioto township clerk, who held the post for 11 succes sive years.

Other new officers are Carmi V. Jones of Springfield town ship, vice president; and George A. Bauer, Springfield township secretary-treasurer. Mr. Jones also was elected to membership on the executive committee.

The group discussed plans for the annual fish fry, and a cam paign to double the present roll of 32 members. There are 64 potential The organization will continue its program of co-operation with county and state legislative bodies for the betterment of lh various townships of the Mr. Davis left Wednesday for Columbus to attend the annual state association meeting. He attended the noon luncheon meeting for county representatives in the Hall of Mirrors at the Desh-ler-Wallick hotel, and was to attend the dinner meeting of county presidents at the hotel, Wednesday evening. Regular sessions of the association will be conducted Thursday and Friday.

Ex-Cage Stars Accused of Laying Down NEW YORK, Jan. 17 WP Two members of last year's Manhattan college basketball team and three other men were arrested today on charges of bribery and conspiracy. Assistant District Attorney Edward F. Breslin of the Bronx said the five were accused of throwing Manhattan college basketball games last year. He identified the former players as Henry E.

Poppe, 24, and John A. Byrnes, 22, who were co-captains of the team. Poppe was a guard and Byrnes a forward. Breslin said they dumped several games and each received a total of $5,000. The men arrested with the players were Irving Schwartz-berg, 36; his brother Benjamin, 35, and Cornelius Kelleher, 35, all of New York.

Breslin said these three instigated the 'dumping" of the games. Manhattan won 13 and lost 11 games in the 1949-50 season. Breslin reported there had been an attempt to "fix" last night's basketball game between De Paul University and Manhattan college, and that the attempt led to discovery of "fixes" last year. Manhattan won last night's game, to 59 in an upset De Paul had entered the game as a favorite. Breslin told this story: Poppe last Thursday night went to the college room of Jul ius Kellogg, 23, Negro center of this year's Manhattan team and told him he could make $1,000 by "dumping" last night's game.

Kellogg spurned the offer and reported the conversation to college officials wha notified police. LET TANK CONTRACT DETROIT. Jan. 17 The armv announced award of a new I $106,000,000 lank contract to Gen- Sgt. Ernest A.

Willis Ross Sergeant Listed Missing Since Nov. 30 i Sgt. Ernest A. Willis, 33, son of Mrs. Mary E.

Mayo of 177 Woodbridge avenue, has been missing in action in Korea since Nov. 30, the department of defense reported Wednesday. A letter from Ma j. Gen. Edward Whitsell dated Jan.

12 said the sergeant had not been located since he was first unaccounted for and was presumed still miss ing. The last letter received by Mrs. Mayo from her son, bookkeeper attached to Co. 9th Infantry Regiment stationed in North Ko rea, said he was to be shipped back to this country on Nov. 27, three days before he was reported missing.

That was the last word received before the telegram from the department of defense. Enlisted in 1942 Ret. Willis enlisted in the Army Nov. 13, 1942 when he was 25. He received his basic training at Ft.

Benjamin Harrison, Ind. arid was sent to the South Pacific, where he served for nine and a half months. stationed at Lewis. when sent to Korea on July 17. His last furlough home was on May 18, 1949.

Twin High Grad He was born in Twin township on Oct. 18, 1917 and was graduated from Twin high school in 1936. He was employed at the Chillicothe hospital and was scoutmaster of Boy Scout Troop No. 126 at the First Baptist church prior to his enlistment. Besides his mother he has three brothers; Thomas L.

Mayo of 141 Woodbridge avenue, Oscar Lynch, Route 3, and Charles Mayo of 177 Woodbridge avenue; four sisters, Mrs. Nora Harding, Frankfort Rt. 1, Mrs. Elsie Beverly, 237 Locust street, Mrs. Grace Winfield of 144 Woodbridge avenue and Mrs Katherine Brown of Route 3.

Bricklayer Drops Dead Charles Mariner. 73, of 80 Bridge street, a bricklayer, died of a heart attack shortly after noon Wednesday while lifting a wheelbarrow out of his car in front of 634 Oneida road. The fire department's inhalator squad was summoned at 12:23 p. m. but reported the man dead on arrival.

Coroner R. E. Oliver ordered tee body removed to the Ware funeral home. Mr. Mariner, a Spanish American War veteran, was a candidate for the Republican nomination for sheriff in 1940.

A son. Robert Mariner, is serving a life term for the slaysbg of a Chillkothe divorcee in 1349. i. I Charles Mariner despite ESA's lack of.enforcement machinery and staff. There had been earlier predictions that price-wage controls would be applied whenever the ESA mustered a staff able to handle the regulations.

These predictions were bulwarked by the rise in food prices to the highest point in American history. The ESA has been making pro- gross toward gathering a staff to handle controls. Developments Itemized Here are key developments on the stabilization front: 1. ESA employes rose to 450, an increase of 100 in the last ten days. 2.

Work of opening field offices was rushed. ESA officials said the 13 regional offices will be "in business" by Feb, 1, some of lhcm earlier. And the regional offices will turn to the job of opening district offices as soon as possible. Max McCullough, former OPA deputy administrator, is organizing the field staff, 3. Industry leaders were being chosen rapidly to head ESA "commodity such ai foods, chemicals, consumer goods, and forest products.

ESA officials said these men will be ready to move into their jobs at a moment's notice. Retail Price Peak 4. The Bureau of Labor Statistics announced that the retail prices of 50 foods in eight large cities have hit a new peak. On Jan. 2, the average of those prices stood at 218.9 per cent of the 1935-1939 average.

During the two weeks, prior to Jan. 2, the price level had surpassed the former high of 216.8 on July 15, 1948. Ivy League Shuns Penn? PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 17 UP Ivy league football teams are avoiding Penn because of its anticipated 1952 football game with Notre Dame, says Penn President Harold E. Stassen.

Stassen yesterday confirmed a report by a New York sports columnist that the staid old Ivy league was turning its back on Penn after 1952. He admitted Penn is having schedule difficulties with its so called Ivy friends. Stassen officially blamed the Notre Dame game for the sudden chill. Unofficially he hinted strongly that Penn was being ignored by some of its oldest rivals because it had grown too strong on the field. Involved in the alleged boy cott are Yale, Harvard, Princeton, Dartmouth, Columbia and Brown.

Cornell is believed to have abstained from taking any action because of the big gate involved in its traditional game with Penn. A Proven Field! 7 FT. WESTINGHOUSE REFRIGERATOR: Made Clwf gM rane-. Both in Rood condition. Dial W52.

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Place the ad on low six day rates. Cancel when you get results. 4 5. A recapitulation of donors, prepared by Miss Esther Hess, Red Cross chapter executive secretary, showed 18 from government institutions, businesses 16; clubs and organizations 12; women's groups 15; churches li; PTA no preference 28; county groups 23. Physicians Assist Six members of the Ross County Medical academy assisted voluntarily in the blood collection Tuesday, conducted as usual in the basement of Walnut Street Methodist church.

They were: Dr. Daniel Toth, Dr. R. P. Giesler, Dr.

Charles Hoyt, Dr. F. W. Nusbaum, Dr. Nicholas Hi Holmes, Dr.

Har-aid M. Crumley. Others assisting in the work, all members of various Red Cross volunteer units were: Nurses' Aides, Mrs. Austin P. Story, Mrs.

Russell Cryder, Mrs. Alva Higley, Mrs. Troy Klepinger, Mrs. Robert Sauer and Mrs. Fred Woodhouse; Gray Ladies, Mrs.

Cecil Cox, Mrs. Fred Templin, Mrs. Dallas O'Dell, Mrs. Helen Smith, Mrs. Elmer Curry, Mrs.

E. A. Hoey, Mrs. L. G.

Knost; Staff Aides, Mrs. H. L. Worf and Mrs. David K.

Webb. Church Women Serve Members of the Wesley Weds class of Walnut Street Methodist church who served food included, Mrs. wight Binns, Mrs. James Bickel, Mrs. William Althouse, Mrs.

Reginald Payne, Mrs. W. A. River, Mrs. John Durbin, Mrs.

Percy Schrecker, Mrs. Fred Dean, Mrs. Dan McClain and Mrs. Walter Kramer. Persons who volunteered to give blood were listed as: Volunteers Listed Elwyn, Osborni Mrs.

Richard Warner, Harold O'Brien, Dr. W. M. Garrett, Mrs. Ray Conaway, Mrs.

Clinton Kimberling, Mrs. Mortimer Friedman, Mrs. Margaret Pollock, Paul R. Morton, Foreman Skinner, Cecil Paden, Garrett Dill, Beulah Osborne, Robert Hoselton, Harold Weid-auer, Paul Summers, Mrs. Mary Ellen Graves, Kelly Grogan, Joseph A.

Verica, Clarice Dinkier, Viola Chapman, Irene Bentz, Mrs. George D. Long Karl Filsing-er, William F. Ring, Paul Schrader, David Kern, Harry Walsh. Mrs.

William Maull, Mrs. Robert Faulkner, Alvin Arnold, Mrs. Scott McKell, Harry Landman, Mrs. Robert Keller, James Henry, Anna Katherine Nedostop, Robert Albrecht, Hen ry Reese, Blame Hupp, Patty Thompson, Gene Graham, Dr. Ranald Wolfe, Meraldine Clark, Ida Mae Harper, Donald Kegg, Lyle Fuller, Nolan Ross.

Mrs. Milton Lowery, Mrs. Charles Hunn, Charles Hunn, Charles Edgington, Mrs. C. W.

Edgington, Mrs. Lewis Miller, Miss Virginia "Edgington, Mrs. Sarah Kramer, Mrs. Evelyn Mc- Gee, Margaret Cook, Robert Kel- ley, W. P.

Mayer, Mrs. Mary Foy-nor. Howard DiehL Harold Anth ony, Richard Krick, Virginia Peterson, Mrs. Betty Wikle, Dr. Charles Hoyt, Mrs.

Mary Peterson, Dorothy Worf. Delma Martin, Wayne Cryder, Mrs. Katherine Proctor, Mrs. Dora Watkins, William Walters, Dr. F.

W. Nusbaum, Ralph Ratcliff, Mrs. Lucille W. H. Herrnstein Ray M.

Jackson. Mrs. Irene Grieshein.er. Mrs. Joanne Coates, Reuben C.

Shoemaker, Fred Pin-ncy, Richard V. Peer, Margaret (Pleatt Turn to Pagt 2, CoL 4) Dr. Seagrave, Famed Burma Surgeon, Is Judged Traitor RANGOON, Burma, Jan. 17 UP A Burma court today judged Dr. Gordon Seagrave, World War two's "Burma surgeon," guilty of high treason.

The 53-year-old American was sentenced to serve six of his remaining years in prison for aiding hill tribesmen rebelling 1 against the Burmese government. Seagrave's attorney said he would appeal the verdict and that he expected the appeal to be heard in about three weeks. Meanwhile the doctor was returned to jail. Around the world the doctor's arrest at his hospital in Namkham on Aug. 20 had shocked thousands of admirers of the famed surgeon, who was decorated by King George VI and the U.

S. government for his heroism during Gen. Joseph Stilwell's jungle retreat from Burma in 1942. Seagrave, who had spent more than 25 years giving medical aid to the Burmese people, was found guilty of aiding rebel Kachin tribesmen when their forces in 1949 raptured Namkham, near the Chinese-Burmese frontier. 1 er held good.

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