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Senators on Big Spot See Sports Pages "nAr Final Edition THE WEATHER Partly cloudy to cloudy this afternoon, tonight and Saturday. Some fog in outlying areas early Saturday morning. Low tonight 28. High Saturday 42. Low Saturday night 30.

Outlook for Sunday mostly cloudy, temperatures continuing above normal. HE 'Tin zl ME rmerly The Lake County Times Calumet, Region's Home Newspaper Vol. XLV No. 211 Call Sheffield 3100 Hammond, Indiana, Friday, February 23, 1951 AP. INS.

UP. CP, AP Wlra Photo 32 Pages Price 5 Cents HA! OJ I I fuMJ LfQJii UV I GJ Leaves Mud, Blood To See Ailing Father fj 1 rial Einstein's Brain Impulses 'Human Stream' Flees From Killer Offensive Allies Seize Pyongchang and Smash to Hills of Hoengsong TOKYO (UP) United Nations forces rammed seven milea deeper into communist territory in east-central Korea today and reported the communists were fleeing in a "human stream" from their new killer offensive. Spearheading American troops seized Pyongchang on the eastern end of the flaming Korean front and rolled on four mile 1 ff t) V) i 1 SI I If Hammond Times-Mercury PFC. BOBBY G. SCHRUM told about American Red Cross services by Mrs.

Daniel Enright during a visit to the Hammond chapter headquarters. By FORBES W. SCOTT Times Staff Writer On Lincoln's birthday, 22-year-old Pfc. Bobby G. Schrum of Hammond was sitting on top of a hill in Korea, directing artillery fire against the Chinese reds for a battalion of Greeks.

TINY METAL electrodes are attached to head of Dr. Albert Einstein to pick up impulses from his brain and to magnify and record them for study. Dr. Alejandro P. Arellano of Lima, Peru, currently, at Massachusetts General hospital, Boston, on a fellowship, kneels beside Einstein.

Result of study led to theory that in Einstein's mind, rated as genius, many separate groups of brain cells work a problem at once, with his mind "tuning in" on one group of cells after another. (AP Whe photo) Recorded Four Trucks Crash in Fog; Drivers Safe (Picture on Page 9) Fog and heavy frost which put a treacherous coating on Calumet area highways this morning contributed to a smash-up of four tractor-trailers on Route 41 two miles north of Route 30 at the Grand Trunk viaduct in which a 13-ton load of whisky was destroyed. Two of the truck drivers, Carl Rutherford, 33, of Orleans, and Randall Chinn, 31, of Evans-ville, whose liquor shipment spilled onto the highway, suffered cuts. The two other drivers, J. H.

Sutton, 131 State Hammond, employed by the Kushman Motor Delivery and" Emil Filby, 56, of Richmond, escaped injury. It was necessary to reroute traffic. DEPUTY SHERIFFS said Sut ton's truck, northbound, skidded and jack-knifed. Chinn's vehicle, also proceeding north, struck the left rear of Sutton truck and then crashed against the northbound trucks of Rutherford and Filby. Rutherford's truck, carrying farm machinery, and Chinn's truck overturned.

Another truck driver, Russell Continued on Page 2 State Begins Road Repairs; Stanton Summons Big-Wigs Before Jury BSSSsSl Underground Death Toll High in China HONG KONG (AP) Communist China, extending the death penalty drastically, today admitted the underground had killed thousands of red militiamen and that open defiance was spreading. In an astonishing announcement, Peiping conceded that resistance had risen with the out break of fighting in Korea. Some observers here, however, believed the announcement was intended primarily to justify a widespread purge which they expect to increase In intensity. THE REDS ordered immediate nation-wide imposition of the death penalty for any and all actions which might be construed ao "opposition" to government authority. Observers said that by.

giving the penalties highest government sanction, Peiping also apparently was trying to take some of. the heat off regional and local governments. Dissatisfaction with local government was reported wide spread. The Chinese communists In the Peiping announcement admitted that peasant opposition to land reform is spreading rapidly, "armed defiance" to the communist regime is getting out of control, and that thousands of red militia and government officials have been killed ift "counter revolutionary" agents. The broadcast said the situation had grown worse "since the launching of the American imperialist aggression against Korea." It conceded that roving guerrilla bands are destroying railroads and bridges.

SUBMITTING THE stern new program to the central people a government council, highest ad ministrative body in red China, Deputy Chairman Peng Cheng of the political and law committee declared "the government must no longer be magnanimous and lenient." "If we do not thoroughly destroy the people's enemy there cannot be a people's victory," he said. Peng asserted open defiance to the regime Is rife throughout the country. The regulations, submitted and approved Tuesday but announced last night, provided death or life imprisonment penalties for any persons who are guilty of anti-communist activities. Similar penalties were provided for persons who agitate against grain or tax collections or military service or who enagage in "rumor manufacturing." Asks FDR's Birthday Be National Holiday WASHINGTON (AP) A resolution to make the birthday of the late President Roosevelt, Jan. 30, a legal public holiday was introduced yesterday by Senator Lehman, N.

Y. Today's Times Crossword Puzzle 24 Church Pa re 14 Classified Ads 29, 80, 81 Comics 24 Editorials Obituaries 9 Radio and TV Programs ...28 Region Bulletins Sports ..17, 19 Theater Page 27 Uncle Ray's Corner 25 Voice of the People Wishing Well 24 Woman's Page 20, 21, 22 CROWN POINT It'll be Gary jury room on March 2 when an imposing array of Steel City witnesses headed by Mayor Eugene Swartz and Police Chief Millard T. Matovina called to testify why gambling and vice activities went unhampered until petticoat vigilantes and Prosecutor David P. Stanton brought about a liquidation of syndicated State Not Expected to Ask Chair Youthful Father Sticks to Murder, Suicide Story CROWN POINT The fate of Victor Smelko of Hammond, charged with the murders of Mr. and Mrs.

George Pappas of Munster, was to be weighed today by a jury in the Criminal court of Special Judge Floyd Vance. The iury four women and is-ht men was expected to go into deliberation late this afternoon, concluding a dramatic three weeks' trial marked bv vigorous lpral clashes between Defense Counsel Lester Ottenheimer and Deputy Prosecutors E. J. Wiltrout and James Clark. THE 29-YEAR-OLD father, a brother-in-law of Mrs.

Pappas, has unwaveringly denied killing the couple and sought to impress the jury that the seamstress and her railroad working husband were victims of murder and suicide. In summing up the state's case, Wiltrout and Clark are not expected to press for the death penalty. They have indicated they will let the jurors determine the penalty if Smelko is convicted. Conviction carries capital punishment or life imprisonment. Their summations to the jury will review testimony in which witnesses said that the defendant made oral admissions of the crime to police officials and, earlier, to four patrons of a Hammond tavern on the night of April 7 hours after the pair met death.

They also will argue that absence of powder burns on the heads of the victims and the left-handed grasp of the death weapon by Mrs. Pappas, known to be right-handed, eliminated the suicide-m theory. WILTROUT AND CLARK In direct and cross examination elicited testimony to support their claims that Smelko did not satisfactorily explain his sudden flight to Pittsburgh and that, unemployed and without funds, he spent more money than the $100 which he said Pappas had given him for decorating work in the two-story Pappas home. Smelko's defense that he was panic-stricken and fled when he discovered Pappas body in the kitchen of the upstairs apartment. Smelko stated that he left the Pappas home the previous day when the couple became engaged In a domestic argument.

He has denied that he told the tavern customers, "I shot somebody," and related that his confession to Town Marshal Adam Funk of Munster and deputy sheriffs was made under duress. British Lament: No Sea Command LONDON (INS) The London Daily Mail observed editorially today that American Vice Adm. William F. Fechteler's nomination as supreme North Atlantic naval commander means that "after a thousand years Britain loses command of the western ocean." Conservative British newspapers backed up Winston Churchill's angry protests against the American naval officer's nomination announced by Prime Minister Clement Attlee in the house of commons yesterday. Churchill promptly charged that Britain was being "brushed out of the way" by the making of an American to head the naval forces.

Parliamentary observers believed the nomination of Adm. Fechteler was a severe jolt to Britain's national pride over her jealously guarded naval traditions. German Ships Fly National Colors HAMBURG, Germany (AP) For the first time since World War II German merchant ships today flew their national flag. West German Transportation Minister Christoph Seebohm presided at ceremonies which placed the black, red and gold flag of the West German Republic at the foremasts of German merchant vessels beyond without opposition. Twenty-five miles to the west another American division smashed four miles forward and occupied hills overlooking the big road hub of Hoen3ong, key to the central front highway network.

IN ITS FOUR-mile drive the Hoengsong column captured hill 166, key to the communist de fense line, and swept forward so fast the Americans were able to take over the half-finished com munist foxholes on the banks of the frozen Ammul river south of the town. U. S. tanks rolled up the hills overlooking Hoensong and began pouring point-blank gunfire into the smoking city. Dive bombers wheeled in to join the destruction with tons of bombs.

An estimated 10,000 Chinese communist troops protecting Hoengsong fled under the massive power of the United Nations troops arrayed against them. They offered no resistance after losing hill 166 early in the day. However, American commanders ordered their troops to dig in for the night on the hills overlooking the city. In Korean warfare, a city is considered a death trap during the night. The frontal assault on Hoengsong was accompanied by a second flanking drive about a mile to the southeast An American column in this drive pushed forward to cut the supply road for reds to the east.

FRONT REPORTS indicated the communists abandoned their defense of Hoengsong because they were outflanked by the massive drive that captured Pyongchang to the southeast. This advance swept through Py ongchang at 10:30 a. m. (7:30 p. m.

Thursday CST) after a dawn jump-off from points three miles south. Rolling on four miles, the Yanks reached the eastern end of a lateral road leading west to Hoengsong. The enveloping pattern of the United Nations advance, which threatened many small fishhook traps inside the larger 60-mile-wlde trap, was believed responsible for the red retreat. West of Hoengsong, however, the reds fought back against tha left arm of the allied pincers. British commonwealth troops and advance forces of two American divisions ran into resistance six miles north of Chipyong, 20 miles west of Hoengsong.

Heavy fighting raged in this area. Air reports saia otner con- Continued on Page 2 there are we can't know," he said, "because it is so often mis-diagnosed." Dr. Pratt has been treating the Bairds for some time. Eleven years ago, the Bairds noticed that their second son, Robert, now 20, was walking unsteadily. Dr.

Pratt promptly diagnosed the disease and warned Mrs. Baird that it might strike her other children, since the ailment is known to be hereditary. EVENTUALLY, it did. Gradually the disease afflicted Walter, 17; Richard, 16; Charles, 14; Joseph, 8 and William, 21. The Bairds' two daughters were spared.

Dr. Pratt said the disease barely affects women. The disease is progressive. Muscles weaken by degrees. So far only Robert has been so severely stricken that he cannot walk.

Charles and Joseph go to school, although neither walks steadily. But, Dr. Pratt said, it is certain that each of the boys in time will be confined to a wheelchair and, at the age of 30 or 35, each will die. By Washington's birthday, he was fcack in Hammond, visiting his family and seeing his father, Ralph Schrum, 509 Logan, who is seriously ill In St. Margaret hospital.

THE MAGIC that moved this combat GI nearly 10,000 air and Tail miles in a week's time was worked by two organizations the American Red Cross and the United States air force. News that he was going back to a place that had come to seem like wonderland, the United States, after more than seven months of fighting In Korea came to the Hammond soldier via his first sergeant who walked 500 yards over to the hill on which Bobby was stationed. It was 11 o'clock in the mornlngr." said Pfc. Schrum. The first sergeant walked ever during a lull and told me that I was to go home on an emergency furlough obtained by the Red Cross." He reported back to his battery, stationed some distance to the rear, and was jeeped back to a combat airstrip that same night.

There he stayed overnight, and was flown next morning to the Suwon airstrip, south of Seoul, the now-battered South Korean capital. Another plane took him back to Division Rear." the big headquarters of the First Cavalry division, of which the Hammond artilleryman's regiment is a unit. There, his 'orders were cut sending him back by air force transport to Camp Stoneman, Calif, the west coast's big port of embarkation and debarkation. Soon he was on a four-engine C-54 transport winging to Japan. BUT THE IMPATIENT private was held up in Tokyo three days.

since there was a storm in the west Pacific area and Military Air Transport service planes had been Continued on Page 2 Anti-Gambling Bill to Senate INDIANAPOLIS AP) The In diana house has passed an anti-lottery bill aimed at outlawing possession or sale of sports pool tickets and banning listing of race results, except in newspapers. The house passed the bill late yesterday by an 83-9 vote and sent it to the senate. Backers of the bill said that if it becomes law it would end a multi-million dollar numbers racket in the state and deal a heavy blow to other commercial gambling. The house vote came In the wake of a gambling scandal in college basketball in the east, in which some Long Island university players were reported to have taken bribes from gamblers. THE BILL was amended to make "bingo," "keeno," and "lotto" games illegal.

Hasbrook said this change is aimed at "getting those big organized games that are jut bad as lotteries." Gary day in the Lake county grand Roofer Dies in 60-Foot Plunge At Gary Works James E. Forbes, 40, of 14509 School Riverdale, was killed yesterday afternoon when he fell 60 feet from the roof of a building in the No. 4 open hearth plant at the United' States Steel Corp. plant in Gary. Forbes and his brother, Robert, of Harvey, employes of the Culver Roofing Co.

were making roof repairs when the accident happened. The body was taken from the Williams and Burns funeral home in Gary to the Doty funeral home, 115th St, Chicago. Surviving are the widow, Inez; the mother, Mrs. Eva Forbes of Terre Haute; the brother, and four sisters, Mrs. Jay Stidd of Indianapolis and Mrs.

Murel Depigo, Miss Lavern Forbes and Miss Anna Wolf, all of Terre Haute. Six Sons of Doomed to PHILADELPHIA (AP) The six boys in the Baird family, all doomed to die of a rare muscular malady, are less concerned with the thought of dying than with the thought of eating. They are victims of muscular dystrophy, a disease doctors say i3 always fatal. It is sad almost sickening to walk up the cheerless stairs leading from the first floor grocery to the naked walls of the four-room Baird flat in the Frankford section of the city, two blocks from the Delaware river front. YOU SMELL pork frying and hear Mrs.

Baird shouting to one of her sons to watch that pan or "that stuff'll burn up and we won't have anything to eat," The flat is home to William Baird, a $50-a-week roofer's helper; his wife, Mary, 45; one of their two daughters, and five of their sons, ranging in age from eight to Cities to Wait State highway department crews are btisy giving asphalt patching treatment to Indianapolis Blvd. and Calumet Ave. in Hammond but city street department chiefs throughout the county said they will have to wait until spring to give motor ists relief from dangerous chuck- holes created by the worst winter in years. James Scott, Valparaiso district supervisor of the state highway department, explained that he has dispatched crews to do patching work in Hammond, East Chicago, Whiting and Gary to keep present holes in highways from enlarging. HE EMPHASIZED that he does not expect the emergency road repairs to be effective because heavy traffic will break up the asphalt-stone fills.

Heads of municipal street departments pointed out that until the advent of spring weather, when road fills can harden, it would be a waste of time, money and effort to attempt street repairs. Under present weather conditions, they said, intermittent freezing and thawing, and surface water prevent road fills from hardening. "Stone and asphalt put in a road rut one day will loosen and be knocked out the next day," a street department worker said. He added that motorists will have to be patient until effective road rehabilitation work can be undertaken in the spring. "What's the sense of filling holes one day and seeing the job obliterated the next day? Budget appropriations don't allow enough funds and street repair facilities are inadequate to enable us to run daily over the same repair route." Can't Sell Meat Due to High Prices NEW YORK (AP) About 1,000,000 pounds of locally dressed beef is reported in storage here because of consumer resistance to high prices.

Miss Anna Blumstein, secretary-treasurer of the Metropolitan Slaughters association, said yesterday the beef has piled up because of generally high meat prices in the- Metropolitan area. Promote General U. S. EIGHTH ARMY HEADQUARTERS. Korea (AP) Chung II Kwun, military commander of all South Korean forces, today received the three stars of a lieutenant general.

He is the first South Korean to hold the rank. lawlessness. STANTON AND HIS special as sistant, Metro Holovachka, said six other police officials and eight poli tical and alleged gambling figures will be summoned in the prosecutor's probe of a collusion between public officials and underworld characters. The list of witnesses will include Police Captains Peter Billick and T. V.

Curley and four members of the detective vice squad Robert Bard, Joseph Zimmerman, Michael Fin-nerty and Matthew Tetek. Also facing the quiz are Thomas Morgano, reputed partner of Jack Doyle, described by the Kefauver crime investigating committee as Gary's gambling czar; Roy Miller, Fenton Bash and Fern Rhoades, poolroom operators; Rev. D. L. Lewis, central district democratic leader, and Sam Uzelac and John Laterzo, alleged handbook operators.

MM Form of Flu Strikes By United Press A mild form of influenza has stricken hundreds of thousands of persons across the nation. Outbreaks of the disease closed schools, jammed hospitals and caused a sharp rise in absenteeism in industries in many cities. New England appeared hardest hit. Officials said a quarter of a million adults and uncounted thousands of children were affected there. DEATHS WERE reported in some places, but doctors said most cases were comparatively mud and akin to a "very bad cold." Dr.

Thomas Francis of the Uni versity of Michigan School of Health, an authority on influenza, said the outbreak "does not ap pear to be of alarming severity, al though it is a little sharper than in other years." Doctors said that in general the "flu" requires no extensive treatment, leaves no complications. Dr. Francis said present drugs are not effective against primary stages of influenza but are of help with the secondary results. Continued on Page 2 Philadelphia Family Slow, Inevitable Death 20. Those five and their brother William, 21, who lives nearby, all suffer from muscular dystrophy.

Mrs. Baird, a pleasant-faced stout-ish woman, is too busy to think about death. Besides, the thought of her sons' dying is not new. For 11 years she has known what to expect. The boys are being treated by Dr.

Gerald E. Pratt, of Episcopal hospital, one of the few doctors anywhere who devotes nearly all his time to diagnosis, treatment and study of muscular dystrophy. Dr. Pratt said today the main reason everyone who gets the disease dies of it is that "it has been kicked around and ignored by the medical profession as well as by the general public." No one knows how a person gets the disease. Muscles become flabby and eventually stop functioning altogether.

Then the victim becomes prey to such respiratory diseases as pneumonia and is too weak to resist. Dr. Pratt said some 200,000 in this country are known sufferers of the disease. "How many more.