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THE OWENSBORO INC LUIRER THE WEATIIEIt Kentucky Fair and colder tonight and Thursday. Low tonight 26-34. SECTION A 14 PAGES VOL LXVI NO. 247 OWENSBORO, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1952 THIRTY PAGES nas Ike May Meet AA'Arthur For Talk War Homes, Barns, Power Lines By DON WHITEHEAD ABOARD USS HELENA, En Route To Hawaii, Dec. 10 (AP) President-elect Dwight Eisenhower is willing to hear any plan his old commander, Gen.

Douglas MacArthur, may have mashe Are 4 Boy Injured By Falling Glass; Damages Believed High By FRED SENTERS and CHARLOTTE BAUMGARTEN Daviess and Hancock Countians were busy counting the cost today of the most destructive tornado to strike this section in approximately 60 years. "If mmdLtjf er struck the home of Buck Trodglen on West Fifth Street Road Tuesday. The home and the Broker Tells of Paying $70,000 To Union Leaders to Free Goods for ending the Korean War. An exchange of messages, announced yesterday aboard this heavy cruiser carrying the Presidentelect and members of his projected administration back to the U. cleared the way for a meeting between Eisenhower and Mac-Arthur.

It also appeared to dissipate whatever coolness had developed between the two former chiefs of staff during the presidential campaign, when MacArthur supported Sen. Robert A. Taft of Ohio for the GOP nomination. "I am looking forward to informal meetings in which my associates and I may obtain the full benefit of your thinking and experience" on Korea and the Far East, Eisenhower radioed MacArthur Sunday. MacArthur replied on Monday: "I am grateful for your interest in my views.

"A successful solution might well become the key to peace in the world." The exchange followed MacAr-thur's speech Friday, when he told the National Association of Manufacturers in New York that "there is a clear and definite solution to the Korean conflict" without unduly increasing casualties or furthering the risk of world war. MacArthur implied then a willingness to present his views to Eisenhower. Eisenhower quickly sent a radiogram to MacArthur saying he and his advisers were in the process of "outlining a future program" aimed at ultimate peace in Korea. He said he wanted MacArthur's views. This exchange of messages ap SevenWounded Battle Between NEW YORK, Dec.

10 MP) Seven men were shot down today as a swaggering Cleveland gunman fought a furious running gun battle with police through the Times Square area. The Negro gunman, Clarence 0. Sims, finally spun to the pavement, badly wounded by a coolly firing patrolman, just as he was about to make his getaway. Three policemen were seriously wounded. Three passersby, frantically hunting cover in the hail of bullets were nicked.

Police said Sims has triggered dozens of holdups in the New York area during the past year. Cleveland police want him on an armed robbery charge. He told police here he heads the "Shotgun gang" there. One of his pals was arrested in the nielce that made Eighth Avenue as dangerous for a while as a rampaging frontier town on a Saturday night. This, said police, is what happened At 4 a.

m. Charles Mason, 30-year-old Negro of Denville, K. got into an argument in a bar with Richard Linquist of Queens. They wrestled to the pavement. A.

furnishings were a complete loss. No one was in the house when the tornado struck. The house It had the backing of the Veterans of Foreign Wars. Roman Catholic Bishop John F. O'Hara in Buffalo lauded the dock workers.

But President Truman rebuked them and said it wasn't up to longshoremen to set this nation's foreign policy. Secretary of Labor Tobin also criticized them and the boycott finally was called off. Butman told the State Crime Commission inquiry into waterfront rackets that he paid $25,000 to have $659,000 in Russian furs unloaded from the Finnish freighter Tornator at Port Elizabeth, N. J. Then, Butman added, he put up $45,000 more to get $2,519,773 worth off the freighter Selma T.

Lorden. The witness said he negotiated with two men, one of whom he identified as Anthony (Joe Gent) Giantomasi, a local delegate of the ILA. He added that the other man resembled a picture of Pasquale (Confinued on Page 12, Section A) city officials It included the re- NEW YORK, Dec. 10 UP! A broker testified Tuesday he paid $70,000 to union leaders in order to free a multimillion-dollar batch of Russian furs during a "patriotic" boycott by AFL longshore-ment. The State Crime Commission thus got an intriguing behind-the-scenes peek at the 1950 boycott of Soviet-manufactured goods by the AFL International Longshoremen's Association (ILA).

While longshoremen were bypassing Russian cargoes against the wishes of President Truman, fur broker Gregory Butman testified he paid off union leaders to free three million dollars worth of Soviet furs from the docks. The late summer boycott two years ago was represented as a patriotic gesture by longshoremen "sick and tired of working for Russia and helping communism finance its war machine with American dollars." 1 ws. was a frame structure. (Photo by Paul Parker) Administration Seeks To Get WSB Going By NORMAN WALKER WASHINGTON, Dec. 10 UP)-The Truman administration worked to get its wage-price control machinery back on the tracks today in the face of a demand from a powerful business leader that it be derailed for good.

Economic Stabilizer Robert L. Putnam promised to round up enough businessmen to fill vacancies caused by the mass resignation of industry members from the Wage Stabilization Board. That made the board inoperative. But his task was made more difficult because Laurence F. Lee, president of the U.

S. Chamber of Commerce, signaled for a boycott of Putnam's efforts. Putnam termed that action "quite surprising." Lee expressed hope in a public statement that no busi nessman will lend his services to any effort to reconstitute the Wage Stabilization Board. "The crisis in the wage control program," Lee said, "clearly em phasizes the fact that wage and price controls should be dropped immediately by executive order so that the inequities of the present system can be wiped out. "The administration's wage and price control program is but a board would be a waste of time was reported without confir- i rnation that the National Associa i tlon of Manufacturers con- isulering a similar statement urg ing businessmen to refuse posts on the WSB.

The wage board has been unable to operate with 12,000 wage-increase cases awaiting approval since industry members resigned last week end. They quit in protest against President Truman's reversal of a WSB ruling on a coal miners' pay increase. Truman, en route to Washington by train from Independence, was represented by aides as hopeful that he could appoint a new set of WSB industry members. However, he and Putnam have declared that wage and price controls will be continued in any event. The Santa Ciaus editor also received an indication today that more funds will be forthcoming in the near future.

The owners of the Stop 'n' Shop Super Market have announced that it will give 20 per cent of the profits on its Christmas tree sales to the Goodfeliows. Another 20 per cent will be turned over to the Owensboro Spastic Home and School, and the remaining 60 per cent to the Community Chest. The Goodfellow Fund is still running behind what the collection was at this time last year. But with such good friends and such a worthy cause, we have no doubt it. i.

il Ml 1 1'T that there will be few children who will be able to say on Christmas Day that Santa Claus didn't pay them a visit this year. SHOPPING DAYS LEFT ttwnsMmi it trnt i 1 Traffic Survey Of Owensboro Is Completed By The State Highway Department Tornado Study Being Made By Red Cross Red Cross workers in both Daviess and Hancock Counties were making a first hand study today of damage caused by Tuesday's tornado which struck this area. They were expected to make a report on their findings this afternoon. A survey team of the Daviess County Chapter of the American Red Cross was in the field making a study of damage resulting from Tuesday's violent windstorm which struck several places in Daviess County, leaving severe dam- I age in its wake. Sgt.

Wallace Watson, the chapter's publicity chairman, said Charlie Asdell, chairman of the survey group, and several other persons were making the survey. They were being aided in the investigation by Walter Johnston, chairman of the Red Cross chapter's disaster relief committee. Johnston- said financial assistance rendered by the Red Cross is given on the basis of need, rather than of loss. Sgt. Watson said the survey team would seek to determine the immediate needs of those hit by the windstorm.

He said the local Red Cross chapter has already received reports that two Daviess County families were left homeless by the storm and without furniture or clothing. The National Red Cross Chapter (Continued on Page 12, Section A) WILLIAM MURPHY Details Of Spy Case Revealed For First Time By STAN CARTER TOKYO, Dec. 10 W) An Air Force lieutenant who played along brought about the arrest of two sergeants on charges of trying to sell U. S. Sabre jet secrets.

Details of the investigation and the September arrests of the two, Sgt. Guiseppe Cascio, 34, and i S. Sgt. John P. Jones.

22. ere i disclosed today for the first time in records made available to The Associated Press by reliable sources who cannot be named. They disclosed: Lt. William L. Murphy of Upper Darby, pretended to plot with Y' I 111 "mi i i' IT.

peared to be more than the President-elect asking for MacArthur's Korean peace plan. It seemed aboard this ship that it was a dip lomatic move by Eisenhower to heal the breach and give his administration the benefit of Mac-Arthur's long experience in dealing with Far East matters. MacArthur said: "This is the first time that the slightest official interest in my counsel has been evidenced since my return." This appeared to be a rap by the five-star general at President Truman; who fired him on April 1, 1951, as Allied commander in the Far East because he was unable to give his wholehearted support" to U. S. and U.

N. policies. The slap apparently was directed also at those in Truman's administration who have dealt with Far East policy. It was noted too that MacArthur's message said, "My best to you, Ike, as always." "MacArthur." MacArthur's proposals 20 months ago included bombing of Red Chinese bases in Manchuria, blockading the Red China coast and amphibious landings on the China mainland by Nationalist forces from Formosa. But MacArthur indicated Friday that changed conditions called for a revised plan.

He said public disclosure or discussion now would be improper. (In Washington, a high Defense Department official said it was MacArthur's duty as a soldier to present the plan through Army channels "without further ado and without making a speech about InTimes Square Police, Gunman CORNELIUS O'SHEA He Shot Gunman meant to try to rescue the two Mc Auliffe glanced toward them for a moment. Sims whipped a (Continued on Page 12, Section A) hush tir WE5LEYAN COLLEGE I -f Mes.ifncer-Inqulrer staff Photo Kentucky." The program for the ground breaking will be short and informal. The public is cordially invited, said President Oscar Lever. The site for the new campus is on the Livermore Road opposite Legion Boulevard.

suits of a traffic count made and any service on the wage The tornado, bearing rain, hail and unseasonal lightning and thunder, cut a narrow path of destrucs tion across Daviess and Hancock Counties Tuesday afternoon. Communications were knocked out, roofs were ripped from buildings, and some farmers saw the work of months dissipate as the twister leveled barns in which their tobacco crops were stored. The Daviess County and Hancock County chapters of the American Red Cross had teams of workers out today, determining how much Red Cross relief will be needed. A report on the surveys was expected sometime today. No immediate estimation of damages was possible, but indications were that it will run into thousands of dollars.

Three persons were injured, but more seriously. The tornado, apparently originating near West Louisville in the western part of Daviess County, traveled about 32 miles in a straight line reaching to Tell City, Ind. In its path were Sorgho, the western outskirts of Owensboro, the neighborhood of Maceo and Thruston, the old Rockport, Maceo ferry, the Lewisport section, Hawesville and Tell City. The storm hit Sorgho at 3:15 p. m.

and reached Tell City at about 5 p. m. Johnny Ebelhar, 7-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Vincent Ebelhar, received a cut head when a falling pane of glass struck him.

The glass fell from a transom at Sorgho School. The boy, a pupil of St. Mary Mag dalene School, had stopped at the Sorgho school to change buses. He was taken to Our Lady of Mercy Hospital here by H. K.

Hamblin, principal of the Sorgho school. The lad was given first aid treatment and returned to his home. The boy did not return to school today. Families Homeless At least two families were known to be homeless, Deputy Sheriff Bill Thompson reported. Mr.

and Mrs. Percy Robertson, tenants of James Kennady farm, Rudy Road, lost their house when the wind ripped it apart. Mrs. Robertson was sitting on a sofa inside the four-room frame dwelling, holding a baby in her arms. The tornado knocked apart the house, blew her and the child out into the field.

Both suffered bruises but neither was hurt seriously, Thompson reported. The house of Buck Trodglen, West 5th Street Road, was demolished. Furniture was scattered "in all directions," Thompson said. The house and its belongings were a complete loss. No one was at home at the time the twister swept through.

Number of Buildings Hit The number of houses, barns and farm buildings in the county that were leveled or damaged by (Continued on fage 2, Section A) Late Reports On Twister Damage R. D. McCormick, manager of the local branch of the Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph said total estimated damage to the company's facilities is about $3,500. Biggest damage came when a lead cable containing 51 telephone lines was knocked out west of Highway 60. The company is having to replace 2,500 feet of the cable, he said.

The company should be almost back on normal operations by 5 p. m. today, he said. Virgil D. Clark, official Daviess County weather observer, said a total of 1.18 inches of rain fell yesterday.

Damage to Sorgho School Fred Taylor Burns, superintendent of the Daviess County school system, estimated the damage done to the Sorgho Consolidated School at between $2,000 and $2,500. The damage was covered by insurance, he said. Several workers were busy this morning "patching up" the damaged school building, he said. Classes were resumed at the school (Continued on Page 12, Section A) Kentucky Weslcyan College tonight will play host to the Centre College Colonels of Danville at the Sportscenter at 8 o'clock. See Story on Page 14-B STRUCK BY TORNADO Scattered furniture and debris mark the spot where a violent "twist Navy Planes Stage Biggest Raid of War By SAM SUMMERLIN SEOUL, Dec.

10 UPl s. Navy warplanes smashed four big Communist rail and supply targets on the doorstep of Manchuria Tuesday in the biggest seaborne raid of the Korean War. One of the strikes carried American planes on their northernmost raid of the war, to the limits of a Korean strip that juts up into Manchuria and is surrounded on three sides by that Chinese Red province. It also carried the Navy planes within 12 miles of Soviet Siberia and almost as far north as the Russian port of Vladivostok, which lies to the east. Targets were Honyung, Musan, Najin and Hyesanjin.

Allied fighter- bombers pounded Communist targets all across the war-torn peninsula. Navy fliers roared off the decks of three flattops Tuesday to launch their massive strikes against the Reds. Panther jets, Sky Raiders and Corsairs from the carriers Oris-kany, Bon Homme Richard and Essex destroyed round houses, turntables, locomotives, box cars, buildings and supplies. Honyung, the northernmost target, is within a few hundred yards of the Manchurian border and is the port of entry to Korea for the major East Coast rail lines. Navy pilots said the vital rail trunk there as wiped out and Hon yung was blacked out by smoke from raging fires.

Musan is southwest of Honyung. Najin is on the Sea of Japan. Hyesanjin is inland, southwest of Musan. The Navy listed this toll: Destroyed Eight rail repair shops, three locomotives, 30 box cars, seven buildings, 500 yards of tracks and six trucks. Damaged 18 buildings, five locomotives, two tank cars, 19 trucks, one locomotive shop and one round house.

The commander of Task Force 77 said, "The enemy has suffered heavy damage." He messaged "Well done" to his pilots. The Navy planes roared out in 352 individual flights. The Far East Air Forces sent Japan-based B29 Superforts within five miles of the great Suiho power reservoir on the Yalu River in another attack Tuesday- night. Bad weather grounded most planes Wednesday. i One of the year's major lulls clung to the ground front.

The Chinese and North Korean armies held their fire except for brief skirmishes. The American cruiser Rochester returned to the Korean War with her big guns for the third time. In her first strike in nine months she destroyed two gun positions and damaged two others and four Communist bunkers. Ground Breaking Ceremony Is Set, Thursday, At 2 p. m.

Dr. Oscar W. Lever, president of Kentucky Wesleyan College, said today that plans were definite for the ground breaking ceremony Thursday afternoon at 2 o'clock." He said also that the program will include a few brief statements from some of the visiting and local dignitaries, a selection from the Kentucky Wesleyan Pep Band, and jthe actual breaking of the ground the two buildings, The program will be short in; hopes that the public would turn lout to see the start of the campus 'of Kentucky Weslcyan College. i in August and September of this year and made three tentative rec ommendations to alleviate the traf- te problem in Owensboro. The survey of the average annual daily traffic flow, which occurs at least 50 times a year or on an average of once a week, was made by taking the traffic count at key intersections for a 24-kour period.

On the 2nd Street intersections, the traffic count for both east -and west-bound vehicles was as follows at the various intersections: Triplett Street, Hathaway Street, Daviess Street, St. Ann Street, Frederica Street, 8,900, and Walnut Street, 7,500. On the 4th Street intersections, the count for vehicles going in both directions was as follows: (Continued on Page 14, Section A) Patrolmen Roy Cahill and Frank arrested men. Later police learned Colasonno pushed through a crowd; that he and Johnson had planned of watchers and arrested them, to rob the bar where the fight Then Sims and Cecil Johnson, a occurred. 25 year old Manhattan Negro Drawing his revolver, Mc Auliffe swooped up in a snappy con- prodded Sims to a wall to search swooped up in a snappy convertible him.

But at that moment Patrol-and swaggered through the crowd, jmen Robert Knox, 32, and Richard Patrolman George Mc Auliffe, Conlon, 24, pushed through the 52, drove up in his radio car. crowd. Goodfeliows Fund Boosted By Generous Gift Of VFW The representatives of the State; Highway Department met with Mayor LeRoy Woodward and Po lice Chief Vernie Bidwell yesterday to' present a preliminary report on the Highway Department's traffic survey of Owensboro. Those meeting with Woodward and Bidwell were Joseph F. Rice, of the traffic division of the State Highway Department in Frankfort; M.

G. Gregory, of the Highway Department district office at Mad- isonville, and Fount Crowe of the department's district office at Bow ling Green. Rice presented the report to the W. J. Foster's Heavy Carload Lot Wins First Place At Show LOUISVILLE, Dec.

10 W-Prize winning cattle and the also-rans in the Bourbon Beef Show will be offered to highest bidders in the sales ring today at the Bourbon Stock Yards. The $1,000 grand championship for individual steers was won yesterday by Tama Jim, Hereford from Iowa, in competition with three finalists entered from Father Flanagan's Boys Town, Neb. The winner, which had taken first place in the lieht-middle- weight class in elimination judging, was entered by the Minish brothers of Dysart, la. Boys Town entries were declared winners in the lightweight, heavy-middleweight and heavyweight classes. Fifteen Hcrefords from Boys Town also won the $1,000 grand championship in the carload competition.

An Angus entered by the Tietjens brothers of Camanche, won the reserve grand championship for individual steers after finishing second to Tama Jim in the light-middleweight class. A load of Angus shown by the Tietjens brothers won the reserve grand championship in the carload competition. The champion and reserve loads came from the light carload show. W. J.

Foster of Stanley, entered the 15 head of Angus which won first place in the heavy carload competition. The championship in the grottps-of-three competition was won bv three Angus entered bv Dwieht Smoker of Wanatah, Ind. The group also won first place in the heavyweight class. Someone in the crowd told him Sims was "loaded'' that is, heavilv armed. At first Mc Auliffe thought Sims P.

GROL'ND BREAKING ceremonies will be held on this Wesley-an College site Thursday afternoon at 2 p. m. The ground breaking of the new campus at Owensboro will be the start of a physical plant that has been termed as "second to cone in i- VLr.i THE GOODFELLOWS FUND Previously Reported $343.50 Dr. Clinton M. Lacy 10.00 Mr.

and Mrs. Clarence Martin 5.00 V. F. 100.00 Mr. and Mrs.

Parvin D. Oil-Jim, Washington, D. C. 5.00 Total $463.50 By SANTA CLAUS EDITOR The Goodfellow Fund took a pleasing jump today when the local Veterans of Foreign Wars post and three more donors gave a total of $120, The V. F.

w. donation is the 1 hieppst sinple eift tn hp rprpivpH I so far this year. The Santa Claus 00 editor appreciates such gifts for it shows that the people of Owensboro are eager to see that the indigent children here get a happy Christmas. The V. F.

W. voted fo contribute the $100 gift at its regular business meeting last night. Lee R. Coombs, commander of the post, said that the membership did not cast a single dissenting vote. He also said that so many members wanted to speak in favor of the contribution that time for each had to be limited, a rare procedure in the V.

F. W. Considering the fact that the V. F. W.

post has a membership of somewhere around 700, a unanimous vote is something to be considered. We take off our hats to these Goodfeliows. the sergeants while tape recordings were made. The sergeants were arrested before they made contact with a Communist agent and the secret information was saved. Cascio is under mental observation in Tokyo, pending a decision whether he will be tried by a court-martial.

The maximum penalty is life imprisonment if convicted. Jones has been declared insane and returned to the U. S. Official records disclosed that Air Force Office of Special Investigations (OSI) agents knew a secret document giving data about the F86E type Sabre jet was going to be stolen before it ever was taken. The document was genuine.

The Air Force made no attempt to take it. Cascio, whom OSI agents be- (Continued on Page 12, Section A).