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A CLOUDY isiiE American LONE CENTRAL TEXAS: Partly cloudy skies, little change in temperatures, and a lew scattered thun-dershowers Saturday and Sunday. (Details, Page 7.) HOME Vol. 37, No. 354 Austin, Texas, Saturday, May 19, 1951 16 Pages 5 Cents President Says 5 lv irna ii ilnU To do m-j jmmm mm mm -mmm. mu mm mam mm mmt mrn.

m.im wtm USR aces crisis Wrecks Homes OInev End to 'Bickering and Politics1 Urged in Armed Forces Talk Heart of Nortex City Raked; Aid Pours to Battered Area ra i fe i jr- Mi -I I w4 i i 1 yv't I 1 I 1 vmS rj. -A jr ine WRECKAGE SCENE Citizens of Olney, check the ruins of their homes in search of personal belongings after a "savage" tornado ripped through the town killing two, persons and injuring approximately 100 others. (Acme Telephoto). World Embargo on Red China Approved by UN June 25, the first anniversary of the war. The reaction of other delegates to that was that if the war could The tornado demolished 24 to 36 houses and damaged in varying degrees 100 to 150.

The estimate on housing damage was made by Mayor E. C. Hallman. NUMEROUS BUSINESS houses also were damaged. The violence of the tornado ripped the front and the roof from the McNult Motor Company and badly twisted the steel beams of which it was consrtucted.

It tore down a grain elevator and damaged many other business structures. Adding to the misery was rain which followed and came along with the tornado. The skies cleared and then about 9 p. when restoration work got under a full head of steam another deluge swamped the town, and gutters ran more than full. This once booming oil city, an economic center based on oil supplies, agriculture and other businesses, looked like a ghost city town except around city hall where bedraggled rescue workers huddled under emergency lights in the heavy rain.

Only a small section of the city had electric power. Natural gas lines throughout Olney bad been turned off, because of fear that broken pipes would let gas escape. A late count showed 23 persons still in the hospital. Seventy five were released earlier. Overworked doctors were refusing to give information on the injured until later.

THE DEAD WERE identified as Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Temple, an elderly couple.

Mrs. Temple was killed instantly. Mr. Temple died about 7:30 from head injuries. Bob Hutson had a grandstand view on the tornado.

He is a tool-pusher for the Luke Grace Drilling Company. He was about three to four miles out of town, setting up a rig. He said: "The best I could tell the cloud was black and when I first saw it it didn't look like a cyclone. "Then, wham, all of a sudden it gathered together. It made a big funnel and it reached way up." He said he saw it approach Olney, got in his truck, which has a two-way radio, and sped to town.

He said that the tornado struck the west side of the town. However, its damaging effect extended clear to the main business section. Hutson said the tornado came from the southwest and went toward the northeast. He said the tornado hit the ground about one half mile from the southwest edge of the town. He said it went through the town and about a mile beyond the outskirts before it lifted again.

The tornado struck the hospital a grade school and a high school, and broke numerous windows in all of them. Hutson drove directly to the hospital and by means of his two-way radio contacted his company in Wichita Falls, and got rescue operations started. THE MAYOR Friday night patted Hutson on the shoulder and said: "I'll say this 'this man did as much good as any man who came to town today." Pouring into Olney tonight was Battery from Electra and Division Artillery Headquarters personnel from Wichita Falls of the Texas National Guard. Major William E. Cooper, with the division headquarters, was directing their operations.

Sheppard Air Force Base at Wichita Falls speeded doctors and medical crews. The Texas State Guard, Company Fifth Battalion, Third Regiment, had 35 men on the job. North Texas citizens, shocked by the distaster, offered all the help they could give. The mayor finally had to admit that no further assistance was immediately required. Archer City, Jacksboro, Haskell, Throckmorton, Seymour, Graham, Wichita Falls, and Vernon were among cities which rushed aid.

The mayor said Friday night (Continued on Page 12, Col. 7) be halted by UN action, what was wrong with halting it on May 18 today. The embargo calls on members and non-members of the UN alike not to ship to Communist China and North Korea or areas under their control any "arms, ammunition and implements of war, atomic energy materials, petroleum, transportation materials of strategic value, and items useful in the pro WASHINGTON, May 18. WV-President Truman declared Friday night the US faces its greatest crisis and called for a halt to "bickering" and the "playing of petty politics." He said if the present world crisis is not met the casualties in Korea "will be one small drop in the bucket" compared to those "from one of those horrible bombs of which we talk so much." "THERE IS ALWAYS an emphasis on the casualties in Korea," the President said in an apparent reference to those who want to spread the Korean fighting to Red Chinese bases. "Of course," when there is fighting, there are casualties, he said.

Making an informal talk at an Armed Forces Day banquet, Mr. Truman added: "But did it ever occur to you that If this necessity with which we are faced is not met, that the casualties in Korea will be one small drop an the bucket from one of those hor rible bombs of which we talk so much. "Think think think what a re sponsibility your President faces in a situation of this kind. If you would think, and think clearly on this subject, you would get behind me and help me to win this peace, "And that is what I am asking you to do. "And that is what our armed forces are in the field to do.

"It is up to you." The President spoke after Secretary of Defense Marshall asserted that our fighting men in Korea and their gallant Allies have dissipated the defeatism of a year ago. The Voice of America broadcast both speeches to Japan and Korea The President told the fighting men in Korea and the occupation troops in Japan that they are "holding the line while we at this end are trying to achieve a peaceful settlement." HE SAD) HIS AIM in the last five and one-half years has been to get a lasting peace. "We do not want war," he said, "we want peace. He said it is necessary for the US as leader of the free peoples of the world, to display that leadership here at home in unity so our young men in Korea shall not die in vain. He added it is up to the people at home to see that it is accomplished.

In calling for unity, Mr. Truman reminded the people that the men in Korea are baring their breasts for liberty and unity in the world. He contrasted, the glittering banquet hall of the Statler Hotel with diners in evening clothes eating food served on whit table cloths with the men who are fighting and dying for peace in the Far East. Mr. Truman got a standing ovation before and after his brief address, from an audience made up largely of service people.

Truman said he wanted to impress upon the fighting men on this second anniversary of Armed Forces Day that "we are in the midst of one of the greatest crisis this country has ever faced." The President said there never has been a body as united as the executive branch and it is up to the other branches to do likewise. Marshall stressed the argument that the struggle against the Reds has already accomplished great things. HE SAID IT HAS given real meaning and new life to the UN, the North Atlantic Treaty and the entire free world. He said the fight has "seriously damaged the prestige and armies Second O'Dwyer Pal Faces Charge NEW YORK, May 18. (P) William O'Dwyer's top civic sleuth was accused Friday of whitewashing or pigeonholing data on gambling in New York City.

He is Chief Magistrate John M. Murtagh, 39, specifically charged with neglect of duty as investigations commissioner for the O'Dwyer administration. The charge was made by the Brooklyn district attorney. Conviction carries a maximum penalty of a year in jail and a $500 fine. Murtagh had no comment on the charge.

But his lawyer, Lloyd Paul Stryker, said he would plead innocent if the case comes to trial. Murtagh was the second O'Dwyer political ally to face court action this month. Former City Water Commissioner James J. Moran was convicted of lying to the Kefauver Senate crime committee about his friendship with; Brooklyn numbers racketeer Louis Weber. AS YOU of Red China," improved the situations in Indo-China and Malaya and "invigorated" the defense system of the entire Pacific.

At home, Marshall said, the stand of the troops in Korea has provided both time and inspiration for mobilization "on an impressive scale." This mobilization has resulted in the doubling of U. S. armed forces, Marshall added, spurred "a tremendous effort" in munitions production and started the nation "well on the way toward building the kind of defense required for our own security and the peace of the world." 2-P ron rives TOKYO, Saturday, May 19. (P) Chinese Reds Saturday swarmed over thousands of their dead in a two-pronged drive which was re ported forcing an Allied withdrawal all along the flaming, 125-mile front. The twin drive was slowly out flanking Seoul, whose bristling de fenses shttered the western wing ol the first Chinese spring offensive in April.

THE VETERAN US Second Di- visionalone estimated it killed Reds Friday while fighting free of a trap posed by the eastern Red prong near Hangye, 55 miles northeast of Seoul. Saturday, from a new defense line, men of the second division threw back three Red attacks. Together with French and Neth-erland units, the Second has borne the brunt of the new Communist offensive. But the menace of the Reds' eastern prong persisted. Dispatches Saturday said the Reds still were making the most of a major breakthrough of South Korean defenses just east of the second's front.

The second prong began developing Friday 25 miles northeast of Seoul between Chongpyong and Kapyong. There the Reds started crossing the Pukhan River dam under attack by American planes and artillery. This drive's objective was believed to be Yangpyong, a Han River city 27 miles east of Seoul. Yangpyong is about 35 miles southwest of the Red columns at Hangye. The more powerful Red push, for the moment, was around Hangye.

Red forces rolling down the Inje-Hangye road southwest toward Hongchon blasted a big hole through South Koreans and bared the right flank of the US Second Division. A dispatch from US Eighth Army headquarters said the Reds still were on the rampage through the breakthrough. It reported the position of two Allied divisions in the area was "obscure." But the Second Division at least was out of danger for the moment despite this pressure on its eastern flank. Major General Clark L. Ruffner said his Second Division killed at least 10,000 Reds Friday before pulling back through Chinese at tacking the Americans on three sides.

"WE ARE SWINGING into a new line and right now we are in pretty good shape," he said. The 36 hours of heavy action of the Second won high praise from Lieutenant General Edward M. Almond, US 10th Corps commander. Red dead littered the valleys and were draped grotesquely on barbed wire as the four-day-old Red of fensive spread from the east coast for 80 miles to the Pukhan dam sector. It had yet to get going in the west north of Seoul.

But the pres sure grew even there. Three units of the US Second had to fight out of threatened encirclement by Reds who kept on moving up until they reached the very mouths of the division's guns. Smoke screens were used" by the Allies to help cover the withdrawal in the Red breakthrough area of east-central Korea. One Allied company Saturday was reported cut off northwest of Hangye. Southeast of Hangye, a Red di vision penetrated Allied defenses and cut communications.

At Eighth Army headquarters in Korea, AP Correspondent LIKE IT MARKETS 9 RADIO 2 CHURCHES 2-3 WINCKELL 4 SPORTS 10-11 BY ROBERT FORD OLNEY, May 18. (P) A vicious tornado slashed a 220-yard swath of devastation through the center of this North Texas town Friday killing two persons and injuring 100 others. The storm struck this town of 5,000 about 3:15 p. m. twenty-three of the injured remained in a hospital tonight.

Property destruction was enormous. Hand to hand fighting broke out. At one time, allied troops counted 684 Red But the Allies eventually had to withdraw. Two Chinese companies cut off an Allied company on the north bank of the Pukhan southeast of Changgong. Allied artillery beat back a Red attack southeast of Chunchon.

It is on the central front 45 miles northeast of Seoul. In confused fighting in the sector, an encircled allied regiment fought its way clear with the help of another regiment. LAW EXTENDED Draft Age Set Back to 18 1-2 By Joint Panel WASHINGTON, May 18. (A) A Senate-House conference committee Friday agreed to lower the draft age to 18H years and extend the draft law until July 1, 1955. The present minimum draft age is 19.

Friday's agreement partially resolved a month-long deadlock over conflicting Senate and House versions of legislation for a new draft law and for setting up a Universal Military Training program some time in the future. Several key points still remained in dispute, however, and the joint committee will meet again to iron out the remaining differences. The present draft act expires July 9. PRESIDENT TRUMAN and Secretary of Defense Marshall have urged prompt action on the legislation, with Marshall declaring that "each day of delay is unfortunate to put it mildly." Originally, the Senate voted to lower the draft age to 18 and also approved UMT. The House set 18 V4 for both active duty and UMT.

Under the compromise, 18-year-olds could be inducted for training under UMT, if and when such a training system is set up. Chairman Russell (D-Ga) of the House group said that despite the lower draft age they expect few if any youths under 19 will be called in the next two on- three years. They explained that before any local draft board can take a man under 19, it must first exhaust all available men in the present 19-to-26 age pool. The compromise requires all young men to register when they reach 18 and requires local draft boards to classify them before they reached 18M. Classification includes physical and mental tests.

It usually takes about three months. Two points remained in dispute when the conferees ended a three-hour closed-donr session. THESE CENTERED on general UMT provisions and on a House provision that would limit to 12 months the service of any reserve called to duty who qualifies as a veteran of the last war. The Senate version calls for 24 months. The conferees reported agreement on: A 5 million-person ceiling for the combined Army, Navy, Air Force and Marines.

The Senate had voted for a 4 million ceiling, the House had set no limit the administration has set a goal of 3,500,000 or well below the ceiling. A lowering of physical and mental standards for acceptance of draftees, such as prevailed during World War II. Vinson said this would make about 150,000 men rejected as 4Fs eligible for induction. Removal until July 1, 1945 of the present limits on the number of women in the armed forces. The Army WACs, Navy Waves and similar groups, are now limited to two per cent of the strength of their respective units.

Previously, the conference committee had agreed to extend, the present 21 months service by draftees to 24 month, as voted by the Senate. The group also agreed that all persons entering the armed services for land duty must have at least four months basic training before they can be assigned outside the continental United States. This would apply to volunteers, reserves and draftees but would not prevent a Navy man being assigned to a hip. Push Back HARRY S. TRUMAN Bradshaw reported Saturday: The enemy's heaviest effort appears to be in the sector stretching east from Changgong but the pressure there was forcing Allied troops to withdraw all along the 125-mile front." Changgong is about 25 miles northeast of Seoul and seven miles southwest of Kapyong.

It is in the Pukhan dam area. BLOWING WHISTLES and bugles, two Red battalions began crossing the Pukhan south of Changgong in the face cf heavy allied fire. 8 Killed, 60 Hurt As Trains Collide BRYN BAWR, May 18. VP) A fast-moving Pennsylvania railroad Dyer ripped into the rear of a stalled express in this quiet residential suburb of Philadelphia Friday, killing eight persons and injuring some 60 others. The Philadelphia night express, from Pittsburgh, had stopped to check for adamaged equipment.

At 6:38 a.m. (EST), the Red Arrow, bound from Detroit to New York, slashed into the rear of the express. THE LAST CAR was telescoped, its top half sheared off by the force of the collision. The car in front of it was flipped on its side. The Red Arrow's engine climbed straight up into the air and then sagged over, a jumbled mess of twisted steel.

Two cars directly behind the engine both empty crumpled together. Other cars were derailed, windows smashed, furniture and pasengers bounced about. The railroad fixed the death toll at eight at 4:15 p.m. (EST), eight hours after the wreck occurred. Earlier estimates had ranged from three to 13.

The railroad announced this partial list of the dead: C. S. Lowenstein, Indianapolis. metallurgist for the Link Belt in that city. C.

C. Vandeventer, 36, Wilmington, sales representative for the Du Pont Wilmington. Joseph E. Capell, 37, Cleveland Heights, Ohio. Charles Bagbie, 51, Philadelphia, a porter.

Cornelius J. Ridgely, Philadelphia, a representative of the I.T.E. Circuit Breaker Co. Investigators for the Interstate Commerce Commission and the railroad arrived on the scene early. There was no detailed explanation of the cause.

But a PRR spokesman said the collision probably occurred this way: THE NIGHT EXPRESS received a signal advising a stop to check some apparently fouled equipment. The train was 48 minutes behind schedule. It stopped on an overpass, 15 feet above a street and several hundred yards from some fashionable homes in the "main line" residential area 12 miles west of Philadelphia. The Red Arrow, gathering speed, roared around a curve and smashed into the stalled night express. 'General' Coxey Succumbs at 97 MASSILLON, Ohio, May 18.

HP) Jacob S. Coxey. the "general" who led an armv of unemployed In a march from here to Washington in 1894. died Fridav night following a stroke. He was 97 years old.

Coxey, who often said his ambi tion was to live to be 100. had been in failing health for several years, but to the end he remained active and his mind was alert. His wife, Henrietta, died in Jan uary, 1950. at the age of 84. The "general" stirred the entire nation when he led his ragged1 army to the national capital in an effort to bring before Congress the grievances of the laboring class.

Four years ago Coxey went to Washington to present his plans for non-interest bearing bonds before Congress. This was the same plan he had sponsored when he led his original march to the Capitol. In his last appearance he was given a hearing before the Senate banking and corrency committee, but they decided against adopting his 'J Is' 4J i ged Red BY 8 TO 4 VOTE WSB Approves 9-Cent Pay Raise for Packing Workers WASHINGTON, May 18. (AP) The Wage Stabilization Board Friday approved nine cents of a proposed 11-cent hourly wage boost for 220,000 meat packing workers. The issue of the extra two cents was referred to a special committee on inequities.

THE BOARD'S ACTION, opening a new rift in the government's wage "freeze" ceiling, came by an 8 to 4 vote. The four industry members voted against the increase. Leaders of the AFL meat cutters union stood by all day while the board deliberated the case. In Chicago, the CIO Packinghouse workers union was also in session to await the outcome. Both unions had threatened to sti-ike Sunday night if the board turned down their demands.

Hqwever, the nine-cent increase with the extra two cents still under consideration, was expected to prevent any walkout. Originally, Economic Stabilizer Eric Johnston had refused to approve more than three cents of the proposed 11-cent raise, but had left it to the board to decide. NEW YORK, May United Nations General Assembly approved Friday a history-making global embargo against shipments of arms, ammunition and war materials to Red China. Despite cries of the Russian bloc that the embargo resolution was shameful, the Assembly voted 47 to 0 to ask all countries in the world not to ship sinews of war to Red China and the Communist North Korean aggressors. THE RUSSIANS did not say so in words but it was obvious from their attacks on the resolution and the United States that they will ignore it.

They refused to participate in the vote. Eight countries abstained. They were Afghanistan, Burma, Egypt, India, Indonesia, Pakistan, Sweden, Syria. Embargo action developed also in Washington. Senate and House conferees voted to strengthen legislation banning American economic aid to nations which ship war goods to China Russia or other members of the Moscow bloc.

Under the new, toughtcr provisions, other nations would have to certify that they have not sent arms or other war materials to the Communist areas before they could receive further aid. This "will put teeth into the embargo the United Nations now is trying to work out," explained Senate Republican Leader Wherry. Before the vote in the General Assembly, Sir Genegal N. Rau of India appealed briefly for the UN to declare its victory would be achieved by clearing South Korea and halting at the 38th Parallel. He said after the meeting he had no concrete plan, that he was Just throwing out a suggestion.

No one took him up. Ernest A. Gross, United States delegate, answered briefly in the assembly. He agreed with Rau there is no victory in war, but then said that, since modern war is what it is, no one can stand aside either. RAU SAID one of the reasons for his suggestion was a report from Washington that Senator Edward C.

Johnson (D-Cola) had proposed Thursday that the UN seek to halt the Korea conflict forces installations and report the findings. He said emphasis is placed on prostitution and venereal disease control. Allen praised Police Chief Thorp for keeping big-time prostitution stamped out here in recent years. Conditions are "exceptionally good" inside the city, he said, that not one full time "bawdy house" had been found in the course of a three-day survey by the association's investigators. He planned to confer Friday afternoon with District Attorney Bob Long about conditions by the report to exist outside the city limits.

The report, which can not be quoted word for word to protect the identity of the investigators, said prostitution activity found within the city consisted of a group of cab drivers who offered to drive the agents to "four brothels" in the county, and two hotel porters who volunteered to arrange dates. Most of the material in the re duction of arms, ammunition and implements of war." The embargo originally was in troduced by the United States in Ltiie measures committee of the UN, commonly called the sanction committee. Its passage was one of the quickest decisions ever made by the UN. The British and French first ob-jected that the time was not ripe for such action. But Communist China remained silent to all UN moves to start talking peace and the British and French indicated they were ready to go ahead.

Rates on Parcel Post Increased WASHINGTON, May 18. VP) The Interstate Commerce Commission Friday authorized the Post Office Department to make an average 25 per cent increase in parcel post rates. The action was taken on a petition that Postmaster General Donaldson filed last October. Congress had refused Donaldson's request for general advances in virtually all postal charges, but directed that he take up the question of parcel post rates with the ICC. The ICC left it to the postmaster general to fix the date when the higher rates will go into effect.

The Post Office Department announced the rates will be changed in line with the authority on Oct. 1. prostitues. The agents said they were told that "girls" were available on weekend and paydays but "disappeared" at other times. The agents said they found no prostitutes in bars within the city but at two places on the San Antonio Highway over the city limits unescorted women were seen making dates with servicemen.

The cost of a "date" in the county spots was described in the report as $10. Allen told a reporter that periodic investigations in the past three years have shown conditions to be good inside the city, and for the past year and a half to be "excellent." He said he understood the city's vice squad was now making a drive to wipe out i'street walkers" and small-time "hustlers." In recent weeks several vagrancy charges have been filed against women in Corporation Court and a number of procuring charges against men. 1 BUT PROBERS Prostitution Almost RAP COUNTY Nil Within Austin CENTRAL TEXAS Southwest Texas State College will install a chapter of an honorary education fraternity Saturday night. Page 2. SPORTS Blind School seeks track meet victory to regain national crown lost last year.

Page 10. CITY SIDE There'll be new schools but no new auditoriums, despite looming protests. Page 6. BY WRAY WEDDELL A confidential report made public Friday depicts Austin as having very little prostitution but points an accusing finger at an area just south of the city limits. The( report was made by the American Social Hygiene Association and released for publication in part by Whitcomb H.

Allen of San Antonio, a regional representative of the association. Allen said material in the report was gathered by undercover agents. Copies were being furnished Chief of Police R. D. Thorp, the district attorney's ofice, the commanding officer of Bergstrom Air Force Base, Fourth Army headquarters in San Antonio, and the Defense Department.

Allen described the Social Hygiene Association, a 40-year-old privately supported organization, as having a working agreement with the defense establishment to investigate vice in cities near armed port was attributed to cab drivers. It quoted them as saying in substance that "outside" over the city limits line is the place to go. According to the report, the Social Hygiene Association agents visited four spots on the San Antonio Highway. They reported being told that the four places do a big business and some of their customers are "pretty big shots." The report said the operator of one of the county spots was described to an agent as standing in good because she has connections. This operator was described as "powerful" in the "girl racket." Quoted in the reDort was an in- change in Austin during World War II.

All the "girls" were run out, the informant said, leaving nothing but an occasional "hustler" on the streets. When hotels, large and small, were investigated, the report said, bellboys or porters at only two, both small, volunteered to provide DAILY FEATURES CENTEX 2 CLASSIFIED 12-15 COMICS 8 EDITORIAL. 4 LOCAL. 6.