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Dji, Oaw DAYTOX, OHIO, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1951 unnat4 4 flrmm: Nw Tort Trrn W1r rrtp; Lbu4 Tt trta luntu Urmtptft Lmacm. Price 5 Cents Indi O.K. Of 30-Day' -Truce cute inese III WW a 1 JUL- K- Ch Atrocities May Reach 6000, idgway Says U. N. Chief Says No Letup Until Full Armistice TOKYO, Nov.

20. (UP) The Chinese Communist radio indicated tonight that Red negotiators will accept the United Nations "truce by Christmas" challenge in Korea. The Communists are scheduled to give their answer to the U. N. proposal at an armistice subcommittee meeting in 5 i f.

--r; -i tomorrow (9 p. m. EST GO SOUTH, YOUNG MAN! Perhaps some northern Ohioans are moving south in search of better weather, but this particular resident brought most of the recent heavy snowfall with him. This snow-topped auto was spotted in a parking lot at First and Main sts. The owner could not be located, but state patrolmen said the license number indicated the car was from the Cleveland area.

Since Friday night some 20 inches of snow has fallen in some sections of Cleveland. Water Treatment Question Studied Decision On Fluorine Use Due children's teeth fluorinated by dentists or dental hygenists, and that many dentists do so at their own instigation. "It certainly is worthwhile to do something for children's teeth," Dr. Williams concluded," Many communities are experimenting with fluorination of the water supply, he added, but few large cities have done so. The U.

S. Public Health service official, Dr. John W. Knut-son, had declared that efforts to sell communities on the idea are meeting with "resistance and indifference." He termed fluorination of the water supply a "remarkable public health measure." DR. WILLIAMS said the state public health service at first opposed the method, but recently changed its point of view.

He said that so far, the local health division has been going along with the idea of having BOLICH He pi aiidn LT1 Wlrcphoto. Tax Probe Is Changed To Self-Inquiry WASHINGTON, Nov. The many-sided House investiga tion of federal tax scandals switched briefly today to self-inquiry, following the resignation of another top internal revenue official. Daniel A. Bolich stepped aside late yesterday as assistant internal revenue commissioner, giving reasons of health.

His resignation, the third since last June in the- top levels of the internal revenue bureau, came at a time when he was reported under investigation by a House ways and means subcommittee probing Irregularities in the service. At the same time, the subcommittee pushed closed door hearings into rumors that its chairman, Rep. Cecil R. King had brought "improper influences" to bear on certain tax cases in Southern California. King has called the rumors false, and ordered a full inquiry by his group.

'There were these other developments: ONE Sen. John J. Williams (R-Del.) announced that Atty. Gen. J.

Howard McGrath had assured htm Charles Q'Gara would not be fired as assistant U. S. attorney in San Francisco for telling senators there was "a shocking system of corruption" in the San Francisco internal revenue bureau. TWO An official announcement impended involving the office of the Detroit collector of internal revenue the nature of which was not disclosed. Bolich's resignation 'was an nounced by internal revenue commissioner John B.

Dunlap, followed a hurried secret conference with the King subcommittee. Bolich was one of two assistant commissioners under former Com missioner George Schoeneman, who resigned in June because of the physical demands, of office after 42 years an government service. Bolich was reassigned at his own request in August to the management staff of Schoeneman's successor, Dunlap. He gave ill health as the reason for the re quested change in duties. LAST MONTH Deputy Commis sioner Carroll E.

Mealey resigned suddenly for reasons of health following a heart attack. Following Bolich's resignation Adrian W. Dewind, counsel for the King subcommittee, said Bolich had been under investigation "for the past several months" by com mittee and internal revenue In vestigators. i TV Disarmament iLuaiu in Is Suspended British, Russians Jockey For Places PARIS, Nov. 20.

UP) British and Russian jockeying for the star speaking position forced a suspension of debate today on Western disarma ment proposals before the United Nations poltical committee. Both Minister of State Selwyn Lloyd and Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Y. Vishinsky want to speak last in the discussion opened yesterday by U. S. Secretary of State Dean Acheson.

A British spokesman also said believed that the "very profound impression" created in the 60-member committee by Acheson made Vishinsky hesitate to answer too quickly. According to this view, the Russians do not want to appear before the world as spurning the Western plan without consider ate tnougnt. DESPITE PLEAS from Commit ted Chairman Finn Moe of Norwav uor speakers, the group adjourned until tomorrow after brief talks by Brazil, Peru, Haiti and Iran asking the big powers to compose their differences in order to reduce the burden of armaments on the world. Meanwhile, unconfirmed rumors of small cower "mediation efforts" swept through the Palais de Chau- lot. Countries prominently men tioned as trying to find a way of breaking the East-West deadlock were Argentina, Canada, India and Israel.

The U. special political committee heard an optimistic report today on the situation in Greece. Greek Delegate John Folitls told the group his country's fight to put down Communist guerillas had been successful and asked the U. N. to end the six-year-old Special Committee on the Balkans (UNSCOB) which has been watching the situation.

u. is. committee work is expected to be Interrupted Friday for a plenary session at which three members of the security council will be elected. Chile and Pakistan are believed sure of elec tion, but a fight is expected between' Greece, supported by the United States, and a candidate from the Soviet bloc, possibly White Russia. MOSCOW, Nov.

Soviet press poured cold water today on S. Secretary of State Dean Acheson's outline to the United Nations of a Western Big Three disarmament plan, declaring he failed to cite "even one slightly weighty conclusion" which would halt the arms race or end world tensions. "Acheson tried to convince his listeners (at yesterday's meeting of the 60-nation U. N. political committee) that the three-power proposal provides for prohibition of atomic weapons," said Izvestia, the official Soviet government newspaper.

"However," Izvestia declared, "he contradicted himself by ad? mitting that, on this question, the proposals of the three powers are based on the so-called U. N. plan on control of atomic energy and prohibition of atomic weapons; i the Baruch plan." heart, collapsed a patient's lung and performed various leg amputations. Demara entered the RCN in March, 1951, and was commissioned a surgeon lieutenant and assigned to the Destroyer Cayuga. He was flown to Esqui-mault, B.

from Korea and a closed hearing on his case was held last week. In Lawrence, Ferdinand W. Demara 63, said his son left high school 14 years ago to enter the Cistercian monastery at Cumberland, R. I. elder Demara said his son returned home within a year but was still bent on seeking a monastic life.

After serving hitches in the Army and Navy, the younger Demara taught philosophy at St. Martin's college in Lacy, and studied at Purdue university, the father said, He also worked as an orderly at the Massachusetts Eye and Ear hospital in Boston. 365 Prisoners Identified As Crimes Victims Indirectly Says Hanley Did Wrong BY GENE SYMOXDS TOKYO, Nov. Gen. Matthew B.

Ridgway conceded tonight that 6000 or more U. S. troops may have died in Communist atrocities in Korea, but said his command has proof of only 365 such deaths. i The supreme United Nations commander qualified tjie figures given by Col. James H.

Hanley, chief war crimes investigator for the Eighth Army, in his controversial atrocity report last week and contended Hanley exceeded his authority in releasing it. "Investigation of the atrocity report made public last week by Col. Hanley In Pusan makes it clear that the total number of U. S. dead as result of the atrocities and for whom bodies have been recovered il 365," Ridgway's statement: said.

However, the statement added that "there is considerable evidence to justify a presumption of death by atrocity of a large number which may approximate 6000" of the 10,836 U. S. troops missing In action. HANLEY HAD CHARGED that the Communists "murdered" a total of 13,400 U. N.

war prisoners, Including 6270 Americans, since the outbreak of the war June 25, 1950. He said the Chinese alone had slain 2513 since China entered the war a year ago. Ridgway's statement dealt only with atrocities involving American troops. Hanley had charged that the Communists also killed 7000 Turn to RIDGWAY, Page 6, Col. 5 C47 Vanishes, Jet Explodes FRANKFURT, Germany, Nov.

20. -A U. S. Air Force C-47 transport plane with four crewmen aboard vanished yesterday en route from Bavaria to Belgrade. A mammoth air search was organized to comb the northern Adriatic sea.

where it may have crash-landed. The pilot's last emergency message, at 4:16 p. m. (10:10 a. m.

EST) yesterday, reported the plane was "low on fuel and I'm not sure I can make Venice or an emergency landing." Ten C-82 "flying boxcars" and one C-47 were dispatched from Germany to Rome to set up an advanced search base for the plane, lost less than a week after another Air Force transport crashed into a French mountain with 36 fatalities. Aboard the missing plane were two officers, two airmen and miscellaneous cargo for American diplomatic and military personnel at Belgrade. The plane took off from Erding air base at 9:58 a. m. (3:58 a.

m. EST) with enough gas for eight hours of flying. EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, Nov. 20. (Jn-One of Amer-lea's newest and fastest atom bomb carriers crashed in taking off from this Southern California desert base yesterday, killing the iru nf thrpe.

The six-engine B-47 stratojet exploded after the crash. Dead are Capt. Joseph E. Wolfe, 33, experimental pilot, Chattanooga, Tenn.j Maj. Robert A.

Mortland, 30, co-pilot, Clarion, and Master Sgt. Christy N. Spiro, 32, Worcester, Mass. Cause of the crash was not determined but an inquiry is under way: The 60-ton, 600-mile-an-hour bomber was on routine test flight. from Eden To Christ, Is Oursler's Subject From the Garden of Eden to the coming of Christ, "The Greatest Book Ever Written" offers the Inspiring stories of the Old Testament, written for modern readers In a slim-pie dramatic style.

Fulton Oursler retains all the beauty of the Bible as he write with the compassion and understanding that have made him perhaps the foremost religious writer of our time. "The Greatest Book Ever Written" will start In The Day. ton Dally News next Sundny. It Is a condensation of the ik In S5 Instalments and will appear seven days a week. Panmunjom, Korea, at 11 a.

today). Even if the Keds accept the proposal, however, U.N.troops will continue fighting in ho- rea until a full armistice is signed, Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway warned in a formal statement I Under the U. N.

plan, the Allies I would yield to the Communist de- lmand that the present battleline become the cease-fire line pro- vided the rest of the armistice iviiiia lie Bemtru wuiun ou uays. The subcommittee took a day off at Communist request today to permit the Red negotiators to consult Pyongyang, Peiping and probably Moscow. First Indication that the consultation may result In a favorable reply came from the Peiping radio. It broadcast a dispatch by Alan Winnington, correspondent for the London Daily Worker and frequently the sounding board for the Communist viewpoint in the truce delegations. Winnington said the Allied plan comprised "roughly the same policy" proposed earlier by the Communists.

MOREOVER, Winnington said: "The (North) Korean and Chi nese delegation told the Ameri cans Monday morning that if both sides make an effort, the full armistice agreement should be concluded within 30 days after settlement of Item 2 (the cease fire line) of the agenda." Ridewav's statement emphasized that Communist acceptance of the U. plan would not bring either a cessation of hostilities, a defacto cease-fire, or even a slowdown in Korean ground operations at this time. "A cease-fire ran result only upon mutual acceptance of a complete military armistice agreement," the statement said. The supreme U. N.

commander issued the statement with the obvious aim of discouraging over-optimism that a cease-fire either is imminent or necessarily will come at the end of 30 days. Still to be settled by the truce negotiators are such knotty problems as an exchange of war prisoners and supervision of the carrying out of the armistice terms. THE REDS RAISED a possible new obstacle Monday night. North Korean Foreign Minister Pak Hon Yong sent a four-point proposal from Pyongyang to the U. N.

gen eral assembly in Paris that bore no relation to the present Panmunjom talks. On the battlefront hundreds of shouting Chinese Reds threw United Nations forces off a hill on the western front today, but the Allies retook it in a counterattack. The Reds struck west of Yon-choa in battalion strength some 800 to 1000 men a half hour after midnight after suffering heavy casualties in a futile attempt to dent the Allied line a few hours earlier. This time, the Chinese reached the top of the hill. Regrouping at the foot, the Allies stormed back to the crest and seized it against light small arms and artillery fire in an hour-long fight just before dawn.

On the east-central front, U. N. forces drove ahead nearly a half- mile in high ground northwest of Punchbowl Valley. An Eighth Army communique reported only patrol activity along the rest of the 135-mile Korean ground front. Bruce Barton's Wife Dies At New York Home NEW YORK.

Nov. Esther Randall Barton, wife of Bruce Barton, advertising executive, author and former congressman, died today at her home at 117 E. 55th st. Barton is chairman of the board of Batten, Barton, Durstine and Osborn, New York advertising agency. He served in Congress from 1937 to 1941 as a representative of New York.

Mrs. Barton was born in Oak Park, 111., the only daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Charles Randall. Her father was a member and later a director of the Chicago Board of Trade.

She was married to Barton in 1913. Today1 Chuckle A doctor says work will cure a lot of mental and imaginary afflictions. Ytah, and it may replace them with a bunch of physical afflictions. m. I 0 LV "yJ APPOINTED MAPLEWOOI), N.

Nov. 20. Edwin V. lliiftgins, 44-year-old business executive, has boon niuned by President Truman for a recess appointment ns assistant secretary of the Air Force. Iluirgins is executive vice president of the Westinghouse Electric! In-ternational Co.

(Al Wire-photo) Ticup In Blood Work Averted WASHINGTON, Nov. The CIO 'Chemical Workers and Sharp and Dohme, reached agreement on a contract early to day, averting a strike which would have cut off the Army's supply of blood plasma. Spokesmen of the union and the Philadelphia Chemical Co. reached an accord at 5:30 a. m.

(EST) after 16 hours of continuous bargaining. A spokesman of the federal mediation service said he expected the firm's 2000 to ratify the agreement at a meeting in Philadelphia tonight. The spokesman refused to reveal details of the agreement, but it was known that contract talks were deadlocked over a union shop demand. Sharp and Dohme processes about a third of the Army's supply of blood plasma. Defense Department officials at-" tended the negotiations.

The depart ment announced yesterday that, in anticipation of a strike which was scheduled for midnight tonight, blood collections had been halted at 11 eastern military installations. The Red Cross also told several blood-collecting centers to be pre pared to curtail activities. Sharp and Dohme processes blood collected at defense and Red Cross centers to be placed in military and civilian stockpiles. shipments of whole blood to Korea would not have heen affected by a walkout at the Philadelphia plant, which only processes blood into plasma. 12 Tommies Lost, Aral) Paper Says CAIRO, Nov.

Two of the Arab world's larecst newspapers said today 12 British soldiers still were missing after the weekend fishting at Ismailia, in the Suez Canal Zone. A British spokesman here said the report was wrong. The newspapers put the total death toll from the fighting at 30. A summary for the clashes in Ismailia, compiled last night from official British and Egyptian sources, listed these 18 dead and 30 wounded: BRITISII-Five officers killed; three enlisted men and two civilians wounded. EGYPTIAN Scv-n policemen and six civilians killed, 25 civilians wounded.

The British spokesman insisted again today that those were all the casualties his forces had suffered. The report of the missing troops was published in the independent Al Ahram and the pro-governmont Al Misri. The soldiers, Naid Al Misri, "might have been thrown into the canal." British sources reported all was quiet today in Ismailia, which Britain's army held under a firm military occupation following a truce agreement yesterday. Warmer Is Forecast For Thanksgiving It you're planning to drive out to Grandpa's farm for that big Thanksgiving Day turkey dinner, quit worrying about the weather. The weatherman Tuesday promised "fairly decent weather for motoring" Thursday.

He predicted temperatures well above freezing although there may be occasional light rain beginning after dinnertime Thursday and becoming snow flurries next day. THE FORECAST OF warmer weather came on the heels of a temperature reading of 16 at 6:45 a. rn. Tuesday. The forecaster said It would be fair and not so cold Tuesday and Tuesday night with a high of 36 and a lovy of 24.

Wednesday's outlook was partly cloudy and warmer with a predicted high of 45. It didn't get warm enough to thaw Monday. Highest reading locally was 29 and Tuesday morning, the weather report showed, the blanket of frost ex-. tended to the Gulf Mexico. For the next five days temperatures will average about five degrees below the normal of 38, with nearer normal mercury readings Wednesday and Thurs day.

BY CLARKE ASH Daily News Staff Writer A decision by the Dayton health division on the controversial question of whether the city's drinking water should be fluorinated to reduce tooth decay is expected soon, it was learned Tuesday. Dr. H. H. Williams, city health commissioner, said his recommendation will follow that of the Montgomery County Medical society.

That group has the matter under study Dr. Williams said. Commenting on a recent statement by an official of the U. S. Public Health service that fat1 too few communities are following the practice, Dr.

WllUami pointed out th.ere are two points of view on the subject. "One group feels that It Is beneficial to apply fluorine directly to the teeth but questions the other stand that It is necessary to add the chemical to the whole water supply," he explained. He noted also that fluorine is poisonous when taken in large quantities, and that one result of overusage is a condition known as mottled teeth, in which the enamel of the teeth is scratched. Snow Storm Ends In Northern Ohio CLEVELAND, Nov. forecasters boldly pre dicted that Cleveland "hit-skip" snow storm should end today in a series of flurries.

The temperature, too, should rise, melting the icy roads and easing the work of hundreds of diggers, the bureau said. As a-result of the prediction, all but one of 14 suburban schools decided to reopen today. The storm, which piled drifts three feet deep in some places and merely laid a white sheet in other parts of town, still was proving a big nuisance. Other Ohio communities that felt part of the weight of Cleve land's storm included Akron, Warren and Youngstown. The state highway patrol said anyone planning to travel should check first and make sure the con dition of roads to be used.

This condition, patrolmen said, changes almost hourly. With the slackening snowfall yesterday, trains and planes were resuming normal operations, but buses particularly from Pittsburgh, Akron and Youngstown still were off schedule. Bus Crash Deaths Blamed On Sailor OAKLAND, Nov. of heavy drinking, wild driving and wife-choking ended in indictment of a sailor whose car touched off the Oct. 28 Greyhound bus crash on the San Francisco Bay bridge.

The tragedy cost eight lives and injured 21 other persons. Manslaughter and drunk driving indictments were returned late yesterday by an Alameda county grand jury against Boatswain's Mate Orville C. Russell Jr. Russell's car hit a traffic-dividing abutment near the Oakland end of the bridge and tossed a concrete chunk in the path of the bus, caus ing it to plunge 40 feet off a ramp. Grand jury witnesses said Rus sell, formerly of Independence, consumed quantities of wine and whiskey the night before the accident.

They said he terrorized two women and a man in his car by driving wildly about the streets of Oakland and San Francisco. Once, a witness said, Russell threatened to drive the car into a bridge railing "and kill all of you and myself." and if this (addition to water supply) is the way to do it, I'll be for it." Loyd Huffman, city water director, said he was not qualified to go into the medical aspects of the proposal, but that on financial grounds he opposed It. He said it would cost from $1.50 to $2 a year per capita to add the proper amount. 1 "Only 10 per cent of the water we pump is used for cooking or drinking," Huffman said. "The beneficial effects of the rest would be wasted." He said his department has men who could handle the mechanics of the program "if the people decide they want it." Truman Plots Key Speech To W.omen KEY WEST, Nov.

(UP) President Truman flew back to Washington today to make an important political speech sure to set tongues wagging anew in both parties as to what he plans for himself in 1952. The President, accompanied by some members of his staff, took off from Boca Chica Naval Air sta tion this morning. He was due In Washington shortly before noon. The chief executive will speak at 10 p. m.

at the annual dinner of the National Women's Democratic club of Washington at the Mayflower hotel. After the speech and a night's rest at Blair. house, he will fly back to Key West tomor row with Mrs. Truman to spend a few more weeks in the Florida sunshine. Since the President came to Key West on Nov.

1, the speech has taken on new and more important proportions. Much work has gone into the actual wording and as 'a result, it will be the most impor tant political speech the President has made since September, when he made a fiery "go-get-the-Repub- licans" speech to more than 700 West Coast Democrats at San Francisco. Miami Valley Deaths 22 Radio and Television 41 Ralph McGill 16 Sports 28-31 Theaters 12 Washington Merry-Go-Round 18 Women's Pages 23-27 Phone News Tips to City Editor AD-2112 News Inside The NEWS George Kennan May Be Next U. S. Ambassador To Moscow Canadian Navy Fires Skilled Bogus Surgeon George F.

Kennan, experienced and suitably trained diplomat, may be the next U. S. ambassador to Moscow, according to James Reston. Page 42. MANY RED PRISONERS of war have thrown over communism and turned their compounds into colorful replicas of Republican China, according to a New York Times dispatch from Koje Island, Korea.

Page 14. PRESIDENT TRt'MAN has "best-kept" secret in Washington, according to Doris Fleeson, but Democrats are becoming restive for information about his political Intent. Page 9. BUY CHILDREN'S Christmas toys to suit them, not yourself, parents are urged by the Gesell Institute. Story on Page 26.

COLLEGE ATHLETIC leaders are quick to argue judge's accusation football, basketball are sordid big business deals. Story on Page 28. TENNESSEE REGAINS No. 1 spot in A P. football poll.

Story on Page 28. ALSO IN TODAY'S NEWS! Page Page Rettv Fairfax 21 Markets and Finance 32 OTTAWA, Nov. (UP) Red-faced naval sources indirectly paid tribute today to a phony "doctor" who successfully performed difficult operations aboard a Canadian destroyer in Korean waters. The Navy identified the bogus surgeon as Ferdinand Waldo Demara a part-time philos-opher from Lawrence, Mass. He will be discharged for "fraudulent entry" into the service.

It was definitely established, the Navy said, that Demara, 29, entered the service by using the credentials of Dr. Joseph Cyr of Edmundston, N. B. The fraud was discovered when Cyr reported his papers were missing. The Navy was embasrassed by this disclosure because a press released had been prepared praising "Surgeon Lt.

Cyr's" skill with a scalpel. In Korea, Demara extracted a bullet lodged within a quarter inch of a Canadian soldier's Camera News 16 Classified 32-39 Comics 40, 41 Crossword Puzzle 40 Deaths, Vital Statistics 4 Earl Wilson 16 Editorials 18 Eleanor Roosevelt 16 Leonard Lyons 16 Lines By Vines 40 1.