The Daily Courier from Connellsville, Pennsylvania • Page 1

LAST EDITION Dail FOUR CENTS I VOL. 48, NO. 205. Tha Weekly Courier, rounded July 17, 1870. The Dally Courier.

Founded November 10, 1903. Merced July 18. 192S CONNBLLSVILLE, THURSDAY EVENING, JULY 13, 1950. SIXTEEN PAGES. Thomas Morrison, Dies After Leaping From Burning Machine A 19-year-old Dunbar, R.

D. 2, youth died in Connellsville State Hospital late Wednesday night ot injuries received earlier that evening in an automobile accident near the Intersection of the Lazy Hour Ranch road with Route 119. Thomas F. Morrison of Greenbrier was pronounced dead at the Hospital at 10 o'clock shortly after being admitted there. The accl- occurred abou: o'clock.

It Is reported that death was caused by internal injuries. Morrison also received brush burns of the lower part of the body when reportedly Jumped from burning automobile. No cause was given for the fire in the vehicle which was driven by Vernon Lowry, 18, of Dunbar, R. D. 2, and which was owned, by Jesse Burnsworth of Maple Summit.

However, Dunbar firemen who answered the alarm said that faulty wiring may have been the blame. Deputy Coroner Harold S. An- scll said it was reported that the two were riding in the car In the vicinity of Kay's Dairy Bar on Route 119 whcn'Lowry said: "I believe the car's on fire." It was reported that Lowry began to brake the machine but before it came to a full halt, Morrison Jumped out. When It was stopped, Lowry left vehicle. A few later It was reported to have been enveloped in flames.

Morrison was taken to the Hospital in private automobile. An autopsy was scheduled this afternoon. The victim was born September 21, 1930, Confluence, a son of Irene Williams of Ohlopyle. Surviving are hla mother and one brother, Jack Morrison, of Ohlo- pyle. The body will be taken to the borne of an undo and aunt, Mr.

and Mrs. James Williams, at Ohlopyle Friday. A prayer-service will be held at 2 o'clock Sunday afternoon followed by additional rites at 3 o'clock in the Jersey Church, near Confluence, Interment will bo In tho church cemetery In charge of Funeral Director C. B. Brooks.

Lucky Coupon Sale Shoppers To Worthwhile Prizes Several prises will be awarded In connection with the annual summer coupon sale now being held under the sponsorship of the Merchant Division of ths Chamber of Commerce. The sale will continue to next Thursday and will climax with a quiz program nt East'Park In addition to various other cntertanl- ments. Coupons are being dislrblutcd by member businesses of the Merchant Division for each purchase of 50 cents and each similar amount paid on account. In addition to thoso prizes which will be awarded for the coupons, there will be other awards for those participating in the quiz show. The prizes for the coupons include a one hundred dollar bill, gym set.

R. C. A. radio, lawn mower, fitted picnic basket, clothes hamper, six-way floor lamp, week-end case, hammock 'vith frame and a television chair. Prizes to be awarded at the quiz'show will be announced later in the week.

The program featuring Baron Elliott and his orchestra of Pitta- burgh at East Park was postponed from tonight to Monday evening, July 24. The program is being sponsored by the Connellsville lodge, L. O. O. Moose in cooperation with the City Recreation Board and Community Fund.

The serial, shown each week and entitled "The Greun Archer," will be screened at 0:15 o'clock Friday evening. The heavy rain which fell during the day was given as the reason for the postponement. Red China's Admission To UN May Be Peace Price LONDON, July 13. British diplomatic quarters said today Communist China's admission into the United Nations may grove to be Russia's, price for agreeing to discuss a Korean settlement. The regime's position with regard to the" UN, they said, may bo the central theme of the continuing talks in Moscow between British Ambassador Sir David Kelly and Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko.

Walker Reunion. The seventh annual reunion of Walker clan will be held Sun- 'day, July 16, in the Pleasant Valley Grange hall at Wooddale. Relatives and friends are Invited. The Weather Ratlmr cloudy and warm with scattered thundershowers today and this evening, cooler tonight, Friday fair, cooler and less humid is the noon weather forecast for Westam Pennsylvania. Temperature Record.

1050 1319 Maxhmim 00 70 Minimum 7 0 7 1 Mean SO 75 East Park Program Postponed; Events Are Re-Scheduled Plane Crash Kills Two; Injures One Near Pittsburgh PITTSBURGH, July 13. Two persons were killed and a third injured today when four- pasfcenger plane crashed while making an emergency landing on the Montour Country Club golf course near the Greater Pittsburgh Airport. The plane from Youngstown, to Pittsburgh fire when the oil pressure dropped. The pilot attempted to land on the golf course when It became apparent he could not reach the airport. Police tentatively Identified the dead as Millard Ranzon, and a Mr.

Bailey, both oi Youngstown. Both were dead on arrival at Sewickley Valley Hospital. Hospital authorities identified tho pilot as John 33, Youngstown. He was reported suffering from multiple Injuries to arms and legs. Traffic control authorities at the Pittsburgh airport said the four- pastenger -Beechcraft m- mandcr, owned by the Youngstown Airways, Youngstown, left the Ohio airport at 11:15 A.

EST. Fireflghtlng equipment a sent to the scene of the crash from the Pittsburgh airport. Police reported that Lydcn a thrown clear of the burning plane when it struck the ground. A spokesman In the Airways office refused to discuss the accident said officials of the airline were enroute to Pittsburgh. Recruiting Office Ordered to Remain Open on Saturdays All U.

S. Army and U. S. Air Force recruiting stations in Western Pennsylvania have been directed to remain open from 8:30 A. M.

to 5 P. M. on Saturdays to accept, process and ship applicants for enlistment in those services, according to an announcement by Major Charles S. Cherry, commanding officer, Pittsburgh recruiting main station. This is in addition to regular hours prescribed during the week and is designed as a convenience to those Interested applicants who may have to work Monoay through Friday.

The local U. S. Army and U. S. Air Force recruiting station Is located on the second floor of the Post Office building.

The telephone number is 406. Tank Expert Commands UN Forces In Korea By United TOKYO, Japan, July General Walton H. Walker, a 60-year-old swashbuckling tank expert from Texas, took over today as commander of United Nations ground forces in Korea. Walker, commanding general ot the U. S.

Eighth Army since September, 1948, succeeded Major General William Dean, who reverted to permanent assignment of division commander. The change in command was announced in a special communi- que from the headquarters of General Douglas MacArthur, supreme commander of UN forces. The communique was telcased only a few hours after General J. Luwton Collins, U. S.

Army Chief of Stair, General Hoyt S. Vandenberg. Alrforce Chief of Staff, and Adinhal Arthur Radford, Pacific Fleet Commander, arrived in Tokyo by air for conferences with MacArthur. First B-29 Lost. WASHINGTON, July Air Force today reported the first loss In combat of a B-29 bomber in the Korean fighting.

'GHOST FROM THE PAST' HAUNTS SENATE GALLERY See Long, CostlyWar In Korea Tho Senate was treated to this specter Russell shouted. She led from gallery. A "GHOST" clad" In a filmy violet-gray "shroud" treated the Senate in Washington to a bit of furor, but Vice President Alben Barkloy had "It" ejected. Ghost was identified as Mr Russell, Muskogee, who rose up enshrouded to shout, "I am a ghost from the come to warn a fraud Is being perpetrated against humanity." It is bclloved she really Is "from the past," namely, cne of the women xvho In 1041 chained to a canltal building In protest against th draft. (International) Steals Auto From Courlhouse Parking Lot; Goes to Jail UNIONTOWN, July Judge S' John Morrow this morning Fred Johnson, a Unlontown Negro, admitted the theft of a car owned by Kenneth Lane of, Smock, from the courthouse park- Ing lot.

He was fined $150 and sentenced to nine months in jail where he has been since June 10. Tho sentence is retroactive. Spurgcon Kent of Normalville wai arraigned on a plea of guilty of paternity with May Shaffer, 17, us the prosecutrlx. The baby was born March 31. Kent was ordered to pay $75 from March.31 to July 13, and from this time on pay $6 per week.

He also must pay $92.25 lying-in expenses. Two Brownsville men did not appear. John Casper, is in Brownsville Hospital undergoing treatment for a heart condition and Harry J. "Cramer, who pleaded guilty to a numbers chnr'gc, will not be sentenced until Casper Publisher Killed In Road Accident BLAIRSVILLE, July 13. B.

Dwlght Roy, 56, co-publisher and business of the Indiana Gazette, was killed today in a highway accident on Route 119, five miles north of here. State Police said Ray, who was driving alone in his car, failed to make a curve, while returning from" a Chamber of Commerce banquet. He was taken to Indiana Hospital where he died about 4:30 A. approximately an hour after the accident i Ray began with the Gazette 32 years ago after his father, R. N.

Ray, acquired the paper. With his two brothers, N. DeWltt, a twin, co-publisher, and R. Hnstle, president, the family tradition was maintained. A veteran of World War Ray was past commander of the 80th Division Association of Indiana.

He was active in civic affairs and served on the school board. As a Mason he belonged to the Pittsburgh Commandery of the Knights Templar and the Wil- llamsburg Consistory. Tuneral services will be conducted at the family home at 2:30 P. Sunday by Rev. Dr.

Harry Burton Boyd, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church. Ray also is survived by his mother, Belle Ray, his wife, Aniye, and a daughter, Mrs. James Recce of Atlanta, Ga. No Plans For Second 7 Draff Or Guard Call WASHINGTON, July Army spokesman said today that there is no plan now to issue another draft call or to call up thr National Guard. He warned, however that no- Dody -an tell at this stage of the Korean.

fighting what future requirements will be. Selective Service has been ordered to draft 20,000 men and expects to have them in camp by September 30. There had been repoits that the Army would soon call for additional draftees. Some Congressmen want National Guard mobilized. But the spokesman said no such plan is in the works now.

The Korean War conceivably could make another draft call necessary to replace troops sent to the Far East. MOUNTAIN LAW" THREATENED IF BACKFILLING FOR SEALING I. C.Y.COAL MINES IS TRIED Dcclaring he was speaking for the "majority" of members of the Small Coal Dealers Taxpayers Association of Indian Creek Valley, Charles Richter yesterday told The Courier that the agreement--reached In court in Unlontown--on backfilling and sealing, was signed by a minority. "We will not permit backfilling for sealing mines and If necessary we will apply mountain law, which has been good for centuries and is still good," declared Richter. He added'that a special meeting of the organization is to be held In' Normalville schoolhouse at 8 o'clock Tuesday evening.

Sealing and backfilling of mines was agreed upon this week in court in Uniontown. A permanent injunction against water coming from the workings -was agreed upon In event that water contains sulphates, which virtually all mine drainage does. UNIONTOWN, July happens hi the watershed of the Indian Creek Valley is vital to a number of towns and cities receiving their supply from the Mountain Water Company reservoir, into which claim is made that sulphur water is seeping. Those towns include Greensburg, Jeannette and Irwin. Virtually all the water for P.

R. R. locomotives in the district is supplied'from the Indian Creek- watershed, the largest in the entire State. Operations of 63 small mines in the Indian Creek valley have been closed as a 'result of the preliminary injunction decreed by President Judge W. Russell Carr.

The claim is made that none of the smaller companies have the necessary permission to operate from the Sanitary Water Board. Military Plane Crashes In Rugged Mountain Area By United Prew. TUCSON, July 13. -A "large" military plane crashed In mountainous Crook National Forest northeast of here early today and air search pilots reported some survivors were seen. Officials at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base here said three survivors sighted on a ridge two -miles west of scattered wreckage.

The plane crashed and burned shortly after midnight In the rugged Galiura Mountains near Bassett Peak about 40 miles northeast of here. Clifford Stahl, Tucson, who flew over the scene, said the wreckage was strewn over a large area. Ground parties were sent to the scene. Stahl Identified the craft as a military plane but could not determine the type. Earlier reports salt! It was a large craft.

Davis- Monthan Air Force base Is an opeiation center for B-29s and B-ROs but otltdals lefused to s.iy whether the -plane was theirs. Allrighf We're Stuck; Have Any Suggestions! PITTSBURGH, July rer headline writers today lored the union certified by the National Labor Relations Board to represent workers for the Columbia Marble Company never get in the news. The union is called the International Association -'of Marble, Stbie and Slate Polishers, Rubber i and Sawyers, Tile and Marble Setters, Helpers and Ter- Workers Helpers of the Arrerican Federation of Labor. S. Chamber Asks Congress To Delay Excise Tax Culs WASHINGTON, July U.

S. Chamber of Commerce urfed Congress to postpone coi slderation of general excise tax reductions until end of the KOI can crisis. I. said it may be necessary to Inc ease taxes. The Chamber's position was presented to the Senate Finance Commltte by Ellsworth C.

Alvord chtlrman of its committee on federal finance. He said Congress shculd not enact today legislation wh ch it might be compelled to repeal tomorrow. C'ongress already has written off excise tax reductions 'as a casualty of the Korean war and is 1 tracing itself for a possible re- qui st for higher taxes to meel mointlng war costs. The administration has advised the Senate and House tax-writing corimittes it would not to go ahead with excise cut "in the light of developments in Korea." Alvord went along with thai idei. Everybody hopes and prays tria the Korean crisis may be cor fined to Alvord said en if it IB, it may prove costly In Ives and it certainly will prove in dollars.

If events take a turn for the worse, a system of wartime taxes must be devised and imposed. And evi if events take a turn for the we are: confronted with increased costs for our am for military protection." New Judge to Take Oath. PITTSBURGH, July attorney Austin L. Stalcy will be sworn in as an associate judge of the U. S.

Third Circuit Court of Appeals July 31. Staley succeeds John J. O'Connell who died last December in. Luxury High And Diy On River Rocks (JUEBEC CTY, July Cunard luxury Franconla perched high am dry today on razor-sharp rocks olf a tiny St. Lawrence River is- laid--Us bow 20 feet clear tin water.

"he 601-foot long liner, wltl mere than 800 pussengeis hit the locks lust night less than 1m an hour after leaving Quebec Clly bound for Liverpool, EnK- lui No one was injured aboard the vessel, veteran of severa huidred Atlantic crossings and a wartime stint as a troopship Mi ny WPI watching a shipboart me vie. There was "little, If any pa tic," Cunard officials said COMMUNIST TANKS ATTEMPT TO FLANK U. S. TROOPS; AIM TO CUT OFF TRANSPORT LINES Fifty B-29s Drop 500-Ton Bomb Load On Key Rail Center By United WASHINGTON, July 13 --Pres- dent Truman is expected today confirm the Nation's fear that are in for a long, costly and bloody struggle in Korea. But Mr.

Truman's confidence of ultimate success remains unshaken. He is supported in that by he Pentagon high brass. The President will discuss the Corean crisis with correspondents at a news conference scheduled 'or 4 P. At the White House and at Nat- onal Defense Headquarters across Potomac River there is a gravely serious but confident atmosphere. Among some members of Congress, however, there already are symptoms of war Jitters.

From various members are coming demands for immediate atomic war, breaking relations with Russia, for censorship and for and military mobilization. Rep. Lloyd M. Bentsen, won a salvo of House cheers yesterday with a proposal for an jtomic ultimatum to North Korea. Republicans and Democrats alike whooped it up when Bcnu.en said: "I propose that our Commander- in-Chief, the President, advise the commander of North -Korean forces to withdraw in one week or North Korea will be subject to atomic attack." Sen.

Owen Brewster, told newsmen Mr. Truman should let Gen. Douglas MacArthur use the A-bomb "wherever he thinks it is needed." An immediate end to diplomatic relations with Soviet Russia and all her Communist satellites was proposed by Sen, Fat McCarran, Nev. Sen. Lyndon B.

Johnson, told his colleagues that "minimum national security" requires that all the armed services be placed on combat basis, enactment of Industrial mobolization legislation and mobilization of National Guard and reserve units presently on a drill pay basis. Bentsen and others believe the Korean fighting may end in another Bataan or Dunkirk--either the capture of all hands or a retreat by sea from the battle front. There is no support for such fears at the Pentagon. The generals and admirals concede that the news from Korea will continue bad for another three or four weeks. They expect the -drive back to the northern borders of the South Korean Republic may require many months.

TOKYO, July 50 B-29 buperfortresses plastered a key North Korean military target with 500 tons of bombs today'ln the mightiest single air' blow "of the Korean campaign. The mission inaugurated mass precision bombing by two groups of superforts hurried here from their west coast bases. War-trained crews flew the four-engine', bombers- 'from two Far Eastern bases through rain and mist for the largest mass foray of the campaign. The target was a railroad center north of the 3Bth All of the planes and their eager, youthful veterans returned safely without meeting opposition on the daylight raid. It took exactly eight days to deliver this new punch--from the date overseas orders were first delivered to the release of the bombs.

In that time the men, their plans, and most of their equipment were moved 8,000 miles and prcspared for an air blow that meant a round trip'of more than 1,500 miles. Air, officers here Judge Carr Names County Defense Unit Ralph B. Worthington of Un- lontown was named deputy county defense coordinator today by Judge W. Russell Carr, Fayette county defense coordinator. Other appointments Include: Harry J.

Brownfield, county chief of education and welfare division; Sheriff Jacob" H. Echard to chief of security division; W. K. Gossett, manager of the" Bell Telephone Company office at Uniontown, to chief of communications division; John W. Rankin, county commissioner, to chief of' utilities, transportation and industry; W.

Ralston McGee, county coroner, chief of medical and medical evacuation dlvitlon, and Fred L. Brothers, district attorney, to chief of' evacuation, dispersal and repatriation division. Also named to the defense steering board were Daniel Durie of Connellsville, Andrew Ebenhoch of Belle Vernon and Michael Karolcik of Perryopolls. C. F.

"Red" Sterbutzel of Connellsville was named to one of 12 post supervision positions while others Included William J. Burchinal of Smlthfleld, Victor Holt of Farmington, Sturgis Colborn of Mill Run" and Donald E. Heck of Moyer. 40 Hurt As Special Train Hits PAYNESVILLE, July 33, Foity persons weie injured today when a special Soo Line passenger, tiain collided head-on with a train mile east of hers today. Three persons were reported In serious condition.

The 15-car train was carrying about 300 members of the Pennsylvania and Atlantic Seaboard Hardware Association nnd the Ohio Hardware Association to convention at Seattle, Wnsh. proved the speed strategic bombing this with which assignments could be carried out throughout the world. One of the aircraft commanders, First Lieutenant James T. Patrick of Carnation, said It differently: -will make Uncle Joe sit upland take notice." Korean Crisis May Set Back Congress Adjournment Plans WASHINGTON, State Democratic July 13. -Leader Sco'tl W.

Lucas, 111., said today that, in view of the Korean'crisis, he has just about abandoned hope of adjourning Congress on August 1. He told newsmen that Congress would not dare quit on that date unless the -military situation in Korea has been vastly improved. About the best the legislators could hope he said, is a series of short recesses. Congressional leaders have set adjournment -deadline. They said that would depend "upon the Administration's legislative request for 'prosecuting the war.

Chairman Elmer Thomas, D. of the -Appropriations Subcommittee on Military Spending told newsmen he expects a request for an additional in Defense -Funds next week. Elsewhere in Congress: Taxes--Congress wrote oil the House-passed tax reduction bill and braced itself for a possible Administration request for higher taxes to meet mounting military costs. The House had voted the $1,010,000,000 cut in excise levies before the Korean war started. Communists Sen.

Bourke Hickcnlooper, that Senate' Communist" "Investigators' look- Into new charges by Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy, that the State Department stripped its loyalty flies of "derogatory information." He said the investigating subcommittee should hold up its pending report on Communists in Government until it does so. Petition--The House UnAmerl- can Activities' Committee warned loyal Americans to be on their guard against a so-called world a a petition circulated by "The Campaign Committee for World Peace." Rep. Barnard W.

Kearney, N. said the petition is Communist-sponsored and is "designed to confuse and divide the American people and paralyze their resistence. aggression." Security The House has passed, 327 to 14, legislation permitting key Government agencies to fire'security risks. President Truman would be authorized to extend the privilege to all Government in an emergency. Iron-Steel Rep.

Helen Cahagan for and Steeria-Um event of war.7 She said'a "gray already has developed. Soil Muiiaiceiiient-FIelJ Day. The tlilrd-atuiuul-soll-inanage- ment day in be held the Arnolds-Brothers Farm on Route 711, near Flatwoods. It Is sponsored by the Fayctte County Agricultural Extension Service in cooperation with other agricultural and farm groupi of the vicinity. By United Preu.

July of Communist tanks struck out for the mountain passes Central Korea today in a flank- ng drive-designed to'slice in be- ilnd the American forces along he Kum River'defense line before Tacjon. North Korean armor, artillery irifd'ntry were reported vhecling eastward from the Kum River sector, United Press Corres- ondent Rutherford Poats said in dispatch from the Korea war zone. "Heavy pressure on the South iCorcan lines and a buildup.of Red forccsr.on the 'southeast coast ibove Pohang bo- lef that" the invaders may be planning to by-pjss the'Kum Riv- and hit through the middle," "pats' dispatch said. A spokesman at advanced American headquarters said North Korean armor and artillery ilready slugging" down through the hills some 15 miles of Chongju, north of Tac- jon, and approaching the eastern reaches of the Kum. The mcan- lerlng river has its head in thu hills east of Tacjon.

The South Koreans making an uncertain defense of the region to the east of the American positions were giving ground as tha Communists moved up. The North Korean push around the cast flank of the Americans was reported by field dispatches and Gen. Douglas midnight communique. "Enemy enveloping forces are attempting to negotiate the Tabck Mountain passes in an attempt to break through between Taegu and Taejon," MacArthur reported: Such breakthrough would cut the arterial transport lines between-the Americans digging in along the Kum' River and the big American' entry port of Pusan on the southeast coast. U.

S. Superforts struck the most powerful air blow of the Korean war. Nearly 50 of them showered 500 tons of bombs on an unidentified North Korean target Dirty weather in the battlt area cut Into the round-the-clock assault by American and Australian Korean forces directly behind-tha lines. MacArthurlreported in ipec- fair the United States.had.suffered fewer than 500 "casualties so far in war. They include 42 killed, 100 wounded and 256 missing.

Many of the-latter were expected to turn up sooner or later. -units in Korea are fighting one of the most skillful- and heroic holding actions in history," MacArthur said. regular midnight commun- ique, trailing. well behind, field reports, said American and South Korean forces "continued to withdraw, before numerically superior forces to take up defenses behind prepared" positions and 'natural barriers." The 'main "movement to which it referred was the U. S.

withdrawal io the south bank of the Kum, a dozen miles north of Taejon. It was after the positions in the U. S. sector were stabilized along the Kum that front reports said Communist, troops, armor and artillerxuwexei. reported wheeling eastward "Join in tha big scale flanking maneuver.

MacArthur reported that two Communist divisions, tho Fifth and 15th, were mauling South Korean forces around Chungju, 52 miles northeast of Tacjon. The South Koreans were falling bade in the general area to the east of the U. S. positions. "Reinforcements believed to Korean Manchuria are reported.

In Seoul," MacArthur reported. Chinese Red HONG KONG, July Chi- ncse Communist.troops which captured Hainan Island off South China from the Nationalists are moving northjrdisaptches from tha mainland said. today? There was no indication whether the-troors were joining- units massed opposite Formosa or other armies reported 'gathering on the Korean- borrier 1 -The dispatches said the troops, mostly Manchurian units of Red Gen. Lin. Piao's command, are being moved north through Can- tonrby night Routine transportation out ot Canton was -reported virtually halted, with "only tin ee locomotives available for pusbenxur traffic.

The lepoiU said gasoline and medical- nupplles-also were being shipped Announce U. S. Losses. TOKYO, July Douglas MacArthur reported today th'at American Idsiex in the Koretrt war far were fewer than 400, tacludibi '42 killed. v-.