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Evening Hours are Reading Hours THE GASTONIA GAZETTE GASTON COUNTY, THE FINE COMBED YARN CENTER OF AMERICA Thd Weather NORTH C.IROM.VA. Partly rlaiidT Jnd rontlnurrl hot to- nllhl and widely iritltred thunder ibow- VOL LXXII. NO. 154. ClrcllafM GASTONIA, N.

THURSDAY AFTERNOON, JUNE 28, 19517 SINGU COfY RUSSIA DISCLOSES ARMISTICE TERMS if Allied Gunfire Smashes Enemy Attacks Women Like It Barbers Tell Men To Keep Head Of Hair -BY HAL NEW YORK Bald-headed men of America, arise! The enemy Is altacklng us again. They are at our very pates. Who's our foe this time? Nobody but our old cutthroat nation's barbers. Who'd have thought those gay blades would ever razor voices against ns2 Bui listen: 7 "Men with hair are more virile and romantic lhan those whi are bare-headed slander came today from Nick a 1 this, president of the United Master Barbers of America. "Although (here may be no bio logical relatlon- CHINESE APPEAR TO BE MASSING FOR MAJOR PUSH Sharp Fighting Flames 'Across Central Front As Opposing Armies Probe Enemy Lines.

TOKYQ, June Thundering Allied artillery today smashed a series of Chinese attacks which Lt. Gen. James A. Van Fleet warned may be forerunners of a new Red offensive in BOYLE First-Hand Account Given between baldness and virility," lie added, "the confidence that goes with having a full hc.id of hair gives men more nerve in their amours. "Barbers know very well that a woman regards a man's hair in the tame light as a man regards a woman's figure." how does a wise mail prefer woman's figure? Covered with a buffalo pelt? Caluthis teed off on us balrlies In releasing 1m organization's annual selection of the "Ten best male heads of hair in America." His lucky ten: Kducator Alfred C.

Kinsey. slates- man Bernard Barnch. 'hnrnllcvirr Kiliott Laurence. New York Police Commissioner Thomas P. Murphy, artist Salvador Dali, film sctor Errol Flynn, scientist Albert Einstein, government-and-business-e ecntive Nelson A.

Rockefeller, sportsman Ben Hogan. and radio and television star Arthur Godfrey. There, is no quarrel to be found the sentimental, old- fashigned folk who sllll like liairy- lopped men best. More iieople in the world live In thatched huts than in houses with roofs, but they aren't as comfortable, "Hair is like a muscle." said Calu- this. advocating daily brushing.

The United Nations ground commander foresaw no "major thruit immediately." But, he said on a tour of the fighting fronts, "The Chinese appoar to be building up for another effort" lo overrun U. N. lines. Neither Van Flert nor the supreme Allied headquarters of Gen. Mallhew B.

Ridciray would discuss a Russian cease fire proposal. Van Fleet said IK knew -nothing about it. "Of course, in our hearts, we all want peace," Van Fleet said. "But we won't let lip on the enemy." Sharp fighting flamed all across the central front as opposing armies continually probed enemy lines. HEAVY ACTION" Heaviest action was near Kum- wha, where a Red battalion attacked a N.

division last nlghi. Allied artillery broke up the attack Iri the early morning hours. Oilier attacks followed until daylight. All were smashed. In the adjoining Kumsong sector, two other Red battalions beat back Allied efforts to probe defenses In Rrd buildup aiea.

The Reds are "continuing to de- stubbornly all across the front," Van Fleet commented. stubborn defensive attitude shows that they do not want us to go farther north." And. he added. It "could be screen- ing'an attack buildup." On a visit to all three corps of his Fiihlh Army, Van Fleet re- piirfeu'he found the morale high hy Hed ladles or cease-fire talk. In Tokyo a spokesman for General said both the supreme commander and Van Fleet had their orders and would not comment "Keep it exercised and it won't an until consultation you or fall down." Operating oti this theory, the average barber must go home at night too tired to lift an arm to his own head.

Most barbers I meet look- less like Einstein than they do Mexican hairless dogs. As a matter of fact, barbers actually seem to have a marked distaste for customers with bathmat-thick cranial shrubbery, ft is easier to clip a lawn than hack a path through a jungle. What forward lookin? man with the American joint chiefs of staff. One member of the joint chiefs of staff was brought under Communist fire during the day. He is Adm.

Forrest P. Sherman, chief of U. S. Naval operations. Sherman was aboard the battleship New Jersey when Red shore batteries sent shells screaming across her decks.

REDS MISS VESSEL Geysers of water on cither side of the big battleship as Red taste today wanU to keep his hair warship's bi anyway? It falls in his eyes, gets caught in electric fans, grows over Iiis ears and makes it hard for him to hum over the telephone. It isn't of help to him in any way, except es a cushion if he is Hit with a blackjack. And a man who keeps getting hit with blackjacks doesn't really need more hair. He needs more judgment. All the evidence of modern science tends to prove that bald-headed men are actually more virile than hairy-headed men.

Smart women have already found that out. loo, and nobody lias to feel sorry for ''old 1 He's doing ail right. The reason he doesn't brag mofe Is that he doesn't want the guys with hair to shave it off and increase his competition. The most successful Casanova rver knew was basketball. a as a.

guns watched, silenced the the shore, batteries. No one aboard the New Jersey was injured. It was the 133rd consecutive day that U. N. warships shelled Wonsan.

Nevertheless, night'-Jlylng planes reported they saw the heaviest Red highway traffic in months moving down the cast coast through the Wonsan area. It was headed toward the front. Truck rnnvnys also rolled down western highways Inward Ihe Red buildup north of I'yonf- jang. heavily-sruardrrf Up of the. former Red iron triangle.

U. X. have predicted Reds plin CpL Payne Relates Red War's Horror "I've seen a lot of things I've been through a lot of'things I don't want to go through them ECONOMIC CURBS PROGRAM FACES EARLY COLLAPSE House Anc! Senate, Ar- NO TRUCE SEEN IN OIL QUARREL Iranian Premier To Keep Oil Flowing To West Crisis Is earing Explosion Stage. TEHRAN, Inn, Ju Premier Mohammed Mossadegh sent an urgent pervonil meMafe to President Truman today. Informed sources said expressed a desire to keep Iran's oil flowing- to the west.

These sources said Ihe message, sent after a late night cabinet session, showed no hint of compromising the bitter dispute between Iran and Britain over nationalization of the Anglo-Iranian oil company's holdings. Fesrs are being expressed that the crisis is near the explosion stage. It was plain that government circles were concerned over the threat of mass resignations by the AIOC's 2.800 British employes. Should the British managers and technicians pull out, the billion-dollar oil Industry here would, in all probability. have to close.

down. Western Europe's defense Is largely fueled by Iranian western oil. The statement yesterdsr S. Secretary of Stale Dean Acheson appealing for a stop-gap arrangement which would let the British employes stay in Iran la keep thc.oil moving waj believed to have had an effect on Iranian officials. U.

S. Ambassador Henry F. Grarly was handed the message for Tru- msfn by Foreign Minister Baghcr Kazcmi in a brief meeting. The middle-of-the-road newspaper Atesh said the message expressed Iran's desire to keep the oil flow- ng but blamed the British for mass resignations which might slop it. India's Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru messaged Mossadegh urging a policy of moderation In the Interests of world peace.

The Anglo-Iranian Oil Company reportedly expects word from London to send its remaining Dritlsh employes home and shut down. Women and children have all gone and the British cruiser Mauritius was Cpl. Raymond Victor Payne, a 19- year-old lad with a grin and friendly eyes, a lad who hail seen Ihe hell of war (he viciousness of battle, with all the seriousness he could muster made the above statements. And can you blame him? He's, Just returned from Korea where lie experienced night-and-day torture with Ihe fabulous Second Division Take a couple of days in November for instance. On November the Chinese pounded touthward In wives.

The 11. S. Second Division ttubbornly ffl! back, first toward Won and then farther south toward Konu. A perimeter was held at Kunu until everything could be'brought the Chongehon lo the east bank. Meanwhile, the divisional command post had been set up about eight miles southeast of Kunu.

On the morning of November 29. re- pork arrived lhat an enemy roadblock had established on the ICiinu-Suchon road, about three miles from the command post. Several vehicles trying to reach Slin- chon, 19 miles south of Kunu, had been shot up. A company of infantry and two platoons of tanks were sent tn hreak through. They came back at dusk, reporting that the enemy was firm- entrenched.

One lank wo.s lost. ANOTHER ATTACK The night of November 29-30. the Chinese threw everything they had at the division. The command post came under lire about midnight, when 10 to 15 mortar rounds dropped among the tenLs, Meanwhile, frantic messages were pouring In from front-line command posti. They tolrt of ammunition shortages and battalions wiped out.

All posts B.skeii,'"Is the roadblock open? Can we get out toward Sun- chon?" The answer was a terse "No." Payne and his division were trap- Jed for six days behind the pas-s before they finally broke through. One news article quoted an offi- "All morning we kept asking (he Ninth If they had cracked the roadblock and 'they kept saying they tiadn't quite eliminated It. About noon we decided to run Ihe roadblock. "With a reconnaissance group leading the way, out. The slow, lumbering eight-inch howitzers were put to the rear of the line.

"It took most of Ihe vehicle! four to five hours to run the blockade. The Chinese were pour- Sire from the fidles the road and at every vantage point where there was turn. Trucks slopped to pick up the wounded. Sinlnj them two tiers deep. The general's vans were used to carry wounded "The roadblock had to be run.

It was kill or be killed. I was firing all the time. The assistant G-2 (intelligent officer) was right beside me when he was hit. A bullet drilled iiim right through the heart, and lie fell on top of me." Payne, the son of Mr. and Mrs.

Harry Payne of Alexis, arrived home Friday night, June IS. He sailed for Korea July 21, 1950, and landed there August 5. He was In battle most-of the time while there. The corporal will report back lo Ft. Jackson, S.

July 15 to finish his 16 months enlistment period. IK: gue Over Extension Of Rollbacks Are tested. Con- lo launch an offensive frnm Ihis (ordered to stand by off the oil pori b) 'he second in July, Abadan. site of the world's larg- down the Uijonghu invasion corridor toward Seoul. Bad weather hampered aerial efforts to strike at them.

But Wednesday the U. S. Fiflh "Boys with hair give me a laugh," A(r rorcc rocketed and bombed sup- he said once. "When I go out with a IP'S' arc: ar 'law in close to the 'front to support ground troops. Pilots 'returning from Thursday girl, I bend over and let the light hit my dome.

It back into her eyes and dazzles her. gradually hypnotizes her. I guess, but whatever it works." Fur luzz? Why, fuzz, of course. And if the master barbers make a campaign against us, they'd better natch out. If they won't give ns bald.ies no quarter, baldies won't give them no quarter either.

Margaret Truman Vatican VATICAN CITY. June Msrcarrfc Truman visited Pope Pius Xll'today. The President's daughter was somberly gowned and veiled In black us she walked through ancient and splendid walls of Vatican Pal- nee. Accompanying her was Msgr. Martin John O'Connor, tlliilar bishop of Tespia and rector of the North American College in Rome.

guards in brilliant co cl designed by Michelangelo, stood it attention and presented (heir ancient halberds as Margaret stepped -Set WAR, r-l- rg- refinery, to cover evacuation of the men. It will also guard agaiasl disorders. PROTEST MADE Iran formally protested to Iraq today against the presence or the Mauritius In Iraq river waters. The government radio said Iraq Charge -See. IRAN, P-4- Plotting Against Reds Catholic Prelate Receives Sentence BUDAPFST.

Hungary. June CMM cf Iwn nlhcr on-Roman Catholic A rch bishop! Dr. F-laJo-- Pnsracz. a HnniiBrian na- Grocsz was convicted aho had been employed by ting to overthrow the Com-; the u. S.

legation, and Dr. Laszlo WASHINGTON, June I i economic controls a in, under which the government, aims to halter prices, wages and rents, appeared today in imminent danger of collapse, victim of an argument between House and Senate. (he two chambers can square their views and a new extend the old one by Saturday night, the Dnfeiue Production Act which authorizes the controls will die. The Senate today drove Inward vote by nlthlfall on a nrw measure which would sharply limit price control powers. But House moved at a more leisurely pace a.x it leaders agreed to a simple "siop-iap" extension of the nlrl measure to give Ihe lime to work out a Ions-term law.

That was the cause of Ihe'dlverg- ence- of views Ijetween the two chambers. Senator (D-SC) announced in the Senate last night that "several of as Intend to talk and lalk and talk" to kill any move for a stop-gap continuance. The House did not even consider the controls bill officially yesterday as Its Democratic and Republlcai leaders got together on the onc- inontji extension plan. KEJECTS MOVE The Senale, In a ses-sion (hat ran well into the a move In knock out of Its bill a drastic Ihe government's ail- IIOPK SKU.KRS BOUND I'OR PRISON-Kaymnnrl Kosarlr, (ltd), 50. and Kiijene Tramajllno, 35, convicted dope Mllerj, try to hldr Ihelr faces in living New Ynrk Federal rourl under hei'vy prlioii Kt sarl was senlenccil (o 15 years In prlsnn and was lined 511.000.

rmnaillnn drew a prlnon sentence flnrrl 54.000. Kosario's penally was the heaviest ever Imposed for a narcotic nfffinc In the Nrw York district. (AP Wlrcpholn.) Prolonged Talks Necessary detailed and perhaps prolonged ploratory talks will be necessary be- ifore it can be known whether there Is real basis hope By a 61 vote. Ihe j.J,^,™ lhat on Ihe senators adopted a provision forbid- ding price rollbacks to levels lower lhan those which prevailed between ast January and February 24. Twenty-live Democrats and 36 Republicans voted lo retain the provision, sponsored by May bank.

Twenty-one Democrats and five Republicans opposed it. Tlie law now allows rollbacks lo the "pre-Korca'' level of May to June, 1950. Tlie Senate voted. -17 In 33. approval of an amendment by Senator Butler iR-N'cb) eliding OPS authority to impose livestock slaughtering rjuota.s.

Seven Democrats sidctj witli 40 Republicans in putting over this proposal. Red Peace Move Encourages U.S. WASHINGTON, June American official were described as mildly encouraged today over Russia' response to the first American request eianfieaUon Jacob A. Malik's cease-fire suggestion. But Informants snld DR.J.M.

DOUGLAS TAKEN BY DEATH Former Of Ciastonia Schools Suc- climbs At Davidson In an arrangement containing adequate guarantees against (nice violations can be worked out. igcncie.s were readying slaml-by ilans for action in event an armls- Ucc is established. Balanced ngninst this is the Impression among diplomats hern that iny chances of an immediate ccasc- iire are dimmed by the need for fmlher clarification of Ihe Soviet and Chinese authorities feel It Is nnt yet clear whether Ihe Chinese Kerl.s would inslsl on conditions unacceptable to the hi the United Nation: anil control of Formosa, for example. Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko was reported by officials who may not Ire named to have told U. S.

Ambassador Alan Kirk in Moscow yesterday thai Malik, chief Russian delegate to the U. contemplated field ncso- tialions belween the Korean Communists and U. N. military commanders. Kirk reported his cinc.sLEon* and Gromyko's replies to the State De- BflflvT IN TAXES ASKED Truman Wanting House To Tag Additional Three Ril- lion Dollars Budget.

To Prcsenl The Truman administration today asked thf Senate to about "1 ,000.000, 000 more tn Ihr Houie- approvrd boost In Individual Income and excise Secretary of the Treasury Snydc told the Senate Finance Committee. Ihe lax hike voted by the House Insufficient, because It threatens to put the government tn the rcil and add to Inflationary pressures. Congress, he Insisted, should provide at least the roughly $10.000.000,000 In extra taxes asked by Truman originally and should aim chiefly at individual income and excise taxes for the 000,000.000 addition to the House lax bill. The House measure would rplsc individual Income taxes by 12 partment late yesteiday pcr cent ln provide an extra 1817,000,001) In yeaily revenues. Ex- oiHMts Kf jcise taxes on gasoline, tobacco and Meanwhile, representatives rrf the! olt would bc 16 United Nations fighting in Ko- amounts to bring In "I'm proud to be out of that place and hope I'll never go back' Pec tlc he said.

eaj i Dope Racket Probe Pushed June James M. Douglas, 83, professor emeritus of physics at Davl'son jrea "mei'at'tfic depa'rTmcnT 1 252 0 000 morc Coliese, died here their readiness to Join in! He retired In 1944 after 4.1 years i peace "action" provided it wa.s de-j as a member of Ihe Davidson Col-islgncd to produce a "genuine and! For many 5 Mrj h( wal i ur nls K()r( an Miflcincnl. id graduate manager of! Tills insistence appeared lo (he college athletic association. for Ihe Communist side' Dr. Douglas was an organizer nfjin two respects.

Diplomats ill Sigma Pi Sisma. national honorary! meant lhat Hi U. N. powers arc not! phvsics fraternity. jicady to sacrifice basic He was born Sept.

6, 1867 nrar make iwacc appeasement Blackstock. Sou MOSCOW WANTS RUCEARRANGED BY WARJHIEFS Soviet Suggests Commanders Negotiate Armistice Limited To Military Questions. WASHINGTON, June State Department nnounced today that Russia las proposed that United Nations, North Korean and led Chinese commanders ne- a Korean armistice. Tlie Soviet Union suggested ar. ilstlce terms limited "to strictly illttary questions." The proposal made to AmbasKi- or Alan G.

Kirk by Soviet Depuy Foreign Minister Ciromyko In touched on principal issue. 1 Gromyko, Ihe department said, indicated lhal It would be for he military representatives of the inlflcd command and of the Ko- ean Republic command on Ihe ona land ami the military rcpresenU- Ives of the North 'Korean com- nand and of the 'Chinese Volun- ary on the other to ne- lottalc the Armistice envisaged Mr. Malik's statement." Jacob Malik, Soviet itrlpjilt to the United Nations, put forward the original ccasc-flrt suggestion In a ipeech Salurday. Kirk, on Instructions from Secretary of Slate Achesnn, called on Gromyko yesterday tn seek a eUrlticalion ul Malik's speech. Tlie Stale Department announcement said: "Tiii Armistice, Mr.

Gromyko cease and would be. limited to strictly military questions, without Involving any territorial matters: Ihe military would discuss questions of assurance against the resumption of hostilities. LIMITED PROPOSAI, "Beyond the conclusion of an Ar- mlstlco the Soviet government had no specific steps in mind looking toward Ihe peaceful settlement lo which Mr. Malik referred. Mr.

Gromyko Indicated, however, that it would be up to the parties in Korea to decide what subsequent special would have to be made for a political territorial settlement." "He said that llie Soviet government was not aware of the'views of the Chinese Communist, regime in Mr. Malik's statement. "The implications of Mr. Gromyko's observations are being studied. The department of State is con-' suiting with the representatives of" other countries having armed forces In Korea under the unified At the time of the announcement, Assistant Secretary of Slate John Hickcrfon was engaged tn ri scries of conference.

1 with diplomats representing many of the countries fighting in Korea. The IB nallnns figtlUns Tith the. IJ. X. in Korra expressed their xllllujne.ss In a statement yesterday lo "lake part in action de- slineri lo bring about a genuine and enduring peace In Korea." Snjdtr was the learloff witness as Ihe committee opened hearings on hlfher taxes, uslm: the House Mil as Ihe cornerstone of Its deliberations.

Bui thry also want tuaranlers (hat Ihe Red Chinese would jel out and slay 'out of Korea. Tlie acting chief U. S. delegate. Ernest Grass, twice was denied an with Jacob Mjilik.

Russian The tax Increases in Ihe House i delegate. A Kovictdctcgation.spokcs- xxx roughly man said Malik had been III since; lian the $10,000.000,000 early in the week. Tlie same reason Mrim-mwi 1 lc isll ln al by Ihe Prefl-jwas given for failure to for y( or Mid in Ilt ct jj prepared statement. "The Assenitily President WASHINGTON. Senate crime Investigators turned aside from their narcotic, 1 probe today lo try to show how Interstate racketeers fasten their lenta- cles on Ihe nation's smaller cities.

Reading. with population of about 110,000, was the cily to be, a "8 hl w. Mrs. Arthur S. brought under Ihe committee's and scrutiny st a public hearing a Douglas of Charlotte.

ESTI. Committee invesligators spent! Army Says Soldier about six weeks In reading gather-, IJ' KT 'r- Ing information. Subpoenas OOldlCr Not served on more than 30 persons. In- i chiding the mayor and city council- WASHINGTON. June men, Ihe chief of police and slan? expression "oi" has bmi i of son.

Dr. J. 16 Firms Participating holes" in lax system. of plotti munist government o' Hungary andiHevey. was sentenced to rs in prison.

I diced lo death. He is Ferenc a Paulician monk, wlr confessed in court Hint he killed a five others received jail sentences ranging from eight 10 years. Tlie archbthop. Hungary's highest ranking Catholic church dignitary since Cardinal Mindszcnly was Dr. Pal Bo7slk, a Catholic priest who ftas member of the prewar parliament: 10 years.

Dr. Enilre Farkas, a lawyer: eight years. Vendel Eiidredy, Cistercian abbo'l of Cirtz: years. examination. jolflccrs.

They'll have to refer to a A nnmtxT of local religious, civic us a soldier, and similar Rroups had urged In ordcrinc this in l.iaisrm Pul- Stnate committee to conduct an In- ilctin 212 of Ihe Army public, infor- vestigatlon In the city. imalion division, Issued June 15 the Chairman O'Conor laid I Army caitl: reporters in advance of Ihe hearing "The term soldier Is ancient and ld mple how orabl! Webster's dictionary dc-j Ing emergency plans to rush U.S. Oil Companies Plan To Aid Europe Nasrollih KnlrMm. president of tlir general assembly, I ed to rrturn to Washington where hr Is Iranian anihassador. I I ie had laUs yesterday with Knle- ram as well as I'.

liritish, I-'renrri, Indian and Mexican representatives to the r. N'. Jacob A. Malik, Soviet de-legate 'who launched the cease-fire talk with a speech Saturday, so far 1m declined tn discuss It further with i F.mezam or Ernest A. Gross, U.

5 1 delegate. Today Britain Instructed I her delci-atc. Sir Gladwyn Jcbb to I try lo sre Malik. WASHINGTON. June I overseas lirms couW completely American oil companies are draft- 'ill the gap which would result if interstate crime operations are car- fines a nlrtlcr as rled on in some of Ihe smaller cilies." NEW CASKS nation's 11 And never lieforo in hiMnry I has a so ikl.ly this ilffinitiiin." iictlonary Ing emergency plans to rush oil i skilled war-! lo WcMcru Europe if Iran's re- Inu'iivs anil ficM.s aiT shut ilown i in tJ.v over iia- i I CROPS IMI'KOVK HAI.E1GH.

WASHINGTON, June ITlie Public Health Service lo- mute to the Pnpo's private library Iy In court to illegal activities. j' tstvan Ocrrlar. sencral of Ihe i 408 for thewyresnondh'" lrt 1 where, she was received. tjo sentences sere announced Order: 10 yeats. June 1 hard hit by dry wrck.s a biz Improvement as a rr- -iilf of irrrnl Mins throughout mosl it the stale.

An informed American official said today the plan now being worked out hy 16 U. K. government approval-Is 'nearly ready to 1 Tills nflictal, who asked not. lo idontifird hy name, tnld a reporter he doubled Ihe American Ihe Iranian flow stopped. He added, however, they could meel "A Fluiv of tins demand." Iran's v.isl cil fields and Ihe i IniBtr AVudan refinery turn nut a tolal ol "UO.OOO barrels of oil iiut-l cf whiih goes lo Britain and i WeMein Kuiope.

Whatever oil American liims could to WCAifni Kurope would Irom Saudi-Arabia. Kuwait and Vene- rnela. Nil nil would br shipped Irom the U. said. Local Temperature VoBterdAV i tie rainfall tti quoin 422 5 3is" ini Crackles Hr rrsiy ahonl rlrvcr ht marrirrt M.L.r,.

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