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nr FAIR WARMER mim EVENING FINAL PRICE DAILY 5c SUNDAY 10c "WITHOUT OR WITH OFFENSE TO FRIENDS OR FOES WE SKETCH YOUR WORLD EXACTLY AS IT Bvron VOL LXX NO 333 MAY 19 1951 ABILENE TEXAS SATURDAY Auocialed Press (AP) Yariks Break Up Red Trap Halt Central IKoreaPush iff rrWrw Ti I in1 ijiiftiViiV h'n'n it nil 'nr nr vi asri Communist Strength Sapped Say Officers Congress Puts Draft (loser To 18 1-2 Years DOMINATES AIR SAYS RIDGWAY IN FIRST REPORT UNITED NATIONS May 19 (AtV-Grn Mat-thew Ridgway told the United Nations today that UN Air Forces have complete dominance of the Korean skies despite the increasing number of Russian-huill MIG jet planes Ridgway's statement was in his first regular report on the Korean military situation since he succeeded Gen Douglas MacArthur as UN Commander Ridgway made no direct reference to MacArthur's controversial demand for authorization to tximh Manchurian bases but he did stress the Communist use of Manchurian territory as a protected base for operations against the UN reports indicate there is much air training activity in various areas of China and Manchuria'' He reported the Communist also were making extreme efforts to maintain their airfields in North Korea despite continued UN attacks He interpreted these efforts that the Communsts intend or at least desire to extend their air activities to areas they cannot reach from the Manchurian bases By OLEN CLEMENTS TOKYO May 19 Ml -The Second Division today heal off vicious attacks by thousands of Chinese Reds on the bloody central Korean front The front quieted Saturday afternoon Some offieers said they lielived four days of slaughter by the Allies finally had snapped the strength of Communists tryiftg to ersek the central front The Second Division and its French ami Dutrli comoonenls fought out of a Red trap Friday Field dispalehes said they killed 10000 or more Reds Cul John Coughlin of Santa Fe Mex- who led one regiment back to Allied lines after 36 hours oL entrapment said: "We slaughtered so many their hliNid covers our boots because we CATCHING IT AGAIN WASHINGTON May 19 The military draft moved a step nearer today for about a half million young men who are 18 years and six months or older But Senators and Represent stives who agreed on this yesterday predicted that few if any of them will be inducted unless extensive war or some other unexpected emergency develops' The minimum induction age for the present draft act due to expire in July is 19 years The six months reduction was agreed to by a Senate-House conference committee which failed once more to adjust differences over a Universal Military Training (UMT) program Neither Chairman Russell (D-Ga of the Senate Armed Services Committee nor Chairman Vinson (D-Ga) of the House Armed Forces group indicated any possible compromise on UMT And Russell pointed out that the Senate inquiry into the firing of Gen Douglas MacArthur probably will prevent another conference session for a few days The Senate has voted an authorization for the long-range UMT program whenevr the present armed forces expansion will permit it The House bill outlined a future UMT program But it required that Congress legislate separately on UMT after a UMT planning commission reported The conference group agreed yesterday that when and if they compromise on UMT young men of 18 could be called for the training program Along with the 1814 year minimum for Induction the conferees agreed that registration should be at 18 and that local draft boards must classify the men before they are 18 years and six months This system of physical and Setond Division Thrives On Hard Fights in Korea TORNADO PATH This aerial photo by Reporter-News Photographer Don Hutcheson shows the destruction caused by the tornado which swooped down on Olney Friday afternoon Hutcheson who was piloted by George Harrelson was pointing his camera to the southeast for this shot The area shown is the extreme northwest corner of town The two people killed in the storm lived in the center foreground The flat building is the elementary school and the two-story one next it is (he high school The Olney hospital is the other two-story structure Hutcheson counted 34 homes totally wrecked in one six block area hear the school ornado GCiDls 2 Downtown had to walk over them (o get into the new The Second was flanked and surrounded (or a time because South Knresn force on its right collapsed under the first impact of the new Red smash If the South Koreans hadn't been forced back Coughlin said "We wool have piled so many Chinks on the minefields to our front (hat our own troops would not have been able to climb over the hdls of bodies" AFTER THE SECOND Coughlin added that a captured Red said the Communists had special orders to destroy the Second Division "They wanted revenge for the defeat we- handed them at Chip-yong and Wonju when we smashed their offensive last winter" In meeting one of the renewed Red attacks Saturday the Second Division troops let Reds advance-within close machinegun range Then while (he rapid firing guns poured mil a withering fire tanks roared out and picked off surviving Reds The main Red blows were struck east and west of ilangye 55 miles northeast of Seoul THREAT TO WEST To the West Chinese troops crossed the Hungchon River in force in front of American and South Korean line posing a threat of new attack Some wore the traditional white clothes of Korean civilians Many led pack animals burdened with supplies The Reds surrounded a South Korean force which held high ground tn the Hongchon Reservoir area but the South Koreans fought clear with the support of Navy planea American patrols ran into heavy enemy automatic weapons and mortar Jlre in the area but pulled bark without losses Allied officers said the Reds still had a "considerable" buildup on the central front and could be exported to renew their attacks at any lime There was little Fresh word from the critical eastern front where the Hrds had surged southwsrd through a gap in the line left by the withdrawal of two South Korean divisions The two divisions however weie reported still flghliug as a unit Hie Red chain-reaction offensive spread Saturday lo the western front A battalion of Communists attacked South Koreans northwest of Seoul lt was the strongest Communist attack in weeks In that sector cul its righting effectiveness temporarily The ofriclul Army report said (lie Second fought Its delaying action bravely In weather so cold It froze guns anil vehicles The Second was in the line near Wimju when Maj Gen Robert McClure took command in January The higgest battle of the moment was keeping alive in 20-bclow zero temperatures McClure in an effort to raise morale told hia men lo let their than 25 persons required hospitalisation Homes and businesses destroyed or damaged totaled about 300 Richardson cltyutlUtles supervisor made a tentative estimate Qf a million dollars damage but said he had heard estimates up to three million The tornado struck the two pub- ROBERT FORD OLNEY May 19 A tornado roaring like freight train" literally wiped out a two-hundred-yard section of this North Texas oil and agricultural center late yesterday But by a miracle only two persons both elderly were killed Injured were about 100 Less CREWS TO OLNEY beards grow That helped Hut the situation called for more than a Van Dyke or a act of sideburns Tile Kecnnd Division was occupying a bulging sector of the United Nations line It wss a dangerous exposed position There in Janu-ary the Second blunted heavy Communist atlacks aimed at South Korea's vulnerable central road network One of the Second's bad times was ils bitter loss of men and equipment at "Massacre Valley1 In Central Korea when the route some South Korean units pushed elements of the Second lido a situation like lhal at Kunu Outstanding among the Division's "ups" was the valiant 1118101 by its 23rd Regiment and the French Battalion one of the Second's units at Chipyung Three thousand Americana and French foughl hack repeated Chinese atlacks after they had been cut off In the heal of battle they radioed that their only need was for more ammunition When other Allied units reached them the beselgcd men still were titore enemy to shoot By TOM BRADSHAW I 8th ARMY HEADQUARTERS Korea May 19 The Second (Indianhead) Division which caught the brunt of the current Communist offensive is used to fighting where the Korean war is hottest The Second today won the praise of Lt Gen James A Van Fleet Eighth Army Commander and Lt Gen Edward Almond 10th corps commander for Its performance" and "magnificent" stand against overwhelming odds The full story of Maj Gen Clark Ruffaer's second division's performance in (he last 24 hours has not yet been disclosed But It looks now ss though "Rurfner's Roughnecks'' have scored another "up" in their succession of ups and downs in Korea When the Chinese entered the war last November the Second was forced bark under terrific pressure Some elements of Its supporting artillery and were overrun They had lo fight their way through road bhx-ka and ambushes to Kunu The dlvl-j sion's losses were heavy enough to ABILENE'S 1951 TRAFFIC SCORE Comecutive deathless days 112 Fatalities 1 Accidents Friday 3 Accident! in 1951 413 Injured Friday 0 Injured in 1951 39 OOD CITIZEN! tal tests and rating as to dependents and other details usually requires about three months Both Russell and Vinson agreed that few if any men under 19 would be drafted for tbe next three and half years Before any local draft board could call a man under 19 it first must exhaust all available In the present 19 through 25 year pool Vinson said these "should fill all needs for our present goals'' Patrol Office Hub For Storm Messages lie achools while students were still in classes It also struck the hospital However only window panes were damaged A few students suffered scratches from broken glass Today Civilian Defense Director Roach Jr said: "We're looking under those houses We hope to God we don't find anything" There were about 50 homesites today in Olyen where there was nothing to look under They simply disappeared as the blue-black tornado passed over Today only varant lots often without a scrap of debris on them remained of the once substantial homes Roach estimated 50 houses just no longer existed Another 50 he said were beyond repair The devastation was Incredible In some sections you could see an automobile blocks away so completely had the houses been leveled or blown away Early today the disaster section was prowled by men with guns and clubs protecting what property was left A highway patrolman warned this reporter last night: "Be careful when you drive through there It's well guarded We're making mightv certain that there's no -looting there" And under last night's late moonlight groups of persons their shoulders sagging clustered See OLNEY page 9 col B4VI IUI IIIIMI cellent according to El wood Knox chief operator of the station here and permitted direct communications from cars to the Abilene Station early Saturday morning However messages were relayed through the car near Throckmorton for accuracy Four Abilene cars were stationed at Olney throughout the night and seven others were there at intervals Sgt Luther Moore who was with Capt Harry Hutchinson director of disaster work said the cars were mainly engaged in direction of traffic and keeping sight-seers out of the area Abilene's Department of Public Safety's Radio Staton KKC674 was the hub of communications In direction- disaster relief at Olney from Friday soon after the tornado struck the town at about 3:15 pm until early Saturday morning Olney in Young County lies in one of the 19 counties encompassed by the Abilene District of the Department of Public Safety A patrol car from the Abilene headquarters was dispatched to a point between Throckmorton and Olney to relay communications from the disaster area to Abilene's station Atmospheric conditions were ex 2 Midland Police Officials Resign Following probe MIDLAND May 19 The Iwo top police officials here resigned yesterday after an investigation by the city council of reports of unreal in the department Police Capt Rube Hemingway now attending the National Police Police Academy in Washington was named to succeed Police Jack Ellington who resigned Jso resigning was Col Milan Plavsic Director of Public Safe ty whose Job was abolisned Hemingway by telephone from Washington urged members of the police force to remain on the job until he returns July 1 There had been reports some officers planned lo strike in protest of Ellington's resignation Wage loard Approves Packers Pay Increase Slorm News Draws Abilenianslo Olney A number of Abilenians made hasty trips lo Olney lale yesterday when they heard of the and were unable to get news of' kinsmen in the storm-torn town Mr and Mrs Walter Balfans spent most of the night tiying to learn the whereabouts of their son Ed who had played tag with the tornado' cloud The Balfanz Construction Co If doing extensive work on the hospital at OIiey Ed Balfanz had gone there Friday afternoon tn check on work and arrived in town minutes after the twister struck Unable (n make telephone contact with him his parents went to Olney late in (he afternoon In (he confusion they could find no word of him Kd In the meantime had aided early rescue work checked 'destruction at the hospital project and returned home via Stamford His parents stayed It the stricken town until about 3 am Mr and Mrs Malcolm Gray of 1859 Chestnut St went to Olney late in the afternoon to cheek on her brother's family the Morgans The Morgan home was damaged hut left standing while all around it homes were Poison Charge Filed on Man crack down on Industrial hoarders and black marketeers 2 Ray Willoughby of San Angelo Tex president of the Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association told the House Agriculture Committee whole (beef) price control order should be thrown out ao that more beef can be produced without working under 3 Chairman Leon Keyserling of the Council of Economic Advisers urged the necessity of controls "at least for the next year or two" to bolster the defense program He spoke at a meeting of Americans for Democratic Action SERGEANT MEETS THE GENERAL Sgt Bland second from left Abilene veteran of Korean fighting ana representative of armed forces personnel on Armed Forces Day in Abilene shakes hands with Gen Walter Krueger after the prc-Armed Forces Day banquet at Rose Field House Friday night Bryan Bradbury right and Mayor Ernest Grissom left look on About 600 people heard the general plead for industrial economic spiritual and armed preparedness (Clint Kapus photo) Krueger Asks Defense Build-up Parade Marks Armed Forces Day 3 Probes Started After Train Wreck THE WEATHER BALLINGER May 19 -E Hensley 43 Runnels County oil field worker has been charged here with pulling cyanide in a bottle or his wife's medicine The man father of nine children was taken to Austin Friday by County Attorney Jark Moore and Sheriff Don Atkins where he was to take a lie deteetor test They were to return Saturday afternoon Hensley has denied the charges filed Thursday night The county attorney said Mrs Hensley returned Sunday night rrom visiting relatives in Abilene and look some medicine noticing It burned her mouth He laid aha eported to Sheriff Atkins Ind that the bdttle wai sent to the atate laboratories at Austin which reported the medicine contained WASHINGTON May 19 Ml-The Wage Stabilization Board yesterday opened a broad gate in the pay-control corral and said: it ia harder to be Just than to be firm" The board voted 8 to 4 with Industry members dissenting to allow a nine-cent hourly pay boost tor 220000 packing house workers The broad principles involved In thus approving a wage Increase tor In excess of the government's 10 per cent raise celling seemed likely to apply to other major caaea facing the board These Include a proposed 15 per cent boost tor 50000 shipyard workers ten per cent for 100000 northern woolen worsted and cotton-rayon textile waters and two or mo coet-of-llvlng increases and a proposed tour cent hourly "produe-wtlvlty" pay boost shaping up for acme 500000 automobile workers The board announced late yesterday it will hold a hearing next Thursday (May obtain testimony by Interested parties to help In formation of a policy on annual -Improvement Increases baaed on productivity and other types of deferred wage increases" With the battle In Congress over federal anti inflation controls growing hotter dally there were these other developments: Director Manly Flelachmann of the National Production Authority told the House Banking Committee that NPA "flying squad- are now being organised to nrrsRiwhXT of comncki wkaihkr as VI- ABIIKNK AND VICINITY -Generally (sir Saturday aflrranon Saturday niaht and Sunday High Saturday afternoon SO Low Saturday nlshl to High Sunday in the BAST TKXAS: Partly cloudy a few aratirrrd thundershower tu narthrat Cirtmn I hi afternoon tonight and Sundae oriarate tn fr-h aoutheait to aouin wind on the cnat wrsT TEXAS- (inrlly fair tint afU rrnuon Inniaht and Sunday TBMerS VTI'SES SAT A BRYN MAWR PaH May 19UTI Three separata Investigations were underway today Into cause of a Pennsylvania railroad train wreck that killed eight persona and injured 63 others yesterday The PRR Itself probed the reasons why the fast-moving Red Arrow apparently Ignored atop alg-uils and plowed Into the rear of the stalled Philadelphia Night Express Both were passenger trains Chief tar get of the investigators was the Red -Arrow's englneman 62-year-old Frapk Yenlzler of Harrisburg Pa There were several unanswered questions about his viilon Dr Edward Clark resident physician at Bryn Mawr Hospital said a hurried examinsatlon indicated that Yentzler bad practically "no viilon In his right eye" But he added that he used no Instrument and that the examination was "neither a thorough or fair test" A PRR spokesman said engine-men receive medical checkups every two or three months and commended Yentzler for "a good The Red Arrow was bound from Bn'rolt to New York The express nearly two hours behind schedule afte leaving Pittsburgh had stopped to check for damaged equipment The state public utility commission sent investigators to the scene of the collision that broke the peace and quiet of this residential Philadelphia suburb along the main line The Bryn Mawr Hospital never was ao busy Sgt Bland an Abilene veteran of Korea was to lake the review from a aland In front of the federal hullding where Armed Forces Day dignitaries were to he seated A "flv-nver" of 18 B-2i)s from Randolph Field appeared over Abilene Saturday morning in an Air Force salute to the rlty for Armed Forres Day The Naval Reserve Training Center got out bunting and polished up Ms large store of training equipment Saturday for its open house which was to follow the parade Saturday afternoon The Abilene Army and Air Force Recruiting and Induction Main Station held open house Saturday from 9 am to noon Abilene churches will hold pet-la services Sunday to conclude activities tor Armed Forces week The rlimax lo Armed Forres Day celebrations parade featuring reserve and National Guard service units was to get under wav at 3 o'clock Saturday afternoon The parade follows a banquet Friday night in Rose Field House whirh featured a speech by Getv eral Waiter Krueger former commander of the Second and Sixth Armies Krueger professional soldier since the age of 17 tnld the people that this country had blundered by completely disbanding the powerful Army-Xavy-AIr Force team It had at the end of World War II He said present trouble with Russia in Korea could be laid directly to that mistake General Krueger pleaded for speedy rebuilding of national defenses lur a third world war "This conflict would surpass any past war It would leave the opponents completely bankrupt and the world In utter misery" he said 11 Ben Deckerd Jr assistant to (hr president of the Dallas Mum-Ing News and Krueger's aide in the South Pacfio during War 11 introduced the General Bryan Bradbury Abilene attorney was master or ceremonies Mayor Ernest Grissom gave the welcome address Marine St Pete Band thanked the Armed Forces' committees for naming him "Mr Military" The parade was lo star) from assembly point at Soulh Filth and Cheslnul Sts go north under (lie Tine Kt underpass to North Fifth Rt across lo Cypress and soulh cm Cypress to North First where the parade will disband lM 4'M -J gM IJt MS 1S-W rsi 1 at it 10 to Midnight 14 KOREAN SAFETY WITH PURPOSE SOMEWHERE IN KOREA May 19 On highway 13 In Korea military police have posted this sign: "Drive carefully you may kill your replacement" Nnon High and low lomporaturra hr hr to vJf a and driroea Sunaet lat night sunrise today 100 annaet Inniaht 1:10 Barometer reading at I a It 14 Relative humidity at I m- 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