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No. 285. United Pr SANDUSKY. OHIO. TUESDAY, APRIL 10.

1951 8anda Newspapers, Iae. Astociaicd Press MACARTHUR TO STRESS FREE HAND Pay Increases and Overtime Pay Asked By City Departments A committee chosen from employes of the water distribution department will meet with the city commission following the April 16 meeting in the city building to discuss a requested salary increase for the personnel. the reading of a communication from the committee, of which Harry Bruckner is chairman, Commissioner Paul L. Heiberger, with the sanction of ail members, requested the city manager t6 make necessary arrangements for the get-together next week. In the communication, the water distribution department committee declared that "Everything about a waterworks involved big money except the remuneration of the men responsible for its dependable operation." "Perhaps no other industry in Sandusky puts more sole.nn responsibilities upon men and pays them less for accepting them.

Already, water systems are finding it difficult to hire and to hold on to men quali- ficd for these positions. The will to serve is there but it withers in the face of a dollar that has lost almost half its purchasing: power in the course of a decade." The communication also stated, In part, that "In the past few years other departments in the city have been granted concessions according to their growth and needs and justifiably so but we feel that working for the water department is our advantage. Inasmuch as we have money available for a raise, why should we be neglected when other departments are granted concessions in the form of clothing allowances, shorter working hours and belter pensions systems." In addition to Bruckner, committee members are Dan McLaughlin, Robert Zimmerman, Charles Turrie and Robert Krcimcs. Appearing before the commission last night were Samuel Lazzara and Charles Muratori, both members of the street department, and both seeking information as to when overtime would be paid for the extra hours during snow re- operations this past winlpr. The employes were told that the commission is now in the midst of discussions to amend the salary ordinance to handle this and cases of similar nature in the future, and that adjustments will be It was said that these men are employed on a monthly basis and that provisions must be made in existing legislation to specify an overtime rate for the personnel which will meet state examiners.

Collections For March Hit $1,085 Total collections by the Sandusky traffic violations' bureau of municipal court totaled $1,085 during the month of March, including $912 in fines, a report, submitted to the city commission Monday night, revealed. There were 1,262 overtime parking violation citations issued and 386 for other parking violations resulting in respective fine totals of $595 and $317. The total collection of $1,085 also includes payments made on tickets issued prior to March Randi's Share Only $3,221 In Farm Sale MEDINA, April 10 (ff) Randi Mast sold the farm Max Amerman deeded her. All she got yesterday after costs and lawyer's fees was $3,221. The 80-acre farm was purchased for $20,000 by Mr.

and Mrs. Dewey M. Cupps, who own nearby land. Sale costs came to $578 and a caretaker's fee to $344. Half of the put in escrow at the old Phoenix National bank at Medina for Elsie Kay Mast, the two-year-old daughter of Randi and the slain Harold Mast.

Mack Gilbert, Randi's attorney, got $6,443, or a third. Randi's share was a sixth- Both In Death House Amerman deeded the land to her after he was convicted of first de gree murder. He admitted putting 17-year-old Jerry Killinger up to ambushing the former soldier Both Killinger and Amerman are now in the death house at the Ohio state penitentiary. Randi, who testified to intim acies with Amerman, now is living These date back as far as September last year. Other March reports placed on file were engineering, police, forestry, fire, street, water distribution, parks greenhouses nursery and golf course, license and permit, mechanic and scavenger departments.

A copy of the March 27 Register-Star-News which found its way to the home of Judge Jay H. Payne, a native of Sandusky who now lives in Ann Arbor, resulted in a communication to the city commission relative to the Sandusky parks. Although having left Sandusky 35 years ago, Judge Payne said he considered the local parks to be the city's "crowning glory" and hoped that the citizens would oppose any curtailment of services by this department. What They're COLUMBUS, a Highway Director T. J.

Kauer today said trucking companies would not be hard hit by the proposed ton-mile tax on commercial vehicles. NEW national commander of the American Legion, Erie Cocke, says a lack of replacements for troops in Korea death or wounds as the only means of obtaining front-line relief. Clarence J. Brown, Ohio), said today he is sure Sen. Robert A.

Taft can get the Republican presidential nomination. Also received was a communication from the Sandusky Federation of Women's Clubs, Ethel Minor, corresponding secretary, reques't- (Continued on Page 4.) Briaht Recruits To Be Spread In All Forces WASHINGTON, April 10 (UP) Defense department ordered the armed services today to start using a quota system on May 1 for volunteers and draftees to insure each branch a share of the with relatives at Bloomfield, N. Actor Joined Reds For Better World" Congressmen Told WASHINGTON, April 10 actor Sterling Hayden. a war-decorated Marine, told the House un-American activities committee today he joined the Communist party in Hollywood in 1946. "to do something for a better world." Hayden said he quit the Communist party cell in December, J94G, after seven months.

The six-foot four-inch Hayden. speaking in staccato phrases, said he returned to Hollywood from the war disturbed over the state of the world after service in Yugoslavia with native partisan forces. "Stop Talking, Join" Hayden said he was asked to join the parly by a woman named Bea Winters, who was secretary to his agent, Berg-Allenberg. "One day she said to me," Harden testified, "Why don't you stop talking and join the Communist party?" Hayden said his first reaction was "this is hut hn. Navy Suspends Civil Worker On Security WASHINGTON, April 10 (ff) The State department said today the Navy has suspended former Commander Stephen Brunauer "under Navy department loyally and security procedures." Brunauer has been employed as a civilian on explosives research for the Navy.

Along with his wife, Mrs. Ester Caukiii Brunauer, the former officer was named by Sen. McCarthy (R-Wis) last year in a list of government employes McCarthy regarded as subversive. In announcing the Navy action, the State department said it had suspended Mrs. Brunauer from a department job pending the outcome of Navy action on Brunauer.

At the time of McCarthy's charges last year, Mrs. Brunauer declared she was not, "never have been, and couldn't possibly be a Communist." She described her husband as a "thoroughly loyal American." More Men, Bomb Runs Are Issued STERLING HAYDEN Former Marine Captain STATISTICS blighter recruits. The system was designed to give the Army a fair number of men with higher mental qualifications. In the past, the Navy, Air Force, and Marines got most of the higher type men as volunteers. It also may mean the Navy, Air Force, and Marines will start taking draftees, which they have not done so far in the present program to build up the armed services.

Assorted In Groups Starting May 1, each branch of the service can take only eight percent of its volunteers or draftees from the highest mental group. Thirty-two percent will be from the second mental group; 39 "percent from group three, 21 percent from the fourth mental group. The quota system will be based on two-month periods. If any service falls short of the percentage in any of the mental the shortage will be made up in the following month with draftees. Volunteers will continue to be accepted.

Local Roomer Badly Burned Acid MARRIAGE LICENSES Kenneth C. Lyons. 22, U. S. Army, Huron, and Gloria C.

St ape. 23, secretary, Sandusky. Rev. Robert M. Hutchings to officiate.

William Robert Ott. 24, driver-salesman, and Elizabeth Ann Weltlin, 21, secretary, both of Sandusky. Rev. Joseph Hartmann to officiate. Eldon C.

Lippus, 29, sailor, Huron, and Hilda Orel Haughn. 32, assembler. Sandusky. Justice of the Peace Edward Walper to officiate. A civilian painter employed by an Akron firm suffered acid burns over his entire body when he fell into a tank of caustic cleaning fluid at the Erie Ordnance Depot today.

His condition is regarded as critical. The victim, Isaac Omanson, Peoria, 111., was employed by the Arthur Painting Co. of Akron. Omanson is not an EOD employe. He was removed to Magruder Hospital in Port Clinton for treatment, following first aid by EOD workers and fellow painters.

According to reports, Omanson was overcome or lost his balance, falling into the vat of fluid while cleaning equipment. His cries first attracted attention to his plight. Omanson makes his home at the Chittenden Hotel in Sandusky. The crew of which he was a member, was engaged in painting the interior of a shop. Immediately following the accident, Colonel E.

M. Webb, commanding officer of EOD, named a board to investigate. Dayton Bingo Ban Facing Test In Court DAYTON, April 10 Dayton's bingo ban headed for a court test today. City police raided a gathering of 275 persons at an Eagles bingo game last night, seized the equipment and made two arrests. While thg Dayton players hootedj and jeered, they arrested Dr.

F. Bucher, secretary of Eagles Aerie No. 321, and Lawrence Young, 33. Both were told to appear in municipal court Friday. Bucher indicated he welcomed the arrest to get a court test of a ruling that all bingo is illegal in Dayton.

Police said Dr. Bucher will be charged with keeping a place where gambling is permitted. If convicted, he would be subject to a maximum fine of $500 or 30 days in jail, or both. Bingo In Other Cities: In Columbus, the city law director said he would soon announce his opinion on whether bingo games for charitable purposes are all right in the capital city. Springfield churches and lodges continued to sponsor bingo games for charity without interference by the authorities.

Anti-Bookie Campaign: Dayton police asked the Ohio Bell Telephone Co. to take the telephones out of 15 bookie joints. The not comment on the request In Columbus, Safety Director Donald D. Cook and Police Chief Frank Harrison, who have been warring on bookies, received threatening telephone calls, the chief said. Harrison said he didn't think much of them.

said he went, ahead anyway. He said he believed Bea Winters is now a secretary to a producer. Tells Of War Duties The tall actor told the committee in considerable detail of his war service, especially in the Office of Strategic Services for which he smuggled arms through the German blockade; from Italy across the Adriatic to the Yugoslav partisans. He said he picked up "an enormous respect" for the way the partisans fought the Nazis. "1 personally was affected tremendously by it," he said.

"We knew they were Communist-led but there was little talk of politics." During his service, he said, he kept up a correspondence with a Capt. Warwick Tompkins. He said Tompkins, whohe.irten- iified as an employe of Amtorg, Russian trading firm, continually handed him Communist literature, and sent Communist publications to him while he was in service. FOR PEACE, A FAST After hurried, secret trip to Japan, Secretary of the Army Frank Pace, left, stands at attention vitn Gen. Douglas MacArthur in response to 17-gun salute honoring Pace's arrival for conferences with the UN commander.

The secretary arrived in Tokyo amid rumors he had orders to "gag" MacArthur whose recent statements have touched off a world-wide political controversy. (Army photo from NEA-Acme Radio-Telephoto.) (NEA Radio-Telepholo) BIRTHS Mr. and Mrs. Jack Force. Bellevue.

a son, at Providence Hospital. Mr. and Mrs. Helmut Elmlinger. 616 E.

Monroe-st, a daughter, at Good Samaritan Bospitai. May Hire Part-Time Dog Warden In City Comes spring and the city commission hears of dogs being permitted to run at large within Sandusky the result being complaints on the part of residents who report damage to gardens, grass, flowers and shrubs. First written complaint was filed by Mrs. Edwin Cottey. 408 Dewey- st, Monday night, who said that scores of dogs are running loose in the city and particularly in the vicinity of Dewey-st.

On various occasions, she reported counting 20 dogs in her yard an'i that of the house next door. Damage is resulting to grass, flowers and shrubs, Mrs. Cottey said, and the dogs are continuously barking She sought information as to whether a city ordinance existed requiring dog owners to keep animals leashed and whether this legislation could be enforced. The discussion, during which some commissioners also reported complaints of dugs running at large, resulted in a motion by Commissioner Lee L. Zierolf and approved hy the five-man group that the matter of Mrs.

Cottey be referred to the city manager for investigation and that Investigation be made into the advisability of hiring a part-time dog warden. Asked by Commissioner Paul L. Heiberger whether the Erie-co dog warden enters the city on duty, Manager Karl H. Kugel said that he does respond on call by city police (Continued on Page Coi. 6.) Five Indictments Returned In Brief Grand Jury Meet Indictments against five deiend- ants were returned Tuesday morn-! ing by the April term grand jury after one of the briefest grand jury meetings held for some time.

The session convened Monday at 10 a. m. County Prosecutor W. E. Didelius had submitted six criminal cases for the jury's consideration.

Indictments were returned against John P. Flaczinski, 27. Toledo, armed robbery; William Weir. 21, Vermilion, burglary and grand larceny; Charles F. Bowen, 27.

Sandusky, assault and battery; Charles Woods, 27, and Arthur A. Crum, 37, Sandusky, carrying concealed weapons. The 15 grand jurors made the usual inspection of the county jail and lound conditions satisfactory. Several minor recommendations were made. Following their session and inspection the jurors were thanked by Judge E.

H. Savord and discharged subject to recall. Members of the grand jury, consisting of nine men and six women, included the following: Allen J. Atkinson 2113 W. roe-st, foreman; William Doyle 132 McDonough-st: Leslie A.

Bell 312 Pearl-sl; Walter Bishop, (Continued on Page Col. 5.) Army To Give Rail Workers Only Part Raise WASHINGTON, April 10 (ff) The Army has ruled that under the wage stabilization regulations it can give 1,000,000 railroad workers only cents of a scheduled six-cent cost-of-living increase. The workers are members non-operating unions clerks, machinists and others not directly connected with running trains The president of one of their unions, Jesse Clark, said the Army ruling yesterday would "have serious repercussions." He added: "It will cause an upheaval in the industry and in the country as a whole. There's a lot of unrest right now, and this isn't going to help matters. The non-operating unions got a cents an hour increase in negotiations concluded at the White House March 1.

Additionally, the contract called for a cost- of-living boost of six cents on April 1. The Army took technical control of the railroads during a strike last summer, and, still has charge. Red Mortars Stop UN Near Reservoir TOKYO, April 10 troops reached the southern shores of the sprawling Hwachon reservoir today but heavy mortar fire stopped them short of the big North Korean dam and hydroelectric plant. Correspondent Tom Bradshaw reported from the central front battleground the water behind the dam still is about 200 feet deep. The Reds opened 10 of the reservoir's 18 floodgates Monday in a try to halt the Allied drive.

But water quickly subsided to near-normal levels in the Pukhan river, reservoir outlet. American units paced the. assault on the dam. The Communists fought back with a steady barrage of mortar shells. Bradshaw said it was believed the Chinese lacked the equipment necessary to blow the dam.

No Action In East In the air, American F-86 jets shot down one Russian-type MlG-15 jet fighter and damaged another. The air battle was fought at low level over "MIG alley" near Sinuiju in northwest Korea. Bitter Communist resistance was reported from the western front as Allied patrols probed deeper into Red Korea. Inteligence reports said the Reds were sending more troops to this sector. On the east coast Allied warships hammered Communist supply dumps and traffic routes.

There was no report of ground contact on this front. Public Hearing For Bay Fishing Bill Another step toward possible improvement of "hook and line" fishing in Sandusky Bay will be taken Wednesday night in Columbus. The senate conservation committee will conduct a public hearing on a pending bill like the one recently approved 122-2 by the house of representatives. A large delegation of Sandus- kians is expected to attend the hearing, which is scheduled to start at 7:30 p. m.

in the state hcuse. At least a dozen Erie-co Conservation League members, headed by A. E. "Bud" Wholf and Earl Schaefer, plan to attend. Others interested in attending and needing transportation or having room in their cars for extra passengers are asked to contact Herb Aust, transportation chairman.

House Cuts Funds For Voice, Credit WASHINGTON, April 10 (ff) The House has tentatively shoved a slash of more than 90 percent in an administration request for funds to expand the "Voice of America." The House also took its knife to the commodity credit $750 000 from the agency's administrative expense budget. Both requests for funds applied to the remaining months of this fiscal July 1. Still to be acted on is an appropriations committee recommendation that the Civil Defense Administration budget for the rest of this fiscal year be chopped from $403,000,000 to $186,750,000. Final passage of the appropriations is scheduled for today. House Busy On Draft Bill, Stalls Housing WASHINGTON, April 10 House Democratic leaders were in no hurry today to take up the Senate-approved defense housing measure.

The House is considering a bill to draft 18Va year olds, and Rep J. Percy Priest, Tenn.) said that would be disposed of first. The House Democratic leaders were burnt once on the housing measure. In a stinging setback for the administration, the House refused even to consider the measure last month. The watered-down Senate version provides $135,000,000 for government loans and grants to help private building and provide federal aid where necessary.

Backers of the draft bill were confident it would pass. However, bills were being prepared to knock out universal military training altogether and to set up an actual UNT training program without waiting. In the present bill the framework of UMT would be created for use when Congress desired. EXEMPT STUMP TIMBER WASHINGTON, April 10 (JP; The government today exempted all sales of "stumpage" timber from the general price freeze order. (By Associated Press) The controversy over Gen Douglas MacArthur's recent statements boiled on three continents today but in Tokyo the United Nations commander indicated he intends to keep right on pressing for greater latitude in the Korean campaign.

In a two-hour discussion with Army Secretary Frank Pace, at his Tokyo headquarters yesterday, MacArthur is believed to have asked for more troops and a freer hand to wage war against the Communist Chinese. Denies Reprimand MacArthur has repeatedly railed against Red China's "privileged sanctuary of Manchuria" and in his talks with Pace may haVe sought the right to bomb Chinese supply bases, Tokyo dispatches- said. The supreme by Truman administration supporters for urging use of Chinese Nationalist troops in a second front against Red China authorized a spokesman to deny report he had been reprimanded for the statement. Informed sources said MacArthur stood his ground in his conference with Pace on his publicly expressed views that have provoked a storm in Washington, Paris, London and other western capitals. British Protest In London, a foreign office spokesman said Britain has expressed privately to the United States its concern over the Mac- row.

"Our viewpoint has known through our ambassador, Sir Oliver Franks, through normal conversations," the spokesman said. He insisted it was not a formal protest usually a stern measure, Britain is anxious to keep out of the American political dispute over MacArthur. In Washington the White House maintained silence on any possible presidential rebuke that might be planned for the general. One highly placed congressional source said no drastic action against MacArthur was in immediate prospect, and that Mr. Truman has not yet reached a decision on the burning question.

Backs Mac While administration supporters generally increased their criticism of MacArthur for urging use of Chiang Kai-Shek's troops, Rep. Joe Martin of Massachusetts, the House Republican leader, supported a move to bring MacArthur home to report personally to Congress on the Pacific situation. In Tokyo, Rep. O. K.

Armstrong (R -Mo) told the American Chamber of Commerce he did not think MacArthur exceeded military auj- tjhority in his recent policy stated ments. He added any action recall the general "at this time would be the greatest victory for communism since the fall of China." Australian Prime Minister It. G. Menzies also defended Gen- Douglas MacArthur's conduct of the Korean campaign. SAY GUERILLAS KILL 7,000 TAIPEH, FORMOSA.

April 10 iff) China's defense ministry said today guerillas on the mainland killed 7,000 Chinese Reds and took 1,000 prisoners in the past several months. Newspaper Bias Rapped By Court, Reverse Convictions WASHINGTON, April 10 (UPMthat -Newspapers today pondered a i the court are concerned, newspaper powerful tongue lashing adminis- WSB Puts Lid On Baseball Pay WASHINGTON, April 10 (ff) The Wage Stabilization Board today ruled wages paid baseball players must conform generally with club payroll practices of 1950. Officials said that means no individual ball player can be paid more this year than the highest salary a player on the same club received during 1950. The ruling was made at the request of attorneys for the major and minor leagues. They asked whether wages paid ball players exempt from wage controls, so tar as two members ofj The board said thpy are not articles deemed inflammatory are 'QJ RedS CitG ARMY, GUARD SPLIT TROOPS WASHINGTON.

April 10 iff) Two regular Army divisions and two National Guard divisions stand high on the list of units that may be sent to re-enforce Gen. Dwtght D. Eisenhower's western defense force, Pentagon sources said" today. tered to the press by Supreme Court Justice Robert H. Jackson.

Jackson directed lus ire particularly at the way the press handled a Negro assault case in Lake-co, Florida. But he added that such "prejudicial influences outside the courtroom" are "becoming all too typical of a highly publicized trial." "Menace To Justice" "The case presents one, of the best examples of oae of the worst menaces to American justice," he said. The opinion, in which Justice Felix Frankfurter joined, indicated good grounds for reversing a conviction. The court reversed the convictions of two Negroes Samuel Shepherd and Walter lrvin accused of assaulting Norma Padgette. 17, a white girl, on grounds racial bias had figured in the se lection of the trial jury.

Jackson declared the oress in fluenced prospective jurors and other readers against the accused by printing prejudiced stories, in eluding one that the men had confessed. Yet a confession was never offered at the trial where it could be attacked by normal legal (procedures, he noted. Legislative Delay COLUMBUS, April 10 (UP) Every member of the Ohio legislature received a signed letter from the Communis': party today after an legislative committee opened an investigation of subversives. The letter complained about the general assembly's lack ol action on important legislation. It bore the names of Phil Franfeld, dig' trict organizer, and Robert Campbell, chairman of the hoga-co Communist party, The letter was mailed from Cleveland..