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5ach0onville journal VOL. 9 as Qom Monai Poti Oihf, OL JACKSONVILLE, MORNING, JANUARY 12, 1951 SIXTEEN CENTS Korean Cease-Fire Plan Accepted By U.S. Malik Delays On Proposal For Meeting Lake Success, Jan. United States accepted today a new U. N.

cease-fire plan for Korea calling for a conference on all Far Eastern by the U. Russia, Britain and Red China as scon the Korean fighting stops. Chief U. S. Delegate Warren R.

Austin okayed the plan shortly after its five points were outlined to the U. N. Assembly's political committee by Canadian Foreign Minister Lester B. Pearson, member of the three-man U. N.

fire committee. Britain, India, France, Norway, Israel and Tu'-key also accepted the suggestions. But Russia said they nust be studied fully. Soviet Delpsate Jacob A. Malik flared that there v.as new in the substance of the fhat they sounded an and declared that it could not serve as a basis for pcace He ys- that his v.ns that the wording of the plan delibcraiely foggy to make Mble interpretations in any direction lap U.N.

observers and persons familiar With Russian tar-tics in the N. said they did not believe Alalik had the door. They said he apiiar- Piirly did not have his instructions and that he had not finally rejected ihp plpn. The plan, if finallv accepted by all sidrs. would mean that the U.S.

would at the same table with Communi.st China in negotiations. 'I'ho U.S. does not recognize Red China and has opposed its admission to the U.N., but Austin has told the p(jlitical committee that the U.S. Kfands ready to talk with Communist China at an appropriate time and in Tiie appropriate forum. The U.S.

has niMstrd that it will not taik with Ked China as long as the Commun- Chinese are shooting at American and U.N. forces. The plan will be submitted to the Red Chinese regime as soon as the a.v-emb.'.y approves it. previouK terms for ending the Korean war included withdrawal of all foreign troops from Korea, withdrawal of U.S. forces from Formosa, and a seat for the Communist Chinese In the United Nations.

cm DISCOURAGES SALE.M HUE CHASEKS Salem, 111., Jan. Fire chasers have been son numerous they interfered with the firemen lately. At one fire last night the chasers heard a siren and beat the firemen to the blaze. Fire trucks had to detour around the curioas. Police hanaed out three tickets.

Lafer they mapped out a new strategy with the firemen, A mock fire alarm was turned in at the end of a dead end street. Fire truck.s raced in with sirens screaming. Moto.rists followed. Tlien came the police. The blocked off the street behind the motorist-s.

scolded each of them, and told them next tim.e they chased a fire engine it would mean a fine. Clearing Put U.S. Pilots Back In Action Tokyo, Fiiday, Jan. Far East Air Force fighter and bomber pilots reported they killed or wounded an estimated 1.600 Red in Korea Thursday. Clearii.g weather put the Allied nir arm back in the war after a two- day shutdown.

A field dispatch reported enemy air power active. Allied fighters and light bombers hit 60 Red sujjply and troop concentration Tliiirsday. The Allied knocked out a Red gun position, damaged 15 supply buildings and inflicted an estimated 400 casualties on Reds south of Suwon. Allied bombs also smacked a railroad tunnel near Osan and or damaged alx)ut 100 buildings nearby. Air Force planes flew more than 525 combat sorties Thursday.

U.S. B-29 Superfort.s from Okinawa bases loosed about 120 tons of explosives on four Red communications Namchon- jom. Choryon and Huichon, all north of the 38th parallel. During Thursday night. B-26 light hit numerous vehicle convoys near the Korean Red capital of Pyongyang.

Dulles Will Head Tokyo Mission Jan. lican Advisor John Foster Dulles, given the rank of ambassador by President Ti-uman, will go to Tokyo in alx)ut 10 days to discuss Japan- peace treaty problems with Gen. Douglas Arthur and political leaders in Japan. This announcement today by the State department marked the end of a period of uncertainty with the American government over whether to proceed with Japanese treaty negotiations at this time in view' of U.N. reverses in Korea, Some military leaders had raised the question hether it might not I be advisable to continue Japanese indefinitely in order to I provide an unchanging ba.sis for the I presence of American land, sea and air forces in Japan.

Dulles and other members of the State Department staff have taken the position that the U.S. in the long run -would obtain greater security out of a free and friendly Japan than it could possibly obtain out of a Japan denied its independence. statrment made clear that the reaffirmed decision of the Truman administration is to go through with a treaty. According to some estimates, the job can be completed by next there are predictions that it will be done without any participation by the Soviet Union. The State department said Dulles I will head a to Japan, the members of which will be announced later.

Red Spearhead Starts Drive In Central Area Manpower Directive Pending Force Aims For Trap At Tanyang Tokyo, Friday, Jan. 12 spearhead of Reds, '30 miles south of the U. S. feel my coimtry Second Division's most northerly salient, reported The Army thinks probably the speeaing southward in central Mrs. Anna M.

Rosenberg, first Bataan survivor to offer to re- Korea today, ant secretary of defense, disclosed turn to uniform. A physical The drive apparently was the directive would be issued in a ination will determine whether Qinied at cutting the southeast accepted. railway at Tanyang. upon each group A native of Greenwood. S.C., Ad- Army headquarters reported leading elements PI KPLE HEART VKT.

FUTAAX STKMVOK, OFFERS TO RETl New York. Jan. Purple Heart veteran of the Bataan death march volunteered for the Army today. He is 35-year-oId Julian Wyse who told newsmen: Washington, Jan. dent Truman is about to forth a new national manpower for the mobilization emergency.

calling for conservation of man- least men are fighting and resources all along the line. I'd like to get back myself." a defense official said today. few days. It would call upon each group A native of Greenwood, S.C.. Ad- to consider its own needs against now is an official ol a soap overall manpower recjuirements of manufacturing firm.

i i i -i mobilization. She added that Mr. His wife. Primi, said he has her of the Red force Csize ond nat- Truman would ask industry, agri- ble.ssing to return to active duty. culture, militaiy and civilian groups -----------------to conseiTe available manixtwer.

Mrs. Rosenberg, brought to gov- Telephoto: ernment service a few weeks ago PROPOSES DRAFT OF of Defense George C.j^ nianpower declined io Marshall, asked Congress for adoption of a program which would require reporters details about the all 18-year-old men to enter the armed services for 27 months. Shown mobilization policy. She with Marshall is Anna Rosenl'erg, assistant secretary of defense. nientioned it briefly in testimony before the Senate preparedness sub- i committee which is studying the defense department's proposals for i draft of 18-year olds and miiversal training.

Mrs. Rosenberg cited the forthcoming policy in answer to a question enough young farmers would be deferred from the Truman Asserts Power Send roops Abroad ionality not given) were ten miles south of Chechon and six miles from Tanyang. Tanyang. a railway town 73 mile.s of the 38th parallel boundary of South Korea, is 37 miles below Wonju, scene of severe fighting for the past Flanking Move Associated Press rorresix)ndent William C. Barnard reported from U.

S. Second division Thursday night that two North Korean 20,000 minutes. Gen. Dwight D. Eisen- were sliding past the right Eijienliovver Lands Safely In Denmark Durinsj Rain Coix'iihagen.

Denmark. Jan. through fog and rain that forced plane to circle 20 Nevada Site Chosen For Atomic Tests Jan production during the St. Louis Girl Bride At 12 In Secret Ceremony St. Louis, Jan.

12-year- old girl has swapped her sixth-grade school books for kitchen utensils and, has taken up housekeeping for her 19-yenr-old husband. She is the former Virginia Penr.ell, one of nine children. Her husband IS Donald Eugene Gray, a furniture factory employe. the boy who used to live next door. Kiw long they courted before they were married Dec.

22 is their secret. In fact, the marriaue itself was a secret until yesterday. mother didn't learn of it until four days after the ceremony. She was surprised and said: agree to it at first, but no wthat married, what can I The couple is living in a little basement apartment. The magistrate who performed the ceremony, George didn't know the girl was only 12.

In applying for tlie license. Virginia gave he: arje as 19. Even as the news spread, a child bride of anither day returned home from a hospital after eivmg birth to her fifth child, a girl. The baby was born Jan. 6.

The mother is Mrs.Tva Queen. 18 Married at 13. she happy about her family. 11 still be young when they are she said. Joliet Soldier Will Lose Feet.

Most Of Hands Battle Creek, Jan. Frozen on Korean battlefields. Pvt. Hubert Reeves. 19.

will lose both feet above the ankles and most of both hands in a series of operations to begin at Pency Jones Army hospital here tomorrow. mother. Mrs. D. Hubert Reeves, will come here from their Joliet, home to be with her son.

The father, a Joliet roofing company employe, be financially able to make the trip. Maj. Chester H. Davis, public information officer at Percy Jones, announced this surgery plan for Reeves late today. 1.

Amputation of both feet above the ankles: 2. Amputation of all fingers of the right hand to the second joint, and 3. Amputation of all fingers of the left hand back to the knuckles iof the last Earlier the hospital had said Reeves would begin undergoing surgery next week, but declared he would not become the quadruple amputee all of both feet and both hands) of the Korean war. Davis said that it may be possible surgery at some future date to give Reeves a grip in both hands. He will have to learn to walk with artificial feet.

Curbs Placed On Apartment Construction I Washington. Jan. 11 The governm.ent today imposed sharp ci dit controls on new apartmeni construction. I The action, announced jointly by the Federal Reserve System and the Housing and Home Finance Agency, lays 1. Minimum cash down payments from would-be apartment own funds before other financing can be arranged.

2. Maximum mortgage ceilings above which builders will not be permitted to The new' regulations become effective tomorrow. The agencies 'Which issued them said tlie aim was to relieve inflationary pressures and conserve manpower and materials for defense needs. Most apartment construction customarily has been carried out in the through secondary mortgages, personal loans and supplemental financing no longer permitted under the new regulations. The move generally clamps the same credit restrictions on apartments and most other multi-unit dwellings as were slapped on individual private home construction Oct.

12. Wa.shington, Jan. dent Truman today asserted his; power to send American troops anywhere in the world, but said he will, consult with congre.ssional leaders I before he sends more U.S. soldiers to Europe. Mr.

told his news conference there is no question of the aulhority to send troops abroad. emergency. Governor Calls For Cooperation In Public Interest I Washington, Jan. 11 Energy Commission an- I nounced today it will use a vast Nevada area for a ground jto speed up development of atomic (weapons, indicating it ha.s ma.ster- ed a method of small scale explo-jto the president as commander-in-'publican controlled general as.sembly Sion tests. 'chief of the nation's armed put over his large and am- I Such an achievement would mean, gyen as Mr.

Truman spoke, a a valuable short cut in vital defense i heated debate on the question boil- research. Presumably it also w'ouldied up on the senate floor, hasten the day when the commL- two leading Republicans split sion will know if it can actually per-! on the issue. I feet the tremendously pow'erful hydrogen bomb. That authority is abundantly recognized, he said, throughout the Springfield. 111..

Jan. 11 history of this country. For one Governor Stevenson tonight called thing, he said, it is recognized in t.he for teamwork between his Demo- U.S. grant of power administration and the Re- legi.slative program. all Americans, we're all sworn to serve he said in a transcribed radio talk.

Senator Taft a staunch advocate of keeping the bulk of hower londed nere today in his finding tour oi West Europe. The crew of liis four-engined U.S. Air Force had a tough job in the dense haze. The drone of the engine.s generated obvious, tension in reception paity on the around, heiuied by foreign minister Ole Bjoern Krait and the U.S. ambassador.

Eugenie Ancienson. Two rescue carj were kept ready. Finally the plane camr in low. with senrchligl ts glaring. Tlie pilot used every yard of the runway.

A moment later, Ei.senhowev walked down the gr.ngway smiling. Later the Atlantic Pact commander went to the Hotel erre to open his first-hand study of what Denmark has to use in defense of the west against Communist aggression. Copenhagen police eavSily blocked four attempts by Communists to march on the hotel to demonstrate. nor are the roads, government constitutional reform, that the President has authority to, ment was open to interpretation that commit troops in time of war. They are public necessities, and such explosions can now be set off AEC said nothing about small American troops at home, conceded; scale atomic blasts but its state- fhat t.b»» bnc; iint.hnrit.v tn enfoicen Achievement of such a mettiod would provide a of the explosiveness of materials designed for an A-bomb without the necessity of detonating a finished bomb itself as was done in the spectacular ser- But under the present circum- leadership that places public st.ince.s, he said, the matter of com- interest above party interest we can miting American to foreign world that represen- dutv is within the wwer government in Illinois i.s healthy, enterprising and The governor conceded that a political problem Forty youths v.ere questioned and freed.

They v.ere pmong four columns, none contaiing more than 150 persons, bearing pasters Go and Want ix)wer to determine. Senator Lodge disagreed. He said the President members of the leg- ies of atomic studies in the Pacific, 'ready has the power to assign troops agree on all his pro- Senator Brien McMahon International army in Europe, which he outlined to the as- chairman of the troops must go where the com- sembly last House atomic committee, said the ma.nder-in-chief sends them. Lodge new testing around save pre- cious weeks in making certain vital to weapons Murder Termer Alloued To Visit Condemned Son my he asserted, say what the state needs, as I how many be sent. IIRE AT DECATl ahagedama ks Bl ILDLNG Decatur.

111., Jan, destroyed part of a one-story brick aarage and damaged some eight or ten cars after the gas tank of one of the cars exploded today. The blaze at the Nolen Motor Co. brought four of Decatur's five fire companies to the scene. Flames billowed 50 feet in the air. Although about a third of the roof fell in.

no one injured. The fire was brought under abont 20 minutes alter outbreak at 1:30 p.m. Employes were able to drive out about 40 to 50 cars, which were un( maseu. tl'. damnceu wei'w liie lor Tree Trimmer Held On Murder Charge Mattoon.

111.. Jan. coroner's jury recommended last night that a Toledo. 111., tree trimmer be held for grand jury action cn charge of murdering a woman who was to death in a tourist cabin. Police said that Bolin.

41. the tree trimmer, and the dead wo- Mrs. Dorothy Lindsay Drake. 138. of Paris, 111., had been livmg aether the cabin and that they quarreled over her threats to leave him.

Mrs. Drake was found dead Dec. 5. Her throat had been cut, Bolin, who also had cuts on the throat and arm. has recovered.

He denied any part the slaying. Retiring Reporter Receives Tribute In U.S. Senate Washington, Jan. Magnuson paid tribute in the Senate today to A.ssociated Reporter Charles D. Watkins, who retires tomorrow after nearly 41 years of service.

am Magnuson told his colleagues, Charles D. Watkins. known so well to the members of the United States Senate and House of Representatives as Magnuson recalled that 23 of years with the A.ssociated Press have been spent on the personally am proud of the job Watkins has done. know the A.ssociated Press and member newspapers are proud of that job. wish well is his retirement Six Men Die In Texas Crash; 5 Jump Safely Seguin, Jan.

men died in the fiery crash of a B-29 superfortress near Seguin today. Air Force officials said five men parachuted to safety before the big plane from Randolph air base. San Antonio, pluneed to earth in a farm pasture 10 m.iles southwest of Seguin. The plane exploded, and burned. Wreckage was scattered over a 200-yard area.

Col. Harold L. Jones, deputy commander of Rajidolph Field, said the desert after it had been spotted O-'Sining. K.Y,. Jan.

11 A scared 20-year-old youth died in the the electric chair tonight, after his will be dispatched to Europe point in his four-year term, mother bade him nn 11th hour good- bolstered to bolster the North Atlantic treaty his administration is to bye and then left Sing's death nations. He he say on doing the best we can to house to go back to pri.son herself. tests I At his news conference Mr. Tru- see it. and to say it man made it clear that more U.S.! Stevenson, who has reached give this state better government than it has ever had.

let the chips fall they He said there have many and but that he is of what has during his nine months in been Rescuers Find Bodies Of Eidit Men In Wreckage Muroc. Jan. of eight Air Force fliers and two civilian technicians were found in the wreckage of a missing B-50 bomber about 10 miles east of Edwards air base here today. An Air Force rescue team found the plane on a 4000-foot peak near El Mirage dry lake on the Mojave lation in eggs and soy beans on the The slayer like her son brousht from another prison for a brief reunion v.ith the condemned man, Harley G. Lamarr.

She was his first and last visitoi flank. Tlie Second division troops were holding a horseshoe- shaix'd bulge with its toj) a milr and a luilf of Wonju. Its east prong was we.st of Chechon. which is 21 miles southeast of Wonju. The Red force which the Eighth army ramming through deep snow 10 miles south of chon were members of this same two division North Korean force.

The main force of some 285.000 Chinese and Nortli Korean Com- muni.st.s pressing the U. S. Eighth army on the western front contin- ut'd its buildup and slow shift southward for an expected gieal new offensive. In Delayed Dispatch 7'lie Red thrust paralleling the flank of the Second division reported In a heavily censored, delayed dispatch from Associated correspondent William C. Barnard with Second division.

The disj)atch made no mention of any contact between the Second division and the southbound Reds. The flanking move apparently was aimed at traj)ping the entire Second division by driving through ths rail junction of Chechon. 21 southeast of Wonju. and strikingr for Chungju. Cluinyju 9 onlv 90 mile.s north of Taegu on the main hiuhway and rail leading to the southea.st corner of the Korean peninsula.

Censorship prevented further details on location of the Reds. Eighth army censors at midnight Tliursday also lamped the lid on nnv further reference to the Second division's stand near Wonju. Barnard the Second division, by French and battalions, wa.s stubbornly holdinpr ground one and one-hnlf oi Wonju Thursday night. Speculation In Eggs, Soybeans May Be Limited Washington. Jan.

Sing Sing grim death row. 1 you for coming, he told her. Less than 12 hours later, he was lir to atone for the rape slaying of a Buffalo woman. The mother. Mrs.

Amelia Paliwod- zinski. 48, is serving 30 years in State prison at Bedford Hill; ago. plane was on a combat training niission: that the crew was undertaking transition training to familiarize itself with the B-29. Jones said no bombs were aboard, and he doubted whether the plaae carrying any machine-gun ammunition. from the air by searchers.

The bomber, missing since noon yasterday on a routine test flight, was piloted by Capt. William A Bailey. 31. of Weatherford. Tex.

The co-pilot. Maj. Gordon L. Payne. of Atlanta.

and four other crewmen perished. Lincoln. 111.. Jan. commodity futures markets may be limited by goverrmient decree.

The commodity exchange commission yesterday announced it ha- called a public hearing for Feb. 5 in Washington ot consider the feasibility of such limits. Under room battle ovi-r 75 pinball the proposal, the government would ended today with order that the quantity of these maciiines be de trojed. which may be held or The nine of the traded by individual traders. machines had tried to get the ma- Officials of the commission said chine' back, claiming the machine'' propo.sals to lim.its resulted are amusement But thf- from speculative state had argued thar they are gamin eggs and soy beans last year.

equipment. The commi.ssion is autiiorized by circuit Judge Frank S. Bevan Vatican City. Jan. church and the Masonic order, which law to set such limits if it fit.

terday reprimanded for the Catholic clergymen were forbidden was founded in the Briti.sh Isles, are Speculative limits have been in ef- for filing pleadings today to belong to Rotary and centuries old. All grand lodges in tect for grain.s 1938 and for joday, the lawver-' agreed to forego Catholic Priests Forbidden To Belong To Rotary Clubs Ask Broadcasters For Racing Data Wa-hington. Jan. II Federal Communications Commis- marched to the chair to atone for sion started checking up today on how radio and television stations are iiandlina hor.se racing information. IL sent out questionnaires to all broadcasting outlets directing them to give detailed informaton about for slaying her husband a year any regular racing programs they may carry, inclnfling the from wh.ich get the race results and other data.

1 The made it clear that it 1 not concerned with the wca- -ional broadcast oi major turt features, sui.h as the Kentucky Derby, but rather with regular daily racin? program which might be of aid to bookmakers, I La-t Octoljer FCC ordered radio tation WTUX at Wilmington, DeU to do, down and go off the air. A majority of the commis.sion decided Miat the station had handled its daily rar-ing in such a wav to be of to illegal bookmaiiing LO(; okdkks DESTHl CHON Ol Dandelions are said to have come to the United States from Europe. POLIO DRIVE Sprinsfield. Jan. pvrov today ursed Citizens to 2ive generously to the national fuundation for infantile paralysis diiring its of Dime Jan.

15 to 31. His the foundation spent 1950 comijat poiio. Ql ITS TOO MANY CALLS Weii-ton. W. Jan.

George C. Schwerha quit today as head of the local draft explaining: I've been doing the two months is answering the phone. been getting calls from, people day and niaht asking deferments for their Some of them weren't even scheduled for induction Schwerha said he tried referring the callers to the clerk of the board but they Insisted on talking to him. Catholic laymen warned to fol- the United States adhere to non-sec- cotton since 1940, low Canon law in regard to mem- tarianism in religion and belief in God. Political activity or discussion The ban was with publi- forbidden, cation bv the newspaper.

Europe and elsewhere. Romano of a decree developed on different lines from bv the Supreme Sacred Congiega- Anglo-Saxon lodges generally and tion of the Holv Office, which Pope aiUi-religious teiKlencies have led it Condemned Youth en Extra Week Pius XII heads. The reasons were not stated into friction with state authorities Chicago. Jan. or the Vatican.

Mu.ssolini’s Fascist inal court today granted an anv claims to the Judge directed that thf S2 177.95 in coins found in the ma- i chines oe turned over to the countj i treasurer. Edwin C. Mill'. Logan county attorney, aid gambling be tomorrow individuals in the extra WEATHER banned Rotary from week of life to an 18-year-old youth otarj the charge that it as con- condemned to die for the murder of inaicated they were mystified. Connection However, a source connected with Tlie Sanatorium, cooperative observer for the U.

S. Weathti Bureau, yesterday reported officia. temper a ture.s tor Thur.sduy as fol- low.s; low, 15; high, 44; ana at 6 p.m. 33. Forecast for Illinois Increasing BLIND Springi.e'.d.

111,. Jan. B.ind assistance awards averaging $48 65 and -taling $208.814 ere paid in November to 4.292 persons, the Public Aid Commission nected with Masonry. a policeman. Not To Attend Meetings Judge Julius Miner extended to Pending definite clarification of 12:01 a.m.

Jan. 22 the date for elec- the newspaper said the decree ap- the r.ew decree, there was a sugges- trocution of Sidney John'-on. Negro, peared aimed at European and Latin tion the final interpretation might This will allow more time for an ap- WATSEKA KILLED 1:1., Jan. 11 Richard on. 62.

oi Wat.seka, wa.s kill- cioudine.ss with rain poi- ed today in a truck-auto collision tion by evening. Warmer, at nea-rby i Richard on ar and a driv- River Stages en oy Ray 27, (A Pf'oria Havana .......................11.5 Fall i American countries, where left to the Catholic leadership in peal the supreme court. collided at a ree? cro- Havana Fall 0 1 have been eparate countries. to die after midni 2 ht The irnpac tlirew fhe ai 140 feet Risp Rotary, rather than against Catholicj The ban on Catholic clergymen be- Sunaay. another aai driven Fletcher Gr.ifton ........................14 9 Fall 0.3 membership in in the United longing to Rotary organizations any- and killed Police- phiilips.

41, of Atheiis, O. St. 1.8 Rise 1.1 States, where the international or--where, however, was stated plainly, man David Keating in September, truck careened into a house, St. 8.5 0 0 founded 46 decree they mast not 1919. when officer 'topped him Philhp and Thf Illinoi- river will fall 5 i the the bueet for questioning.

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