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1951 FEBRUARY 1951 Sub. Mob. Tuei. Wed. Thurs.

Frl. Sat. 12 3 A 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 1 8 19 20 21 (22j 23 24 25 26 27 28 Weather Forecast Southern California Partly cloudy Thursday with scattered showers west portion and northern interior and snow flurries in mountains; decreasing cloudiness Thursday night and Friday; locally strong winds, occasionally 40 to 50 miles per hour in Mojave desert. Yesterday's San Bernardino range: 64 30. Central and Northern California Mostly fair Thursday except snow flurries in higher mountains.

'I'ViA fori cMHvpaper for iSan BevtmmoCoun VOL LVII, NO. 150 THIRTY-SIX PAGES Be a copy $1.50 a month (U! United Press Associated Press THURSDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 22, 1951 rvn IA1 uiaini JV JV uuu TO 1 1 in 1 1 1 1 1 1 "nwoaws HI, Action Flames ill ii iMM "i 'New-Used' Auto Market Hit by Price Ceilings Young Denies Trying to Peddle R.F.C. Influence Contradicts His Accuser; Senator Charges Perjury Strange Lifesaving Effort Fails PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 21 A 32-year-old woman died today despite a daring lifesaving attempt by Frankford hospital doctors who pumped her blood in and out of a dead man's kidney. The doctors didn't give up on their technique, though.

They contend the experiment was not successful in saving the woman's life because there was too great a lapse of time between the death of the man and the time his kidney was put to work to purify her blood. At the time of the woman's death doctors said the kidney still was functioning but not efficiently enough to remove the accumulated impurities. The nature of her ailment was not made public. The kidney was removed from the body of Wayne H. Deveney, a 30-year-old York, truck driver killed in a highway accident, and used to try to purify the blood of Mrs.

Richard Irvine, of Philadelphia, mother of three children. Deveney was killed shortly before 4 a.m. The kidney was removed at 4.45 a.m., and 15 minutes later Mrs. Irvine's blood began to flow through the spare kidney, kept "alive" in a special apparatus devised by two young doctors at the hospital. Rail Rate Hikes jl I J41 I It: JrL I TO THE RESCUE The accident that everybody's been expecting to happen to women in strapless gowns almost befell actress Shelley Winters in Hollywood Tuesday night.

At an awards dinner of the Screen Writers guild her Actor Farley Granger, her escort, Wirephoto) HUG FOR ARMY 'VET' George Raymunde 13-year-old Army "veteran," gets hug irom his sister, Joan, 4, in his home at Brooklyn. George received an honorable discharge from the U. S. Army at Aberdeen, proving grounds when his true age was learned. He enlisted with an altered birth certificate.

Today will find George back In 8B grade in Public School 148. (AP Wirephoto) U.S. SENATE ORDERS ARREST OF 17 GAMBLERS, HOODLUMS In Hiding to Escape Questioning; Said National Leaders in Organized Crime WASHINGTON, Feb. 21 UP) The senate ordered tonight that arrest warrants be issued crime investigators of going into hiding to escape questioning. Among the 17 are gamblers and hoodlums who have been described by the crime committee as national leaders in organized crime.

The effect of the resolution, approved without objection, will be to enable the senate's sergeant-at-arms, Joseph Duke, to enlist the aid of F.B.I, agents and other federal law enforcement officials in tracking down the missing witnesses. WASHINGTON, Feb. 21 (IP E. Merl Young and the man who accused him of trying to sell influence on R.F.C. loans contradicted each other in sworn testimony today.

Senator Charles W. Tobey, New- Hampshire Republican said one of them had "committed perjury." Young, former R.F.C. exam iner and husband of a White House stenographer, said the now-bankrupt Texmass Petro leum approached him about two years ago with an offer of "big money" if he would help pull strings to get the firm a $10,000,000 R.F.C. loan. He said he was "astounded" by the pro posal and immediately rejected it.

His accuser, Texmass attorney Ross Bohannon, testified that Young sought to peddle his "in fluence" with the R.F.C. for a fee of $85,000, but the firm turned him down. If Texmass had hired anybody, Bohannon added, it would have been William M. Boyle then a Washington attorney and now Democratic national chairman. BEFORE SENATE GROUP Young and Bohannon faced each other before a senate banking subcommittee investigating alleged "favoritism" in government loans made by the Reconstruction Fi nance Corp.

The subcommittee had previous' ly issued a report picturing Young as a $60,000 a year "expediter" and a key figure in an R.F.C. "influence web" which also was said to include presidential assistant Donald S. Dawson. The hearings will continue tomorrow wheri Edgar Kaiser, president of the Kaiser-Frazer will be called to testify about charges that Young tried to cellect fees from that firm for influence he claimed to have used to "improve" terms of its R.F.C. loans.

Young and Bohannon agreed on one inmg tnar. tney met in a Washington hotel in December, 1948, or January, 1949, to discuss the Texmass loan application which the R.F.C. finally approved the following June. DIFFER SHARPLY Their stories of how the meeting was arranged, and what took place, conflicted so sharply that Tobey observed: "One of these men is lying. It is clear somebody has committed perjury." Giving false testimony to a con gressional committee is a federal crime which carries a maximum penalty on conviction of one year prison and $1,000 fine on each count.

Rail Wage and Hour Parley Gets Nowhere WASHINGTON, Feb. 21 fe The national mediation board met today with railroad negotiators and representatives of the four operating and 15 non-operating unions locked in wage-hour dis putes, without nearing a settlement. The board recessed mediation conferences to allow the carriers and operating unions to appear tomorrow before a senate labor sub-committee investigating the drawn-out negotiations which led to Army seizure of the railroads last August and to wildcat strikes in December and early February. ALL MUST SACRIFICE Along Muddy 60-Mile Front Attack Ordered by MacArthur During His Recent Visit TOKYO, Feb. 22 (Thursday) ijp) Tank-led troops of five nations drove through wind- whipped rain and mud today in a new offensive along a 60-mile front in mountainous central Korea.

They gained up to eight miles. The two-day-old drive, begun in secrecy, was disclosed today by General MacArthur. The offensive quickly turned the tables on Chinese and North Koreans. It smashed in the very sector where only last week they failed at heavy cost to burst through the United Nations line. There was only scattered opposition at the outset.

But fierce fighting was in prospect. About 15,000 Chinese reds waited at Hoengsong, 55 miles east of red-held Seoul. Allied troops were forming a pincers there. General MacArthur announced in a resumption of his daily communiques that the big drive began at 10 a.m. Wednesday.

VITAL PHASE Elements of the ninth and 10th corps including Americans, British, Australian, New Zealanders and South Koreans leaped from trenches and began the push against withdrawing reds. An Indian field ambulance unit moved up with the troops. A ninth corps spokesman said the drive was "a vital phase of the Korean campaign." General MacArthur had ordered the attack Tuesday during a visit to the central front pivot of Wonju. The 60-mile front, one of rugged mountains, extends from near Yangpyong on the Han river eastward past Wonju. Yangpyong, a former Chinese Communist headquarters town abandoned to the allies this week, is 27 miles east and slightly south of red-held Seoul.

IN SAME AREA MacArthur, on his return to Tokyo from the Wonju visit, re sumed his overall summaries which he dropped last December. At that time his troops were fall-ing back before Chinese divisions toward Seoul which the allies yielded Jan. 4. On Wednesday reds defending Seoul repulsed two allied patrol attemps to cross the Han river. The allied punch in central Kc (Continued on Page 2, Column 4) General Rail Strike Looming in Britain LONDON, Feb.

21 UP) Nego-tiations to head off a general strike on Britain's state-owned railways broke down tonight. The unions have asked to meet with labor Minister Aneurin Bevan tomorrow. Announcement of the deadlock came after a 12-hour meeting in a last ditch attempt to reach a settlement on wages for the rail workers. PERSONAL LOANS See Wallace Finance Co. 1293 Street Phone 2-2141 FREE EASY PARKING Brooks Poultry Ranch Red Fryers, Young Turkeys Roasting and Stewing Hens Rabbits, Ducks and Geesa FRESH KILLED AND DRESSED TO YOUR ORDER.

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15c each 3 39c SAGE'S Garden Shop Rase Line and Street Phone 6858 San Bernardino 4 Order Applies to Sales of Firms And Individuals WASHINGTON, Feb. 21 (IP) Price Administrator Michael V. DiSalle today imposed temporary factory-to-junk yard price ceilings on automobiles, effective March 2, in a crackdown on a nationwide "new-used" car racket. The order, which also will prohibit unscrupulous dealers from loading new cars with ex tras as they become more scarce, applies to all automo biles whether sold by dealers or individuals. DiSalle said the order will be replaced as soon as possible by a permanent system of controls.

It is aimed primarily at the practice of driving a new car a few miles, labeling it "used" and then reselling it for more than the original price. TO MEAN ROLLBACK The order probably will mean a big price rollback on thousands of "new-used" cars now standing on dealers' lots all over the country. The new car ceiling will be the manufacturer's list price plus delivery charges and any "legitimate" extras while the ceiling on "new-used" cars will be in the new delivered price. For used cars, dealers may not charge more than the highest price listed for the same make and model in the official industry price-guidebook customarily used by the seller between Dec. 1, 1950, and Jan.

25, 1951. In no case, may an automobile be sold for more than its delivered price. EXAMPLE CITED If a 1951 Ford, for example, sold originally for $1,900, no dealer or individual can sell it for more than that after March 2. Price officials said they had been told that large numbers of new cars were being driven only a token distance from dealer's showrooms and then sold as used cars at higher than new prices. In other economic developments: 1.

Industry sources indicated they may have to raise prices for automobiles, refrigerators, stoves and TV sets because government orders curtailing the use of scarce metals will cut into their production and reduce their profits. 2. Edward P. Morgan, former counsel for a special senate sub committee which investigated Com munists in government, was sworn in as chief enforcement officer of the price office. TIGHTEN CURBS 3.

The government tightened restrictions on the use of aluminum and ordered a spot check of manufacturers to see if its raw material controls are being obeyed. 4. The senate agriculture committee reported that a study shows that higher farm prices did not force recent retail price increases on beef, canned peaches and canned vegetables But it laid no blame for the increases, saying it will continue its inquiry. Peggy Ann Garner To Be Married Today iNtw lUKft, tea. 21 UP) Peggy Ann Garner, 19-year-old movie actress, and Richard Herbert Hayes, 21, a television singer, will be married tomorrow.

The wedding will be in the banquet room of the Delmonico hotel on Park avenue. It is the first marriage for both. The couple will attend a small reception given by New York Daily News columnist Ed Sullivan atterward, but television engagements will keep them from leaving the city for a honeymoon. THE SUN'S Features Index San Bernardino would be the point of entry for a great canal to provide 5,000,000 acre feet of water for Southern California, under a plan proposed by A. D.

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Pages 26, 27. Ike to Launch Task in Europe Land at Cherbourg, Flies to Versailles VERSAILLES, France, Feb. 21 UP) Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower came back to Europe today to take on again the long time job of making this part of the'world safe for people who don't like totalitarianism.

He arrived on the Queen Elizabeth at refurbished Cherbourg, the first big port his armies liberated in 1944. It was the dawn of a misty, rainy day, but the Eisenhower smile was there. The north Atlantic alliance commander had a quick champagne breakfast with officials and the welcoming part of his own command. With him was his wife, Mamie. Other wives of the officers of Eisenhower's headquarters will come here, too.

"With God's help and with all of us working together we can keep the peace," Eisenhower told the shore welcoming party. Then he flew to Paris, boarded a limousine without ceremony and was taken to a Versailles hotel, the Trianon Palais, where he and Mamie will live until a house is found for them. His schedule tomorrow seemed likely to include a visit to the 60-acre plot carved out of the presidential hunting reserve as the site for his new headquarters. His offices and barracks of the 60-odd soldiers associated with the headquarters are to go up there. The senate also approved resolu tions citing for contempt 13 witnesses who have refused to answer questions put to them by the crime committee.

These cases now will be turned over to U. S. district attorneys for prosecution. Conviction for contempt carries penalties ranging up to a year in jail and a $1,000 fine on each count. AT END OF DAY Senator Kefauver, Tennessee Democrat, chairman of the crime committee, called up the arrest and contempt resolutions unexpectedly just before the senate recessed for the day.

The resolution naming the 17 missing witnesses said the crime committee believes they have gone into hiding or have fled abroad to escape testifying before the crime investigation ends March 31. Four reputed leaders in the remnants ot the late Al Capone's Chicago gang are among those for whom warrants are to be issued. They are: the Fischetti brothers Rocco and Charles and Murray dress became slightly unzipped gallantly comes to her aid. (AP for 17 witnesses accused by senate L. "the Camel" Humphreys, and Jacob "Greasy Thumb" Guzik, reputed business manager of the Capone mob.

Kcfauver's committee had contempt citations pending against five balky witnesses, but at the last minute he put in eight additional resolutions which the senate approved. Among these were "Dandy Phil" Kastel, a partner of New York's Frank Costello in the operation of the swank Beverly club on the outskirts of New Orleans. NEW ORLEANS EX-CONVICT Another was Carlos Marcello, an ex-convict of New Orleans, whom Kefauver has described as one of the nation's "worst criminals." Those against, whom contempt citations were voted included: David N. Kessel of Piedmont, California. Also cited were three men listed as Mike Rubino, Russell Trilick and Pete Licavoli, not otherwise identified.

averaged around 530 miles an hour for the first hour and a half. Heavy winds then cut down his speed. IS NOT OFFICIAL Despite the unexcelled time, however, the crossing will not be recognized as an official international record because the British Royal Aero club was not nskr-rl in send official observers to check the flight. They will remain here overnight for servicing of the sleek U. S.

Air Force men, and then fly to wasnmgton tomorrow. There the world's first ipt hnmh. er will be exhaustively studied by u. a. Air orce experts as part of the exchange of mllitaw informa tion among Britain, the United States and Canada.

Kelly, One of Legion Founders, Succumbs NORTH HOLLYWOOD, Feb. 21 UP) Dr. Edmund J. Kelly, 72, one of the founders of the American Legion, died at his home last night. Dr.

Kelly, a dentist, was a member of the original caucus that created the Legion in Paris in 1918 and served on the first board of directors. He retired two years ago after serving for 23 years on the state veterans' welfare board. Requiem mass will be conducted Saturday at St. Charles church. ill Be Fought Roads Flourishing, Says State P.U.C.

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 21 UP) Petitions to the interstate commerce commission for rate increases on railroads operating in California will be opposed by the state public utilities commission, the P.U.C. said today. It said the railroads have just enjoyed a year of near-recofd in come and have prospects of earning more this year. The P.U.C.

said it would send rate expert Howard Freas to Washington to tell the agency's story at the I.C.C. hearings on petitions of the Southern Pacific, Santa Fe, Union Pacific, Western Pacific and Northwestern Pacific. The rail lines ask six per cent immediate increase. Freas said they already have had nine increases, amounting to 57.3 per cent, since 1946. Freas said he would show that the operating income of the five railroads last year was the highest in 11 years, save for the record years of 1942-1943, and that prospects were even better for this year.

Redlands Man Says U. S. Is Cowardly In Economic Policy PALM SPRINGS, Feb. 21 UP) The' president of the California Savings and Loan league today charged the federal administration with cowardice in its economic policy. Lyman M.

King Redlands. told the 300 delegates to the league's annual three-day conference that if controls recently placed on credit, home building and home lending had been made effective last summer, the gov ernment would have saved the $16,000,000,000 the administration is now asking in taxes. "The cowardice employed in the administration's refusal to nail down the economy is typical," he said. "The administration has made no effort to anchor the in flation spiral, and we have noth ing to show for the sacrifices made so far except leadership of small men who so far have shown themselves capable mostly of in competence." Brown Will Rely on Local Law Officers VALLEJO, Feb. 21 UP) Cali fornia Attorney General Edmund G.

(Pat) Brown said last nieht he will rely on local law officers and not his office to enforce his ban against illegal pinball machines. Brown said an earlier state ment quoting him as saying state agents would crack down on violators when local agents failed to act was intended to apply to crime in general. As for pinballs, he told newsmen, he will rely on local officers. Pef Bulldog Chews Utile Girl to Death KILLEEN, Texas, Feb. 21 A soldier's pet bulldog chewed a three-year-old girl to death today.

The mutilated body of Con-suela Mary Louis De La Pena was found shortly after noon by the dog's owner, Master Sgt. C. E. Tucker, who is stationed at Fort Hood. The girl was the daughter of Lt.

and Mrs. Miguel De La Pena. Her father is now in Korea. He formerly was stationed at Fort Hood. Justice of the Peace Len Jones returned an inquest verdict that said the girl died "after being bitten and chewed upon the face by a bulldog." Mrs.

De La Pena said the little girl left home about 9:30 a.m. She later became concerned about her daughter's absence and began a search for her. The tot's body was found near a shed to which the dog was chained. Official Faces U.S. Tax Charges SAN FRANCISCO, Feb.

21 PI William R. Davena Benicia fire chief and former chief of police, was indicted by a federal grand jury today on charges of evading income taxes. Assistant United States Attorney Robert B. McMillian, who presented the indictment, said Davena concealed $17,860 in income from "protection bribes from prostitutes and gamblers" from 1944 to 1946. He said the 44-year-old official claimed a $10,067 income for the three-year period when his true income was $27,928.

The indictment was given to federal Judge George B. Harris, who set $2,500 bail on a warrant for Davena's arrest. The host: Frank land, a Kansas City friend of 40 years standing. With the president were cabinet members, supreme court justices and legislative leaders. Mr.

Truman was the fifth speaker, and those who preceded him Secretary of State Ache-son, Secretary of Defense Marshall, Speaker of House Ray-burn and Chief Justice Vinson threw so many bouquets his way the breakfast began to sound like a political convention. Mr. Truman admitted with a grin that "this seems to have been a rather fixed-up proposition, to inform the president what his cabinet and the court and the legislative branch think of him." British Twin-Jet Bomber Fails To Beat Sun Across Atlantic Truman Sees Possibility Of Preventing World War Warm, Mellow Maple Desks and Bookcases Decorators Table and Floor Lamps FREE DECORATING SERVICE Rutherfiird's MAPLE SHOP 3167 Street. Ph. 7-4172 HANSEN Plumbing and Healing FOR ALL YOUR PLUMBING NEEDS CALL 3-8133 Fifth and Streets San Bernardino Longines Wittnauer WATCHES 19ol Styles for Ladies and Men OLSEN'S Diamonds-Jewelry-Silverware 317 Street Phone 5-9398 Vi TON PANEL 30 MILES PER GALLON AUSTIN KRAMAR MOTOR COMPANY Highland Ave.

and Sierra Way GANDER, Feb. 21 UP) A twin-jet British bomber failed today in a race to beat the sun across the north Atlantic, but landed with the fastest crossing in history four hours and 40 minutes. Strong headwinds slowed the black and gray Canberra bomber, which has a speed rating of better than 600 miles an hour, on its flight to Gander from Aldergrove air base, near Belfast, North Ireland. WANT COFFEE The sun made the swing in three and a half hours GOO miles an hour. Nosed out by an hour and 10 minutes with an average speed of about 445 miles an hour, the bomber's three-man crew emerged here with the comment: "Lead us to the coffee." The Canberra is a possible addition to the U.

S. Air Force. The first jet aircraft ever to fly the Atlantic without refuelling, the Canberra beat the best previous west-east record by 30 minutes. With Squadron Leader A. E.

Cal-lard at the controls, the bomber streaked off from Aldergrove at 12:43 p.m., British lime (4:43 a.m., Pacific standard time). He screeched to a stop here at p.m., Atlantic standard time (9:23 a.m., P.S.T.). He flew at an altitude of eight, miles or more part of the way and WASHINGTON, Feb. 21 UP) President Truman said today that although this country faces "the most tremendous emergency" in its history, it gradual ly is approaching a position where World war III can be prevented. But the president warned that victory only can come with cooperation and sacrifices from everyone.

He told Masonic leaders that this government has but one objective: "To keep the peace." Mr. Truman made his remarks at a breakfast given for 350 high ranking Masons Mr. Truman is a 33rd degree Mason himself at the Statler hotel..