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LVII, NO. 193 KANE and MT. JEWETT, 1951 mroaslh) (Semitar In 93 PERSONS BURN TO DEATH IN JAPANESE RAILWAY TRAIN BLAZE YOKOHAMA, Japan (UP) At least 98 persons, including sevten U. S. Occupation troops, were burned to death today when an overhead power line became entangled in the trolley of an electric train entering Sakuragicho station and Vdcdoilds Mve; Losses YeoToffiic TOKYO, Wednesday (UP) Chinese Communist forces ripped a 10 mile gap in Allied lines Tuesday.

They sent 40, 000 troops swarming south to points nearly 10 miles below Korea' 38th parallel. The Red breakthrough threatened to cut the vital Seoul Chunchon supply highway west of Chunchon, isolating Allied forces on the east central front. On that front the Allies lost Inje during the day and began a forced withdrawal from the Hwachon Reservoir area. Red troops from Inje began trying to cut them off, driving down the highway toward Chunchon, 27 miles southwest. Frontline commanders said the situation was serious despite "terrible" Communist losses running to 15,000 in the first 24 hours.

But they added: "We are going to fight." Intelligence officers said the Rleds were throwing "everything they have" into the breakthrough on the central front, including cavalry. They said the gap developed when South Korean forces broke and fell back, allowing the enemy to" swarm through and attack neighboring Allied forces on the flanks. 1 Lt. Gen. Matthew B.

Ridewav TUESDAY, APRIL 24, TROOPS ENTER EM FIGHT Unconfirmed "Reports Say Red Trained Troops In Action. (UPJ Officials have received unconfirmed report3 that Soviet trained Mongolian troops have entered North Korea, it was learned today. Some of the troops were said to be from Inner Mongolia, which is Under Chinese influence. Other troops were said to be from Outer Mongolia, which is virtually part Russia. The reports are not firm enough to justify United State military or diplomatic action.

Nevertheless, they fall into a pattern that has caused anxiety to rise. The reports recalled House Speaker Sam Rayburn's recent warning that troops other than Chinese were massing on. the Manchurian border. He said1 that the nation faced the greatest danger of an "expanded war" since World War II. At the time congressmen said Rayburn was "crying wolf" to prod passage of a draft bill, but his remarks increased war tension in the capital Lt.

Gen. James A. Van Fleet, United Nations commander in Ko rea, warned Sunday that "miscellaneous so called volunteers" were ready for action with the Communists in Korea. Van Fleet did not elaborate, but Washington of ficials said they had received these reports: V1.JT During the winter, the; Russians trained Mongolian soldiers and also Japanese war prisoners. 2.

Some of the Mongolians "apparently" have entered North Korea and are there now. 3. Two divisions of Mongolians entered North Korea early this year.1 and then withdrew to the Manchurian side of the Yalu river. There they were joined by a third division, this one definitely from Outer Mongolia. It had been stationed previously at Urga, the Outer Mongolian capital.

The soldiers numbering about 20,000 carried combat equipment. Although China claims Outer Mongolia, Russia dominates the area. A Soviet force in 1939 fought and licked Japanese who tried to grab Outer Mongolia. Ever since, the area nominally a Republic has been virtually part of Russia. As the war in Korea has progressed, Russia has called for volunteers from its satellites in Eastern Europe.

Countries such as Czechoslovaks or Poland could supply numerous technicians that the Communist Far Eastern forces desperately need. These Eastern Europeans also could fly jets or train Chinese Communists to operate the latest type aircraft One intelligence report says the Chinese Communists did not start to receive jet flight train ing until Jan. 14. This would in dicate that most of the skillfully flown MIGJs in Korea are piloted by Eastern Europeans or Russians rather than Chinese Communists. ALLEGED ATTACKER OF THREE WOMEN JAILED SMETHPORT James J.

Besock aged 24, of Olean, N. today was being held in the McKean County jail after. he had been apprehended at gun point near Port Allegany where he is alleged to have attacked one woman on a street and two others in their homes. Charges are being delayed pending full investigation into the case. Sheriff William Reese said the man gave his address as 214' Front street, Olean and has admitted serving time in Elmira.

N. Y. reformatory for criminal assault. He denied any connection with the series of assaults at Port Allegany. Sheriff Reese said, however, that Besock had been positively identified by all three woman victims.

Husbands of one of the women found the man along H'ghway Route 155, three miles north of Port Allegany shortly before mid night and held him at gun point until he was taken into custody by Sheriff Reese and Chief of Police Albert Clauser of Port Allegany. According to police report, one woman was attacked on a Port Allegany street near Firemen's auditorium. The two others were attacked in their homes after Besock had forced his way into the MONGOL OR Formosa Advisor Maj. Gen. William Curtis Chase, native of Providence, R.

has been named chief of a new military advisory group being sent to Formosa. Recently chief of staff of the Third Army in Georgia, Gen. Chase will help administer U. S. aid in accordance with administration policy for building up Chinese Nationalist Formosa defenses against Communist China.

Third Man Quits Attlee Government LONDON (UP) A third min ister bolted the Labor cabinet to day but other ministers closed their ranks in tight support of Prime Minister Clement Attlee. The latest defection was John Freeman, a junior minister holding the position of parliamentary secretary to the Ministry of Supply. Freeman announced his resignation at a private emergency session of Labor members of Commons today, at which Foreign Secretary Herbert Morrison sat in for the ailing Attlee. Freeman took advantage of the private session to explain his reasons for leaving the government and joining tho dissident Labor forces of former Minister of Labor Aneurin Bevan and former Board of Trade President Harold Wilson. Attlee's followers cemented their ranks during the private session in efforts to prevent a major party split.

Observers believed Attlee had a good chance now of holding his forces together until a general election in the fall. LATE BULLETINS MAC TESTIMONY SET WASHINGTON (U.PJ Gen. Douglas MacArthur has agreed to testify Thursday, May 8, before senate committees investigating his dismissal, it was disclosed today. SAY PROOF ON HAND NEW YORK tU.R) Gen. Doug las MacArthur's personal adviser said today the endorsement of the general's views by the joint chiefs of fjtaff "is complete in the official record." MAN HIT DURING N.

Y. MacARTHUR PARADE DIES NEW YORK (UP) Mario Ric cobono, 47, who was struck by a paperweight hurled from a skyscraper window through Broadway's ticker tape shower for General MacArthur, died at Beekman Downtown hospital today of a fractured skull. He had not regained consciousness since he was struck as he walked toward the Woolworth building Friday to keep a business appointment. Riccobono, blinded several years ago, was not a parade spectator, llllllllllllft iiiiiiigpiililiipgl (TO FIVE CENTS A COPI flew to the battlefield to consult his field commanders. He said the Red offensive was their greatest effort so far, that it still had not reached full strength, and may be the decisive battle of the Korean war.

Ridgway told newsmen at the front that he and Lt. Gen. James A Van Fleet, commander of tho 8th Army, were "fully confident in the ability of the UN forces on ground, air or sea." The Communist breakthrough at the center of the line came on the third day of the mounting Communist offensive. It was designed to split the 8th Army in two and roll up its flanks. More than 40,000 Chinese Red troops and horse cavalry poured through a widening hole below Kumhwa, crossed the 38th parallel and engaged UN forces west of Chunchon after an over all advance of 18 to 20 miles.

The thrust imperiled the vital Seoul Chunchon supply highway and railway Other elements of the 250,000 man Chinese and North Korean assault forces rolled back the UN line on either side of the breakthrough one to 12 miles. Inje, five miles north of the parallel in the eastern Korea hills, fell to the Reds. The Hanton river line in west central Korea and most of the Imjin river line on the western flank 25 miles northwest of Seoul were abandoned to the attacking Reds. Ridgway flew to Korea from his Tokyo headquarters for a personal look at the worsening situation. He arrived at a front line airstrip on the western front soon after the Imjin river section was hit by two Communist divisions.

With Ridgway was Van Fleet, who succeeded him as commander of the 8th Army. They conferred with Lt. Gen. Frank Milburn, commander of the U. S.

1st Corps and other field commanders. The supreme commander returned to Tokyo tonight and told waiting newsmen: "It appears to me at this time that this attack is another major effort by our Communist enemy to drive the United Nations forces from Korea, or to destroy them, regardless of the further destruction of his own troops and the con tinued criminal devastation of Korea. "It appears also that this will be the heaviest offensive" yet made. though It has i not yet attained its maximum strength Ridgway expressed satisfaction with the frightful losses being in tuctea on tne ixmmuntsts at least 15,000 killed or wounded in the first 24 hours of the assault An 8th Army spokesman said Allied losses were only one tenth those of the enemy. An 8th Army spokesman said This was the situation along the Communist assault front, from west to east, tonight: Western front Two Chinese divisions hit the Allied line in the Imjin river sector northwest of Seoul in what may be.

an attempt to break through to the South Korean capital. An infiltration was reported behind UN lines and a withdrawal was made about mid day. West central front An A muj unit was reported surrounded south of Yonchon, seven miles north of the parallel and due north of Seoul and another withdrew southwest of the city. A battalion sized penetration also was reported southeast of luuiuuii. ranner east UN forces south of Chorown withdrew some 12 miles to a point south of the Hantan river.

Central front The Communists poured regiment after regiment' of infantry and horse cavalry, through (Continued on page WIFE OF WILCOX AND KANESHOLM LUTHERAN PASTOR DIES AT WILCOX Mrs. Clara Josephine Johnson, wife of the Rev. Henning L. John son, pastor of Nazareth Lutheran church at Wilcox and the Lebanon Lutheran church at Kanesholm, died at two o'clock this morning at the parsonage in Wilcox. The well known Wilcox resident was 51 years of age and had been ill for the past six months.

A funeral service will be held in the Nazareth Lutheran church at two o'clock Saturday afternoon and burial will be in the Kanesholm cemetery. Friends may call at the parsonage in Wilcox after seven o'clock Thursday evening. Mrs. Johnson was born February 2, 1900 at Sterling Run, near St. Marys.

She was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Anderson of that place. She was married June 16, 1923 to the Rev. Mr.

Johnson at Driftwood and the couple came to serve the Wilcox and Kanesholm churches on July 1, 1947. In addition to her husband, Mrs. Johnson is survived by three sons, Arthur at home; Paul at Augustana Theological seminary, Rock Island, 111., and Bertil, student at Upsala College, East Orange. N. J.

Two brothers, Carl Anderson of Trenton, N. J. and John Anderson of Erie; two sisters, Mrs. Oscar Nord berg of Driftwood and Mrs. August Wickman of Gardner, a grandson and a number of nieces and nephews also survive.

SETTLE BATTISTA CASE out or UUI Ul UUUII I I UN Vtll SMETIIPORT (Special) April term of Common Pleas court was moving along swiftly to conclusion possibly by mid week after agreement of counsel to settle the trespass action with Mr. and Mrs. William White of Little Genessee, N. against estate of the late Richard Battista, Kane garage owner for a total of $2,000. Following agreement by counsel, R.

T. Mutzabaugh representing the plaintiffs and Joseph P. Willson, the Battista Estate, the jury gave its nnnrnval verdict without retirintr. I Involved in the case through thel Battista estate was the Maryland Casualty Insurance Company and! also the Pennsylania Railroad. Mr.

and Mrs. White, as prospective car purchasers, were occupants of a car being demonstrated by Mr. Battista when it was struck on the Oak street crossing at Kane. Mr. Battista was fatally injured in the accident Mr.

and Mrs. White had originally signed a waiver with the insurance company for $200 but subsequent loss of time and complications from injuries led to the trespass action. But a few cases remain on the docket for the current term of court which resumed with a.Smethport assumpsit action today. On the schedule yet is one Kan case, a suit and counter suit of Dr. G.

E. Dutter vs. the Truskan Products company and the Truskan Products Company vs. Dr. G.

E. Dutter. The case stems from agreements on equipment and materials Involved in former manufacture of automobile sun visors at the local plant. THREE BILLS SET FOR LEGISLATURE TO CURD PA. RELIEF CHISELERS HARRISBURG (U.E) A series of three bills which would place drastic curbs on relief recipients will toe introduced in the state senate next week.

Sen. Joseph J. Yosko, Bethlehem, a repeated critic of the Commonwealth's public assistance program during the current legislature, said today he will sponsor the measures aimed at correcting what Yosiko termed "obvious looseness in the present relief set up." Keystone of the bills Yosko will present is one requiring all relief applicants to file oaths every month that they are still eligible for public assistance. Those persons found guilty of misrepresenting the facts in their oaths could be fined from $100 to $1,000 or imprisoned for up to two years. A second bill would create a permanent state public assistance board on a salary basis.

The board would consist of the secretary of public assistance and two persons to be appointed by the governor with the advice and consent of the senate. The two appointive board members would receive identical salaries of $12,000 a year. They would divide supervisory duties with one taking charge of general assistance and the other administering relief to dependent children, the aged and the blind. An employment placement agency would be established to cooperate with existing state and federal employment services and county assistance boards in finding work for employable persons receiving state aid. Yosko's proposals also would tighten up existing regulations governing the aid to be extended persons oif relief toy close relatives cap able of contributing to their sup i port.

Such relatives would be required to sign written agreements specifying how much they could Contribute towards maintaining the relief recipient. If they violated the agreement, county courts would be authorized to issue support orders to compel payment. ITAL Mrs. Justina Z. White, age 61, 324 Moffitt avenue, died at 8:45 p.

m. yesterday in the Community hospital where she had been a patient for the past three days Mrs. White had ben in ill health for the past several years and seriously so for tne past week. Born April 17, 1890. in Italy.

Mrs, White lived in Sheffield and West line before coming to Kane where she had resided for the past seven months. The deceased married George White on December 23, 1020, at Betula. She is survived by her husband and two daughters. Mrs. Emil Biz zak and Mrs.

Rose Hensley, Kane; a sister, Mrs. Flora White, Sheffield; three brothers, Lee Zandy, Kane; Tony Zandy, Lewis Run; Biago Zandy, Clarendon; and six Friends may call at the Cummings funeral home this evening or any time thereafter. Rosary will be held at the funeral home Wednesday evening at 8 o'clock. Requiem mass will be held in St. Callistus church at 9 a m.

Thursday. Interment will be in St. Callistus cemetery. STILL ON STRIKE SHARON, Pa. (VP) Production at Westinghouse Electric Corporation's transformer division failed to resume today despite a union company agreement on issues which led to recent slowdowns and work stoppages.

intereference, Taylor said. "At nine o'clock in the morning (April 18), the blow fell," Taylor said. "General MacArthur received a radio message from Washington through official commu i a i channels. At his level he had to construe that it was authorized by Secretary Marshall, Dean Acheson or President Truman. "This official radiogram directed General MacArthur to remember before he spoke to congress that whatever he said should toe cleared with the powers that be in Washington, D.

in short, at 9 a. he got the gag." "General MacArthur replied at once to the 9 o'clock message. He asked that the message as delivered be put in the form of an order. He was prepared to meet the order. He was prepared to state that when Gets Tough Economic Stabilizer Eric Johnston raises his hand at a press conference in Washington to' announce a new long range "tough" price control policy on business profits.

The new policy would "stop any further Increase in profits" except as a reward for greater production efficiency. (International Soundphoto.) UU, OF Ml JEWETT, DIES Samuel P. Johnson, retired Mt. Jewett Tanning Company employe, succumbed here last: night at JJut Kane Summit hospital where he had undergone surgery two week ago. Mr.

Johnson, who was aged 3b, came to this county from Denmark 65 years ago and spent most of his life at Mt. Jewell. Mr. Johnson was born March 23, 1865 in Denmark and came to the United Slates in 1886. He was mar ried to Miss Karen Kristine Hanson of Denmark, May 12, 1893 ut Limestone, N.

Y. Mrs. Johnson preceded him in death in 1942. He was a member of St. Matthew's Lutheran church of Mt.

Jewett Surviving are the following sons and daughters: Hans Johnson, Mrs. Gust Frid, Kristine' Johnson, Lawrence Johnson, Albert J. Johnson, Amelia Johnson and Lester Johnson of Mt. Jewett; Mrs. J.

Fred land, Florence, S. Waldemar Johnson, Williamsport; Harold Johnson, Warren and Mrs. J. J. Syl vander, of McKeesport.

Also surviving are a sister, Mrs. Karen Peterson, of Jamestown, N. 16 grandchildren and five great grand children. Friends will be received at the Lndhome funeral home after 8 p. today from where a prayer ser vice will be held Thursday after noon at 2 oclock followed by final rites from Nebo church at 2:30 m.

Services will toe conducted by the Rev. Wallace Johnson. Burial will be in Nebo cemetery. The casket will not be opened at church. Extended Weather Forecast By United Press Western Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia Temperature will average two to five degrees above normal.

It will be mild Wednesday, cooler Thursday, warmer Saturday and cooler again Sunday. Showers Wednesday and Thursday and again late Saturday or Sunday. The rainfall will total one third of one half inch. invited to come from Tokyo to address a joint meeting of the congress he could not believe it was the intention of congress or the will of the American people that his report be censored or gagged in advance." Whitney said MacArthur would return to Washington next week te appear before a congressional investigation committee. The general's secretary also said MacArthur and his wife, Jean, would observe their 14th wedding anniversary Monday in Murfrees boro, Mrs.

MacArthur's home town. They will fly back to' New York Monday night, Whitney said, but Mrs. MacArthur and their 13 year old son, Arthur, may return to Murfreesboro later for a longer visit 77?) k' j. I set it on fire. Scores of others were hospitalized.

Only four or five passengers escaped injury. An emergency morgue was set up in a room of the Yokohama central station where U. S. and Japanese authorities were attempting to sort the burned and mutilated bodies. The injured were rushed to five hospital in the Yokohama area.

The disaster occurred suddenly as the crowded approached the station. Within seconds after the train screeched to an emergency stop some 50 yards from the station platform the first car was completely engulfed in flames. The speed with which the flames spread and the failure of the compressed air mechanism to" open the doors trapped the victims in the flaming cars. The seven American soldiers killed today were identified from dog tags found in the wreckage. Their names were withheld pending notification of next of kin.

Philip Murray Critically III rni aBUKUll tu.K) fhilip Murray, president of the Congress of Industrial Organizations, was reported critically ill in Mercy hospital today. Murray, who also heads the CIO United Steelworkers Union, was admitted to the Institution Sunday night with a very severe abdominal complaint." A CIO spokesman said the 64 year old labor leader had attended a dinner at Youngstown, Satur day night and entered the hospital Sunday when he complained of severe stomach pains. Murray previously was hospitalized at Washington in February with a virus infection and later went to Florida to recuperate. He later returned to Washington where he took part in conferences with the president's advisory board on mobilization policy and last week presided at a two day meeting of the USW executive board. The union spokesman said he appeared to be in good health at that time but tired.

News of Murray's illness was released at a press conference in Pittsburgh this morning. The union issued a four paragraph statement outlining Murray's illness and recent activity but refused further comment. BROOKLYN PRINCESS CONSIDERS DIVORCE NEW YORK (UR) Rita Hay worth's attorney indicated today that she is considering divorcing Prince Aly Khan. Bartley Crum, the red haired actress' attorney, was asked if he planed to file her divorce suit against the prince. "No decision has been reached yet, really," he said.

This was the first indication that the actress princess was considering whether to break up their two year old marriage. In Hollywood, Harry Cohn, head of Columbia Pictures, said Miss Hayworth planned to return to work at the studio. Her decision to resume her career after an absence of three years from the screen has strengthened reports she planned a divorce. Miss Hayworth arived here April 2 with her jtwo daughters. The prince remained in rades Thursday and a gigantic civic reception at Soldier Field, where MacArthur will make a 10 or 15 minute speech, "I would not rate it as a major speech," Maj.

Gen. Courtney Whit ney, MacArthur's secretary, said. Radio Commentator Henry J. Taylor reported last night that Mac Arthur almost did not make his historic address to congress last Thursday. Taylor said over the American Broadcasting company network that MacArthur had received an official directive from Washington at 9 a.

m. EST, Wednesday which said the address had to be cleared by his superiors. After MacArthur insisted that the directive be submitted as an order, the message was withdrawn und the general gave his speech without VICE PHESIDENT UNDER I A 0 (UP) Charles G. Dawes, the "Hell 'n Maria" vice president under Calvin Coolidge, died last night at his suburban Evanston home of a heart attack. He was 85 years old, Dawes' death came as he was preparing to make one of his rare public appearances in recent years as honorary chairman of the Civic Committee to welcome Gen.

Douglas MacArthur's visit' to Chicago next Thursday. His wife, Caro, was with him when he died after suffering a cor onary thrombosis attack about 10 p. m. CST. His physician.

Dr. Geo. Dick, was summoned, but Dawes was dead by the time he arrived. His death ended a fiery career punctuated by his verbal trademark of "Hell 'n Maria" as lawmaker, banker, diplomat, soldier, politician, author and musician. Another Dawes trademark was his famous undeVslung pipe.

Dawes served under Coolidge from 1925 to 1929 and refused to run for a second term. He was appointed ambassador to the Court of St. James in London where he shocked court circles when he spurned the traditional "pink tea diplomacy" associated with the post. He was the author of the "Dawes Plan" for the payment of Germany's World War I reparations. His efforts won him the Noble Peace Prize in 1925.

Since 1932, Dawes had served as chairman of the board of the City National Bank. He went to the office regularly despite his age. Yesterday was one of the few days he missed. He stayed home because he did not feel weU. His outspoken approach to life his language was once found too forceful for inclusion in the Congressional Record was in marked contrast to his beautiful musical composition, "Melody in A Major.

Dawes was born in Marietta, Aug. 27, 1865. He came from a long line of Americans. His father was Rufus Dawes who fought in the Iron Brigade" of the Civil War, Another of his forebears was Wil liam Dawes who accompanied Paul Rpvtr. hi.

mldnhzht ride. He was graduated from Marietta College at the age of 19. TO SALUTE MacARTHUR CAMP ATTERBURY, Ind. (UP) A field artillery unit of Pennsylvania's 28th National Guard Division will fire a 17 gun salute to Gen. Douglas MacArthur when his plane lands at Midway airport in Chicago Thursday.

a special freight car, arriving at the P.R.R. siding two days ago. Yesterday afternoon a factory engineer arrived in Kane to break the seal and to give a large number of persons a good look at the unit. It was unloaded and moved to the Christie building pending tests and arrangements to permanently house it in the borough building on Field The pumper welcoming committee included Fire Chief H. D.

Gardner, Carl E. Carlson, Rescue foreman, and numerous members of the department in general. Gen. Mac Arthur Prepares Chicago Speech New Rescue Pumper Arrives and Tests Are Scheduled For This Afternoon WASHINGTON U.PJ The Army iirsivted today that it did not re quest an advance copy of Gen. Douglas MacArthur's speech to con jrress for the purpose of censoring: it or fragging the general.

IVIaj. Gen. Floyd S. Parks, Army chief of public information, also said that MacArthur will not be expected to submit any speches or public statements for advance review by the State or Defense Departments. BY H.

D. QUIGG United Press Staff Correspondent NEW YORK (UR) Gen. Douglas MacArthur stayed out of sight again today but was busy making plans for his midwestern public appearances later this week. Chicago will give the deposed far Eastern commander two pa Tests are scheduled this afternoon for the new Rescue pumper, a $17,. 500 super outfit of red and chrome that has some aspects of a ground model of a 29.

Twelve powerful cylinders are un der the hood of the impressive American LaFrance outfit which will be more than adequate to meet any demand. The operator of the big unit will be seated fully six feet ahead vof the front wheels and lt was reported today that special instruction will be required to drive it. The pumper was shipped here in.