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Truly, Truly Fair! Generally fair and somewhat warmer 6 a.m., 59; 9 a.m.. 63; 2 p.m., 71 Humidity at 9 a.m., 83 percent High tomorrow 80; low tonight 57 I Sun sets rises tomorrow 5:43 Pollen count, 18 See forecasts, temperatures page 9 a The Canadian Press Associated Press United Press Reuters Associated Press Wirephoto VOL. 66, NO. 144. 46 PAGES IN THREE SECTIONS WINDSOR, ONTARIO, CANADA, SATURDAY, AUGUST 18, 1951 Autbortred a Second Claw Mall Post Office Department, Ottawa FIVE CENTS fo) fin A UNJ Unsolved Dresden Mans Like a Gentleman of the Old Thousands of Men Open 2 5 -Mile Front Under Gun Barrage Joy Warns Allies Line On 38th Disastrous By RICHARD APPLEGATE United Press Staff Correspondent 8TH ARMY HEADQUARTERS.

Korea Thousands of United Nations troops attacked Communist positions along a 25-mile front today under cover of one of the biggest artillery bombardments of the Korean war. AIR WAR FLARES Police Quiz 2, Withhold Autopsy Data Grant Wallace, 37, Drowning Victim; Last Seen Tuesday The Stars Kent County Bureau DRESDEN Police kept a tight lid on developments today in the investigation into the mysterious death of Grant Wallace, 37, of Dresden, who was found drowned in the Sydenham River here Friday. TWO QUESTIONED Early today, two men trailed to Windsor by Ontario Provincial Police and DreJrn Polfce were questioned at the Windsor Police station. Their names were not revealed. Police also withheld details of an autopsy made on the body of Wallace, who was partially nude when found.

Investigation was proceeding this afternoon, but investigating officers could not be located. It was presumed they were seeking clues to the mans death in the Dresden area. Wallaces body was pulled from the Sydenham about 1 p.m. Friday after Gene St. Croix and Leo Bogaert, Wallaceburg teenagers, spotted it while cruising up the river within two miles of Dresden.

The boys passed it in their outboard motorboat, thinking it was a log, but turned back to take a closer look. They realized the object they saw was a human head. The body, clad in pants and heavy workshoes was floating with only the head showing above water. O.P.P. Constable Charles Elford and Dresden Chief Alvin Watson hauled the body ashore and identified Wallace.

ORDERS POST MORTEM No hint of foul play came until close to 3 oclock after. Coroner Dr. Marvin L. Booth, Wallaceburg, examined the body at the scene and then later at the John Grass Funeral Home. At 5 oclock.

Crown Attorney A. D. Bell, K.C., ordered a post mortem and 2Vfe hours later. Pathologist Dr. Nate Toplach, Chatham, arrived to conduct the autopsy.

He finished his examination at 10:30 p.m. Grant, a veteran of World War II, was well-known in Dresden and to police. A widower and father of five children, he lived in a shack on Richmond street on the outskirts of town with his 72-year-old father, Enoch Wallace, who has been seriously ill during the past few days. With the gallantry and solicitude of a gentleman of the old school, two-year-old Prince Charles leans out of his carriage to hold the hand of and look at his sister. Princess Anne.

This pleasing picture of the children of Princess Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh was made recently at Clarence House, London residence of the Royal couple. Charles sister celebrated her first birthday Wednesday. Net Green Roadster Present for Margaret Gift of King and Queen on Birthday Reaches Balmoral as Princess Holds Party Greets Sister Iran Given Ultimatum Accept or 'Else, British Declare TEHRAN, Iran, (UP) British negotiators gave Iran an ultimatum to bow to Britains eight point proposals or accept collapse of oil talks and consequent loss of revenue. TOUGH STATEMENT The tough statement came from chief British oil negotiator Richard Stokes a few hours before a scheduled show-down session in the oil nationalization dispute. Stokes said Britain was prepared to pull its remaining 150 oil experts from Iran almost immediately unless a speedy settlement was reached.

U.S. Presidential Advisor Averell Harriman, who convinced the two countries to resume oil negotiations last month, has been informed of the British ultimatum, Stokes said. Lad Charged In Shooting Victim, 74, Shielded Grandson From Bullet KNOX, (UP) Eleven-year-old Joseph Lapacek was held today for shooting a 74-year-old woman who shielded her grandson from the boys rifle bullet. Mrs. Anna Lorencz was in serious condition at La Portes Holy Family Hospital from a wound in her right shoulder.

She was shot. Sheriff Lee James said, while protecting her grandson, Rocky Lorencz, 12, with whom the Lapacek boy had quarreled. Joseph was captured in a barn on a farm near his home late last night while curled up asleep in a haymow. James said the rifle was found hidden in a hog house nearby, loaded with bullets one of which was in the firing chamber. James said the boys had feuded ever since Joseph was ordered away from the Lorencz home several months ago.

Mrs. Lorencz said Joseph' approached Rocky with the rifle and said he was going to shoot. She said she jumped in front of Rocky just as Joseph fired. QUADRUPLETS BORN VIBO VALENTIA, Italy Quadruplets have been born to Marina Prestinenzi, wife of a barber. School, Charles was to County patrolmen said they were holding Mrs.

Richard Morales, $1, wife of a prominent attorney, on charges of drunken driving, reckless driving resulting in an accident, and operating without a state drivers licence. A Smile The old alumnus, at the pregame rally, was disparaging the skill of modern football players. When I was in college, he boasted, I helped Harvard beat Yale for three years straight. Is that so, sir? queried the quarterback, politely. And which team were you on? Teeth Lose Grip Artiste Falls 50 Feet MIDLAND, Ont, (CP When her teeth lost their grip on a trapeze bit, Maria Eleana Mexico fell 50 feet to the ground before a crowd of 2,000 startled spectators.

The teen-age trapezist suffered Injuries that will keep her out of acrobatics for about three months, doctors said. They Included a dislocated elbow, bruises on neck and back, and as yet undetermined shoulder and wrist Injuries. She was a member of a circus playing in this Georgian Bay town. O.C. Soccer Play Starts Summer Sunshine Greets Large Crowds By Reuters News Agency LONDON, Eng.

Britains legions of soccer addicts thronged stadiums up and down the country today to watch the official opening games of the seasons soccer league. PORTSMOUTH TO GLASGOW From Portsmouth to Glasgow fans sat in shirt sleeves in summer sunshine as the countrys 200-odd soccer squads battled out the firs! frame of the series which will run through until mid-spring next year. The teams which climbed the promotion ladder at the end of last years season from a lower division into the next higher one fared well In todaya contests. In Division One, promoted Preston North End trounced the London club from Fulham in a riproaring 3-2. Manchester City, also promoted to Division One, came off with a goose egg tie against powerful Wolverhampton Wanderers.

Last years First Division champions, Tottenham Hotspurs, however, suffered an opening day beating at the hands of mighty Middles-borough to the tune of 2-1. NEWCASTLE WINS EASILY The Newcastle club showed the kind of football that won them the Association Cup last year. They. walked over Stoke City in a crush- ing 6-0. In the Second Division, the two promoted clubs played each other.

Nottingham Forest took a 2-1 victory over Rotherham United. The two First Division clubs which had to climb down to second last season, split, one winning, one losing. Sheffield Wednesday took an easy 3-1 over Doncaster while Everton dropped, 1-0, to Southampton. Lowly Division Three made a flying start on the season with a full schedule of games. The two relegated Divisions Two clubs.

Chesterfield and Grimsby, played each other to a 3-1 win for Chesterfield. Up in Scotland, the series opened with an easy, 2-0, win for for Celtic, the titleholders, against Morton. See O.C. SOCCER Page 2 Mother Gives Life for Two Makes Second Rescue And Dies in Flames NEW YORK, (AP) Mrs. Anne Klatzko, 65, saved her son-in-law and daughter from death by fire today for the second time in two years, but this time she died in the flames.

Her clothes aflame and trapped in a blazing hallway of their thlrd- a a found Mrs. Klatzko dead. Mr. and Mrs. Schwartz later disclosed that Mrs.

Klatzko saved their lives with a similar warning two years ago when an arsonist set the tenement afire. Heads Amvets MILWAUKEE, (UP) Ewing Mays, Little Rock, Ark, World War II veteran, is the new national commander of the Disabled American veterans. i Mays was elected to the post yesterday in the last session of the groups national convention here. He lost both legs In the Italian campaign. Race Fixing May Involve Racket Molls Track Investigators Study Possibility Women Implicated TORONTO, (CP) The In vestigation into fixed races on Ontario tracks hat drawn nearly a dozen men into ita toils, but interest remaina high in the possibility that there may be women involved.

LADY IN BLACK Newspaper headlines have dealt with the suspensions and arrests of jockeys, track hangers-on and a trainer on various charges, but return consistently to the possibility that a lady in black, a checkroom girl or some other woman may be implicated in Canadas worst horsc-racing scandal. So far, no woman baa been arrested In ronnertlnn with the rase. One, platinum-haired Betty Spencer, is free on 1.000 ball as a material witness. She said yesterday that she has no knowledge of any wrong-doing. The lady in black.

Identified only as the wife of a prominent Toronto gambler, la said to have wagered $1,500 in United States funds on North Drive, long-hot winner of an allegedly-fixed race at Fort Erie. ESCAPES ARREST Two men who attempted to cash large numbers of tickets on North Drive are under arrest, and the Ontario Racing Commission has slapped lifetime suspension! on some of the Jockeys Involved In the race, but the mystery woman thua far has escaped arrest. A former Toronto hotel hal-eherk girl may also be Involved. She Is reported to have bet $600 in American funds on the same horse. Ail the tickets, together with the money, are said to have been seized.

PROHIBITS BETS Both women could be charged under Canadian foreign exchange regulations, which prohibit bets of more than $100 In United Stales currency by Canadian residents at Fort Erie, a border track whihi accepts bets in both Canadian and United Slates funds. Definitely sought by R.C.M.P, and Ontario Provincial Police la former Jockey Johnny Perron of Pawtucket, R.I., and New Toronto, Identified at the com-missions hearings as the contart man between jockeys and the men behind the race-fixing wire. Perron, together with an unnamed Toronto racketeer who la See RACE FIXING Page 2 One Demi, 5 Hurt In Komi Crush CHALK RIVER, (CP) Dewitt Bancroft, 50, of Chalk River, waa killed and five other persons were injured In a collision between two automobile on Highway No. 17 three mile In suddenly Intensified aerial warfare American Sabre jets and Russian-built MIG-15a battled twice over Northwest Korea. One Red plane probably was destroyed and one was damaged.

The infantrymen in the new offensive hacked out steady gains against fanatical Red resistance, to the accompaniment of screaming Allied air strikes over the front lines and the thunder of the artillery. Allied officers said the was necessary militarily to straighten our lines and to prevent the enemy from observing the positions we currently hold. The attack was made in the general area of the Hwachon reservoir east of the old iron triangle" bastion. It was made to straighten the line and eliminate a bulge In which the enemy was able to overlook the U.N. defence line.

GUNS POUND FOE Allied guns emplaced far behind the lines poured hundreds of rounds of fire on the Communist positions. Under cover of their fire, the U.N. troops moved up slowly against an undetermined number of veteran Red troops. Its been a long time since I saw anything like the show those artillery boys put on, a U.N. soldier said.

Communist resistance was off! dally termed moderate to heavy along the 25-mile front. In the first of two aerial dog fights over northwest Korea, about 30 enemy Jets Jumped a flight of 29 Sabre jets. One Communist plane was damaged before the Reds fled to the safety of their Manchurian sanctuary. SECOND BATTLE In the second battle 28 Sabrejets battle which ranged between 000 and 35,000 feet. 1st LL Charles F.

Loyd, of Marion, made a probable kill when he put 6evetal bursts of 50 calibre machine guns into a Mig. The enemy plane spouted flame and dived toward the earth across the Yalu River in Manchuria. It was the first big aerial war fare in 514 wecks. Fighting started when the Communists sent the first fleet of their fighters into northwest Korea Meanwhile, at Kaesong, the chief U.N. truce negotiator warned that it would definitely be foolhardy, and perhaps be disastrous to draw a cease-fire line along the 38th Parallel as the Comrmiaists demand.

Vice Adm. C. Turner Joy made the statement as a four-man armiS' tice subcommittee prepared to meet for the third time in Kaesong under a news blackout to try to agree on an armistice line It was reported that the U.N. See U.N. LAUNCHES Page 2 Soldiers Find Atomic Ore KUMIIWA, Korea (AP) A truckload of Russian-marked ore containing beryllium, a rare metal having atomic-energy uses, has been discovered by American soldiers near this recently-captured town.

North Korean civilians said the ore came fron the Panok tungsten mines about five miles from here. It was on a Korean truck in sacks with Russian markings, Reds Doom Foreigners Italian, Japanese Sentenced to Death HONG KONG, (AP) Red China for the first time has snared non-Chinese in its blood purge net, sentencing two foreigners to death for allegedly plotting, to kill Communist leader Mao Tze-Tung last fall. AS U. S. "SPIES Peiping radio yesterday denounced the two, an Italian and a Japanese, as spies for the United States.

It caused fears among observers here that this means a new tarn in Peipings campaign against foreigners and that the purge by execution squads may be extended to non-Chinese. The state department in Washington and the U. S. military attache on Formosa immediately denied the charge. The Red radio said the attache.

Col. David D. Barrett, hired the "spies hile attache in Peiping. "I never at any time, said Barrett at Taipeh, Formosa, either on my own initiative or on orders of any agency of the United States government ever attempted to assassinate or contrive the assassination of anyone. NEVER SPENT CENT Barrett added that while in Peiping he never spent a cent on intelligence agents.

He left Peiping Feb. 6, 1950. I The state department in a statement hacked him up, saying any assertion that he was the instigator of such a plot is a bare-faced lie. No Children Barrier Fatal Discouraged Father Seeking Love Suicides CLEVELAND, UP) For a month John Westfall, 33, and his wife, 33, looked for a home for themselves and their four children. Everywhere they looked the story was the same No children.

Today police found Westfall dead In his car, the victim of carbon monoxide. He had run a rubber hose from the exhaust through the floorboards of the car. No children! Mrs. Westfall sobbed. Thats why he did it.

BRAEMAR, (UP) Princess Margaret got a green roadster from her parents today as a birthday present. The weekend party will launch the festivities for her 21st birthday Tuesday and several of Margarets favorite escorts have been invited. A small group of select guests began arriving at Balmoral Castle, the Royal residence. SPORTS MODEL Margarets new car is a sports model Daimler and its cost, with purchase tax, was about 3,000 pounds She has had a. drivers licence for three years and her friends say she loves fast cars.

She has driven her fathers Daimler, which is much like her new one. Princess Elizabeth also was given a Daimler when she was 21. although it was not a birthday present. PLAYING FIELD If the blue-eyed princess announces wedding plans at her coming of age Tuesday, it would be the royal familys best kept secret. Court circles said Margaret is still playing the field.

The official guest list has yet to be announced. It was assumed Margarets collection of eligible young bluebloods would be on it. 'The princess will attend services tomorrow at the red-roofed parish church of Crathie on a hillside opposite the castle gateway. Her escort to church may provide a clue on her current favorite. Margarets birthday celebration will be a small affair compared with the whoop-de-do attending Princess Elizabeths coming of age during the royal tour to Africa in 1947.

At that time, Elizabeth, heiress presumptive to the throne, pledged to devote my whole life, whether it be long or short to the service of her country. Now that Elizabeths two children have relegated the kid sister to fourth in line to the throne, Margaret can celebrate her birthday with few official worries. White House Car Carries Miss Truman WASHINGTON, (UP) The White House acknowledged today that Margaret Truman has a White House limousine for her own use in New York, but said she pays all costs of operating it out of her own pocket. Her chauffeur, it said, is one of the secret service agents assigned to guard her. The limousine, an eight-cylinder Lincoln Cosmopolitan, is one of a fleet leased to the White House by the Ford Motor Co.

At an annual rate of $500 per car, MIAMI, (UP) A shapely carhop, clad in bright red shorts, lost a leg early today when a woman driver, who thought she backing up, gunned the car forward and pinned the pretty brunet against a brick wall. Billie Bedlingfield, whose twin sister also works at Colonel Jims drive-in, was in serious condition at Doctors Hospital. Surgeons amputated one leg but hoped save the other. Dade road See DRESDEN Page 2 Storm Sweeps China Sea Typhoon Heads For Korea Area TOKYO, (UP) A typhoon with winds of 90 to 100 miles an hour swept across the East China Sea toward Korea today after skirting Okinawa. If the storm does not change course it should hit Korea sometime Sunday night, U.

S. Air Force weather observers said. The centre of the typhoon missed the northern tip of Okinawa by 20 miles and roared across the tiny islands of the Ryukyu chain into the East China Sea. U. S.

military installations on Okinawa reported 50-mile-an-hour winds, but indicated they caused no damage. Hmmm! OWOSSO. (UP) Bold thieves robbed a candy and pea tmeves roDoea a cmujr -story tenement home, Mrs. Klatzke nut vending machine within 30'amed warning that awoke feet of the police sergeant Max and Hilda Schwartz, the son-They even had to shake It upside and daughter. down to make the nickels fall out.

Hmm, was Mayor Charles Firemen brought the couple down ladder from window, but jfrom Chalf River. Civilians said the mines had Bancroft was alone in Ms ear been worked by the Reds until jwhen It collided with another shortly before the Allies seized driven by David MacLean of Calu-the area. I met Que. East German Communists Plan Another Demonstration Today Royal Tour Committee Starts Aerial Trip of Complete Route Moores only comment. Other stops will be made at Winnipeg and Regina August 21; Calgary and Victoria, August 22; Vancouver, 23; Edmonton and Saskatoon, August 24; Kapus-kasing, August 25; Montreal, August 28; Quebec, Fredericton, N.B., and Halifax, August 29, and Charlottetown, Sydney, N.S., and St.

Johns, August 30. Cretes Impetuous Lochinvar Free After 14-Month Term ATHENS, Greece. (AP) Cretes jruary on chargee of Illegal pos-modern Romeo, Costa Kephalo- weapons. With time otf yanns got his freedom today from prison. An early reunion with 'aior and double time dark-eyed wife, Tassoula was in credited for serving at the rural prospect.

prison at Nafllon, he now has His release was affected by a served 14 months, decree signed by King Paul, who Costa carried off Tassoula to the commuted Costas two-year sen- rugged Cretan mountains and tence to 14 months. married her last August. She is Costa was sentenced last Feb- in Macedonia visiting aa tuu.lt. BERLIN, (UP) East German Communists scheduled another demonstration late today, and West Berlin police were alerted to beat back any attempted invasion of the Western zone. The rally was called to protest what the Communists said were "brutal police attacks on Red youths who attempted to demonstrate in West Berlin last Wednesday.

It was to be held in the Soviet sector near the border of the French zone. West Berlin police Wednesday fought 14,000 youths in three skirmishes, and East German authorities said 413 were hurt. Police arrested 116 Communists. Meanwhile, East German Reds were ordered to stop talking and began acting against the remilitarization of West Germany. OTTAWA, (CP) A committee In charge of arrangements for the October tour of Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip will begin an aerial trip along the royal route next week to confer with local officials.

The party will be headed by Charles Stein, undersecretary of state, and the first stops will be made at Toronto and Fort William, August 20..

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