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CITY final: 5 CENTS KCRG NEWS IMS TOC DIAL a s-t-t-ss a n-i-n-ii -tt-Tt nti Weafher Fair tonight, becoming partly cloudy Thursday with scattered showers Thursday night; low to-Bight 56; high Thursday 78 C.R. 2:30 p.m. temperatures: 76 NW; 76 NE; 75 SW; 76 SE. VOLUME 69 NUMBER 162 CEDAR RAPIDS, IOWA, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 20, 1951. ASSOCIATED PRESS, UNITED PRESS, INTERNATIONAL NEW3 UVJ Viz Vi Vi Vry Vi Iranian Premier Orders Seizure of Oil Newhall Is Left with Mac Not To Testify; Hits Truman Gag cr British Call Home Their Delegation Ho Water Swathe of Destruction Cut by Wind Through East-Central Iowa.

Hurley Rips State Dept. Surrender' Says Russian Success Due to Weakness in American Policy. WASHINGTON Major Gen. Patrick J. Hurley Wednesday accused the state department of a policy of appeasement of communism and Imperialism.

He called it a cowardly surrender of the principles for which World war was fought. Denouncing the secret concessions to Russia at the 1945 Yalta conference, the former ambassador to China said: and WASHINGTON (AP) Gen. MacArthur said Wednesday that President Truman's orders silencing pertinent witnesses have denied a senate inquiry the full facts on his dismissal. But MacArthur said he doesn't care to testify again himself- MacArthur rapped the President in rejecting by letter an invitation to appear again before the Investigation of his ouster. He contended too that some of the documentary evidence submitted to the senators had been lifted out of context so it was misleading, and said there was lack of accuracy in paraphrasing.

Many documents given to the senators have been paraphrased submitted in a rewritten, summary form rather than as the original documents. The reason is that the original documents were transmitted by radio in code. Release of actual textj might help a potential en- mperlU-MP5RuMU (D-Ga.) that because my known personal views already are in the record in great detail, I do not believe it in the public interest to testify again. However, he added: Insofar aa the investigation dealt with my relief from the Far East command, I feel that the full facts have not been elucidated due to the orders of the President silencing the pertinent witnesses as to his own part in the action. That obviously was a reference to refusal by Gen.

Bradley to tell the committee who said what at a White House conference that led to firing of MacArthur. The White House later said Mr. Truman did not want Bradley to testify regarding private discussions. Secretary of State Acheson said be had direct orders from Mr. Truman not to tell what was said at the meeting.

MacArthur also said he took "sharp exception to interpretations some witnesses gave event of which they had little local knowledge and which took place thousands of miles from them. long prepared lambasted U. S. general and individually. Republican who -was wax in President administration.

President U.t Sti Iowa weather went Into a tantrum Tuesday night and caused untold thousands of dollars of damage In a narrow strip across east-central Iowa. The storm, believed to be the indirect cause of one death, traveled, fast and blew itself out quickly. But its fury downed trees, buildings, telephone lines and electric lines. And two towns, Newhall and Belle Plarne, had water shortages Wednesday rooming because cf pump failures. The storm first hit McCallsburg, a town north of Nevada in Story county.

It apparently blew itself out in the neighborhood of Spring-vilie. Bctweea the two ye wild almost set ip a time-table fee the itirn renter. It sliced through McCallsburg, SL Anthony. Clemens, Green Mountain, Tama, Elberon. Keystone, Van Herne.

Newhall, Cedar Rapids and Spctngville. Several of the towns along the route still were cut off from telephone communication Wednesday, but service to all was expected to be restored by Wednesday night. Crops were flattened, but apparently the plants werent broken to any great extent, and the general feeling was that they would straighten up in a few days and be all right The death attributed to the storm was that of 82-year-old Bill Oberthein, who lived with the Ed Hinkle family near Watkins. Oberthel was found dead en a roadway fellewtag the storm and it was believed be bad died ef ever-exertien from walking against tbe wind. The wind had gusts as high as 65 miles per bear.

Electric service was cut off to six towns most of the night Ely, WINDSTORM DAMAGE Thousands of dollars in property damage resulted in the Cedar Rapids-Marion arqa from Tuesday evening's 65-mile-an-hour winds. This picture shows a large cottonwood tree which was uprooted and laid over on the Donald Stone house at 891 Seventh street, in Marion. Stone had made inquiries earlier Tuesday about having the tree removed. The Stones bought the property only, a few weeks. ago.

Woman Flees Abductor Near West Liberty WEST LIBERTY (UP) A state highway patrolman said that Mrs. Doris Meyer, 43, Detroit, escaped near here Wednesday from an abductor who forced her at gunpoint to drive him out of Detroit. Mrs. Meyer, the patrolman said, telephoned his station and asked that she be picked up at Durant, 19 miles east of West Liberty. He quoted the woman as saying that she fled from a man identified as Lee Irwin, 27, of Detroit, wanted on a murder charge in he left the car momentarily.

Took Her Money. Irwin first asked her to drive him to Toledo, Ohio, Tuesday night, Mrs. Meyer said, but he later pointed a gun at her, forced her to give him her money and ordered her to turn her car over to him. Mrs. Meyer said he moved into the drivers seat of her auto after forcing her to surrender the car.

She said they drove all night, stopping only for gas. During the flight, Irwin' warned her not to pull anything funny as Ive killed two women already. It was not until Irwin stopped the car at Durant abput noon, Mrs. Meyer said, that she found an opportunity to -escape. She said that she dashed from the car when he stepped into a rest room.

Kept Keys. Since Irwin had the keys to the auto in his possession, Mrs. Meyer said, it was impossible for her to make a getaway in the car. He later returned and drove away without her. Authorities said Mrs.

Meyer planned to return to Detroit on the next train out of West Liberty. A statewide alarm was sounded for Irwin and the stolen car. A first degree' murder warrant was sworn out against Irwin at Pontiac, Wednesday morning, charging him with killing Mrs. Adeline Shagena, 38 in a corn field near her house two weeks ago. Her body wasnt found until last Friday.

Mrs. Meyer, a friend of Irwins mother, said the murder suspect came to her house Tuesday night and begged her to go with him to Toledo, Ohio, saying his mother had been injured in an automobile accident and she was dying. Fleeing from Officers. Irwiq had fled out the back door of his house when officers came to question him early Tuesday night. They found his car abandoned 'about a block away.

In it were muddy clothes and an empty box for .38 caliber bullets. Mrs. Shagena was shot in the back of the head with a .38. Irwin, who served seven years for burglary and a sex offense, was sought when he answered the description of a mysterious stranger leading Mrs. Shagena, a mother of three children, into the cornfield the day she was killed.

An anonymous tipster reported that Irwijj had been in the area the night before. Police believe he is headed for Los Angeles where he worked during April and May before returning to Michigan. Cohen Convicted Of Tax Dodging Flow of Oil Wont Be Stopped; Morrison Voices Warning. Hr Aaactat4 Frcaa. Iranian Premier Mohammed Mossadegh Wednesday ordered his government to take lull authority over Anglo-Iranlan Oil Company operations, and Britain called home its jeace mission.

Mossadegh promised to keep oil flowing from nationalized installations of the company, in which the British government holds a controlling interest. He acted after a five-hour cabinet meeting. Deputy Premier Hussein Fatimi said Iran would not carry out threats of extreme nationalists to shut the valves of the Abadan refinery, worlds largest. Foreign Secretary Herbert Morrison conferred with military leaders and said Britain will protect its nationals in Iran if the Tehran government fails to do so. The British mission ordered home consisted of Anglo-Iranian and government representatives.

Its negotiations with the Iranians broke down Tuesday night. Churchill Query. In the house of commons, Winston Churchill asked if the government had made up its mind whether to evacuate several thousand Britons working for Anglo-Iranian. Morrison declined to say on the ground such a statement would be foolish and risky. The Iranian cabinet acted after considering an appeal from the U.S.

to re-study the latest British offer of payments. Irans rejection of that offer brought the breakup of negotiations. Morrison indicated Britain is not abandoning the oilfields. But he warned that Britons In Iran may have a difficult job keeping the installations operating. Wont Stand Idle.

Riots, abuses, misrepresentations and the uncertainty of the future have made conditions difficult for them, he said. He added this warning: The British government is not prepared to stand by idly if the lives of British nationals are in jeopardy. 'Britains forces in the Middle East already are on the alert- in case they are needed. A vague communique indicated the Mossadegh government planned to try to take over administration of the vast oilfields gradually. It.

announced that Iranian officials had been named to take over Anglo-I a i a ns northernmost oilfields at Kerman-shah. Must Be Countersigned. The communique said any orders of the Anglo-Iranian board of directors and its general manager would not be carried out unless countersigned by the temporary board of directors of Irans National Oil Company. The next step is up to AIOC. Iranians apparently expect former AIOC employes and executives to continue to work under direction of the governments oil company.

Hussein Maki, nationalist firebrand and right-hand man of Mossadegh, had voiced the threats to shut off oil at Abadan an act that would deprive Western Europe of its chief source of supply. LOS ANGELES (UP) Gambler Mickey Cohen w-as convicted Wednesday of evading payment of $156,000 in Income taxes in 1946-48. A Jury of seven women and fivei and Walford had service men found the dapper Cohen am by early Wednesday morn-guilty on ail four counts involving, Inf- Atkins, Walford and Newhall still did not have electric service at mid-morning. but the Iowa Electric Light and Power Company said service would be re- cheating the government out of income tax payments and making a false statement to the treasury department regarding his expend itures and income Given the case late Tuesday I stored to them momentarily VL.alu aft all the after a 12-day trial, the jury re turned the verdict about 35 minutes after resuming deliberations Wednesday. It studied the case three hours Tuesday before being locked up for the night.

The maximum penalty would be 20 years in a federal penitentiary and fines touting $40,000. Nearly towns in area were without electricity at onq time or another, company officials said, but for the most part the outages were only for a few minutes. They said. it would be impossible to say when all service ould be restored because there were iso many lines out to individual 'homes in the area. Farmer Injured.

Yanks Edge Sox, 2 to The postwar success of Russia is not due to Russias strength but to the weakness of American foreign policy. Hurley testi-f led at the senate inquiry into dismissal of Gen. MacArthur. He came with a statement which foreign policy in Secretary Acheson Hurley is a secretary of Hoovers Roosevelt gave him various confidential posts during World war II. Hurley said Mr.

Roosevelt was already a sick man at Yalta. Rips Acheson. The witness assailed Acheson sta temerity in a 1949 white paper on China; that at the time of Yalta it was feared an assault on Japan's home islands would cost up to one million American casualties. The fear expressed by Secretary Acheson in my opinion did not exit, said Hurley, but the secretary expressed both moral and physical fear." At the time of Yalta, Hurley said, America was in a position to speak the only language the Communists understand, the language of power. The President at Yalta was in command of the greatest land, navy and air force ever assembled on earth.

Hurley continued: One quiet sentence to Marshal Stalin in that language could have Indicated that America would require him to keep his solemn agreements. That one sentence would have prevented conquest of all the Balkan states, conquest of Poland and conquest of China. The sentence was not forthcoming. On the contrary, your diplomats and mine surrendered in secret every principle for which we said we were fighting. They talk about Stalin breaking his agreements, gentlemen.

He never had to break one. We cowardly surrendered to him everything he had signed and we did it in secret. Hurley insisted that at Yalta the Atlantic Charter pledges were repealed by American diplomats to let Russia off the hook" and allow her to resume a policy of conquest. Immoral Secrecy. American diplomats at Yalta, Hurley said, surrendered the territorial integrity and political independence of China, surrendered the principles of the Atlantic Charter, and wrote the blueprint for the Communist conquest of China in secret agreement.

Hurley said Mr. Roosevelt, for mer Secretary of State Byrnes and Democratic Senators Connaliy (Texas) and Green (R. contributed to an immoral" secrecy concerning the Yalta concessions. He challenged Byrnes and Acheson to reconcile Byrnes statement after the 1946 Moscow conference that Britain, Russia and the US. adhered to non-interference In China with the directive issued to Gen.

Marshall ordering him to force a coalition with the Communists on the national government of the Republic of China. Hurley criticized Connaliy, then as now chairman of the senate foreign relations committee, and Green, a ranking committeeman, for supporting Byrnes in not making the Yalta agreement public. "Defense Aba orb." Hurley referred to Acheson testimony that the Chinese were pleased by the Yalta agreement Oasett Photo hr Tom Marryman. MANY STORE FRONTS in the downtown section of Cedar Rapids lost their plate glass windows in the Tuesday windstorm. This picture shows the scene of extensive damage at the Holly shop.

One injury was reported aa a result of downed electnc wires. Lester Thede, 27, a farmer liv- KTW YORK tv. mg near highway 30 north of NEW YORK (INS) The bat of glle pUinf WM in fairly good Hank Bauer brought the Yankees condition in St. Lukes hospital from behind Wednesday to a bitter 2 to 1 victory over Chicago that cut the White Sox lead to two and a half games. Supervisors Consider Need For County Health Officer Card Game Held Up; $10,000 Loot KANSAS CITY (AP) A friendly card game ended in strip tease for 17 men at the Hill-crest Country club early Wednes day.

Four masked bandits, armed with a sawed-off shotgun and pistols, surprised the 17 card players and fled with an estimated $10,000 in cash and jewelry. The sheriffs office reported the bandits forced their victims to strip, tied them up and left them in a shower room. Cedar Rapids after coming in contact with a 34.500-volt high line. The light company said It un-Iderstood Thede suffered bums when he tried to rescue his dog from the high line. Th dog bad been killed instantly.

New halls water shortage, a severe- one. was lb result aa untimely coincidence. Tbe storm couldn't bare come at worse time. WASHINGTON (AP) Twenty- The town's reserve water sup- one members of the Communist ply in the water tank had been partys secondary command out repairs could be made. Water wak being supplied directly by an electric pump.

Then the storm cut the electrio indicted Wednesday on charges of plotting overthrow of the U. S. Another problem which has come to the board's attention is a drainage tile located on property near Cox avenue NW. Four residents of the area have filed a law suit over the tile. The board is also studying a situation in Prairieburg, where sanitary wastes are being drained into a farmers field.

Henry J. Hood, chairman of the board of supervisors, said Tuesday the growing sanitary problem is probably going to mean the activation of the county board of health and the appointment of a county health officer to enforce (Continued on Page 3, CoL 5.) government Seventeen of those indicted by a federal grand Jury in New York were seized in an early morning roundup by FBI agents. Tbe four others were being sought service. Only a few wells remain in use the town not enough to supply all of the residents. Belle Plalne Emergency.

Belle PUine was more fortu- Levin' Dies; Once Capone Henchman CHICAGO (AP) Hymie Loud Mouth Levin, 55, onetime power in the old Capone syndicate, died Tuesday night after a long illness. Levin once spent 18 months in prison for income tax evasion. At that time, in 1934, his income was estimated at more than $1,000,000 a year. Sixteen of the arrests were In It had water running in its Allies Fell or Shoot Up 10 Red Aircraft TOKYO (AP) Ten Red planes were shot down or damaged Wednesday in the Korean wars first double-deck dogfight. Both jet and pr opeUer-driven planes 98 of them took part in the fourth consecutive day of air war over northwest Korea.

On the ground North Koreans suddenly abandoned Punchbowl Valley, which they had fought for viciously. U.N. guns dominate the former Red buildup area on the eastern front The double air battle broke out simultaneously between low-flying propeller planes and jets swirling above at 13,000 feet. When it was over the Reds had lost three planes destroyed, one probably destroyed and six damaged. Twenty-four U.N.

'Mustang fighters overpowered a flight of Russian-built propeller planes. I All the Reds were hit. A Yk fighter and two Stormovik attack-I bombers were shot down. Another i Stormovik was probably destroyed i and two were damaged, i Thirty-two American Sabrejets I battled 36 Russian-type MIG-15 Jets. I Four MIGs were damaged.

All the MIGs then streaked back across the Manchurian border, 15 miles from where the action started. The Fifth air force said all Sabrejets returned safely. Field dispatches did not report whether any U.N. Mustangs were lost. Ced.r Kid Netr The linn county board of supervisors called for help Tuesday in solving one of the knottiest problems it has faced in years sanitary waste disposal.

The board enlisted the aid of two University of Iowa professors Drs. Robert F. Ray and M. Dean Zenor of the Institute of Public Affairs to help find the answers. The problem is sewage drainage in areas outside the city limits of Cedar Rapids.

With these areas growing swiftly in population, the sewage problem is going to be a permanent one, county, officials say. When the population of an are increases rapidly, as it has in Cedar Rapids the last few years, the waste disposal- problem multiplies. Although there are two spots which now need immediate attention from county health officials. similar difficulties are expected to turn up in other outlying sections where no sewers are available. Open Ditch Nulsaneje.

One situation which a state health officer said needs quick attention is an open ditch which starts at the southwest corner of the junction of highways 49 and 30 west of Cedar Rapids. i There, according to State Health Officer A. L. Bennett, starts a flow of obviously improperly treated sanitary wastes which eventually passes near the new Cleveland school playground and then into a city sewer. Todays Index mains, but Mayor Harold Swailes asked that it be used for 6ncF purposes only.

The mam pumping unit wa out action and an emergency pump was being used. Newhall apparently was cne of the hardest hit towns in the area. High buildings and water tanks -on some farms in the area were blown down. Many roads still were blocked by fallen trees Wednesday. Trees were torn out by the roots.

Several houses were damaged by the falling treev A few hailstones aa big as walnuts er golf balls were re- Gas Company Asks for New Pipeline to C.R. WASHINGTON (UP) Iowa-Illinois Gas and Electric Company, Davenport, asked the Federal Power Commission Wednesday to clear the way for construction of a 41-mile pipe line in Iowa to serve increased loads to Iowa City nd Cedar Rapids. The firm asked the FPC either to waive jurisdiction over the project or issue a certificate authorizing it. The proposed line would cost about $1,000,000. It would connect with the main line of Natural Gas Pipe Line Company of America in Washington county and extend northerly to Cedar Rapids.

Iowa-Illinois said its daily requirements for the Iowa City district now total 5,400,000 cubic feet and those foF-thn Cedar Rapids district 15,600,000. But it said those requirements are expected to increase to 15,000,000 -and 45,000,000 cubic feet, respectively, within the next year. The new natural gas pipeline would help meet these requirements and also protect service in past existing lines should fail. New York, burgh. None of those indicted known to the public.

The government moved against the lesser lights in the wake of this month's supreme court decision upholding conviction of the party 11 top leaders. Attorney General McGrath and FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover said: Some of the individuals arrested are member of the alternate national committee, recently formed by the Communist party to serve a the top policy-making body in the absence of the present national committee members, now convicted." Ifoover added: All have been In party work for many years, and today hold ranking positions in the party apparatus. They represent officials both of the national and New York Ut Communist party." well BOAT SOLD THE DAY AD APPEARED BOAT AND TRAILER. DIAL tag.

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