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Weather Data WedncsdaySun rises sets 5:24. Tides--high 8:54 A. 9:16 P. low 2:02 A. 2:40 P.

Monday's temperature--high 68; lew 50. Local Forecast Cloudy with occasional light rain this afternoon, tonight and Thursday. Cooler tonight and Thursday. Detailed Report on Page 2 3 ESTABLISHED 1846 Vol. 107--NO.

205 NEWPORT, R. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1951 TWENTY PAGES PRICE FIVE CENTS DODGERS LEAD 1-0 IN SPINNING OF DECIDING GAME Robinson's First Frame Single Drives In Lone Run As Newcombe, Maglie Duel BnttlnK Brooklyn Furlllo, rf Reese, ss Snider, cf Robinson, Pafko, If Hodges, Ib Cox, 3b Walker, Newcombe, 2b Jfew Yoik Stanky, 2b Dark, ss JIueller, rf Irvin, If Locknian, Ib Thomson, 3b Mays, cf "Westrum, Maghe, Newport Army Corporal, 19, Killed In Korea War Action September 16 POLO GROUNDS, New York, Oct. 3 --A first inning run driven in by Jackie Robinson's single gave the Brooklyn Dodgers a 1-0 lead after five innings of their deciding playoff game with the Giants for the National League championship this afternoon. Robinson's drive Into left field scored Pee Wee Reese, a walker. Righthanded aces Don Newcomb (20-9) of Brooklyn and Sal Maglie (23-6) of the Dodgers the opposing pitchers.

Al (Rube) Walker who filled in no capably for the injured Roy Campanella was again behind the plate for the Dodgers. The threat of rain 'held the crowd down to 32,000. First inning Dodgers Maglie's first pitch to Furillo was a slow curve that broke outside for a ball. Furillo looked at a third strike. Reese walked on a three and one pitch.

Snider walked on four pitches. Robinson swung at the first pitch and lined a single past Thomson into left field scoring Reese and sending Snider to second. Pafko, sent a dribbler down the third base line to Thomson who stepped on third forcing Snider, but his throw was too late to double up Pafko. Robinson moved to second on the forceout. Hodges fouled to Thomson who made a -nice catch near the Dodger, dugout.

One run, one hit, no errors, two left. First inning Giants Newcombe's first pitch to Stanky was a called ball. Pafko came in fast for Stanky's fly in short left. Dark raised a high pop to, Cox between third base and the mound. Pafko backed up a few steps to get under Mueller's drive In left-center.

No runs no hits, no errors, none left. Second inning Dodgers--Cox tapped a one bouncer back to Maglie who threw him out. Walker went down swinging. Newcombe popped to, Thomson who made- the catch on the edge of the Infield grass. No runs, no hits, no errors, none left.

Thomson Fulls Boner Second inning Giants--Reese went to his right lor Irvin's hard grounder and threw to Hodges for the out. Lockman drilled a single past Hodges into right for the Giants' first hit. Thomson singled sharply into left field sending Lockman to second. Thomson, running with his head down, didn't realize tha' Lockman had stopped at second and headed for that bag only to find Lockman occupying it. Hi retraced his steps back to firs but was an easy out.

Pafki raced back to the left field wal to make a nice running catch Mays' long drive. No runs, two hits, no errors, one left. Corporal George W. Wilson, 19-year-old infantryman, was killed in action in Korea September parents, Mr. and Mrs.

George W. Wilson of 29 Green street, were informed today in a telegram from the Adjutant General in Washington. No details were given. Wilson said his son had been in the thick of fighting on Heartbreak Ridge, a fiercely-contested strongpoint on the eastern front. Corporal Wilson was a gunner with the 60-millimeter mortar squad of Company 9th Infantry Regimental Combat Team, and a holder of the Combat Infantry Badge.

He had been promoted twice since joining 2nd Division in Korea last March. He had written his parents that in August his unit was forced to fall back and he lost all his personal equipment for the second time. A graduate of John Clarke School, he enlisted in the Army in September, 1950. He was a member of St. Paul's Methodist Church.

A brother, Private First Class Lewis A. Wilson, is with the Air Force at Mariesville, Cal. He also R.F.C. EMPLOYE ON BOYLE PAYROLL, SEN. NIXON SAYS Hoey Orders Inquiry To Determine Whether To Call Ex-Official Corporal George W.

Wilson, Jr. leaves two other brothers, Leroy E. and Robert A. Wilson, a sister, Marjorie E. Wilson, and his grandmother, Mrs.

Emily G. Spiegel, all of Newport. A second sister, Mrs. R. B.

Tillman, lives in Virginia. FIVE DEFICIENCIES NOTED IN SEAWALL Construction Co. Estimates $13,500 Repair Cost ACHESON DARED TO DENY CHARGES Stassen Hurls Challenge To Secretary On China PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 3 UPI Harold E. Stassen flatly chal lenged Secretary of State Dear Acheson today to deny that i 1949 he recommended cutting, off all military supplies for China.

Stassen's challenge followed State Department reply to hi testimony before a Senate hearin on Monday. He said then that th late Sen. Arthur H. Vandenber (R-Mich.) had told him of a White House meeting at which Acheson and Philip Jessup had proposed halting aid to the Nationalists. The State Department reply issued last night by press officer Michael J.

McDermott who said "I fear Mr. Stassen's memory is playing him tricks." McDermott said a thorough check of records failed to indicate the meeting of which Stassen 'said Vandenberg had told him ever took place. Asks Specific Question Stassen, former governor of Minnesota, said in a brief statement tcy: "My attention has been called to the State Department's release of Oct. 3. "I will make a more complete statement later.

"But I immediately ask this direct, specific question of Secretary Acheson: "Do you deny that you were at a conference with President Truman and Senator Vandenberg in 1949 at which you recommended cutting off all military supplies for the China Nationalists, and at which Senator Vandenberg opposed such Five deficiencies in the Long Wharf seawall were pointed out in a report of the Harbor Construction Company of Providence received by the Representative Council Tuesday night. An estimated cost of $13,500 would put the wall in good condition, the report said. It was referred to the city solicitor for study and the public commissioner for further eport. The long-awaited report came under suspension of council ules. Accompanying it was a etter of transmittal from Timo- iiy F.

Sullivan, public works ommissioner. The sealed report was opened by tobert A. Shea, city clerk. It ook four minutes to unseal the locument. Backfill Seepage Reported A seepage of backfill from behind the wall at every course was At one point, about 11 five inches from the top, are loose stones.

At another )oint the wall "shows distinct settlement." Another location finds the wall has been laid over rip rap. It is possible to go through wall at most joints throughout the wall, with a rod, the report said. 'Other than above findings," the report says, "the face of wall appears to be in satisfactory condition. With these items repairec and corrected immediately wai: would be in good condition." As recommendations "to have wall in good condition," the report lists: 1. Clean all joints and fill ana seal with "Suka" underwater ce ment.

2. Loose stones made fast with granite pinners and Suka. 3. Base of wall from station 3-35 to station 4-45 cleaned to hard river bottom and wall an chored by concrete footing be tween same stations to stop further settlement." The report is signed by John (Continued on'Page 2) NAVY SET TO GET SEWAGEFUNDS Only Formalities Delay $1,243,000 Appropriation The Navy is slated to get the $1,243,000 appropriation J'or its proposed sewage disposal plant at Newport, the Daily News Washington bureau reports. Only the customary formality of Senate and House approval of the conference report on the defense appropriation bill remains before the money is finally voted.

This approval is expected this week. Senator O'Mahoney, chairman of the Senate-House conference committee that agreed on the resort last night, and who is large- responsible for inclusion of the money in the bill, said today that 'Newport has apparently got its project." O'Mahoney Worked For Bill It was Senator O'Mahoney who got the Senate appropriations committee to include the item, which the Budget Bureau had disapproved and which was not included in the House version of the bill. Last night the conference committee finished its work with the item still in the bill. "The Senate members of the conference stood loyally by the Newport item, and we didn't have too much trouble with the House conferees." said O'Mahoney today. Last night when Senator O'Mahoney tried to tell the news to Senators Green and Pastore, who have been working for the project, he couldn't reach them.

They were at a dinner in honor of the 84th birthday of Senator Green given by Attorney General McGrath. The victory, it was noted here, came as a birthday present to Green, who for years has been seeking to get the sewage disposal plant money voted. The Senate passed the Newport item after its subcommittee had turned it down. The issue was left to the conferees. Congressman Forand of this district contacted all House conferees recently and expressed i that they would agree to this final figure.

This took place. BRITISH OILMEN LEAVE ABADAN FOR RETURN HOME Cruiser Evacuates 275 Humiliated Britons; Iran Now In Complete Control WASHINGTON, Oct. 3 UP -Senator Nixon (R-Cal.) told a Senate investigations subcommittee today Democratic National Chairman William M. Boyle, had a employe of the re- I construction Finance Corporation "on his payroll" in 1949. Senator Hoey (D-N.

the committee chairman, promptly ordered an inquiry, to determine whether Turney Gratz, the one time RFC employe, should be called as a witness. The surprise development marked a hearing at which a pretty St. Louis stenographer testified that as an employe of American Litholfold Corp. she had orders to conceal from other em- ployes the fact that Boyle was listed on its payroll. Prepared Statements Miss Janet Boone, 26, witness, swore she prepared monthly statement's from Lilhofold's ledger card for Boyle, long after Boyle had testified he no longer worked for them.

She said she did not recall whether the statements recorded any money due him and does not of her own knowledge know they were mailed to him. The committee is 1 looking into charges that Boyle received $8,00.0 in fees from Lithofold in connection with government loans to the St. Louis printing firm'. Boyle has denied it but has acknowledged getting $1,250 as a retainer fee. Miss Boone was the last scheduled witness in the inquiry, but Nixon, a member of the group, told a reporter "This case is a long way from being closed." More Testimony Held Needed He said a study of Boyle's income tax returns and bank acount records for 1949 and 1950, now under way, "already has made it very clear that we need testimony from" two additional witnesses whom I shall not now name, and there may be Others." INDO-CHINA REDS OPEN OFFENSIVE French, Vietnam Forces Pushed Back In North Slain Woman's Mother Says She Bears No Hatred For Suspected Murderer Mrs.

Dorothea Willard Hooker of this city said today in San Francisco she bears no hatred for Thomas Cahill, 30, unemployed bellhop who told police he slashed her daughter to death. "I bear him no ill-will. I cannot find it in my heart to hate him," Mrs. Hooker said. She flew from this city Tuesday to claim the body of her daughter, Dorothea, 28.

Cahill, informed she was en- route, had told reporters: "She'll say she wants to shoot me. Maybe it would be better at that." "Out of this tragedy," she said, "I know will come some good. It will teach people there is no happiness in alcohol." Police said Cahill's sister, Lieutenant Mary Cahill, a Navy nurse stationed at Bremerton, told them. Her brother, "never mentally well," was given a psychiatric discharge from the Navy. She also confirmed Cahill's story that he was estranged from his family and that his father, now dead, was a wealthy Philadelphia tavern owner.

Cahill said heavy drinking preceded the knifing in his dingy flat. He told police he slashed Dorothea repeatedly with a butcher knife Thursday after she arose from bed and threatened to leave him. Then, and hysterical, he sat beside the body three days and nights. Finally he realized his crime, notified police, surrendered and was charged with suspicion of murder. Mrs.

Hooker, widow of Marine SAIGON, Indo-China, Oct 3 UP) --Communist-led Vetminh troops have opened a powerful fall offensive which drove French and Vietnam forces out of a strategic outpost and smashed on to within 30 miles of Laichau. (Chinese Nationalist government sources said the Chinese Communists have completed plans to intervene in the Indo-China civil war this fall.) French forces had to flee from another--unidentified--outpost 12 Vietminh battalions stabbed into the remote northwest corner of Indo-China. Communist Leader Ho Chi Minh two infantry columns into lie long expected offensive against he lightly held mountainous country which afforded the French one of their two remaining window; on the frontier of Communist Ihina. The Vietminh troops were sreaking out of the Red River val- westward toward the area which lies 150 miles northwest of Hanoi. Tiny Outpost Falls The first impact of the Communist offensive drove the French out of Binhlu, a tiny outpost which shows up only on French maps.

It is 30 miles north of Laichau, an important town in Tonkin province some 190 miles northwest of Hanoi near the Nam Na river. A French army communique Announced that French forces also pulled out of an outpost nine miles northeast of Nghialo, about 105 miles northwest of Hanoi and just southwest of the Red River valley. Nghialo is an important town of 25,000 population. From air bases at Hanoi and Haipong, Hell-cat Bearcat fighters and B-26 bombers supported the thin Thai country defense line. Vietminh troops moving through deep river valleys dividing the jungle-covered hills were being strafed and bombed.

ABADAN, Iran, Oct. 3 British pulled out of Abadan today to give Iran full possession of the world's greatest refinery. The British cruiser Mauritius with 275 Anglo-Adabian Oil Company employes, sailed at the Shatt-El-Arab river to Basra, Iraq, early this afternoon. From Basra, the evacuees are to be flown back to Britain. The Mauritius was accompanied by five AIOC seta-going tugs, one head and four behind.

Forty other AIOC employes by plane this morning. The British departure came after a month of Iranian pressure. It was a sad and solemn affair. Held Humiliating Moment The evacuees privately said this was one of Britain's most humiliating moments. It was, indeed, in contrast to the proud days when the roar of the British lion made the world take notice.

That was the way it was when the British came to Iran in the early years of this century. now lays claim to oil riches which the country had granted to Britain under a royal- agreement, which was to have asted until 1993. was no noticeable changeover here today. Since last June, when they first appeared on the scene, Iranian Oil Company officials have been gradually taking over the fields and refinery complexes step by step. They moved into some British lomes as more and more AIOC em- ployes left.

Departure Orderly Today's departure was orderly with only a few Iranian police an soldiers on the streets. Other-wise there, was little activity in this oil town. The refinery remained shu' down. Storage tanks are nearlj filled. K.

B. Ross, who ran the refiner; For the AIOC, told a reporter tha the Iranian National Oil Companj probably can run the refinery--bu only the less complicated equip ment producing products such kerosene, furnace oil and deise oil. He thought they would hav trouble maintaining the machinerj in good order. He said that the international companies, whic; control most of the available tank ers would not carry oil from Aba dan under present conditions. Iranian officials insist that thej can run the refinery and will ge more help if necessary.

Two Americans had arrived a the AIOC guest house last nigh to watch the evacuation. Then was grumbling among some Britons that the presence of U. (Continued on Page 6) Thomas Cahill Col. Richard S. Hooker who commanded the Fourth Marines in China before World War 2, was unaware her daughter had been a bar waitress.

"I guess she was spoiled," the mother said. "She was strong am violent, and I never could give her She said Dorothea and Cahil were married in 1946. Cahill tol( (Continued on Page 6) RIOT FLARES IN BERLIN BERLIN, Oct. 3 A wild stone-throwing riot on the horde separating the Russian and French sectors of Berlin broke out tonight West Berlin police called up heavy reinforcements to combat a crow of Communists estimated at abou 5,000. Only a short time before, th Russians complained formally the French that "paid 'hoodlums were stirring up strife along th French-Russian sector border.

Heavy Barrage Pounds Reds On Ridges As Tokyo Tightens Korea Censorship JESSUP LISTENS TO CHARGES-- Ambassador-at-large Philip C. Jessup and his wife listen to Joseph R. McCarthy's charges of pro-Communist activity by Jessup in testimony at a Senate foreign relations subcommittee hearing a Washington, D. C. The subcommittee is considering President Truman's nomination of Jessup to be a member of the United States delegation to the United Nations.

McCarthy also mentioned Mrs. Jessup in his testimony. A Senate subcommittee disclosed later in the evening that the Civil Service loyalty review board has ruled there is no reasonable doubt" as to the loyalty of Ambassador- at-large Philip C. Jessup. (AP Wirephoto) Jessup Brands McCarthy's Red Front Affiliation Charges False WASHINGTON, Oct.

3 UP) -Ambassador Philip C. Jessup swore today that a charge by Senator McCarthy (R-Wis.) "that I was affiliated with six Communist fronts is false." Jessup made the statement to a Senate foreign relations subcommittee considering his nomination by President Truman to be a United Nations delegate. His testimony was in reply to charges by McCarthy that Jessup has "followed all the twists and turn of the Communist line." Last night the subcommittee made public a finding by the Civil Service Loyalty Review Board that there is "no reasonable doubt" as to Jessup's loyalty. McCarthy raised some question about the finding but was promptly contradicted by Hiram Bingham, chairman of the loyalty board. Jessup To Give "Evidence" Testifying under oath, Jessup denied--as he did last year--McCarthy's accusation that he had "an unusual affinity for Commu- (Continued on Page 6) DEFENSE FUND BILL APPROVAL NEARS Senate-House Conferees Cut Air Force $4 Billions Dr.

Henry A. Martin was elected to the Board of Tax Assessors by the Representative Council Tuesday night in a three- cornered contest which saw the Democratic i committee- endorsed candidate defeated by the council Democratic members. Martin received nine votes to his opponents' four each. Although Republican councilmen were absent from the meeting, Ray H. Durfee, minority leader, apparently threw a scare into the majority when he nominated a Republican candidate.

The Democrats called a recess. BOWLES FACES FIGHT WASHINGTON, Oct. 3 Republican Senate leaders agreed today to fight confirmation of President Truman's nomination of Chester Bowles to be ambassador to India. Senator Taft fR-Ohio), chairman of the, Senate Republican policy committee, announced the decision after a closed-door strategy session. 87,650 TT.

S. CASUALTIES WASHINGTON, Oct. 3 UP) Announced U. S. battle casualties in Korea reached 87,650 today, an increase or 2,181 since last week.

Contested Tax Assessors Vacancy Goes To Dr. Henry A. Martin The caused filling of the vacancy by the resignation of Joseph L. Byron, Democrat, who took a state civil service post, was passed at the last two council meetings because 'of the inability of the Democratic majority to agree on' a candidate. Dr.

Martin seemed to be the choice of the maiority of the Democratic Councilmen, but former Councilman Samuel Kravetz had been endorsed for the post by the Democratic city committee. Some councilmen said that Kravetz' name was not supposed to have been brought on the council floor. Councilman John W. Stewart moved that the election be taken up and Councilman Calvin Spinney nominated Dr. Martin.

Majority Leader Salvatore L. Virgadamo nominated Kravetz. Minority Leader Durfee nominated former State Representative Gordon Oxx. Chairman Paul F. Murray Dr.

Henry A. Martin named Virgadamo, Spinney and Durfee tellers. The ballots had been passed out when Stewart asked for a recess. Virgadamo declared it "mosf unusual," and Durfee believed it out of order as the ballots distributed Murray put the motion and declared -the recess carried on a voice vote. After the recess, the ballots were cast, Martin receiving nine and Kravetz and Oxx four each It was the first split of the Democratic majority on an election ballot this year.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 3 (JPt--A $57,200,000,000 bill to run the Defense Department this was earmarked today for early and final Congressional approval. A Senate-House conference committee, working late last night, ironed out virtually all disputed points in the hugo peacetime defense measure. It whittled $4,000,000,000 off a Senate-approved $5,000,000,000 funds for extra air power. Only one out of an original 57 differences between the Senate and House bills remained unresolved.

Both Senator O'Mahoney (D- and Rep. Mahon said Pentagon-leaders had failed to produce detailed plans for spending the five billions. "And the extra (none) billion should meet all demands until Congress meets again in January," Mahon added. Real Estate Buying Planned O'Mahoney, who had pushed the air fund through the Senate, said that instead of plans for more air power, the Pentagon sent up details on buying real estate for the Air Force and financing public works for the Navy. But O'Mahoney had said last week, after the Senate passed a tax bill far below the amount President Tru' (Continued on Page 6) Stock Market Spurts For Third Straight Day NEW YORK, Oct.

3 OP)--Enthusiastic bulls sent the stock market into its third straight advance today. Prices were, bid up rapidly with leaders gaining around $2 at the outside. Losses were negligible. The rise sent average prices into new high territory for 1951 with the Associated Press average df 60 stocks moving above its 21-year peak of reached at yesterday's close. Higher were Bethlehem Steel, Youngstown Sheet Tube, Phelps Dodge, Santa Fe, Baltimore Ohio, New York Central, Standard Oil (N.J.), Amerada (up more than five at times), U.

S. Rubber, Douglas' Aircraft, Dow Chemical, United Air Lines, U. S. Gypsum, and Bridgeport Brass, which plans to broaden out into the aluminum business. (Stock Table on Page 7) News Curb Seen Hint Of Drives By Allies Or Foe U.

S. 8th ARMY HEADQUARTERS, Korea, Oct. 3 UP)--A thunderous United Nations artillery barrage roared along the western front today while war planes tried to break up the biggest Red supply effort since the last Communisfii offensive. Red troops who held infantrymen to no gains yesterday pressed two battalion-sized probing attacks of their own "partial frequently a sign of an impending offensive by either the Red or Allies was clamped on news from the war fronts Wednesday. (The tightened censorship was announced by Tokyo headquarters of Gen.

Matthew B. Ridgway, supreme U. N. commander. There was no explanation.

(The partial blackout of news was imposed until further notice. Marty Red Tricks Spotted (While there were indications of a possible impending Red offensive, a broad United Nations drive could not be ruled out. The news blackout recalled a Red Chinese broadcast Saturday asserting the Allies were preparing to make simultaneous amphibious landings on both coasts of North Korea. The Allied command has not commented on this, broadcast.) The Far East Air Forces noted significantly that pilots spotted 4,355 Red trucks on the highways Tuesday greatest number in a single night since. the Communists' last abortive offensive" in mid-May.

Warships and night-raiding planes concentrated on breaking up this near record volume of supplies being rushed toward the front. An FBAF communique said Red trucks "suffered very heavy losses." Shells Fall Near Kaesong The Allied artillery barrage on the western front was one of the heaviest of the Korean war. Gunfire reached to within 12 miles of Kaesong, site of disrupted truce talks wnlch the Reds broke off 42 days ago. Shells hit the Reds in ridges running northeast from Korankpo. The town is 12 miles east of Kae- song just south of the 38th Parallel, and 28 miles northwest of Seoul.

Censorship prevented correspondents from pinpointing the full extent of the artillery fire. The barrage opened up Tuesday night after a cay In which the Reds halted United Nations attacks in the west, recaptured a towering peak in the east, and (Continued on Page 6) BRADLEY LEAVES TOKYO FOR U.S. Secret Conference Held Shortly Before Departure TOKYO, Oct. 3 Cat--Gen. Omar Bradley left Tokyo today after a fore-shortened 'visit that included a two-day tour of the Korean battle front.

Shortly before his departure for Washington the chairman of the U- S. Joint Chiefs of Staff held a secret conference with top American military leaders here amid fading hopes of a negotiated truce in Korea. The meeting with Army, Air and Navy commanders was presumed to be the most significant session Bradley held in his six-day visit. Bradley commented only: "It was a very interesting trip --very helpful to us." His plane left at 7:20 P. M.

(5:20 A. EST). Bradley was accompanied by his wife and Charles Bohlen, U. S. -State Department expert on Russia.

Proposal Still Ignored War clouds grew darker over Korea. For the seventh day Red Leaders ignored a United Nations proposal to reopen armistice talks at new site in no-man's-land. Tokyo sources said the Reda have waited too long to make a favorable reply to Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway's suggestion to hold sessions near Songhyon, about six miles from Red- controlled Kaesong, the former site.

These sources said they believe truce talks actually are broken off. There has been no meeting since Aug. 22. There was no announcement of (Continued on Page 6) u'o -'i-.

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