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TRUMAN'S TROUBLES Me unloads on Doc Graham P. 26. ALSO IMSlOEi Fg RAIN TAKING OVER BIRMINGHAM AND VICINITY Cloudy, windy and cool, with rain tonight; tomorrow partly cloudy to cloudy and warmer. High today 70, low tonight 60. high tomorrow 70.

iruraMM btfU.il PUTMUb (Ehc Birmingham Nhns Feg IS Radio-TV Soorta Editorials Society 3 Dorothy Dx 39 24 Comics Amusements 21 Markets PRICE: 5 CENTS 63 AD Yf A It NO. 153 50 BIRMINGHAM, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1950 chooses jail trying save hids ponies From where I stand Hospitals and public institutions in state facing linen shortage BY VULCAN Some of the public institutions In Alabama and a number of pri- vat hospitals are afraid they I may not have enough bed sheet before very long Other day Ole Vulc had his ear i Out toward the County Home at Ketona and I i BY RICHARD PEACOCK News staff writer Four little Roebuck children xied for their two ponies last light They cried also for their iaddy wjio was in City Jail. Their father. Oren Hester, of 1924 First Avenue. South, was tailed because he had refused to post bond on a charge of violating the City Code which prohibits the keeping of livestock Mr.

Hester went to Jail at 6 p.m, yesterday and he said he was determined to stay in jail until. "Until. he said, the city of Birmingham returns to my children the ponies they've had for more years than Birmingham has had Roebuck." The four Hester children wept for the ponies which were taken away. But they refused to go to bed when they were told that their daddy would not be home. MR.

HESTER was determined to remain in Jail until Sept. IS when he's scheduled to come to trial and longer if necessary. But fellow members of the Sheet Metal Workers Union decided the four Hester children needed their father, and against Mr. Hester's wishes posted S100 bond and took him home. Mrs.

Hester told The Birmingham News today she and her husband were prepared to fight this "to the Supreme Court if necessary." We have been done an injustice." she said. The charge against us has been trumped up. Mr. Hester is charged particularly with violation of Section 190 of the General City Code which prohibits citizens from harboring livestock within 100 feet of a school or dwelling. The Hesters are ready to prove that the two ponies they kept for their children were on property more than 135 feet from any nearby dwelling.

AND FURTHER, that thousands of individuals in the city living almost on top of their neighbors keep cows, horses, dogs, chickens, ducks and even hogs without any interference by the city "If the city. said Mrs. Hester, can have ponies at Fair Park for paying customers, then we can have ponies in Roebuck for our children. "And what's more, the children of the two persons who signed the complaint against us. come to us and ask to rid our ponies.

Turn to Peg 6. Column 1 Eother jailed Grim-foced ond determined, Oren V. Hester sits in City Jail after his arrest for olloving his children to keep their pet ponies ot the Hester home in Roebuck. He said he'd stay there, rather thon give in. Must the ponies go? Unawore of the fight raging around their heads ore two ponies owned by Mr.

and Mrs. Oren V. Hester, of Roebuck. At left, with Polly is Borbora Ann Hester, 12 On Trigger, is her brother, Charles, 10. Mary Hester, 5, holds Charles' hood Another of the Hester children! Sue, 7, was ill and unable to get out of bed Casualties heavy on sides as Allies halt Reds has finger on 12,000 Reds all 'dangerous' Truman to give report Saturday on needed curbs Ready to make quick arrests if U.

Soviet war WASHINGTON. Sept 7 UPi Director J. Edgar Hoover reported to have told Senators today his agents are ready to -FBI was arrest 12,000 dangerous Communists If war should break out with Russia. One of century's great hurricanes boils in Atlantic Political figure dies Lonnie Noojin. Alabama GOP Chieftain dies WASHINGTON.

Sept. 7 (PPs President Truman will address the A member of the Senate approp- nation Saturday night to report on nations committee, asking not to be what homefront rontrols are In named, quoted Hoover as telling store in the current emergency. the group in a closed session that In disclosing this at a news con- funds, for additional ference today. Mr. Truman de- keep a close check on dined to say whether he plans even tnese Persons.

HE limited price coptrol. He said he mm SAID HOOVER wants his I MIAMI. Sut. 7 Flor ida counted three dead and damage officially estimated at $3,000,000 from its Labor Day week-end hur iricane while another and greater GADSDEN. Ala Sept.

7 Lon- storm moved slowly toward Ber nie Noojin. 65. Alabama Republicai muda. national committeeman and wideL Bermuda was advised by the known civic and business leader Miami Weather Bureau at 10:30 a to be able to put these 'died last night. His death came at to take precautions for possible a Gadsden hospital after an illness hurricane winds.

The center was of several months. 200 miles southwest of Bermuda Mr. Noojin, a former athlete and 840 miles east of Jacksonville teacher and coach at University Fla. Alabama, was a member of the university board of trustees. He, GRADY NORTON, chief stom was a baseball and football player forecaster at Miami, said indica at Alabama.

After his graduation lons were that the great Atlantic from the university, he played pro- hurricane was running into a high fessional baseball several years. pressure system which probably Funeral services will be at 3:30 block its course toward the p.m. tomorrow from the First Meth- nrih. He predicted it might come odist Church here The body haIt short distance west of lie in state from 2:30 for Commie to 100,000 PITTSBURGH. Sept.

7 UP) bond for a jailed leader, charged with todav was raised from to $100,000 for two others remained $10,000. boost in bail required to Steve Nelson, chairman of state from 2:30 m. to 3:30 Bermuda in 12 to 18 hours. Enemy pushes to within sight of pivotal Taegu By The Associated Press Communist forces launched pincer drive. 50,000 strong, at Taegu today and drove within sight of that i pivotal Allied base In South Korea 'before being atopped by United Nations troops.

All around the 120-mlle beach-i head rim United Nations force were engaged In sever fighting, some of it hand-to-hand combat with bayonets. Losses mounted on each side, but Allied lines were reported holding. 1 A BLAZING BATTLE developed on the southern end of the front, I where the 8 25th Division I blunted an offensive push of the Reds, who jumped off at dawn under an intense artillery barrage. Tha battle it raging In an tree 35 miles west of Putan, last-ditch Allied supply base. The Amar leans held the line after alight I Red penetration.

On the western end of the nortn- ern front. U. First Cavalry troop held their position againat heavy I attacks aimed at Taegu. I They alto held before Yongrhon on the eastern aide of the northern wall, but the Red were reported massing to the rear of the dwp wedge they have driven into thla right flank of tha Allied defense line. AMERICAN PLANES on the Korean fronts damaged or destroyed 65 Red tank In two days, a record would give his answers in the Sat- aenr urday night speech.

The administration already has I told Congress it needs $40,000,000 to build up an organization which would be ready by next April 30 to handle selective price controls. Chairman W. Stuart Symington of the National Security Resources Board, was reported today to have testified a seven-point program of credit controls, allocations and priorities will go into effect shortly after President Truman signs the mobilization bill passed Tty Congress last week. IF THE PRESIDENT approves the bill tomorrow, as expected Symington has told the Senate appropriations committee the controls program will be put into effect Monday. Although he said there is no pres-1 lent need for price-wage and rationing action.

Symington told the committee $40,000,000 of a pending at free the by held Bond raised The Communist sedition, $10,000 Bail The Communist Party of Western Pennsylvania, was sought Allegheny County Judge Michael A. Musmanno. Musmanno filed the sedition charges against Nelson, Andrew Onda. identified as a Communist organizer, and James Dolsen, named by Musmanno as a Daily Worker correspondent. They are being for Grand Jury action.

"Admire courage" Gen. Clifton Cotes (left). Marine Corps commandant, greets President Truman today at the notional convention of the Marine Corps League at Washington. The chief executive mode a personal apology for slurs he mode against the Marines. Gen.

Cotes said: "We in the Marine Corps admire courage, especially personal courage." (Associated Press wirephoto.) Truman hand olive branch to Marines Th Atlantic storm packs winds of 140 miles an hour. It ranks with th great storms of th 20th Ceoutry. A hurricane hunter yesterday reported 100 foot waves in the heaving Atlantic. Florida's hurricane, leaving Its principal damage from windTup to 125 miles an hour along the Gulf Coast from Cedar Keys to Braden ton. today flailed a six-state area with heavy rains.

Rainfall measured 8 to 12 inches' p.m Burial will be in Forest Cemetery, Collier-Butler in charge. Funeral services will be conducted by the Rev. Denson Franklin. Bishop Clare Purcell. DL W.

A. Shelton and Dr. J. E. Morris.

Mr. Noojin was football coach at Howard College for several years. The GOP chieftain in this state was prominently identified in th business world. Aside from heading a large hardware and building supply company heard im Battle complaining about the linen shortage. Checked up to see what was a and learned that you last a bay a sheet around here now.

George Wilson. the county purchasing agent, says the sheet shortage is the worst he has seen in 12 years. Even during World War II he was sble to do better on ordering bed linens. Sheets went off the market a few weeks before the first Korean shot was fired, due to the cotton shortage. Then when the war tear came lots of people started a run on bed linens.

Most of the private hospitals around here have a pretty good inventory of bedsheeta. But Arthur Bailey, at Jefferson Hospital, la worried. ONE REASON public institutions are so hard hit right now is that the State of Alabama used to make sheeting at Speigner Prison. But that was stopped in the Folsom administration. Now the prisons.

Jails, hospitals and county homes have to go into the commercial market for linens. Scare buying, of course, is just one of the reasons sheets are almost impossible to get right now The cotton crop is partly responsible. But 1 hope some way can be found to assure the county homes and the hospitals of enough sheet for the sick and the help-tern. Quotes and things ALLEN RANKIN, the Montgomery columnist whose quotes on Gen. Orvil Anderson were used when the general was fired a commander at Maxwell Field, is pretty unhappy over it all.

Rankin says he thinks Anderson is right, marks the out-spoken fighting mill as No. 1 hero on his list. A name that fascinates me is that of the Posthumous Cafe on Highway No. 76 between the Magic Ham and Pell City. Fair Park will be open through Sept.

24 when it will dose until the week of the Fair. I keep a-looking NATURALLY, Ole Vulc will be a-peeking down next Saturday night when they dedicate the new lighting system at Legion Field. The night the Chicago Cardinals will play the Detroit Lions. Montgomery Examiner Editor Charles Dobbins has returned from a two-month look-see at Europe Good to see Arthur Jordan back in the Magic Ham after a busy Summer trip through the West. Arthur worked in the Kansas and Nebraska wheat fields He's a senior at Howard.

Folks and tacts SANDERSON the Huntsville real estater. a-boosting his town Tom Huey. talking up the Roebuck Exchange Club's big party next Wednesday. Jack Cole, the trucker, celebrates a new birthday on Sunday Franke Hulse and Harry Rust will chslk up birthdays Tuesday Lowndes County GI in Korea refers to the North Koreans as The Yanks." What is sawmill gravy? Wish Phil Hamm and Ward McFarland could fix up those humpv roads leading into beautiful Cheaha State Park. All in September WHEN I GET something wrong.

really bear about it! Like when I naively reported that th poets had neglected September. Well, somebody could get together a five-foot book thelf of September poems. I'm swamped with em Sidney Lanier Gibson, of Verbena, is the latest to name a few Reminds me that O. Z. Hall, the auto man, has a birthdav tomorrow.

Incidentally Ragby Hall has an auto agency In Jacksonville, now Dont know whether he still raises bees as a bobby or not. Eyes on Alabama SORRY TO bear that Lonnie Noojin. the Republican national died in Gadsden Lonnie had hun-of friends in Alabama and over the country. He was a fine ettireo and a wooderful friend Herbert Henry. Jr, back from Mobile and some storm-dodging Heard lots good comment on the way Beco aad Alabama Power folks pitched in to return service after the hoary rains last week.

Eyes on traffic ONE BAD traffic spot that needs some checking into is where Highways 11 and Si meet right on the eastern fringe of the city Maybe a traffic light? And Enaleys 19th Street is a thoroughfare where a hardly creep along, with both sides of the street S60.000.000 Dresidential reouest will go toward building up a new bearing his name in Gadsden, he three-day period over a wide agency to handle Drice controls PPl to bed at night and get them was a member of Alabama Power area, with Savannah reporting 16 bn xfj" tn wutkmt iHS'lThi, washincton rnmM Thu. ration measure oarficularlieve- President Truman asked Congress Gadsden Nao2al Bk He" hSd! NORTON MADE the visit to the Marine Corps League's meeting today and "expressed Jj, paring into action ppk for 000 000 to fiMn numerous other bustness conS Preliminary damage estimate Of gy. 1 here ill never be another misunderstanding betwen him and aJin8t the Communist armor again minimi fnr riirrt nrir increased FBI activity due to the tions. the total, $2,500,000 was inflicted on the Marines. Friday Korea Time).

Tnrf wrntrnTf iTn changed international situation. the gulf coastal section, with an- It was a personal and emphatic follow-up to his apology of yester- Reds had committed 84 new fwlifled Symington Th FB told raporters then NOOJIN NEVER HELD any other other $500,000 to highways, city jday for hia earlier uatertnaate RuttaB.bum tanka to the northern Miimat wntiid the money was needed to political office, although he came streets and along the Florida keys permit the orderly development of hiring of 835 new agents close toteingeleetrtto Congress from Miami to Key West. nt nrir rafinn. nd 1,218 new clerical workers. from the old Seventh District One oddity mo and wi rnntmu a annears The Senate committee called Running as Republican nominee, he said Norton, necenanryand has bei arrtwdat Hoover before it to learn Just wha I defeated for the House by mg $3,000,000 by rough calculation of the monthly Proposed to do with the money Miles Allgood about the storm, was that while caus-damage.

it brought beneficial rains to a drouth area Here's text of apology words about the fighting corp fronV battle two brigades, one on The league gave him a standing Taegu sector, the other against ovation and applauded furiously positions around Yongchon, when he said, with a grin: lt JCZ hub miie to the eaaL You succeeded in enticing me roao over here. THE REDS menaced Taegu from i WITH HIS MIND obviously on BOrth and the west. Two battle the furor over his description of raged north and northeast of Taegu, nn of them for northern ridgm on of them for to Marines in North Florida, watered groves and raised lake level and probably had a beneficial effect worth $1,000,000. We can't deduct that from losses it inflicted, however. expenditures that would be re- HOOVER WAS REPORTED to quired to build up.

by April 30 have told th, commUte that a 1951. an organization which could bv the facl MOTTOW mOV DTOVe program of selective price tbL ft of th 19nnn controls with the minimum "cc. Corom unists are sary planning and preparation for mny native born now h.ng.mu, "Communists are American citizens CICOl, Willi flip The rainy sky is likely to Turn to Fag Column Amusements Today general or wiaespread price con- saving it would clear trols'' He ws quoted as saying it would tomorrow, but the nippy tempera- iro be up to the Justice Department to He did not indicate that price tures win continue. controls wilt actually be imposed wen as ws Precast by Weath- be arrested immediately, as well as erroan Charles F. Bradley.

Jr. To- Chow chompers chortle? 'Crow WASHINGTON. Sept 7 OP) Marine League delegates, tn good humor from President Truman's apology for his cracks about their service, were passing this gag around convention headquarters "Whata for lunch today, crow' TV, nr forr, jfy 9 2 LYwC-' TlM F1em 11 S. 1 nr, saail; Aiaj gMms Birth la Owr Vri off MBLBaliumphrrr $. zr AMAR mmmrn fk fOf' 10JS jl 4rh Wsra TNO CntomOY ffrnlra Th mra twin an4 oaloui howlnea AALAX ltTi A Small Wane BOVAL 'll iv NC tr Nn Man of He BNO A Vte Atlanta Masonic Temple blazes ATLANTA, Sept 7-AV-Fire enveloped the two top floors of the six-story Masonic Building in the heart of Atlanta's business district this afternoon.

A stiff wind blew the flames away from th Henry Grady Hotel, directly across th street 3 Conservation orders for ma Burns. 44, proprietor of a candy may be 78 Yesterdays high was FIREMEN WERE UNABLE to terials needed in the defense pro- store asked for time to pay when 75. low last night. 60 The mean reach the flames with two fire tow- gram tncludtng limits on production she was fined S10 on Aug 2 for was 68.. eight degrees below normal, cm and the blaze roared unron- of some end products having a gambling device in her Rainfall in the Birmingham trolled on the two floors Two 4 Production programs developed shop measured .77 inch.

streams of water were directed to provide for defense needs with Today she paid with 1,000 pen- Most of the state reported rain, toward the back of the building but out unnecessary dislocation" of nie Montgomery reported two and one- the towers were not high enough to normal customers. Two cort officers were assigned half inches and Anniston more throw water to the top of the but Id 5 Report from industry on eon to count them than an inch ing. sumption of material, value of pri l. day's and last night's rain was would be made "for the necessary 7hl 030- used bF the tropical hurricane w. b-v FBI tha which blew itself out in this area, he said.

Here is the official forecast: Cloudy, windy and coo! and rain today and tonight. Tomorrow. partly cloudy to cloudy and continued cool. Today's high was 70. A low of 60 preparation for rationing but tenUan "dangerous from a na- tnTrn security standpoint of more SYMINGTON SAID prtm than 50.000 known Communist on FB' 'pu, for defense orders 2.

A general control regulation non nanni0t I keep industrial inventories at "min- pennies pay rlflB unum practical levels. murnpuon in uigtri uii- fiiug the Marina as a police force with a propaganda machine that is almost equal to Stalins, Mr Truman said: There are incidents that some time appear almost as if It was the end of the world at the time. but that eventually turn out to be for the good of the country. Then he added, that when he LVcaMen makes a "mistake. I try to correct MOVi mo.

b.u mi it. th Mr. Truman went on to express Faia aaBk Ibis resentment over unfounded at ddivi-in- Aew MOUNT AIM ORIV-IM TH Hetijn osuVt in Wa Down Dk Wsjf ahpmr'' an4 WASHINGTON. Sept 7 Following is the text of President Trumans letter delivered yesterday to Gen Clifton Cates, commandant of the Marines "Dear Gen. Cates: I sincerely regret the unfortunate choice of language which I used in my letter of Aug 29 to Congr McDonough concerning the Marine corps.

What I had in mind at the time this letter was written was the specific question raised by Mr. McDonough, namely, the representation of the Marine Corps on the Joint chiefs of staff. I have been disturbed by the number of communications which have been brought to my attention proposing that the Marine Corps have such representation. I feel that inasmuch as the Marine Corps is by law an integral part of the Department of the Navy, it is already represented on the Joint chiefs of staff by the chief of naval operations That the Congress concurs in this point of view is evidenced by the fact that in passing the national security act of 1947, and again in amending that act in 1949. the Congress considered the question of Marine Corp representation on the joint chiefs of staff and did not provide for it IT IS MY FEELING that many of the renewed pleas for such representation are the result of propaganda inspired by individuals who may not be aware of the beat interests of our defense establishment as a whole, and it was this feeling which I was expressing to Mr.

McDonough. I am certain that the Marine Corpa itself doe not indulge in such propaganda "I am profoundly aware of the magnificent history of the United States Marine Corp. and of the many heroic deeds of the Marines since the corp was established in 1775 Turn to Rage i. Column 1 soriucr onivB-iN Hwr" aB "EM Iron rivt eoiNT-- Tim Ldr TH MaatarsM noxv- "JU Hv Rea ority orders and production ol end 5 D0V16 S6CS lt items War will be long drawn out items 6. Special expediting for defense production.

7. Machinery for hearing appeal on the ground of undue hardship Tha CruaaSaa Act of Mnrt vow V' "Matt an "IS UL.fASN "AlhuieWUM Mi WIK! Bar" aat UM th" HASS Cl TV ((. WOOD EK tacks against certain men In the public service. He attributed those attacks to politics in connection with the approaching November election did not os me those he said were victims of these unfounded end unjust attacks, but he said th attacks ware not aimed actually at these men but were "direct attacks on th president of the U. THERE HAS BEEN criticism' of Secretary of State Acheson and Secretary of Defense Johnson during the Marine convention Mr.

Truman walked into the crowded room with a broad grin on hia face. He kept that grin until be started speaking. He turned serious when he asked for their support in the Korean war which he said he hoped would lay the foundation for the peace which is hia only aim in life Mr. Truman went to the convention hall at the Statler Hotel with Gen. Clifton B.

Cates. of the Marines Also is hia Turn to Fag Column 2 car administrative discrimination Symtngton has told senators he experts to assign credit and rea estate controls to the Federal Re serve Board He said the Commerce Department would handle steel and non-ferrous metals allocations and priorities, with Interior and Agriculture handling other authorities. Olivia to ploy Juliet NEW OBK. Sept 7 Olivia de Haviiland. star of many Hollywood movies, will make her fins Broadway stage appearance in January when she appears as Juliet in a revival of Shakespeare "Romeo and Juliet The actor to play Romeo has not yet been chosen, but Mis De Havil-land has been signed by Producer Dwight Deere Wustan to a year contract.

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UNFORTUNATELY, there is no trustworthy evidence along the battle front that the enemy hi weakening. He if anything, to be getting stronger. And there is mi yet no sign here that the United Nations has massed aad ready enough muscle to end the war in a single mighty knockout blow. The sad truth is that the Red still are conduct tog a atege perilous. Since the Allies withdrew to BY HAL BOYLE TOKYO.

Sept. 7 Sevenry-ftve day after fighting broke out in Korea, the United Nations force still can play only th role of fireman. It hasn't as yet been able to take the first real forward step tow ard carrying out it announced intention of acting as a policeman to enforce peace in -the land of morning calm That is the biunt truth today, nearly 11 weeks after the battle for Korea began And it must be faced bluntly by tboee groups of easv optimists both here and at home who blithely talk of having the war over by Thanksgiving This Maud confidence can be based only on two things: 1 A blind hope that the North Koreans have been so worn down -tuniag pm How to grow old happily is Dr. Peales subject today: His articled on Page 38.