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THE WEATHER Tonight--Showers. FINAL EDITION SERIES 1951-NO. 192 Entered CJasa Matter at tiso at Troy, N. Dnder Act ol Marcb 3. TROY, N.

TUESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 14, 1951. Published Dally Except Sunday PRICE FIVE CENTS line 'We do Van Fleet Says Allied Forces Are Ready For Any Eventualities U.N. Advance Base Below Kae- song (UP)--Tin; two top United Nations commanders said today that the Communists either can accept a cease-fire line based on the present front or fight it out on the battlefield. Gen. Matthew B.

Ridgway, supreme U.N. commander, said in Tokyo -the 38th Parallel cease-fire line which the Reds demand is indefensible -and his soldiers had learned that fact in meeting two enemy offensives. "How could anyone expect us to go back to the same man again?" Ridgeway said, not intend to attempt it." Lt. Gen. James A.

Van Fleet, commanding the Eighth Army will engage the ommunists' if the war starts again in full fury, said in a brief interview at this advance base that his men are "fine and fit" and ready for any eventualities. "The enemy is in bad shape," Van Fleet said. "He is suffering, he is hurt and he needs peace." Maybe, he commented, the Eighth Army and the U.N. Force will have to break the present deadlock, in cease-fire negotiations. Kaesong Session Futile.

As the two U.N. commanders made their statements, the armistice negotiations at Kaesong went through their 14th day of deadlock over a cease-fire line. The Communists spurned a new U.N. attempt to find a compromise. Instead, chief Communist delegate Gen.

Nam II attacked the allied argument that U.N. air and naval superiority should be considered in fixing the line. Nam II demanded flatly that the armistice line and buffer zone be fixed along the 38th Parallel bor- EDil U. S. SEVER IS CKASHLNG PLANE SETS APARTMENT AFIRE--Firemen send streams of water on the burning wreckage of a B-50 which crashed in the south end of Seattle, Wash.

Plane hit an apartment house (right) scattering pieces over a wide area. Part of plane is shown against car (left foreground) and one motor is just to the left of the firemen at right. Congress "Gets Tough" Over Imprisonment Of Oatis, A.P. Correspondent Washington (AP)--The House today unaminmously advocated immediate severance of commercial" relations with Czeckoslovakia until William N. Oatis is freed from a Prague Jail.

By a standing vote of 231 to 0 the chamber passed and sent to the sense of Congress that such the Senate a resolution expressing action should be taken. It then ordered a roll-call vote to confirm the standing count. Deleted from the resolution was an earlier provision advocating eventual severance of diplomatic ties with Czeckoslovakia if Oatis isn't freed in 90 days. Rep. Armstrong (R.Mo.), who sponsored the proposal aimed at breaking off both commercial and CEiAN PI E'IMS HIS IRE GEORGE J.

MILLINGTON EDWARD V. CAMPBELL SENATE GESIPR EDFR CAA To Probe Death Of i 11 i George Millington, Edward Campbell At Lake Civil Aeronautics Authority officials today began a probe of the air tragedy last night in which Patrolman George J. Millington, 27, of 236 Lincoln Avenue and Edward V. Campbell, 35, of 108 Fourth Street, met death. The two men were killed when their Aeron- a two-place cabin plane struck a ff power line and crashed into Rei- 1 chard's Lake in the Town of Sand Lake about 7:50 p.m.

last night. The wreck plane was turned over to the CAA officials this morning after it had been guarded during the night by State Police. Edwin Morey, representative the CAA, who is stationed at Albany Airport is in charge of the investigation. The CAA will at- I tempt to determine the cause of the crash. The body of Patrolman Millington was removed last night to Puri cell Bros, undertaking parlors at RY FREEDOM PLEDGE Suspect Moscow Plans Prop dipl malic relali ns ld news Publisher Former Congress Elizabeth Bentley Tells Of 428 Third Street and late today P- men he had to modify it because Memb Defeated For Obtaining Secret Data "I couldn't get support for the New York Governor agenda Show At Jap Peace Conference Washington (AP)--American of- entire proposal." Some members, Armstrong, ficials expect Russian delegates that the original proposal der between Korea.

South and North The allied and Red ncgotioatrs will hold their 25th meeting at 11 am. Wednesday (9 P.M. Tuesday There is still hope here Messages i i Over Satellite Countries Munich, Germany (AP)--The free peoples of the West "tore a big hole in the iron curtain" today by sending 2,000 balloons carrying 2,000,000 messages of hope drifting over the Soviet satellite countries. The propaganda operation, called "Winds of Freedom" is sponsored by international anti-Communist organizations which represent millions of citizens in free countries. Some messages said: "To the people of Czechoslovakia: A new wind is blowing.

A new hope is i stirring. Friends of freedom in walk out of the 50-nation Japanese peace conference after staging a Six Members Of Crew In- spectacular propaganda show to ur i-rew. in- emphasize Moscow opposition. These officials expressed confidence to a reporter that Russia's denunciations would not succeed in blocking the signing of a peace treaty by an overwhelming major- itv of other countries. might further jeopardize Oatis and other Americans still in Czecho- Beverly Hills, Cal.

(UP)--Wil- From OSS Washington (AP) Elizabeth eluding Kingston, N. Man, Among Dead Seattle (AP)--Charred, smoldering rubble and melted metal marked the pyre today where at ll is ready to least 11 persons were consumed gri without Russia, if necessary, in gasoline-fed flames spewed out'said these officials who may not Tf 4 there will be an armistice. It her lands have found a new way felt that the Communists would to reach you lh ey know that never have asked for a cease-fire you a so wan freedom." unless beaten. they knew they were Allied Position. of the balloons will float over Czechoslovakia on prevailing I wind currents.

THey were launched from a crashed B-50 Air Force bomber. Those who lived remembered the hot breath of death that swept through a hillside apartment house into which the medium bomber plunged yesterday afternoon moments after taking off on a routine check-out flight. Dozens of persons in Seattle's south end industrial section saw the doomed plane suddenly lose altitude from 700 feet up and veer off sharply to the right. With its four engines churning at apparent full power, a wing The allied argument for an arm- yesterday in the presence of Harold E. Stasscn president of the University of Pennsylvania, who istice line front left room for compromise SSVTM hoped the Communists Van made it plain that: Two lypes 0 balloons were used be quoted by name.

Secretary of State Acheson, they hinted, may have a trick or two up his sleeve to curb the anticipated Russian propaganda filibuster, if it threatens to drag on indefinitely. Moscow's delegates, headed by acting Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, have promised to show up in San Francisco Sept. 4 for the opening of what was planned as a five-day conference. Assisting him will be three other of Russia's more noted conference orators--Alexander S. Panyushkin.

ambassador to the United States; Georgi N. Zarubin, ambassador to London; and S. A. Golunski, Rus- Oatis, an Associated Press cor- respondent, was sentenced to ten years imprisonment recently on an espionage charge. The resolution refers to the "sham trial and unjust conviction" of Oatis and urged the United States government to "take all possible action to bring about his release." Armstrong, urging the House yesterday to "get tough" with the Czechs, said the newspaperman will die "within a few weeks" unless released.

The U.S. government has la belled the charges against Oatis baseless. Armstrong said he had received Ham Randolph Hearst, who headed Bcntlcy, who says she is a former the Hearst Newspapers, died today Communist. spy, testified today at his home. The 88-year-old publisher died at 12:50 p.m.

(E.S.T.). that the Institute of Pacific Rela- was taken to the Millington residence. The funeral will be held from 'the residence Thursday at 8:45 a.m. 'and at 9:30 a.m. from St.

Joseph's Church where a requiem high mass will be celebrated. Burial will take place in St. Joseph's Cemetery. tions (IPR) "was a front organization of a sort." Communist! Members of the Troy Police De- Although he had been ill in re-1 She told the Senate internal se- dipped violently, the B-50 flicked sian or eign ffj i ega i hj and against the side of a brewery, then plowed into the frame and brick 4 U.N. command will no, attempt to reach the retreat to the 38th Parallel as i Comnuui i st peoples.

One is a price of an armistice. 2--Their forces are prepared lo foot bag designed to burst at an altitude of 25,000 feet scattering about 2,200 messages. The other carries a four-foot "pil- fight the war to a finish if the Communists want it that way. U.N. troops, planes and artillery jj ow jth the word lashed the enemy throughout Tues- ree dom--written on it.

This type day as Gen. Nam II and his fellow oes no burst hut floats to earth. Communist negotiators rejected every attempt at compromise. The U.N. delegation in vain) Lester Apartments on the hill behind.

What led to the tragedy was as yet unknown. But expert observers theorized that the pilot, Lt. Lloyd G. Vanderwielen of Seattle, croically banked his stricken ship oward the Rainier Valley wall to pare hundreds of workers in fac- ories below. It is believed Van- erwielen was trying to crash land as tic balloon carries about six by four messages Millions of free men and worn.

pointed out to the Communists i have joined together and are 66-minute statement that the sending you this message of friend- allies need a defensible line be- over the winds of freedom- cause an armistice would (Continued or. Page 13.) enable 'which always blows from west to east," a sample message-said. "An oppressor has brought slav erv to your proud country, lie -POWDER PUFF DERBY" has tried to cut you off completeli WILL START TOMORROW wor i your friends in the free Santa Ana, Cal. (AP)--The annual "Powder Puff Derby" of women flyers starts here tomorrow, with eighty women in fifty- planes heading for Detroit and the National Air Races. The women will make overnight stops in Tucson, Dallas, Tulsa, St.

Louis and Ft. Wayn Ind. The race will be judged on elapsed time and handicapped on the plane manufacturers' advertised cruiseing speeds. "But, he has failed. "We are in touch with you daib by radio.

Now we take this nsv cent years, he continued personally to direct his newspapers until his last days. He leaves his widow, Millicent Wilson Hearst of New York, and curity subcommittee that IPR was described to her once by a fellow Communist espionage agent, as "one of our organizations" and "under our control." five sons--George, William Ran-1 But, she added, Russian agent dolph, John, William Elbert! Jacob Golos, who was her boss, and Randolph Apperson. His business career spread over more than 60 years, during which he bought and founded newspapers, magazines, radio stations and a news-reel and motion picture company. Ke was regarded as one of the nation's richest men. His wealth in 1935 was estimated at $220,000000.

One also told her once that "IPR is operating far too loosely" and as partment will wear the mourning badge in honor of the late patrolman. A delegation fr6m the police department, led by Acting Chief of Police Frederick H. Ibbott, will the funeral. Mayor Edward A. Fitzgerald today ordered the Flags on municipal buildings at half staff.

Patrolman Millington. was a veteran of World War II having a result was making "many blunders." The IPR is a private organization which was formed in the 1920s with the declared purpose of promoting study of Far Eastern problems. Senator McCarran who heads the Senate subcommittee, contends the IPR has he identified as a free-lance writer, to the effect that Oatis is "getting the full treatment of confinement and torture." A similar message from Brock was read to the Senate by Senator McCarthy Armstrong told a reporter he is of the most controversial been used extensively by Commu- Far East- organization de- information from Ray Brock, figures of his lime, he influenced jnists to influence U. S. Virt i i I I A 'i i fri I i firci TllP American life in the first half of era the 20th Century in his multiple nies this.

role as editor, political figure, art collector, industrialist and real estate tycoon. Son of U. S. Senator. He reached his zenith as a pub- former judge at the Tokyo war crimes trials.

State department officials consider it a top-flight delegation. Und we should do something posi-1serviced with news from Miss Bentlcy has been a frequent witness at the Capitol for several years, testifying at most of the congressional hearings deal- in with subversive activities. convinced Oatis "will die within in hcr in the 1920s. He owned i a few weeks unless he is released, juventy newspapers in 13 served with the 3342 QM. Truck Co.

as a technician in the Normandy campaign, the campaign in northern France, the JRhineJand campaign and the Central Europe campaign. He was inducted into the Army at Camp Upton on Feb. 22, 1943, and his honorable discharge on Dec. 3, 1945, at Fort Dix. He was a former member of South Troy Post, V.F.W.

The body of Campbell is still at DeGraaf undertaking parlors in West Sand Lake awaiting the arrival of members State Police have of his family, been in touch with the family and expect them to arrive here late today. i The single-engine light plane Now her 40s, her lo l7 un ged from a height of 25 feet she icll love with i that and became a courier for a Com- Department officials look for Communist Czechoslovakia and Poland, the only Russian satellites invited, to follow Moscow's lead shortly and announce they will attend the conference. The State Department, announcing Russian acceptance yesterday, declined to comment for- tive to get him released. We must take a tough position if we even hope to succeed." Armstrong said Brock informed the tree covered, sparsely pop- mally or to indicate what its alated -bank the only will be to counter an anticipated propaganda attack. An American plan for thwarting Russia's designs at San Francisco, owever, is reported to call for: 1.

Limiting speeches to the sub- ect of Japanese peace treaty draft. way of extending our hand to you TI IO TM ic nn rlimpfion deeo enough pot for blocks around. "The noise was so loud I though was a jet coming," recalled Fred Prout, who was below the residential hill. "Then I saw it, the wings at a 90-degree angle to the ground--straight up and down." In the next instant it struck and burst into flames. Kingston Man Killed.

Six of the dead were members of the plane's crew--three Air Force men and three flight analysts from the nearby Boeing Airplane Company, maker of the B-50. The other five known victims were dwellers in the 49-unit apartment house whose entire north end was There is no dungeon deep cnou to hide the no wall high enough to keep out the message of freedom. "Tyranny cannot control the winds--cannot enslave your hearts. Freedom will rise again," the message concluded. 7 a.m.

to 11 p.m. 92.3 megacycles (Channel 222) The FM Voice of The Record Neivspapers THREE STATE INCOME TAX EXAMINERS FIRED FROM BROOKLYN OFFICE Albany (UP)--Three state i ome tax examiners in the Brook- yn office of the State Department of Taxation and Finance were out of jobs today after they refused sign waivers of immunity when summoned before a New York ounly grand jury. Spencer E. Bates, state commissioner of taxation and finance, said icre yesterday that the trio had been fired outright when they refused to waive immunity from any criminal prosecution which might follow, a grand jury investigation of the alleged shake-down of a taxpayer. The three are Morris Dworkin and Jack Passer Brooklyn and EU Jaffe of Queens.

They tried to resign Aug. 10 but Bates said he refused their resignations. Only about one-third the 64 persons normally resident in the building were home. Twelve were burned severely or injured in the impact, at least five others died Three were missing. Military authorities early toda identified the third Air Force man aboard the plane as Frank A.

Dodaro, 35, Kingston, N. Y. He was the flight engineer. The other two, named previously, were Capt Charles A. Dews, 30, Austin, Tex.

radar observer, and Lt. Lloyd Vanderwielen, 33, Seattle, pilot Also on the doomed medium oomher were three civilian tes analysts from the Boeing com pany. More Victims Sought, Firemen probed the still-hot de bris i midnight, searching fo the remains of others who migh have been trapped in the infern touched off by the plane's 3,50 gallons of high test gasoline an 300 gallons of oil. The hunt resumed shortly after daybreak. Seventy-six-year-old Peter Nelson, who occupied an upper apartment, said he ran through a fire- filled hall and heard screams com- (ContinuccI on Page 13) Universal Service and International News Service, provided comics and features through the King Features Syndicate, and him that "every brutal cunning oos ted Sunday circulation of the method of inquisition known" to American weekly supplement.

He the Soviet secret police ''is being also had a group of magazines, used to bring Mr. Oatis to the point of death:" the water after breaking the power cable running across the lake. The craft landed about half, way between the south side of the aClVr'llakc and the former Algonquin munist spy ring. Miss Bcntiey told the subcommittee that she succeeded to most of his death of a heart attack in 1943. Speaking in a low voice that time got almost lost in the big, The depression of the 1930'sn cv crowded hearing room, Miss Bent- 0 engineering access to forced mergers, consolidations and se rccts of the Office of Strategic Armstrong said Brock's abandonment of some of his prop- tion came from a Slovak under- erties, but he remained an infiu- ground agent who formerly was a i a figure in the news and pub- assistant military attache in a i i fields.

In 1949 he still had 17 newspapers. Beach and Witnesses said the deep, plane was Services (OSS), U. S. espionage agency. She said she arranged for the transfer of Duncan Lee, whom she described as a "New York law- traveling westward when it struck the cable, which was suspended from two forty-foot posts on either side of the lake.

There was a wartime slack of about 15 feet in the center of the cable, State Police said. Several campers, including Pa- Balkan capital. am convinced of its authenticity." he added, "and I am con- in San Francisco, the only child! from which post she said, he fed Hearst was born April 29, from the IPR staff to OSS, 2. A majority-vote rule which vinced that, used to declare violators "out of rder." BAN RED NEWSPAPERS. Tokyo (AP)--The attorney gen- ral's office today banned publica- ion of twenty Communist news- apers, bringing to 1,756 the num- unless Oatis is rc-jof U.

S. Sen. George Hearst spy group information and Phoebe Apperson Hearst His "was one of our most valuable father had prospected for gold 1 workers." leased soon, he will be dead and ince July, 1950. the Soviet press will claim he was killed while trying to escape, or died from some disease." Armstrong said it is time to do more a "deplore" the Oatis case. The only way the United Stales could put an end to such from Alaska to Mexico and amassed ranches, banks a race; I A er of Red journals suspended "blackmail," he said, is to take a I mines, horses that made him one of the wealthiest men in old California.

iVtoved To New York. Young Hearst attended Harvard A RITES FOR STEPHEN A Washington T. position now. he was expelled for a cam- Early was given a soldier's bunal I pus prank. He then asked his Arlington Cemetery today after a to let him run the San a a services attended by Presi- cisco F.xaminer, which he taken over to satisfy a debt, Almost overnight, the young j.

a dent Truman and i Washington officials. trolman James Doherty of the Troy Police Department, heard the crash. They and hurried plane was beginning to settle in the water but Doherty and his boarded row boats to the scene. The (Continued on Page 3 ARTHUR C. MARGETSON, BRITISH ACTOR, DIES London (AP) Arthur Charles Margetson, 54, British actor well known to Broadway audiences, died Sunday a a long illness, it was reported today, top-ranking i ar ctson last appeared in the Services for the former deputy- White Plains doesn't know it.

The Newt to the New York State Police Con- York City P.B.A. delegates have) a a play "Clutterbuck," which closed 13 months ago. He iicuiotuuii-v. also played starring roles in such date, conservative newspaper to jpress secretary to the late Presi- Amcrican stage productins as Fra khnv For Lovers" in 1936, "A held at he a i a (Episcopal) Hearst transformed it 'from a secretary of defense and long-time erence want a forty-hour work already voted to reject Quilli.sm 1 Cathedral More a week and higher wages, but with- and to stand by the P.B.A. out unionization by major labor organizations.

Some 500 policemen registered yesterday at the opening session of the annual convention of the state's Police Benevolent Associations. There are 194 P.B.A. units. In a banquet address, although not mentioning Quill by name, Carton said, "if this political opportunist were successful in organizing the police of New York City, he would then attempt to organize police in New York Stale John E. Carton, New York City and throughout the nation.

P.B.A. president and conference! "If he were successful in this, head, told the delegates this would be the first step toward (Continued on Page 14) AUTHORIZES W1IVI RECORD I I A Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, secre-1 i taries of the armed servic.es, i i 'J8 BUILDING PROGRAM; of congress and friends from Mavgetson was the son of an Washington (AP)--The House the newspaper profession. Early i actress. today authorized the largest single war, a newsman before entering military construction program ever service 1948.

Born in Lon- men want the P.B.A. only." P.B.A. and the I anarchy." Carton then announced that 500 Carton assailed Michael J. Quill, transit policemen employed on president of the C.I.O. Transport York City's subways and ele- presented to Congress in war or The President was accompanied peace It calls for spending to the services by Fleet Adm.

Wil- 768720000 Ham D. Leahy, his former chief of The maior portion of the pro-jstafl. They sat in the front row- posed work, 53,480,661,000, is al- looking at the flag-draped casket as otted the Air Force and will bo Canon G. Gardiner Monks conduct- used to strengthen its bases in cd a simple service in wnich he this countrv. in the territories and recited Tennyson 'crossing the Workers, who has been trying to bring the police into his union, battling New Commissioner Quill has been York City Police vated trains--have applied for affiliation with the P.B.A.

and rejected Quill's offer of membership. Kingston, Peter Kcresman of George P. Monaghan, who last executive secretary of the state conference, urged a forty-hour week for police'and higher pay. Retirements of police throughout the state have increased 100 per cent, in the last year, he said, be cause of low income' and long hours. week ordered police to stay out of a union or face disciplinary action.

Monaghan's edict has the support of Mayor Vincent R. Impellitteri. In a greeting speech to P.B.A. delegates, Carton said: the "The parade has passed by and overseas. The sum of is earmarked for Army construction and for the navy.

In addition, there is about $133,766,000 for joint projects and for construction of recreational and welfare facilities at bases. The bill simply authorizes the program. Actual funds will have to be supplied later. The military FOG DELAYS LINER. New York (AP)--The 1,745 pas.

sen'gers who boarded the Cunard Liner Queen Elizabeth here last night, expecting to awaken out on the Atlantic Ocean, found the ship still tied at her pier this morning Fog delayed the scheduled 3 a.m (E.S.T.) sailing. Her departure services are asking $4,600,000,000 was put off until 3 p.m. (E.S.T.) to get the work under way. The Index Classified Cohoes Comics Crossword Puzzle Death Notices Dorothy Dix Editorials Financial Obituary Pulse of the People Radio Record Pattern Society Sports Theaters Page 19, 20, 21 13 18 18 11 15 10 14. 14 10 19 15 15 16, 17 18 'when the tide will be high again.