The Ponca City News from Ponca City, Oklahoma • 1

PONCA CITY OKLAHOMA Partly cloudy tonight nd Wednesday warmer east portion tonight low tonight 30 northwest to 40 southeast high Wednesday 55-60 Vol 58 No 45 Leased Wire and Features PONCA CITY OKLAHOMA TUESDAY NOVEMBER 21 1950 16 Pages at Ponca City Okla postoffice as 2nd class mail under act March 3 1879 Single Copy 5c 1 "As' a Yanks Stop at Border Reds Quit Hyesanjin I North Sacramento Calif perches on his rooftop which evacuated him to safe ground (AP Wire- AWAITS RESCUE An unidentified resident in as he awaits the arrival of a Red Cross rescue boat photo) California Nevada Still Awash As Toll in Lives Damage Rises Copper Shippers Give Testimony To Investigators Sales to Reds Under Scrutiny WASHINGTON Nov 2 (JP) Testimony that mis-dated bills of lading were made out for large quantities of Japanese copper shipped around the world to communist China was supplied to a senate subcommittee Tuesday Timothy Carberry president of Metal Traders Inc New York City testified that the shipping papers were made out on forms of the Isbrandtsen shipping line after his firm had sold the copper He was the first witness as a senate commerce sub-committee reopened hearings on shipments of nearly 4000000 pounds of Japanese copper to the Chinese Reds by way of New York The committee is interested in learning what war-useful materials may have reached the Chinese communists through American hands Sales Related Carberry told of his company purchasing thousands of pounds of copper in Japan early this year and of selling it while afloat on ships of the Isbrandtsen line to the Kane Import company also of New York At a hearing about three weeks ago Kane company officials testified that they had bought more than three and a half million pounds of Japanese copper and shipped it out of New York on Isbrandtsen freighters to the North China Import corporation Carberry said that the copper his company bought in Japan was destined for New York and the bills of lading made out in Japan so showed Under questioning by Senator (D-MD) the sub-committee chairman Carberry brought out that second sets of bills of lading had been made out on forms of the Isbrandtsen line after the copper had been sold to the Kane company Bills List Sale Each of the first three sets of dup licate bills of lading he was asked about Carberry said listed the copper as being shipped from Japan via New York for Taikyu Bar a North China port and was dated back to the time of the original shipment by the Metal Traders company asked Carberry if he had explanation of why two sets of bills of lading were in existence showing the same The witness said he did not Carberry testified that after his company sold the copper to the Kane company it surrendered title to the metal and turned over the original bills of lading He said that at the time the copper was sold his company had no idea that it was going to be reshipped to China Tsiang Claims Russia Directs Chinese Reds Soviets Charged With Aggression LAKE SUCCESS Nov Nationalist Tsiang told the United Nations Tuesday 45000 Soviet agents completely dominate the political economic and cultural life of communist China Events of the past 12 months Tsiang said have fully proved his charges that the Chinese civil war was engineered by Russia and that the Peiping regime is the stooge and tool of Moscow He spoke before the general 60-nation political committee Tsiang told the committee Russia has completely ignored the 1949 appeal to all nations to refrain from interfering in the internal affairs of China He blamed Russia for the intervention of communist China in the Korean war and said Russian imperialism was responsible for most of unrest He said the resistance movement on the China mainland is growing rapidly Before September 1949 he said there were only some 395000 men operating against the regime of Mao Tze-Tung but now there are about 1667000 About 15 percent of these Tsiang said are communist troops who have swung their allegiance to Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek The nationalist delegate urged the UN to create a special commission of inquiry to look into alleged aggression against China and to report back to the 1951 assembly events of the past 12 months substantiate my charges against the Soviet Union" Tsiang said reveal the true origin and character of the Peiping puppet regime Recent events show that the Soviet Union is seeing to it that its puppets In Peiping are completely subservient to its directives that the Soviet Union is taking away vast areas and acquiring special privileges all over China and that the Peiping regime is used as a tool to achieve Soviet imperialistic objectives in other parts of Asia" Tsiang charged that the North Korean attack on South Korea and the Chinese communist invasion of Tibet were part of the same problem He proposed that the assembly consider the Tibetan question along with his own charges of Soviet aggression against China Speaking of the Korean war Tsiang said aggression in Korea is therefore the direct result of Soviet aggression in China during the postwar period It is now one and the same thing" Political Warfare On School Firings Threatens Georgia ATLANTA Nov (4J1 One of the biggest political explosions in Georgia in years threatened Tuesday in the wake of the abrupt firing of 12 school department supervisors The Southern Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools has been asked to see whether all of 158 accredited high schools should lose accredited standing The request will be presented to the executive committee in Richmond Va December 3 said Secretary A Geiger If an investigation is ordered a committee of out-of-state experts will look into charges of with the school system and loss of quality All of the 12 supervisors (field men) were released without warning Friday by the state board of education The reason cited was economy Salaries and expenses of the supervisors cost $65000 last year The state school appropriation was more than $51000000 The board appointed by Gov Herman Talmadge and State School Superintendent Collins elected by the people have been scrapping over who is boss of the school department Collins said the board's firings were illegal 'Lame-Duck' Senator Announces Resignation SACRAMENTO Calif Nov (JP) Sheridan Downey (D-Calif) says he will resign November 30 because of ill health Gov Earj Warren said he will appoint republican senator-elect Richard Nixon to his place Downey 66 made his announcement after a conference with the governor Monday He has been under treatment for a stomach disorder and did not seek re-election Troops Occupy Border Village SEOUL Nov Tank -supported US infantrymen walked into deserted Hyesanjin on the Manchurian border Tuesday Not a shot was fired Only the narrow icy-coat-ed Yalu river lay between them and red Chinese territory The troops of the 17th regimental combat team were the first Americans to reach the Manchurian boundary war planes swooped low over the smouldering bomb-wrecked town as weary infantrymen slogged the last two miles through snow The only humans around were 15 villagers garbed in black They stood outside the town and bowed low as the unsmiling Americans marched by Hyesanjin itself was deserted Buildings that had survived the bombing were boarded up Maj Gen Edward Almond 10th corps commander said the feat of the 17th combat team enemy held territory and isolated all significant forces east of the 127th east Reds still held a Japanese-built network of military roads on both sides of Hyesanjin They were reported reorganizing in the mountains and north of the border In the northwest the reds also were reported building defenses US 24th division cavalry patrols ran into light enemy machinegun fire on the western front Tuesday But US first eavalry patrols six miles away found no reds north of Yongbyon The South Korean first corps advanced as much as two miles without opposition on the right flank Far south of this front attacked three villages and fifth air force fighters the red-held hamlet of Yongpo miles south of Seoul The greatest and most peaceful feat was the conquest of Hyesanjin by the seventh 17th regimental combat team Officers said a military government would arrive in a few days and organize a free election The infantrymen arrived In clear weather and the comparatively warm temperature of 20 above They had made a heroic march through 6000 foot mountains made possible by engineering feats would have done credit to Paul A 10th corp spokesman said the 13th engineer combat battalion and the 185th engineer combat team winched vehicles across streams the reds thought were impassable built 14 bridges and bulldozed airstrips from earth frozen so hard the blades would rip off only an inch or two of soil at a time Eleven tanks and rolling antiaircraft batteries were in the column that covered the final two miles They rolled into the town at 9:45 am Col Herbert Powell commanding the 17th said red Manchuria was within easy artillery range but his guns would not fire across the river they fire at us The weary infantrymen veterans of an outfit which fought on Attu in the Aleutians during the second World War reached the border just 22 days after they made an unopposed amphibious landing in Korea The border w-as the end of a 100-mile march over treacherous mountain roads and across a 6000-foot mountain range and in temperatures that sometimes dropped below zero Almond announced his corps has liberated 23000 square miles of North Korea in less than a month There was no hint of the next move of the 17th regimental combat team Its position at Hyesanjin cuts a highway and rail network that Japanese militarists built along the border when they ruled Korea Phillips Vice President Resigns After 25 Years BARTLESVILLE Nov Don Emery has announced his retirement from Phillips Petroleum company after 25 years with the firm He said he will give up his general counsel post a vice presidency and membership on the executive committee while continuing on the board of directors Fighting's End StiSI Is Distant By STAN SWINTON ON THE NORTHEAST FRONT Korea Nov 21 (JP) United Nations intelligence officers predict the Korean war will continue well into next spring Wild inaccesible mountains head-high snow drifts and temperatures 20 degrees and more below zero will delay the victory they fear They consider enemy resistance a secondary factor They do not believe the North Korean and Chinese communists can build a winter line which could hold if forces could bludgeon it with full strength But sub-zero temperature will cut combat efficiency Most of the resources will be absorbed in just keeping men alive and in the line Any winter cleanup offensive in an area where the terrain and poor roads would give the communists all the advantages is virtually out of the qeustion these sources say Effects Expected This is what qualified intelligence sources expect the deep winter to bring: First increasing bad feeling between North Korean and Chinese communists The Koreans and Chinese never have been on particularly good terms in Asia Recently-captured North Korean prisoners bitterly complain they are thrown into the frontlines while the Chinese remain in the rear This bad feeling similar to that between Italians and Germans in the last war is expected to grow Second A buildup of organized guerrilla activity to harass forces both at the front and rear Most guerrilla activity so far has been bypassed North Korean units More Guerrillas Seen As time goes on who slip through the front are expected to build the nuisance value They are expected to furnish more intelligent planning and better execution Some probably will come from special communist guerrilla training schools in red territory Third Sub-zero weather Is expected to hurt the ill-equipped enemy more than the UN forces By spring cold weather casualties may have reduced the communits fighting power sharply A winter campaign however does not mean UN advances are not expected to continue Arrival of the first Americans at the Manchuria Korea frontier Monday was expected to provide a big psychological uplift to the troops ROKs Unimpeded To the east the Republic of Korea capital division will Lnd- no obstacles of terrian in its advance up the northeast coast toward Chongjin and the Soviet border Chongjin last big east coast port still in communist hands is only 60 miles from Siberia It is an easy matter to supply this drive by sea Most sources here expect the South Koreans to continue winning ground But no one expects a cleanup of the inaccessible mountain redoubts in north central Korea before spring Looking far to the future most qualified sources expect a windup of the Korean war next spring unless a change in the international picture brings the Yeds new reinforcements State Radio Station Purchases FM Tower OKLAHOMA CITY Nov (JP) Radio station KOMA has bought FM tower here for use in color television but telecasting operations are not in the foreseeable future Bernard general manager said his station will build a TV antenna slop the FM tower A new KOMA studio television and radio transmitter will be erected on the site But before operations are begun the Oklahoma City radio TV application must be approved by the federal communications commission There is also possible delay because of suits against the FCC-approved CBS color system Federal Agents Arrest Five More Bootleggers OKLAHOMA CITY Nov (P) The US alcohol tax crackdown on bootleggers selling whisky without federal tax stamps flushed 65 stamp buyers into Internal revenue offices Monday Federal agents charged five with selling liquor in legally dry Oklahoma without the proper stamps Forty-three were arraigned on the same charge Friday In the biggest such raid ever seen in Oklahoma Federal officers are concerned only with those bootleggers violating internal revenue laws Paper Mill for Pryor BUFFALO Nov The National Gypsum company plans to build a $4000000 paper mill near Pryor A company official said Monday night the plant will provide heavy paper for use in its Gypsum board plants at Fort Dodge Iowa Rotan Texas and Medicine Lodge Kan Top Draft Official Implies Alterations Needed in System MINNEAPOLIS Nov A high-ranking selective service of-fical hinted broadly Tuesday that the national draft law must be changed if the armed forces are to get the men they need That outlook was voiced by Brig Gen Louis Renfrow deputy director of the national selective service system Maj Gen Lewis Hershey selective service boss has been say-I ing for some time that a force as 1 large as the 3000000-man total proposed by President Truman would be very difficult to raise under present draft regulations and physical standards In a speech prepared for the National Grange Renfrow said the draftable manpower pool now numbers 870000 men He said a total of approximately 8000000 men between the ages of 19 to 26 have registered for the draft but that deferments exemptions physical ailments and draft-calls have whittled that down to the 870000 figure Renfrow pointed out that the military not selective service establishes the number of men to be drafted each month do not know what these calls will be becapse we know how soon it will be necessary to raise the armed strength to 3000-000 he said we have every reason to believe the calls will remain high and we can expect to raise just so many men for the armed forces over any stated period of he continued He warned that requests for occupational deferments may have to be scrutinized more than in the past if the law or regulations are not changed but he did not specifically ask for immediate changes in the law The present rate of draft exemptions for physical reasons in the 19 to 26 age group Renfrow said is still considerably above the World War II level Senator Predicts Need for Controls To Check Inflation WASHINGTON Nov 21 (JP) Senator Ives (R-NY) predicted Tuesday that wage-controls will be needed by spring "At the rate things are he told reporters are going to have to have them by spring anyway Otherwise prices are going right through the Congress before adjourning in September gave President Truman broad powers to invoke wage and price controls on selected items or generally However he must control wages and prices simultaneously Ives said he believes intelligent administration of the act would put an effective brake on inflation despite new controls on production of consumer goods which he said threaten to send prices rocketing Ives said he has no objection to congressional action extending a present local option on rent controls but would resist passage of anv federal statute that would interfere with New state rent control law Crude Oil Production Slumps Oyer Nation TULSA Nov 21 OP) The US daily average crude oil production during the week ended November 18 was 5817050 barrels the Oil and Gas Journal reported Tuesday a slump of 17775 barrels from an adjusted total for the previous week The drop the Journal said was due to ample petroleum stocks and cuts in allowables A record high was marked up by Oklahoma which gained 1650 barrels to 493900 Gas Explosion Kills Worker DETROIT Nov (JP) One of six men injured in a marsh gas explosion 95 feet underground Monday night died Tuesday He was Jack Agnew 26 a water board inspector seriously burned in the blast that occurred In a water conduit being built to serve east side Mayor Albert Cobo ordered a thorough investigation Inspector Roderick Goeriz of the arson squad blamed the explosion to an accumulation of marsh gas in the conduit and expressed belief that a spark caused by an air-hammer striking a rock set it off Ten workmen were In a pressure chamber when the gas exploded Four who were not hurt helped the injured meh escape by groping their way six blocks to the tunnel entrance Firemen fought the blaze for nearly one hour to bring it under control The men were working inside a metal-enclosed pressure chamber 15 feet high and 17 feet long of Demands Slash in Spending Before New Taxes WASHINGTON Nov 21 (JP) The US Chamber of Commerce called on congress Tuesday to cut government spending for non-military purposes by at least $6000000 000 before it considers taxing excess profits of corporations Ripping into administration proposals for a 75 percent tax on abnormal business profits Ellsworth Alvord chairman of the finance committee declared it was impossible to devise a workable excess profits tax to produce the $4000000000 yearly asked by President Truman Alvord set forth the views in a statement for the house ways and means committee which is winding up hearings on the profits tax proposal which Truman says is necessary to finance the expanding defense program As business wheeled its biggest guns into the hearings democrats on the tax-writing ways and means committee continued to hold firm rein on repulican efforts to discuss substitutes for the administration plan GOP committee members are plugging for a rise in the corporate income tax rate or a combination of that with an excess profits tax But the democrats are sticking by a mandate from the house to draw up an excess profits tax bill The house voted 331 to on September 14 to instruct the committee to draw up such a bill as soon as practicable this year The committee has voted on party lines not to take testimony on alternate tax proposals Warmer Weather Seen For State This Week (By The Associated Press) Warmer and winter weather will rule over most of Oklahoma the next 24 hours the weatherman forecast Tuesday and a promise of rain later in the week Most Oklahoma points had near freezing temperatures early Tuesday morning but a bright sun was expected to send the mercury rising to high marks Tuesday afternoon McAlester and Tulsa recorded overnight lows of 28 degrees for low readings in the state The promise of rain or snow in the northwest is given in the long range forecast But the weatherman indicated the moisture probably won't be sufficient to relieve the present autumn drought Silver Stars Awarded TOKYO Nov An Oklahoma lieutenant and 14 other officers and men of the 25th division have been awarded the sliver star for gallantry in action in Korea The Sooner is Second Lt Kenneth Ingram of Oklahoma City (By The Associated Press) Torrents of mountain-fed flood waters ripped through northerujmd central California and western Nevada Tuesday driving thousands of persons from their homes and doing untold amounts of property damage At least nine persons are dead from the floods which started on its third day of rampage with added force from mountain rains and melting snow Here is how the situation stacks up at the moment: Nevada The main section of Reno is a tumbled mass of mud debris and torn paving after the swirling Truckee river normally three to four feet deep at this time of year roared 20 feet deep and three blocks wide through the center of biggest little city in the Hotels Casinos Swamped The Truckee burst its banks with crushing force at 10:30 pm Monday flooding swank hotels and gambling casinos For hours the downtown section was under six to eight feet of water but the flood was receding Tuesday One death was attributed to the racing waters California Gov Earl Warren declared a state of emergency over the racking floods in the central valley The Yuba county sheriff's office ordered the evacuation of an estimated 3500 residents from East Linda near Marysville in the face of the threat of the flooding Yuba and Bear rivers The muddy torrent which has already smashed through levees in three places and inundated the towns of Hammon-ton and Marigold continues to rise American Overflows The American river burst its banks near Sacramento and flooded thousands of acres of suburban land driving 1000 people from their homes Eight California deaths were attributed directly or indirectly to the floods The weather bureau at San Francisco predicted to heavy for the High Sierra today the ninth straight day of storms Reno gaudy little city of casinos and quickie divorces reeled under the impact of the flood Muddy water raced through the business district in a stream three blocks wide sweeping trees benches cars in its rage The plush Riverside hotel had five feet of water on its main floor The ultra swank Mapes basement was flooded to the ceiling A six-foot wall of water was kept out of the lobby by sandbags Christmas Property Hit Merchants reported thousands of dollars of damage to Christmas merchandise stored in flooded basements United air lines scheduled a special plane to evacuate stranded travelers but cancelled it because only two wanted out Both main highways to California 40 and 50 were washed out in places across the Sierra They were blocked by slides in others Washouts between Reno and Truckee Calif disrupted transcontinental rail traffic through the divorce capital The Nevada national guard was called out in arms to prevent looting and keep residents from danger zones Government Troops At Nepal-lndia Line NEW DELHI India Nov (JP) Nepalese government troops trying to bring the 10-day rebel lion to a quick finish have reached the Indian border five miles south of Birganj reports reaching here said Tuesday Birganj key southern city where rebel Nepal congress party followers had set up a provisional government fell to government forces Monday A Nepalese embassy communique said only one village on that front Parasi remained in rebel hands Tobin May Resign BOSTON Nov The Boston Herald said Tuesday that Secretary of Labor Maurice Tobin expected to resign soon to succeed William Boyle jr as democratic national committee chairman Boyle the newspaper said relinquishing the position because of poor health Senate Committee Blasts 'Charity' Of Surplus Sales WASHINGTON Nov 21 (JP) A senate committee said Tuesday that government officials using less horse sense than if they were running a charity bazaar blundered badly when they sold war-useful plants as surplus The armed services preparedness sub-committee headed by Sen Lyndon John (D-Tex) declared also that the rubber position is from In a caustically-worded report the committtee said government agencies concerned are doing fine on their paper work but not on performance It particularly criticized disposal of production plants which are needed in the defense program The 37-page report was a sequel to one issued September 5 in which the group found a in handling of surplus property and rubber programs ill becomes government officials to conduct the public business with less prudence than they would display in operating a charity the new report said that has The committee singled out the munitions board commerce department general services administration and air force for specific criticism Prague Driller Dies In Traffic Accident (By The Associated Press) Claude Hensley 39 Prague oil driller died early Tuesday shortly after a car in which he was riding went out of control and crashed into a guard rail four miles east of Seminole Troopers Thomas Hall and John Balisle said that the car driven by Elic Castowe 29 Prague went out of control to the left side of the highway cut back to the right shoulder and traveled 325 feet before hitting a bridge guard rail and wrapping itself around a bridge abutment Castowe is in a serious condition in a Seminole hospital Fire Razes Hospital In Northern Alaska JUNEAU Alaska Nov 7P) Fire destroyed the $300000 Alaska native service hospital at Bethel Monday night forcing several score evacuated patients to take temporary refuge in a nearby quonset hut Temperatures hovered near zero Bethel is approximately 1000 air miles northwest of Juneau Hugh Wade area director for the Alaska native service said he understood none of the patients was injured One hopsital employe was flown to Anchorage for treatment of injuries Five Shooting Victims Buried VINELAND Nov Funeral services were held Tuesday for five persons shot to death Friday night by a 26-year-old appliance salesman on a berserk attack against the family of his estranged wife A solemn mass of requiem was celebrated for the two men and three women slain by Ernest In-genito who wounded four other persons including his wife in the house-to-house murder tour All five were to be buried in a single grave of two adjoining family plots in Our Lady of Victory cemetery Some 500 relatives and friends of the families packed all available space in the Roman Catholic church at nearby Landisville Sixteen carloads of flowers were brought from a funeral home to the church and an estimated 150 autos were in the slow-moving funeral procession At Newcomb hospital here two of the wounded were reported in criti- cal condition CIO Urges Repeal Of Anti-Red Law Taft-Hartley Act CHICAGO Nov 21 The CIO Tuesday urged almost complete repeal of the McCarran anti-subversives act and suggested that President Truman name a committee of to study the internal security problem A resolution adopted by the CIO national convention described the law as a composite of ill-considered and unrelated proposals which have little in common save their claim to being The resolution was approved without opposition In other resolutions adopted the convention demanded outright repeal of the Taft-Hartley act and the substitution of fair and equitable labor relations law based on the principles of the Wagner Advocated also was passage of fair employment practices legisla tion a federal anti-lynching bill anti-poll tax law and a federal civil rights act Bulletin NEW YORK Nov The first severe storm of the winter hit the eastern seaboard Tuesday with gale force winds and snow and rain At least eight deaths were attributed to the weather New York New Jersey and New England bore the brunt of the blow Damage to power lines was heavy i ISAHTA SAYStUffl Whot you con't get is just what suits you when you delay: shopping until stocks are scant Hey Oklahoma City Look! Des Moines Has a Panther DES MOINES Nov 21 Law enforcement officers dogs and an airplane went on a Tuesday to hunt down an elusive black beast that is giving northwest Des Moines the jitters Several people have reported seeing the animal in the past several weeks and from their descriptions officials said it could be a black panther Tracks measuring about four inches across have been found Kenneth Sonderleiter who operates a zoo warned people to beware He said panthers sometimes attack people for the sport of Deputy Sheriff Max Van Rees warned residents of the area to use caution when they are out of doors Several mothers asked Monday whether they should let their children go to school Deputies told them to your own The latest encounter with the animal was reported Monday by (Mike) Lester He said his dog 115-pound Tennessee boar-hunting hound fought with the beast while Lester was coon hunting Lester said he approached within 30 feet before scaring the animal away He described it as black shiny animal with a long He added that it was than the The dog is four feet long and 28 inches high Though badly clawed the dog will recover Lester said Weather Data The following data furnished by the Interstate Airway Communications Station Ponca City Airport Temperatures 7:30 pm 33 1:30 am 35 7:30 arn 33 1:30 pm 59 maximum up to 1:30 pm 59 Yesterday's maximum 45 Minimum past 24 hours 33 Relative Humidity 38 percent at 1:30 pm Max wind velocity 22 mph Time 11:12 am Barometric press 1:30 pm 2898 Barometric press reduced to sea level (for setting barometers) 3006 Fire Station No 1 Temperatures maximum 59 Yesterday's maximum 44 Minimum past 24 hours 31 Wednesday Sunrise 7:11 am Sunset 5:19 pan.