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ONE HUNDREDTH YEAR Number 299 Telephone 2-1051 DIXON, ILLINOIS. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1950 10 PAGES PRICE FIVE CENTS Trapped Troops Near Linkup With Rescuers Truman -Attlee Offer China-Russia Peace Opportunities Appeasement Is Out, Says Joint Report Soviets Must Modify Conduct By JOHN' M. HIGHTOWER Washington. Dec. 9 President Truman and Prime Minister Attlee held open to Russia and Communist China today an offer to negotiate but with "no thought of appeasement" the settlement of the Korean conflict and other crucial world issues.

The offer was coupled with grimly determined agreement that until the Communist powers "mo- difv their conduct" of peace, the U. S. and Britain must push with maximum speed their military preparation for the defense of the free world. Essentially, the president and prime minister in their ioint sum mary yesterday of their historic talks put the blame squarely or. Russia, and Red China, for the dan gerous state of world affairs.

And they called on those nations change their ways so "the defense preparation" would become unnecessary. End Anns Race This proposal to end the east weat arms race, qualified as it was with rejection of any "appeasement" or any Korean settlement which would have the effeci ot rewarding- aggression," appar ently nas little prospect of Communist acceptance. Well informed diplomats said the proposal was designed to make clear to the world that the British and American interest in defense is paralleled by constant readiness to seek a. peaceful way out of the world's troubles. The communique was issued at the White House shortly after conclusion of the talks which began last The British prime minister left immediately for New (Continued on Page 6) Rent Control Extension Now Seems Certain Washington.

Dec. fAP) A three-month extension of the federal rent control law appeared certain today. Continuance of the program through March 31 was approved late yesterday by the senate, which earlier had voted only a two-month extension beyond Dec. 31. The senate revised its decision shortly after a senate-house conference committee agreed on a compromise bill which included the three-months provision previouslv approved by the house-Under the current law.

federal ren-. controls exp: He Adds Insult To In jury as He Hits Pedestrian Chicago, Dec. A husky. umdenM: -'AP) driver landed a one-two punch to a pedestrian yesterday-first knocking him down w.th his truck and then with his fists. After Eugene Haje 30 was the driver got "of truck' Hale toid police he thought the driver wanted to see if he had "Well, why didn you run.

you the driver shouted as he punched Hale in the Hale got up again but the driver had sped awav His injuries were not serious. SPAFLK fl I afl a Jr- ATTLEE RETURNS TO BRITAIN" British Prime Minister Clement Attlee (right), as he departed for Britain shakes hands with Secretary of State Dean Acheson before departure. Attlee and President Truman held series of discussions on Korean crisis. A Shoe-Shine Boy Learns 'Big Business9 Also Has Big Heart Chicago, Dec. 9 (AP) A shoe shme boy stood in front of the huge Board of Trade building yesterday and looked ud at the cold.

grey December sky. Doodle Dandy. (Contlm Christmas and the Fourth of July and the whole was shining for Jem- Thom as Joryman. Jerry isn't a bov he's 43, mar ried and vfce father of two sons and daughter. He's been a shoe shine boy for 10 years at the towering Board of Trade building in LaSaile street, at the south end of Chicago's financial district.

Jerry was a cheerful influence around the building and to some he confided his to own shoe repair and shining shop. But that wasn't much of a deal a building where transac tions in the millions of dollars are made daily- few days ago. however, two an insurance broker offered furnish the S2.000 Jerry needed open his shop. The Board of Trade building management found shop soon to be vacated and The four men. who insisted on remaining anonymous, yesterday usual notes business historv.

The note read in Dart: The un dersigned have your interest, and as an expression of confidence and friendship, decided to provide capital necessary to enable you i Page 6) Retired Forreston Farmer Dies 4 Davs After Wife's Death Freeport. lil Dec IAPi man. caralvzed a stroke I died today of shock and ourr.s fou: i days after wife, her dres: Herbert Long. 23. Arabo; 2 bed.

fired S15 today by Justice of the and Santa Claus and Yankee Truck Driver Nearly Loses Nose in Crash A Rock Island truck driver al- most had his nose torn off in a collision with a freight train early today at a crossing five miles west of Dixon on the Rock Island He Alphonso Collins, 34, of 111S Eleventh avenue. Rock Island. His wife, Mrs. Mattie Collins. 36.

who was riding with him, sustained a possible fractured shoulder. State police headquarters in Sterling said Collins was traveling west and didn't see a Chicago North Western freight until he -dec aflame, came to him for heln and i his autorr.nhi! Peace Sterling W. Schrock for Truman passing a car and going "too fast Ietter to a for the condition of the icy street." panned his daugh: Long was arrested Friday by voked chuckles ham Kilhan The coxr.olaint signed by Officer Jack Van Me: Mrs. Van Meter was listed as Fischer Warns Kids Hitching Sled Rides Pohce Chief Harry J. Fischer issued a stern warning today to youngsters who've been hanging onto car bumpers and hitching sled "There's an ordinance against it." Fischer said.

"If the practice continues, some arrests will be made They should be made before somebody gets hurt." Wa Washing "flat a it. The crossing i State Patrolman Robert Fischer's accident report estimated damage to Collins" truck at 51.000. Collins worked hauling bread. None of the box cars was derailed. Mr.

and Mrs. Collins were put the caboose of the freight until an ambulance driven by James Tosney took them to KSB hos pital. Tne acciaent occurred at Brig. Gen. Aron Dies After Heart Attack Chicago.

Dec. 9 fAP) Brig. Gen. Benedict Aron. 63, retired surgeon general of the Illinois Na tional Guard, died yesterday bill levins that accidentally set his bidding "afire.

Gen. Aron was a nati ronsion. However, The wife died last Tuesday. sia He became surgeon March rather than Dec. 31 as farmer of Forreston.

d.ed a 1946 and retired lr, pr-v; 1 Post. that Marc last T' vntie driving Ford, GM Refuse to Hold Up Price Hikes; 'Rollbacks' Threaten Washington. Dec. 9 fAP) Refusals bv two automobile manufacturers to hold off announced price in creases nave ciasnea neaa-on an administration warning uiat it can ana win ron uacK prices 'Goodfellows' Fund in 1NTeed Of More Cash Cash donations continue to from Dixon's Goodfellows it a great deal more is needed bnng Christmas cheer into the ores of homes where it would be missed without Goodfellow help. There is a great need for toys of all kinds, including sleds and wagons and" tricycles and dolls and doll carnages and smaller like toy trucks and tractors and games and books and all the many things that little boys and girls like to get on Christmas.

If will take your tovs to the fire hall the firemen will paint (Continued on Page 6) Barbara Pay ton. named by columnists a Tone's nest wife as trial of he lit opened yesterday. His Turn Monday Tone's turn the trial come Monday. Both he and Pavton. who was present but no called to testify, told of Rus-! case- rai nf! however, Guard that she and Tone quarreled following: I Miss Payton after she had iiun ac co decide whether to reeport nospilal His wife year Dur.ng World War I he he had bee, retain controls through June.

was preparing a meal last served with" the lOSth medical other worn The compromise measure is ex- Tuesday when her dress caught regiment of the 33rd division of 1 still pected to come up for house rati- fire- she ran mto his room and the the Guard. taking car fication Monday. Approval, re- caught fire. Van Raden i nf their possible ir.arr.ac "nothing to do with th. aha al: mgmg and some sharp of beefsteak a todav.

I below. swinging style he 1 "W( stbrook en-attended concert was eood dca! of the time Quote President Few outside of ihe president and Hume professed publicly knowing just what Truman said. But the Washington Daily News quoted the president in an irate-father vein like this: "I just read your review buned in the hark You fcound like a frustrated old "It 1 egas with n. Miss Wallace at the Tone home of the boys. Pasera you but if I dc id perhaps a sup- In New York.

V-z- hour the people trat General Motors and Ford told the government last night they cannot comply with a request by Alan Valentine, economic stabilization chief, to withhold increases set up for their 1951 models. President C. E. Wilson of General Motors ordered the first of a series of GM price boosts and telegraphed Valentine: "We regret that we fmd it impractical to accede to your sudden request to withhold or withdraw the reasonable pricing of our new 1951 model automobiles." Says Hikes Reasonable Wilson said that the new price tages S60 to S80 higher on Chev-rolets are reasonaole "considering what has happened to wages and the way raw material prices have skyrocketed with increases ranging from seven per cent to 300 per cent since our 1950 cars were He pomted out that steel prices were increased recently "by approximately seven per cent and that the government on Dec. 6 raised the price of svnthetic rubber." President Henry Ford of the Ford Motor telegraphed that "we cannot comply with your re-Ford Prices in Effect Ford said the increases on his company's models ranging from on Fords to 5165 on soi Lincolns went into effect all the country Thursday.

Valentine had sent telegrams General Motors, Ford and eight other automobile manufacturers ash-tra- (Continued on P2ge 6) Franchot Tone's Wife Names Other Woman, Fights and Love Santa Monica, Dec. 9 fAP) It's Franchot Tone's next move after hearing the sizzling and weeping testimony of his ex-wife, Jean Wallace, in their battle for custody of their two sons. Wallace told of fights, quarrels and love-making with Franchot. sevei Tone, all since their 194S divorce, ferson, five. And she brought in "the other toM of pulled sc and Thomas Jef- when "I threw an Franchot after he The ash-tray missed She testified also that Tons made love to her since then divorce.

Once when they wert both in Paris, he arranged ad- While 34-jear-oTd Hume was r. to excuse what he called "i of temper." at least This hai-e with all NO PLACE LIKE HOME Pfc. Earnest E. White of Martinsville, a security guard at Hamhung. North Korea, sits in doorway of his straw-bag hut, waiting to meet retreating 10th Corps forces who are fighting then-way through enemy lines and snow-covered terrain to reach port city, Hungnam, south of Hamhung.

Mickey Rooney Sheds No. 3 in Friendly Mood Hollywood. Dec. 9 (AP) Mickey Rooney not yet 30, is discarding- wife No. 3.

But, like most Hollywood split- ups, everythings agreeable, says No. 3 actress Martha Vick-ers. Miss Vickers said last night that she will file suit for divorce shortly after Jan. 1. "It's for the best," said the 25- vear-old film worker who married Mickey, now 29, on June 3, 1949.

"We are in the process of negotiating a settlement, and we're interested in working out the best solution for our baby. Little Ted Rooney's third was born to the couple April 12. Miss Vickers said she will have custody. Roonev was en route to New- York when the news broke. Mickey's first wife was Ava Gardner.

The second was Betty Jane Rase, onetime "Miss Birmingham." who received a settlement for her and two sons. Miss Vickers was married previously to publicist A C. Lyles. Jr. rooms in a hotel for them, rr, TT1I-f P0Hc Wallace Down At pooits durmg testimony Miss Wallace brok-down and cned The court ordered remark stricken concerning Miss Wallace relations with other men, cor.

tending they not involve th cr.iidren. but Tone's attorney 1 expected to go into that phase Anna Rosenberg Denies She Attended Meetings of Reds Washington, Dec. 9 (AP) There will be more testimony next in a senate investigation of charges that Mrs. Anna M. Rosen berg once attended Communist meetings.

Shell British Ship and i Jackson n't quite I f. United States must arvept 1-e-i "iade when his guardians of leadership the nasty malice rfiwere not there to take care of a president whom Bernard Bare'-'-, rim." in a similar incident called a 1 Most Democrats in congress ap-uncouth, ignorant man. Let us parently assessed the incident as pray a human sort of reaction by a Pome who said they had 1 1 prniid papa whose daughter's art the letter described IhepieMdmt "f-nl appreciated as he thought language as even more it should be. Dec. API numsts shore bat- i near Hong Kong today on the British tug Aliegi-mjuring two men.

tug messaged its owners, Ambovan Fined for ui cuicim m. urcL.ii> kk rr iiu Recklessness on ice Thinks Margarets Voice Is Poor; Maggie Doesn't Mind A Smart Girl a concert tour in the South. Truman said yesterday Nasnville, Tenn "Mr. Hume is a and recalling the recent death of Ross, the president's secretary and close personal fnend. said.

"A suffering from the loss of a close fnend and carrying the terrible burden of the present world crisis ought to be indulged in an occasional outburst of The critic, whose duties don't oftrn take him to the White House, he doesn't expect to meet up with Truman. 1 The hearings reached a drama tic peak late yesterday when the woman President Truman appointed assistant secretary of defense met one of her accusers a former Communist in a face-to-face dispute. Closed Door Session The encounter took place at a closed-door session of the senate armed services committee. Sena- Russell (D-Ga). acting cbair-1, told reporters about it after Mrs.

Rosenberg had given them her version of what happened. The committee has been taking testimony behind closed doors from witnesses who contend Mrs. Rosenberg was active In groups some 15 years ago. Mrs. Rosenberg previously had denied all such charges.

And the committee last week unanimously recommended senate confirmation of her appointment to the high Pentagon post. For hours. Ralph De Sola, who said he was a committee party member in 1931-37. contended that knew Mrs Rosenberg and had en her at Communist meetings New York City. Russell said De Sola stood at ie end of a Ion? table and re peated his identification of Mrs Rosenberg as the woman he had at the New- York meeting.

Witness Mrs. Rosenberg jumped to her feet and heatedly disputed this contention. Then she stepped outride to tell surprised newsmen that De Sola "persisted in saying he had seen "I toid him I'd Co. it was not damaged Illinois Roads Open for Autos All roads 1:..:. for "I according to R.

M. Ferguson, dis- tnct superintendent of tne state highway departmer.t- However, some are open only for one-way traffic. The highway crews expect to have all roads cleared for two-way travel by r.ight, Ferguson said. Scrapers and other equipment still are at work widening paths through giant snowdrifts which closed many roads yesterday. Though the highway? have been cleared they are "still siick.

Ferguson warned Motorists are urged to drive with caution. Recovers From Leg Fracture at KSB Elbert Goodsell. 77, of 317 East Chambcrhn street, who has been convalescing in KSB hospital from a broken leg, was reported to "good" condition today by hospital attendants. He was admitted to the hospital Nov. 30, Blast Chinese Holding Hills Along Route Ships Stand by for Possible Evacuation Tokyo.

Dec. 9 Allied warplanes and artillerv Dounded hard today in renewed efforts to blast out Chinese Red torces blocking the icy road of escape for trapped American troops. cnances 01 the marines and to escape were reported improved. Clear weather brought back their air support and a rescue column of foot soldiers coming m- force. was reported near the traDDed Nearing a Linkup Maj.

Gen. Edward M. Almond. U. S- 10th corps commander sa'd at p.m_ Saturday (10.30 p.m., CST, Friday) that the 20,000 fighting southward from Koto were near a linkup with the northbound column from the third in fantry division.

The objective is to get the 20.000 to Hungnam. the port for Hamhung and possible evacuation by A spokesman said a few of soldiers and marines may have joined but there still was a gap between the mam forces. The loca- on was not given. Ships of the United Nations fleet stood ready to meet any eventuality off Hungnam, 45 winding miles from the trapped American's kick-off point at Koyto town in the deep mountains south of in re- The navy appeared to be pre paring for a mass evacuation of United Nations troops from the northeast sector, now infested with 100,000 or more Red Chinese. Sew Threats Mount New threats mounted for tha allied columns both the surrounded Americans and British marines and their rescuers.

AP Correspondent Stan win ton. with the U. S. Third division, reported at 4 p.m. (1 a-m.

CST) that four or more Chinese divisions 32,000 to 40.000 were striking swiftly to cut the escape route far behind the two American columns. Swmton said the Chinese wera clambering over snowy hills flank- Continued on Page 6) Eggs at S1.00 A Dozen Soon? Curbs Planned Philadelphia. Dec. 3 (AP) The prospect of eggs at a dollar a dozen next week has led to a proposal that trading be suspended in Philadelphia, New York and Chicago. The Philadelphia Produce Exchange sent telegrams yesterday suggesting suspension to the New York Mercantile Exchange, the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and the U.

S. Department of Agriculture. Top quality large eggs sold Philadelphia stores for as high as 95 cents. At Boston, eggs reached the highest December price in 31 years. The Boston Fruit and Pro duce Exchange reported large irgs were 69 to 1 cents a dozen hoicsale yesterday and still going up.

One stall at Faneuil market was selling Grade A jumbo eggs for 9S cents a dozen and large for 85 cents CO-OP MEETING The annual meeting of the E'- der.a-Dixon Cooperative comr-any will be held at the Loveland House Tuesdav, Dec 12. at p. m. Five-Year-Old Becomes Brother To His Mother! Chicago. Dec.

CAP) Five year old Michael Waldman will become his mother's as a result of two separate about after. Michael's mother. Mrs. Seln-a from his stepfather. Dr Morton Kay.

27 By agreement, they renounced custody of Michael. Mrs. Kiy's parents, Joshua and Eva Lmd, immediately adopted the boy and the adoption order is to become effective Dec. 20. Michael's father w-as killed in World War II.

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