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THE REPUBLICAN VOL 56 NO 10234' Founded 1923 FRESNO CALIFORNIA FRIDAY JANUARY 12 PAGES TO SECTIONS 1 1 Phone 3-5221 By Canter DaHvjry Si SO IfoatMy Pir Copy Sally Be Bnaday 10a Assembly Gets Bombs Scatter Reds Yanks HOUSE OF This is one- of a score of homes damaged in Sunnyvale after a twister swept through the town Winds estimated at 80 miles an hour roared out of the foothills blowing off roofs and demolishing buildings AP Wirephoto STRONG OF HEART Mr and Mrs Robert Smith of Route 2 Box 292 Kingsburg manage warm smiles as they said goodbye yesterday before Smith left with 169 others lor the Lackland Air Force Base in Texas Bee Photo 170 Rain Drenched Air Force Enlistees Bid Jovial Goodby Additional Picture On Page 1-B By Robert Molander Rain drenched families sweethearts tfnd friends of 170 air force enlistees stood in the Southern Pacific Company station yesterday and watched a train carry the laughing youths on the first lap to the Lackland Air Force Base Texas The two hour soldiers mostly' Disability Aid SACRAMENTO Jan 12 UP Proposals to increase state disability payments and hospital benefits came before the legislature today as the lawmakers wound up the first week of their new session Assemblyman William Berry Democrat San Francisco original sponsor of the hospital benefit plan introduced a bill asking for increases both in the maximum benefits paid for $8 to $12 a day and the number of days for which they are paid from 12 to 20 days Berry said the increases were proposed by the California State Federation of Labor Ask Increase And an Increase in disability payments from $25 to $35 a week was asked by Assembly-man Robert I McCarthy Democrat San Francisco The benefits for persons off work for illness or injury are paid for a maximum of -26 weeks Both programs -are financed by the 1 per cent payroll tax paid by employes In other legislative action a bill allowing the state public utilities commission to regulate agreements between a utility and its parent company was introduced in the assembly John Moss Democrat Sacramento said the measure would plug a loophole by which utilities make payments tp other companies without regard the actual value of the service Committee Set Up The senate set up a special committee on reapportionment to study redistrictirlg for the assembly It includes Senator Fred Weybret Republican Salinas Ben Hulse Republican El Centro Charles Brown Democrat Shoshone Cunningham Democrat Hanford and Ed Johnson Republican Marysville The assembly meanwhile delayed action until Monday on an emergency 'bill to continue child care centers for at least another five months in the move to recess over the weekend The bill appropriating $1800 000 to help finance the centers until June 30th was to come up in the assembly with two committee endorsements The ways and means committee approved it late yesterday after earlier approval by the education committee Study Initiatives Elsewhere in the legislature the assembly agreed with the senate to set up spbcial committees to consider pension and crossfiling initiatives The houses have only 40 days to act on the pension plan a new one by George McLain and the anti crossfiling measure sponsored by a group mt Democrats Signature Increase Sought In the senate Weybret introduced a constitutional amendment to increase the number of signatures needed to get an Ini- Continued On Page S-A CoL 7 Fresno Gets 78 Inch Of Rainfall With Wind Hail The stormy weather 'which brought the Fresno area a little of almost every kind of disturbance is over for the time being and only partly cloudy skies are in prospect through tomorrow The Fresno station of the United States Weather- Bureau Routes Are Reopened Highway maintenance officials announced the reopening at noon of both the Ridge Route and the Tehachapi Route No 466 south of Bakersfield The highways were closed early today because of snow and ice Chains still are required over 466 but not on the Ridge Route The snow has stopped falling but there still is a heavy overcast Five inches of snow fell on the Ridge Route and six inches at TehachapL Truman Asks Heavier Taxes Wider Curbs WASHINGTON Jan President Truman today called on congress to boost taxes this session by "very much than the $8000000000 combined total of the last two increases The president in his annual economic message notified the lawmakers the security will demand lending and spend ing authority totaling $140000 000000 for this fiscal year and pext The present fiscal year runs out next July 1st As he set it out this total would be for actual military and foreign aid spending plus contracting lending and loan guar anteeing authority for national security purposes Other govern ment expenses would be in addition to this Truman said workers must ac cept wage restraints and bust nessmen must accept lower profits that no one should seek to hike his income to escape his share of the higher tax burden Principle of Policy Truman said it should be the first principle of policy to "maintain balanced budget and to finance the cost of national defense on a pay as you go He added: 'Corporations should pay much higher taxes Individuals should pay much higher taxes Excise taxes should be higher and more Truman said new tax proposals soon will be submitted to congress carrying these recommendations as well as recommendations for closing "many loop in present tax laws The president also informed congress -that staffs are being rapidly gathered to apply "broader over prices and wages the case of he said "the gdneral policy must be to hold the price line with utmost "If inflation continues to gain cumulative Truman declared "it will undermine production destroy confidence generate friction and economic strife impair the value of the dollar dissipate the value of savings and impose' an intolerable burden upon fixed income groups This must not happen" Control Trading He asked the department of agriculture be "granted authority to control speculative trading ana to strengthen its regulation of commodity As he did in last State Of The Union message the president emphasized the great threat from Communist aggression great manpower under the control of Soviet Communism is being driven with fanatic-zeal to build up military and industrial he said "We invite disaster if we underestimate the forces working against The $140000000000 figure used by Truman does not neces- Conllnued On Page S-A CoL 1 Kings River Bill Permits Power Production Sale McCUtchy Ntwtpapaiy Sarvica SACRAMENTO Jan 12 Provisions for the development distribution and sale of electrical power from the Pine Flat Dam are contained in a bill introduced in the legislature this week to form a new Kings River water conservation district The long and complex measure would give wide powers to the proposed district including the right to construct maintain and operate works on property for the district This would include the storage conservation distribution and sale of water as well as power Meanwhile Assemblyman Wallace Henderson Democrat Fresno withheld judgment on the proposed legislation He 'said he does not wish to comment about the details of the measure until he receives an opinion from the legislative counsel as to just exactly what it would do -Makes Separate Entity Henderson said: "My understanding of the bill now is that it would make the Kings River area a separate entity apart from the Central Valleys Project eliminating the present possibility the region might be included in the CVP "If the bill will not hurt the CVP I will not object to it-but if it sets a pattern to cut apart the CVP naturally 1 will bfc against The measure was Introduced into the assembly by William Hansen Republican Fresno Creates Taxing Body Hansen declared yesterday the bill which was drawn up by the Kings River Water Association is designed to create a taxing body to enable the users of water from th Pine Flat Dam to pay Continued Page S-A CoL 5 TOKIO Jan 13 Saturday UP States 2nd Division troops smashed to within 2000 yards of Wonju Friday after an estimated 7000 Reds broke and ran under a combined Super Fortress saturation raid and artillery blasting Major General Robert McClure the 2nd commander said heading 'in that when asked if his forces Intended to recapture the strategic highway hub guarding the mountain passes leading into far South Korea The stage was set for the United Nations attack with an earthshaking 19 minute Super Fort raid which rained 275 ons of death and destructions on Red forces entrenched in and south of Wonju Fled Foxholes Second Division artillery also began blasting the- Reds before the dust of the air raid settled Front line reports said the Communists fled their foxholes under the battering One regiment of the 2nd Division attacked Hill 247 two miles south of Wonju and captured it In less than an hour against light resistance Air reports said the Communists threw four new regiments south from Wonju into the front line fighting area as darkness began to fall Friday Other Red troops began reinforcing the north side of a hill southeast of Wonju Determined To Hold line United Press correspondent William Burson reported from the front that American commanders appeared determine to hold their Wonju line and prevent the Reds from breaking through the Sobaek Mountain passes toward Taegu and Pusan A corps commander made a helicopter inspection of the blazing Wonju front after ordering his men to "hold at all Continued On Page S-A CoL 4 Even Mountains Are Destroyed In Battle At Wonju By William Burton A HILL OVERLOOKING By William BursOn WONJU Korea Jan 12 UP Even the hills and mountains are being destroyed by the visious battle raging aground and aloft here Outnumbered but not outfought United Nations infantry- men are making the most determined stand since the day of the Pusan perimeter Not a foxhole has been surrendered since orders to "hold were handed down Tuesday Howitzers and heavy mortars are coughing a hail of steel into enemy entrenchments on an around the clock basis Snow Dyed Black Only patches of scrubby trees remain Snow that has been left unmelted is dyed black and gray by the artillery blasts With clearing skies planes of all types took up the pounding where the artillery left off Navy and marine dive bombers and air force Shooting Star jets Thunderjets and Mustangs have saturated the area with jellied gasoline bombs rockets fragmentation bombs and gun fire The big Super Fortresses have pounded Wonju herself into a mass of rubble with a concentrated bombing so intense the grcund shook 10 miles away Battlefield Rocks The battlefield literally rocksL GIs are calling their forward positions the "shimmy The backbone of the force are the men who survived the worst the Chinese could dish out in Kunu-Ri south of the Chan gj in Reservoir last November On some hills the snow is crimson with enemy blood UN casualties contrary to-' what might be expected have been extremely light Frostbite has become a foe equally as deadly as the enemy in front In The Bee Today' Page Amusements 14-A Column--- 9-A Cartoon -12-B City News In Brief 4-B Classified Advertising' 6-B to 11-B Club News 10-A 11-A Comics 2-B Crossword Puzzle 8-A Dorothy Dix 11-A Editorials Financial News Markets 5-B Health 10-A Household Arts 10-A Glorifying Yourself 10-A Katherine Kitchen 10-A Letters From The People 12-B Mazy Hampton 10-A My Word For 'It----12-B Obituaries 5-B Patterns 11-A Politics By Phillips 7-A Radio A 5-A Armed Forces Goal Is Boosted By 260000 WASHINGTON Jan AP Senators were told today President Truman had increased the June 30th manpower goal for the lighting forces by about 260000 Assistant Secretary of Defense Anna Rosenberg testified Truman had approved raising the armed forces strength to 3462-205 by that date or "at the earliest possible The previous June 30th- tar get was 3200000 men although Truman has talked of having 3500000 in the next year or two Mrs Rosenberg made her announcement as she and top ranking army navy air force and marine officers appeared before the senate armed services subcommittee to urge drafting of 18 year olds Mrs Rosenberg said she had just received a telephone call from Secretary of Defense Marshall informing her of the higher total for the armed services "The joint chiefs of staff requested it Mrs Rosenberg said "The secretary of defense and the president approved it this The proposal for drafting 18 year olds was running into some opposition in the senate group Senator SaltonstalL Republican Massachusetts demanded defense officials "prove their for such a step The defense department disclosed yesterday the army plans to increase its draft call by 50-000 men because of casualties in Korea The proposed new draft call would be in addition to the 80-000 men a month requested by the army for the first three months of 195L China Reds Mass Invasion Armada Opposite Formosa WASHINGTON Jan 12 UP A navy spokesman disclosed today the Chinese Communists have- massed a great number of small craft on the China mainland opposite Formosa and could happen over Rear Admiral Thomas Bin-ford former commander of the Formosa Strait patrol force said the Formosa situation is "like sitting on a powder Binford declared he personally did not expect any trouble in the direction of Formosa before March Railway Express Seeks Rate Hikes WASHINGTON Jan UF The Railway Express Agency Inc today asked Interstate Commerce Commission approval of major rate Increases some greater than 100 per cent to offset rising labor and other costs Allied Board Will Distribute Materials PARIS Jan 12 AP Foreign Minister Dirk Stikker of The i Netherlands disclosed today Britain France and the United States are setting up a tempdrary Big Three board to help distribute raw materials made scarce by rearmament A formal announcement of details of the new board is scheduled for later tonight Fresno Leads Reserve District In Bank Debits percentage gain in bank debits both for all of 1950 and for December is the highest among cities in the Twelfth Federal Reserve District listed in a tabulation issued today in San Francisco The district takes in seven Western Fresno is credited with a 34 per ceftt Increase in debits for both 1950 and the month of December Hie' debit total is a measure of the flow of money through the banks The percentage places Fresno far above her next competitors In the annual debit total column Santa Rosa and Eugene Ore tied for second place with a 21 per cent- gain In third place are San Bernardino and San Jose with 18 per cent No Loss Reported In gains during December Everett Wash and Hanford crowded up close to Fresno both reporting 30 per cent San Francisco stands next among California cities with 25 per cent All cities on the list with the exception of Reno Nev showed gains for the year and none reported a loss during December 1950 decline was 4 per cent but she showed a 7 per cent increase in December The tabulation issued by the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco lists 1950 debit total at $2005280000 compared with $1495378000 in 1949 The December totals are given as $231246000 last month and $172187000 the year before The Hanford figures which put it in a second place tie in percentage Increase in December debits are $18333000 against $14065000 The Kings County city showed a 10 -per cent gain for the entire year jumping to $171027000 from $155514000 Bakersfield Gains Bakersfield scored 12 per cent in December jumping to $153-554006 from $13868000 and 8 per cent for the year going to $1359096000 from $1253528000 Modesto made a 24 per cent gain in December with-a total of $59189000 against $47781000 and a 16 per cent gain for the year with $626882000 against $541103000 Sacramento increased her debits to $6227980000 from $5664541000 for a 10 per cent gain and her December total to $480963000 from $446590000 for an 8 per cent gain San 25 per cent December gain was made in a jump to $3216088000 from $2-577076000 The city marked up a 10 per cent Increase for the year going to $30906042000 from $28032253000 Los December increase was 18 per cent to $4- Continued On Page CoL 2 Storm Tornado Cause $2000000 Bay Area Damage SAN FRANCISCO Jan An intense storm including a freak tornado -caused more than $2000000 damage in the San Francisco Bay area yesterday Winds up to 78 miles an hour were recorded No fatalities were reported Four persons were in jured The tornado a virtual unknown on the Pacific Coast tore a half mile wide path through Sunnyvale 35 miles south More than 250 homes and two large industrial plants there were damaged heavily Roofs were ripped off telephone poles snapped like firecrackers The wind picked up a 10 ton crane and deposited it almost 100 feet away At the Westlnghouse Electric Company plant a 400 by 200 foot roof was carried away Part of a turbine machine shop collapsed on scores of parked cars Company officials set damage at $100000 Officials said damage in Sunnyvale a town of 10000 would approximate $1500000 Elsewhere arpund the bay power lines were broken thousands of windows were' smashed and trees fell on dozens of homes The twister hop scotched into San Jose whisking the roofs off a score of houses or damaging Continued On Page 16-A CoL 4 Juiy Indicts 204 In VA Conspiracy NEW YORK Jan 12 AP A federal grand jury today indicted 20'4 persons including 199 veterans for conspiracy to defraud the Veterans Administration of almost $300000 in its educational program for veterans Also Indicted was a corporation which owns the Grow System Beauty School in Manhattan Commented Chief Assistant United States Attorney Miles Lane: The indictment is the largest of Its kind ever handed up in this federal court and one of the largest in any federal court in the country TrOman Signs Civil Defense Fund Bill WASHINGTON Jan AP President Truman today signed the civil defense bill authorizing approximately $3100000000 of air raid construction and other home front defense outlays The president announced he soon will ask congress to provide the initial cash to put the program into effect The law permits the federal government to provide matching grants to the states for air raid shelters Truman said the responsibility for civil defense rests primarily in the states and their political subdivisions He called upon citizens everywhere to support civil defense in their own communities' adding: It willrequire the best efforts of all of us to get ready and to stay ready to defend our homes No true American would want to give less than his best to that cause and no one who knows the American people could ask lor more Sacramentan Is Vehicle Registrar SACRAMENTO Jan 12B-AP Albert Veglia Sacramento a state government career man was named state registrar of vehicles today He succeeds Thomas Maloney State's Counties May Seek Sales Tax Tor Defense SACRAMENTO Jan AP 58 counties may seek the right to levy a 1 cent sales tax to pay their share of civil defense costs Members of the state legislar ture were told today there is a definite move under way by the cities and counties to present a financing program tied to the sales levy It came as the California Supervisors Association met here to find out what they can do on preparedness Outlines Prospective The federal government has outlined a prospective three year defense program which would cost California in the neighborhood of $150000000 Governor Earl Warren has said he will wait until congress actually votes federal money and sets out the share before recommending how- California is to meet the new obligation The state now- has a 3 cent sales tax Eighty per cent of the cities in California levy a cent sales tax The counties however lack authorization to assess such a revenue raiser No Joyride' Warren told the supervisors today he did not know where the money to pay for civil defense is coming from but he assured them: state will not try to pawn off on counties and cities any responsibilities financial or otherwise that do not belbng there" He said too: "We joyride through this emergency It can happen Under one discussed plan cities which have a sales tax would continue to get -their cent the other Vi cent would be earmarked for the counties The 1 cent county tax nominally would bring in an estimated $100000000 a but the new revenue would amount to only $35000000 after taking off the' city sales tax income from the total from 17 to 20 years of age acted like they were embarking on a trip to a land filled with milk and honey instead of a destination which probably will end in a battle theater There was no comparison to the departure of the veterans who eft in August with Marine Company or in September with members of the 483rd Military Police Escort Guard -Company The marines remembered the battles of World War and were grim faced as they left The laughing boys of yesterday face the future with a the heir attitude looking forward to adventure filled lives Band GIves Sendoff Not a raincoat was to be seen among the smooth faced youths but they did not mind the rain Neither did the 79 piece Fresno High School Band under the direction of Carl Kronbert which sent the air force men off to the strains of the air force hymn Wives were conspicuous by their absence Many of the youths Continued On Page S-A CoL 8 Minnesotan Goes For Farewell Tour Of Town In Earth Bound Plane GOOD THUNDER Minn Jan 12 AP Jerome kringle 23 who will go into the army next Monday took the wings off his airplane and went for a farewell taxi around town The whirling propellor -sent many of the 460 inhabitants for cover -Kringle drew a $15 line and a suspended 20 day jail sentence on a charge of careless and reckless operation of an airplane The court also said Kringle- should have a license Father Of US Farouk Dies In PARIS Jan 12 AP William Medart St Louis restaurant man plunged to death from a i Paris hotel window today His family said he leaped from the window shortly after midnight Medart 46 was the father of Mimi Medart 17 whose name was linked romantically with King Farouk of Egypt last Sep- reported hail and wind did some damage late yesterday as a thunderstorm passed Over the area Snow fell down to about the 3500 foot level in the Sierra and beneficial rain covered the valley although it was lighter on the West Side At the Fresno weather station on the Fresno Air Terminal the 24 hour precipitation which ended slightly before midnight was 78 of an inch but a rain gage in East Fresno recorded 3 2 Since Tuesday the storm has brought L23 inches of rain to Fresno Far Above Normal The official reading brought the seasonal total to 603 inches 221 above the normal of 332 for this time of the year and well above last 237 total for this date The hail which followed the pounding of heavy thunder over the city was reported to-have damage fruit trees in the vicinity of West and Dakota Avenues Southwest of Fresno two inches of hail collected on the ground The high wind around the cen- Continued On Page 1-B CoL 1 Girl Linked To Paris Leap mother and brother Edward 21 went to the theater last night When they returned they met Medart in the lounge and-went upstairs with him "He got insisting we all go home she said and opened -it and said he was resorts Later however in London' Mimi asserted she was Washington Gags MacArthur On Topics Outside Command TOKIO- Jam 12 UP ually States commander for the Far reliable sources said today Washington has forbidden General Douglas MacArthur to issue statements on political subjects and other topics outside his theater of operations without prior approvaL He still Is free to issue statements dealing strictly with his command but must submit others to Washington before releasing them informants said They denied reports Washington has intervened to relegate MacArthur to a less important role in the conduct of the Korean campaign He remains supreme United Nations commander lor Korea and United pull them out of Kofea and is waiting for orders from his tember She said her father had been depressed over world affairs and had been insisting the family re-1 failed to hold him turn to the United States She friends denied last Fall said the other members of the she was the mysterious "Miss family disagreed with him and 'who had been compan-wanted to remain abroad She lion in Biarritz and other Riviera leaving immediately She said Edward struggled with his father at the window but I su-j San Joaquin Valley News 4-B social News KVA 11-A Sports 12-A 13-A14-A Vital Statistics SB SB Washington News By Dickson 2-A Weather -5-B Your Baby And $Iine 10-A J' mLI I 1 0(3 Ay whUCklO Modem Girl: One who dresses fit to kill and cooks the same way' said she has signed a contract to make a motion pictude in Spain Miss Medart said she and her ting to King Farouk v- A.