The News Tribune from Tacoma, Washington • 1

Partly Cloudy Cooler Rain i Tomorrow Night (Official Cf Report) A JAY DEC 11 1952 Cops Seize Battling Bandits I 70THYEAR NO 64 SSSfj TACOMA WA? SI PRICE FIVE CENTS May Meet With Ike One Negro Wounded 2d Captured as 3 Policemen 3 Others Are Hit by Bullets NEW A Seven men were shot down Wednesday as a swaggering Cleve-oan fought a furious jun battle with police through the limes Square Can They Get Her Free? That wu the UK qanthn NMue crews end Coast GuardNinen not to mention ordinary civilians surveyed the (rounded freighter York mar on the beach north of Grays Harbor Tuesday and Wednesday When the top picture was taken Tuesday the situation looked dark with heavy waves pounding the ship broadside en the beach By Wednesday however the sea had calmed and the lower picture shows crews studying the situation prior to making desperate efforts to free the vessel at high tide during the day Note small ship (left) grounded near the same spot earlier and tent for Coast wlrephoto End Of 3 Hoodllim Gun Dud One policeman frisks Clarence Sims and other checks a gun taken from the Cleveland gangster at the end of a wild early morning gun duel in the Times Square area of New York City Wednesday Sims lying wounded en a curb at Eighth Ave and 46th 8 was shot by a pursuing policeman after an exchange of bullets wounded six other persons including three policemen The gunman and a companion also captured started the fray when questioned at the scene of a minor and unrelated tavern fracas JP wlrephoto 4 Armor Shorts To Be Issued GIs in Korea WASHINGTON The Army said Wednesday it is ordering armored shorts for its troops in Korea Together with the armored vest the two garments will give protection to the entire torso The Army said the armored shorts resemble a prize lighter's trunks and weigh only four pounds The vest weighs eight pounds Specifically designed to protect the hips abdomen and groin the garment has been tentatively designated lower It is made of 12 layers of flexible laminated nylon duck encased in a water-resistant plastic layer with an £Uter covering of nylon fabric The vest made of the same materials has been demonstrated In Korea to deflect about 65 per cent of all types of missiles and to reduce chest and upper abdominal wounds by about 60 per cent The Army said 1000 of the new armored shorts will be ready for delivery to Korea in February Cordial Messages by the Two Exchanged on Problem of War in the Far East By DON WHITEHEAD ABOARD HELENA EN ROUTE TO HAWAII President-elect Dwight Eisenhower is willing to hear any plan his old commander Gen Douglas MacArthur may have for ending the Korean war An exchange of messages an nounced Tuesday aboard this heavy cruiser carrying the President-elect and members of his projected administration back to the cleared the way for a meeting between Eisenhower and MacArthur It also appeared to dissipate whatever coolness had developed between the two former chiefs of staff during the Presidential campaign am looking forward to Informal meetings in which my associates and I may obtain the full benefit of your thinking and experience" on Korea and the Far East Eisenhower radioed MacArthur Sunday MacArthur replied on Monday: am grateful for your Interest In my views successful solution might well become the key to peace in the Exchange Follows Address The exchange followed Mac-Arthur's speech Friday when he told the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) in New York "there is clear and definite solution to the Korean without unduly Increasing casualties or furthering the risk of world war implied then a willingness to present his views to Eisenhower Eisenhower quickly sent radiogram to MacArthur saying he and his advisers were in the process of "outlining a future aimed at ultimate peace in Korea He said he wanted views MacArthur had been cool to Eisenhower's candidacy for the presidency Tht two had shown no warmth toward each other during the political fighting in which MacArthur had favored the nomination of Sen Robert A Taft of Ohio Move to Heal Breach But this exchange of messages appeared to be more than the President-elect asking for Korean peace plan It seemed aboard this ship that it was a diplomatic move by Eisenhower to heal the breach and give his administration the benefit of Mac Arthur's long experience in dealing with Far East matters MacArthur said: "This is the first time that the slightest official interest in my counsel hns been evidenced since my This appeared In he a rap by the five-star general at President Tru-( Continued on Pago Three) C-124 Left No ELMENDORF AIR FORCE BASE Members of a lacler-trail party back from a azardous trip up snow-covered ML Gannet said Tuesday a C-124 Globemaster carrying servicemen to Alaska struck the mountain at full speed and the resulting explosion no trace of Fifty-two persons flying north from McChord Air Force Base Wash were killed when the plane crashed against the mountain 60 miles west of here Nov 23 The Air Force trail party said they found no bodies The only identifiable portions of the C-124 were a charred rudder and horizontal stabilizer Three Air Force helicopters returned the six-member trail parly here Tuesday from a base comp set up on Surprise glacier at the 5700-foot level The veteran mountain rlimhers told of spending seven days and nights battling blizzards and suit-zero weather making their way to the crash scene about 0300 feet up and back to the camp Capt William I) Hackett Portland was the leader of the group looked like the aircraft struck a sheer cliff about 1000 feet higher and the tail section dropped said one of the parly The groujt found equipment versity landed dropped tc varsity of Alaska president who landed his ski-equtpped plane on the glacier Nov 28 and fuel Identified the wreckage Cause of Blast JP -The interstate commerce commission said Wednesday a fatal explosion on a locomotive in Colorado Oct 19 resulted from lack of enough water in the boiler system Th" explosion which accurred near 1iuvlers on the Denver A Kin Grande VI extern railroad killed the engineer fireniim hrakemHn and a imxsor" riding In the cab Strive To Get Tow ABERDEEN JP attempts to pan a towing line to the grounded freighter Yorkmar were made Wednesday as Pacific coast weather moderated after a aeries of storms The Coast Guard reported a helicopter would attempt to pan a tow line from a tug to the 7207-ton Yorkmar which lay fast aground but apparently undamaged on a sandy beach near Grays Harbor Capt Oscar Kullbom of Portland and his 36-man crew remained aboard the freighter which rammed on the beach 24 miles west of here Monday It was so close to shore they could get off easily in case the ship started breaking up The wind moderated to 10 miles an hour here Wednesday but a morning high tide passed before a line could be attached from the tug Salvage King The next opportunity to free the Yorkmar will be on high tides Wednesday night or Thursday morning Meantime (feather improved all along the coast At St reef lighthouse seven miles off the California coast six Coastguard smen stranded 10 days by rough weather got ashore safely in a small boat Three other Coast guardsmen remained to man the lighthouse In Klamath Fails Ore center of a heavy snowstorm Tuesday conditions returned to normal A warm wind Tuesday night followed by rain melted much of the snow Sales at Retail ister Gains The Commerce department estimated Wednesday that retail sales were 6 per cent higher in October this year than in October a year ago Total sales for the first 10 months of the year were up 3 per cent the report said The estimates were not adjusted for season influences or for price changes area The Negro gunman Clarence Sims finally spun to the pavement badly wounded by a coolly firing patrolman just as he was about to make his getaway Three olicemen were seriously wounded hree passers-by frantically hunting cover in the hail of bullets were nicked Police said Sims has triggered dozens of holdups In the New York area during the past year Cleveland police want him on an armed robbery charge He told police here he heads the there One of his pals was arrested in the melee that made 8th Ave as dangerous for a while as a rampaging frontier town on a Saturday night Started With Brawl This said police is what happened: At 4 a Charlei Ifason a 30-year-old Negro of Denville got into an argument in ait 8th Ave bar near 42nd SL with Richard Linguist of Queens They wrestled to the pavement Patrolmen Roy Cahill and Frank Coiasonno pushed through a crowd of watchers and arrested them Then Sims and Cecil Johnson a 25 year old Manhattan Negro swooped up in a snappy convertible and swaggered through the crowd Patrolman George McAuliffe 52 drove up in his radio car at that moment Someone in the crowd told him Sims was that is heavily armed At first McAuliffe thought Signs meatit -to try to rescue the two arrested men Later police learned that he and Johnson had planned to rob the bar where the fight occurred Shoots Patrolman Drawing his revolver McAuliffe prodded Sims to a wall to search him But at that moment Patrolmen Robert Knox 32 and Richard Conlon 24 pushed through the crowd McAuliffe glanced toward them for a moment In his momentary lapse of vigilance Sims whipped a 45 pistol from his belt and whirled firing from the hip McAuliffe plunged forward wounded in both legs and one arm Sims shot nightstick from his hand as Conlon came in swinging The shots split the rrowd of idlers who had gathered to see the fight Sims and Johnson backed away firing Patrolman James Knox fell founded in the leg Conlon dropped to the pavement covering the wounded in the leg Conlon dropped and firing at Sims and Johnson as they broke and ran in different directions One Gives Up Patrolman Kenneth Walters commandeered a taxi and ordered the driver to go the wrong way along 44th St a one-way street He cornered Johnson at 9th Ave nnd 45lh St Johnson threw away a 38 revolver and surrendered meekly Meanwhile Sims ran north along 8th Ave weaving to duck the firing of three policemen behind him Pedestrians dropped to the side-( Continued on Page Three) Back Einstein On Relativity New proof has been found for Dr Albert theory of relativity It deals with gravity eclipses stars and the bending of light rays The National Geographic society reported the news Tuesday It said its field team which studied an eclipse of the sun last winter found the noted physicist on the beam in his predictions 37 years ago with several other German girls during their marriage The divorce action was filed in 1950 The judge held that while he could not approve of the way Chapline had brought the child to this country he felt that since the boy now is 4 years old it would be extremely difficult for him to adjust himself If sent back to Germany to his mother and a different language culture and standard of living Judge Rosellini said that while the courts have held the mother should have custody of the children in a divorce case unless proven unfit to raise them In this case he felt it would be better for the child to remain with his father Chapline testified he had arranged for transportation for himself his wife and child but she suddenly decided she would not leave Germany He said that afterwards He repeatedly had attempted to bring her here as a war bride but she refused to come Judge Rosellini aim ruled Chap-line must pay his wife 659 a month for eljTht month i Dulles OKd Hiss First Quiz Told WASHINGTON Attorney John Davis testified Wednesday that John Foster Dulles fir-t recommended Alger Iliss for head of the Carnegie Foundation for International Peace and that all reports on him were good ones Davis a Carnegie trustee who was the Democratic nominee for President in 1921 appeared before a House subcommittee investigating tax exempt foundations for possible evidence of subversive influence The g20000-a-year Job Hiss had as president of the Carnegie foundation before he was sent to Jail for Tying about his association with a Communist agent was an issue in the recent presidential campaign Democratic Candidate Adlai Stevenson was criticized in the campaign for having given a character deposition for Hiss at the first trial for the former State department offirial Stevenson replied that he had only made a statement a to Hiss' reputation and that he General Eisenhower and Dulles were all of the opinion that it was good Dulles turn said he and Stevenson were both deceived by Hiss hut Steyenxon's "faith in Hiss outlasted No Objections Raised Davis testified that no objections were raised against Hiss by members of the Carnegie committee selected to name a president and that no evidence was uncovered indicating disloyalty to the United States But Davis said is no magic formula I know or to prevent recurrences of the sort of situation which developed out of Hitf selection The New York attorney said utmost care must be taken but (Continued on Page Three) 44th Division Starts Voyage To Ft Lewis PORT HUENEME Calif JP Troops of the 44th Infantry the former Illinois National boarded a troopship Tuesday in preparation for the division's transfer to Fort Lewis The division is being moved from Camp Cooke Calif because oil development is expected on that military reservation and it is being abandoned The transfer by sea of some 2700 men is one of the largest movements of troops and military equipment since World War II Body InCityDump The body of a new horn baby was found in the city garbage dump on East Lincoln Ave Wednesday morning by the operator of a bulldozer Police and Coroner Frank James and his deputy Larry Amundsen began an investigation immediately The body was rcixirtcd being Riven laboratory study at the Tacoma General hospital The baby probably died soon after birth which was about 24 to 48 hours before the body was discovered the coroner estimated Detectives William Fulghum and Emil Smith were summoned at 10:30 a Wednesday after John Sankovich operator of a bulldozer at the dump noticed the tiny body wrapped in part of a bed quilt Sankovich immediately summoned the foreman George Welch- but there was no immediate clue as to what city garbage truck had deposited the load It is the belief of investigators that the tiny body that of a red-haired boy was deposited in a garbage can and picked up unnoticed when the can was emptied early Wednesday morning Detectives were concentrating their effors Wednesday afternoon on locating the truck to learn the city section from which the load came Farm Aims Still Open Says Hie SEATTLE JP The nation's farmer's have been told by President-elect Eisenhower he has not formulated a long range policy on agricultural legislation but they can be sure any help will not interfere with their freedom of action The assurance was given in a message Eisenhower sent to the American Farm Bureau Federation President Allan Kline The federation is holding its annual convention here Eisenhower said he recognized that government must help farmers achieve a stabilized prosperity but he did not specify how he thought this might be done He Indicated a hope the matter could be decided by the time the present law supporting basic agricultural commodities through 1954 expires Study Promised "I he said "that during the next two years the conditions affecting rural welfare will be thoroughly analyzed and that possible solutions will be discussed in meetings wherever rural people come together "The conclusions developed in such nation-widb discussions should in time be expressed to the appropriate committees of Congress and to the membership of the agricultural advisory commission which we are pledged to establish" The farm bureau members are expected to adopt their recommendations regarding farm supports Thursday at closing sessions of the four-day meeting which is being attended by 5000 members Parity Change Favored The present law supports the price of major commodities at 90 per cent of parity The federation in ils 1951 convention approved a flexible support law which supported prices at from 75 to 90 per cent depending upon the amount of surplus of a commodity Kline said both parties promised during the election campaign to continue the present law for its full two years Other national farm organizations have differed with the farm bureau on this matter The message was his first to a major farm group since he was elected In it he expressed "great faith in the rural people of "They believe deeply in our private enterprise he continued "and want farm program to be in harmony with the basic principles of that Canlive Killed In Koie Fight TOKYO A One Communist prisoner of war was killed and another wounded Monday on Koje islnnd as they were attempting to organize a secret Red party meeting the commend announced Wednesday The two were shot by guards In adjacent compounds as they were plotting the meeting the announcement stated In both cases the prisoners refused to obey orders to return to their barracks TVChannels For Tacoma WASHINGTON JP The Communications commission Wednesday authorized new television stations in Birmingham Ala Los Angeles Danville 111 Monroe La Zanesville Ohio and Tacoma Wash Two of the grants went to Tacoma They were awarded The Tribune Publishing Co for Channel ll and KMO Inc for Channel 13 Today's action brought the number of construction permits authorised to 144 including 134 commercial and' 10 educational The commission now has worked through the first 115 towns cm its priority list established to give first action on grants to towns without television service Navy Fliers Smash Red Targets SEOUL JP Navy warplanes smashed four big Communist rail and supply targets on the door-steys of Manchuria Tuesdqy in the biggest seaborne raid of the Korean war One of the strikes carried American planes on their northernmost raid of the war to the limits of a Korean strip that Juts up into Maitchuria and is surrounded on three sides' by that Chinese Red province It also carried the Navy planes within 12 miles of Soviet Siberia and almost as far north as the Russian port Vladivostok which lies to the east Targets were Honyung Muian Najin and HyesanJin In an air battle over North Korea Wednesday Lt James Low Sausalito Calif racked up his eighth Mig kill of the war the S-Sth Air Force said Second Lt Ronald Hart rim Port Jervis was credited with damaging a Mig fn another battle The Air Force also said a plane listed as probably destroyed by Lt Alfred Millerin Sunday has been confirmed as destroyed Allied fighter-bombers pounded Communist targets all across the war-torn peninsula Navy fliers roared off the decks of three flattops Tuesday to launch their massive strikes against the Reds Panther Jets sky raiders and Corsair from the carriers Orlsk-any Bon Homme Richard and Essex destroyed round houses turn tables locomotives box cars buildings and supplies (lose to Border Ilonyung the northernmost target is within a few hundred yards of the Manchurian border and is (Continued on Page Three) War Toll Up 275 in Week WASHINGTON JP Announced battle casualties in Korea reached 127058 Wednesday an increa-e of 275 since last week The Defense deportment's weekly summary based on notifications to families through last Friday showed: New Tola! 20973 94588 12997 127658 22409 9422 Increase fit 221 15 275 7H 13 Killed In Action Wounded xMissing Total Bat tie Denths xCurrent Missing Denotes decrease Includes killed In art inn 2120 fatally wounded and 216 dead originally reported missing After deducting from gross total 1391 returned 1968 known captured and 216 known dead Following Is a breakdown of the casualties by services: New Increase Total Army 223 inn279 Nnvv iiitiiiii i him 3 1 i Ht Air Force Unchanged 1342 Murine Corps 47 No Yacht Just Fishing And Golf Retreat for Ike Mother Stays in Germany So Father Keeps Son 4 Against Controls Karl Feller president of the I International Union of Brewery Soft Drink and Distillery Workers Wednesday asked President Truman to lift wage controls immediately New Ambassador TOKYO JP Peiping radio said today that A Panyushkin new Soviet ambassador to Mod China arrived' by plane front Moscow Tuesday He -replaces Ambassador Iloscliln recalled SHOPPING DAYS TO CHRISTMAS Mail trlj By DON WHITEHEAD ABOARD USS HELENA EN ROUTE TO HAWAII JP It looks ss if President-elect Dwight Eisenhower's passion for golf and fresh water fishing and his announced desire for economy in government will leave no place for the oceangoing yacht the Williamsburg as a presidential retreat in the next four years The chances are friends say that Eisenhower will try to find a mountain retreat somewhere near one with a small golf as his hideaway from Whits House duties And they say his plans rule out the Williamsburg not only being Index Amusements 04 Comics 0-10 Editorials 0-4 Radio D-7 Financial D-S Mngaslne 0-3 (Society 0-6 and 7 KNirls Il-l 6 4 olid 6 II rather A-3 Custody of a rhild born to a German mulher who did not wish to accompany her soldier husband home to the United States was the chief issue in a divorce case before Judge Hugh Rosellini Tuesday Charlton Chapline Jr and his wife Ruth both were awarded a divorce by Judge Rosellini who determined that the four-year-old boy involved' should remain in the custody of his father In a deposition sent to the court from Weisbarien Germany as Mrs Chapline's testimony in the case she claimed her husband received his orders 4o return to the United Slates in July 1949 She said he had agreed that she should slay In Germany with their child but Just prior to his departure he hnd taken the 6-month-old boy to the post exchange to buy hint some shoes Thai she said was the last she saw of her rhild Mrs Chapline said she had learned her husband hail hidden the child with another soldier end his German wife She iv-iwil her huslinml of ewopiailng too expensive a luxury but one not suited to his ideas of recreation from the burden of work that will be his after the inauguration Jan 2a The ideal summer White House in Ike's book would be a mountain retreat at about 2500 feet- altitude not too far from Washington Good fishing water would be a must and also the golf course It would have to be close to the White House because Ike might want to sneak away on Fridays and not return until Sunday night Some say he has thought that maybe former President Herbert Hoover's old retreat at Rapl-dan Va might fill the or some place He doesn't want anything fancy President Truman preferred Key West for his vacations and he liked to have the Williamsburg around for weekend cruisea from time to time The Williamsburg has a crew of more than 100 and llty all yachta It costs a lot to run Nobody knows Just how much because In government bookkeeping It's a train-in: ship fur the Navy I Official Folks OLYMPIA JP An official announcement front Governor tangUr's office Tuesday (Unclosed Hint More Washington Lamb will he iihserveil Pec 19-17.