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2 Washington C. Ohio, Tuesday, February 6, 1951 0 Pages Five Cents Associated Press I I Associated Press leased wire sei vice fur state, national and world The Associated Press is entitled exclusiv. Iv to use all local news In newspaper. TT.i.EPHONE Business News Two Atomic Blasts Shatter NAfindows in LasVeqas Here Atomic Blast Miles LAS VEGAS, Nev Feb. shattered in this southern Nevada city today as two separate shocks from the fiftn atomic test in ll days rocked the city.

Police reported big show windows in two automobile agencies splintered by sound waves. There were no reports of injuries. residents having been forewarned of the possibility of glass- breaking shocks. The white light was seen in Oakland, on the edge of San Francisco Bay, where one witness described it as terrifying. Oak-1 and is some 450 air miles from Las Vegas An irregular sort of white cloud appeared over the horizon to the northwest, above the Frenchman Flat area where the atomic tests are being conducted.

It was different in appearance from any seen in the previous four tests seen and heard here. Two distinct shocks were felt, following about five and one-half minutes after the now-familiar blinding white flash in the pre- as the flash wet dawn sky. (Pacific Standa The Atomic Energy Commission one was wait in in an unprecedented pre-test an- sion. When it nouncement had warned resi dents to stay away from window- Highways were lined by hundred who left their home for a cleare view and to escape possible danger. Hospitals reported no patient: for treatment a half-hour the blast, No.

14 in the of atomic explosions since the in the New Mexican desei 1945. Traffic cam to a Ti I for ame. :48 A. M. Every concuss started I up again, gambler- drifted back into the casinos, and the juke I boxes and roulette wheels took up I their usual tunes.

Among witnesses of I blast were two members of the AEC, Thomas Murray ami Sumner T. Pike; AEC Genera! Manager Marion VV. Boyer and Sen. William Knowland member of the joint congressional Atomic Energy Commission. There is much speculation over what is being tested.

Most theories haw inclined to atomic weapons of some sort. But Julian Hartt, aviation editor oi the Los Angeles Examiner, said he had learned the experiments involved a for the HI bon b. The Atomic Energy Commission began work on the hydrogen bomb more than a year ago but has said nothing of its prog- Hartt said the H-bomb itself will be tested in the Pacific within nine or IO months. Experts have agreed that the H-bomb could be set off only by an atomic explosion. Approximately live and one- half lites after the flash, two (Please turn to Page Nine) RAILROAD TIE-UP IS EASING Report AWe by TWelJSS AURORA OF THE FOURTH ATOMIC BLAST at the proving grounds near Las Vegas, illuminates the sky in the Los Angeles area, 400 miles away, in this photo made from the roof of a newspaper plant in the city.

A newsman stands silhouetted against the atomic dawn. Scores of early risers called local police stations and newspaper switchboards to report witnessing the predawn glare. (International Soundphoto) Progress Is Called Satisfactory By Board after Details Studied Allies Closing in on Seoul Despite New Red Offensive That the Fayette Co pronounced as sat board of trustees of the i I held Monday night in ti The board completely ness and financial transactions statement of operations by Mis trator, for the period of approximately for business up to January I this year Tty Memorial Hospital is making progress was the unanimous verdict of the stitution during its regular monthly meeting i hospital. reviewed and discussed in detail the busi- the institution as presented in a Christene Evans, hospital adminis- THREE SURVIVE WRECK rn sight months since its opening By OLEN CLEMENTS Red battalion on the Hoengsong- TOKYO, Feb. i Hongchon road.

Then South Ko- tank columns chewed into the I roan regulars rolled through the main Red defense lines south of I gap to a point only 25 miles from parallel 38 today and ground the old parallel 38 border. ahead against Chinese resistance I that stiffened with the dawn of! NATIONALISTS commander. this 40-mile sector rea, biting off big in double envelop. We are isolating i killing as many their lunar new year. United Nations air, naval and artillery barrages paved a fiery path for the attacks.

Allied foot soldiers slogging behind the tanks wiped out nests of Reds. The Chinese threw tanks into the battle for the first time in this phase of the Korean war. They rushed reinforcements south from Seoul over a plank bridge spanning the Han River. There were indications that this was the big effort to salute the outset of the new of the On the western front a daylong battle raged northwest and northeast of Anyang, a town nearly nine miles south of Seoul. On the central front, American troops blasted a hole through a TOKYO.

Feb. General MacArthur Is believed to have recommended to Washington that Chinese Nationalists troops be used against the Red Chinese forces in Korea and elsewhere. He consistently has believed Chiang army should be used In broadened warfare against the Chinese Communists, informed sources said today. This was the northernmost thrust of Allied forces since they regained the offensive in Korea 13 days ago. Chinese and North Ko- been held by 3,000 Red reans know what we are dom; said a divisior are going up in Central chunks of lane ing movement these units an as we Other flights flared throughout the area east and west of Hoeng- song, the Monday morning jumpoff six air miles south of Changbong.

South Koreans farther west, possibly on the Sea of Japan coast, gained eight miles with tank and artillery support. The eastern column thrust northeast and west of Anyang. Foot soldiers captured a hill three miles west of Anyang across which bitter fighting had swirled i for three days. An officer said I they found shallow graves all I I over the hill. Other Chinese and I I Korean Red dead sprawled where I I they had been killed.

The hill had BALANCE SHEET ASSETS Petty, Cash Cash on Accounts Receivable In Patients Accounts Patients Inventory of Supplies Prepaid Insurance Land .........................7..... Roads Grounds Building Equipment Miscel. Equipment Assets Depreciation 8,000.00 290.00 8,680.00 7,549.00 646.00 17,165.00 8,677.78 520,354.42 114.726.06 4,844.21 656,602.97 12.256.96 815.00 13.071.96 Net 8 000.00 8,387.68 511,674.42 107,177.60 4,198.21 100.00 2.486.56 13,071.96 9.051.05 425.69 LIABILITIES Sc NET WORTH Accounts Payable Investment Account; Original Investment Add; Advances by Co. Treasurer 639,437.97 664,573.23 2.838.01 I (Please turn to Page Nine) Sale Cracking Here Confessed 40 New Bills Offered In State Legislature By ART PARKS leases the pain of the tax increase I COLUMBUS, Feb. for track operators by providing Bettors on Ohio horse races would i they may keep 12percent in- be nicked another $865,000 a year stead of IO percent of the total I under a new tax schedule offered amount wagered.

the Ohip legislature by Rep. Ray In the present law, the state White (D-Holmes) last night. I tax is based on the amount the i attempt to burglarize a milling The increase in the take track operator claims as his own I company plant have admitted from the bets laid down by from the betting pool. Rep. breaking safe in Washing- 1 Less: Net Loss DETAILED OPERATING Total Operating Loss Adjustment Loss on Depreciation Loss TOTAL 654,759.20 683,506.71 21,771.49 LOSS 661.735.22 664.573.23 2.577.54 434 29 1,594.66 4.606.49 17,165.00 21,771.49 Three Men Nabbed In Piqua Burglary Three men held at Piqua for an horse race fans is provided in a bill which carries out the recommendations of Gov.

Frank J. Lausche in his state of the state address to tile legislature last month. Rep. bill overhauls the entire system by which the state takes a cut of the kitty at each Ohio race track where pari-mutuel wagering is conducted. For instance, the proposed law (Please turn to Page Ten) New Blizzard Is in Prospect i ton C.

H. and others in Dayton, I Fairborn and Wilmington. The men were arrested near the I Piqua Milling Co. building Mon- I day after the place had been broken into. Police listed them as Wil- liam Frieswell, 25: his uncle, John Frieszell, 45, and James Wallace.

An alert telephone operator Meanderings By Wash Fayette Rev. L. B. Rogers called Saturday to tell us that he and Mrs. In the details above regarding actual operating loss, the item of $1594.66 covering loss on contracts, means the loss on cases handled of relief patients, child welfare patients, soldiers' relief and industrial cases, where the hospital Is permitted to charge only a minimum daily rate.

This amount of daily rate is by contract with the county for relief cases, industrial cases, where the daily rate of hospitals is set regardless of the amount of laboratory work, special medicines, operating room and X-rays for which private patients pay extra fees. Accredited certified public accountants, experienced in hospital accounting, had gone over the detailed business of the institution and set up its record and bookkeeping system from which monthly reports are made. The hospital shows a loss of $21,771.49 for that period including depreciation. The actual DEMOLISHED WARNER CAR is shown above Susie Palmer, 20, who was volved in an auto accident two miles north of Washington C. H.

on Route 70 Monday morning, was in a condition today in Memorial Hospital here. The office reported that Miss Palmer suffered a broken arm and leg and internal injuries when the ear in which she was (R Photo) Af the highway (By The Associated Press) Another blast of snow and and strong winds whipped I b(dPed bring about their arrest, across the northern plains into When a telephone receiver was Minnesota today and headed for I knocked off the hook at the mill- other parts of the winter weary she heard voices and midwest. I pounding, she plugged the open Blizzard conditions prevailed in line into headquarters, the eastern Dakotas and northern In Washington C. H. Police Minnesota.

Temperatures were I Vaiden Long had a long dis- below zero. Freshly fallen snow tance conversation with the Piqua wife blown by winds up to 35 chief of police Tuesday morning, Plus receivable, railes an hour. The cold also hit I and was informed that the three loss for the institution for the approximately eight months period, however, was only $4,606.49, which is considered by hospital authorities as exceptionally favorable. The hospital board states that a I depreciation amount of $17,165 is a figure which should be taken into account in the total picture as a straight business proposition. Corporations and most business houses carry this item in their accounting.

Most public institutions, city, county state and departments of federal government, do not. These show only the difference between income and ex- Because of the fact, however, Republic Steel Corp. Profits at New High CLEVELAND, Feb 6 (ZP) Republic Steel net profits zoomed to the highest in history in $63,794,711. The firm, reporting this today, said that amounted to 7.2 cents per sales dollar and $10.53 per common share. In 1949, net income was $46,142,323, a rate of seven cents per sales dollar and $7.54 per common share.

sales and operating compared with $656,989,258 in 1949-also set a new record. Ohio Gas Shortage Creates Problems COLUMBUS. Feb. 6 i Managers of 170 plants hoped milder weather would enable the Ohio Fuel Gas Co. to further increase their supply of natural gas.

The company yesterday restored 40 percent of the normal supply. It had cut off all gas used by the industries for production, due to the recent cold spell. Meanwhile, Rep. William Gernheuser (R-Lucas) asked the general assembly to create a five- member committee to investigate shortages of natural gas in Ohio during cold waves. He would have the committee report to the House by May I At the same time, Ohm Fuel Gas in a statement, explained the handicaps under which it operated during the cold spell when 1,000 Toledo residents had to leave their unheated homes 1 riding was forced 1 striking a tree.

I Reports stated that she was in a 1940 Oldsmobile driven by William N. Warner, 20, of Jeffersonville. who suffered cuts on his nose and hand. Also injured was Miss brother, David, who received head injuries. The accident occurred, according to the official office report, when Warner attempted to pass a semi-trailer truck.

He was forced off the road, and his ar struck a tree. His car was almost demolished in the crash. Susie and David Palmer are the children of Mr. and Mrs. John I Palmer and William Warner is the Ison of Mrs.

Jean Warner, all of I Jeffersonville. Soldier Is Killed In Korea 3 Monlhs After Being Drafted Rogers saw a hi nn tho mUes an The cold also hit "15 normed max me tnrce ox me xacx, However, nj I ii I 'ii snow Saturday from OM It tho parts of the eastern Rocky Moun- I 011 admitted breaking open a that the depreciation of many DlQCK MOrKGtBGnnO I ll MPflt ZZ inZd7J7t North I 7 bliT. taow I mui ive leering in meal To Be Made Risky Business trees in his yard at 1510 North North Street. He was curious to find out whether or not anyone else noticed blue shadows. Rev.

Rogers speculated that perhaps the blueness was a result of either the clear, cloudless day o-r radioactive dust in the air from an atomic explosion near Las Vegas. Nev. I observed the ingenuity of one local decorator, Ted Anderson, as his pick-up truck became stuck in the deep snow in the uptown area. Ted refused my offer to help push him free of the snow by the curb. Instead he took two drop cloths which were loaded on his truck along with paint, brushes and ladders commonly used by his decorating crew.

Placing the cloths against his rear tires he calmly set the truck in motion and inched his way I from the curb. From his manner 5 and refusal of my offer of as- sistance, I could see that he had been stuck before. region. inson, N. and -IO in Bismarck, wbere safe was located I N.

D. A number of safes have been Heavy snow was in prospect broken into here- during the past (from northeastern Iowa to netting the 1 Superior. Rain and snow was forecast from the southern Great I Lakes to the middle Mississippi Valley. Colder weather was forecast for the entire north central region. Much of the eastern half of the nation had comparatively mild weather early today as temperatures moderated after last blustery cold weather.

burglars several thousands of dollars. I Twice while yeggs were endeav- oring to break into the safe of the Washington Coal Co. here they were frightened away. Sheriff Orland Hays will ac(Please turn to Page Ten) more rapid than in many other lines of business, and some equipment becomes obsolete in a comparatively few years, the hospital board here contends that by reason of the need for replacement of many such items, the depreciation account properly belongs in a hospital statement, so that the public may obtain a Please turn to Page Two) TOLEDO, Fob. 6 (IP V.

DiSalle, will find profiteering government assured housewives difficult. He called them today they will be able to buy class Fifth and said adequate supplies of meat in the he would to be the first one future at legitimate price; Black marketeers in the meat business, said Price Chief Michael To Pause for Prayer BELLEFONTAINE, Feb. and whistles in the Belle Center area will sound at 1:50 P. M. Friday as part of that planned prayer program.

Church groups have asked that all within sound of the warning bells and whistles pause for prayer I each in his own way hold com-1 munion with God Cat Freed From Empty Salmon Can But Took Police and Fireman To Do It to get Within a few days. DiSalle told about 250 Toledoans in a speech LEBANON, Feb. (A Howard E. Sweney of near here said today he would give his consent to a demand for an investigation i of the death of his son, Wilbur, 122, in the Korean war. I Rep.

Brown (R-Ohio) declared in Washington yesterday that young Sweney died of battle wounds just three months and three days after he was drafted I into military service. Brown, wha called it declared he would seek a complete report from defense officials if the parents would give him permission to pursue the case, The father disclosed today, however, that his son had nine previous service in the navy in 1946. The son enlisted that time but was discharged after nine months because he was needed as the principal support of his father and mother. The father is parti- ally disabled. "Nothing will bring the boy the father said today, "but I it may prevent this thing hap- 1 i t-A.

JIM- I 11 umjr vcwx ti HUB nay- 'fii last night, his office of price sta- t0 another and anothcr iccna ft. Back-to-work Trend Is Gaining in East Although the wildcat strike of switchmen had virtually ended in I the New York area Tuesday, and I strikers were drifting back to work at many other terminals, the situation here remained unchang- ed Tuesday noon. The mail embargo was still in effect, and two of the BAO pas- I senger trains and some of the I freights had been withdrawn from service until the strike is I over in the Cincinnati terminal yards, I Officials here were hopeful that I the embargo might be ended late Tuesday or Wednesday. 'Sick' Workers Go Back To Break jam in East (By Associated Press) i The crippling railroad strike ended in the New' York area to! day, spokesman for major car! liers said, and the w'eek-long walkout appeared nearing an end in several other cities. Meanwhile, the Defense Trails- port Administration today order: cd motor freight carriers to give the armed forces, the Atomic Energy Commission and the mails first claim on their services.

DTA Administrator James KHudson said in a statement the action was required by the railroad tieup resulting from the walkouts of switchmen at strategic terminals. The result, he said, has been a large-scale diversion of rail freight to the highway truckers. He said the government had to step in and make sure the most vital freight has top priority on motor carrier facilities. The freight order was the first general directive issued by DTA since its creation last September. It was directed to all truckers operating for hire under either interstate or intrastate licenses.

They were told to take care of army, navy, air force, marine corps, I coast guard, Atomic Energy and postal needs first. It was emphasized the truckers may continue to handle private commercial they have space left. The order is effective immediately. Back-to-work Trend The New York Central, Pennsylvania, and the New York, New Haven and Hartford railroads I said there was-a general back-to- work move on those carriers to! day. They said virtually all striking switchmen and other rail I workers made idle by the I walkout would be back on the job today.

All three lines started restoration of long distance service immediately. There were similar reports of switchmen returning to work in large numbers in Philadelphia, Boston, Washington, Baltimore, and in a dozen or so other cities. Although a a k-to-w movement reported today in a number of cities throughout the nation, the situation remained unchanged in Cleveland. There appeared no nation-wide A greedy cat overcome by a lust of salmon almost blew his lid here Monday. But not before he got his head wedged in a salmon can.

it took the confTTined efforts of Fire Chief George Hall and Patrolman Elmer Kelly to pry him (or her) loose. Mrs. Laura A. Miller of 932 Millwood Avenue noticed the cat (not wandering a round her yard late Monday afternoon with a can stuck firmly around his head. She phoned Chief Vaiden Long, who In turn passed the call along to the police ment.

When Kelly locate another policeman to go on the call. Chief Hall volunteered. Armed with a pair of tin snips, the pair went to the Miller home, and started to work. They backed the clawing cat turn to Page Nine) bilization will issue two orders designed to keep these meat price chiselers out of business. One order will regulate the slaughter of livestock.

The other may require meat wholesalers and retailers to make regular He said his son was inducted into service on Oct. 13 and died in a Japanese hospital of battle wounds on Jan. 16. He said the family heard from the youth only once after he was home for a 10- day leave in November. That was ports on operations, his aides said.

The first order, officials of the written on New Day agency said, will distribute ani- "The next we heard, he had died mals to established slaughterers, I in a Japanese the elder preventing black marketers from Sweney said. heard i Cl Ul I setting up fly-by-night slaughter I anything else except a letter con- the walkout. houses. firming the telegram. No one has Some of the back-to-work calls The second, DiSalle continued, told us what kind of wounds he were sported by carriers after an to work moves immediately and the strike kept a strangle hold on much of the economy.

In Chicago, one of the main rail centers, an army spokesman said there was no indication the walkout was nearing an end. Many Still Paralyzed But scores of other cities hit by the work stoppage reported no relief from the crippling effects of (Please turn to Page Ten) suffered or (Please turn to Page Two).