Bedford Gazette (Newspaper) - May 1, 1951, Bedford, Pennsylvania MOVING UP TO MEET RED ADVANCE BEDFORD GAZETTE BEDFORD COUNTY'S OWN NEWSPAPER ESTABLISHED 146 No 133 BEDFORD PA TUESDAY MAY 1 1951 SINGLE COPIES 5 CENTS RED OFFENSIVE GRINDS TO HALT READY TO CHALLENGE the enemy's Spring Drive veterans of the Infantry Regiment 24th U.S Division march beside as they move along a road north of the Yong Pong River in drenched forces were braced for a final defense of Seoul on which Reds are driving Dept Photo from International Radiophoto Fence Dispute Senate Delays Aired as May Streams Court Opens Extension Plan Law Giving Aid To Hard-Pressed Towns May Die Several Defendants Sentenced in Regular Session Two defendants sentenced to i jail and a number of minor cases j up action last night on a giving were disposed of as Judge J Col- municipalities and industrial firms presided over a miscellaneous two more years to complete waste of court yesterday preceding treatment indications 1 the legislation may be headed for to de- i its death I j Door to Public In Mac Probe MacArthur Will Tell His Story at Secret Hearing the regular May term Charged with burning fraud Franklin Dean Johnson Sen John M Walker Republican Hopewell waived j floor leader said the measure in merit and pleaded guilty Paul A position for a vote would be re- Koontz esq who had been ed as counsel by the court had con- with the youth earlier and presented his story to the court Judge Wright after warning the turned to committee today What will happen to it after that Walker said would be decided later The measure became an explosive issue because of its two-fold young man against any repetition pose of such conduct directed him to j It would allow hard-pressed pay a fine of and costs and to i two more years to install make restitution as determined by the probation officer He was to serve 22 months in the Bedford county jail to be paroled immediately upon making tory arrangements to pay the fine aKd costs A dispute over a boundary fence Hopewell township was aired in court yesterday afternoon when Judge Wright heard testimony con- a petition brought by soph J Mr and Mrs Emory Ritchey The petition asked sewage treatment plants in the Com- billion dollar stream cleanup program Most of them are now under orders to complete them before June 1 1952 Another section of the an amendment to the original clean streams law also exempt in- from constructing ment plants for industrial wastes during wartime or gency an ad- such a mandatory injunction against the materials defendants to replace a fence on the again became available vest side of Route 26 bordering the I Sen George N Wade it- properties I of the said he willing contended that auditors i to strike out entirely the section directed the building of fences giving industry the extension along the line of the two properties ing the measure apply only to May 12 1941 and that on August municipalities 1949 Mr Ritchey moved the if that were done said Sen uei Neil outspoken foe of the lying west of Route 26 as now drawn he would from two sections Of line In testimony the d ef e n d a n t withdraw his objection brought out that there had not been an official and legal order from the auditors regarding the fence to tlie west of Route 26 but that the viewing had covered only the fence east of that highway Mr Ritchey further contended that the reason the fence was re- moved was that the contractors re- building Route 26 had run a Continued on page 2 4-H Club Work Described to Bedford Rotary Work of the many 4-H clubs sponsored by the Agricultural Ex- tension program in Bedford county was explained by movies and ir by 4-H representatives in an interesting program at the lar meeting of the Bedford Rotary Club last night The club with President Bruce Ramsey presiding met at the Fort Bedford Inn attendance the third straight week was high as the result of the Steak and Beans contest now in progress Five members whose fell in April were honored Washington ators rode down Republican tests yesterday and decreed a door hearing for Gen Douglas Arthur Republicans immediately raised a cry of terrible injustice MacArthur will testify Thursday Harrisburg Senate held j about his dismissal as Far Eastern commander and the host of foreign policy questions his ouster raised The Senate Armed Services Foreign Relations committees set for a joint investigation with Arthur the first witness voted 14 to 9 to bar the public from the hearings Only one Republican Tobey of New Hampshire voted with the Democrats And the Senate chamber echoed hours later with GOP protests against what Senator Brewster ed star-chamber proceedings Chairman Russell of the Armed Services committee who will pre- side at the hearings said door hearings were necessary prevent military secrets from leaked The investigators voted to open the doors to press and public after all if MacArthur should ask a I lie hearing Indications were that I he wouldn't make such a request j And the senators arranged to re- lease a censored version of what MacArthur to tect military ing and afternoon sessions of their Thursday meeting with the general But Republicans were lar from satisfied Senator Morse acknowledged there might be some risk of spilling secrets in open hearings He told the Senate Our democracy is stronger and kept healthier if we take our chances with those risks And Senator Wherry of Nebraska the Republican floor leader de- The only way to get the truth to really get the unity of the people i is to let General MacArthur testify in open hearings Senator Saltonstall intervened with a plea that President Truman and Gen meet man to man across the table and try to iron out their differences Hamburg S Russell insisted the MacArthur engood Somerset i hearings couldn t be held m ney will be sworn in today to a on Page 2 fourth four-year term as Secretary of Internal Affairs Justice John C Bell Jr of the Slate Supreme Court will ister the to Livengood In the a year post last Nov 1 The noon ceremony will take place in the Senate chamber with i Sen M Harvey Taylor Senata President pro tempore and lican state chairman serving as master of ceremonies Dr Ellis president oi Juniata College alma i mater will deliver the invocation AS VOGELER ORDEAL ENDS Scattered Storms May Day Bogs Down in Front of Seoul vi as he reached the border point of Hegyeshalom Austria in an American on car To Continue in Springtime Spree springtime spree which lias brought high winds storms snow and unseasonable warmth to various sections of the nation was expected to just about unchanged today The Eastern half ol the country from the Rockies on was expecting continued warm weather with the unseasonably high readings edging into hitherto cool New England and New York state and the Northern Great Lakes region Scattered too were to in the and Ohio River Valleys 1 the Great Lakes region and in the The Weather Bureau said there was a possibility some of the thunderstorms would be locally pretty Gov't Loyalty Program Hit By High Court Cannot Brand Group Subversive Without Hearing on Page 2 Livengood Will Start 4th Term In Office Today To Ali Agencies Ends Boycott u.s Today London A Vogeler whisked from behind the iron tain with State Department took on with his family night on the last ICK of a bound flight to the United States The American nessman was still jittery from the ordeal which ended with his release from a on in Red Hungary and his return Washington United to his home in Vienna Big May Day Rallies Slated Around Allied Big Guns Save Capital by Mighty Barrage Tokyo Tuesday May 1 Communist spring offensive appeared to have come to a dead stop in Korea today By the late forenoon an expected Red May Day push either had bogged down or had been contained by the Allied defense Triple Allied val air ed Seoul at least for the moment Fighting died on ail fronts There were indications that the Reds were shifting their main force east of blackened Seoul the Korean capital The Reds had been expected to i attack the city frontally in a May i Day assault But during the night the 20.000 Communists just north of Seoul slackened their pace They had been hard hit by ed Allied by warships from 12 miles and by flights of Far East ment for branding organizations as Communist a hearing threw a i Air Force planes planes broke all previous u i rcords 1.270 sorties flight lega cloud over the Monday and Fifth Air Force ts oi fl record subversive until the ges are proved Policy Committee Ends Quarrel by Voting To Return Divided Berlin Will See 2 Big Demonstrations government to fire without a trial i an employe suspected of disloyalty whenever London spots around the world braced against possible Fearful oi Communist vengeance cashes today when Communist quarrel with mobilization officials jn that jn of the and non-Communist workers hold bbr Policy Committee has ended its and expressed the view that its two Soviel Austria Vogeler their traditional May Day month boycott of defense agencies Iran's Senate Votes to Seize British Oil Co Tehran Iran Senate i i i would benefit the American people outside Vienna The committee representing 000.000 members of the AFL CIO and most railroad workers voted unanimously to return immediately to the agency posts they vacated in February The labor walkout from the Stabilization Board on Feb 16 col- lapsed that panel A new one twice the size of the first agency is to be reconstituted this week un- der the chairmanship of Professor W Taylor of he University o- Pennsylvania The labor unions will be represented members as will management and the public to secretly hustled to Tulln in marches The peace Bu automobile The theme lor both was of the U S Hign Commissioner But at Seoul U N Walter J Donnelly and put aboard forces fierce a Pan American Airways plane rockets and jellied gas bombs a He was protected during the Communist bid to grab that South l mile drive by the blue Korean capital as a May Day prize starred diplomatic flag of the com- i The airliner landed tt Munich and Frankfurt Germany where it closely guarded by U S military police with guns At the plane charter by the Department to In addition the will place a top adviser in the office of Director Charles E had been the chief target I of the union leaders in their followed through meekly last night battle witn lho mobilization with a unanimous for i agencies a voice in policy nationalization of the country's i wealth which will be taken Russia's Air Strength Tops U S Says Lodge Washington Lodge says it is a staggering fact that air superiority as well as land superiority lies with the Soviet rnh H A r An Union He declared that we court C Gravel Dr N A i national disaster unless this who mins and David G Freu increase its air force to tj office cv immediately from the British- owned Company The new premier Mohammed had had no doubt the to Senate would comply with de- mands of his small Nationalist bloc George M Harrison President of the AFL railway clerks a vice- president of the AFL and friend of Presidents Truman and Roosevelt will become an advisory assistant Nominated by the CIO for a ilar post in the office of Economic i-ii i i i r i mi t v that the properties of the Erk Johnston was 000 firm be to j McDonald secretary-treasurer Sammel led group singing with Reid Hackney at the piano L R county farm was in charge of the gram and introduced two of his assistants Miss Crystal Summers 1 fome Economics extension worker and Mark Lewis assistant county iR Mrs Chester England and Lloyd Trimmier of the sion program executive group also presented Bedford county said Mr now has 420 4-H club bers with many projects which conducted on a basis lane Koontz Home Economics 4-H Club leader effectively the work of these clubs with samples of some of the work done by the girls The daughter of Mr and Mrs Ray Koontz of Cove Miss Koontz gave a but interesting talk as the girl chosen to represent Homo Economics work minimum of 150 groups In a major foreign policy speech ment ownership He spoke long before the Senate vote as if legislative action had been completed on the took over thi before his appointment had been signed b the reluctant Shah made a speech Lodge declared that the u S is seeking to restore calm in Tehran the CIO steelworkers Chiang Calls on Workers In China To Revolt Taipeh Formosa simo Chiang today workers in Red China to revolt arrl declared me u o of Russia only in the quality and appealing for an orderly May in he near I shall of its long-range bombers and in I Day celebration the number of atomic bombs On this single fact our security hangs by a delicate thread he The cold brutal fact is that the United States does no have air air ity or anything like it Britain Reveals Exports to China B O Freight Derailed Somerset A Baltimore and Ohio railroad train went off the track Monday near Foley derailing 14 loaded freight cars Cause of the derailment was not determined No one was hurt The train was to Cumberland from come to your rescue and you from your The Chinese Nationalist leader made in u May da message He charged the Chinese Reds had sent workers by thousands to Si beria as laborers for the S viet imperialists and they hav also sent laborers by the to to serve as camion foci der for the Soviet imperialists tne York London 41 The in New YorU at a in this Rep Brehm Is Judged Guilty On 5 Counts Ohio Congressman Convicted of Illegal i Campaign Funds Washington Hep Walter F Brehm night of ea in pa con tribu lions A federal court of lei me two women returned Us dict after deliberating about four hours and 20 The jury found five counts They W live alleged from Mrs Kmn In divided Berlin 1 mans were expected to turn out for rival east-west the i parading through the i Soviet sector under i eil banners and West gathering the to hear fiery challenges against Communist domination The slogan of the West Berlin rally is peace with erty That of the east is for pea gainst Allied commanders in Berlin placed heir troops on not with cars and to avert disorders West lin's German police will Linard the rally ami hoses Continued on 2 First Soldier Group From Korea Returns first ol i John Randolph forces closest seemed a little avoiding contact possible with aggressive This line line was drawn in toric opinions reflecting sharp di- High Allied officers did not re- vision on the court as any sign of a Chinese By a vote the justices j of heart Randolph said ruled listed as sub- j put down simply to the Reds by the attorney general Backing away from Seoul's musl be given the right to a hearing j tating artillery barrage Each of the live in the majority i Three Allied tank columns probed wrote a separate opinion from Seoul on Monday Four of these accused j and supported infantrymen the government of violating basic fought light skirmishes with the rights in denying such a hearing Reds before retiring safely to U N Two of the four Justices Douglas i perimeter lines One force and Black declared the entire 1.000 Communists killed by artillery eminent loyalty program is fire the others didn't rule on Page 2 that point Douglas said the isue is one of j the gravest ol our generation and that the government's action a trend in times of tension to set in motion a subversive in- Washington of our own design that de- cient Herbert Hoover says the us from within has come to liquidate the Black the government's j lhc lending agency he helped create years ago The Reconstruction Finance Cor- not only has outlived usefulness but it has yielded to and corruption Mr To Liquidate RFC Says Hoover loyalty program as tyrannical tices of a most evil type of on Pace 2 Seattle -T soldiers sen dcr the Ar ai rive 1 The trar high Sc v o 1 me from Korea un- system 5 with the be gree Army Frank welcoming Fort to Death Toll in Weirton Bus Crash Now 10 Weirton W a death loll in the tragic Weirton bus to 10 but hospital of- report no more yre -y peeled Five persons were killed outright a bis bus loaded went out of control on i steep hill with force against a re- Five filed later in Ohio Forty-six 11 red Hoover told the Senate Banking Committee He added that the original purpose become submerged in support of risky business and in bailing out creditors Held for Blackmail and Greensburg po inspectors have Josephine Heaton on blackmail They Mrs Heaton had wr through tr demanded money t family Craven i1 A ca on S worked in a I law fo from on ri Legion Post Unit 773 Furnish Hospital Show London Britan has exported goods worth to China during the past three months i Sir Hartley Shawcross President ol the Board of gave this figure when asked in the House of i Commons what strategic materials this country is sending to China He said there is no generally 6 Big Concrete Silos Raising at Ashcom Plant Wife Shoots Police Officer in Pittsburgh I f David Trimmier who had Definition of selected to represent the boys clubs described his work in on Page 2 terials Students Stage Protests THE WEATHER Dubois of the 75 pupils in the nearby Falls Creek high school walked out of classes to Partly cloudy with high test a school board decision to Tuesday Wednesday rather cloudy roerge with the Brockway school Work on the erection of six huge at the Ashcom plant of New Enterprise Stone and Lime Co got underway yesterday as t crew of almost 25 men started the gigantic task of raising the to height without any paus in the operation The six huge silos 20 feet in di ameter arc rising at the rate of 7 to 10 inches an hour as the concrete mixers work ceaseless lv to provide the necessary and mild with scattered district next fall The and the crew it into showers likely the streets T lers I forms The silos when done will each be 80 feet in It is ex- th it the job will be con by Saturday Steel ment is placed as rapidly as walls rise by a crew working l this The solis when done will large quantities of pulverized in storage There cannot be ar v pauses in the work for fear of ing cracks in the i work will go on ceaselessly i the week both night and day Pittsburgh I poll co her alter licensing with another Lieutenant Frai is in critical ci Side hospital felonious Why did this hav God knows I love him lo live McNicholas in the right side anc stood in the A fifth 38 rowly missed his hen ic of a has four of romancing and li i at South wife happen husband times wrist as hi bullet lad o the trip Wee liol a i I V and tool l orchestra to ol program Music skit played by the by John win c tie party 1 the i- later served by Auxiliary orchestra makin Dibert Verne Harrison and with a- Loyalty Oath Hit Defended During Hearing Harrisburg controversial loyalty oath was attacked unsound and defended as to combat Communism at a eral Assembly hearing yesterday Chief opponents of the heads of four Pennsylvania sities Proponents included state commanders of the Legion and the Veterans of Wars They gave their respective view on ti all state municipal and school em ployes to take loyalty oaths oath requirement would also to faculty members of colleges Leading the educators was Harolf E president of the sity of Dr Milton P president of vania State Rufus gerald University of Pittsburgh president and Millard E Gladfelter i provost of Temple University adelphia Chief defenders of the measure Joseph S McCracken can Legion State G Feldman Veterans of Foreign Wars and Sen R sponsor of the The educators said passage of Cast suspicion on the teachers hospital by to take the oath would local post and auxiliary undei the right of conscience the of combined com- i thought of these educators j And that loyal teachers who felt Reports were thai it well re- j strongly about oaths would Objec by patients on 2 he Legion members n r George n Moorehead ing md ter A x la i y el's headed V Victor President Lillian ger Irs Donald Williams Mrs J ter Foor Mrs Sponsler McClellan Stunkard Mrs Jones Miss Kay Mrs Margaret F- M Woodward and Mrs 1 1 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