Big Spring Daily Herald (Newspaper) - May 1, 1951, Big Spring, Texas Fair VOL 23 NO 271 LY H E RAID Todays News TODAY PRICE 5 CENTS BIG SPRING TEXAS TUESDAY MAY 1 1951 AP WIRE SERVICE NORTH KOREA Chichon U N ARTILLERY DEFENDS Red Army faced a curtain of from artillery it it strove to capture Seoul A at i May Day prize The Red radio at Pyongyang placed Red troops teven and a half miles from the South Korean capital Censored U N field the Reds much closer On the central front the Allies abandoned on April 29 AP Wire TWELVE PAGES TODAY ODwyer Accused Of Aiding Organized Crime In Gotham Report Also Hits At Frank Costello By JOHN CHADWICK WASHINGTON May 1 Senate today accused Ambassador William ODwyer of to the growth of organized crime in New York where they said Underworld Kingpin Frank Costello is a power in Democratic politics Reds Halted In West Mass Units In Center By OLEN TOKYO May 1 Communist troops preparing for a new attack in Central Korea today cut off the water supply for rivers blocking their invasion route The Han River dropped so sharp ly that United Nations engineers had to adjust pontoon bridges three times Tuesday An Allied spokesman said the Chinese closed the sluice gates to the dam in aa effort to dry up the and Han Riven That would make il easier for Red assault forces to cross prevented correspond ents from saying how much the river has fallen Simultaneously the Reds shifted their forces to the Central front after massed Allied artillery na val guns and record swarms of planes disrupted their plans for a May Day assault on Seoul AP Correspondent Nate described the buildup of Red forces along the chon invasion route as ominous United Nations artillery roared out Tuesday night in an effort to break up some of the Hed concen on this old Central Korean battlefield A heavily censored dispatch from said American ar tillery broke up two small concen One was southeast of The other was north of to which the U S First Marine Division pulled back recently from res There were no reports of ground action of any size on May Day ei ther on the Central front or in the west near Seoul where the Reds had hoped to celebrate their in holiday In the lull censorship was relax ed to permit correspondents to re port it was the U S First Marine Division and a British brigade that checked the crushing Red smash Diplomats Call On Iran Premier By ROBERT B HEWETT TEHRAN Iran May 1 Dip of the East and West to day began calling on Premier Mo hammed probably to seek details of the governments oil nationalization plans Soviet Ambassador Ivan kov was the first diplomat to call on the new Nationalist premier since the explosive nationalization issue thrust him into office The Iranian Senate Monday night unanimously ratified seture of the Oil Company but few details as to how plans to effect the en forced takeover and run the million industry have been an The company is the sole developer of the rich fields in this strategic southern neighbor of the Soviet Union dean of the diplomat ic corps because of his long resi dence in Tehran was entitled to the first visit with the premier THE WEATHER BIG SPRING AND VICINITY Fair this afternoon t o Wednesday Gusty surface visibility reduc ed b dust High low high to 78 Highest tempera ture ihls date 00 tn lowest this 31 In IBOS maximum h im the center of the Allied line April 22 and 23 One Marine officer Lt Col Webb D Sawyer of Alexandria Va said the fighting in checking he breakthrough by 140000 Chi nese was worse than anything the Marines saw in Northeast Korea last winter One Marine said their machine gunners killed Reds at the rate of 20 a minute but the Reds charged at the rate of 25 a minute High praise for the British Brigade came from John Castle representing the U S embassy in Korea The composed of British Canadian Australian and New Zealanders plugged the Al lied gap north of in the center when the South Koreans col lapsed Three Allied tank columns prob ed northeast of Seoul Tuesday morning in an unsuccessful hunt for Reds Only a few bodies re mained in one sector where 1000 dead Chinese were seen Monday Reds had removed or buried their dead during the night AP Correspondent Stan Carter reported from the Western front fewer Reds were seen Tuesday than at any time in nine days Some officers regarded this as a threatening silence foreboding preparations for a new onslaught on UN lines north of the Han ers felt it meant the Chinese had shot their wad in an attempt for a May Day victory A censored dispatch from AP Correspondent George MacArthur said UN commanders estimated the main body of Reds still in the Referring to both as mayor and district attorney the Crime Committee had this to say in a lengthy and report on its yearlong probe of gangster ism Neither he nor his appointees took any effective action against the top echelons of the gambling narcotics waterfront murder or bookmaking rackets In fact his actions impeded promising investi west was staying far enough north to keep out of range of American artillery So few targets were left within their range that Allied batteries spent a comparatively silent May Day after Mondays terrific bar rages The Red pullback created a no mans land between the ex treme range of UN guns and for ward Chinese elements Small ad Red were hit by fire bombs It was a different story Monday when the Chinese masses were threatening to sweep on Seoul Allied big guns massed in the Seoul suburbs pumped thousands of shells into the hilli to the north where the were swarming Warships off Inchon port laid down a heavy curtain of fire northwest the old South Korean capital And Allied planes mounted the greatest air effort of the Korean War Far Eastern Air Forces reported 1277 a new air record smashed determined large scale Communist supply buildup Red jets made a brief challenge of Allied air supremacy Tuesday One was probably shot down and four were damaged Planes mounted raids throughout the night by the light of flares AP Correspondent William C Barnard reported from Fifth Air Force Headquarters Tuesday that lack of close support missions to ground troops along the whole Korean front showed there was little con tact between ground t o m b a t forces How Heroic Soldiers Held Firm In Korea the story of how U S First Division nd Bri tish Brigade held mm In the path of i Chinese Red breakthrough April and 23 It Is told In he by Army censors By JIM BECKER WITH U S MARINES IN KO REA May I ft The war on the Central front was going too weli Sunday April 22 A briefing officer at the First Marine Division gestured at the war map He pointed to the arc northwest of the reser voir and said The Chinaman will have to stop us before we get to that high ground or heil be through in this said At 8 pm the Chinese proved they werent through yet The first blow of their long an ticipated counteroffensive on the Central front was hurled at the lines of H South Korean division on the left flank of the U S Ma rines Four Chinese corps about 140 000 men at full strength fur the force behind the punch Jabbing at a Republic of Korea ROK division a unit that fought honorably and well before in the Korean war the Chinese forced a breakthrough The entire HOK division collaps ed They poured thousands of men through Breakthrough Corridor ripped into United States Marines and South Korean Marines on the right flank The South Korean Marines near dam held firm through out Sunday night and Monday The U S budged not an inch By Monday noon it was obvious th would have to pull back to cover the holr on their left flank Seme of the South division troops had been back ia But UM Red tide had rolled 15 miles south along a tenmile front and K was fanning east and west One valiant Marne unit the First Battalion of the First Regiment was shoved into the gap They halt ed the Reds temporarily while their buddies pulled back They were surrounded but fought their way out of the trap The Marines and their Korean counterpart rolled with the mighty Red punch Meanwhile the Chinese continued to charge down the corridor Stop ping them became the primary military consideration Late Monday night the Brit ish Commonwealth Brigade which included Australian New Zealand and Canadian units was placed squarely in the path of the Reds Tuesday morning the Reds and the British closed in combat Pres sure on the Marines had eased con as the Reds poured ar Ste SOLDIERS Pg 7 Col 2 gations of such rackets The crime probers headed by Senator Kefauver also had named to high public office friends of Costello and Joe Adonis another bigtime teer and gambler And after a lengthy detailing of Costellos alleged political manipu lations the Senate committee summed up in these words It is apparent to the committee that despite protesta tions his sinister influence Is still strong In the councils of the Demo cratic party organization ot New York County The Senators devoted about 35 of the report to their New York City investigation where ODwyer and Costello were ma Jar witnesses at hearings viewed on television by upwards of 20 million The report rushed to completion late Monday night also asked Con gress for batch of Jaws aimed at throttling the big crime and gambling syndicates by cutting the out from under them The senators recommended legis lation to outlaw transmission across state lines of information for illegal gambling to prohibit illegal gambling losses or expenses from being deducted for income tax purposes to deny use of the mails or other interstate communi cations to make or payoff bets to ban the interstate transmission of roulette wheels and other gaming devices and to require gambling casinos to keep detailed records of money won and lost With a reminder that money is the key to power in the under world the committee also called for tougher tax laws and penalties to trip up gangsters including re for full records of in come and expenses and statements of net worth The senators commended the In ternal Revenue Bureau for setting up a special fraud squad and urged the Justice Department to create a racket squad to clean the coun try of racketeers gangsters and or criminal gangs They said however that the pri CRIME PB 7 Col 1 NO ODWYER SAYS MEXICO CITY May 1 Ambassador William ODwyer said today he has no comment to make on the U S Senate Crime Investigators criticism of him The former New York mayor first said I have no com ment paused and added at this time his voice the last Asked whether that meant ha would make a statement later ODwyer sid I haie nothing further to say FOREIGN POLICY Robert A Tft left ROhio addressed th U S Bradley Asked To Explain Secret Papers Existence By JACK BELL WASHINGTON May 1 tors called on Gen Omar N Brad ley today to explain how a former ly top secret account ol President Wake Island conference with Gen Douglas came into existence Senator Russell chair man of two committees look Ing into the policy dispute involv ed in the Presidents firing of Mac Arthur as Pacific commander told a reporter he hsd asked Bradley to state in a letter to him how the report was prepared Bradley is chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Despite its top secret tion what was described as a sum mary of the report was published recently Some Republicans ac the administration of having leaked the document in an at tempt to discredit MacArthur Sev eral blamed Mr Truman himself Among other the account as the New York Times described MacArthur as nol believing at the October 1950 con ference that Red China would in in the Korean fighting aides have said in on the Chinese Commu nist intervention which the gen eral said created a new should have come from Washing ton and not the field commander Russell will preside when the Senate Armed Services and For eign Relations Committees formal ly open an inquiry Wedemeyer Warned Of Threat To Korea WASHINGTON May 1 UP Lt Gen Albert C Wedemeyer advised President Truman nearly four years ago that Korea was threat ened by a sion of North Korean forces This was disclosed today with re lease of the top secret report on Korea that Wedemeyer submitted to Mr Truman Sept 9 1947 The report with sertain parts deleted was made public by the Senate Armed Services Committee in advance of its inquiry into the firing of Gen Douglas MacArthur Hearings on dis missal from the Far Eastern com mands are to begin Thursday Wedemeyer advised against U S removal of its forces from Ko rea pointing out that the Russians dominated North Koreans through Communists There is considerable unrest in South Korea the report said but forces available Hodge are adequate to cope with it and to maintain order though completely inadequate even with maximum assistance from Gener al MacArthur to meet trolled forces invasion of Korean General John R Hodge then was in command of U 5 forces occupy ing South Korea later withdrawn and General MacArthur was in Japan as Supreme Commander in the Pacific A United States withdrawal which permitted the Soviet Union to dominate Korea would result in a serious political and cal threat to China including Man and Japan Wedemeyer said report was made before China fel under the control of the Communists He also made a report on China A censored ver sion of this already has been made public In the Korean report er predicted The Soviet will withdraw their occupation forces just as soon as they can be sure that the North Korean puppet government and armed forces which they have cre ated will be strong enough and sufficiently well indoctrinated to be relied upon to carry out Soviet ob without the actual pres ence of Soviet troops h i s recommendations suggested that the U S Russian withdrawal be with as many guarantees as possible to safeguard Korea freedom and independence City Ranks Fifth In Per Capita Sales With A 73 Per Cent Over State Average Rj CT Big Spring ranks fifth among all the cities In Texas in per capita sales The Census Bureau has issued a report on per capita retail sales much the average person spends in the stores of his home town The per capita figures are based on the ratio of sales in 194 to the population in 1930 Big Springs prr capita sales fig ure was 31435 This is more than 73 per cent above the average for a rf also 96 per cent over the national average of And it isnt the big cities that rate high on per capita basis al though of course Houston Dallas San Antonio Fort Worth and El Paso rank in that order In total sales Its rich little cities where trade stays briskly are at the top in per capita sales Standing above Big Spring were Plainview Pampa Lamesa and Greenville Their per capita and Below this city and in the brack et on per capita retail sales were Longview Amarillo Victoria Lub bock and Gainesville In the order of total retail sales the first 35 In the state are Hous ton Dallas Ft Worth San Antonio Arthur El Paso Corpus Christi Austin Ama rillo Waco Wichita Kalis San and La redo Only Lubbock and Amarillo out of this entire group rate among ibc first tea in per capita Here are the ten ranking Texas cities in per capita sales based on the ratio of 1948 sales to 1950 City Total Sales Per Capita Plainview Pampa Lamesa Greenville Big Spring Amarillo 28021000 26834000 16454000 22019000 25801000 36429000 J 09736000 Victoria 23866000 Lubbock 104130000 Gainesville 16309000 1624 1537 1498 1495 1490 1459 1459 1454 MacArthur as the Into the policy disagreement Rus sell is chairman ot UM Armed Committee As a preliminary to which the hive to hold behind torg Monday questioned Felix Lar kin genera counsel of the Defense Department Hussell quoted Larkin as saying he did not any official re porter was present when the Pres ident and five advisers sat down with MacArthur at Wake Island Mr Truman and the general pre had talked alone for an hour Yet when document declassified opened to their inspection Monday hey found it was in conversational form carrying what purported to be direct statements of in the conference Russell said appeared to the document had been prepared from notes of The Georgia senator said t was prepared under Bradleys direction Hussell said BO question was raised at the committees closed meeting as to whether a wire re corder or tome similar device might have been used Republicans laid they wilt ask about that Queried last week as to how the Wake Report could be documented President Truman said he might have done it himself He might have he emphasized A member of the In committee told reporter MacArthur be asked to com pare his version of the conference with the administrations report As soon as he gets the authorship cleared up Russell said he will make public the document tommies Stage Day Fetes Over The World Peace Parades Go On As Fighting In Korea Still Rages LONDON May 1 Yorkers on both sides of the Communist fence staged May Day parades for peace today hile in Korea UN forces con their desperate fight against Red Chinas legions Peace was the slogan of the day the world but govern ments everywhere were on guard violence Communists md nonCommunists prepared to Hold traditional and marches In Korea Allied commanders ex pressed belief t h el r and had halted the Red bid to elze the Southern Capital of Seoul ai a May Day trophy In Moscow Generalissimo Stalin atop tomb to view what wai expected to be tha biggest show ol the day and one where trouble was least likely At Russian military might parad ed part Red Square and thousands of waved calling for peace the Soviet leaders Lt Vassill Stalin led Into view a flight of hundreds ot planet including Jet Moscow radio said Similar parades were Soviet featuring In praise of Stalin and Jibes a g a 1 ai t the Wast The Communists ot Yugoslavia planned a big celebra tion in Belgrade but without Pre mier Marshal Tito He ia recover ing from a gallstone operation In the divided city of Berlin both Western and Soviet sector police were mobilized for an expected turnout of one million Germans at rival East and West celebra tions Riot squads were alerted In W where a huge socialist pa fade was to be followed by a small er Communist procession There was danger of clashes In e West European Red strong holds of France and Italy Britains Communists planned rallies in London but the biggest demonstrations by the Socialist trade unions do not take place until Saturday In Iran widespread demonstrations were ed which might present the coun trys new Premier Mohammed with his first test Mos sadegh refused to enforce a pre decreed ban on a Commu demonstration in Teh ran but he urged that the rally be peaceful In the Philippines capital of Ma nila tanks and troops guarded a threatened May Day at tack by Communist Hukbalahap rebels Crime Report At A Glance WASHINGTON May is a capsule summary of ma jor highlights of todays report from the Senate Crime Committee Politics It accused William ODwyer am to Mexico and former New York mayor of contributing to the growth of organized crime in New York city and of impeding promising investigations of under world rackets It said Frank Costello bigtime racketeer and gambler Is a power ful figure in Democratic politics in New York City It also aimed some critical shifts at Democratic Governors Fuller Warren of Florida and Forrest Smith of Missouri Gambling The committee urged new laws to deny bookmakers and other pro gamblers interstate fa for transmitting information necessary to their operations It also called for other steps to choke off gamblers profits and mare them on taxes Local Responsibility The committee said that crime is largely a local problem While the federal government can help it said crime must be attacked primarily at tto local fevei In New York Communist and nonCommunist leftist groups wera to stage rival May Day celebra tions More than 2000 police and detectives were assigned to main tain order April Building Adds To Citys Construction Total April building added another 5400000 to Big Springs 1951 con struction total pushing the figure to F W Settle city building inspector reported this morning A total of 108 permits were is sued during April for 5411055 in construction Bettle said It the years third largest month Building was heaviest in Jan uary when permits were issued for In construction March was second with Feb total was 8360950 reported CHARTER VOTE ATTRACTS FEW Charter amendment proposals were attracting few voters to the City hall fire station morning Only 15 had been cast up to The proposed amendment would change procedure for an new territory to the city concur with the new state elec tion law asid fix limitations on certain claims against the city The polls were scheduled to close at 7 pm t
