Big Spring Daily Herald (Newspaper) - May 6, 1951, Big Spring, Texas Partly Cloudy BIG SPRING DAILY HERALD Todays News TODAY VOL 23 NO 275 PRICE 10 CENTS BIG SPUING TEXAS SUNDAY MAY 6 1951 AP WIRE SERVICE FORTYTWO PAGES TODAY ROYAL George and Queen Elizabeth of Eng land ride through Ludgate Circus London to attend service in St Pauls Cathedral to dedicate the Festival of Britain AP Wire Mac Rests Case Hurls Last Blast At HST Korea Policy Declares He Never Got Any Workable Plan From Capital By ED CREAGH WASHINGTON May 5 Douglas MacArthur an old soldier with a burning cause rested his case before Senate investigators tonight He uttered this final warning The free world is doomed to destruction if it fails to crush completely the Communist threat in Korea The general wound up three days of virtually constant testimony at 6 pm EST with a new at President he ever violated a presidential order and declaring he never got a firm plan from Washington to carry on the Korean war I felt in all conscience MacArthur said I could not go on ordering men to their deaths by the thousands in such a complete vacuum of policy decision Then MacArthur faded the time New York leaving behind as violent a controversy as has rocked the nations capital in many years He appeared untired as he boarded his plane the Bataan UN Prowls NE Of Seoul In Search For Commies By DON HUTH TOKYO Sunday May 6 lines U S Fifth Air Force planes area where they are massing lor last night spotted 2500 enemy ve lied tanks and troops today prowled j hides moving toward the front northeast of Seoul in WestCentral Korea in search of retreating A regiment of 3500 Communists dashing for cover in a hilly sec tor was spotted by airmen on this front Reports to headquarters U S Eighth Army in Korea did not make clear whether these Reds were running away from Allied columns or from An Allied patrol entered the town of four miles north af the parallel Saturday and found no Reds is 75 miles northeast of Seoul The Reds showed some fight at both ends of the sector northwest of Seoul and southeast of but stayed away from Al lied patrols at other points Probing columns of Allied tanks and infantrymen were testing the defenses of a foe who lost the first round of his spring offensive and was slow in getting the second round started Reds were busy behind their Many were streaming down from the northwest Southeast of between 500 and 800 Reds opened an attack at 10 pm Saturday 7 am Sundays communique said the attack was contained Reviewing The Big Spring Week With Joe Pickle Newcomers might have braced for a good downpour Saturday Old timers remembered last Monday And everybody kept hoping for About the only comparison give test Mondays blow was the one of the week before Which do you think was the worse Biggest news on the industrial front for the week was granting of a certificate which will permit Cosden Petroleum Corp to go ahead with a plant ex The now unit will produce vital chemicals including benzine and toluene This puts us up front in a West Texas industrial score T v The Stale Department not recommend widening of Third street on the proposed plan says there nre tio immediate plans for changes Per haps the proposition can Ire put aside state rec are given further study The Legion post is adopting a campaign to erect a veterans mon at the new Memorial Park in the old lake The idea of trees snd more trees strikes us as a fine memorial alone since nothing else can really beautify park to make it a place of dignity and beauty for this and future general ions to enjoy V Some Bic Spring athletes deserve pals on he back for good work this week Bobby Jack Gross took a First place in the shot put in ho discus throw in the state League meet Bobby Maxwell copped a See THE WEEK Pg 7 Col 1 Northwest of Seoul probing Al lied forces rammed into the same 7000 Chinese Reds who had offered stiff resistance Friday The Reds put up another battle Eighth Army estimated that 1255 Reds wre killed or wounded in ground action Saturday and 57 were captured Improved weather permitted al lied planes to hammer the Reds heavily Behind the patrols United Na tions ground forces pushed cau forward taking up slack in the lines separating the opposing armies Frontline dispatches were sub to unusually close censor ship This is not a general advance but were sparring for an opening an American Eighth Army spokes man cautioned AP Correspondent Robert Eunson The Allied forward movement came both on the Western front north of Seoul and on the Central front south of On the Western front some Chi nese prisoners taken Saturday wore new summer uniforms and freshly issued shoes Allied infantry patrols reenter ed 11 miles north of the old Korean capital One platoon withdrew after smacking into a Communist battalion on a ridge northeast of Air strikes were called Allied commanders believed these Reds were the southern an attack Correspondent Eunson said it vas generally believed the next move by the Reds still have more than 500000 men along the rent will apply pressure on Seoul rom the north a tries to cross the Han River aboul eight miles east of the ancient cap ital The aim would be to pin the Allies on the Inchon peninsula to the west and split the defense line running to Central Korea Lt Gen James A Van Fleet hac no intention of letting his Eight Army fall into this plight He ha started his outnumbered but bet forces rolling again to keep the Reds off balance In clearing weather Allied fighters and bombers made 439 sor ties by dusk He may be back for rebuttal fter the Senate Armed Serv es and Foreign Relations Committees have heard other on his ouster begin ning with Secretary of Defense Marshall on Monday MacArthur eft Marshall and the Joint Chiefs of Staff questions to answer Today he got into the record after military censorship held up more than 24 hours a message show ng the Pentagon withheld permis sion for him to use 30000 or more Chinese Nationalist troops to help item the Red Chinese onslaught of ast November One reason given by the Joint of Staff for holding up ac tion on his request That British Commonwealth nations might not let their troops fight along with Chiang men MacArthur declared he resents with every fiber of my body the suggestion that he failed to carry out the policies of the President of the nation or even the policies and of the United Na tions MacArthur said the various rec he made for harder blows against the Chinese Reds were aimed at seeking decisions seeking policy directives It was after a number of public statements at variance with admin policy that President Tru man fired the general last month with the explanation that he thought could not give wholehearted support to the poli cies of the U S and the United Nations MacArthur declared flatly today that the Presidents reasons were not valid He spoke in grave terms of the need for making permanent peace at a time of threatening war MacArthur called again and again for harder blows against the hinese Communists He coupled this with solemn plea that the U S use its moral to seek a major power agreement abolishing war Time is running out on us MacArthur declared saying mod ern civilization stands in grave dan ger of committing suicide Then pouring out details of the conflict that led to his ouster as Far Eastern commander the gen eral declared of Defense Mar See MAC Pg 7 Col WELCOMED MacArthur arriving at the building for hit second day of testimony before Senate investigators in Washington li greeted by Senators Harry Byrd DVa left and Stylet Bridges RNH His second day of testimony on Far Eastern policies was behind closed doors AP NEXT WEEK OR TWO WILL TELL screening force of large Chinese concentrations south of the parallel on the Western front Reports told of 27000 Beds and 500 horses concentrated north oi Thick minefields sown north of Stoul also provided a clue to Com munist intentions One American officer said it was characteristic of the Chinese to Jay acres of minefields to screen an Israelis Beat Back 18th Syria Blow In 4 Days By ERC GOTTGETREU TEL AVIV Israel May 5 Israeli troops heat back today the 18th Syrian at tack in four days on strategic Mu Hill an Israeli spokesman said Scores of Arab dead were report ed to cover the battlefield north of the Sea of Galilee after the ute engagement The spokesman said the Syrian troops are consolidating and for their positions within the de militarized frontier zone of North east Palestine where Israeli recla mation work is denounced by Da mascus as a violation of the Syri armistice The Syrians picture the warfare as strictly a fight between raiding Israeli troops and Arab residents of the demilitarized zone A Syrian Army communique issued in Da mascus at noon Saturday said 27 Israelis had been killed In the pre ceding 24 hours against Arab losses of two killed and three Cosden Due To Make Vital War Chemicals See ISRAELIS Pg 7 Col 7 A major plant expansion for pro duction of vital aromatic chemi cals will be expedited by the Cos den Petroleum Corporation now that a government certificate of necessity has been issued Cosden is going into production of benzine toluene and xylene all vital chemicals with s plant expansion to cost 82950000 A preliminary announcement in The Herald Friday erroneously an butane as a Design for the new plant unit has been approved said Dan Krausse Cosden engineer who will serve as coordinator of the project for the corporation and by George Grimes refinery superintendent Engineering drawings are now un der way and it is planned to break ground for construction by August 1 The work will probably consume nearly a year The plant will be built under li cense from Universal Oil Products Company the same firm which licensed catalytic crack er and actual construction will be by Procon Inc The plant includes Showdown On Policies Could Come On Korean a Platformer a catalytic reform er One of the products benzine has seen put on the critical material list by the National Production Ad ministration and hence materials used in plants for its processing get priority Benzine goes into man of styrene is used in manufacture of synthetic rubber of plastics and of important Toluene is one of the com of the explosive TNT and xylene is employed in the proces sing of aviation gas Cosden fore sees a good market for all these application for a certif of necessity was first ap proved by the Petroleum Admini strator for Defense PAD and then finally was cleared through the Defense Production Administra tion The company has been at work on the project and the application for some months The certificate authorizes ex of facilities as a defense project and allows writing off of 85 per cent of the cost in five years for income tax purposes THE PROPOSED NEW COURTHOUSE TURN TO PAGE 4 For the first of a daily of Dr Dick trip through the Holy Land You will find renl interest in these title Pastor in The Holy Land Clip and save them STARTING TODAY Space Situation Is Critical Need For Better Protection Is Vitally Important This is the first of a series of articles which will appear Ibis week to give information on the proposition of a new courthouse for Howard County This proposition will be decided at the polls on Saturday May Need is due primary consideration when anyone attempts to reach a decision on a major construction proposal In the case of the Howard county courthouse it is doubtful that more than a few would take issue on this specific factor Vet it is doubtful that more than a small portion of the countys citizens realize exactly how serious problems have become in the present courthouse building Some of them were pointed out by Ihc January grand jury which especially in the district courtroom give the public a firsthand view of what has happened to the old building Although they are among the more serious the clerks and tax offices represent only a small part of the space problems in the old building offices have seen their requirements multiply just as the county population has since 1908 the year the present building was constructed Efficiency of the courts is restrained to an alarming degree because of inadequate space There is only one court room for three courts district county and justice The State of Texas recognized the increased requirements upon the district court nearly two years ago At that time a new district was created by splitting the old 70th district That enables Howard county to have district court continuously except for By JOHN M HIGHTOWER WASHINGTON May 5 Truman policies in the Far East are faced with a twofold test In the Senate hearing room in Wash ington and on the battlefields of Korea And a showdown could come sooner on the battlefields than in Congress The administration argument has been that if the war is limited to Korea and the Chinese Reds se verely punished there an accepta ble peace may be reached The next week or two may tell At issue is the question whether President Truman can obtain lar support to make his policies stick or whether he will have to adopt some of General Douglas proposals What is happening in Korea is followed in the top levels of the administration with the keenest in terest It was summed up by Lt Gen Matthew B Ridgway MacAr thurs successor He said that so far the only thing the tremendous Communist offensive had accom was the destruction of tens oi thousands more of their own men Red casualties since April 22 are estimated at more than EO 000 That heavy damage to the enemy was what the President and his ad visors had expected They had hop ed too that when the Chinese Com have been hurt badly enough they will sit down at a con ference table and make a settle ment acceptable to the UN If it does not occur General Mac Arthur and his advocates may that the administrations hopes are without basis It seems logical that a quick con elusion to the fighting would worl to the Presidents benefit and over shadow the great debate here while indefinite warfare woul make it harder for the President 1 reject all of proposals That the administration has bee preparing the ground for a ceas fire and negotiated settlement probably along the line of the parallel is suggested by officia comment on the Korean conflict There is no longer on the rations side any talk of H triump in Korea The key phrase was use by President in his speech on Mac Arthurs dismissal April II when h spoke of trying to bring the wa to a speedy and successful conclu ion Secretary of State Acheson sed the phrase successful condit ion in a recent speech General MacArthur by contrast as spoken of victory as the only inspected the building The grand jurors emphasized problems in the brief periods when sessions arc held in Stanton and Garden City But offices of the county clerk district clerk the court room tax assessor collectors office and general sanitation deficiencies in both the main courthouse building and the county jail Records kept by the county clerk and district clerk are of vital importance to all citizens of the county and to all persons who own property in the county regardless of where they live Storage space for records on such items as deeds births deaths and cases tried in the courts has been virtually exhausted The safety of such space available is open to question especially in case of fire the county has provided less and worse facilities than it had back in the days when court was in session here for only a few weeks each year And now these facilities must be shared with the county and justice courts because their space was ong since claimed for offices The space situation in the courthouse building alone could be called critical but the main building does not cover the problem There are several offices which should be located in the building but are quartered elsewhere simply because there is no room in the courthouse Among these are the extension service agents the Production and In the ax collectors office there can be no pretense of fireproofing Marketing Association the Highway patrol he county welfare office under present conditions As for general safety of the entire building inspection by profes engineers resulted in reports of serious structural deficiencies the county engineers office the county library and survey ors office At present the county is keeping up two other buildings and renting and recommendations that he old building be replaced or extensively stilt another to accommodate agencies repaired Huge in brick at various points ic the The plans for a proposed new building provide adequate space for them proper military objective te the rean fighting He has severely crit the administration for not following what he consider de line of action aimed at bringing the fighting to victorious end US Gefs Choice By DON WHITEHEAD WASHINGTON May 5 ral of the Army Douglas MacAr nur has laid before the American eople the clearcut choice of fol owing the Truman administration following General MacArthur In essence this Is the great issue hat has emerged from the gener ils three days of testimony before Senators who are looking into the reasons for his ouster by President Truman Both MacArthur and the adminis ration are planning to carry the ight to the nation President Truman has asked the people not to make up their minds intil all the facts are known And MacArthur has disclosed that he is Manning to carry on the hrough a series of speeches prob ably starting with an address to a Joint Session of the Texas ture The choices are 1 Accept the MacArthur plan to beat Red China into surrender by bombing a naval the use of Chinese Nationalist troops and the use of few more can ground troops In Korea The risk of Russia coming into the war must be taken MacArthur says He warned that communism al ready has begun an armed attack on the free world and If you dont meet it in Korea you are doomed to destruction He argued a vic tory in Korea is the best way forestall a surprise atomic attack on this that commu nism must be opposed all over world wherever it is 2 Accept the administration plan the war to Korea on the theory that Allied forces event will make the war so costly the Chinese will be forced to cue for peace The administration does not want to take the risk of draw ing Russia into the conflict There it is AH the other argu ments pale into fuzzy outline when placed against this basic disagree ment on the best way to win a war The general has wag See CHOICE Pg 7 Col 1 Special Events Are Added To Dollar Day Significance Special events during May such as Mothers Day and Graduation add special significance to value offerings to be found In Big Spring Monday as the city observes its monthly Dollar Day Major mercantile establishments again are cooperating in a bar gain carnival designed to give out standing values to shoppers from the city and the surrounding area Many of the most notable items are to be found in Dollar Day advertising in todays Herald Free bus rides again are offered women shoppers by The Her ald and Bucher Bus Lines coupon below may be clipped and presented to any Bucher Bus driv er It will be accepted in lieu of the regular fare In accordance with the terms stipulated thereon pick up coupon THE WEATHER CLOUDY BIG SPRING VICINITY Partly cloudy and continued warm i air with change In temperature today 98 ow high to morrow 98 Highest tempera ture this date 102 In 1927 lowest this Ute 19 In 1917 maximum this date MO n FREE BUS RIDE CLIP THIS COUPON This coupon entitles one adult woman te ride down town FREE between 9 a m and a m and be tween 1 p m and 3 p m May 7 1951 Good on any Butcher bus Good Only This Dollar MAY 7 Courtesy Of Buchtr Bus Lints and
