Chester Times (Newspaper) - April 9, 1951, Chester, Pennsylvania HOW ARE YOU Frank Tripp discusses the phrase on page 6 Covers Delaware County First cloudy with moderate temperatures this noon tonight and Tuesday 75TH 22932 24 PAGES x PAID AVERAGE MARCH 1951 CHESTER PA MONDAY APRIL 9 1951 Communists StepUp Activity In Chester Area Prepare Plans for By ORRIN C EVANS Communist party members and their intellectual and emotional bedfellows are getting ready for TOD TakeOver Day along the Delaware River waterfront in the Chester Hook areas Trustworthy commie agents al Port Activity Jumped 44 During 1950 The Delaware River ports includ ing the Port of Chester had a 44 increase in customs receipts during 1950 is was disclosed in a new 30 page illustrated booklet published by the Delaware River Joint Commis sion Petroleum and petroleum pro ducts for a great bulk of the traffic handled on the Delaware River the booklet discloses pointing out that some 40000000 gallons of oil are handled daily at the refinery piers Five ports comprise Delaware River ports covered by the booklet including Chester Philadelphia Camden Wilmington and Trenton 25 Places Twentyfive cities and towns along the Delaware from Trenton to the sea comprise the customs district of Philadelphia Pointing out that River Ports rank second among sea ports of America the booklet states that within 300 miles of Philadelphia there are more people more stores more manufacturing plants than within the same distance of any port are in the United States Customs receipts for the Delaware River ports in 1950 totaled 261 anincrease of 44 over 1949 the booklet reports There are 250 regularly scheduled sailings each month from the ports of Chester Philadelphia Camden and Wilmington A total of 142 berths are available for ships and during 1950 there were 16359 ships arriving in clearing the local ports with cargoes Services Offered Cranes and other cargo handling equipment are available for all types of products and merchandise and a channel runs from Phila delphia Navy Yard to the sea Three serve the Delaware River Ports vania Baltimore and Ohio and Reading There are more than 1300 motor truck lines hauling to and from the Delaware River piers Chester Is served by 32 motor truck lines Wilmington by 38 Trenton by 65 Camden by 108 and Turn to Page 2 Number 4 Fine Slated To Speak at Dinner Here Gov John S Fine will make his first appearance in Chester since his election when he will be princi Brown 308 St Darby was the annual banquet of the Eagle Citizens vy Uol pl a ui L v en Others on the program will be by a motorist who later was HO il r F Swarts Judge wan iui H Harold Ervin Superior Court Judge mile long during which his t XT car Blair J Gunther John N Pew jr Rev Peter Klekotka Dr Albin Drunk ploch Andrew Osowski assistant J j district attorney Raymond R Start Montague 41 of 900 block Forrester and Joseph Mielcarek president of av was pronounced drunk by Dr the club In addition to Mielcarek officers arrest Saturday evening of the club are John vice started his string of auto at Wycombe at 9 p m avenue route president Mrs Mary cording secretary Alexander crashes Gruszka financial secretary Leon Yeadon Minka steward included Members of the board of directors and ended at Edgehill road are W Borkowski J Majkowski M Lansdowne park Darby In between Kozlowski John F F these points he is accused of striking J Paddock John J H Korpaczewski Mrs A zak Mrs S Mrs Frances Borsuk Joseph Wrzesniewski Wycombe and thony Victor Rogala Elder avenues Most seriously dam and Henry Minka Turn to Page 2 Number 6 ready have been given an official Book of Tactics as how to conduct sabotage create general confusion and stimulate rioting Pointed toward TOD reference tothe day in commie the Book of Tactics in large bold type inside both the front and back covers of the book the Reds are instructed Instructions Given Every true communist is a rev who never forgets that the final objective of his every act Police Seize 7 In 12 Gambling Raids in County Suspects Held For Court on Numbers Charges State police today pressed an investigation into a gam and expected to make new arrests Seven persons were seized Saturday when raiding parties swooped down on 12 alleged numbers Writing establish ments in the county The raids led by Fred Jack chief county detective and Sgt Cpl Rocco Urella of state police The prisoners were before ion is to produce economic confusion and bewilderment amone the people because that mass economic by confusion and bewilderment among the people affords the communist party its opportunity to seize gov control date of TakeOver Day is not yet known even to staunch party members But an investigation of several weeks digging into the muck and mire communist underground tunnels In this area has revealed terrifying plans Identity Known Magistrate A of Media and the grand jury arraigned Randall under Obviously names and addresses be used here But FBI jents police and industrial counterespionage agents operating in this with this the identity of Jack said the 12 places were operated by a numbers syndicate which was driven into hiding by the recent crime inquiry In Phila delphia He identified Samuel Settles Eastwick avenue near 80th street as a leader Settles was held in bond Others held were Mrs Elizabeth Platt who operates a grocery at Hook road and Clifton avenue Darby Township bail Wil liam C Cunningham of Hook By PAUL SOUTHWICK military affairs leaders gave up today in their fight to write universal military training into law at tins time Facing bitter opposition to a pending draft and UMT they agreed to support amendments under which con gvess would commit itself now merely to consider tive recommendations to be made later by a special UMT commission UMT could not go into effect until congress bv law so decreed y Chairman Carl D Ga said his house armed services committee which sponsored the approved the revisions unanimously at a closed meeting Boards Have Final Say denied that the committees action constituted any great concession to opponents or UMT or that UMT had been scuttled This in my opinion absolutely assures that within a year there will be a plan for universal mili tary training approved by congress he said The committee without taking a vote also was understood to have sanctioned informally an amend ment to give draft boards the last word on deferment of college stu dents despite forthcoming nation wide college deferment tests Rep Paul J Kilday D Tex who earlier had planned to offer an road Darby Township bail John Cole of Fisher street Darby Township bail Claude V Murray of 10th street near Ridge avenue Darby bail Mrs Ernestine Turner of Mulberry t UL t j UJ uti ji these commie agents in this vital street Darby bail and Ben section of Delaware county Randolph of Bartram ave What is being disclosed in this not unfounded alarmist conjecturing Its no conjecturing to report that when TOD arrives in the Chester area some 80 gasoline stations al ready tabbed by the commie strategy planners will be possible Gasoline to Inlets Then the plans call for gasoline will be released into nearest sewer inlets Then the gasoline will be ig Thats one phase of the plan to produce confusion and bewilder ment among the people Sound fantastic Of course it does But alert and police authorities can vouch for accuracy of that statement On March 19 ten pistols and flOO rounds of ammunition were stolen nue Lansdowne bail Jack said a slot machine was found on the Platt premises of a Philadelphia store The pistols in the robbery sporting goods were 25 and and sizes Robberies Increasing And there has been an Increasing number of such robberies of fire arms and ammunition throughout the nation Such burglaries have police wor Turn to Page 19 Column 3 Big Search Fails To Find Hunter Milford Pa land and air search by nearly 1000 persons during the weekend failed to find a trace of a Philadelphia hunter missing more than four months Officials called off the search at dusk Sunday night and said they assumed that George Franks mar ried arid the father of a nine son was nowhere in the area Franks disappeared last Dec 4 after leaving a woodland cabin dur ing a heavy rainstorm to meet his father Jerome who was making a final attempt to shoot a deer before they returned home The father and son never met The rain turned to a heavy snowfall Ground parties of 850 men civil planes searched the wooded and swampy area Saturday and Sunday but leaders said they turned up nothing but animal skele tons Eleven Injured in Weekend Auto Accidents in County Eleven Delaware were injured in traffic accidents durina f miol vr vj pal speaker Wednesday rright at thc weekend two seriously enough to be detained in j Onp c1 of the injured Mrs Mary E Daily Leased Wins Reports of United Press International News INS aSli Acme House Military Leaders Quit Fight To Get UMT in Draft at This Time Quit Defense Line By FRANK TREMAINE Tokyo Chinese Reds abandoned their strong hold today after opening the flood gates of the hugh Reser voir in a futile attempt to delay the j amendment to block the Allied invasion of North Korea tests said that under his college revised Pursuing U S forces ignoring the plan the tests would go ahead as treat of floods iv but that the results would threat of floods reached the only west side of the reservoir 13 miles north of the say about its die est American penetration of the ferments communist homeland in thb second battle of North Korea The Yanks were believed to have During debate on the seized hills overlooking tested last week Vinson had said the committee would consider itself formerly the eastern 6 WOUd amendments to an of the Central Korean triangle in quire pnor ap which the Reds were reporting mass ing a or more troops for a spring counteroffensive The Reservoir is third largest in Korea The Yanks reported that the the River into which the reser voir empties feet at mid day but at dusk had dropped to only one foot above normal May Have Closed Gates t The dam abouta mile across the reservoir from the nearest Allied units Engineers ven tured no explanation for the fall of the rivers crest other than the pos that the Reds may have closed all or some of the gates be fore finall retreating north But in abandoning the Reservoir the Reds gave up their position in central News Service said American Long Tom artillery be gan shelling the key hub of Chor miles north of the but that United Nations proval of UMT by concurrent reso lution of congress As the amendment was agreed to today congress actually would have to pass a new law to get UMT going Helps Draft It would be committed however to consider recommendations to be made riot later than six months after its appointment by a commission composed of and two military committees action was be best defensive Korea International won 17 Parallel troops were running into increas ingly stiff Red resistance UN officers said the temporary floods might hamper but would not seriously affect the Allied march north of the Parallel They were confident that none of the American French Thai or South Korean troops in the area would be trapped hurt in a collision with a car driven by held in bail for following a The Darby motorist Robert Joseph Greenwald Darby after his Police said Montague a stone included Elder avenue Chadborne six parked autos and one moving The first auto hit was owned by Call on Runaway Farmer Wins Top Tipster Award One of the top local stories of the week involved a youngster who ran away from his Boothwyn home to become a farmer and stayed overnight at a Booths Corner farm where he was befriended by the housewife To Mrs A Warren Cramer of Chop Suey is Brooklynese While most people think that Chop Suey is o Chinese origin it is actually Brooklynese It was invented in Brooklyn New York not by a Chinaman but by an Italian But regardless how you chop ft Chester Times Classified ads are popular dish among all types of Whether you want to sell a Chinese rug or an Italian painting some Ches may be looking in the Classified For Sale columns for It RICH NOW To place an ad phone Chester 36161 or R p 1291 ME 60577 and ask for an taker Palomar Farm Creek road Booths Corner thc housewife goes the first prize in the weekly Times Tipster Contest for her co operation in helping thc Times get news and picture coverage of the story Ferry Disabled Frank Moran 239 E Avon road took the second prize with his tip on a Ferry which was disabled out in the Dela ware had a delay bringing in its load of trucks and cars A tip on a serious col in Woodlyn in which two of the drivers were thrown from their automobiles earned the third prize for thc caller Mrs Mary Turn in Page 2 Number 1 Isaac Sapovits Dies Former City Merchant Isaac Sapovits one of the pioneer Jewish residents of the city and a former merchant died Sunday morning in Chester Hospital a lengthy illness Mr Sapovits who was 79 made wm ISAAC SAPOVITS Chester Pioneer his home at 65 W 10th st with his son Jacob local attorney and school d ector He had retired from busi ness about a ago Mr Sapovits was born in Russia and had lived in Chester for about 70 years Until his retirement he conducted a mens furnishing busi ness on W 3d for many years He was by thc mer chants and civic leaders of the city Helped Found Active in Jewish community work until his recent illness Mr Sapovits Turn lo Page 2 Number 2 GI Is Wounded in Korean Action On Tuesday afternoon Feb 20 Pfc t Chase 17 kissed hi grandmother Mrs Anna W Chase and walked away from his home at 1011 Reaney st Each draft board would have the The latest concessions on UMT went even further than anticipated UMT three men The committees assured passage of SearcK Coastline the amended draft and which reaches the voting stage in the house Tuesday The measure in from 21 to 26 months But it would appeared Sunday pay only lip service to a gency DMT program Watering down the UMT for a substitute without UMT to be offered by Rep Graham R garden D N C NBA charred tail assembly juts out against the sky as flames consume an Air Force transport plane that crashed in a Charleston W Va killing 19 persons Two others were critically injured Plane was carrying a funeral escort for an Air Force crash victim Air Crashes Take 45 Lives Over Weekend By United Press Five weekend airplane crashes left 45 persons dead five injured and two missing today Thirtytwo of the dead were servicemen along with three 01 the injured and the two missing Three crashes occurred while the pilots were flying on instruments Nineteen airforce men were killed and two others injured Sunday when their transport crashed on a PRICE FIVE CENTS Truman On MacArthur May Be Near President Discusses Controversy With Congressional Leaders By JOHN L STEELE Washington UP dent Truman discussed with I his congressional leaders to iday the controversy between the administration and Qen Douglas MacArthur Then he called in his cab inet as the policy fight between the administra tion and the general headed for a showdown The White House kept si lent on the MacArthur situa tion Presidential Press Sec Joseph Short replied with a no comment to ques tions whether Mr Truman had rebuked MacArthur or planned to do so Speaker Sam Rayburn admitted hat the controversy was aired at the regular Monday morning White House meeting between Mr Tru man and his congressional But Rayburn declined to give de tails say that no recom came from the president From other sources however iff was learned that Democratic lead ers iri congress are to assure rMr Truman they will to the hilt if he decides to crack down on MacArthur whose policy state ments nave embarrassed and an the administration Gen Omar N of the joint chiefs of staff briefed the president and the congressional ridge near Charleston W Va Three persons were killed and three others injured when a bombers three crewmen parachuted at 3000 feet and the unmanned plane crashed into a house at Morningside Md a suburb of Washington All of the dead and injured were in the house The airmen landed safely icy New Poll ation on Korea Framed me measure in ro banta cruz to mpi TT its amended form would lower the day for an airforce jet fighter draft age from 19 to and would on a flight from Hamilton Field o lengthen the period of draft service with two men aboard The ship disS T from 21 to 26 months if sources said today More than a hundred airplanes searched the California coastline from Fort Bragg to Santa Cruz to At Goleta Call authorities at speculation here that a move to discipline Gen Douglas to identify the bodies of 22 MacArthur was in the late Friday night joined Britain in criticizing Mac killed DC3 iu sion was a move to offset support when a DC3 airliner crashed in Arthur for utterances which for a hill r on iui i high Refugio Pass The consider exceed his authority as bodies were brought out of the military Sir Oliver Turn to Page 2 Number 7 Franks British LAST MINUTE NEWS One of Two Miners Found Dead Eveleth Minn body of Anton Korcha 53 one of two miners trapped by a tunnel cavein was brought out of the Spruce Iron Mine today Plane Death Toll Rises to 20 Charleston IV Ya death toll in the crash of an transport plane climbed to 20 here today when Capt Harry K Black hurst died at Staats Hospital of injuries suffered in the wreck Kansas National Guard in Action San Francisco first National Guard outfit to So into action in Korea now is in the front lines exclusive photos from ACME ambassador Washington was believed to be making known his governments dis pleasure over MacArthur Earlier today it was announced Secretary Herbert Morrison would make a statement from requests that the general si lence himself oa policy matters to the possibility that he might be re placed President Truman met in a in the House of Sunday with the MacArthur A number of of staff and there were concerning the supreme commander of the had been addressed to Morrison but Pace jr now in Tokyo the hour allotted for lve taken some message to Tm tn P 1 from the president and cleared by the Pentagon in Washington show members of a National Guard unit from Northwest Kansas in about six miles south of the Parallel PFC CHASE in Korea was cut down by enemy fire in Korea According to the Defense Depart ment telegram received by Mrs Chase the Chester GI was wounded March 27 and is now hospitalized in Japan Pfc Chase was a student at Douglass Junior High School when he enlisted in the army April 25 After basic training at Fort Knox Ky the youth was sent to Port Ga for training with airborne troops He was home on a furlough in February Rayburn Cites Terrible Danger in Red Buildup building up troop concentrations in a great many K The White House declined to dis the Rayburn statement cuss being done he added Asked if the president and his legislative leaders got more details Rayburn and other congressional Democratic leaders conferred with the president at their regular Mon day morning White House confer ence Bradley Briefs HST Gen N Bradley chairman of the joint chiefs of staff briefed the president and the leaders dur ing the meeting Rayburn had told the house last week that forces were massing above the Manchurian UN commander in Korea todays meeting Rayburn replied No it was not discussed He said Bradleys briefing cerned the location of various UN forces in Korea Rayburn admitted that the con border He those told who newsmen attributed today the remarks was T u meir numerous to an attempt to pass the draft had a damned low estimate of what he was trying to say I know we are in terrible dan ger the speaker on He said it stems from the con centrations of Russians building up here there and a great many places How many and where is a little 2 ff Turn to 2 Number 8 the joint chiefs big Alben W Barkley Senate Democra tic Leader Ernest W McFarland and House Democratic Leader John W the international military situation Bradley has been at the White House three suc days to confer with Mr Tru man Rayburn said it was logical that the congressional leaders should re port to Mr Truman on the furor over statements on the conduct of the Korean Var In a letter to House Republican Leader Joseph W Martin jr the general agreed that Chinese Na troops should be permitted to open a front ou wre mainland MacArthur also said that the real battle against communism is being fought in the Far East while diplomats talk about the Red menace in Europe The cabinet with reports from London which quoted official sources that the United States have agreed on a new policy declaration on Korea and that it may be announced later in the day There was no hint from authori as steps might be taken against MacArthur Speculation ran Port Official Is Charged With Accepting Bribe Washington Senate prob ers asked the justice department and the army today to prosecute a civilian army official charged with taking to route war cargo through the port of Orange Tex The senate preparedness in its first report of bribery in the defense effort said the man who sold his very substantial ence and power of his position was Harold F Dowell the report continued is now on forced leave from his post as chief of the port control unit of the armys freight transportation setup Two Others Linked Named with Dowell were J P Kerr former port director of Orange Raymond P Sanders Orange mayor at the of thc payments and L Morrison a private out of my field but I know it is freight traffic agent in Washington on Russias troop concentrations at began on July 1948 tne todays meeting Rayburn e was paid who reportedly was hired to solicit war shipments for Orange Dowells clandestine employ ment began on July 19 1943 the funds it continued until finally he suggested that his daughter iden as B J Noffke be hired instead because the army was be coming more watchful report declared that Kerr the citys funds on their numerous tn vr uc gener government Todays Chuckle Sign in an executives office Public opinion pollsters say eight per cent of the public has no opinion I never have met any of these people ment cargo to the several US ports However the report did not make public the names of the government officials entertained But of the subcommittee headed by Sen Johnson D Tex said Turn to Page 2 Number 3 3 Viewpoints On How to Fight War in Korea By HARRY FERGUSON United Press Foreign News Editor This controversy over how and where to fight the Korean War now has split into three viewpoints 1 Lets lick the Chinese commun ists right now with every means at our disposal 2 Lets wait and see what devel ops 3 Lets settle the war Immediately by negotiation Here are the arguments No 1 The war has settled in a stale mate We should bomb the com munist troop concentrations factor ies and supply depots in Red China We should send Generalissimo Chiang Chinese Nation alist army on a foray from Formosa to the mainland and thereby divert strength from Korea The major menace of communism is in Asia defeat it there and the situation In Europe will take care of Itself The United Nations army in Korea should be reinforced sufficiently to insure a quick victory Diplomatic talk is useless because force is the Turn io Page Z Number 5 In Todays Amusements 19 Baby Named 13 Patterns Bedtime Story 20 Pearson C Brown 6 Church Events 10 Radio Comics 20 Sports Cross Puzzle ID Television 12 J2 J K Id 1813 16 Deaths 221 Times Flies 6 Horoscope 17 6 Letters 17 Tucker a Marriage Lie 0 Womens K9 TVin we u Kt The amount of money involved fl Word Day 4 Ch
