Independent Record (Newspaper) - April 7, 1951, Helena, Montana Vol 137 Helena Montana Saturday April 7 1951 Price Five Cento United Nations Forces Stabbing Deeper Into Red Korea as Opposition Still Is Dwindling Roadways of Death Are Left Behind With All Approach Avenues Mined Tokyo April 7 IP United Nations forces stabbed deeper into Red Korea today against little op- position On most sections of the western and central battlefronts the Com- had withdrawn suddenly and strangely But they left behind roadways of death The routes leading north were sown thickly with mines booby-trapped mortar shells and pits dug to trap tanks The for- ward pace slow Censorship cloaked the distance Wreckage of Lost Air Liner Believed Discovered Today gained AP Correspondent Tom shaw said lack for firm contact with the Reds for miles north of the border surprised most Allied observers On the western front patrols column of United Nations troops literally ing their way forward near the parallel find the going a bit slow Spring rains have turned the Korean roads into seas of mud hampering the Yanks as they move across the line to meet the expected Communist offensive NBA crossed the Hantan river at eral points four to six miles north of the border They drew fire from the north bank and pulled back British commonwealth troops on the central front consolidated Two Republican Senators Want to Know Whether Arms Shipments Are Going to Europe or Korea Washington April Republican senators both out- spoken critics of the foreign policy demanded to know today whether arms ments are being diverted from Korea to Europe Senators Bridges N H and Knowland Calif want to know why enough equipment isn't able to arm more than South Koreans who could then pre- be pressed into the ing They said military officials will be asked to give senate committees i That would lower the draft the reason age to 18 and a half extend service Reporters in Korea said the to 26 months and set up a re i range universal military training Glasgow Youth Is Victim of Auto Accident Glasgow April ing car smashed through a guard rail and plunged into the black waters of Cherry creek here last midnight carrying Robert L strom 19 of Glasgow to almost certain death South Korean reserves were leased from battle last month be- cause their government lacked clothing and equipment for them State department officials here said it was their understanding the men weren't combat troops but a kind of home guard Bridges told a reporter he thinks there is something radically wrong if South Koreans are sent home at the same time Americans are being drafted to fight in Korea Going And Knowland said he wants to find out how much of our military supplies is going to Europe and how much to Korea and the Far East The house armed services com- meanwhile will review the brand new draft deferment plans for college students at a special Monday meeting Maj Gen Lewis B Hershey draft boss will answer the tions Some committee members Sheriff B E Richter said today ently consider regulations the son of Mr and Mrs Engstrom of Glasgow was and presumed drowned Richter today reconstructed the accident this The car carrying young Engstrom and Chuck Eayrs 19 also of gow went down in about 10 feet of water in Cherry creek near the southwest city limits The windshield shattered when the car hit the bridge Eayrs climbed out through the hole The car was lifted from the creek today Engstrom was not in it too liberal They provide for draft deferment for all students who get a grade of 70 on a special test or keep their college grades above a certain point Committee members did a when they read of the new plan announced right in the middle of hot debate over the new program to take effect at some future date New Amendment Rep Kilway a ber of the committee announced he would offer an amendment to the to kill the new deferment plan And Chairman Vinson D- Ga said he'd support it The UMT proposal was running into heavy opposition too Many members of congress felt it had no business being in the sion They felt it should be taken up as a separate measure A mystery witness got into a story of political intrigue today but Senator Tobey R-N H wasn't even hinting at his identity ex- To indicate the man is a ment official whom most members of the subcommittee looking into RFC lending practices would And to say according to highly qualified sources the man had given him details about an undercover move to squelch the RFC inquiry Tobey told reporters today he hopes to have an opportunity by Wednesday or Thursday to tell the story publicly The subcommittee has said that an influence ring with entree to the White House has influenced lending operations of the struction finance corporation their positions in the Red land American and Thai units north of the border met only small arms and automatic weapons fire An Eighth army communique said Red casualties Friday totaled about 935 The Reds sent 40 MIG jets flying over northwest Korea near the Manchurian border They were jumped by 50 U S Thunder jets in a wild dogfight above Sinuiju American pilots claimed two Red jets were of them probably destroyed All the returned safely to their bases UN ground forces were all north of parallel 38 except at one point in the center Their main problem was consolidating the gains won with no opposition other than the traps Almost all across the front the hills had been cleared of Red Chinese and North Koreans The only hard fighting was in the area immediately north of gong and up the road east of Stubborn Reds were dug in both Before suddenly pulling back to the high ground north of the tan river the Communists sowed trails and roads with mines Their was in the face of heavy Allied artillery that helped can troops clear five hills on the road for slight ad- vances Friday's action was slight II S 8th army headquarters claimed only 800 Communists killed or wounded and 37 prisoners taken UN troops were inside North Korea all the way from the river in the west to the Sea of LOSING NO troops at right continue their march to forward positions two wounded American soldiers are rushed to waiting helicopter for a speedy evacuation They were wounded in action during a link-up of two United Nations units north of NBA Japan in the east except for the gap held by the stubborn Reds along the road ican troops in that road sector still had not crossed 38 but were proaching the border Secretary of Commerce Is Given Contempt Citation for Fight Over Control of Steamship Line Washington April of Commerce Sawyer has drawn a contempt of court citation for his part in the long bitter fight over control of the 000 American President steamship line School Election Polling Will End at 8 o'Clock The polls will close at 8 o'clock tonight to end the voting for two trustees for school district No 1 Voting began at noon Polling places are precinct No 1 Hawthorne school precinct No 2 Central school and precinct No 3 Bryant school The candidates are Ben R Ul- berg and Jack R McNamara for a one-year term and William A Brown and A M Jasmin for a three-year term Retired Bishop Is Winner of Stalin Peace Prize Big Ranch Sold Denver April Lynn Van said today he has sold his famed Lazy VV ranch at Nederland Colo for to Mr and Mrs George Warren Barnes of Houston Texas Van Vleet said the ranch which has been the showplace and breeding grounds for the Van Vleet Arabian horses will be operated by the Texas couple as a cattle Thomas P Whitney Moscow April The Rev Arthur W Moulton 77 retired Episcopal bishop of Utah was listed today as the winner of a Stalin peace prize along with such world figures as French Communist scientist Frederic Also on the list of winners were Mme Sun widow of the founder of the Chinese republic and a vice chairman of the Chinese Communist government in Peiping Montana National Forecast Helena and vicinity Fair tonight Sunday increasing cloudiness Low 32 high 63 Montana Station Max Min Pep Billings 51 official Helena ture at 2 p m was Station Max Min Pep Bismarck N D 47 31 01 Belgrade 53 Alta 50 24 Broadus 53 15 Wyo 47 25 04 Butte 52 111 55 50 37 Cut Bank 48 Colo 47 33 33 Dillon 54 City Mo 55 41 45 Las Vegas Nev Drummond 53 Glasgow 46 Angeles Calif 61 Paul 46 34 20 Great Falls 47 29 Havre 49 Orleans La 70 63 1.30 New York City 63 46 Helena 47 Kalispell 58 30 Lewistown 43 27 Ore 72 42 St Louis Mo 64 51 04 Salt Lake City 64 35 San Francisco 53 48 T Livingston 52 Wiles City 50 Missoula 62 Wash 64 41 West Yellowstone 52 Whitehall 55 Wash 65 37 D C 67 43 and Britain's Hewlett Johnson the Red Dean of Canterbury dral The awards were created Dec 20 1949 on the eve of Prime Minister Stalin's 70th birthday by a decree of the presidium of the supreme Soviet the Russian parliament They have been regarded in the west as part of Russia's propaganda drive to depict the Soviet Union as the campion of peace Westerners had expected the announcement of the 1950 winners to be made on Stalin's birthday last December and have been puzzled at the delay In addition to a cash award of rubles each recipient is to be given a gold medal bearing Stalin's image and a certificate A statement issued with the an- of the 1950 winners yesterday said the awards are granted to citizens of any country in the world independently of their political religious and racial filiations for outstanding services in the cause and struggle for the maintenance and strengthening of peace Bishop Moulton's name appeared fifth on the list In Salt Lake City he said the award took him completely by He denied any ist leanings and said he could not any money from right or eft for working for peace The only reward I want in ng for peace is Bishop added The retired churchman said all lie efforts of the peace movement eem to come from across the sea want some to come from this I want to see America ead in it and I believe she will I'm for he declared but I'm an American If America goes to war I go with her Bishop Moulton is an associate member of the fellowship of re- conciliation which he identified as This data for 24-hour period ending m furnished by U S weather bureau Helena West of cloudiness Not so cool tonight Low Sunday considerable cloudiness Light widely scattered rain or snow showers Cooler northwest High East of cloudiness Not cold tonight Low Sunday variable cloudiness with widely scattered light ers High west east Meat Rationing Feared Under Price Controls Washington April of the livestock indus try reportedly say the present price controls will bring on meat ration ing within six months Their prediction was reporte following a closed meeting with mobilization officials yesterday Economic Stabilizer Eric Johnston was understood to have argued tha without the meat price controls th economy cannot be stabilized The citation was made day by the U S court of appeals It said Sawyer had failed to carry out the court's order to return the shipping line to its former owner the Dollar company The contends it owns the line's stock because of loans granted the Dollar interests The Dollars have disputed this during years of litigation Government lawyers were unable to recall any previous contempt tations against a cabinet officer in connection with his official duties The commerce secretary and nine other persons cited with him were given until Thursday to show cause why they should not be found in contempt of court Meanwhile in San Francisco Federal District Judge George B Harris ruled that Sawyer other government officials and officers of the President line named in the citation in civil con- tempt of court there Harris ruling was made only a few hours after the citation here It had no bearing on the ton contempt proceedings The contempt citations were re- quested by R Stanley Dollar and his associates They claimed yer and the others had not com- plied with a court which said the Dollar interests should be given effective possession of the common stock in the American President lines Yesterday's argument here brought out that the San cisco suit was filed at the tion of President Truman ing in this court than any other citizen He has no right to ence litigation Ninety-two per cent of the line stock has been held by the government which contends Dollar gave it up in return for loans and subsidies The Dollar people have said this isn't so that the stock was merely held as collateral The court recently ordered the stock returned but the Dollars said this wasn't done The con tempt citations followed Judge Bennett Champ Clark said he is an old friend of the dent He has no more Red Air Force Sends More Planes to Korea Tokyo April Red air force appearing in greater and greater force but still extremely wary sent 40 MIG jets over northwest Korea near the Manchurian border Saturday ing They were jumped by 50 can which aged two MIGs and drove the rest back to their Manchurian ary in a swirling dogfight All American planes were reported safe This brief encounter compared with a tangle between 30 to 40 MIGs and 54 American jets last Tuesday in the same area In that fight rated at the time as the gest battle of the war three MIGs were reported shot down U S fifth air force headquarters stated that the week just ending was one of the greatest of the war for air fights with at least four MIGs shot down and at least 16 damaged out of a total of sighted over northwest Korea The Reds however were still sticking close to MIG the border zone where they can glide back into Manchuria at the first threat of trouble Fire Sweeps Over 200 Acres of Grass Brush Land Fire swept over more than 200 acres of grass and brush along Willow creek north of the Ives ranch 5 miles north of Helena yesterday afternoon before it was brought under control by ers and forest service fire fighters The fire broke away from a ing operation on a nearby hay meadow and rapidly spread through the dry dead grass and brush The ranch is near the Gates of the Mountains wilderness area Eight men remained at the scene this morning mopping up fire in about 100 burning pitch stumps in side area Fire fighting operations were under direction of Assistant Ranger of the Canyon Ferry district The crew expected to complete work by this afternoon Forest Supervisor Franklin Blackmer and Canyon Ferry er Fallis left for the fireline early this morning to make an in- The crew kept in contact with the district forest service office in the federal ing with portable short wave radio Pilot Reports Missing Ship is Demolished Twenty-Two Persons Are Aboard California Plane Santa Barbara Calif April A United Airlines plane today spotted the age of a plane believed to be the missing Southwest Airways airliner with 22 persons aboard However civil air patrol search headquarters at the Santa Barbara airport withheld official tion because the wreckage of a previous plane crash is known to be in the east of Santa Maria in the rugged Los Coches mountains The pilot on one of the PBY search planes said he also spotted a wreckage He radioed that it was still smoking and was demolished except for one wing He located the crashed ship in a spot called Refugio pass about halfway between Santa Barbara and Santa Maria Capt Larry Shapiro pilot of the United Airlines ship that also re- ported sighting the crashed plane was circling the scene sets Foresters today warned ers and campers to be especially careful with fire and matches when using the forest A large cumulation of dead grass in open areas is tinder dry and especially dangerous in midafternoon they said The danger is not quite so great in heavily timbered areas Persons burning rubbish should take due precaution against of spreading into thick grass Forest Supervisor A D Moir said Other persons visiting the forest during the next few days should be extremely careful with matches and camp fires he added Kaiser to Marry Oakland April trialist Henry J Kaiser plans to marry Miss Alyce Chester who was chief nurse and companion to his late wife They announced it would be a quiet family wedding The place and time will be announced later She is 34 He is 68 Combing Region An armada of ground air and sea searchers have been combing the rugged coastal region since dawn Overcast skies hampered the early search The plane missing since shortly after 8 o'clock last night carried 19 passengers and three crewmen Pilot Tony Machado of Santa Maria flying his twin-engined search plane said he flew over the wreckage at 100 feet There signs of he reported He said there were fresh skid marks He said he couldn't ly identify the crashed ship as the missing because of fog in the primitive Refugio pass area ever he said it is a big ship He identified the site of the crash at about one mile from a road high up in the coastal range Santa Ynez peak nearest to the scene is feet high Made Contact The southbound plane cleared Santa Maria airport and made tine radio contact at o'clock That was the last heard from the air liner which had enough line to stay in the air another three hours Eleven air force coast guard and sheriff's planes some of them amphibians are participating in the search badly hampered by fog The civil air patrol has 20 other planes on call A sheriff's patrol was sent to the Gaviota pass region between Santa Maria and Santa Barbara after a woman resident of the area reported she had heard a crash some time after 9 p m Two hitchhikers told the officers that they had seen a plane circling about 200 feet 10 or 12 miles south of the pass A search plane left immediately from San Francisco airport and two navy and guard planes cruised the Pacific off the Gaviota pass area Suit Dismissed Baltimore April 000 libel and suit Alger Hiss filed against his accuser taker Chambers has been dismissed yesterday in federal court Hiss now is serving a five-year prison a peace organization in the U S term for perjury after being con- n 1949 he delivered an address o the Cultural and Scientific Con- for World Peace held in New York's Madison Square den on charges of lying when he said he never gave secret ment papers to Chambers an ad- mitted former courier for a Com- munist spy ring Speakers at Dinner Skirmish Over Troop Remarks Philadelphia April marks about the use of American troops in Korea brought about a brief skirmish between the Polish delegate to the United Nations and a former U S state department official Three hundred persons in Two Montanans Held in Seattle Gambler's Death San Francisco April Police Inspector Ed Vandervoort said today two men and two girls told him that missing Gambler ert Whitlock of Seattle was killed near that city The four were held for ing about the disappearance of Whitlock two weeks ago They were booked in San cisco prison as Daniel Garrity 21 apprentice mechanic from Mont Billie Jean Callahan 23 AWOL soldier from Great Falls Mont Allison 14 from Ogden Utah and Donna Christi anns 22 also Ogden Inspector said they were booked under a technical holding charge and that Seattle police were being notified Vandervoort said Garrity admitted he shot Whitlock as they wrestled over a gun Whitlock had pulled after attempting to attack one of the girls Garrity said the others helped dispose of the body devoort said the three others in custody corroborated Garrity's timony Search for the two men started after Whitlock's bloodstained car was found on a San Francisco street March 26 They were apprehended in lejo after the youth of the Allison girl had aroused suspicion of a police matron Vandevoort quoted this story as told by the Garrity Whitlock and the two girls were drinking and driving about Seattle They parked in a lovers lane and Garrity went to sleep Whitlock attempted to force his attentions on Donna She resisted and Garrity awoke He went to Donna's aid and Whitlock pulled a gun The two men gled Garrity wrested the gun away and shot Whitlock once through the chest Garrity then took from Whitlock's shirt pocket The bills had a hole through them He and the girls also took Whitlock's dia- mond ring and wrist watch The three then drove back to a hotel in Seattle and picked up Callahan They all then drove to a side road between Seattle and Tacoma and threw Whitlock's body out covering it with debris Arriving in San Francisco they abandoned the car and pawned the ring A few days later they pawned the watch in Vallejo where they lived in a rooming house It was there that the girls were taken into custody and then when Garrity attempted to see them po lice arrested him and then UB Callahan ing dress watched the melee last ight Dr Juliusz aent representative of Poland to he UN and Dr Adolf A Berle r former assistant secretary of tate were the two involved Both were speakers at the meeting of the American of political and social The scuffle came as Berle the microphone after Dr ended a speech which lad been booed and brought him No blows were struck and the nelee ended quickly when C A tulp vice president of the emy and chairman of the meeting stepped between the two speakers Dr was putting on his hat and coat to leave when Berle accused him of having in- American soldiers in Korea The Polish visitor leaped to the stage pushed Berle from the mi- and shouted into American soldiers are killing women and children in Berle tried to pull the doctor away The visitor pushed back anc the tussle was over as soon as Kulp stepped in Red-faced Dr Katz Suchy stamped angrily from the platform and Berle gave his talk Dr earlier spoke on the problems of Asia He had m manuscript running to ome words That violated the time-honored cademy rule that speakers limit heir talks to approximately 30 minutes When he was well over his time a woman in the ence began heckling the speaker Kulp politely asked Dr Suchy to end his talk in five utes The speaker went on Shouts and catcalls forced Kulp to stop the speaker and he re- his seat on the stage Berle began by addressing the audience as fellow imperialists conquerors and capitalists Half turning from the hone to Dr he When my esteemed friend is making one of his periodic visits home to take back a report to the Russian general who commands the Polish Dr jumped up and began to leave Berle said he hadn't minded references to cans and capitalism insulted American but when he soldiers who even now are dying in Korea it's too much The Polish dropped his brief tne melee benn
