Long Beach Press-Telegram (Newspaper) - November 20, 1951, Long Beach, California FOUND LONG BEACH 12 CALIF TUESDAY NOVEMBER 20 VOL 294 PR ICE 5 CENTS 1951 H O M E EDITION Five Editions Daily U.S Plane Attacked Lost Near Iron Curtain FREEDOM Dispatcher Karel Truksa left and Engineer Jaroslav Konvalinka second from who a stolen train with passengers across the Czech border to West Germany arrived in New York with their families by plane yesterday from Europe They will live in N J Left to right Mrs Truksa with son Pavel Mrs Konvalinka Jiri Konvalinka 5 and Konvalinka 9 Story on Page ated Press Wirephoto Blood Plasma Laboratory Strike Staved WASHINGTON Nov 20 AP Mediators early today reached an agreement which they hope will halt a strike threatening to pinch off the flow of lifegiving blood plasma to the armed forces Terms of the agreement still must be approved by members of the Chemical who ened to quit work at the Sharp Dohme plant in West Point Pa A vote will be taken at a ing called for tonight in phia Terms were not announced by exhausted mediators who met for 16 straight hours trying to work out a solution E M Sconyers of the Federal Mediation Service announced that the panel consisting of five company 15 union and three members arrived at what they considered a tory agreement shortly before dawn The threat to the already in Tone Beats Babs to Divorce Punch By VIRGINIA MACPHERSON HOLLYWOOD Nov 20 UP Franchot Tone beat actress Barbara Payton to the divorce court today with a suit to end their marriage while the shapely blonde was still scrambling to get her case on file British Russ Vie adequate supply of plasma alarmed officials Some said here if the strike developed it would shut off about of the flow of blood plasma to the armed forces A mediation official in delphia said however it would threaten the Army's entire ma program Conditions were considered so serious that federal conciliators trying to stave off the strike by laboratory workers said if a had not been reached by noon today they had planned to ask the White House to step in with a fact-finding board or other temporizing de- vice PARIS Nov British and Russian for the star speaking position forced a suspension of debate today on western disarmament proposals before the United Nations cal committee Both British Minister of State Selwyn Lloyd and Soviet For- eign Minister Andrei Y sky want to speak last in the dis- cussion opened yesterday by U S Secretary of State Dean in A British spokesman also said he believed that the very found impression created in the committee by son made Vishinsky hesitate to answer too quickly According to this view the Russians do not want to appear before the world as spurning the western plan without considerable thought the The I'll have mine in today if 3 can possibly make she said bitterly And I don't want any money from him I'm not going to ask alimony All I want him to do is pay up some back bills This includes starlet refused to tell anybody why and Tone split up so soon after their champagne wedding I can't even get all the dope from her her lawyer Robert Feder sighed I have to have a lot more information relating to Tone I can file Barbara's complaint Tone hasn't won the first yet We're planning U N Infantrymen round yet We're planning in tne Korean war I I 1 i to file a regular divorce action were two notable differ this afternoon and possibly a ences between the GHQ report I IlC UN to his suit at the and Hanley's The vii w i They still may take this step if the mediation agreement is not approved tonight A Policeman to Stand Dope Trial LOS ANGELES Nov 20 Adolph W Lempia 46 who holds a master's degree from the University of Southern California must stand trial on narcotics charge In court yesterday narcotics of fleers said five heroin capsules were found in pocket when he was arrested last Nov 5 Free on bail 6000 Deaths Indicated but Gen Ridgway's Office Issues Mild Rebuke to Colonel Hanley TOKYO Nov 20 AP lied headquarters said today there is considerable dence that about 6000 American soldiers died in Red atrocity killings although bodies of only 365 have been recovered The statement from Gen Matthew B Ridgway's ters made no mention of nist of Allied atrocities Each side accused the other of atrocities in Korea while the Panmunjom circus tent truce talks in a one-day by the Communists Cpls Henry left and Richard Needham of Lansing Reds wanted time to study a casket of another brother Sgt John Needham who was killed in Kort I pted at Oakland The train is due at Chicago tomorrow and the brothers General headquarters of the U accompany the body to Lansing Henry was wounded twice m Wirephoto N command made it clear the report of wholesale Red atrocities I issued last week by Col James M Hanley did not involve an increase in the known American same time The attorneys for the actor went into Superior Court to file action with Barbara's threats of court action still ing in their ears Only last night the stormy who had just lost a movie contract flounced out of and Hanley's The figure of 6000 was nearly 500 above Hanley's The colonel listed his total as definitely atrocity tims GHQ said neither the fact nor manner of death of all has been established HANLEY REBUKED It also gave Hanley this mild movie VUL UA their Beverly Hills apartment reprimand for releasing the tn oft rmt nf His duties do not involve warning Tone to get out of His v house immediately or she'd get responsibilities for reporting ol an eviction order casualties arising from the Ko SEOUL Korea Nov Truman in Capital for Political Talk our stay Discloses Slaying KIMBALL S D Nov 20 State's Attorney Don Porter an- today that Robert E Thwing charged with kidnaping and raping a Kimball rural school teacher confessed this morning that he shot and killed her uncle Harvey Burr He did riot say why Thwing led Porter and other officers to a hayfield near here and pointed out Burr's frozen body The body of the old Burr was lying face down covered with hay at the edge of a haystack Porter said Thwing told him he shot and killed Burr last day night shortly after he re- leased Mrs Robert Stadler whom he had held prisoner for four hours in his car He has been charged with kidnaping and rape in connection with Mrs abduction Burr lived alone on a farm near here A wealthy widower he was known to have helped out Thwing financially on many sions enough in a tiff with he-man Actor Tom Neal over Barbara's fractions recently He lost that by a kayo Barbara They eloped to and were married Sept 28 It was a brief com- plaint that Tore's attorney ley N Gleis filed It made no mention of Neal the man who shellacked Tone on Miss Payton's front lawn 14 days be- fore the nuptials complant said there was no community that they had married Sept 28 and separated Monday afternoon Mrs Tone has inflicted cruelty upon the corn Chinese The fight west of was the only action reported on the western Korean front In the east Allied infantrymen j hacked out gains of 800 yards as persons they pushed forward along the f His plane arrived at the legitimate aims of mony TO GO INTO SERVICE Pvt Helen Callahan Fifth in Family to Enter USAF NEW YORK Nov 20 Pvt Helen Callahan left today to begin three years service in the Women's Air Force with her mother at the train proudly seeing off the eighth Callahan to go One of Helen's five brothers now in uniform Air Force standing by to congratulate her after she was sworn into the WAF yesterday The other four three Air Force Officers and one Navy enlisted man are scattered from Korea to England One sister arid a brother returned to civilian life after World War H The other the 10 children did not go into the service She's the last her mother Mrs James C han said beaming at her daughter after the ing to ceremonies If I were Helen's age that's what I would want to do was young there was nothing you could do but be a nurse or teach school so I taught school Helen a quiet girl who has been determined to get into uniform since she was explained proudly There are five of us In- the Air Force V My oldest brother John was supposed to swear me in Jast September but she said Lt CoL John P Callahan now is on duty in England cans still carried as missing in the report said there is no conclusive proof as to the ber of dead though there is con- evidence to justify pre- Continued on Page Col 2 Bus Skids on Coast Highway Six Shaken DANA POINT Nov 20 A Greyhound bus skidded this morning on wet pavement across Coast Hwy struck a curbing and slid out of control ridges northwest of the Punch across the thoroughfare were Bowl In the Hill fight an estimated Red battalion charged up the slopes about 3 a m Flashes of gunfire lit up the night as Allied infantrymen pulled back slowly before the asj sault Two hours after the battle be- gan the U N infantrymen Most of the Reds got out of the way The Allies were challenged only by a few rounds of rifle and artillery fire and soon were back in their nal positions U N jet pilots swept North Korea skies without finding a cruelty upon me ajd None of Red MIG jets up to noon plaint said and has Destroyed the was hurt Fifth Air Force reported the The Holidays Planned for Air Force WASHINGTON Nov 20 The Air Force will suspend most training activities between Dec 22 and Jan 2 and will give Christmas leaves to as many men as possible The Air Force said that leave will be granted as liberally as training schedules and local con- ditions permit Typhoon Threatens Islands MANILA Nov 20 Strong winds and heavy rains ahead of a typhoon whirling at 80 miles an hour today whipped the sayan Islands in the east-central Philippines mishap occurred about a m near McKinley Ave not far from where another bus caught fire and burned Nov 7 when it collided with a pickup truck Underworld Puts Sign on NEW YORK Nov 20 UP An underworld court has placed bert Anastasia reputed Lord High Executioner of Murder Inc on the the New York City committee ed today A committee spokesman said the court ordered Anastasia to get out of town or be rubbed out by guns Anastasia a Brooklyn front boss was accused of ing a double highest Willie Mo The Fifth Air Force said bombers and Marine fighters bombed or strafed about 1500 trucks and two supply trains Ex- plosions from trucks and trains lit up the night WHERE TO FIND IT Classified to 11 Financial 7 Radio and Shipping 11 Tides Women's 3 Jury Indicts Sailor in S F Bus Tragedy OAKLAND Nov 20 Testimony of heavy drinking wild driving and ended in the indictment of a sailor whose car touched off the Oct 28 Greyhound bus crash on the San Francisco Bay Bridge The tragedy cost eight lives and in- jured 21 other persons and indictments were returned late yesterday by an Alameda County Grand Jury against Boatswain's Mate Orville C Russell Jr Russell's car hii an abutment dividing traffic near the land end of the bridge and tossed a concrete chunk in the path of the bus causing it to plunge 40 feet off a ramp Grand jury witnesses said Russell formerly of Independence Kan consumed quantities of wine and whisky the the They said he women and a in his car by driving wildly about the streets of Oakland and San Francisco Once a witness said Russell threatened to drive the car into a bridge railing and kill all of you and The next morning he drove the bridge daily duty of the cooks on Treasure Island A Navy base in the bay He seriously injured when his car was overturned by the abutment bus inbound from Salt Lake went out of control blowing a tire on the concrete chunk It crashed through a steel retaining fence and fell 40 feet to a railroad right of way pancaking upside down on its 29 occupants Seven including the bus driver were killed outright All other 22 were injured and one later died retti from Key West At 10 o'clock tonight Mr Tru man is to address a banque meeting of the National Woman Democratic Club He plans t leave to return to Key West at a m tomorrow Before the takoff from th Florida airport Mr Truman tol newsmen that he has George F President Truman's speech may be heard from to 11 o'clock tonight over KECA Kennan under consideration fo the post of ambassador to sia He said he had discussed it with Secretary of State Acheson and that Kennan would make a good ambassador Kennan a State Department expert on Russia had a major hand in the development of the administration's policy of con- of communism by building strength around it On Mr Truman's arrival re lane Shot at Hungary and Romania 4 Airmen Aboard Transport Hunted in Yugoslavia B E L G RADE Yugoslavia 20 AP The U S Em- assy here reported tonight an American military cargo plane with four men aboard was fired on by Romanian and Hungarian border guards and then became lost It has been missing more han 24 hours and is being sought in western Yugoslavia and the Adriatic Sea The plane lost its way en route from Germany to Belgrade and flew near the Hungarian and Ro- manian borders The pilot ently turned back after Romanian guards opened fire the embassy said and headed ward The pilot last reported his position in the vicinity of Zagreb yesterday afternoon It is still not definitely ible to determine the location of the plane when it was last heard the embassy statement said The U S Air Force has mobilized 15 planes at Treviso Italy These planes will fly into Yugoslavia at daylight tomorrow and search for the missing ilane A U S Air Force spokesman in Rome said today's hunt for the plane centered in the northern Adriatic coastal region of Italy and along the Dorder The plane is a military cargo raft which carried a crew of four The transport en route from Bavaria Germany to Continued on Page Col 5 Vote on Austerity Supports Pleven Moretti was slain Oct 4 in a Cliffside Park N J restaurant by gunfire The spokesman said he knew the nature of the double cross but could not reveal it at ent Anastasia is taking the first of the two choices offered him and is making arrangements to go to Hot Springs Ark the spokesman told newsmen Anastasia reportedly is turning over his property here to other members of his family Atom Crashes Killing Three PARIS Nov 20 UPt Premier Rene Pleven won a vote of con- tonight from the French National Assembly The Assembly endorsed program of limited austerity which he says is needed to pay for a full partnership in defense of the west The vote was 247 to 229 Pleven's middle-of-the-road tion Against Pleven were the Communists the supporters of Gen Charles de Gaulle and a tering of mavericks X A CUt a v WJ porters had a chance for a The vote enables the Pleven cabinet to stay in power It also chat with him The main thing they got from him was another denial that he has offered to support Gen Dwight D Eisenhower for the Democratic nomination for dent Mr Truman said specifically on Page Col 4 EDWARDS AIR BASE Calif Nov 20 America's newest and FORCE One of fastest in atom bomb carriers crashed taking off from this Southern California desert base yesterday Wiling the crew of three The exploded after the crash Dead are Capt Joseph E Wolfe Jr 33 experimental pilot Chattanooga Maj Robert A Mortland 30 copilot Clarion Pa and Christy N Spiro 32 Worcester Mass Occasional showers tonight and tomorrow Southwest winds miles per hour with stronger endorses the plan outlined by Ff nance Minister Rene Mayer on Friday for a heavy cut in im- ports that must be purchased with dollars Mayer had also called for a 200 franc nearly million tax in- crease including a new levy on excess profits ESTIMATED AT Demos Ought Pay for Truman Trip Solon Says WASHINGTON Nov 20 Rep Busbey said today President Truman's trip here from Key West is a junket and ought to be paid for by the Democratic tional Committee instead of the Air Force He estimated the Truman is making the trip to address the Women's National Democratic Club tonight Busbey said m a be said by the wildest stretch of anybody's that Mr Truman's trip has any connection with off business The purpose of the trip is politics and nothing but politics Why Mr Truman should have the free use ot a plane hour to operate the dent's plane the Dependence and calculated the round trip would take eight hours He said he hopes the Secretary of De- fense sends the to the Democratic committee adding that the committee reported it had 5213.894 on hand last Sept M- He suggested the President's plane might better be used to fly some wounded veterans home from Army hospitals lor the Thanksgiving holiday
