Long Beach Press-Telegram (Newspaper) - November 28, 1951, Long Beach, California Come From President LONG BEACH LONG BEACH 12 CALIF WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 28 1951 VOL 302 PRICE CENTS TELEPHONE HOME Five Editions Daily CHILLY falling snow Pfc James E Dunn of Kansas City Mo strikes up a tune on his harmonica as he sits on gasoline cans at Panmunjom Dunn is in charge of a gen- which supplies electricity for the lights at the cease-fire meetings between U N and Red Wirephoto NO NAMES GIVEN NONE ASKED Solons Pressured Tax WASHINGTON Nov 28 AP T Lamar fied today that members of Congress and other influential persons put tremendous on him to drop m- President Revenue Bureau Chief Fire 31 Tax Agents Missing L B Auto Dealer Safe in Chino E B Ross Apparently Amnesia Victim Turns Up at Edward Benton Ross 55 missing Long Beach used car dealer walked into the home of a sister in Chino last night apparently a temporary victim He was unable to explain to the sister Mrs Buena Phillips where he had been since he ished Friday afternoon while on a business trip Ross told his sister he awoke to find himself in Chino and he must have been missing several days He drove to her home to have her notify his wife Bonnie at their home at 3824 Action Taken After Scandal Disclosures Collector at S FM Field Boss at L A Among Discharged WASHINGTON Nov 28 AP The Truman tration today booted 31 of- and employes from its Commies Play Volleyball as Yanks Watch Air Sea Fighting Goes On 8th Army Denies Cease-fire SEOUL Korea Thursday Nov 29 AP Orders from the highest from the White House itself the Korean ground fighting to a complete if halt Wednesday AP Correspondent John Randolph reported through censorship today Randolph said the orders reached the U N troops late Tuesday night and early day morning instructing them not to fire on the enemy unless attacked By early Wednesday morning the information had reached for- ward units and apparently the a few rounds of artillery continued to arrive from the Communist side of the line SITUATION Randolph said the only thing lacking was a statement from the high command in Korea con- firming and explaining the de facto cease fire The whole situation at Eighth Army headquarters bordered on the the correspondent said At the same moment that combat troops were being told not to fire unless fired upon headquarters information officers and GHQ censors pleaded ance with every evidence of cerity Instead Eighth Army Top official to get the ax washers issued a statement insisting James G Smyth internal there is no cease fire in Korea enue collector at San Francisco He was already under tion of tax of fenders while he was head of the Justice De- tax division He made it clear however that those who approached him were convinced of the innocence of those they interceded for There was no pressure to do anything Caudle said Caudle recently fired from his post as assistant attorney gen Cold Traps Girl 111 Nov 28 UP A red-haired young woman and two of the three men she ered from the Mercer County jail were captured today on a Mississippi River island The three were taken off Mapes Island one mile south of Keithsburg 111 after the effects 61 cold weather forced them to shout for help Those retaken were Thelma M Wallace 19 Robert L Graham 22 and Benjamin F Runyon 22 all of Davenport Iowa Sheriff Robert Cagle of cer County said the fourth tive Leo R Roussell 18 is be- to be Davenport area Wallace a trusty seized an opportunity yesterday when the jail was unlock the cells of her companions seize a revolver and slip out of the jail with them eral by President Truman told j House Jotham PI Ross had called his wife at and told her he would be home after he com- a car transaction Business associates said he told them he intended to drive to Huntington Beach to buy a new car He never arrived there Ross has been in ill health for some time He suffered a heart attack five weeks ago and not returned to a full work DESERTED TIMES Square crossroads of the is deserted York City today held its first air raid drill since World War II A few policemen are ths only persons visible in this picture made from the intersection of 42nd St and Broadway looking into Times Square Times Tower is on the extreme left and Hotel Astor is in the center background The Paramount Theater building is between Wirephoto PENTAGON SILENT There were continuous i Ross wife Bonnie and two sons Eddie 16 and Paul 14 left quests for conferences by j for Chino last night after being ew Atomic Blast Slated in Nevada LAS VEGAS Nov 28 An- other blast may be set off at the Atomic Energy Commission ing grounds near here in the next few days AEG officials arrived here last night from Albuquerque to pre- pare lor the next detonation in Jhe fall series and second in phase which devoted to weapons able calling you contending you made a mistake by ordering prosecutions REQUESTS HONORABLE Caudle didn't name any of those who he said sought to influence him Nor did the House ways and means subcommittee ing the nationwide income tax scandals ask him to do so The witness said among those who came to his office or who telephoned him about tax cases were Senators Congressmen presidents of organizations and others of similar stature Every time someone walked hi that door they wanted he said They were honorable men and they wanted action were men in men who would insist that con- of theirs were innocent PRESSURES GREAT The question came up when committee counsel Adrian W De- wind said he felt the public should know more about the force of the pressures on Caudle Mr Dewind you just don't know the pressures put on the assistant attorney general in that office tremendous Caudle said earnestly What sort of pressure did members of Congress put on Continued on Page Col 8 notified Mrs Ross expects to remain there several days Mrs Phillips told the Telegram by telephone this ing that her brother still is in a condition of that the doctor had ordered him to take a complete rest with no visitors ex- cept for his family She said that lie rould recall only driving for and hours through Southern California Fear Nine Killed in Mexican Crash MEXICO CITY Nov 28 Dispatches from Acapulco said day a Mexican west coast air line plane crashed last night with line or more persons reported dead I STEERED AND HE Small Boys Steal Car lor Joy Ride 28 Two small brothers were back a lark in a stolen car they had to drive jointly I steered and hel said the smaller 11 The boys who spent 18 hours in the Freeport jail are Joseph Stoecker 15 who feet 11 inches tall and Ronald the year-old who is just lour feet They were found a m yesterday at Lena near Freeport cold hungry and crying There they a long wild story of trying to hike from to Lacon eight miles away and being kept prisoner by a an abandoned car near Lena A check of the license showed the auto had been stolen in Chillicothe night The-'boys Julia Stoecker arrived near midnight Then they taking the car for a joy ride they were able the car Ronald said he sat on his brother's steered and he Ronald said The boys to their mother No charges have been filed Air Raid Dri Stills Gotham NEW YORK Nov 28 AP An all-out air raid drill cleared New York's normally teeming streets of life within two or three utes today The shrieking sirens of the first postwar test halted all fic and sent pedestrians ing into near-by buildings at a m The all clear sounded 10 minutes later Times Square in the heart of the city was deserted Trading on the stock exchange center of the financial world came to a temporary halt Skaters on the ice rink at Rockefeller Center clumped on their skates into near-by ings Office workers in New York's Halt in Fighting Surprises Capitol By JOHN M SAN PEDRO DEPUTY ASKED TO RESIGN Robert A Lot les collector of internal revenue announced today that the tion of Sam J McCallo an in- deputy in the San Pedro office has been requested Riddell said that the order came from Washington and that he had no details except that McCalla was told he must reimburse the for overpayment on an expense account Riddell also said that Lionel Bailey a field deputy at Long Beach listed in Washington dis- patches as among 30 fired by Presidential order resigned last April 30 to enter the building business Smyth's removal by President WASHINGTON Nov 28 AP The sudden halt in was announced at Key skyscrapers took ner corridors At city hall mate meeting refuge in in- a board of broke up with Council President Rudolph Halley and other members a stairway to a basement shelter Planes held to the ground at city's airports Civil defense authorities had said the bie announced the test would be held meager reports sain ine Dig aav plane of the Lineas crashed as it was landing at the isolated town of San Luis near Acapulco They in- the plane turned over when it hit a hole in the ground while landing in the dark Some dispatches said the pilot copilot and seven passengers were killed with six passengers injured seriously A Mexico City airport official said he heard 13 were Killed and six injured Officials of the air line which operates only between the state of Guerrero and Mexico City said they were waiting for an emergency plane to bring the wounded here with a definite re- port on the casualties Until they said they did not know the identity of the passengers The plane left Ayutla 175 miles east of late yesterday for San Luis Acapulco and Mexico City WHERE TO FIND if Beach Classified to 15 2 19 11 Political to 23 Tides 1 Women's to cab this week but neither the nor hour had been divulged in advance Following instructions bus taxi and automobile drivers pulled to the curbs halted their vehicles and their passengers Advance instructions to passengers were to pay the jr this being a test before ing shelter Approximately 5000 persons in Pennsylvania Station when the sirens wailed moved quietly to shelters such as subway levels Train service halted until the all clear came Grid Star Found Hanged to Death PHILADELPHIA Nov 28 S Korean ground fighting today caught most Washington of- by surprise But those willing to discuss it described it as a logical turn in view of the tentative agreement on a truce line There is no sense in risking lives in attempting to take ground that you obviously may not was the way one of- put it He noted that the halt in ing came about 24 hours after the Communist and United commands had decided that if all other armistice problems could be solved within 30 days then the war would be stopped roughly on the present battle line v This agreement made no com- on either side to stop the fighting now or any time be- fore a final truce is signed Neither the Pentagon nor the State Department would discuss today's development officially The best indications that the decision halt the ground fighting was made by Gen thew B Ridgway United Nations commander Defense Department West Fla where the President is visiting Presidential Secretary Joseph Short said Smyth was fired for failure to manage his office properly As a Presidential appointee Smyth could be ousted only by the President In San Francisco Smyth de clared I serve at the pleasure of the that He refused to discuss the case but Ike Aide Denies Candidacy Tale SUPREME ALLIED QUARTERS Europe Nov 28 Iff A for Gen Dwight D Eisenhower today denied an American report that would leave his post before next February to run for President The spokesman said of the re- port carried from Rome last It is pure speculation without foundation NBC Correspondent Jack Be- gori Gen Eisenhower has indicated to intimate military associates that he will leave his command no later than next February to seek and accept the Republican nomination for President men declined to answer men's queries as to Ridgway had consulted the de- on the cease-fire order Several angles of the truce situation figured in discussions 1 Such a demonstration of lied desire to get the fighting over in the absence of any formal agreement to stop the shooting put the Reds on the spot before the world and place a premium on their own good faith and good will There is a possibility that a situation of partial peace as now exists may serve as an ment to the Communists to make reasonable settlements on the re- maining armistice issues 3 With the possibility that the war may end in its present it would seem to be for the ers to ask fight and die for ground they might ly have to yield the Villanova College football team was found hanged to death his room on the campus College authorities disclosed that the senior from Everett Mass was found by tow students in his dormitory room The star guard was of the team a star former appearing for the full 60 minutes in many of the college's games He had been prominently mentioned for The college issued this state Dominic Liotta captain of the football team and candidate for a bachelor's degree in the de- of education at va College died suddenly in his dormitory this morning Mr Liotta had been in ill health for the past few days Cause of death at the moment unknown committee meeting scheduled here Jan 7 Within half an hour after the Key West action James B lap commissioner of revenue an- here the ousting of 30 others as pan of to eliminate unfit employes 44 OUT SO FAK It was the biggest single up since an investigation by a House ways and means turned up Repeated cations of corruption or ciency in many spots in the eral service It brought the total score since the inquiry to these Three collectors in charge of regional offices fired Three others resigned while under investigation Thirty-eight lesser employes Continued on Page Col 4 Patrols of the United Nations Tuesday night and Wednesday roamed the quiet front under ders not to fire on the enemy unless attacked By Wednesday Chinese troops played volley ball games in view of ing GI's When darkness fell the Reds abandoned their blackout and the twinkling of Red bonfires and the glow of cigarets marked the silent mile front The Allied front continued to be blacked out however The was at ance with the agreement of both Allied and Communist ors to continue hostilities until final terms of an armistice are reached at Panmunjom There was no assurance how long it would last THERE IS HOPE The U S Eighth Army in a statement There is no in rea There is hope but that hope must not be sabotaged by wishful thinking AP MAN TELLS ORDER AP Correspondent Milo neti reported from the western front that he had seen an order from U S Eighth Army quarters to stop fighting Farneti said the Allies stopped Continued on Page CoL 5 Beyond July 1 ROME Nov 28 ISP XT S of the Treasury John W Snyder declared tonight that the United States delegation to the North Atlantic NATO Council has made no commitments on financial aid beyond the end of the present fiscal year U S War Loss Is Now WASHINGTON Nov 28 Announced U S battle casualties in Korea reached today an increase of 707 since last week The Defense Department's weekly on to families through last Night and early morning low clouds and fog mostly tomorrow with scattered high clouds Little temperature change Light variable winds becoming to southwest miles per hour tomorrow afternoon Friday reported r Last Week Increase Killed in action 171 Wounded 548 12 707 lnr Total Battle deaths X 16.972 15 New Total r Y 15 Includes killed in action 1645 fatally wounded and 185 dead originally reported missing OT Alter deducting from gross total 1393 returned 174 captured and 185 dead Following Is a breakdown ol the ties by services N Week Increase Total 1 1.144 112 He emphasized that until Con- gress approves further funds the United States cannot make further pledges of dollar aid He said however the American delegates had given ic consideration to the needs for assistance to carry out a gram of defensive strength Snyder's statement dispelled any illusions here that vast in- creases in American financial support could be counted upon until Congress authorizes new BLAZE CALLED ARSON Youth Admits He Set Fire in Hotel Menacing 250 CHICAGO Nov 28 Police said today a youth who lived at the Apartment Hotel had made an oral ment that he set the Thanksgiving Day lire which endangered 250 tenants of the building and caused damages Detective Drew Brown said Charles Byes who is on probation in criminal court for burglary told him lie had started two previous fires in the hotel Nov 18 Neither gained headway Fire Attorney Earle Downes and Brown said Byes related he ignited excelsior in a second-floor bathroom to start the Thanksgiving Day blaze which wrecked the hotel In the other two fires Downes and Brown said Byes stated he lighted papers in a corridor and under a stairway Detective Brown said police records showed Byes is a former inmate of the Illinois State Training School for Boys near St Downes who keeps a file of information on fires and arson cases said he had a newspaper clipping reporting that Byes set two fires in Colorado Springs Colo in 1942 when be was 9 years old He was visiting relatives at the time One was in a hotel Downes said Colorado authorities sent to the juvenile detention home in Chicago No charges have been filed against Byes
