The Newport Daily News (Newspaper) - March 2, 1951, Newport, Rhode Island Weather Data Saturday Sun rises sets Tide high A. P. low A. P. M. Thursday's temperature high 32, low SO. Load Forecast Fair and not quite so cold Saturday Increasing ness and continued Detailed Report On Page 3 ESTABLISHED 1846 Vol. 27 R. MARCH 2, 1951 PAGES PRICE FIVE CENTS Senate Plans Test Vote Monday On Cutting Draft Age Limit To 18'2 Years Measure Asks Older Men 19-26 Be Called First March 2 The Senate agreed today to a test vote Monday on the issue of lowering the draft age to 18 years and 6 months The present Selective Service act allows induction at age 19. A pending approved by the Senate Armed Services tee would allow calling up of 18 year olds The test will come on ail amendment by Senator Morse to make the minimum age 18' 2 years The committee would re- quire local draft boards to older men jn the present 19 to 26 draft manpower pool before ing- any 18 year It also would require that the IS year olds est 19 be inducted first The Morse proposal eliminate both these allowing boys 18% years of age as well as those 19 to 26 to be taken at the same Would Allow Volunteers Morse said he would also allow between 18 and 18 Vi to The test will be the first on a series of amendments proposed to the broad Universal Military Training and Service It has been debated intermittently this week and the voting agreement was by unanimous Senator urged today that the nation draft 18 year olds because need every man we can get in Korea Cain had sharp criticism for Morse's impractical and how un- realistic can wo become in our forts to sugar-coat this evade the Cain asked in speech prepared for Senate de- am hopeful that this tion will be enacted and that it will not bo circumscribed or crippled by of the type recommended by my colleague and very good friend Cain One of the amendments sought by Morse would make the minimum age for Four days of debate over this and other on Page 7) Fourteen Persons Die In Iowa Plane Crash Til 2 A Mid-Continent Airline plane crashed and burned here today and 14 persons were re- ported including the pilot and Eight persons The ship was com- ing In for a landing when the crash occurred about 9 11 A. M. Witnesses said visibility was but a sudden snow squall blotted out the plane just before the It was second this Last IP passengers and the crew of four walked away from one of its airliners just before the craft was enveloped in flames after at Okla. MORE RFC HEADS ALLEGEDLY FIXED Detroit Industrialist Says lawyer Boasted Of W March 2 Roy Detroit industrial swore today that Joseph f Washington lawyer told him in 1949 he had two RFC directors his hip He said Rosenbaum named d Walter L. Dunham an William E. Fruehauf testified before a Sen ate banking subcommittee which i investigating charges the Recon struction Finance bi government lending has yielded to influence in in an earlier appear ance before the denied h had ever made the pocket Claim After testimony Rosenbaum returned to the witnes chair and again denied it. He sal he did not even knew Dunham am had never talked with Fruehauf said Rosenbaum made the claim in late 1949 when they were about the possibility of foreclosure on loans to He said Rosenbaum wanted to take on the job for a Rosenbaum acknowledged he had asked for a fee if he were successful in working out i reorganization that would an he am entitled to charge Rosenbaum Mid ly did submit a plan to the RFC but never get any tion on He cited this M dence he was from alleged influence with the Source Not Revealed The in a report to the has said baum apparently had influence with That report sale Rosenbaum reportedly claimed to have two directors In his but did not from what source the Senators heard of the It was on the of the report that baum made his earlier denial ot having made such a Fruehauf told blocked efforts to rescue Carl G. Cor from financial only a hours a tor had withdrawn a re talner fee to Strandlund charged from the witness chair Thursday that Dun ham was involved deeply with he accused having conspired to strip him control of big pre fabricated housing plant The plant financed almost entirely with borrowed the Strandlund charged the HFC foreclosed the mortgage on the now bankrupt firm because he re- efforts of influence involving RFC to enrich themselves from it to take Man Slain With Hatchet In Rooming House As Blind Landlady Sits Nearby Lewis Hits Temporary Ferry Rate Hike As Harmful To County Economy Mayor Lewis today attacked temporary rate increases granted Thursday to the port Ferry Company as harmful to the economy of Newport County and said he would to ernor Fare boosts as high as 50 per cent went into effect this ing on the ferry after tion by Thomas A. lic utilities be- cause of the company's need for The company was called insolvent recently by the state bureau of audits after an investigation of its late increases will serve useful purpose End will hurt the county's economy right through to Mayor Lewis asserted now on travel will be more prohibitive on the Under the increases it now costs to drive to town and a distance of 10 He indicated that if the posed state ferry now the subject of a in the takes it will find a high rate schedule in effect The authority should experiment in rate reduction the mayor Argument for Bridge Seen increase is an additional argument for a bridge as a anent highway system between the Lewis The fare boosts were granted after a preliminary investigation pending a public hearing to be held at a later Today nelly said the hearing had been placed on the calendar but he could not indicate just how soon it would take The request for higher rates was filed last As of one-way automobile tickets cost instead of and pedestrians will have to pay 25 cents Instead of 20. Passengers in cars will be charged 25 cents In- st d of the former 15c; small bus rates go from 90 and large busses from to Truck prices will rise In tion The for school students commuting from Jamestown to Newport at a Old Books Valid Although the decision to grant the increases was reached in Providence at noon the announcement was not made until last night to prevent a ute rush to buy books of outstanding books will continue to be valid at the old rate until they The same ticket books for pedestrian and automobile com- muters will be but the ferry company will tear out some of the tickets before selling Whereas a pedestrian book on Page 2) Edward L. 75, was hacked to death with a hatchet Thursday night in a Kingston avenue rooming house while his blind landlady sat nearby as the result of an argument with a and part-time ber John B. 65. Police Captain John P. Con- nolly today Almeida admitted striking Sutton with the weapon in a violent quarrel after the two men had been Connolly said Almeida would be arraigned in district court later this afternoon to be held for grand jury action at a later Button's body was found lying face down in a pool of blood next to the bed in 55-year-old Mrs. helmina Smith's combination sitting room on the second floor of her rooming house at 57 Kingston He had received at least four deep gashes on the top of his head and one on his police He was dead when the fire department emergency truck ar- rived in response to a call The slaying took place around 8 o'clock An autopsy report would determine whether Sutton suffered a crushed skull Landlady Hears Sutton Outcry Mrs. who was sitting in a nearby chair at the time of the John B. Almeida groped neighbor's house her way to a after she felt wet blood on Sutton's Cap- tain Connolly She had been listening to her battery radio at the She told police she was not at on Page 2) Union Demands Wage Stabilization Board Add Labor Disputes To Tasks FERRY GETS COMMITTEE NOD Senate Group Favors Plan For Operation State to the March 2 Th senate corporations committee to reported a up a special state authority and operate the James ferry The measure which has passed the house now goes on th calendar for a concurren vote At that tlm Senator Alton will offer an amend ment which would require th state authority to assume the ap proximately in ferry ays tern obligations held by the Town ot Jamestown and to pay them of out of profits of the A similar amendment offered in the house by Representative Lewis W. Jamestown Republican was City May Get Surplus Property State government would be authorized to declare ai surplus property under their jurisdiction and deed It to cities and towns at the request under a introduced in the house by Representative J. Providence Democrat The was referred to the cor- Under the if the property involved is to be used by a Iocs community for the direct use of its the transfer of title would be without cost to the com- made on But If the request is behalf of industry or or to encourage sion of existing business and in- then the local community could sell the property after ng but the price would have o be fixed by a praiser by the state department In control of the property with the governor retaining discretionary Steel Pace Stock Market Upsurge NEW March 2 MB and steel stood out in ront of of the Demand for these issues was airly although the total of business was ively light as it has been for ome At most the market pushed head by around a dollar a share the gainers were infrequent in 'the major groups and seldom extended io a dollar a which turned in an outstanding performance were fairly quiet Carrier Corp. was a little more active than usual and higher ter the company reported earnings for the 12 months ended Jan. 31 equal to a share as against a share the previous 12 March 2 Rebuilding of the shattered Wage Stabilization Board today ran up against a major de mand by unions that it handle labor disputes as well as wage Economic Stabilization Adminis trator Eric Johnston was making cautious moves to fashion a new to re- place the panel from which organized labor has drawn its three Top labor acting oh orders from the United Labor Policy showered all the mobilization agencies with tions in: protest against alleged wage control arid domination of the defense Mobilization Director Charles major target of their has been scheduled to issue statement today in reply He cancelled it without And recognizing more storms and delays acted as his own one-man wage board In two actions announced Thursday y Ceilings Relaxed 1. He relaxed the 10 per sent celling on wage boosts by workers to got full fit of increases up to June 30 provided their contracts were signed before Jan 28. 1 This mny avert unrest and sible strikes in the auto where about workers en- Joy Some are entitled to bigger paychecks as of matching recent cost of living 2. Johnston set a precedent for handling A board wan named to study whether CIO ami AFL packing house workers should get the full hourly pay boost won from major packers just after the It would pierce the but the unions claim the freeze caught at a substandard pay level Car Price Boost Ordered A price increase for passenger rar manufacturers was ordered at the same time by price to offset er wage and other costs Johnston reportedly was an wage with six members each ng industry and the public replace the smaller board now headed by Cyrus S. The irate labor policy on Page 7) PURCHASE BOARD CREATION REQUEST TO Ordinance Would Strip Aldermen Of Many Include School Dept. An ordinance creating a pur chasing which would strip the Board of Aldermen of many of its present will be on the Representative Council docket for next Tuesday Designated as a Central Purchasing it would be composed of the council public works city city director of public fare and chairman of the school It sets forth that all contracts for purchase of supplies for every department of the shall be made by the new purchasing All contracts for the purchase of supplies in the amount of more than shall be awarded by the board after publicly ing for Where amounts are less than the board shall authorize their purchase either by public advertising or private Would Include School Dept. As the proposed nance would place even school de- purchasing under the a controversial question in itself as the school department claims that only the school board has power to purchase supplies for that Another proposed on the 28-ltem comes from the Newport Horticultural Newport Garden Club and Seaside Garden It requests that the public works be required to advertise for two weeks before the removal of a tree and hold a public hearing if ten citizens It further directs commissioner to re- strain the utility companies from cutting The ordinance also calls for an annual The trees on public highways come under the tree who has state The appropriated for tree and in the tentative budget this the amount Is including for i Resolutions direct the aldermen to obtain bids for auditing the city books and for the collection and disposal of waste t Other The city solicitor is prepare and present to the eral Assembly Improvement and construction a request for free transportation over Mount Hope Bridge of relatives visiting Naval Hospital school repair bills permitting city contribution to public health ing and the Armed Services withdrawal of World War 2 Park and a bursing the wife ot the late In- spector John J. Shea for tions made by him into the The will 1mve their re- quest before the council to file 1 the assembly the city manage The Sewer re quest for funds to pay Metcalf to construct sewers i Washington street and Bliss Mln and to include the Year Bliss Mine Road project i; the First Year Plan of the com The council will also ratify th action of the city treasurer in pay Ing to the estate of Pau Grande and estate o Nathan in accordance a supreme court Marines Capture Red Resistance On Northern Hills Smashed U. S. Entering Paris Big Four Parley With Skepticism Of Russian Action John M. March 2 Ambassador Philip said today the United Stales is ing the Paris Big Four talks in a highly skeptical frame of mind as to what I he Russians will preparing his departure lor the spoke out after a with President have got to approach the meeting on the basis that we are from Jessup want to see if they to demonstrate that they will get down to brass tacks and talk about the things that really are causing all the Jessup leaven the United States for where Big Four foreign ministers will open Monday on arrangements meeting of the ministers He made clear the United States will seek evidence any change in Russia's attitude lut added we are not going to taken in by mere words that do not mean As for Russian proposals ad- for the sake of making Jessup said are always ready for and arc not worried over the of a propaganda battle with the Reflects State Department Jessup spoke to reporters standing on the White House His words reflected the State Department's tendency to discount heavily any chance that the preliminary negotiations in Paris would lead to real between Russia and the western Officials here are convinced that what the Soviets want to do In Paris is set the stage for a new diplomatic and propaganda sivc against the western defense effort if and when the Big Four foreign ministers meet in ton at a date not yet representing Secretary of State left at noon for New York with a group of assistants and On Page 2) Americans Cross Poke At Red Seoul Defenses BIDAULT QUITS BY TO Auriol Offers Ailing 66, Job SNOW MAY SAVE RESORTS N. March 2 Northeaster that dumped up to seven inches of fresh snow on Northern New England was bailee today an the of the ter wont wild when they looked out their windows this said Mill of Whitney's Inn here Other winter sports operators and skiing enthusiasts echoed his HOSPITAL ROBBED March 2 Two silent thieves escaped today after grabbing a roll in the office of the private Otis General Hospital and fleeing in pale blue Bookkeeper Mrs. Nellie 65, two young in belted ardine topcoats and grey hats snatched the money shortly after she returned from a Portsmouth To Vote On Budget At Financial Meeting Saturday Portsmouth taxpayers will bo asked to a budget of at the annual financial town meeting Saturday afternoon in the Henry F. Anthony School If al the warrant items requesting funds are approved and a posed operating budget of recommended by the town budget committee and Town is If various town departments win their original budget requests from the floor the total sum will be expected to reach Last year a budget of was One of the major issues of the town meeting will be a warrant item asking for authority for the issuance of town school bonds or certificates of indebtedness In an amount not to to be applied to the construction of a to the Ann Hutchinson School and the appropriation of to cover the cost of issuing such bonds or certificates and for Ing the interest on them for the first six months after the Open Meeting Held Thursday night the School headed by Dr. cis I. held an open meeting with fifty people to discuss any phases of the construction program on which they wished information and to display the plans and Queries centered mainly on construction and it was pointed out that the is expected to be adequate to meet an expansion of costs and that there is a possibility that the en- tire may not be Dr. Brady further added that all have been made for federal aid should such funds be- come A question of a country high school was discussed but no inite information is it was pointed March 2 George Under of Catholic Popula Republican Movement gave up today his attempt to form a new cabinet and the Frenc crisis President Vincent Auriol calle ailing Henri 66, a Socialist to the and offered him th ob. He agreed to try but it did no appear he had much change of sue headed the longest of France's postwar cabinets At Us fall in 1949, it asted 13 talked with leaders o parties In an attempt t orm a broad but then the he could forse no which would he form of a stable govern Nought Giving he expressed hopi that some kind of election law would be voted by the Assembly and that general elec could be held The government of Premie Rene Pleven quit on the o election law with BI MRP demanding a single ballot election lather than a system as demanded by the Radi cal Socialists for elections thi The parties are agreed only on th point that some revision must be made in the proportional represen tation system which gives th Communists lopsided tlon in the was Minister of In in Pleven's cabinet Since his Radical Socialists and BI MRP are the main anta in the election law squab It did not seem likely thai could a strong Wintry Weather Blankets Wide Areas Of Country The Associated Winter showed no signs of a up over wide areas of the country A snow storm hit the western and Western states as sonic sections of the Midwest dug out from the heaviest snow fall of A fresh fall of snow blanketed much of the New England but skies were The fall measured 7 inches in The snow had ended in the Middle Atlantic Sub-zero cold chilled the North Central region and another snow torm was headed for the weary The mercury dropped to 17 be- ow zero at N. early oday as skies cleared over the Midwest It was at St. and 9 at Wis. Readings were below normal along the Pacific The warm pots were the Southeastern and 3ulf Temperatures were in he 80's in Texas and Florida Early today it was 68 n Miami and 65 in COST OF SENDING 4 AEF UNITS TOLD Additional Needed For Overseas Duty 2 MB Senators today It Will cosi extra In the first year four American to defense join 'the North That sum would be in addition to the cost of maintaining the same units in this Connally said the figures were supplied to the Senate foreign relations ant armed services committees by Gen Omar N. chairman of the joint chiefs of and other nesses at a closed The committees are considering an ad- ministration plan to send four divisions to In addition to two already Connally said the first year additional cost of nnd maintaining the four In would be cut to in the second The committee heard testimony Thursday that unless war breaks out military leaders expected to have no more than six American divisions In Europe on July 1, 1952. Two divisions already on tion duty In Germany have been assigned to the defense force headed by General Dwight D. Additional 10 Per Cent Connally noted that troops ing overseas draw an additional 10 per cent in He said trans- portation and equipment would account for most of the additional Connally said Rear Adm. M. E. chief of the navy's soaa warfare the com- of progress in meeting the menace of Gen. J. Lawton army chief of discussed budget proposals and retailed defense matters which Connally said were so secret that the official re- jorter was ordered to destroy his notes and leave the room while the The troops to Europe issue continued to occupy the attention Senate Thursday while it debated a military manpower on Page 7) March 2 American marines captured today after other Leathernecks Chinese re- sistance on hills north of the rubbled highway hub on the tral Korean 50 air miles east of is in the middle of the 60-mile central Field to U. S. Eighth Amy headquarters said Red stiff during the faded un- der steady aerial and marines occupied song at P. M. 40 A. 1C The town fell to the ese Feb. 12 during a sive that heaw cost to the crack the Allied Before entering the Leathernecks seized Hills 303 and 208. These are north of song on the approaches to Chinese stronghold 15 miles to the The marines previously had fought Chinese defending other hills in the Patrols Cross Han On the western S. patrols in rubber boats slipped across the Han River and at Red defenses of the out former Korean republic On the eastern end of the central the South Korean Seventh Division straightened a in the Nations line between and the extended the allied drive all thai 40 miin Is a road Junction 24 miles east at V. 8. Second Division Doughboys still were battling Korean Reds Friday morning hurling back nightlong counter- attacks along the song But the once a vital east-west supply artery for the still was firmly under Red The increasing Red was taken an further that the are planning a big this spring operational nummary 31 lusl North Korean are ar- rayed across the mid attack potential still la despite losses in manpower and The Eighth Army is estimated to inflicted nearly casualties on the Reds since Jan. 17. The timate docs not include action On the left Brit- New Zealand and Australian punched ward against stiffening Chinese resistance This was in the du 17 miles west of The U. S. First Cavalry Division Thursday was closing in on du from the south and On the mechanized cavalry sions left the U. S. 24th Division pushed slowly but ily ahead in the 27 miles east-southeast of The 24th gained more than three miles Cn the the South Korean Seventh Division moved to within five miles of the connecting to the east coast town of A. P. Leif at Eighth Army reported the South Koreans lad driven 16 miles in four days up a craggy and allel to the U. S. Seventh on Page 7) De La Salle Open Quests 7or R. I. Basketball Crown Tonight Hundreds of Newport fans will rek to the Brown gymnasium in Providence tonight to see De La defending and Rogers Class A open bids for iic Rhode Island schoolboy Rogers will play place Class C and La League up will meet Class The local teams were sent hrough light workouts ay following hard scrimmages William Rogers High's acuity director said lat most fans have been con- used by conflicting stories con- erning ticket He said that no tickets are vailable in either at the schools or at McLaughlin's Drug All unsold tickets must be returned the Brown University gymnasium 24 hours before TSO they can te sold Tournament officials told today that there are several dred tickets available at the for When the tournament opened Thursday night before 2000 Pawtucket Metropolitan smashed Colt of Class C by a 70-43 and un- defeated Suburban B by a 65-53 score Lockwood gave the Westerly Bulldogs a real Not dis- mayed by the underdog 26-23, at and 40-39 at the three-quarter
