Newport Daily News (Newspaper) - August 18, 1951, Newport, Rhode Island Weather Data rises sets high A M T M low A M P M Friday's Temperatures high low 69 Beach water ture at noon today Local Forecast Fair and warmer afternoon Partly cloudy little change in Fair little change In temperature Sunday Detailed Report on Page 2 ESTABLISHED 1846 Vol 168 NEWPORT R I SATURDAY AUGUST 18 1951 TWELVE PAGES PRICE FIVE CENTS U S ADOPTS NEW PAY POLICY GEARED TO COST OF LIVING Stabilization Program To Be Reviewed Again i In Spring Says Johnston j BRITISH MAY QUIT IRAN UNLESS TALKS GET QUICK RESULT Cabinet Meets To Draft What May Be Final Reply To Britain WASHINGTON Aug IS i TEHRAN Iran Aug 18 The government has adopted j Britain's chief oil negotiator said temporarily at least a policy of allowing wages to rise Iranian refinery at soon and fait with living coats unless Iran agrees to a In approving U e policy settlement of the grave oil Kichard Stokes issued his while Premier Mohammed cabinet was to draft what is expected to be its day Stabilizer Johnston said It was in line with the overall stabilization ob- of keeping the American economy in balance However said the whole stabilization program would have to be reviewed next spring He okayed the new policy proposed by the Wage tion Board until March 1 1952 In the meantime the board will approve wage increases granted by employers to offset the rise in living costs Roughly they have risen 11 cent January and about two per cent since thn freeze oC last Jan The new policy supplements but not change n separate tion under which employers may grant of 10 per cent over January levels without com- ing to the board for approval Board New Policy The board promptly applied the now policy to a of northern textile mill cases It granted a six and one-half per cent final reply lo Britain's proposals Stokes repeated that the offer what amounted to control of the oil the best he could make Me made it clear he expects a yes or no answer today or in the next few days Walter f Levy oil adviser to W Harriman spent two and one half hours with degh last night discussing cal problems Harriman President Truman's trouble shooter is pressuring Iran to accept Uie British offer but it is known fully supports it I Iran Senate Bond Stokes said the British offer would mean that at present I prices the Persian Iranian i government would receive nearly I TRUMAN FORCES SEEK TO RESTORE PART Look To Senate To Give Back Billion Slashed In Economic Help Fund Cease-Fire Buffer Zone Still Undecided As Teams Meet For Second Time N and Communist members of the sub-committee named to try and reach agreement on a proposed buffer zone in Korea pose outside the house at after their initial meeting Left to Chinese Gen Hsieh North Korean Mai Gen Lee Cho U S Maj Gen Henry I Hodes and U S Rear Admiral Arleigh Burke AP via radio from Tokyo SLAYERS OF KING PLACED ON TRIAL Two Plead Not Guilty To Murdering Abdullah three times the sum of money they have previously been ing In 1950 the Iranians received hoost amounting to eight and f from cents an hour to CIO textile workers effective last March That evened up their raises with of other New England mill workers who have contracts with cost-of-living provisions These allow wage increases when the cost of living goes decreases If when the living cost declines The board also okayed n future clause for the Tho board declined to approve the mil seven and per rent increase negotiated by the workers and northern manufacturers saying I Meanwhile the Iranian Senate voted a Rial internal bond issue to raise money to keep the ment running while oil royalties are cut off The bonds will mature in four years and carry six per cent interest The Senate also voted 25 to 1 to accept a U S Export-import bank loan This is not expected to help the in- ternal financial situation because most of the money Is to buy agricultural and highway equipment In the United States Premier who hail formerly opposed the loan switched as a result of the crisis caused by the oil dispute with Britain 1 3 Aff i ni -AS OKUI ance pay to retiring workers also agreed upon by the employers was held In while the studies nil of pension and re- plans In the of stabilization program To Get Hoost the cost oC living may get a pay boost im Three persons capsized in a these three skiff off Gooseberry Island this 3 If they were working under a I noon were rescued and taken to contract with an escalator department to in effect before the Jan 25 wage dry out Ernest LaFontaine 26 of East Providence Walter Bonn 16 and freeze Under such a clause pay are usually mado every three months at the rate of One cent an hour for each rise or fall of 1.14 points in the Mayotle IS both of land Beach were gathering weed for the a seafood ment price Index A new one will i of Oakland Beach he out next rhc Newport emergency truck prices as of July i and the Coast Guard were called 2 1C the employer and union BoUl arrived after the trio hart want to gear their pay rates in the been brought ashore on the Ocean future to such an index the board Drive by a boat from Gooseberry will approve the contract Island They were apparently no Jordan Aug IS The trial oC 10 persons charged with the July 20 ation of Jordan's King Abdullah opened at Co nip near here today before a special military court The indictment against the men three of whom arc relatives of Haj Amin El Husseini exiled grand mufti if Jerusalem accused them of plotting abetting and inducing the assassination of lah Two of the accused are being tried in since they are living in Cairo Abdullah one of the most ful figures in the Middle East was slain in the old city oi Jerusalem as he was going to the tomb of his father in the Mosque oC Omar His assassin a old Moslem tailor who was said to be a follower of the grand mufti was killed on the spot by bodyguard Rule For Naming Charter Officials Cited At Hearing Of Group WASHINGTON Aug IS j Administration leaders to j the Senate today to restore at least part of a cut the House made in President man's foreign aid They were particularly hopeful of recapturing an unexpected minute slice oi economic aid lor western Europe U.S SABRE JETS Joy Spells Out CLASH WITH REDS Allied Demand For Battle Line Two Enemy Planes Hit In Battles Over Korea U S EIGHTH ARMY QUARTERS Aug IS S and Red jets fought two Korea Aug and Reds got down to brass tacks today as the armistice subcommittee met on the buffer zone issue for the second That cut was pushed through a I ing- battles over northwest Korea an atmosphere of coalition of Republicans and today in the first large-scale informality more than 1 month arc held strictly Fifth Air Force and no official re- Southern Democrats shortly be- fore the last night by a vote of 260 to 101 action U S The present Newport Charter Study Commission has little er and the Representative Council after its mus still follow the requirements set forth in the constitutional ment This was the opinion of most of these at tlie charter Friday night sit the city hall by fewer than 20 people The hearing was hold tay the study commission Thomas D Sliea Jr president of the Newport County Junior Chamber of Commerce suggested the commission recommend to the Council that it immediately draft the system of nomination of com- missioners under the new EARLY ACTION SET The House com- Red filter was damaged in of progress was made already had looped and one was probably Bui a pooled dispatch from off hinds for European destroyed in the second song tho four economic help The Air Force said all the American one North Korean ican Sabre jets in both battles I and one seen returned safely to their bases i huddled over a map spread Out on Twenty-eight Sabres a conference table They pointed with 24 Russian type to it talked And they R I Plans Registration Home Rule Study In Sept The additional cut was imposed by 119 Republicans and 07 crats over the opposition of 162 Democrats 11 Republicans and one independent It was sponsored by Rep Reece former I chairman of the Republican national committee i The House left the European economic allotment at 000 instead of the requested by President Truman Democrat Caught off Guard There were no re- in other funds mended by the foreign affairs committee This group had trimmed a total of from Mr Truman's requests Tor Ways of implementing the home 15.000 and the second fight Lt Charles F Loyd Ky was credited with the able In the earlier collided with 30 Red jeLs The battle 5.000 feet over chon lasted five minutes The MIG's broke off the fight and north It Was the first large scale jet air battle since July in The Sabre jets of the Fourth Fighter Interceptor Wing were top cover for a flight of foot in to be speaking i ally and not from prepared Marion lengthy session in hot Kaesong they ad- at After and swe 29 Sabres i They will meet again and economic assistance Shooting Star jets attacking rule and registration I Pacific area for Europe Greece Turkey Iran Near East Africa Asia amendments to the state commission and take no tion will be considered by the Publics alike Communism cd and in American resistance action He believed people wanted to know how September instead crs would be nominated waiting until the tions are filed Alderman Arthur A Councilman Salvatore L mo and Roy McPoland and City Robert A Shea were the only city officials in the audience Dr John H Finn chairman and M Osmond Grimes find John W Stewart Herbert E j General Assembly at a special of to i waiting for the regular open in January These amendments will be pre- sented at this time because of a The eight defendants present fo and Paduano ions 3 If employers and unions want to make long-term contracts without such a binding clause they may open their agreements every six months take a look at what has happened to living costs and make adjustments limited to those The board would prove that arrangement worse for their immersion DRUG DEATH OX VERMILLION S D Aug 13 State Board of Regents of was in special session here today to study questions ing- from deaths of two persons in n laboratory experiment at the University of South Dakota F B I Rounds Up 6 More Red Leaders Charged With Plotting Against U S Aug IS in scattered places Kelson the trial were brought in unde heavy guard Two Plead Not Guilly Father Ibrahim Ayyad Roman Catholic secretary of the Latin patriarchate in Jerusalem and Dr Mousa Abdullah E Husseini one of the mufti's cousins were the first two defendants to appear be- fore the three-man tribunal They both pleaded Not guilty The prosecutor general told the court Father Ayyad had said his investigation that if Kin Abdullah was not assassinated I vould have murdered him myself rather Ayyad flatly denied this as absolutely untrue The prosecutor said Abdullah El Tell one of the two being tried in absentia was the kingpin the conspiracy He said the other absent one Mousa Ahmed was the liaison between El Tell and Mousa El Husseini The assassination plot said the prosecutor was hatched ir El Toll's Cairo home were the study commission members the hearing Adelson For City Manager Although Dr Finn who said the commission wanted to hear the session early The bill's total as it went lo the Senate was On passage it had the backing of 179 Democrats SO Republicans and one Independent and tho opposition of SI Republicans and 20 Democrats military they inter- the MIG's Buford A Hammond of Ky was credited with damaging the A M tomorrow S P M Saturday That indicated the four did not reach a final solution today where tho cease-fire buffer zone should be placed Of IT X Demands Vice AUm C Turner Joy noir Allied negotiator released in the text of a statement he had made in one of the less sessions of the main tions 1 The statement spelled out the N demands for a buffer zone along the present battle lines Joy said the tr N must retain desire to get charter revision com- The cut was not missions into being as soon as j many Republicans possible and to enable boards of canvassers to complete tion details of law covering municipal employes day appeared ruled out of the legislative picture for the time i being as a result of the adjustment of he Paw tucket j battles at both ends of the Korean battle yesterday In the center of tho front one Allied patrol probed then school teachers strike Speedy action on the so deep had hoped for Their goal was an overall within sight of reduction including the tee cuts of from to Democrats turned back repeated attempts to cut area and to make other changes in the But last-minute move caught them flat-footed It ties were renewed because primary mission of any of his He said an armistice would be of came in tho form of a technical motion to recommit the entire hour hearing was taken in by arguments in favor of either a strong mayor or city manager charter form Dr Samuel Adelson former council chairman declared that city operation has become highly specialized and that the city has never had a mayor who was trained for the job The present charter he believed left the way open for corruption He said there is no correlation between different of the fiscal oC the city Adelson supported the idea of a ments is more likely at a special with instructions to the foreign than fairs committee to report i1 back during the regular session when immediately with such a might easily be delayed until April The home rule amendment needs substantial supplementation if the the cut GOr Argues For Aid Cut Republicans argued Lhat the economic aid could be cut people are to be given a real voice j because European nations already in the form of charter they are going to is true with respect to the election of commission members Councils Nominate Commission What is needed is a primary law for charter sion nominees Under the ment a city nominates the charter commission city manager If a strong mayor J members and the top nine in a form is adopted then he believed i special election become the com- on Page 71 Continued On Page 2 Slight Earthquake Shock Felt In City Middletown The FBI rounded up six mor Communist lenders yesterday am charged them with plotting to overthrow the government b Tho arrests were the fourth round in the big hunt for Com- which began after a su court decision last June held the conviction of 11 top charged with violating the Act That law makes it a crime to teach or the forceful overthrow of the government The arrests all involving men now or formerly from the Virginia area brought to 46 the number of Communists accused under the act since the Supreme Court decision Four of these have not yet been found Ami four of the convicted Jl top jumped bail instead of surrendering to begin their terms They arc being sought whose home is in burgh was arrested in phia James Hulse Dolsen 65 western Pennsylvania ative of the Daily Worker Com- munist newspaper was arrested in Nelson's Pittsburgh home The others arrested together with the identification of their Communist connections Wlliam 41 of Detroit formerly organizational secretary for western Pennsylvania He now is trade union district 7 at Detroit Albertson was ar- rested in his car between Detroit and Flat Rock Mich He is a native of Russia Benjamin Lowell Sr about 60 treasurer of Communist Party of Western Pennsylvania The FBI said he has i jeer described as probably the best known Communist in the citi of Pittsburgh A native of moved Steven Nelson 47 described by the FBI as schooled in espionage and sabotage in Moscow was among those seined in the latest roundup i Nelson has been chairman of i the Communist Party of Western I Pennsylvania since July The House un-American committee has accused him of setting up n Red cell in the wartime radiation laboratory at the University of California which did atomic bomb research and of obtaining secrets there to be passed along to Russia He then was a party organizer in County Cal FBI agents pounced upon the to Pittsburgh in 1915 He in his car in Pittsburgh Andrew Rudolph 46 steel for District 5 st Party covering western He was arrested at his home in Pittsburgh Irving former district chairman of West ginia now assigned to national headquarters in New York The FBI said Weissman went to Spain in 1937 during the Spanish Civil War He served in the U S Army in World War 2 He was picked up at the New York public library 42nd street and 5th avenue Newport and Middletown suffered a slight quake shock about Friday night Persons in different parts of this city and in Middletown heard the rumble and shock A trooper from the Portsmouth bar racks hoard the noise and at it to thunder In reply to a telephone call Mass Laboratories an attendant said lit could see no signs of the shod recorded on the instruments there The priest in charge however was absent The city was visited with a similar shock a few weeks ago when a sharp rumbling sent families to their cellars to on their furnaces Friday night's shock also seemed to come from the ment and again people checked their cellars Unlike the second rumbling of the earlier earthquake this one rumbled slightly and ended in a distinct a blow against the house One Middletown official's family heard the shock describing it as a noise and a little shaking of the house In this city the shock was felt in several quarters of the city REICH WAR END URGED WASHINGTON Aug is The Senate foreign relations com- voted unanimously day to recommend to the Senate a resolution that would terminate the state ot war between the States and Germany The measure already passed by the House on July 27 ly 10 years after Congress official- ly declared war on Germany Dec 11 and more than six years The Justice Department said all after the fighting stopped in May billions of American aid are in a position to carry more of the load themselves Democrats countered with the claim that European economic re- covery has progressed to the point the extra money requested by the would put them on a or town council sound footing and help them duce most of their own military supplies House Speaker Sam Rayburn called it a bad risk to save several hundred million i lars at a possible cost of later should a slow down i j in European recovery tempt Russia to start an all-out war j The as it cleared the House to tions i in tary aid and in economic aid a cut of in military and in economic aid Other Allotments Near East and 000 in military aid no reduction withdrew under enemy fire In nil there were five small patrol tlic Communist bid for a buffer m the sector onco the Com- parallel mums Iron i We must defensive he said We must Chinese troops attacked m the j OUJ west n the sector minl north of Seoul The Reds were repulsed Thirty-one Chinese Hints Joy's statement was a flat were killed and C3 taken prisoner On the eastern end of the line K 1 W H Hi TJ N forces to dislodge of the policy he Reds from strongly entrenched positions northwest of The Allies pressed their attack into hand-to-hand combat but failed to dislodge the enemy Patrols north of and on the eastern front reported continued harassment Red artillery find mortar fire HURRICANE HITS JAMAICA MIAMI Fla Aug communications with Jamaica were severed by the hour hurricane which battered the British Caribbean during the night Cable and radio communication with the island was still blanked out at A M today didn't say pursued since the cease-fire talks started The talks between two delegations failed and problem was turned over lo a subcommittee subcommittee appeared to be ing some progress Once more the sound of tcr from the conference j room spurred hope of progress j Radio yesterday dropped 1 hint of progress in a broadcast just before the negotiators met The Kcd radio monitored 1.1 Tokyo said the subcommittee Thursday look the first step I toward finding a solution to the issue deadlocking the talks What that step was U N May Use McArthur War Policies If Truce Talk Fails Say 3 Senators WASHINGTON Aug IS and in aid a boost of for rehab of Jewish refugees Asia and the 000 in military aid a cut in economic aid a cut and for Korean rehabilitation a cut of American n military aid and in Continued on Page 7 W Berlin Bolsters Guard After Tip On Red Plot j Three Senators said today if song truce talks fail the United Nations may strike the Red ese in Korea with the sort of fare proposed by Gen Douglas MacArthur Senator Taft of Ohio Chairman of the Republican policy tee told reporters he thinks the U N will have to adopt the Arthur program if the truce talks fail MacArthur ousted as Pacific six will be tried in Pittsburgh HELD IN BAIL Steve Nelson described by the Federal Bureau of Investigation as the top Communist in tern Pennsylvania walks down hall of Federal Building Friday night in Philadelphia on way to a preliminary hearing before U S Commissioner Henry P who sent him to prison in default ot bail jn FBI Red roundup He walks on crutches as the result ofi injuries received in an auto dent AP Wirephoto BERLIN Aug IS Berlin police reinforced their patrols along the border with the Soviet sector again today after re- tips that young ists at the East Berlin peace tival intend to provoke new dis- orders West Berlin police said they had j North and South information the Communists aimed to repeat Wednesday's border ing On that day about Germans tried to in- vade West Berlin in a propaganda peace march Police stopped the marchers and this led to a battle of sticks and stones commander by President Truman called for the bombing of Communist bases a naval and economic blockade of China and use of Chinese Nationalist troops from Formosa Senator H Alexander Smith one of eight Republicans joining in a statement condemning MacArthur's ouster said in an in- he has no doubt that the MacArthur program will be called into play immediately if it is mined that the Chinese Reds won't agree to a truce T am certainly supporting General Matthew 13 Ridgway's position that the fighting cannot be halted on the basis of the I allel as the dividing line between Smith said Without direct reference to MacArthur's proposals Senator Russell told reporters if there is no peace the U warfare answer will be vigorous against the Red Chinese Russell heads the combined The police received similar tips ate armed services and foreign ro- of intended violence yesterday but lation committees which voted 20 the day passed without incident The Communist gathering comes to 3 close tomorrow night with an open air mass with fireworks j to 3 yesterday to make no formal report on its words of testimony ouster about MacArthur's be superfluous Russell said the hearings had accomplished the end of convincing American allies that the this country will be united behind an all-out offensive if the lighting is resumed I am sure that if the truce talks fail the United Nations will wage war much more vigorously than they have in the past as a result of the sentiment the hearings have Russell said The eight Republicans withheld publication of their views until Sunday night Senator Bridges called their report very strong and forthright He said it hits at the heart of the subject of the inquiry Other Senators said the views of the eight which will be filed as 1 part of the committee's record vigorously condemn the method of MacArthur's ouster criticize tho administration's handling of Far Eastern affairs generally back MacArthur's political views but don't specifically support his tary recommendations Bridges told a news conference yesterday the Republicans agreed they should not permit the song truce talks to interfere with an expression of their views on what he called fundamental issues in Far Eastern policy Russell argued that any formal committee report now might in- not only with the Kaesong negotiations but might put in the way of the signing of the Japanese peace treaty at San Francisco early next month Senator Green told a reporter administration Democrats on the committee will have to what is in the Republican report before they decide whether ta answer it There seemed doubt however that asomo that a report would answer will be forthcoming
