Zanesville Signal, The (Newspaper) - January 4, 1951, Zanesville, Ohio FHE ZANESVILLE SIGNAL Press AP 198 ZANESVILLE OHIO THURSDAY JANUARY 4 1951 FIVE CESTS HELLO tmr ALLIED TROOPS ESCAPE Wounded Marine Says GIs Learning Tricks of War Youth Back From Korea pfc William Barks wounded In Korea two months ago re- spects the enemy as a fighter with little regard for sonal safety but believes the GI Is a more capable soldier Barks now spending a month's leave at his home here was wounded In action near after taking part In the Inchon Invasion It takes a lot of courage to face enemy fire the first time Barks said but after that you naturally leam to look out for yourself and de- pend on team work The Marine son of Wr and Mrs Frank H Barks of 458 Yale avenue said he agreed with the experts who claim that the Americans ing in Korea can now dig a ter foxhole with n teaspoon than they could with a shovel when they first arrived Barks who has served 2 years In the Marines said he was struck In the back by a let from a Burp gun He credits quick action by the medical corps men for saving his life He was flown from the battle area to a hospital ship anchored off Korea There he underwent an operation for the removal ol the machine gun slug which lodged In his chest From the hospital ship he was flown to Japan Later he was returned by plane to the United States landing at Oakland Calif After receiving treatment there he was flown to a hospital In Philadelphia From there he made the trip home by train X Barks said that during his of service in North Korea Americans were always on cuard against the activities of and Red He explained that civilians women and children rounded up for routine search were to be firearms strapped to their ies In the fighting areas Barks the helicopters are doing a remarkable Job of moving the wounded Otherwise the ties would have to be transport Driver Held After Woman Hit by Car Thelma Griffee Seriously Injured At Fifth and Main Turn for Colder Weather Ends Flood Threat Here Pfc William Barks who wounded months ago Is shown with his mother Mrs Frank II Barks nue He arrived here last week-end to spend a months Miss Thelma Griffee 53 of 1342 Stanberry avenue was seriously injured at o'clock this morning when struck by an automobile at Fifth and Main streets She was taken In a Keck bulance to Good Samaritan pital where it was found that she had suffered a fractured left arm and fractured right leg ler condition was described as air this afternoon The driver of the car Pearl 39 of lit 2 was arrested on a charge of unsafe nf an bile Miss Griffee bookkeeper for he Danker Printing company was crossing Main street irom he northwest corner struck by a car driven by ice an employe of the Shawnee Pottery company I was said to be Ing a left turn from South Fifth i street to Main Police said the flT left side window of car 15 Ql had been broken and the Ing had been replaced by a sheet of celluloid In which a peep hole had been cut Bond was set at and ing was scheduled for tomorrow Only trucks were permitted travel on State Route 15 between about 20 Inches of water covered the highway today Roads Under Water Prospects Dim for Move To Head Off Bus Strike Zanesville were depressed today over the j threat of a bus strike starting early Saturday which may be long-lasting Neither the bus company of or Three Burglaries At Duncanfalls Burglars last night broke Into ed by ambulance Impassable roads The whole air force over nearly Burglars lasi nigm mw three Duncan Falls Campbell suggested that the J Immediately places and made off with an es he said In city council showed signs of giving nn Inch As a matter of fact the of a compromise were further lessened last night when City Council President James E Indiana City Hit By Costly Fire EVANSVILLE Ind Fire swept by a stiff wind roared through eight buildings In the center of the business district early today Damage was ated at more than Three firemen were burned slightly Fhe Chief Clarence Bas estimated the damage The cause was not determined Small Streams Rise Swiftly After Heavy Two-Day Temperature Dropping Arrival of colder weather this morning ending a two-day period of heavy rainfall allayed fears of serious high water n this area but not until after a number of roads had been places and made off with an BUrrcndcr Us In cash and Hc emphasized that he nf A HIT has won praise for Its work supporting the ground troops Barks said the new Jet planes arc fast nnd spectacular but in his opinion are not as effective as the slower planes for hitting the enemy at low level landed at Inchon with ithe First Marine division and hook part In Uie capture ot airfield and Seoul While a patient at a hospital In Japan Barks was among eral wounded soldiers to receive the Purple Heart from Navy Secretary Francis P Matthews who was visiting there at the Barks who stands and nor mally weighs 178 dropped 50 pounds since being wounded Military surgeons however believe his recovery will be Plane Brushes Trees In Landing Attempt COLUMBUS A TWA Con- carrying 48 gers scraped last night when It attempted to land In ilsty weather at the airport The New City plane unable to make Its sched ulert stop at Cincinnati due to the weather came down on the Columbus airport a midnight The civil aeronautics reported that John Marls the pilot the trees as U tried to find th Cincinnati landing strip The plane's right landing lie was torn off and a hydraulic lln was pulled loose Repairs are being made here It was Indefinite as to when th plane would resume Its flight FARMER FREED NORWALK tfl Samue a Richmond town 1 ship farmer was out of Jail t day cleared of a first degre i murder charge In the death I his Invalid wife Ruth 55 Mil cartons of Sheriff son who Is conducting the said the places were Huff Market operated by ard Huff the Russell Fltz Ice station and cafe by John Tinkham Sr j Deputy Thompson said n catth wan taken from a drawer at the market along with several cartons ot Entrance wan gained by window At the service station located earby approximately In hange was taken from a c a s h and about was n from n cash afe Entrance places by breaking windows Loses SI 2.000 in Railroad Station PHILADELPHIA in traveler reported to police hat her life savings of more nan were lost In was speaking for himself alone Lewis F Jones secretary of the local Teamsters union hopeful that the Issue can be settled without a work but he added that the and mechanics are ready for a strike If By long he said he meant perhaps a month Campbell would not say whether he had any prospective bus operators in minti to take over the city bus system If the Zanesville Rapid Transit accepted his suggestion The tire started In the Eco dry goods store about CST and spread to blg Walgreen drug store th Federal Savings and building the Reed shoe store and the Bon Marche worn Congress Ruled ty Coalition inundated schools were forced clime at 11 day Moxahala creek over- flowed unto the Main and covered State Route 75 near the corporation In the direction of Traffic on the highway was closed to all vehicles except trucks School expressed the hope that classes tomorrow can be re The state patrol at Cambridge reported a section of State Route 146 east of Cumberland was closed by high water Route 21 south of Cambridge was ered with water In some places but the highway was still able patrolmen said Meanwhile a cold wave sweeping Into this Is ex- to check the rise of Evacuate Port City as Navy Shells Enemy Red Forces Push Ahead Following Capture of Seoul INCHON Korea United Nations forces this supply port west of Seoul withdrew by sea night while naval guns shelled the path of the approaching Reds Even as men and equipment were still pouring aboard ship army demolition experts were setting off thunderous charges that left the railway yards and facilities In flaming Ins The enemy not be able o find a It could use The explosions along the waterfront rocked the d city Towering flames lit the harbor The troops who boarded ship ere for the most part the men hose job It was to keep the operating to handle Allied WASHINGTON IT of Republicans and southern Democrats was firmly en trenched In control of the congress today Us tlm to smack down many ot Pres dent Truman's Fair Deal pr Legislator Calls Bossism Issue COLUMBUS A G D Belmont sees as the big Issue In the general assembly The majority leader In the previous legislature told that political bosses dictated selection this session of the Republican house speaker the Democrat minority Its leaders promised cle TOKYO Chinese lordes seized abandoned gutted Seoul today and smashed across the frozen Han river to battle retreating allied forces west of the capital The were moving swiftly In a giant pincers movement aimed at United Nations leader and some top committee clothing store It raged out aml streams late today of control four hours before Rainfall sinPe Wednesday Illinois and o men from several Illinois and Indiana cities got the upper hand The Jumped Main street and gutted department store one of the In this city of In southwestern ana on the Ohio river rear crowded railroad station here while she was waiting to catch a train for Mrs John Transeau of Ban gor Pa wife of a retired rail reader told Detective Thomas Doyle her handbag containing In cash and a cashier's check for over apparently was taken as she sat in a ng room at Brond street station the present franchise was granted only one other company expressed a serious In- terest The National City operate at tim and has been having Its troubled recently It has been involved In three strikes since November 1947 the last one having ended Dec 8 after 34 days Employes were granted an hourly In- crease to an hour and fares were raised from four tickets for a quarter to three for a quarter The bus line has been subject to considerable public criticism at Canton City council there re- fused for six months to grant the fare Increase which became Jungle Inn Fire Order Reversed COLUMBUS Common 2.57 Inches He leveled his blast yesterday as the general assembly com- organization with the an- of committees and adjourned until p.m Turn to Page Pleas Judge Joseph M Clifford of Franklin county today re- versed an order of State Fire Marshal Harry J Callan Ing the Jungle Inn In Trumbull county as a fire hazard The Jungle for number of months as a result the state's campaign against gambling activities Is ed In eastern Trumbull county at Hall's corners about two miles north ot Youngstown Callan's order closing the club as n fire hazard was Issued Aug 18 U I 41 I Water from the Licking river was over one county road at Valley and another near Nashport but was report falling this afternoon About 50 at the port were unable to reach the school this Inc said The lower pool of tnp gum river here stood at 20 feet nt noon today and was rising slowly according to Claude Neff Flood stage Is 25 feet The river stood at 19.3 feet 0 The mercury hit a high of 55 degrees here yesterday after- noon but began dropping shortly after midnight Early this after- noon the temperature was 33 de- grees day members of said Ed D Schorr of Cincinnati former can state chairman got Rep Gordon Renner R Hamilton named speaker of the house of representatives And he said Al of Dayton Democrat national and former party state chairman and Ray Miller of Cleveland county Democrat teamed to get the ity leadership for Rep M Carney Carney and Rep Turn to IS however lor the coalition considers vital national defense The light hold man on new wan ly on There was no comparable show of strength as the senate held a routine session But the party di- vision Democrats and 47 Republicans plus the fact that administration Democrats ind previously been unable to an all-out Truman er a majority leader ed rough going for the president there A similar Informal coalition bottled up or rejected much of Mr Truman's domestic program In the last congress Be- cause of Increased Republican strength In the new congress It promised to be even more potent In the next two critical years This was house when Avalanche Takes LIMA Peru A total of 102 today were reported In a An- es mountain avalanche near the Unlicensed Radio Station Ordered Off Air MARYSVILLE only radio station is off the sir for good It left the air at p.m EST last Friday with a push from the long arm of the Federal Communications Com- mission It had been operated with 150 watts power on a frequency of fiSO kilocycles by a couple of high school and three young men in their twenties The FCC stepped m because the youths neglected to do otte they hud failed to ob- tain a license An FCC representative spent three days In the d wife I ride away So at p.m he Into bare studio on the second floor of a business building seized the microphone and told the dismayed proprietors as well ns their radio audience if U the FCC and this station is off the air The of an censed station is a serious of- fense he admonished the staff The penalty he reminded them can be fine or two years In prison or both Because of the proprietors youth however agent said they had been warned to sin no more the FCC They be prosecuted he said The boys had a commercial station by Ing time to mer chants Their programs con- almost entirely of re- and news programs based on news lifted from local newspapers They operated with an army surplus transmitter Before the FCC Intervened last Friday the staff had canvassed the business section seeking donations for ment of the ment The station listed Its staff as Gene 19 general mana- Floyd Coll 18 program 33 business Richard E Earl 21 advertising ager and John McCarter 58 engineer McCarter did have a claM radio operator's he pointed up In the the coalition by a lopsided 244 to 179 vote vested In the committee a virtual stranglehold on the program The rules committee Is by a coalition of four Re- publicans and four southern the minority ly being four northern crats It Is the rules committee's function to decide when It Turn to Page IS They blew the last bridges over the frozen Han river at noon Nearby airfield was abandoned after Its Installations went up In an awesome tower of and flame China Won't Be Bombed Unless UN Gives Sanction President Emphasizes U S Not at Again Voices Hope It Can Be Avoided WASHINGTON IIP President Truman said today j troops Into the Yellow Sea at In- chon Seoul's big port 18 miles to the west U S Eighth army ters said Reds In estimated talion strength were across the Han and fighting an Allied unit one mile west of Seoul at 11 9 p.m EST er Reds were in contact two miles west of the city The of the of the South Korean the of the Han General MacAr report on the danger of a Inchon It was from an amphibious landing at Inchon the Allies crushed most of the North rean Red army In a vise last September Seoul was retaken from the Reds then and the rean war seemed In Its final phases But the sheer weight of ing and seemingly endless Red manpower forced lied troops to quit the ancient devastated South Korean capital today coastal town of Chimbote Confirmed reports said bodies of 80 persons had been recovered from the tomb of rocks and mud on Condor hill with 71 known Injured It was the second catastrophe o strike the rich coal mining area In months A natural avalanche killed 20 sons and did tremendous ly damage In the same sector last Oct 20 According to latest informa tlon Peruvian Santa River cor officials engaged In building a hydroelectric plant decided yesterday to blow up part of Condor Hill United States forces will not bomb China Nations sanction Fear Family Of Five Slain TULSA Okla Id Possible mass murder of an Illinois ple and their three children by a hitchhiker spurred Oklahoma officers Into a fearful tion today Officers said they faced task of trying to solve one of tht state's most ghastly crimes without A automobile was found near the ons sanction a near the He made this clear at a news conference in which he yesterday by e a again expressed hope a third World war can be avoided Snow Flurries OHIO Mostly cloudy and colder with snow flurries likely In north portion tonight and day low high Friday 55 this year He In to In what would have to be reached be- fore he would have to consult on a declaration nf war that If the proper lime arrived the proper action taken He hopes the time will never come when he would have to ask for a declaration of war he said adding that the time has not come yet He said the action In Korea Is proceeding the direction of the United Nations and this country Is always willing to But as to the Russian reply a proposal for a big four for- eign ministers conference he said he would stand by tary of State day further clarification Is ed as to what the Russians arc proposing He said the Russian note appears to only restate the Soviet position that the ministers should meet to discuss German questions Mr the In nor formally at war and we carrying nut our to the United Nations At the Pentagon today tary of Marshall said the situation In Korea U county Deputy Sheriff Warren Smith clothes a blood ed and several ex- 32 caliber revolver were found In the car owned by Carl Mosser 35 to-do farmer of Atwood 111 A search wan started Imme- for the of er wife 29 and their dren Ronald Dean 7 Gary Carl S and Pamella Sue S Relatives told Illinois ties the family was enroute to Albuquerque N M to visit twin brother Chris an army lieutenant Discovery of the car prompted Oklahoma county officers to link the robbery of a Texas man near Oklahoma nty Saturday with the family's disappearance oping almost exactly as pated and that U N forces have been deployed to meet this an- Marshall alio said the U force in Korea had In many In- The gunman was last seen been fighting against flagging a ride In an Illinois car almost Incredible manpower Luther In northeast superiority of the Communists county y 1 V T aril pos riei i lr ean r -1 i
