Wilkes-Barre Sunday Independent

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JFierce Winds and Rain Leave Valley Badly Damaged
Right through the roof on the Barne.v street side of the home of Robert Meyer, which fronts on Barney street, in Wilkes-Barre, went thi.s big tree.    The accident occurred at 5 o'clock Satuixiay morning.
Windows were blown right out of the front of the Wilkes-Barre Jobbing Co., comer East Northampton and &iuth Washington.
—Sunday   lndei)en<l6nt   Pnotoaiopln   b,v   J.,«eph   HogartJi   and   A-e   Hotfmaii
A w^orkman is shown above putting up boards to cover the space left open when the big plate glass windows crashed from the second floor store above at South
Main street and Public Square.
A Paper For The Home
SUNDAY INDEPENDENT
The Weather
Windy, cold, anow, Monday cloudy, cold.
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WILKES-BARRE, PA., SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1950
PRICE FIFTEEN CENTS
alley 5-inch
Mopping Rain, 50
up after mph Gale
Wyoming V^alley late last night still wa.s mopping, ham¬ mering and sawing its way out of the widespread damage caused by a sma.shlng 16-hour, double-baireied wind and rain storm. Now, cold is due V>- day.
Structures, from the most filmsy to the big stone and steel office buildings, all felt the effects of either the .50- mile gale or the prying, drenching,   wind - driven   on-
•laught of the nearly five-Inch fall     g^t
pf rain. I city'a
Utilities   with   no   apologiea   forj atorm
failure of aervice, and expected to'saved
Tropical Storm's Fury Lashed Wilkes-Barre
Bqutira and
Part of the aldewalk in front ofl tbe    Boston    Store,    South    Main!
'It had all the fury of a tropical,tbe corner  of PubUc atorra," said Traffic Sgt Chriatian JBiiUer Alley. Rigoni of the Wilkes-Barre police, | who   likened   yeaterday'a   alaahingj wind    and    rain   omalaught atonna he had been in while aerv-jthe atreet ing   in   the   Britiah   Weat   Indlea | Windowa Smashwl during WorW War U. i    A  dijplay  window
Red Counter-Aftacks Slow UN Offensive on 3rd Day
Rigoni,   who   patrolled traffio    aquad    during    the aaid    many   peraona   were from   injurlea   through   the
Yank Column Forced
street, waa roped off when bricksi ¦# ClCiC O jf fc ¦¦ Cif f JT ¦    C#l CCS
with i(,oge,ied  by  the wind  tumbled to'        ^.,_„. ^„^_..^ „   _„ . _
' jBy RUTHERFORD M. POATS
i    TOKYO (SUNDAY) Nov. 26 (UP).—AUied troops ran at Crawford I into Strong enemy  counterattacks  today  as they  moved
offer   none,   aiid   IKey   ^iTuir bellTertnca. of policemen Who "guided i So"th Main and PubUc Square, weeka,  perhapa  montha,   returning them to doorways and other pointa I    Diaplay    windowa     at    Gordon all operation* to normal. ¦ out of the path of the gale, i Lloyd'a   Restaurant,   next   to   Or-
r. .      •     T> J   T i-«.t _      .    _        .   ..^    .. pheum   Theatre,   were   broken   by
Peiuisylvania   Power   and   Ugnt people  Tossed  About ^
"People,     particularly     children.
Oo, aaid 12,000 of ita 34,000 users of electric power in the Wilkea- Barre district were without cur¬ rent at anme time during the atorm for varying lengtha of time. Fif¬ teen atreet light circutta were af¬ fected by falling treea. Moat se¬ vere damage to PP&L< linoa In Wilkcs-Barre city waa cauaed in the Kirwood aection, George . ave¬ nue, Paraona; North Washington atreet. State atreet: Park avenue, Blackman and Stanton streeta. and in Plains in the North Main atreet area.
Tree*  Break  Phone  Uneia .    ,   ., .      .1
„,,_,. .     _, gear.   This includes raincoats, rainj
u     If'®l^°"«'    •"'^    Common-,*        boots and gloves, wealtn    Telephone   companies    re- „.      ,       ,j   .. d..kii.'
port.d falliiig tr*e« had aevoredSKt' ,«'«""' »»'<' '*"''" Jl'l^",''; lines at manv poinU. Bell Tcle-lSj""''''*'""* "t""" '" ^is know-, phon.   rcporU-d   temporary   repairs f.^K*  and   he  spent   "^f'^  «»  ^is,
In the '''^ "" Square,   being  the  son
^-^^ w«^S;«nlr^ i^Tfi^^J'nJf,!^'r;;»*'ead slowly in Gen. Douglas MacArthur's offensive to win
was snattered  by a nymK portion'.,     »r «»? 'xi.     ^ j  ¦
of the big Stegmaier-. advertising j the Korean War without delay.
sign over Schulte's at the corner of     A first oorpa spokesman aaid the Conununist aasaulta were launched
against the center and the extreme east ae<:tions of the United Naticna Una as the offenaive went into its third day. He described the counter attacka aa atrong and well-coordinated. *
At   one   point   the   Communists [»,_ ._. . _. j ,
struck between the U. S. 2nd and I ?^""«f "*»*» w«e reported moving
Mount Etna is Erupting
CATANIA, Ktna erupted first time in two booming threw   molten
Sicily — Mount tonight for the 18 months with explosions that lava   and    rocks
the -wind.
... ,,.,,,,    Police  early inth, morning, had 2»th   Divisiona   and   drove   to   theiq,;^^^
were tossod about like -"'teh st^ks j^ p^t„, the Dress-Bteria at SoutlT'Cbongchon  river   .^^'I* *^^"-, ju,^^h ^TeTa^tu^ed by a U. Ifor a tune    said Sgt R'Ktf". '^'"'iMlain   and   Public   Square   wheniK*K«' «lemoirts of the 2nd Division^g  ^uh Division task force.
was speaking of the period between 12 and 1, when the wind velocity reached 50 mllea an hour in central city.
Falling debris, wastepaper con¬ tainera and traffic aigns on stand¬ ards cluttered central city streets and made it difficult for motorista. he said.
Patrolmen were drenched to the skin in a few houra, although aB were   ordered    into   foul   weather
firat   and   second    floor   ¦wuidows """ar Kujangdong. were blown in by the ¦wind. In Central Sector
kept aervice  fairly normal.
!of   John   Rigoni,   who   for   many.
Awnings through the city were tom to ah reda and the- framework twisted and bent, police stUd.
Police on central city duty esti¬ mated that 150 umbrellas were ripped and made useless by the velocity of the wind.
COPPER TO CHINA J
Red Tanks Sighted
Air observera wamed the unit— that   a
The spokewnan said the main at-'    "'^ Tr"" SJ"™, tacks appeaared to be concentrated i ^^^^ f "[f^   ^^^^'^ ,    ^ along a M-mile area in tha central :"f«"""'^r" *''5?'' *"}^ ^«'" aector   of   the   86-mlU   northwest ¦'»''^'* " ™'" """l*.»' <*°n8J"'
front
A 25th Diviaion tank column ad¬ vancing   toward   Unsan,   15   miles
threatening the task  force's right Sank.
In  central   Korea,   strong   Com¬ munist   forces   broke   through   thc
above   the   Chongchon,    ran   into | gouth   Korean   line   yesterday   and atrong    defensive    poaitiona     four slaahed   10   miles   to   thc   rear   to
rira!   areas,   covered   by  Common-: .-.   ...   - „,.  .i.-j   .f
wealth,    the    Mory    was    not   the!>'*'»™  "P"-»t<"d   ^'  "•"" »**""*  ** Crewa  would  make
aame.
repairs
Senator Will Ask Gen. MacArthur To Act in Japan
miles aouth of that town as the enemy launched a midnight coun- terattaick.
The American column was forced to pull back "several thou¬ sand yards" and establish new po¬ sitions aro'jnd Sanggu, the spokes¬ man said.
Still another enemy force hit 2nd Diviaion positions near Sinhung five milea east of Kujangdong. Qne American oompany was overrun and a second surrounded along the Paengmyong river, Strang Tank Drive
Enemy forcv earlier had pushed
only to find the line severed agaim Uf I ftl n    DAIM  CANCEL
>l   few   minutea   later   by   another, **'"'"'"'*'"'.^"'•T.^'-.^..
•Jih'K tree |UN ASSEMBLY SESSION
UuzerneCounty a«a and HSlectricj    j^^j,   SUCCESS,    N.    Y.  - A W L!^!'" had aerlous cuts in serv- ^|^.^^^, ^^j^ ^^ ^i„j ^t^rm forced;
^¦>erZ  iZ^Jnf'^^^^^^^ °^ " ^^"'''"' ^""""^        '" "'^^ '" ^^pan aiaeable unit, well  into the  Allied
^hv the dri Vint «T1        "'""f*"! Security   Council   meeting   yeater-1 I ^ar and were threatening a atrong
Like the  Ppil    ifr;  fi„.». h.d'"*'''   Chinese Communist represen-i    WASHINGTON-Sen   Herbert R.tank counteratUck. ^n  mJh\.   .fJL     ,,Z   n^^^^ *"*¦   ««heduled   to   make O'Conor   (D.,   Md.)   announced   he,    In one sector American artillery
aiimer.   with   current ™"-jtheir first appearance. will ask Gen. Douglas MacArthur's, was  forced   to   withdraw   but  the
"   ^""""^ I    All  persona at UN headquartera help    in   "poaalble   prosecution   inj unit   managed   to  save   aU   equip-
y Abated at li:M Ihi-ri-  were  urged  to  get to  aafety 1 Japan"   of   individuaia   and   firma ment but one anti-aircraft gun.
^'ot   only   the   utility   repairmen, as soon as possible,    - |responsible for shipping more than'    in  the  First Corps  area  to the
policemen  and  firemen  and  street I    -phe  council   meeting,   postponed j *•<"'<'•''*' P?""<** *>' copper to Com- west the Pirat South Korean Divi- but   evenlunji]  3  p   „   tomorrow,   will  give,™""'** China. \ aion    ran    into    atubborn    enemy
the Peking officials their firat op-l    O'Conor said  his  commerce aub-j forcea estimated to total two regi-U^QJg"j^j,y^"'f]^Yj5^ ^^.^^^ porunltv   to   put   before   the   U.V| committee had found that the ahlp-'ments.    They  were   entrenched   in      American 26th Diviaion units met their  Red  I.rf'ader Mao Tze-Tung's i ments of  the  strategic  metal  had positions about three  milea south-   gtiff resisUnce in the Unsan area views  on   the   Far   Eastern   cri.Ms.ibeen made from Japan for "osten- east of T^eehon. I in the northwest from two Commu-
The  west   welcomed   their  appear- sible   use in the United States and     United    Nations    artillery    Is*"!! nist companies entrenched in hills ance as an initial chance to sound that    the    copper    had    been    re-idown  a  pre-dawn  barrage  as  the The GIs slowed by amaU arma  au
F1nall.v
Not poliren-
department    employees, persons  in   warm   and   dry   homes 'Continued on Pnge A-10)
provide   another  serioua   threat  to MacArthur's  troops.
On thc far northeast front troops of the South Korean Capita] Divi¬ sion advanced steadily along the coast after capturing the Impor¬ tant bastion of Chongjin. The South Korean spearhead was 60 miles from Russian Siberia. Planes and Allies
Strong formationa of Allied planea roared o'ver the biattlefront to pro¬ vide close support for ground troops as perfect flying weather prevailed.
The 10-mile Communist break¬ through in the central sector was made on the right flank ofthe 85- mile Allied front, and reserves from the South Korean Eighth Division rushed to check it
The enemy forces were said to have counterattacked down the same rugged mountain trails which thousands of Reds bad used earlier to slip behind the lines and join guerrillas  building up  in  the  re-
More Valleg storm news
on Page .4-7 and
Page A-15
_  _ the    copper    had    been . _ ,..^ ^^_ „.„.,.,„
oiit the Communista on the Korean | shipped   to   China.   Under   a   Mac-j offenslve  rolled  northward  toward | tomaUc"'werpons"and''7nortar^'fire
Arthur order, shipment of strategic the Manchurian frontier.   Armored advanced   to  within   five   miles  oT
I'URLY MORNING LANDSLIDE riloCKS ROUTE 11 BETWEEN RETREAT AND SHICKSHINNY
metals   from   Japan   to   China   is illegal. I
Heavy Shipments {
Earlier   last  week   O'Conor   said that at leaat 14,474 tons of "posai- (Continued on Page A-10)
UN     spearheads     probed     strong enemy    defenses    that    hampered Allied   progress   Saburday. Near   the   northwest    coast    thc
Unsan, which is 15 miles above the Chongchon river. The First South Korean  Division (Continued on Page A-10)
high into  the air.
Travellers coming from Zaf- ferana tfa the slopes of Europe's highest volcano said the ex¬ plosions were accompanied by a high column of steam and aahea. They aaid aahea ahowered down on the city of 5,000 population, but there were no reports of caa ual tiea.
The fiery column of smoke, lava and ash could be aeen from Catania, which is more than 30 milea  from  the   volcano.
Mount Etna's laat aerioua eruption occurred l^'^b. 27, 1947. At that time lava couraed down the mountain slopes and de¬ stroyed numerous farms, vine¬ yards and orchards, but there were   no
menacUigly again In June, 1939, cauaing many nearby residents to flee in panic, but there was no   eruption.
All US.Easf Of Mississippi Hit by Storms
One of the worst storms on record hit the eastern United Stateis Saturday with hurricane-force winds, snow drifts and bitter cold.
At least 78 persons were counted dead. Property damage was high, and weather forecasters were uncertata where the whistling winds would turn next. The storm affected more than 100.000,000 persons living  east  of  the  Mississippi   River.
The storm had  these effects:
Industry—More than ,500,000 workera were idled at Pittsburgh where mill* are jammed with war orders.   ,      . .
PlanU in the industrial Cuyahoga ^''i?™ °£, Production dropped to a Valley in Ohio were forced to halt ""''''/* TransporteUon was snarled operations, furloughing at least "^ }"^ snow-clogged streets and ¦ orc..«-a« DUX mere -<»•<'«' Workers, and in other east-1'"f^**- ,*"'', •'"tels jammed with caaua"^rit rur^red "n statea government and Pnvate «^°"^-«ff-nde<lf^^^^^^^ ^Z'^T" buainess closed and aent their em- suspended publication, and some ployees   home I restaurants sent their patrons away
¦hungry because food supplies were meager or  non-existant. »w York —100 - mile - per - hour
Transportation—Railroad aervice was crippled througout the storin I area, airports were shut down, and!
DYING CONGRESS
ML VOTE FUNDS
Both Party Chiefs Predict Much Talk, Not Much Else
busses   on   the   highways   were   ao
wind,s    rocked    the   Empire   State
pointa pended. Three busses and several automobiles were blown from high¬ ways in  the Pocono Mountains.
CommiyiicatiOns — 100-mile-per- hour winds blew out lights in 407,- 000 New York homes, and tele¬ phone lines were down through most of the storm area. Ohio Bel' Telephone Co. took only emergency calls over ita long distance wires and radio atations had to broad¬ cast the order mobilizing the state's National Guard.
Food Production—About 9,000,000 WASHINGTON-The  dying   Slatj boxes  of   oranges,   grapefruit   and Congress    meets    tomorrow    in    a'tangerines     hanging     on     Florid.n lame duck" session to add perhapa trees,   and   vegetables   in   the   lust
much as 14 hours behind schedule.i!'""'''"^' the world s largest build- Staten Island was isolated briefly '"«^' \l, '""'?** "'^ '^''" <''' More aa ferrv service from New York"'*" Z*' «^'» ^7« ¦"^"' ""t for to   it  and   other   points   were  aus- am}.ulances   to   aid   storm   victims.
$15,000,000,000 to thia year's military outlays,   start    a   classic   struggle
telephone and light services were blown out in some parts of the city and pounding surf forced har¬ bor oflicials to halt ferry service. The roaring winds dropped to 18 miles an hour by 7 p. m. local time, however, and snow and dip¬ ping temperatures were forecast for the battered  city.
Cleveland _ Citizens waited for the Ohio Nationa] Guard to dig thrm out from thc valanche of snow and ice which police said "completely paralyzed" the metoo- polis.
Cinrinnati—Only a trace of snow was reported, but a serious fuel gas shortage was threatened by the second day of near zero tempera¬ tures.
Youngstown. O.—Twenty -three inches of snow buried streets  and police   reported   no   motor   traffic of   any  kind  operated. >lany Deaths
Pennsylvania reported 22 deaths resulting  from   the  storm.    Michi-
Diplomats Say Restrained Chinese Reds
influence   of   the   United
10 STATES WILL ASK CONGRESS TO APPROVE
PLANS FOR A-DEFENSE        >    loNDON—communist China has side   the •A   huge   landslide   between   Re-:    Troopers Jamea Cannon, Francis     NEW YORK—Rep.-Elect  Harold refrained from an all-out offensive states.   reat and Shickshinny, which start- Brennan   and  Joseph   Petrill   were C,  Ostertog   (R.,  N,  Y.),  said yes- in Korea on Russian advice, diplo-     Diplomatic quartera said this ex- ''d  at   10  last   night,   had   covered' investigating   and   announced   that terday    10    northeastern    states matic     reports     reaching     official plained   Friday's  Soviet   disclosure Route  11  Highway completely thisithe Pennsylvania Highway Depart- would   ask   Congreas   tomorrow  to|quarters here said yesterday. of   the   recent   exchanges   between
morning.     Early   this   morning   It iment   station   at   Bear   Creek   had approve the Lodge-McCormack res-;    The   reports   said   a  Soviet   mis-- jj,fm Foster Dulles, Republican ad- was   still   piling   higher    according been   called   for   help, olution  on  civil  defense. sion,   believed   headed   by  Marshal j^1,5,   ^o   the   U.  S.   State   Depart-
to State Police at the Shickshinny     Traffic   was   completely   cut   off     The    resolution    gives    congres-jGrigory   Konstantinovich   Zhukov,,„e„t    g^„^   govigj   United   Nations -¦- '    • '- ^ 'A detour through Nanticoke,  Glen sional consent In advance to inter-Iwas   dispatched   to    Cluna.    Man-; ^^,^^3^^ j^^^j, j^^,;^ ^^ ^j^^ ^^^^^^
Lyon and Mocanaqua was in effectistate  agreements   covering   mutual chuna   a;",f,,J'°"», *°   '"^"^^^^^ a possible settlement with Japan.
State Police said the road waa cov- assistance in case of atom attack,   the POMibility of full-scale millta^,jj ^,,„ ^.^g^^^ g^p,^^,^  ^^^^  ^y^,, „,
ered   by  at  least  five  or six  feet'., Ostertag  said   an  amendment .to >nterven_tion._  Jafter Jjie^^appra^ajlc^j^^^^   ^^^^p^   ^^^^   the   border,
The  slide was stUl   in  eflfect.
Everglades region were threatened by the  24-degree  temperature pre- ovcr foreign policy, and perhaps doi dieted    tonight.     Fruit     producers little else. flred  smudge pots for an all-night
The session will last four or five battle against the killing cold weeks. With the year'a end, the FootbaU — The Pittsburgh-Pcnn Slat will be succeeded by the nar-iRutgers-Colgate and Scrnnton-Ni- rowly Democratic and largely con-agara football games were can.-el- servative-minded 82nd Congress led. Elsewhere hardy fans braved elected   Nov.  7.
President Truman will get the last games of the 1950 season, but ball rolling tomorrow with a bitter cold sent them home early pre-season, conference with hie at Athens. Ga., Atlanta, Columbia, Senate and House  leaders. S.C,   Auburn,   Ala.,   and   Norfolk,       _
Plenty of Talk Va., and total attendance was down' ga^,],' o^^
Both Democrats and Republicana sharply. ;    At    Washington    the    American
returning after a receas since Sept A city-by-city picture of princiRpj ^.,0,5 mobilized disaster relief 23, predicted more talk than ac- pal metropolitan centers in the ^^ews to help the atorm-ravaged complishment  from  the  short sea-storm area showed: icommunUies    along    the    Atlantic
Pittsburgh - Snow    22'5     inches J seaboard. Relief operations for vio- stifled   the   industrial   center  here, | tims   in   Connecticut,   New   York,
igan   reported   10,   New   Jersey   12, '"'f.'"r5„J-"'?."l    .^'.i"       S}^ *''!  Ohio   eight.   New  York   State   alx,
Indiana five, Weat Virginia. Maine and Delaware each four, Georgia two. South Carolina two, and Illi¬ nois,   Connecticut   and   Tenneasee
aion.    They  spoke chiefly of what it  won't  approve—including  Preai-
'ubstntion. Rock, aton*, treea and 'Iirt had piled over the highwav and was down over the DL4W RaUroad as well.
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the    reaolution    would    be    aought the missions  recommendaUon was ^^.^^ ^^ ^^^^ ^^^^ ^^^^ ^^ Korea.
! Decision Not Posaible
permitting   states   to   extend   auchi "No. The   landslide   occurred   in   the agreements to provinces of Canada Japan Move Important r„..,„„    , „; ,„   ,^„„ . a .
vicinity  of the  Reese Sandpit,  ac- and  Mexico The   mission's   recommendationa     7?«   ^"""?"   review   reportedly
cording  to  the  State  Police,   This     Hc   aaid   i   committee   repreaent- were said to be "brief but categori- said,   "There is no military decision Is approximately one and one-half ing the 10 northeastern  statea haa cal" and to have emphasized  that to be reached m Korea, miles  this  side   of  Shickshinny.       submitted to atate olficials the text there could be no strategic decision     It was said to have named Japan The highway  cannot  posaiblv  be of  a   proposed  agreement. in the entire Far East until there. aa    the   base^ of  aggreaaion     and
ine  nignway      n        p u covers New York, New Jersey, is a decision on Japaii,   The Ooni- said that to drve Arnencan forces
Delaware,   and   the munists   want   to    aettle    Japan'aiout of   Korea   "would   not  be  su(-
opened,   according   to  the  authori¬ ties,   until   some  time   after  noon Pennsylvania,
today.
aix statea of New Kngland.
future ao that country wiU be out- j ficient to eliminate the threat.'
dent  Truman'a   top  domestic jects. I
But this program scems virtually certain: '
1.   A   military   appropriation   ofj possibly as much aa $15,000,000,000. This would  continue the prepared- (Continued on Page A-10)
•"""'Iwhere    giant    stee!    mills    either'
(Continued on Page A-10)
Valley Scene
Woman hanging dfxperatelif to Public Square mailbox al height of storm—nnd both being  pushed  into  the  street.
Former Kingston resident railing landlord in Bridgeport to find how things are, and heing tnld his "windows are all blown out.
Weitt End Road merrhant painting sign haektuards, to attract attsntion.
No All-out Mobilization; All-out War Not Expected
Wi^HINGTO.N, — Chairman;$20,000,000,000.     He   declined   to   He George   H.   Mahon   of   the   House more specific  because the Defense
.  .,_ .,. „i.   Department's  plans have not been
military appropriations subcommit- 5^,^^^^^^    ,j„^„y    ^y   ^^a    White
tee   said   yesterday   that   military House.
leaders   are   not   planning   all-out 1    A   defense   spokesman   indicated mobilization   becau,se   they   do   not'the   department   and   the   Budget anticipate an all-out war. Bureau stUl were not  in complete 'The  Texas   Democrat   made   his agreement  on  the amount,  but  he statement after a three-hour, closed "guessed" the request would be for door conference with Assistant De- less than   $l,%.000,(X)0,nOO. fen.se Secretary W. J. McNeil, Congress   already   haa   appropri- Mahon   aaid   the   administration ated   about   $25,000,000,000   for   de- will ask Congress this week for an fense  spending  in  the   12   montha i extra defense appropriation for the ending next June 30.    Mahon's ea- i rest  of  this  fiscal   year   of   "more timate  would  mean a total  outlay ' than   $10,000,000,000  and   less   than of $35,000,000,000 to $4S,000,000.000.