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•mmfmmifi^ 6 > ^ i / ^L lilch has mtU Uotr>* tht • to ^' iuin lean riiii lriv« f to aa Ha* Cot. tuts tht 'erii, iea- rtni »rHy ^ Qteit Uus. • In. Ivt*. , • el I rs* 4t- lenti aoo^. ly! A Paper For The Home SUNDAY INDEPENDENT The Weather Much colder, anew flurries. Monday cloudy, cold. 45TH YEAR, NO. 12 — 48 PAGES UmTBO win Ht WILKES-BARRE, PA., SUNDAY, JANUARY 21, 1951 PRICE FIFTEEN CENTS —Sunday Independent Ptiotoiirapli* by Paul Bieley I i! wd! It s Mrs. Mary O'Neil manages to keep a tidy house and brew a tasty cup of tea—two of her fondest pleasures in what she calls a "weary time of life." Anything but weary, Mrs. O'Neil wields a broom when the occasion demands and is quite at home presiding over the kitchen stove and the tea pot as she prepares to observe her 112th birthday anniversary Friday. Mary O'Neil to Have Il2fli Birftidoy Suf SiK't Rtady 'When He Wanh Me' 30^000 No. Korean Troops Perishing in Allied Trap MacArfhur Hints for End of Restrictions Or Quitting Korea By RUTHERFORD M. POATS TOKYO (SUNOAY).»Ainerican planes were ordered aloft today to blast Communist troops at the key central Korean city of Wonju which they paid a bloody price to recapture from United Nations troops. At the same time American and South Koreans to the southeast of that city battled to annihilate 30.000 North Koreans caught in an Allied trap. Powerful enemy forces rolled into Wonju yesterday and forced Americans to withdraw for the aecond time in a week. An Allied patrol made an early morning hit-and-run visit to the city again today and reported that Communists were working feverishly on the Wonju airfield. Gen. Douglaa MacArthur flew to Korte to confer with LA. Gen. Matthew Ridgway, Sth Army commander, and told reportera that "no one ia going to drive us into the sea." t- By JOHN C. BUSH The troubled world today haa the prayers of Mrs. Mary O'Nell who, even though she aays her days are numbered, visions the time when "quietness and peace will come to stay." Not too many hours from now Mrs, O'Neill, wlio lives near Wap¬ wallopen on the east side of tlie I Susquehanna River below Mocan¬ aqua, will quietly obaerve her 112th birthday In her small frame dw?ll- ling high atop a hill overlooking i the river valley between Berwick land Shickshinny. I Although many questiona have I been raiaed about Mrs. O'Neill's many, many birthday anniversaries, you can't as much as raise a finger of doubt fti her presence. She counted those birthdays all the way and with God's blessings will reach her 112th milestone on Friday. Haa PMA Certificate A certificate preaented to Mrs. O'Nell by the Pennsylvania Medical Association has inscribed as her birthday—January 26, 18S8. In recent years she hai lost most of her vision but this did not ?nter- fere in her attempt to give us a warm handshake and a grand wel¬ come when winter let up for just a ; spell the past week. I That break in the cold spell gave I Mrs. O'Neil ample time to get out :on the porch with her shawl and (Continued on Page A-2) Want Hospitals of State To Accept AlcoltoUcs state Agency Shows Need of Help To Restore Most of 60,000 Cases In Pennsylvania to Usefulness HARRISBURG.-A state agency has assembled scientific data to back Its claim that hospitala in Pennaylvania ahould accept alcoholics as regular patients. Recognition of alcoholism aa a diaeaae requiring hospitalization o.- special treatment i« aought by Mrs. Helen C. Snyder, Philadelphia, a former executive with Alcoholics Anonymous. _ Mra. Snyder, who heads a special section of the Health Department minority leader* In the 1951 Legis- authorized by the J94& Legialature to investigate alcoholism, estimates lature appear determined to give • there are 60,000 alcoholics in Penn-1 makeup and their rehabilitation Gov. John S. Fine's vigorous call | gyivania, most of whom could be! can be aocompliahed through Al- for economy in state government; rehabilitated and restored to their cohotica Anonymous, a quick test. ; proper places hi society. 2.-«yniptomaUc drinkers are the Minority leaders In both the Sen-' Treatment Almost Iinposaible | mentally 111—thoae who uncon- FINE'S ECONOMY House Leader Says 'Sponsoritis' Cause Of Unnecessary Jobs HARRISBURG —The Dcmocratfc MacArthiur appealed to the United Nationa to decide what to do about the Chinese Communists. Observ¬ ers interpreted this as meaning he wanted permission to bomb China and take any otiicr steps needed to beat the Communists—including j bringing in new UN reinforce- {ments. ! Repairing Air Field I As evidence of a Oommunlst I buildup along most of the front I increased, a military source said ithe Reda appeared to be working ' day and nigiit; on the Wonju air¬ strip. Since the preaent fighting : front Is near the maximum range of planes flyit^ from Manchuria bases, it was pointed out that a refueling or rearming base at Wonju would be valuable in the expected Communist offensive. United Press correspondent Peter Kaliscber reported from Sth Army headquarters that guerrillaa from three North Korean diviaiona con¬ tinued to infiltrate through the UN lines In east central Korea. Fighting to Southeast The deepest enemy penetration was reported 13 miles southwest of Tanyang, where fighting flared. Tanyang ia 35 miles southeaat of Wonju on the main high'way through the mountains toward Andong and the direct route to Pusan. An 8th Army communique did not indicate the sise of the enemy force there. In the mountains southeast of Yongwol a UN regiment fought an estimated Communist battalion. Yongwol is about 30 miles south¬ east of Wonju. An American battalion combat team was forced to withdraw from Wonju yeaterday when the Com¬ munists made heavy aasaults from three sides. But the masaed fire of WELCOME SIGHT —To hard pressed ground troops, the sight of a ground support fighter, load¬ ed with bombs or rockets, streak¬ ing overhead to blast enemy posi¬ tions is the most welcome sight in the world. These infantry- engineers, on a training miaaion on Long laland, get a cloae look at the USAF"8 new swept-wing fighter, the Republic F-84FThun- derjet, aa it paaeea overhead dur¬ ing flight tests. War Map on Page A'2 U. S. tanka, artillery and planea cut the attacking North Koreans te shreds. i Meanwhile unidentified planes appeared over the UN front again last night, dropping nine bombs. I Two fell six miles southeaat of Osan (Continued on Page A-2) C/. S. Demanding UN Brand Reds For Aggression ate and House of Representatives are advocating various means of cutting down expendlturea in the state government. Would Study R«al Needs The latest suggestion comes from A 10-month study by Mra. Snyder; scioualy drink to excess because -her only assistant is a secreUry- ! of that illness. Tney require special diaclosed that 98 state-aided, state- '^^^e *"" treatment, owned and state licensed hospitals 3.—The paychopathic personaJi- polled did not accept alcoholics as ties—those irreaponsible men and patients, while 88 othera accepted l women who flood the slums. They the Democratic Houae leader. Rep. j them "with certain reaervations." never had a job or economic and Hiram G. Andrews, Johnstown. An- In her report, Mrs. Snyder said social advantages, and they are the drews would like to see a scientific that facilities for caring for al-|ones that land in jail time and time study made, bureau by bureau, coholics, as such, "just do notltime again. This group poses the to determine just how many em-j exist in Pennsylvania . , . hospital-! biggest problem. ployees are needed in state govern-, ization for both male and female' 4,—Alcoholics who are morons ment offices. ; alcoholics is almost an imposaibility and in the feeble-minded atage, Andrews termed "aponsoritis" the in this state," They require in.«titutional tare, worst enemy of efficiency and, Sonie of the hospftala accepted! How They Start economy in government. He de-! exceasive drinkers a» patients only i Mrs, Snyder admitted that ex fired a state employee suffering jjf alcoholism was a primary cause pcrts arc still in the dark as to from this ailment as one w4io, when! for hospitalization, if the viotimsihow aicoholica get that way. The Boy Tells Bizarre Story Of Playmate's Death Watched Him Die In Backyard Shed; Later Denies Attack b called to account by his superior, replies: "Don't you think you had better talk that over with my apon¬ sor?" "The sponaors in such cases are,| M^a. Snyder pointed out that six of course, powerful county leaders 1 gtate hospitals polled admitted they who are so strong that bureau i^^ „<,t ^^^g to accept auch patients, heads cannot oppose them, An-ij, alcoholism la only a secondary drewa said, ! cause. Others were handicapped by "This affliction manifests itself ;gpace limitations and shortages of in padded payrolla-tbc padding be-i medical peraonnel. Ing composed of state employees'ij-^m^ Ctoasea who stoutly decline to do any! p^om personal and written con- ^'"'"' j tacts with recognized authorities Met Stone Wall I on alcoholism, and questionnaires Senate Democrata had met a sent to hospitals, judges, colleges atone wall when they made a pro- a'nd psychiatrists, Mrs. Snyder posal similar to that of Andrews, reached these conclusions: The minority leaders introduced a! 1.—The "true" alcoholics, corn- resolution on the last day of this prising 40 per cent of the total week's .sessions which asked for the group, come from all walks of life, creation of a committee of sena-! Btisically there is nothing wrong (Continued on Page A-2) with their personality or emotional Caught on Transport Plane with Nitroglycerine and Dynamite Caps were' recommended by ' oholics most commonly accepted theory ia Anonymous, or if they u .p in the| (Continued on Page A-10) acute stage, requiring emergency' treatment. WILL COST STATE DALLAS, Tex, — Dapper Jaok Todd, a police character who car¬ ried a stick of nitroglycerine jelly aboard a Ncw York-bound airliner, waa released from jail on Satur¬ day under $7,500 bond. He waived preliminary learing on federal charges of carri ing ex¬ plosives In interstate commerce by a common carrier. Police removed Todd from an American Airlines DC-66 Fridav minutes before it wa? to have taken oft from Dallas with 48 per¬ sona aboard. Could Wreck Plane Police Capt. George Lumpkin aaid it "looks like Todd was going to the East Coast to blow a sale. But If that atick of nitro had; gone off, that plane--and the pas-! sengers—would have been scattered! all over the field." i "That stuff is touchy," Lumpkin' J\ '» Today's Issue Qasalfiea B—11 S'l^wa'y A—IP ¦?«« C-S 2*»S*« C-7 £«« C-1 *»^ ». B-1 fwft ¦ I .; s*id. "Besides, one of the dyna¬ mite caps (Todd had) was roiling around in a satchel and might easily have gone off." Passengers were in their seiits with safety belts fastened wh?n the pilot received a radio warning to lock the passenffer door but t.^ delay starting the engines. Three minutes after the sched¬ uled time of departure, Lumpkin and three detectives entered lud arrested Todd. In his pocket thev found an eight-inch stick of oil¬ field-type nitroglycerine. Good for Safecracking Lumpkin said the type was popu¬ lar with safecrackers. He aaid Todd told him several stories why he had the explosiv "He talked about dynamiti./ some fish one time, but later lie said he had to. make some extra money because his wife was going to have a baby." He carried three dynamite capfi and an 18-inch length of black powder in his luggage. Police said Todd had a long rec¬ ord of arrests but his only con¬ viction waa a five-year auspended sentence for auto theft in 1947. A Luzerne County's Share $184 IVIillion, In C of C Estimate HARRISBURG. — The State Chamber of Commerce estimated that President Truman's proposed J71,600,000,000 spending program for the coming fiscal .vear would cost Pennsylvanians ,S5.] 155,000,000 in di¬ rect and hidden taxes. When our government, even in time of emergency, asks taxpayers to assume such a heavy burden," said U'onard P. Fox, the Chamber's executive director, "it is only right that citizens demand commensur¬ ate sacrifices by the government itself. Unfortunately, the Presl- i dent's budget proposals include 'sizable sums for social welfare pro¬ grams and other non - essential spending which would neither con- tribiile to military preparedness nor atrei'athen the nation's normal economy " Luzerne's Share Large The Chamber's estimate of the state's share of the federal budget costs was based on a formula in¬ dicating that Pennaylvanians bear 7,2 per cent of the total federal tax burden. In a county breakdown, the Chamber estimated that taxpayers in Philadelphia county would pay $1,213,000,000 and Allegheny county ! taxpayers $822,892,400, Philadeiphians will contribute the most to the government, while Sul¬ livan and Forest counties will pay the least, about $2,062,000 each. Lu¬ zerne county wil! pay an estimated j $184,549,000. while Schuylkill county 'will pay an esUmated $80,418,000. CRETE, 111,—Kenneth Schol*, 17, a quiet youth who aerved aa a. baby aitter for neighbors, admitted! that 13-year-old Billy Rodenberg died accidentally in a shed behind! the Scholz home. | For two days, as Billy lay dying! in the shed, Scholz went to school! and sat with the neighbors' babies.' Changea Stories i Earlier, he had claimed that he- i found the youngster's body in a i ditch Thursday night and knew I none of the circumstances of the {death. Under questioning yesterdayi the bespectacled schoolboy told' two other versions. . In the first, authorities quoted him aa saying he took Billy Into' the ahed Tuesday evening for im-l moral purposes and that the young-! ater fell unconscious after reaiat-i ing advances. \ In his second veraion, authori-j ties aaid Scholz made no reference! to a sex motive. He aaid he was I Bitting beside Billy in the shed,! and put his h^da on the boy's! neck and shoulder while rising to' change a phonograph record. j Boy Had Asthma ' He said Billy, who suffered from ¦ asthma, slumped over unconscious.! In neither version did Scholz sayl he choked Billy. Ckironer Willard j M. Blood previously had said the' youngster apparently died ofi strangulation. But Dr. Walter Miller, who per-i formed the autopay, said he could' (Continued on Page A-2) VETERANS OR BOYS FACE DRAn CALL; CiGRESS DEBATE Military Chiefs Want 18-Year-Olds Called; Law Exempts Veterans WASHINGTON—Sen. Lyndon B. Johnaon said yesterday Congress must choose between drafting 18- year-olds or "redrafting" veterans of World War U if It wanU to build a large fighting force. 'There is no eaay, cheap way out of this," the Texas Donocrat told reporters. Johnson is chairman of the Senate preparedness committee consider¬ ing the administration's bill to draft 18-year-olds. 3 Ways Out "At the end of a week of hear¬ ings senators are faced with a choice of drafting 18-year-olds for 27 months of service, redrafting veterans or reducing the planned size of the defense force," he said. Defense Department plans call for a total force of 3,462,000 sol¬ diers, sailors, marines and airmen in service "as ioqfi as possible" after June 30. Officials claim they (Continued on Page A-2> Gen. Collins Warns Enemy Attatk Will Be Cosily WASHINGTON.—Gen. J. Lawton Collins promised severe punish¬ ment for Chinese and Korean Reds if they attack the present improved United Nations defense positions in Korea. "If the enemy attack in any strength," the Army chief of staff said, "they will be very severely punished. •The Army haa plenty of fight left in it." UN Forces Ready CJollins, flanked by Defense Sec¬ retary George C. Marshall, gave an account to newsmen at a Penta¬ gon briefing of his recent mspec- t'oin tour of the Korean fighting fronts. He and Gen. Hoyt S. Van¬ denberg, Air Force chief of staff, I returned Thursday night from the IFar East. j "United Nationa forces are bet- !ter disposed to resist an attack ' then they have been for aome time," CoUlna said. His warning to the Red forces followed. He seemed , to imply that UN forces were ready to do some hard socking on their I own in the event of a Red "Sun- j punch.'" Military spokesmen have said ; there are about 300,000 Chinese I Reda now In fighting position on the west and central fronts in {Korea, and about 200,000 North ! Koreans on the cemtral and eaat I fronts. Additionally, there are Isome 450,000 Chinese Red troopa I stationed in varioua sectors of I Manchuria north of the Yalu River, i These troops are believed to be In I a position for movement Into the I fighting area. I Collina visited all American ; troops corps areas, some Republic lof Korea units, the 29th BriUah Brigade, and the Turkish regimen¬ tal combat team. Finds Morale Good The morale of all of them was very good, he said. Then, referring apparently only to American troops, he said: "Our troops were in very good shape. Ilieir morale was better than I expected it to he." He aaid the Chineee and North Korean (Oommunista "have ahown no diapoaition" 'Turinc the paat week "to push south from their present positions south Ot the Han River." A LAKE SUCXHESS, N. Y.-The United States formally demanded on Saturday that the United Na¬ tions General Aasembly declare Communist China has "engaged in aggreaaion" In Korea. "The time to draw the line Is now," the U. & said in a resolution Introduced at an extraordinary Sat¬ urday session of tne UN political committee. The resolution waa sponarred by the United States alone. As late as thia morning, the, American delegation had expected to get between six jnd 12 <-o-apon- sors but gave up the idea when aev¬ eral delegationa balked. Rather than go In with a list of co-sponsors which did not represent a bioad cross-section of non-Communist UN members, the U. S. delegation de¬ cided to proceed alone. Before it was introduced, the resolution was modified consider¬ ably in order to gain the greateat possible support. It pointedly re¬ frained from condemning the Chi-l nese Red regime as an aggressor.; Britain, France Fearful Britain and France led a move¬ ment among manv non-cominform I nationa to a'void flat condemnation' of China, for fear that the reper-i cusaiona might lead to World! War II. I "Aggreaaor" la an exact diplo-' matic term under which clauaes ofj the UN charter could be invoked! to employ diplmnatic and economic! sanctions as well as military action againot the accused state. The phraseology used in the; American resolution was a munhi milder diplomatic approach which would not automatically call for consideration of the sanctions and] the proposal carefully outlined thei ateps to be taken, none of which! called for punitive action. First open opposition to the U. S. proposal came from India's Sir Benegal Rau, who returned this morning from Paris where he had conferred with Indian Prime Min¬ ister Jawaharlal Nehru, author of the UN's mediation efforts. Rau, speaking for the 12-nation bloc of Arab and Asian nations which sponsored the mediaticm effort declared: "My government is bo far op¬ posed to so disastrous a course." Rau charged instead that the UN give careful consideration to the Peking counterproposal. Iraq and Indonesia, members of the 12-na- tlon bloc, followed the same pat¬ tern but witiiout speaking directly against the American proposal. Nine other delegates, seven of them from the Latin bloc, approved the American plan. Czechoslovakia's Jiri Nosek, .sole member of the Soviet nations to speak today, reserved his right to speak on the American resolution until he had studied It in detail. Chief U. S. delegate Warren R. Austin read out the proposal at the opening of the general assembly's main political committee this afternoon. The resolution called upon the Oneral Assembly to: 1.—Find that the Peking regime "has itself engaged In aggression In Korea" by giving diiect aid to North Korean forces who had al¬ ready committed aggression and by engaging in direct warfare with UN forces. 2.—Demand that the Peking re¬ gime order "ita forces and na¬ tionals" in Korea to quit fighting and get out of Korea. 3.—Affirm the UN determination to continue its action In Korea to meet the aggression. "Request Assiatance" 4. -Requeat all states to "con¬ tinue to lend every assistance to the UN action in Korea." 5.---Requeat all governments to refrain from helping the aggres¬ sors. 6.—Request a committee com¬ posed of members of the collective (Ointinued on Page A-14) Wage-Price Freeze Hits New Delays Johnston Has Only Skeleton Staff and Decisions on Huge Rollback Price List WASHINGTON.—The gov¬ ernment's on-again, off-again price freeze hit new delays on Saturday as Economic Stabilizer Eric John¬ ston tackled a big reorganization job In the growing anti-inflation agenciea. The target <late for the freeze waa Feb. 1, aet by Dofenae Mobil¬ izer Charlea E Wilson when he hired J(Anston to replace Alan Valentine. It may come sooner— Preaident Truman wants it as soon aa Johnston can act. Wage con¬ trols will come later. Only 6S Agents But a check yesterday showed Johnston starts off with a skeleton enforcement staff of only 6S agents for a taak which may need aa many aa 1,600 lawyers and experts to police a still-unisaued catalog of regulatlona. Hiring is atalled until the reorganization is carried out. The former president of the Mo¬ tion Picture Producers Association also must take these hurdles: 1.—A revamping of the whole agency set-up to give him powers Valentine never had In his near- fruitless three and a half month.s. 2.—^Decisions on price rollbacks for the whole of America's vast industrial world. As Johnston moved in, dissension still boiled In some parts of the government's defense economy ma¬ chinery. Commereial Building Dispute The National Production Author¬ ity had its first major dispute on Its handa with the resignation n Jamea W. FoUIn, acting chief of its construction division, who dis¬ agreed with NPA Administrator William H. Harrison on the length of the government's temporary ban on commercial buildings. Follin recommended that the ban, ordered laat Monday, be continued until March ao that he could get (Continued on Page A-10) Valley Scene Waitress rebuking customer for ustnjr saucer to dispose of his cigaret — then dumping heavily loaded ash tray into pile of dirty dishes. Governor Fine, rushed in busiest week, grabbing quick snack at West Nanticoke 6ar- beque stand. Prominent Nanticoke resi¬ dent absent - minJedly using toothpick, forgetting both up¬ pers and lowers had been put away. FRENCH REPORT REDS LOST HEAVILY IN MEN ABOVE VINH YEN SAIGON, French Indo-Cblna.— French patrols reported they had counted more than 1,500 corpses of Viet Minh rebels sprawled on the battleground above VInh Yen, where the Reds laat week launched their greatest single offensive of the five-year-old war. A communique said more than 6,000 in the Ommunist-Ied Army were wounded In the vain attempt to crack Vinh Yen, seme 25 miles north-west ef Hanoi, and break through the defense ring protecting the northern capital. The report on the gravity of the Communist defeat came as Elm- peror Bao Dai dismiaaed his 11- man Viet Nam cabinet. The acticn waa not unexpected. Bao Dai, chief of the Viet Nam state, will appoint a larger and more repre¬ sentative body within a few daya The military communique said French losses were not one-tentii of the enemy's during the furious fighting between Jan. 12 and 19 and that many French listed aa missing were returning to their garrisons. Interrogation ef 480 prisoners, the communique said. Indicated that rebel 'wounded may eventually surpass the 6,000 eetlmate. Morale Soars GI's Never Have it so Good as when They Can Smack an Enemy Division 8th ARMY RESTRICTS USE OF TELEPHONES EIGHTH ARMY HEADQUAR¬ TERS, Korea.—Corps headquarters on the central front has reetricted the use of telephones by corre¬ spondents. Newsmen, operating from an ad¬ vanced division command post, must place their ealla through the corps switehboard to reach the Sth Army, where their storiea are cen¬ sored and relayed to Tokyo. The new restrictions limit tiie use of telephones by correspondente tfi the hours between 10 p. nt. and 7 a m. except for pooled stories, whicli caa be put tbrou|$k at any tlntfc CENTRAL FRONT, K o r e a.— Nothing builds GI morale on the fighting front here like a cluuicc to cldbber an enemy diviaion. Faces' were drawn and grim. Many of the officers ahowed evi¬ dence of lack of sleep, were quick on the trigger, lifelesa in their con¬ versation the other night as they arrived for a divisional orieflng seseion—a meeting where staff of¬ ficers get together, outline what went on during the day and plan action for the next day. Nerves on Edge A« they filed into the barren sohool room, even the smoke from the rusty oil stove seemed to rise In uneven spirals. Whenever the 15B nun. howitwr down tbe hill fired, everybody jumped. Then a lieuteaant-cokmel, aa operations ofNcer. waved a baton at a big situation map snd said, "We have run into an interesting situation," sion which had infiltrated through the main UN defenae lines had run into a trap. Thousands of the enemy had died under Allied artil¬ lery and small arma fire aAd co¬ ordinated air attacks in two days, and there was a good chance the remainder of the Communist divi¬ sion would be finished off before it could do any damage. Laughter swept the room — the happy, expectant laughter ot fight¬ ing men who were about to master a problem they could aee aad cojie with. The Meed Changed Officera who had seemed grim and tired leaned forward enthi^aa- tically. The defeatism that had dogged UN rank* for two wotks of run¬ ning aad mating only to get •way almost couM be aeea floating up the chhnney ef the smoking ed stove. A chance to chibber an enemy division! These Americens wanted Interesting? n wa« aona«tional!!nothinB more—>ust a chance to It seemed a North Korean divi-show they etiU could do it.
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Title | Wilkes-Barre Sunday Independent |
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Month | 01 |
Day | 21 |
Year | 1951 |
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Title | Wilkes-Barre Sunday Independent |
Masthead | Wilkes-Barre Sunday Independent |
Volume | 45 |
Issue | 12 |
Subject |
Wilkes-Barre (Pa.) - Newspapers Luzerne County (Pa.) - Newspapers |
Description | An archive of the Wilkes-Barre Sunday Independent newspaper. |
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Mrs. Mary O'Neil manages to keep a tidy house and brew a tasty cup of tea—two of her fondest pleasures in what she calls a "weary time of life." Anything but weary, Mrs. O'Neil wields a broom when the occasion demands and is quite at home presiding over the kitchen stove and the tea pot as she prepares to observe her 112th birthday
anniversary Friday.
Mary O'Neil to Have Il2fli Birftidoy Suf SiK't Rtady 'When He Wanh Me'
30^000 No. Korean Troops Perishing in Allied Trap
MacArfhur Hints for End of Restrictions Or Quitting Korea
By RUTHERFORD M. POATS
TOKYO (SUNOAY).»Ainerican planes were ordered aloft today to blast Communist troops at the key central Korean city of Wonju which they paid a bloody price to recapture from United Nations troops.
At the same time American and South Koreans to the southeast of that city battled to annihilate 30.000 North Koreans caught in an Allied trap.
Powerful enemy forces rolled into Wonju yesterday and forced Americans to withdraw for the aecond time in a week. An Allied patrol made an early morning hit-and-run visit to the city again today and reported that Communists were working feverishly on the Wonju airfield.
Gen. Douglaa MacArthur flew to Korte to confer with LA. Gen. Matthew Ridgway, Sth Army commander, and told reportera that "no one ia going to drive us into the sea."
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By JOHN C. BUSH
The troubled world today haa the prayers of Mrs. Mary O'Nell who, even though she aays her days are numbered, visions the time when "quietness and peace will come to stay."
Not too many hours from now Mrs, O'Neill, wlio lives near Wap¬ wallopen on the east side of tlie I Susquehanna River below Mocan¬ aqua, will quietly obaerve her 112th birthday In her small frame dw?ll-
ling high atop a hill overlooking i the river valley between Berwick land Shickshinny.
I Although many questiona have I been raiaed about Mrs. O'Neill's many, many birthday anniversaries, you can't as much as raise a finger of doubt fti her presence. She counted those birthdays all the way and with God's blessings will reach her 112th milestone on Friday. Haa PMA Certificate A certificate preaented to Mrs.
O'Nell by the Pennsylvania Medical Association has inscribed as her birthday—January 26, 18S8.
In recent years she hai lost most of her vision but this did not ?nter- fere in her attempt to give us a warm handshake and a grand wel¬ come when winter let up for just a ; spell the past week. I That break in the cold spell gave I Mrs. O'Neil ample time to get out :on the porch with her shawl and (Continued on Page A-2)
Want Hospitals of State To Accept AlcoltoUcs
state Agency Shows Need of Help To Restore Most of 60,000 Cases In Pennsylvania to Usefulness
HARRISBURG.-A state agency has assembled scientific data to back Its claim that hospitala in Pennaylvania ahould accept alcoholics as regular patients.
Recognition of alcoholism aa a diaeaae requiring hospitalization o.- special treatment i« aought by Mrs. Helen C. Snyder, Philadelphia, a former executive with Alcoholics Anonymous.
_ Mra. Snyder, who heads a special section of the Health Department
minority leader* In the 1951 Legis- authorized by the J94& Legialature to investigate alcoholism, estimates lature appear determined to give • there are 60,000 alcoholics in Penn-1 makeup and their rehabilitation Gov. John S. Fine's vigorous call | gyivania, most of whom could be! can be aocompliahed through Al- for economy in state government; rehabilitated and restored to their cohotica Anonymous, a quick test. ; proper places hi society. 2.-«yniptomaUc drinkers are the
Minority leaders In both the Sen-' Treatment Almost Iinposaible | mentally 111—thoae who uncon-
FINE'S ECONOMY
House Leader Says 'Sponsoritis' Cause Of Unnecessary Jobs
HARRISBURG —The Dcmocratfc
MacArthiur appealed to the United Nationa to decide what to do about the Chinese Communists. Observ¬ ers interpreted this as meaning he wanted permission to bomb China and take any otiicr steps needed to beat the Communists—including j bringing in new UN reinforce- {ments.
! Repairing Air Field I As evidence of a Oommunlst I buildup along most of the front I increased, a military source said ithe Reda appeared to be working ' day and nigiit; on the Wonju air¬ strip. Since the preaent fighting : front Is near the maximum range of planes flyit^ from Manchuria bases, it was pointed out that a refueling or rearming base at Wonju would be valuable in the expected Communist offensive.
United Press correspondent Peter Kaliscber reported from Sth Army headquarters that guerrillaa from three North Korean diviaiona con¬ tinued to infiltrate through the UN lines In east central Korea. Fighting to Southeast
The deepest enemy penetration was reported 13 miles southwest of
Tanyang, where fighting flared. Tanyang ia 35 miles southeaat of Wonju on the main high'way through the mountains toward Andong and the direct route to Pusan. An 8th Army communique did not indicate the sise of the enemy force there.
In the mountains southeast of Yongwol a UN regiment fought an estimated Communist battalion. Yongwol is about 30 miles south¬ east of Wonju.
An American battalion combat team was forced to withdraw from Wonju yeaterday when the Com¬ munists made heavy aasaults from three sides. But the masaed fire of
WELCOME SIGHT —To hard pressed ground troops, the sight of a ground support fighter, load¬ ed with bombs or rockets, streak¬ ing overhead to blast enemy posi¬ tions is the most welcome sight in the world. These infantry-
engineers, on a training miaaion on Long laland, get a cloae look at the USAF"8 new swept-wing fighter, the Republic F-84FThun- derjet, aa it paaeea overhead dur¬ ing flight tests.
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U. S. tanka, artillery and planea cut the attacking North Koreans te shreds. i
Meanwhile unidentified planes
appeared over the UN front again
last night, dropping nine bombs. I
Two fell six miles southeaat of Osan
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C/. S. Demanding UN Brand Reds For Aggression
ate and House of Representatives are advocating various means of cutting down expendlturea in the state government. Would Study R«al Needs The latest suggestion comes from
A 10-month study by Mra. Snyder; scioualy drink to excess because -her only assistant is a secreUry- ! of that illness. Tney require special diaclosed that 98 state-aided, state- '^^^e *"" treatment, owned and state licensed hospitals 3.—The paychopathic personaJi- polled did not accept alcoholics as ties—those irreaponsible men and patients, while 88 othera accepted l women who flood the slums. They the Democratic Houae leader. Rep. j them "with certain reaervations." never had a job or economic and Hiram G. Andrews, Johnstown. An- In her report, Mrs. Snyder said social advantages, and they are the drews would like to see a scientific that facilities for caring for al-|ones that land in jail time and time study made, bureau by bureau, coholics, as such, "just do notltime again. This group poses the to determine just how many em-j exist in Pennsylvania . , . hospital-! biggest problem. ployees are needed in state govern-, ization for both male and female' 4,—Alcoholics who are morons ment offices. ; alcoholics is almost an imposaibility and in the feeble-minded atage,
Andrews termed "aponsoritis" the in this state," They require in.«titutional tare,
worst enemy of efficiency and, Sonie of the hospftala accepted! How They Start economy in government. He de-! exceasive drinkers a» patients only i Mrs, Snyder admitted that ex fired a state employee suffering jjf alcoholism was a primary cause pcrts arc still in the dark as to from this ailment as one w4io, when! for hospitalization, if the viotimsihow aicoholica get that way. The
Boy Tells Bizarre Story Of Playmate's Death
Watched Him Die In Backyard Shed; Later Denies Attack
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called to account by his superior, replies: "Don't you think you had better talk that over with my apon¬ sor?"
"The sponaors in such cases are,| M^a. Snyder pointed out that six of course, powerful county leaders 1 gtate hospitals polled admitted they who are so strong that bureau i^^ „<,t ^^^g to accept auch patients, heads cannot oppose them, An-ij, alcoholism la only a secondary drewa said, ! cause. Others were handicapped by
"This affliction manifests itself ;gpace limitations and shortages of in padded payrolla-tbc padding be-i medical peraonnel. Ing composed of state employees'ij-^m^ Ctoasea
who stoutly decline to do any! p^om personal and written con- ^'"'"' j tacts with recognized authorities
Met Stone Wall I on alcoholism, and questionnaires
Senate Democrata had met a sent to hospitals, judges, colleges atone wall when they made a pro- a'nd psychiatrists, Mrs. Snyder posal similar to that of Andrews, reached these conclusions: The minority leaders introduced a! 1.—The "true" alcoholics, corn- resolution on the last day of this prising 40 per cent of the total week's .sessions which asked for the group, come from all walks of life, creation of a committee of sena-! Btisically there is nothing wrong (Continued on Page A-2) with their personality or emotional
Caught on Transport Plane with Nitroglycerine and Dynamite Caps
were' recommended by ' oholics most commonly accepted theory ia Anonymous, or if they u .p in the| (Continued on Page A-10) acute stage, requiring emergency' treatment.
WILL COST STATE
DALLAS, Tex, — Dapper Jaok Todd, a police character who car¬ ried a stick of nitroglycerine jelly aboard a Ncw York-bound airliner, waa released from jail on Satur¬ day under $7,500 bond.
He waived preliminary learing on federal charges of carri ing ex¬ plosives In interstate commerce by a common carrier.
Police removed Todd from an American Airlines DC-66 Fridav minutes before it wa? to have taken oft from Dallas with 48 per¬ sona aboard. Could Wreck Plane
Police Capt. George Lumpkin aaid it "looks like Todd was going to the East Coast to blow a sale. But If that atick of nitro had; gone off, that plane--and the pas-! sengers—would have been scattered! all over the field." i
"That stuff is touchy," Lumpkin'
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s*id. "Besides, one of the dyna¬ mite caps (Todd had) was roiling around in a satchel and might easily have gone off."
Passengers were in their seiits with safety belts fastened wh?n the pilot received a radio warning to lock the passenffer door but t.^ delay starting the engines.
Three minutes after the sched¬ uled time of departure, Lumpkin and three detectives entered lud arrested Todd. In his pocket thev found an eight-inch stick of oil¬ field-type nitroglycerine. Good for Safecracking
Lumpkin said the type was popu¬ lar with safecrackers.
He aaid Todd told him several stories why he had the explosiv
"He talked about dynamiti./ some fish one time, but later lie said he had to. make some extra money because his wife was going to have a baby."
He carried three dynamite capfi and an 18-inch length of black powder in his luggage.
Police said Todd had a long rec¬ ord of arrests but his only con¬ viction waa a five-year auspended sentence for auto theft in 1947.
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Luzerne County's Share $184 IVIillion, In C of C Estimate
HARRISBURG. — The State Chamber of Commerce estimated that President Truman's proposed J71,600,000,000 spending program for the coming fiscal .vear would cost Pennsylvanians ,S5.] 155,000,000 in di¬ rect and hidden taxes.
When our government, even in time of emergency, asks taxpayers to assume such a heavy burden," said U'onard P. Fox, the Chamber's executive director, "it is only right that citizens demand commensur¬ ate sacrifices by the government itself. Unfortunately, the Presl- i dent's budget proposals include 'sizable sums for social welfare pro¬ grams and other non - essential spending which would neither con- tribiile to military preparedness nor atrei'athen the nation's normal economy " Luzerne's Share Large
The Chamber's estimate of the state's share of the federal budget costs was based on a formula in¬ dicating that Pennaylvanians bear 7,2 per cent of the total federal tax burden.
In a county breakdown, the Chamber estimated that taxpayers in Philadelphia county would pay $1,213,000,000 and Allegheny county ! taxpayers $822,892,400,
Philadeiphians will contribute the most to the government, while Sul¬ livan and Forest counties will pay the least, about $2,062,000 each. Lu¬ zerne county wil! pay an estimated j $184,549,000. while Schuylkill county 'will pay an esUmated $80,418,000.
CRETE, 111,—Kenneth Schol*, 17, a quiet youth who aerved aa a. baby aitter for neighbors, admitted! that 13-year-old Billy Rodenberg died accidentally in a shed behind! the Scholz home. |
For two days, as Billy lay dying! in the shed, Scholz went to school! and sat with the neighbors' babies.' Changea Stories
i Earlier, he had claimed that he- i found the youngster's body in a i ditch Thursday night and knew I none of the circumstances of the {death. Under questioning yesterdayi the bespectacled schoolboy told' two other versions. .
In the first, authorities quoted him aa saying he took Billy Into' the ahed Tuesday evening for im-l moral purposes and that the young-! ater fell unconscious after reaiat-i ing advances. \
In his second veraion, authori-j ties aaid Scholz made no reference! to a sex motive. He aaid he was I Bitting beside Billy in the shed,! and put his h^da on the boy's! neck and shoulder while rising to' change a phonograph record. j
Boy Had Asthma '
He said Billy, who suffered from ¦ asthma, slumped over unconscious.!
In neither version did Scholz sayl he choked Billy. Ckironer Willard j M. Blood previously had said the' youngster apparently died ofi strangulation.
But Dr. Walter Miller, who per-i formed the autopay, said he could' (Continued on Page A-2)
VETERANS OR BOYS
FACE DRAn CALL;
CiGRESS DEBATE
Military Chiefs Want 18-Year-Olds Called; Law Exempts Veterans
WASHINGTON—Sen. Lyndon B. Johnaon said yesterday Congress must choose between drafting 18- year-olds or "redrafting" veterans of World War U if It wanU to build a large fighting force.
'There is no eaay, cheap way out of this," the Texas Donocrat told reporters.
Johnson is chairman of the Senate preparedness committee consider¬ ing the administration's bill to draft 18-year-olds. 3 Ways Out
"At the end of a week of hear¬ ings senators are faced with a choice of drafting 18-year-olds for 27 months of service, redrafting veterans or reducing the planned size of the defense force," he said.
Defense Department plans call for a total force of 3,462,000 sol¬ diers, sailors, marines and airmen in service "as ioqfi as possible" after June 30. Officials claim they (Continued on Page A-2>
Gen. Collins Warns Enemy Attatk Will Be Cosily
WASHINGTON.—Gen. J. Lawton Collins promised severe punish¬ ment for Chinese and Korean Reds if they attack the present improved United Nations defense positions in Korea.
"If the enemy attack in any strength," the Army chief of staff said, "they will be very severely punished.
•The Army haa plenty of fight left in it." UN Forces Ready
CJollins, flanked by Defense Sec¬ retary George C. Marshall, gave an account to newsmen at a Penta¬ gon briefing of his recent mspec- t'oin tour of the Korean fighting fronts. He and Gen. Hoyt S. Van¬ denberg, Air Force chief of staff,
I returned Thursday night from the
IFar East.
j "United Nationa forces are bet-
!ter disposed to resist an attack
' then they have been for aome time," CoUlna said. His warning to the Red forces followed. He seemed
, to imply that UN forces were ready to do some hard socking on their
I own in the event of a Red "Sun-
j punch.'"
Military spokesmen have said
; there are about 300,000 Chinese I Reda now In fighting position on the west and central fronts in {Korea, and about 200,000 North ! Koreans on the cemtral and eaat I fronts. Additionally, there are Isome 450,000 Chinese Red troopa I stationed in varioua sectors of I Manchuria north of the Yalu River, i These troops are believed to be In I a position for movement Into the I fighting area.
I Collina visited all American ; troops corps areas, some Republic lof Korea units, the 29th BriUah Brigade, and the Turkish regimen¬ tal combat team. Finds Morale Good
The morale of all of them was very good, he said.
Then, referring apparently only to American troops, he said:
"Our troops were in very good shape. Ilieir morale was better than I expected it to he."
He aaid the Chineee and North Korean (Oommunista "have ahown no diapoaition" 'Turinc the paat week "to push south from their present positions south Ot the Han River."
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LAKE SUCXHESS, N. Y.-The United States formally demanded on Saturday that the United Na¬ tions General Aasembly declare Communist China has "engaged in aggreaaion" In Korea.
"The time to draw the line Is now," the U. & said in a resolution Introduced at an extraordinary Sat¬ urday session of tne UN political committee.
The resolution waa sponarred by the United States alone.
As late as thia morning, the, American delegation had expected to get between six jnd 12 <-o-apon- sors but gave up the idea when aev¬ eral delegationa balked. Rather than go In with a list of co-sponsors which did not represent a bioad cross-section of non-Communist UN members, the U. S. delegation de¬ cided to proceed alone.
Before it was introduced, the resolution was modified consider¬ ably in order to gain the greateat possible support. It pointedly re¬ frained from condemning the Chi-l nese Red regime as an aggressor.; Britain, France Fearful
Britain and France led a move¬ ment among manv non-cominform I nationa to a'void flat condemnation' of China, for fear that the reper-i cusaiona might lead to World! War II. I
"Aggreaaor" la an exact diplo-' matic term under which clauaes ofj the UN charter could be invoked! to employ diplmnatic and economic! sanctions as well as military action againot the accused state.
The phraseology used in the; American resolution was a munhi milder diplomatic approach which would not automatically call for consideration of the sanctions and] the proposal carefully outlined thei ateps to be taken, none of which! called for punitive action.
First open opposition to the U. S. proposal came from India's Sir Benegal Rau, who returned this morning from Paris where he had conferred with Indian Prime Min¬ ister Jawaharlal Nehru, author of the UN's mediation efforts.
Rau, speaking for the 12-nation bloc of Arab and Asian nations which sponsored the mediaticm effort declared:
"My government is bo far op¬ posed to so disastrous a course."
Rau charged instead that the UN give careful consideration to the Peking counterproposal. Iraq and Indonesia, members of the 12-na- tlon bloc, followed the same pat¬ tern but witiiout speaking directly against the American proposal. Nine other delegates, seven of them from the Latin bloc, approved the American plan.
Czechoslovakia's Jiri Nosek, .sole
member of the Soviet nations to speak today, reserved his right to speak on the American resolution until he had studied It in detail.
Chief U. S. delegate Warren R. Austin read out the proposal at the opening of the general assembly's main political committee this afternoon.
The resolution called upon the Oneral Assembly to:
1.—Find that the Peking regime "has itself engaged In aggression In Korea" by giving diiect aid to North Korean forces who had al¬ ready committed aggression and by engaging in direct warfare with UN forces.
2.—Demand that the Peking re¬ gime order "ita forces and na¬ tionals" in Korea to quit fighting and get out of Korea.
3.—Affirm the UN determination to continue its action In Korea to meet the aggression. "Request Assiatance"
4. -Requeat all states to "con¬ tinue to lend every assistance to the UN action in Korea."
5.---Requeat all governments to refrain from helping the aggres¬ sors.
6.—Request a committee com¬ posed of members of the collective (Ointinued on Page A-14)
Wage-Price Freeze Hits New Delays
Johnston Has Only Skeleton Staff and Decisions on Huge Rollback Price List
WASHINGTON.—The gov¬ ernment's on-again, off-again price freeze hit new delays on Saturday as Economic Stabilizer Eric John¬ ston tackled a big reorganization job In the growing anti-inflation agenciea.
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