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47TH YEAR —NO. 9 — 52 PAGES
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WILKES-BARRE, PA., SUNDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1952
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PRICE FIFTEEN ( ENTS
Greetings from VVfiite Horse Mouniain
On White Horse Mountain in Korea men of the 3rd Infantry Division hold a sign wishing you the best. Left to right are: Pfc. Robert Arrington, Aid, Me.; Pfc. Edwin Davis, Chicago; i'vt Eddie Smith, Long Beach, Calif., and Pfc. Virgin Suttle, Charleston, W. Va. Perhaps there will be something better for them in 1953, too.
Churchill Wants Britain To Share Control of War
Ike's Korea Trip, MacArthur Talks Worrying British
LONDON.—British determination to share control over the future course of the Korean War is one of the main reasons for Prime Minister Winston Churchill's surprise decision to meet Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower before his inauguration, diplomatic sources said on Saturday.
Esenhower*s trip to Korea and his invitation to (ien. Douglas MacArthur to put forth hs plan for ending the Korean War brought an anxiety in Britain that the United States might take an independent course of action which would extend the war.
Anxiety was heightened by an interview with Chinese Communist Premier and Foreign Minister Chou En-Lai in the Paris Communist i newspaper rHumanite yesterday in which Chou warned that even; a stepped up war effort by the United Nations might lead to a' world war.
Eisenhower has formulated as a result of his trip to the war zone and subsequent consultations with MacArthur and others.
2.—Whether the change of American administration brings about a situation in which a new approach to the Rusisans—pos¬ sibly a top-level meeting of states¬ men—would be beneficial. May  Cut  Arms  Programs
3.—The  defense of  Europe.  In-
DEATH THREATS CITED BY PRIEST
Filih Floods Newsstands, House Commitiee Charges
Churchill summoned his top ministers from their Christmas holidays for a cabinet meeting early next weelc before he sails for New York for his informal meeting with Eisenhower. Sails Wednesday
Churchill sails for New York next Wednesday on the Queen Mary, arriving on Jan. 5. He will I be accompanied by Sir Roger Makins, New British ambassador to Washington.
Highly placed British sources said the intensive talka, through of an informal nature, would be mainly a broad review of the international situation with em¬ phasis on:
1.—Korea and the plan of action
eluding the inclination of Britain,! and other European nations to| cut back their rearmament pro-1 grams to b^ow levels envisaged' by Eisenhower when he waa su¬ preme NATO commander.
Churchill will go on from his two | or three  day* visit  to "pay  hlsj (Continued on Page A-ll>
Catholic Organ Says Waterfront Can Be Cleaned Up
NEW YORK Rev. John M. Corridan, New York's famous "waterfront prieat." said that some longshoremen have been threatened with death as a result of testimony before the New York State Crime Commission.
In a •peclal story for the "Ad¬ vocate," offldal organ of the Ro¬ man Oatholio Church, Corridan •aid soiB* dock workers have been warned that "bodies will be floating In Vb» river" when the in¬ vestigation Into "unbelievable" conditions on the waterfront is over. Se«« Cleanup Poesible
Father Corridan, as.«ociate di¬ rector of the St. Francis Xavier Labor School on We»t l«th street, called the metropolitan waterfront a "splderweb of crime and cor¬ ruption." He saw hope of a olean- up, however, because the average stevedore was "fed up" with racket-ridden unlona.
Corridan said the "defiance" shown by leaders of the AFL In¬ ternational Longahoremen's Asso¬ ciation at crime hearings served only to remind the rank-and-file members that "we'll still bo around when all this blow* over."
Offers Own Program
Father Corridan recommended a five-point plan for Improving conditions on  the  waterfront.
He called for removal of the docks from city politics and turn¬ ing them over to the Port of New Y«rk Authority, outlawing of pub- lie loading concessions, registra¬ tion of all longshoremen, by a state or federal agency, inaugura¬ tion of seniority rights among legitimate dock workers and elim¬ ination of the "shape-up" aa a method of hiring.
Demands Publishers Halt Obscene Stream Or Face U. S. Control
WASHINGTON—A special con¬ gressional committee warned yefl- terday that an "incredible vol¬ ume" of filthy literature is flood- in* the nation's newsstands and called on publishers to clean house before an outraged public demands that the industry be regulated   by the government.
The group, headed by Rep. E. C. Gathings (D-Ark.), also recom¬ mended that Congress close loop¬ holes in existing federal law against Interstate shipment of ob¬ scene matter and give the Post Office Department power to Im¬ pound mail addressed to persons offering lewd matter for sale.
It concluded, after a long in¬ vestigation, that censorship is not the Kilution but warned that some form of ''governmental ac¬ tion" will be demanded unless the publishing industry, "on its own initiative," taltos steps to halt the flow of objectionable material.
The committee said lack of leg¬ islation is not nearly so much to Mame for the situation as failure to enforce anti-obscenity lawa al¬ ready on the books, especially those which exist in all states but New Mexico and in most big cities. Public Apathetic
It said this failure Is due large¬ ly to Sipathy.
'K>ne ot Uie fundamental pur- poaes of this oonianiittee wa« to reveal the problem in its present form with th* knowledge that, once It was revealed a militant public opposition . ¦ . would pre¬ cipitate action against the pro¬ ducer or distributor of obscene materials," the group said.
The committee's findings were included in a report to the House which will be made puWic form¬ ally this week. A galley proof copy of iJie report was made available to the United Press. At least one dissenting report by Rep. Emanuel Celler (D-N.Y.) is likely.
The committee said its public hearings and a months-long study by its staff showed that salacious paper-bound books, "girlie" mafira' zines and "the flagrantly mis¬ named comics" have become a (Continued on Pa«re A-11)
Becker Court Dwelling Badly Damaged by Fire
Heat Wave In Argentina
BUENOS AIRES. Argentines! sweltered Saturday in the second i day of the summer's first heati wave.
Santa Fe  reported  106 degrees,! C^tamarca 102.2 and Cordoba 100.!
Bock in i901 a Boy Named Ford Didn'i Want or Get Much from Santa
WAHHINOTaV — Edsel Ford, •on ot automobile manufacturer HMiry tbm First, wroto to Santa C3«UB In the year 1901:
"Dewr Santa Cla/us: I haven't had any Christmas tree in four years and I have broken my trim- Ings and I want some roller skates and I want a bool* and I can't think of anj-thing el.se. I want you to think of something else." For Ford Archives
This letter, written in a bold, childish hand, with only one mis¬ spelled word, is among the papers of the late billionaire, to be placed In the Ford archives in May. They were exhibited at a preview here Saturday.
Tile papers will be taken later to Dearborn.  Mich.
When   young   Edsel   wrote  Jiis
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note to Santa, Henry Ford I was two years away from production of the first Model T. The family, it is said, was hurting for money at  the moment.
There is no record whether Ed¬ sel ever got the tree or the "trim¬ mings" or "anything else" but he lived to get many another choice trinket before he died.
Among the paper.s shown here in connection with the American Historical Society's annual meet¬ ing was a wire Edsel sent to the old' New York World in connec¬ tion with a new model Ford in 1914. The wire read, in part: Prices Going Down
"It is such a radical innovation that I cannot ht present give an estimate aa to its ultimate effect. Some time ago Mr. Ford reduced the price of his wonderful touring car to the extent of $40."
The selections from the Ford Motor CJompany archives, the vvorld's largest industrial archives, are on exhibit at the Mayflower Hotel.
Documents on display include personal papers of Henry Ford, business records of the company, and data of ccanpanies formerly associated with t&em.
CONGRESS ASKED TO DECREE DEATH E
House Committee
For War-Time Powers;
Cites Red Inroads
WASHINCJTON - H o u .^ e spy hunters yesterday urged immedi¬ ate use of wartime powers to fight (Communists at home, including a death penalty for espionage.
If Congress carries out the com¬ mittee's recommendation, the au¬ thority presumably would permit the government to round up all known Communists and put them In concentration camps.
Keport to Oongreas
The House uan-American activi¬ ties committee made the recom¬ mendations in Its annual report to thn outgoing 82nd (>ongre«s. It said Communists hav* made "dangerous inroads" in plotting to overthrow the U. 8. govern¬ ment.
In a parallel development. Sen. Homer Ferguson (R-Mich.) called for extension of the Senate in¬ ternal security subcommittee be¬ cause Congress must keep on "constant vigil" for subversive in fluences. Ferguson said further public exposures by the Senate group could break up a potential Communist fifth column.
Mundt Doubtful
The House committee report immediately brought mixed reac¬ tion.
Sen. Karl E. Mundt (R-S. D.) a former member of the un-Amer lean activities group, said "I'm not very hot for the idea of con centration camps." He said he "would not oppose legislation which would say that death is the maximum penalty" for espi' onage, but does not think it should  be  a mandatory penalty,
Mundt said there are "varying degrees of espionage" and that a mandatory death penalty would make it too hard to get convic¬ tions in many cases.
POLISH NEWS AGENCY CHARGES U-S- DROPPED SPIES FROM PLANE
LONDON. — The Polish news agency, PAP, yesterday charged the United States had dropped two spies Into Poland from a military plane Nov. 4.
The agents were captured short¬ ly al^er landing and, according to a Polish broadcast, made a full confession and gave details of the spy training operation of the American Secret Service.
In Wiesbaden, Germany, an of¬ ficial spokesman for the U. S. Air Force denied the PAP charges.
"We've never heard a thing about this." the spokesman said, "We do not drop spies from air¬ planes."
ASIA GETS MORE
Slump in Shipments Comes When Program Was to Speed Up
WASHINGTON—Foreign a i d figures yesterday revealed that U. S. arms shipments abroad lagged badly in the third quarter of 1962.
Deliveries feU off about $21,000,- (XK). But worried officials said the situation is far more serious hecause the slimip came at a time when the program was sup¬ posed to be accelerating.
The figures, which the govern¬ ment will publish shortly, show military aid shipments to Asia jumped from $72,000,000 In the second quarter to $138,000,000 in the third.
But this Increase failed to off¬ set a sharp skid In the case of Europe, where deliveries dr(^ped from $551,000,000 In the second quarter to $482,000,000 in the July- September period. Total Drop for Quarter
Altogether, total U. S. military aid spending-^the government's bets gauge of actual shipments- amounted to $682,000,000 in third quarter compared to $658,000,000 the previous period.
Shipment statistics since the arms buildup began nearly three years ago reveal some progress but nothing like what officials predicted and scheduled. In the last 15 months there has been a net Increase of only $100,000,000 in the delivery rate.
U.   S.   arms   deliveries   totalled $1,149,000,000 in fiscal 1950-51, $1, 911,000,000  in   fiscal   1951-52,   tend should,   at   present   rate,   hit  $2, ."568,000,000 by the end of the cur¬ rent fiscal year. July 31. No Mateh for War Pace
But the arms buildup has been slower than In the aiucious days at the start of Worid War 11 when lend-lease deliveries hit $1, 0(X>,000,000 In the first year, more than $2,000,000,000 in the second, and climbed out of sight in the third.
Meanwhile, the new figures show the United States supplied the free world with $521,000,000 in grant economic aid—mo.«rtly de¬ fense support for Europe—during the third quarter.
Wo Change* in BrodieTwins
I    A   fire   of I mushroomed
intense    heat in   a   second
11. S. Airmen Level Red Supply Area
Communists Caught Off-Guard in Blast At Important Pugwon Transportation Center
TOKYO, Sunday, Dec. 28— American B-29s levelled a Communist supply and trans¬ portation center at Pugwon, Korea, early today in their first raid on the new 45- acre target.
Nine of the big bombers roared in from Okinawa to bla^t the supply concentra¬ tion in Northwest Korea on the Reds' important Hichon to Sinanju rail line. They dropped 90 tons of bombs on the target.
The raid appArently caught the (Communists off-guard. No enemy planes or anti-aircraft fire were encountered.
Freezing wet skies substituted for the enemy, however, making the mission hazardous by coating the  superforts'  wings  with  Ice.
"We were the last aircraft over the target," Bombardier Lt. Fran-
that     Deputy Chief Edward Jacob.ion,els Dougherty of Philadelphia said floor said   second   floor   windows   were|"And I saw gutted buifdings out-
hallway and attic stairdway caus- OHIOAGO -Doctors reported i^j considerable damage last night "no   change"   Saturday   m   the • condition  of  the  infant  Brodie
"all   aglow"
twins.
The 15-month-old twins, joined at the top of the skull, were separated by surgeons at Uni¬ versity of Illinois Research and Educational  Hospital  Dec.  17.
Doctors said that Roger Liee, the weaker of the two, still is in a coma and In "very precari¬ ous condition." Rodney Dee still was described as "critical."
when   he   arrived   on;lined against the flames of three
the scene. fires.
Booster fog lines were taken into     "Pouring smoke blacked out the
at  8:30 to  a home  at  26  Becker i the home to attack the fire, while rest of the area," Dougherty said.
C^urt, Wilkes-Barre. j ladders were extended on the ex-     in other air action  a  flight of
propeller-driven Soa Furies from the British Carrier Glory battled four Ommunist MIG-16 jets off the west coast of Korea yesterday. Both the British fighters and the   Red   jets   came   out   of   the
head-
ENGINEER, FIREMAN DIE IN DERAILMENT
MOSES LAKE, Wash. — Two; men were killed and another in-i jured yesterday when a Northern! Pacific freight train jumped the tracks at a faulty switch during a blizzard.
The dead were engineer Harold Cunningham, 36, and fireman Jack V. Dimmitt, 32, both of Pas¬ co, Wash. Injured was brakeman George A. Shattuck, 21, also of Pasco.
Cunningham and Dimmitt ap¬ parently died Instantly. Shattuck was cut from the cab seven hours after the wreck.
The three were pinned in the oab and steam from the engine's boiler prevented their immediate rescue. Tlire* other crewmen were in the oaboose and escaped in¬ jury.
Th, accident occurred at Baa- set's junction, 18 miles southeast of here, a few seconds after the 26-car train had crossed a high trestle. The engine, tender and eight  cars  left  the   rails.    About
The fire was fed by large quan- terior to speed ventilation and |tities of clothing in the attic stair-icheck the fire that had started |way and this caused dense smoke.^to spread through partitions. I Occupants of the home, Mr. and; Water used to fight the fire Mrs. William Pox and their son.iquickly froze on ladders and gave !William,  attempted   to  extinguishifiremen insecure footing.
ithe  fire with  pails  of water, but    The property, owned by Angeloiscrap    undamaged,    naval it Iwd  swept out of their control Pqrrilo, is a two and a half story! quarters j,gre announced. I by  the  time Engine  1,  Wagon   1; frame dwelling. i    The four Red iets attacked the
• and Truck 6 were summoned from The family was not able tOslower British planes just after nearby fire headquarters on East occupy the second floor section of the Furies took off from the Ross street. the home. Glory's deck.   Despite their super¬
ior speed. The Communist fight¬ ers were unable to score against the Furies and after 15 minutes the Red pilots gave up and head¬ ed north.
On the ground rain and snow glowed fighting to a "half-truce." A United Nations commando party knifed deep into no-man's- land on the Western Front yes¬ terday to kill or wound 63 Chinese soldiers.
Holiday Traffic Toll Of 700 Is Expecfed
555 Were Killed During Christmas Period Last Year
CHICAGO —ChrLsUiias lioliday traffic deaths headed laust night for an all-time record for any holiday period, and the National Safety Council said the total might top  700."
A United Press tabulation in¬ dicated that 416 persons had died In traffic accidents since the start of the holiday at 8 p. m, Wednes¬ day. Three others died in plane crashes, 42 in fires and 59 in mis¬ cellaneous accidents for a total of 520 accidental deaths.
The previous record tor traffic deaths   was  set  during  a   three-
555 were  killed
Ned H. Dearborn, president of the Safety Council, said, 'it looks now as if the holiday traffic death toll ma.v reach an all-time high for any holiday by going to 700 or more before the holiday period ends."
Previously the council had esti¬ mated the final total at 590.
"What a way to celebrate a season dedicated to good will to men," Dearborn said. "We at¬ tribute this wholesale massacre to open weather, open roads and closied  minds.
A Northern Pacific_ freight train jumped tlie tracks'at Moses Lake, Wasn., killing two crewmen and injuring a third seriously. A week ago yesterday the worst plane   crash   on   record   killed  86
100 feet of track were ripped up. day period  last Christmaji.  when persons at Moses Lake.
Those Due to Go Home Soon a/ways Run
Red Artillery Watches for Those Crossing Alley Now
WESTERN FRONT, Korea— The quiet danger of "Seventy-Six Alley" ha« grown Into a symbol of the Korean War during the year 1952,
As last year ended this 160- yard wide strip was as safe as the sidewalks In your hometown. Both sides held their fire and waited for the truce that never came  from  Panmunjom.
Now it has been named for the 76-millimeter shells the enemy uses to kill Americans moving through it. The enemy can see every American move and the valley is pocket with shell holes. Hope to Dutik Shells
A few riflemen crossed it today on the double. Moat of them walk- That compares with $594,000,000 ed quickly, their heads bent to (Continue<* on Page A-11)        pick up the sudden whisper of an
Million-Ton Iron Ore Deposit Found in Wilderness Of North
QUKBEC CITY—Industrialist Cyrus 8. Eaton has announced the discovery of a new-mllUon-ton Iron ore territory In the north wildernesK.
He said a group of 10 geologists from Ontario and Quebec, at times accompanied by 100 Eskimos, had located and staked the new find during a six-month Journey into the North.
In an interview on his 69th birthday, the Canadian-bom Cleveland industrialist said he considered Iron ore as "the foundation of modern industry."
"The new deposits are so located that water transportation to Europe would be the logical route for them to follow altiiough with three rivers capable of supplying electric power and energy te might be able to do more after research and experimentation," iie said.
enemy shell.
The men were returning to wait or sleep in the blackness of their bunkers. An hour ago they had scurried acfoss the same strip to eat chow standing up in th« 20- degree cold.
On each side of the valley men huddled against the protection of the hillsides, waiting their turn to make the trip, aware that Chinese observers 2,000 yards away saw their every move.
"You can tell which guys ar* going home," said Pfc. Woodie Hausermann of Sayeville, N. J. "They're the ones that are run¬ ning. I guess I'll run, too, though, when the time comes."
Hausermann laughed but he knew that scurrying across the dangerous strip was no joke. A sign at the roadside proclaims: "Seventy-Six Alley. Proceed at your own  risk. Good luck."
There is little hope now for an
men expected an armistice at any any moment. The most pessimis¬ tic believed they might have to wait  until summer—last summer.
Most of the fighting men here believe almost anything would be better  in the new year than the war that  is going on now, Rumors of Rotation
And when a visitor arrives they talk about the strange and im¬ probable actions of the enemy, of flieir sergeants, lieutenants, wom¬ en and homes. A visitor is ex¬ pected to quote the latest rumors on   rotation.
"Oh. Yeah," said Pfc. Milton Hallmark of Corpus Christi, Tex., "New Year's coming up. Well it's one more day closer to getting out of here; that's all I can say."
There will be no New Year's Dhy celebration for these men. They will stand guard in their fighting holes outside their bunk¬ ers,   relieving  each   other  during
early end to the war. A year ago the. night  with  sleepy  mutters
PREMIER MOSSADEGH REPORTED VERY WEAK
TEHRAN. Iran—Premier Mo¬ hammed Mossadegh .vesterday was reported very weak after hen^orrhages.
Foreign Minister Hussein Fate- mi said doctors were using leeches on the aged premier and that he has been forbidden to receive visitors.
Valley Scene
Deer-huntinif gailor pasHng up buck at dawn and covtinu- 171.(7 search for another with bigger rack so he could win trophy.
Two truck drivers, heading in opposite directions, halting thfir vehicles on busii Hnn'ejt'» Lake Highway in Shavertown yesterday to conduct loud con¬ versation unmindful of other drivers wh/> nearly crashed head-on trying to go between.
Pierce street businessman coining to the rescue, of forget¬ ful parent and obtaining Christ¬ mas tree from neighbwring merchant hours well after Santa Claus already had besn there,
Man with erutehes—the rs- sult of a prwnoitg auto accident —getting out the left hand door of his car right into the faae of traffic on a, busy street, and almost being sent right fcoefc to the hospital.
Lon^e barber in jammed sKop on Christmas Eve taking time off to shave himself at out- tomers pressed for time to do last-minute shopping glared and fumed—and barber ex¬ plaining "My mother-in-lav) ta coming for a. visit."
Change in Orders Kept Maj. Fisher, Larksville, From Controls of Ill-Fated Plane at Larson
A last-minute change of orders ried  about  their boy,  a telegram Flier 12 Years saved   the   life   of   a   Larksville;arrived  from  Maj.  Fisher's  wife:     Maj. Fisher has been in the Air youth'Who was scheduled to pilof'John  not  on  plane  crash.    Was Force for 12 years. He is a veteran that ill-fated plane which crashed'to pilot but laat minute change of of Worra War 11 and first started a week ago at Larson Air Force'orders." 'studying  to  fly  while  a  bus boy
base, Washington, with loss of 84,    A  letter   from   the  major,   sent at Hotel Sterling. He is stationed iives.        ^ jtwo   days    before   the    accident,!in a small town outsidf of Larsdn
Maj. John Fisher, son of Mr.|<^*"*6<l the family some anxiousiField, and Mrs. Neil Fisher. Howardi'"°'wents. However, Maj. Pisherj He is one of five brothers who : street, had been assigned to take!'^*""'* his family by phone on served during World War II. A the plane out. His family received;Christmas Day and further reas- brother, Joseph, lost his life on iword of his safety soon" after the'"""^^ them of his safety. He said submarine duty in the Pacific ¦tragedy was reported. jhe had been assigned as the pilot Theatre.  The  others are:   Nell,  a
lR»a    iri      «' ..A 1''"'^   ^"*   re-assigned   to   another Marine;   Ambrose,  wiio  was with
iMsassunng word mission  shortly  before  the  Uke- the Engineers, James, Navy vet-
1   Aa the family sat at home wor-.off. eran.
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