Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 May 1951 — Page 1
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Allies Pour Over Border - As Reds Flee ©
No Limit Put On Great Push
By EARNEST HOBERECHT
United Press Staff Correspondent TOKYO, May - 24—United Nations forces swarmed across the 38th Parallel in two places today for the third time in the Korean War.
One mile-long armored col-
umn dashed 13 miles through enemy fire and crossed the Parallel on the east central front. splitting the fleeing Chinese Communist armies. A second force of South Koreans stabbed across the border northwest of Seoul against virtually non-existent enemy opposition. “The 8th Army is on the offensive across its entire front and
there is no limitations as to where it will go.” Lt. Gen. James A. Van Fleet. Sth Army Commander, told newsmen. Gen. Van Fleet said his forces
would pursue the Chinese—shattered by the loss of 150,000 men in their spring offensive—without letup. I.t. Gen. Edward M. Almond, commander of the U. 8. 10th Corps on the east central front, commanded the smashing -drive. He directed it from the air. Head for Triangle Tanks, trucks and jeeps stretched as far as the eye, front dispatches said. Allied planes smashed at Communist troops and supplies in the “ron triangle” —the ChorwonKumhwa - Hwachon . area — and gave close support to the tanks crossing the border. It was believed the Allies intended to drive into the “Iron Triangle” and destroy Communist supplies there to deprive the Reds of the means for an immediate of their fensive. . The Chinese spent months building up their supplies in the triangle area for their spring push. But the Allies forced them to 2acigbatore they were ready. In the led Allied task force rumbled through war-torn Chunchon, eight miles south of the Parallel, and drove on across the Soyang River, one mile farther north. Too Many Captives The task force reported it captured “more enemy than we could handle” in the vicinity of Chunchon, and from there on was unopposed. Kapyong. another road hub 12 miles to the southeast, was recaptured without a fight yesterday. Both cities fell to the Reds in the first round of their spring offensive last month. The 8th Army communique this evening reported no more than “light scattered enemy contact” with the rapidly withdrawing enemy anywhere across Korea. The enemy has been severely defeated and his initial success with a deep penetration has peen turned into a complete failure,” Gen. Van Fleet said.
Sued in Fatal Shooting PERU, May 24. (UP)—Bryon
Canter faced a $15,000 wrongful death action today filed in Miami!
Circuit Court here by Eva Ussery, widow of a man Mr. Canter said he shot fatally Feb. 25. Mr. Canter said he shot the man, John Paul Ussery, as Mr. Ussery peeped into a window at Mr. Canter's home.
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Awards Day at Shottridge—
The Quality of Mercy—.
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Student 'Revolt’ Turns Out To Be Mild Case of Ennui
By CARL HENN Life gets tedious, sometimes. Especially for high school pupils scheduled to attend a lengthy, studemt assembly on a beautiful day in mid-May. Yesterday, warm sun and cool breeze proved to be an irresistible lure for a number ofsShortridge High School boys and girls (estimates varied from 75 to 250). They figured it was just too nice a day to sit through the annual Awards Day assembly, set for 10 a. m. So-—they went outside, scattered, and whiled away a pleasant hour as their schoolmates watched awards presented for various rea-| sons to more than 200 pupils. ‘Not Doing Right Thing’ Getting back into school was a different matter. Principal Joel Hadley had] shrewdly stationed teachers at all | entrances. Pupils were allowed to return only through the main] door on Meridian St., where Vice, Principals Russell. Robert Green waited, pencil]
names of the "nature lovers.” Mr. Hadley was there, too. “I'm disappointed in you,” told his laggard students.
zenship—it’s | thing.” Three boys became insolent, Mr. Hadley said. They were sent home with orders to bring their parents — when they returned. There were no expulsions. But called inspiring confused reports of a student barricades and mass action.
Later, those whose names had
By FRED SPARKS Copyright, 1951, for The Indianapolis Times
ON THE CENJRAL KOREAN FRONT, May 24 (CDN) —The guards on the perimeter saw the old man approaching with a baby in his arms. You get so, in this war, after all the tricks, that you worry about everybody, particularly civilians. So the guys tightened up and waved the old man— who came from no-man’s-land-—into a slow approach. When he got close they saw that the baby was dripping blood. His little left foot was almost off. They pushed the barbed wire aside and let the old man—almost 80—sit down on a rick and sip a canteen of Water. They carried the baby, a boy of about 2, to the battalion aid station. The doctor, Lt. E. L. Van Nostrand, Huntington, N. Y,, placed the baby on a blanket under a tree and examined him. LJ » 5 n u u A LOT of Marines crowded around and the doctor looked up and said: “I'll have to amputate.” He did this quickly, expertly, as hospital corpsman William Norris, Wrightsville, Ga., let plasma into the baby’s right arm. Meanwhile, some other Marines spoke to the old man through an interpreter. He said his house—in no-man’'s-land—had been hit by a shell during the night. His two daughters (one of them the wounded baby’s mother) were badly hurt. WELL, THE Marines who heard this have had their belly full of combat, Lord knows, and many are waiting to go home. They weren't anxious one bit to go prowling around no-mans-land—but what's a fellow going to do? Five Marines (more would have gone, but they figured a small party would have less chance of being spotted) volunteered to go with Medical Chief Joseph Marino, Jersey City, N. J., lugging stretchers. They stuck their necks way way out by marching
“ime miles over rugged hills into no-mans-land.
n - 5 u » » THE HOUSE was completely gone. They found the baby’s mother, with most of her face gone, lying outside next to her sister, who had steel in her back. The mother's two other kids—4 and T—were sitting by, still startled. The old grandmother—confused, frightened—was scratching around for some wood to build a fire. Chief Marino did what he could for the wounded and the strange procession started back over the exhausting hills. It took four Marines to carry the wounded women. A fifth carried the 4-year-old in his arms and the 7-year-old on his back. The sixth walked ahead, now assisting grandmother up a ridge, now poking around rocks with his carbine, worrying about Chinamen.
» =” » = n n 2 BACK AT battalion a very large Marine, Lt. Pat Dugan, Hobart, Okla., took off his helmet and passed it around. It went down the line of foxholes. Nobody said much. They just reached into their dirty fatigues and came up with various crumpled pieces of the military script they use here. Soon the helmet had $115.15 . . . enough to well support a Korean family for one year. Chief Marino and some other Marines got an old crate and fixed it on the ambulance floor. I watched them gently place the hurt baby in the crate. They tucked blankets around him—very careful with his left leg—which now ended just below the knee in a clean white bandage. Mother and aunt were placed on the stretcher racks. The ambulance slowly drove south to a refugee center run by a Danish organization.
One Day Left to File For Student Deferment
—Draft Director Lewis
not doing the right new student deferment tests.
morrow will not be Scieried,
On the Inside Of The Times
High cost of construction may cost city two of five proposed new fire houses.. Teenagers of Civic Theater to
indignant youths newspapers,
a few Indianapolis “revolt” complete with
‘It's Pretty Boring...
“All they do is read the names py,xe Dinsmore warms up for and somebody stands up and gets
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Defendant Charges Panel ‘Brow-Beaten’
By JOHN V. WILSON The defendant in a robbery today challenged the right of a Criminal Court Jury to hear his ‘case on grounds ‘the jury panel had been “brow-beaten” by judges in local newspapers. Defendant Joe Porter. 44, of 3649 Terrace Ave. charged that published blasts by judges tended to “impress the jurors in such, a manner as to make them partial
toward the state in all future trials.”
The accusation stemmed from the acquittal verdict Monday in the trial of another robbery defendant. The jury's decision brought a stiff denunciation from Special Judge Emsley Johnson. Porter's challenge was based on the judge-jury dispute which fol—=CNarges ‘Bias’ Porter is accused of the $74 robbery of Wiley Clark, 1233 ‘Vandeman St., last Sept. 30. The motion filed in his behalf by Atty. Edwin J. Ryan charged the regular jury panel with “bias, prejudice state.’ It also declared the defendant’s constitutional rights to a {fair and impartial trial would be! violated “if this jury is allowed to serve after being scorned, ridiculed and brow-beaten . The motion, in effect, sets forth a demand for jury selection from a special panel for the
June 25th trial.
Deputy Prosecutor Wendell Martin said he will fight the motion. Meanwhile, jurors attacked by Criminal Court Judges for freeing two robbery suspects ‘passed to the prosecutor's office. . “It was a waste of the taxpayers’ money to present such a case without evidence.” replied juror Leo E. Howard, 1410 Shelby St.
“The prosecution is too damned inefficient to present conclusive evidence,” he added. “We were
sincere in our verdict.” Mr. Howard was a member of the Criminal Court 1 jury which acquitted Freeman L. Manners 35, of 220 E. St. Joseph St., of robbery and auto banditry charges Tuesday. To Shun Jury Duty
The verdict brought a caustic denunciation of the jury from Judge Harry O. Chamberlin. He called . the decision “the greatest miscarriage of justice I have ever seen.” Several of the jurors, whose verdicts “shocked” the judges, said flatly they would never again
- accept jury duty.
The foreman of the Manners | jury, David H. Thomas, 4328 £. Iowa St., asserted he hadn't | wanted to serve on the jury any|way. “But I felt it was my civic duty,” he said. Told that Judge Chamberlin had asked the prosecutor's office to bar the panel from further jury duty. Mr. Thomas replied: “That suits me fine, I prefer
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DISASTROUS STOPPER—The trunk of a beech tree—36 inches wide—was uprooted and broken | when the C.124A crashed into it. Air Ferce cfficials said that, if not for the huge tree, the falter- | and partiality toward the ;.4 plane, scattered in background, might have erashdanded safely.
Propeller Design Expert Among / Dead in Air Crash
Special to The Times
DAYTON, O., May 24—-One of the nation’s outstanding engineers of aircraft propeller design was one of two Heosiers killed in the Indiana crash of a C-124A transport plane near New Castle yes-
terday. The propeller designer was Capt. Francis M. Blayr, son of
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Mr. and Mrs. Marion Blair of Terre Haute. Capt. Blair had been
''a civilian technician at Wright-
Patterson Air Force base here prior to his recall to active duty
Served Here During ' Worla War served here as an Air technician and worked on the development of propellers for the B-36 bomber. Capt. Blair graduated from Rose Polytechnical Institute in Terre Haute in 1936. He was commissioned in the Air Force in 1941 while on leave from his job here. Sunday would have been his ninth wedding anniversary. He was married in Amarillo, Tex, and lived in Dayton with his wife and three children, Robert F.. 8; Janet, 5 and William Blair, 3. A special ‘air crash investigation board was to be named here
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Reporter Asks Mr. Young
The following is a part of a conversation between Wilbur
Young, state superintendent of /schools, and Times reporter Ed. Kennedy.
Mr. Young was called to get his reaction to his name being mentioned in a statement by a Spencer County teacher. She stated that her trustee had shown her a letter calling for support of Mr. Young's candidacy. sAt the same meeting the trustee talked to her| about contributing to the party. | Before the Tuesday night meeting at Rockport Mr. Young announced that he might send a !representative to the meeting as {he could not attend.
Hello? - Mr. Young? “Yes. . How are you? “Fine.”
Mr. Young what do you think about the situation in Rock- | port. “No comment.”
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tive at the Tuesday night meeting there? You said you might. “No comment.” Have you been reading the papers since the meeting about what happened. “I've been out-of-town. in at 3:30 this morning. comment. . Did you in your experience ever hear of other reports of teachers having to make campaign contributions to political
Got No
parties. “No comment.” Well -Mr. Young have you
anything you would like to say? “I may make a statement later, but for now I.stand with no comment.” All right Mr. you. “That's all right. Feel free to call any time you need information.” ; The reporter's remark as he | hung up: i “No comment."
Young thank
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Severed Red Ties, Top Director Says
By United Press WASHINGTON, May 24
Frank Tuttle, veteran screen director, told the House UnAmerican, Activities Committee
today he was a Hollywood Communist for 10 years but quit in 1947. Mr. Tuttle named 36 others as! fellow Communists membership in the party. Most of them have already been identified. The tall, graying director said Americans have a ‘traditional dislike” for “informers,” but that he fit the term. Mr. Tuttle said his determination to fight communism was strengthened in part by his conversations with “liberal” Americans who are as anti-Communist as they were anti-Nazi."” Mr. Tuttle said it was “difficult” to say why Communist party
in a conspiracy to overthrow the government. “It would be cowardly of me to beat my breast and to say that I knew that then,” he said. didn’t realize it until the three years . , .”
Call Acheson Now, Hickenlooper Tells MArthur Probers
By United Press
WASHINGTON, May 24 A Republican Senator moved today to defer questioning of military witnesses in the MacArthur investigation and call State Secre-
last
tary. Dean Acheson on foreign policy. Sen. Bourke B. Hickenlooper
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Teacher Pay Grab Evidence Studied The Statehouse, Page 2 ROCKPORT, May 24—Prosecu-
tor Volmer Franz said today that he is continuing to examine evi-
dence in the case of charges made by five Spencer County | teachers that they were fired
when they failed to make political contributions. Mr. Franz heard the teachers make their statements at a hearing before the Indiana State
Teachers’ Association here Tues-|
day night. He expressed a desire to see a complete transcript of their statements. The transcript is not yet available, The defense and ethics subcommittee of the ISTA- will meet in Indianapolis at which time they will start to work on their report. A spokes-' man for the group said he doubted . if their final report could be ready before next week.
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TEHRAN, Iran, May 24 (UP)—Iran issued an ultimatum to the AngloIranian Oil Co. today anl warned Britain that a single shot fired in the Persian Gulf area would set off World War III within 24 hours? i The ultimatum demanded that the company recognize nationalization of the British-controlled Iranian oil fields within one week or be completely excluded from their operatjon in the future. The warning against force was issued by Dep‘uty Hossein Makki, secretary of the:11-man Iranian parliamentary . commission charged with implementing the oil nationalization law. “Iran won't sit back in the face of a British show of force but will hit back,” he said in an interview. “If
barrel of any gun in the
| Persian Gulf area there will
-~Times Photo by Henry E. Glesing Jr.
Local GOP Plans To Campaign on National Issues
Republican State Chairman |
Cale J. Holder today publicly
stated that GOP mayoralty can-|F resident
| be World War within 24 hours.” Britain has alerted a ‘crack paratroop brigade | for service in the Middle East. Some reports said the | be paratroopers would be sent
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Iran if necessary fo pro ot British lives there.
Truman Ask $8.5 - Billion in Aid
WASHINGTON, May 24— Truman asked
didates would campaign on kW today for $8.5 bil«
tional issues in Indiana's November municipal elections.
lion to give tanks, guns, planes and the economic sine
Speaking before the Indiana ews of foreign free nations to
Women's
Republican Club at meet the “terrible danger” of a noon luncheon, Mr. Holder Soviet aggression. sounded the keynote policy for, Mr. Truman called it a “mutual
Republican mayoralty candidates.! “The issue. is clear-cut,” Mr.| Holder said. “Do the citizens of| the sovereign state of Indiana want Fair Dealers conducting affairs for the next four years, or do they want men who will defend home rule] and who will fight enslavement by Washington?” | Linking the local Democratic
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All-Night Parley In Bo Sikes
State Labor Commissioner, , Thomas Hutson today ordered an around - the - clock conference to. settle the transit strikes in Anderson, Muncie and Richmond. “I'll keep them here until the thing is settled,” he said at a! meeting held in the Indiana Senate Chamber today. “So far we seem to be making progress and bo.t h sides are friendly. We may get it settled today, but if we don't I'll keep the meeting going all night.” Attending the meeting were the mayors of the three cities and representatives of the operators, the Indiana Railroad Co. and the AFL Street Railways Union..
‘I'm Not Cocky’ —
{security program.” Of the total, $6,250,000,000 would be for mili{tary aid and $2,250,000,000 for economic assistance. It was the largest total peace-~ time request for such "aid. It would be provided free in the fiscal year beginning July 1. In addition, Mr. Truman recoms mended that $1 billion more be {appropriated to be used to increase the lending authority of the Ex-port-Import Bank. Not all of this
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|ing fiscal year. This is the aid program Mr,
| Truman asked:
$1,0507000:000 $5.40 500, vou
| Europe | Middle East and Northern Ro riea 125,000,000 415.000,000 315,000,000 555,000,000 Fr America 22,000,000 40,000,000 Administrative Expenses $2,250,000,000 $6,250,000,000
“We cannot win peace through appeasement,” he said. “We cannot gain security in isolation. We will not surrender.” The ‘single package” request did not break down the amounts specifically for each nation. It was, however, $200 million more than provided in military and economic assistance this year under several programs. This nation’s European partners in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization would get the plum of the pie—a total of $6,890,000,000. In designating - Asia for $553
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Truman Fearful War Ili Might Be Fought in U. S.
By MERRIMAN SMITH United Press White House Reporter WASHINGTON, May 24-—Pres-ident Truman, in a solemn mood, said today the United States would be a battlefront and a victim ‘of destruction in any third world war. He told his news conference his policies are aimed at preventing such a war, ] If the war does come, he said, it probably would hurl the world “back to the dark ages.” destroy ing freedom and ‘everything else.” Mr. Truman took the unusual tion of part of his informal statement. His remarks stemmed from his. own denial of the oft-used de(scription of him as ‘‘cocKy.” The
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word, he said, should be ‘“confl= dent.” Mr. ‘Truman said he never
wanted. and doesn't want now, to assume a ‘‘cocky attitude toward anybody." Fears Dark Ages It was then he voiced the defense of his entire program as being based on “world peace” and the hope of preventing “another — a third — world war which would, in effect, I believe, destroy freedom and everything else in the world.” “We would probably go back
tomorrow night step of authorizing direct quota-' to the Dark Ages if we have ane
(other third world war,” Mr. Truman said. “If a third world war should
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