The Daily News-Journal from Murfreesboro, Tennessee • 1

Dept-of UUucbUva fcttti Cr.pl'cl WEATBER- RVWERFORDCOVmr Dairy Center pf the South Fair Tuesday with low, about 52. High about 85. RUTH ERFORD COUNTY'S HOME SINCE 1849 Vol. 101. Murfreesboro, Tennessee! konday'Xftenioon, May 23, 1951 Unitedlfress Wire eervice By Carrier Per Week, 5c Single Copy Do UN Troops Trap Chinese: orces (1 if It If NORTH KOREA Views On CHQRWOh '1 v- Senate Committee Hears ejiberg's Tighten Far East Jlllies Round T- JtJ 38TH PARALLEL' HONOCHON bl Racketeer Joe Adonis Gets Prison Sen tence Conference On Housing Project Said Satisfactory One of the architects for the proposed Sewart Air Force base housing project said this morning that the project is "Coming Along Allright" and TONCHONI KAISONG $eoui mm 'SOUTH General Says Air Force Operating On 'Shoestring' Washington U.P- Gen.

Hoyt S. Vandenberg said today the "shoe string" U. S. Air Force is only thing holding Russia back a from starting a general war now. Therefore he opposed risking it in against China as proposed Haskensack, J.

(U.R) Racketeer Joe Adonis was sentenced to two to three years in prison today and fined $15,000 on gambling KOREA- charges, his' first jail sentence a 25-year career as an underworld hie shot Three of the four Adonis Hench men who pleaded "no contest' with him last week to one conspir- acy and three gambling charges were given identical sentences. Thev were Salvatore Moretti. by TJenT Douijjas Mae Arthur, Vandenberg said he would want America's strategic air power to be "roughly double" its present Au American armored tasK torce strength before he would follow parallel (large arrow, 1) below In je, to forge an entrapment for Chinese Communist forces still in the Soksari (2) area. Other UN troops attacked "these Reds. South Korean advance forces pushed beyond Kaesong (3), and above Seoul.

(4) UN spearheads reached close to the parallel north of Uijongbu, went into Changgo ifs MacArthurs proposals: Otherwise, and forged northeastward between strategic Kumhwa. 1 questions as to whether he thought James (Pig-ry) Lynch and 4 1 the Chinese might be planning to Longano. Anthony Guarini, al-quit fighting in Korea, ready serving a gambling sentence Eighth Amy 8pearhead3 trap-in; stale; prison, sentenced to 1 ped tne fleeing Reds by. slashing Pvt. Sells In 60 Minutes Of Combat; Becomes Hero ne said, diversion of planes 10 vne Far East would strip our defenses "naked for several years to-come," The Air Force Chief of Staff used the phrase "shoe string" a3 his own estimate of this country's present air strength.

5 But he. told Senators investigating the dismissal of MacArthur that it still is the "sole deterrent" to the Soviet's aggTessive designs. For that reason, and Because it might notJt)edecisive anyhow, he said he doesn't want IFdissipatetJ in the lai'jer Korean struggle Mac-Arthur has demanded. Vandenberg put it this way: I "In my opinion the shoestring: S. Air Force that we are ope rating today, in view of our global commitments, must not be utilized Until it is larger for anything except holding it intact as nearly as possible against a major threat.

against a. major power; because in my opinion, it is the sole deterrent will be gone." Vandenberg told the Senate investigating committee, the Air Force could "lay waste" industry in either China or Russia, its primary strategic task in any all-out struggle, but it couldn't do it both places. A 1 i. 1 the full power of the Air Force against China would produce' a "good chance" that the Communists wtmld sue for peace. Lf But he said, too, that the present one to three years and fined $15,000.

'T7' Judge J. Wallace Leyden placed the dapper, 49-year-old millionaire-gangster on five years probation in additionto the jail sentence and ordered him to find "legal employment" when he gets out of The sentence was stiffer than had been expected. Adonis and his four confederates entered thir vult" pleas, after several hours of courthouse negotiation last Monday. Courthouse sources had predicted Adonis would get off with only 18 months of the possible 18-year maximum sentence on the four charges. The handsome gambler took the sentence dead-pan, blinking his eyes several times but making no other sign of emotion.

by the Senate Crime investigating committee as co-director, with Frank (The of the na--tiqn largest underworld syndicates, was one of the first "big name" racketeers to be Jailed in the--country-wide criminaL, cleanup spurred by the Kefauver committee. Mrs. Kate Granor Dies; Funeral Kites Tuesday Mrs. Kate Cranor, 86, died early today at a local rest home after a months' illness. Funeral rites will be held Tuesday at 10:30 a.m.

at First Presbyterian church, directed by Rev. Ralph Llewellyn and Rev; James Cox. Burial will be' in Evergreen, Jennings and Ayers will be in charge and the body will be at the chapel until time for the rites tomorrow, She vvas the daughter of the late Robert and Elizabeth Major Bell and in early life, was adopted by Captain and Mrs. B. Fowler.

She was born in Rutherford County and lived here all her life. She tau.jht in the Old Mooney school, public schools of the county'and in the- McLemore Private school. She was a member of the Presbyterian church and for more than 70 years taught a Sunday SchooL class. Survivors include her husband, George F. Cranor, whom she married -in 1912, and a number of nieces and, nephews.

pian, 10 kiu as many unuise Communists as possible" without enlarging the Korean war, offers "reasonable chances" or getting negotiated peace. Vandenberg also said that use of the full power of the Air Force against China might not be conclusive. Vandenberg, called today for the first lime, was the second of the Chiefs of Staff to be heard. Gen. J.

Lawton Collins, Army Chief, wound up two days of testimony on Saturday. Supreme Court Approves Cc lor or CBS Washington The Su preme Court today approved thej Columbia Broadcasting System's method of braodcasting. color The court affirmed a decision iri' favor of CES handed down by a special three-judg-j federafcouit in Chicago on Dec, 22. Today's, means C-BStan on the airtTommtrcially with its color telecasts any time it is ready to do so. Industry sourcts nave indicated, however, that color televasing on vfide-, scale is unlikely for the duration of the emergency because of shortaes of critical The CBS color programs cannot be received on present home sets without additional one for blacteainl-white and two for eolitr.

Tne court fight was started by the! Radio Corporation of America, inventor of a rival" system. RCa sought a judgment setting aside a Federal Communication Commission order in favor of CBS. Aftr losing in Chicago, RCA appealed to the Supreme Court. Justice Hugo L. Black wrote the decision for eight the nine justices.

"Justice Felix Frankfurter wrote a separate opinion, not listed as a dissent, butr suggesting ed as -a-diasentr- butlsuggesting whole question wodld be advisable. The FCC. had found that the method met prescribed broadcasting standards of color fidelity, freedom from, interference and the likii while' the I1CA method did not -5Ewo systems were usediniuJ-l taneously, there would have to be two kinds of receiving sets. Black said the lowtr-xourt's review of the case afforded RCA all its rights. As dtor-the FCCrderJtselfl Black said the commission's "special familiarity with the problems involved in adopting standards for television is amply attested by the record." The CBS system transmits pier tures in blue, red and" green separatelybut so fast that the eye sees it normally.

This is called the "field sequential system." The color changes 144 times a second. City Policemen Made 18 Arrests Over Weekend City police officers arrested 18 people over the weekend including one man charged with assault with a knife. He is Madson Trimble, Negro. Trimble is charged with making a knife assault on Dick Haynes also a Negro. Capt: Claude Vahce and Patrolman Irviii Carlton-who made the arrest, said that Haynes was cut on the arms.

Trimble will be heard in. City court this afternoon. Arrested for, possessing white whiskey was Batey Wade. He will also be heard this afternoon. Eight of the 18 people arrested have been charged with gambling.

Officers said that the men were shooting dice. Four of the arrests were made on charges of public drunkenness, one on a charge of drunk and disorderly and the other two on traffic violations. Sums Up The World "Could be worse." Up Communist Troops By The Thousands Tokyo (U.R)U nlted Nations forces tightened their noose around 60,000 to 100,000 floundering Pnmmtinict- twwra" in tv'rit-ian tilur d. rounded up prisoners by the I thousands. Lt.

Gen. James A. Van Fleet, commander of the victory-flushed 8th Army, said the Allied offensive will continue until "ve finish them Tn drive is iuiu newsmen uu uie iihjiil. Van Fleet declined to answer across their escape highways all. across Korea.

Tank-led columns plunged eight miles or more north of the 38th parallel through the disintegrating enemy. Chinese troops were surrendering in wholesale lots for the first time in the ll-mgnth-ord- Korean A record 2,000 threw down their weapons and gave up in single action on the central front yesterday. Eighth Army headquarters officers said the enemy had lost all will to fight. They likened the moral and physical -collapse of. the Chinese to the North Korean break-up in the Pyongyang sector of North Korea last October.

All along the front, "scattered groups of Reds were discarding their weapons and either surrendering or donning civilian clothing in a last frantic attempt io escape -north. Thousands of rounds of ammu- Unition and hundreds- -of weapon were captured in dumps abandoned by the Reds without a fight. Some cornered Communists turned and fought An 8th Army communique reported UN forces engaging three enemy battalions in the Yongong sector of the west-central front, another battalion at Hwachon on the central front and still another battalion around "Hyon on theeastern front. The Allies killed 50 of the enemy, captured 19 and dispersed the rest at Hwachon and also routed the Reds at Hyon, but the Yongong fight still was continuing at last reports. the Allies met little (Continued on Fage Six) CITY PARK amusements MONDAY Free movie, "Blondie Plays 7:30 p.m., at Central Park.

Free movie, "Go West, Young Lady," 7:30 p.m.,, Clark Court. Movies at KiddieLane Holloway Park. TUESDAY Pool at Central Park opens, 7:15 p.m. Movie, "Go iVest Young; Lady," 7:30 p.m. at McFadden.

Movies at Tiny Tot Town, Central Park, Visits N.Y. The top spellers wound up a week. of. Washington sight-seeing jwith a -banquet- last-night. They watched themselves in action as a television playback of the spelling bee was run off in the National Press Club.

The Teon test-is- spon- sored by the Scripps-Howard newspapers and 31 dailies. Many of the contestants will not have another chance to compete again in the national The contest is limited to students in the eighth grade and under. But Marjorie Foliart, 12-year-old "forward-backward spelLer" ifrom Crafton, who drew Icheers from the audience when ishe reeled off "phantasmkgorla" as easilv backward as forward, is sure to have another chance. Mar-jorie finished eighth yesterday. John Kittrellr Knoxville, Tenn.r 'finished 15th.

He usually carries horse-shoe for luck, but left the lucky piece in his hotel, iJohn's lapse of memory may have 1 1 nmpT nin? jn (ill I 1 1 1 1 1 his trousers during the noon hour, missing one round of the contest, and eventually missing when the Judges told him to spell "diaphanous." "v.r -'v Henry Burns Held In Connection With Slashing Henry Burton Burns, 30-year-old Negro man, was jailed here last night in connection with the severe knifing of another Negro man yesterday afternoon. Meanwhile, attendants at Rutherford hospital described Simon McAdoo's condition as good. Mc-Adoo is being treated for multiple knife wounds on the head and body. Constable Billy Blanton said this morning that it took approximately 200 stitches to close, the wounds. i 7 JIcAdob 'suffered from- loss of blood primarily.

He was slashed on the head, back and arms. Officers said that the slashing took place ata baseball game in Milton yesterday was taken to the hospital in a private car by two other Negroes. All three refused at time to give any information concerning the slashing, officers said. An investigation made by the officers pointed, however, to Burns, they said. They said that Burns surrendered voluntaf ily at the jail just as they were ready to go out and pick him up.

Burns has not yct been placed under a formal charge. He is expected to be given a preliminary hearing in General Sessions court as soon as McAdoo is able to testify. Confederate Vets in For Final Muster Norfolk, (U.R) Some of the old soldiers who haven't yet faded away began arriving here today for the final muster of the once-mighty Confederate armies. Only four of the 11 surviving Confederate veterans were expected to attend the last reunion, which will include a reenactment of the first "battle of the ironclads" between the Merrimac and Monitor. A Louisiana's delegate, 105-year-old William D.

Townsend, left his home at Olla yesterday feeling "spry as a rooster." Convention sponsors premised to fulfill his request for a fancy tailored uniform, something, he never had as a private in the ranks. Townsend possibly spoke the (Continued from page 1) Park Program Moves Into High Gear This Week The city's recreation program moves into high gear -here this week with all Central Memorial park facilities open to the. public. These include the swimming pool, open between 'the hours of 9 and 12 a.m. and from IsSO p.m.

to 5 p.m.; the Softball diamond at the intersection of University and Lytle streets which is available at all times; the tennis courts behind the old high school building and on East Lytle; the picnic grounds and games area and Tiny Tot Town which is operating now with an assortment of new mechanical rides. It was also announced that on June 4 an original program or activities for small children will be installed at Tiny Tot Town by Miss Beatrice Gray. An extensive program has been arranged at Holloway park by Joe Vaughn Holloway high faculty member. The program there is as follows: 3 p.m. to 4 p.m.

individual sports and games; 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. instruction in brass and recuscion instruments' for beginners and instruction in tennis for, boys and girls; 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. instructions in woodworking and games and contests including soft-ball; 7 p.m.

to 9 p.m. community singing and individual adult tennis competition. Two Men Charged With Theft Of Fifty Chickens Two Negro men were held to answer "to the next term of the grand jury here this morning on charges of larceny in connection with the theft of appreximaleiy tz chickens from a local farmer. The men were listed on General 'Sessions court records as Richard Malone and George Malonc. Officers said thai Uiey thought the men were cousins.

Both defendants entered pleas of guilty to the larceny charges and were ordered held to the grand jury under $500 bond each. The chickens were allegedly stolen Friday afternoon from the farm of J. M. Ezell. Ezell told Judge John Rucker that half of his 100 bird flock.

Bound over on a charge of driving while intoxTcated was a3e endant listed as Sammie Lawrence. He was released, under a $250 Two men were fined on charges of possessing less than a quart of whiskey. Thomas Smoot Young was fined $25 and Willie C. Burns was fined $10. David Clinton Smithson paid a $2.50 fine on a charge of violating the state's automobile registration law while Jean Johnson, Chicago, paid a $10 fine on a charge 1 of driving without a liceifee.

Three other defendants were finsd $5 each on charges of public drunkenness. WEATHER FACTS Temperature at 1 p.m., 74. Highest last 24 hours, 77.: Lowest last 24 hours, 54. Sun sets tonight, 6:56. Sun rises tomorrow, Situation "No, it couldn't:" Chairman Richard B.

Russell that a "Snag" in operations will be ironed but. Jtfseph W. Hart, partner of the firm of JIart and McBride of Nashville, returned Satur-day from a conference in Washington on the matter. Hart said this morning that -the conference was "very satisfactory" an that, while he was still waiting Ic heer-from Washington on several matters concerning the project, he felt everything would work out. Mortgage, commitments on the five million dollar 600 unit project have been approved by the Federal Housing adminis- tration.

The "Snag" arose when the contractors said that they were not satisfied with the commitments. F. Holt and Son are the contractors. The Old Hickory Development company is the mortgage for the project. British Takes Oil Dispute With Iran To Court Tehran, Iran (U.R) Iran today challenged the competence of the International Court of Justice in the Hague to hear the Anglo-Iranian oil dispute.

Iranfah Forf ign Kazemt sent a cable to the Hague" claiming that- the court was without competence to "discuss the dispute stemming from Iran's nationalization of the Anglo-Iranian on company's properties. Britain appealed to the court Saturday. Britain asked the court to find that Iran must submit to arbitration of the dispute and, falling that, to brand Iran a violator of international agreements. Iran countered today with a claim that the Anglo-Iranian oil companly still Iran more than $280,000,000 in unpaid royalties since 1947. The company also has not paid Iran its legal 20 per cent share in oil supplied to the Navy since 1933 and to the Allies during World War II, national front leader Hosseln Makki told a press conference.

Makki -is chairman of the parliamentary commission charged with carrying out nationalization of the Anglo-Iranian company. He made the charge as the Iranian cabinet discussed the oil company's refusal to meet the full terms of an Iranian ultimatum on the nationalization. British press dispatches from Adaban in southern Iran said Iranian police smashed a Communist plot to sabotage the oil company's installations there. The police arrested leaders of the plot and seized detailed sabotage plans in raid on an underground Hideout, the dispatches said. ing committee, Dr.

George W. Taylor, chairman of the Wage Stabilization Board, appeared before a House Labor subcommittee (at 10 a.m. EDT) to testify on the wage, control provisions of the proposed extension. The subcommittee wanted to question Taylor or. how far the wage board's authority should go toward settling labor-management disputes.

Ruffin levelled one of the heaviest attaeks against the government's economic controls program. He said the powers asked would give the President among other things authority to condemn and take over any property desired; operate and sell plants in any manner; set up as many corporations as desired, and buy any commodities, foreign or domestic, and dump them on the domestic market at any price." Ruffin recommended: the federal reserve system restrain private credit contributing inflation; since government economy and keeping the government on a pay-as-you-go basis, raising new taxes IContinued on-Page Six) Ga recessed today's session at 12:30 p.m. EDT until 10 a.m. to- spearheaded across the 38th Changgo, Kapyong on route to By WILLIAM BURSON With the U. S.

7th division, Korea, (U.R) Pvt. Kenneth W. Sells of Middlesborot Ky- dissatisfied with his touch" as a rear military policeman, transferred to a fighting unit In 60 minutes- of combat became one of the greatest heroes of the Korean war. For that hour, jn whi-h he was seriously wounded ana had ta be flown out by helicopter, Sells received the Combat Infantryman's Badge, the Purple Heart and was recommended for the Congressional Medal "of Honor. The story of how the tall, husky, 23-year-old blohd, came to, be in the front lines is as uniqua as his battle -record." Sells didn't have to be there.

He was a military policeman in a rear area, but he didn't like it. During his five months in Ko-j-ca he tried every recourse for assignment ta a fighting unit. Finally in desperation he wrote to Col. William W. (Buffalo Bill) Quinn of Crisfield, commander of the 17th infantry He begged for rifleman's assignment with the "Buffalo" outfit because it was the adopted regiment of his home state.

Quinn arranged a transfer and placed Sells in "King" company under Capt. Albert D. Wedemeyer of Washington, D. C. son of the general." Five days later "King" shoved off as the spearhead of a drive to blunt an imminent -Chinese offensive on the central front.

Sells and four other GIs were leading the outfit when they walked into a carefully laid ambush. The trap was sprung with a tossed hand grenade which landed at Sells' feet. He grabbed it to throw back at a Red machine gun nest which had opened fire. But Sells wasn't quick enough. The grenade went off in his hand.

It tore off his right hand and ripped off half his forearm but it saved the lives of the1 four GIs with him. The young Kentuckian didn't fall. He didn't yell for a medic. He mumbled "I'm hit," grabbed his left hand and charged the gun emplacement. But he didn't make it.

A burst of machine gun fire stopped him with a slug in the side and knocked him down, "Some fellows holler like mad (Continued on Page Six) lts a Washington newsman, tells what morrow, wnen vanaenDerg win re turn. He said he hopes to finish With Vandenberg tomorrow. Vandenberg repeatedly insisted the Air Force ahould not be dissi- pated by using its "full power" in 4 the Far East. Planes lost in such enlarged operations would have to be replaced, he pointed out. The -building back, he added, couldn't be completed until the Spring- of 1953.

He cited a list of cases where the Air Force until the Spring of ed its role in the Far East, attacking the Red Chinese before they struck last December, conducting "hot nursuit" of- enemv nlnna across the Yalu and bombing pow er reservoirs in North Korea. None, Vandenberg said, would have been decisive. National Spelling Bee NAM President Attacks fcWage AiidPrice Gbiitrols Son Of A Washington Newsman Washington (U.PJ The National Association of Manufacturers said today the economic controls asked by President Truman are "comparable to those exercised by foreign dictators." NAM president William H. Ruf- fin said wage' and price controls will not halt inflation and taken to gether with other powers asked by the administration "obviously could lead to the destruction of our American economic system." The azssociatiort's position' was made in a statement prepared for Aon Washington (U.R) Champion speller Irving Belz headed for New York today wearing The lucky shoes and shocking-pink shoe laces he swears carried him to victory in the 1951 national spelling bee. The freckled-faced eighth-grader from Memphis was anything but insouciant, the final word he spelled correctly for first place honors, about, his weekend in the big city.

The Manhattan including a coveted seat at the 'musical hit "Guys and was just one of Irving' prizes. He said his $500 cash award w'ill help pay his way through medical schools. "I feel wonderful," he grinned. Irving outlasted Michael Aratin-gi, a fellow 13-year-old from Brooklyn, in yesterday's spelldown when Michael stumbled over "cuisine." In a rare finish the two boys nosed out Mary Anne Bechkowiak, 13, Akron. Onlyiine boys, includihg Irving, have taken first-place honors during the contest's 24-year history.

Michael, as runnerup, won $300. Mary Anne, third place got $100. All 51 contestants won a cash prize, ranginjr from $10 up. Chamr) the House Banking committee con- -w .45 1 fiX-vr ill: t- 0 lit L'Sx iX 1 1 1 urn fry- sidering the administration's re-i. quest for a two year extension of I.

the Defense Production act sched- uled to expire June 30. The ad- ministration has asked new ana tougher control powers. The outlook for two yea extension was not encouraging to the administration. The powers requested hive -been under heavy attack from farmers, businessmen Nand cattlemen. There was in-Y creasing talk on Capitol Hill of shooting for perhaps a two month 1 Interim extension.

i As Ruffin went before1 the bank "What do I think George Mannlna, Vt, son of he thinks of the world situation in uncertain term. (International).