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PLATTSBURGH PRESS-REPUBLICAN VOL. tVII. No. 241. Plattsburgh, N. Y., Tuesday, May 22, 1951 PRICE FIVE CENTS Allies Open Counter-attack Against Reds North of Seoul Advances Up to 26 Miles Beyond Capital City Are Reported RED LOSSES EXCEED 60,600 City is Struck by Severe Rain and # Electrical Storm Hospital Orderly Hit by Lightning While Telephon- ing,-Rainfall at Record High \* A downpour that was almost tor- rential in its intensity struck the city at about six P. M. yesterday, and in one and one-half hours one and sixty-five hundredths inches of rain fell to establish an all-time record here. A severe electrical storm accom- panied the rain. Water damage was farily widespread, although its ex- A tent probably would not be known until business establishments had opened their doors this mo*rning. Paul James, 24, was struck by lightning while he was making a telephone call at 6:30 P.M. at the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs.. George James, on the Durand Road north of the city. He suffered severe shock and burros to his back, shoulder, neck and the right side % of his face. His condition was de- scribed as fair by the evening su- pervisor at the Champlain Valley Hospital where he is a patient. Twenty-four-year-old James told State Trooper R. E. Trombly of the Dock Street sub-station that he had just started to talk when he ap- parently was struck by lightning that traveled through the telephone ^ receiver, which was extensively • damaged. James' brother, Robert, drove his car into the driveway as his dazed brother came running from thp house. James is employed as an orderly at the Champlain Valley Hospital. Firemen said roof leaks caused damaged at the Hotel Cumberland when gutters and drains became overtaxed. There was similar dam- *4age, they said, at the Wise Shops and the Kinney Shoe Company store, on Margaret Street. A short circuit in the wiring of a neon sign at the Wise Shops sent firemen to the scene. Another short circuit in wiring at the woodwork- ing plant of Pinch Pruyn Company on lower Bridge Street was ob- served by a telephone repairman. His call to firemen probably averted «t a serious blaze. R. Spencer Pox, manager of the New York Telephone Company's Plattsburgh district, said that three cables in the city apparently were struck by lightning. They are lo- cated on Sailly Avenue, where a house suffered some damage when the cable there was struck; ,on Dock Street and on Brinkerhoff Street. ., Pox said that fewer thai> 50 \ phones had been reported out of order. He said that some dowtown business establishments might find their phones out of order when they open for business this morning. Streets throughout the city were filled with water when storm sewers became clogged. In some sections water rose above the curbs and overflowed lawns, f At the junction of Broad and William Streets a score or more of Plattsburgh State Teachers College coeds living in the college's new dormitory went wading. A catch basin ait the site clogged, and wa- ter rose there up to as deep as three feet. Two motorists who sought to •drive through the pond caused by — the downpour stalled in the deep * water. Some cellars were flooded when • sewers backed up as they became overloaded. Wind or lightning toppled a 50- foot elm tree on the garage of Mor- ris R. Squires in the rear of 29 Couch Street at the height of the storm. The garage, 50 feet by 30 feet and two storeys high,, was ex- ^tensively damaged. The gaarge, with a capacity of eight cars, contained two automo- biles. Damage to the: automobiles was undetermined late last night as investigation was hampered by the precarious position of the tree atop the garage. Acting Superintendent of Public Works Frank Behan sent crews ^throughout the city to clear catch basins. There was brief interruption to electric service in some sections of the city, but it was not widespread. Outlying communities escaped the storm, for the most part. In fact, it was far worse in some sec- tions of the city than in others, HAND-Y CONVEYANCE—Supported by the hands of her par- ents, little Etieme Laua, age one, enjoys an open-air ride in her [novel baby-toting bag. Etieme's family arrived in New York aboard (the Dutch liner Nieuw Amsterdam en route to Ontario, Canada, j Weird Treasure Hunt Takes Place in Montevideo Cemetery MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay, Wi — Hundreds of curious spectaUrs pushed and shoved among graves yesterday to watch a weird treasure hunt in Montevideo's central ceme- tery. Four grave diggers worked al- ternately churning the earth near the pantheon of Uruguay's heroes in search of a reported $2,000,000 cache of gold and jewels. At the end of the first day they had found noth- ing. Miss Claudia Mazzelatti, 46, an Italian spinster who has lived in Los Angeles, Calif., followed the proceedings from a stone bench in the cemetery. She says her grand- father, a soldier of fortune who fought in Uruguay' with Italy's fam- ous Garibaldi, buried the treasure in the cemetery. A 100-year-old map in her possession, she says, shows the location of the treasure. Montevideo police formed a car- don around the digging area. The crowd, which had to stand 10 yards back, made jokes, offered sug- gestions, and enjoyed the whole procedure. MILK BROKER DENIES HE DISCUSSED PERMIT FEES NEWARK, N.J., lA'j— Isadore Ei- senstein, milk broker accused of conspiring to extort $25,000 from three New York dairies, yesterday denied talking over permit fees with the three other defendants in the case. Specifically, Eiscnstein denied dis- cussing the fees the dairies were to be charged for the reinstatement of their permits to sell milk in New- ark. The state charges that Eisenstein, Newark Deputy Public Affairs Di- rector Ira Goodman, City Milk In- spector Richard F. Powell, and At- torney T. Miller were operating a racket involving the suspension of milk permits and the extort^n of bribes for the reinstatement of the permits. Assistant Prosecutor Edward Gaulkin asked Eisenstein about de- lays in the reinstatement of the permits for two of the dairies in- volved. \Isn't it a fact that the delays were caused because you had to talk it over with Mr. Powell, Mr. Miller or Mr. Goodman?\ Gaulkin asked on cross-examination. \Absolutely not,\ Eisenstein an- swered. \With whom did you discuss the $7,500 fee paid by Schoharie lone of the dairies named in the indict- ment?\) \Izzy Eisenstein,\ was the reply. \I spoke to myself.\ PHILADELPHIA, (fl'H-Dr. Daniel A. Poling, 66, prominent internation- al Protestant church leader, yester- day announced his candidacy for the Philadelphia mayoralty nomina- tion. Dr. Poling, chaplain of the Chapel of the Four Chaplains, will seek the nomination on a Republican ticket backed by a group of independents and, the OOP city organization, M Adirondack Area Closed to Public * By Fire Hazard 6,000-acre Tract is Filled With Fallen Timber, Con- servation Department Says ALBANY, i/l'i—The State Conser vation Department, blaming a fire hazard, yesterday barred the public from about 6,000 acres of forest land in the Adirondack Mountains. Conservation Commissioner Per ry B. Duryea said the area was that Hardest hit by a near hurricane last November. He added the upstate woodlands would \probably remain closed tharest of the Summer.\ The closed area comprises land in parts of Franklin, Essex, and Hamilton counties, and includes the entire watersheds of the following streams: Cold River; Moose Creek, below Moose Pond in Essex County; Anv persand Brook, and the Raquette River from Axton to Plumley's Camp on Long Lake. The Conservation Department said the ban would hit fishermen and hikers hardest. Both sports are popular in the area. Commissioner Duryea closed the section under authority given him by the 1951 Legislature to ban pub- lic use of an area in which he finds a \critical\ fire hazard. Not even hard rains in the af- fected area would remove the pres- ent fire hazard, the department said. A spokesman explained the needles of many evergreen trees are but a few inches above the ground, and constituted a particularly hazardous condition. \If the forests ever got on fire now, regardless of weather condi- tions, there's no question that it would spread like wildfire in all directions,\ he added. The closed area is bounded roughly by Stony Creek Mountain on the north, Santanoni and Henderson mountains on the south, Street and Wallface mountains on the east, and Raquette River and Long Lake on the west. The department said the area was entirely inaccessible to lumbering machinery and that no timber sal- vage jobs were going on there. Trails within the area are open only to Conservation Department employes. WASHINGTON,\ (jPh- W. Stuart Symington, new boss of the RFC, yesterday announced the ouster of the manager of the lending agen- cy's Minneapolis office for an al- legedly \improper\ get-rich-quick deal. Symington said the official. E. M. Rowlands, netted more than $36,000 by renting warehouse space at a low cost from one government agency and then leasing it for much more to another. \I'm not concerned with whether it was illegal, but I'm dead certain it was improper—and Mr. Row- lands i.s out,\ Symington told news- men, Fair Trade Laws May be Ended by Court's Decision Supreme Court Rules Non- Agreement Signers May Cut Prices WASHINGTON, (Jfi — The Su- preme Court yesterday knocked props from under \fair trade\ laws which let merchants fix retail pri- ces on thousands of articles in 45 states. The court ruled by a 6 to 3 vote that merchants who do not sign fair trade agreements are free to charge cut rate prices if they wish. The 45 \fair trade\ states have laws compelling all dealers, those who agree to uniform prices and those who do not, to sell at the fair trade price. The practice has been widespread for many years. Attorneys attacking the compul- sory feature said the court ruling strikes an immediate blow at high prices and inflation 'In the present crisis detonated by the Korean war.\ Opposing lawyers said such a rul- ing just about kills fair trade laws. They argued such laws protect the public and small merchants from 'monopolies gained by cut-throat competition. In another far-reaching opinion, involving a California case, the high court approved broad powers for legislative investigating com mittees. It said legislators are im mune from court attacks under civil rights laws as long as they stick to proper fields. Justice Douglas, dissenting, said the majority opinion gave law- makers a free hand to trample on constitutional rights\ for an illegal or corrupt purpose.\ Under state fair trade laws, dis tributors of trade mark or brand goods may enter into agreements with retail dealers to sell their pro- duct at filed minimum prices. The Supreme Court didn't say the agreements or the laws which permit them are invalid. It merely said a dealer who doesn't sign the uniform price agreement can charge anything he wishes. Specifically, a supermarket in New Orleans, Schwegmann Broth- ers, was selling fifth of Calvert re- serve whiskey for $3.35 and Sea- grams Seven Crown for $3.51. Un- der an agreement between the dis- tillers and other retailers, the \fair trade\ price was $4.24 for each item. Schwegmann hadn't signed the fair trade agreement. The distillers brought suit to force Schwegmann to charge the higher price. Lower courts upheld the distillers but the Supreme Court reversed their de- cision. Justice Frankfurter, in a dissent- ing opinion in which Justices Black and Burton joined, said experience has proved that unless merchants who don't sign fair trade agreements abide by the fixed prices, \the state acts would haVe been futile.\ DROP IN CATTLE SENT TO STOCKYARDS OF NATION CHICAGO, (,}'i — There was a general drop in the numbers of cat- tle received at the nation's stock- yards yesterday as price controls on beef animals became technical- ly effective. But that was the only apparent result of the cattle ceiling order— part of the government's campaign to bring about reductions in meat •prices—since it became legally ope- rative Sunday. Because of the light receipts, prices paid for cattle were generally 50 cents per one hundred pounds higher than Saturday. Some veal- ers sold $1 higher. The U. S. Department of Agricul- ture reported that receipts of cattle at 12 principal markets totaled 41.- 100. This was sharply under last Monday's unusually heavy receipts of 77,700, and the 68,800 head which came to market a year ago. Actually, the cattle price ceilings are not in effect for most buyers yet. Tfte order by the Office of Price Stabilization calls for payment by packers of prices to average 10 per cent below those of January during the accounting periods which began May 20 or thereafter. Fisherman Casts Line And'Catch'Nets 17 Trains of Santa Fe WELLINGTON, Ka.v, i,Pi—A fish- erman cast his line Sunday and \caught\ 17 Santa Fe Railway trains, including the crack passen- ger carriers, El Captain and The Chief. The fisherman, who didn't stick around to claim his haul, cast from the railway's bridge over Slate Creek near Wellington. The line got tangled in wires of the automatic, centralized control system for the entire Panhandle Di- vision and caused a short. Every block signal on the 107-mile division turned red. Every train caught moving ground to a halt. Most were stopped at least two hours. At 9:30 P. M., several hours after the collosal backlash, repairmen found the trouble and unwound the line from the control system. Violence Feared In Iran, Moslems To Demonstrate Urged Turn Religious Holiday Into Vent Against British TEHRAN, Iran, <,l'i—The Iranian oil issue generated so much heat yesterday that some diplomats fear- ed it might break out into anti- American violence. The Foreign Ministry retorted sharply to an American statement urging moderation on both sides, and declared any delay in carrying out oil nationalization would \pro- voke the anger of the Iranian peo- ple.\ Moslem religious leaders sum- moned a mammoth mass meeting for today to demonstrate the rising temper against the United States as well as Britain. The prime mover in the demon- stration was Ayatullah Seyed Abol- ghassem Kashani who has threat- ened a holy war if Britain resists an ouster from her great oil refin- ery and fields in Southern Iran. Kashani, a leading priest, in a proclamation called on Moslems to turn the religious holiday—the birthday of their twelfth prophet— into a vent for their \hatred\ of British interference and of the \American government's menacing statement.\ The British and American am- bassadors warned embassy officials to stay irom the demonstration to be held in front of the parliament building where Premier Mohammed Mossadegh has locked himself in behind boarded up windows because of alleged assassination threats. In Iranian eyes, the United States committed itself to Britain's side by the State Department declaration Friday night urging Iranians to \achieve their legitimate objectives through friendly negotiations.\ The statement urged both sides to \avoid intimidation and threats of unilateral action\ stressed Britian's readiness to negotiate, and express- ed sympathy for Iran's desire for \greater control over and benefits from\ her oil. At the same time it reiterated American's \great intresi\ in Iran's territorial integrity and in- dependence—a clear warning to Rusia not to take the oil dispute as an excuse for moving into the Per- sian kingdom. (Gen. Omar N. Bradley, chairman of the U. S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, told the MacArthur inquiry Mon- day that the United States was not committed to go into Iran with the British in event of trouble there, i The Foreign Ministry's reply to the U. S. State Department declara- tion was handed out at a news con- ference last night. It capped a growing anti-United States cam- paign in the press and in parlia- ment. The Iranian protest, which also was handed to U. S. Ambassador Henry F. Grady, accused the Uni- ted States of \interference\ in Iran- ian affairs and said this had \creat- ed a very undesirable and unexpect- ed impression in competent Iranian circles.\ It added the hope the United States would adopt a \friendly and impartial attitude.\ HACKENSACK, N. J., (fP\ — Joe NEW YORK, i/l'l—A heavy fog Adonis pleaded no defense yesterday that crippled shipping and air traf- V) New Jersey gambling charges, m flc lifted last night, Use of Chiang's Troops at This Time is Opposed Gen. Bradley Advises Against Such Action From Formosa Until 'Someday' WASHINGTON,!,^— Gen. Omar N. Bradley said yesterday there is no military objection to Chinese Nationalist troops harrassrhg Red China from Formosa—so long as American forces are not involved. But he advised against such a move. The five-star general told sena- tors the Nationalists might suffer such losses in men and equipment that the security of Formosa would be jeopardized. Someday, he argued, it might be \proper\ to use the Chinese Na- tionalists in the war as Gen. Doug- las MacArthur has proposed. He in- sisted now is not the time. The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff gave these views to the Senate Armed Services and Foreign Relations committees in his third day of outspoken opposition to the war program proposed by MacAr- thur. He is scheduled to testify again today. Bradley said MacArthur's pro- gram would risk war with Russia and would force the United States to \strip\ its defenses elsewhere. He argued the best way to avoid war with Russia is to build up the mili- tary might of Europe and continue the present \limited\ war policy in Korea. He testified there was no rift be- tween MacArthur and the adminis- tration over the belief that the is- land stronghold of Formosa should remain m friendly hands. And he said MacArthur was oust- ed because he was \not in sym- pathy\ with the Korean war plans approved by the Joint Chiels of Staff and President Truman. In fact, Bradley said, MacArthur's actions jeopardized civilian control of the armed forces. Earlier, Bradley had said that \some day\ it might be proper to use Chiang's forces if they were \well trained, well equipped, well supplied and well led.\ But he added \their capabilities are such that it wouldn't be proper action to take\ to use them now in Korea. \In other words,\ he said, \we would not get return for what we do. If you take them into Korea, you are going to have to fully equip them, transport them, furnish the logistic support, and as I say, they are of doubtful value when they get there. \To turn loose against the main- land, they do not have the air power and the naval power and the navy transport to be effective, unless we are willing to commit a lot of our forces to support them.\ Bradley testified he could see no way to end the world tension with Russia except through a long-range defense plan. And he said this ten- sion with Russia and her satellites is likely to go on\for a long time.\ \We don't like it,\ he said, \but we don't seem to have the immed- iate answer to stop it.\ MacArthur has contended his program would not require much more military power in Korea and that it would not interfere with ef- forts to build Europe's defenses. But Bradley disputed this view by saying the program would call for \substantially\ more air and sea power, more manpower, and more air and naval bases. Turning to Europe, Bradley said if that area fell to the Russians \it would make them (the Russians) even more formidable and increases their chances x x x of being able to extend their war over even more area than Western Europe.\ WASHINGTON Wi—A spokesman for the meatipacking industry told Congress yesterday rationing must accompany meat price controls, but added that controls in any event \simply will not work,\ Paul C. Smith, a vice-president of Swift and Company, warned the Senate Banking Committee that black markets inevitably arise from controls. He testified at hearings on a bill to extend the Defense Pro- duction Act, which provides for wage-price controls. Smith said he spoke for the Amer- ican Meat institute, composed of 700 firms which produce 80 per cent of the country's meat, r _ 1 . r ,,_,. United Nations Losses in Five Day Period of Renewal of Communists' Spring Offensive Said to be 1,618 Dead and Wounded TOKYO, (Tuesday) i/l'l — Allied lorces have swung over to the at- tack north of Seoul and advanced up to 26 miles beyond the capital, the U.S. Eighth Army reported to- day. The Allies were countering quick- ly after bleeding a Red offensive to a halt in six days by inflicting losses of 60,000 or more. Eighth Army said attacking United Nations troops scored ad- vances on an arc of more than 30 miles—from the Munsan area, 22 miles northwest of Seoul, to the vi- cinity of Changgong, 18 miles north- east of Seoul. South Korean troops advanced four miles beyond Munsan to the south bank of the Imjin River for the deepest westward thrust. The Tuesday mid-morning com- munique of Eighth Army referred to action in the west as advances and attacks. The previous day, they had been called only reconnaissance in force. Only two days ago, Allied troops broke up a suicidal North Korean attack in the outskirts of Seoul. Today's communique reported Al- lied advances all around the Seoul perimeter. The only Red aggressiveness re- ported today was in the east-cen- tral sector but even there it was tapering off. The Reds began pulling back in Korea Monday. Their losses neared 60,000 on the east and west-central front alone for five days of the off- ensive they open last Wednesday night. The U.S. Defense Department an- nounced United Nations dead and wounded in the name five-day pe- riod were 1,618. U.S. casualties were 960. There were no figures for Al- lied missing, but front officers said Red losses were 30 times greater than those of the Allies. Cield dispatches indicated the fourth major Chinese and North Korean attempt to engulf the United Nations army had foundered in its sixth day. Sector by sector,, the sorely- pun- ished Reds retired in the face of tremendous artillery, airpower and ground fire. Despite a heavy rain, Allied troops on the west-central front jumped off with sharp counter-attacks to prod the retreating enemy. North of Seoul, U.S., British and REJECT PtAN TO DEEPEN SECTION OF BARGE CANAl NEW YORK i/Pi—The Army Corps of Engineers has rejected a proposal to deepen the Champlain section of the State Barge Canal as too cost- ly and of insufficient value to navi- vation. In a report filed May 18 and made public yesterday, the division engineer's office said \improvement of the canal would not appreciably affect commerce moving north of the canal because of limiting dimen- sions of connecting waterways.\ A public hearing on the plan to deepen the canal from 12 to 14 feet and to raise the height of existing canal bridges was held in Albany Feb. 27, 1946. The engineer's report added: \The benefits would accrue to local commerce only, would be so meager compared to the huge cost of the improvement as to render improve- ment of the panal highly unjustifi- able at this time.\ The proposal was sponsored by the National Oil Transport Cqfp., and other oil interests. No estimate of the cost of the project was given in the report. MIAMI BEACH, Fla., (A'I — Fin- ancial neglect has reduced the U. S. school system to its worst condition in history, Miss Corma Mowery, president of the National Education Associatrion, said yesterday. Miss Mowrey, speaking at the na- tional convention of the Congress of Parfents and Teachers, said 1.84 percent of the national income Is being spent for education. Three times that much, she asserted, would, be about right, South Korean units rammed back into Uijongbu and Munsan, 11 and 22 miles above the old Korean capi- tal. Munsan is only 10 miles south of the 38th Parallel. The Communists, however, still were capable of hitting back with heavy new attacks in the east, some 65 miles northeast of Seoul, if they can regain balance. AP Correspondent William C. Barnard, on the east-central front, said \the Communist time-table was thrown out of whack\ by the stal- wart defenses of the U.S. Second Division. This \Indianhead\ division hand- ed the Reds, \one of the most stun- ning defeats of the war,\ in repuls- ing a savage five-day onslaught, he reported. Twice the division closed danger- ous flanking gaps the Reds had poked in South Korean-manner sections of the line, and one regi- ment had to fight south out of a 36-hour encirclement. Field dispatches Monday night re- ported closure of the final gap by a brilliant side-slipping maneuver. This single American division killed or wounded 37,750. Chinese Reds in five days by conservative estimate, the U. S. Eighth Army an- nounced. The whole Tenth Corps, of which the Second Division ,1s a part, cost the Chinese 48,341 casualties, ac- cording to an estimate by Lt. Gen. Edward M. Almond, the corps com- mander. Of these, Almond said almost half, 24,700, were inflicted on Sunday alone on the biggest one-day toll of the war. Off leers on the West Central front (another corps area), estimated the Chinese suffered 10,220 casualties frcm Wednesday through Sunday. This made a total of 58,561 Com- munists estimated knocked out in five days of ground action, with the tallies from the Western front and the high score of Air Force\ and Navy planes still to be added. Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway, U. N. commander, particularly commend- ed the U. S. Second Division in a message to Defense Secretary Mar- shall and the joint chiefs of staff. He said, \the professional compe- tence, the gallantry and the fighting spirit of (Lt.) Gen. (James A.) Van Fleet's KgHft V. S. Artny and its supporting Air IFoPce and Naval forces\ wefe an inspiration to the American people. Ridgway declared that the U. 3. Second Division had inflicted losses which conservatively estimated ex- ceed x x x 20 times its own.\ His menage also lauded the South Korean First Division. It was the collapse of two unidentified South Korean divisions which opened a broad hole on the right flank. Thus making an early gain of up to 25 miles, and with a large portion of the Second Division isolated, the Reds then failed both to hold the trap intact and to exploit their ad- vantage. So many were slaughtered that they had to ease off Saturday. The Chinese tried to set their of- fensive in motion again Sunday night. It was foiled'when their as- sembly points were hammered by night-raidlmr B-29 Sttperfotts. During the day Sunday/ the Sec- ond Division completed aspBCtacu-\ lar maneuver that slammed shut the last breach through which the Reds had poured. Moving under constant Chinese attacks, Maj. Gen. Clark U Ruff- ner's entire division pulled out of positions astride the Inje-Hongchon highway and slipped southeast to plug th# hole from the highway to a point east of Pungam, 18 miles east of Hongchon. The town of Hongcnon, ot> miles north east of Seoul, is the key to major Allied supply highways wind- ing down to Southeast Korea's port of PU'San. IAS the Second Division shifted, a curtain of air, artillery and ground fire covered the troops and took a bloody toll of Communists. General Almond told Correspon- dent Barnard that the Chinese were burying their dead all along a two arm a Half-mile valley,
