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Base Stage Attacks
Chorwon Reds
Dispersed By
. S. Artillery
BY OLEN CLEMENTS
TOKYO, April 20:— (AP)-
_ Stubborn rearguard Com
munists ~ today hurled two
counterattacks. against Al
lied units cloging on Chor
won, presumed Red base.
An unestimated number of
Reds attacked American
troops eight miles southeast
of Chorwon. The fight raged
into late afternoon.
Ahout 200 Reds hit Allied lines
in the same area Friday morning
but were dispersed by artillery
within 15 minutes.
Allied patrols were reported
fichting strong Red wunits Friday
nicht at several other points north
of the front.
Douchbovs wielding flame
throwers against Red outposts
burned a path for tanks which
moved up within gun range of
Chorwon.
A United Nations tank-infantry
coluomn eentured a hill one mile
north of Hwachon Reservoir’s east
tip after a four-hour fire fight
with 300 Reds.
The Allied colnmn hit the stub
born pocket of Red Koreans Fri
day morning. Heavy air and ar
tillerv -attacks softened the Com
munists just before the column
rushed the hill.
Patrol Actions
Patrols easily dispersed a Red
torce northeast of Yanggu. Artil
lery killed an estimated 50 Com
numists grouved ntar the reser
voir's north bank.
U. 8. Fifth Air Force fighters
and light bombers, flving through
an overcast. hurled 552 sorties at
Chinese and North Koreans front
line positions and other targets.
Thev attacked one concentration
of 100 enemy vehicles and hit 20
towns.
Jet nilots reported they dam
aseqd three Red tanks and five
other vehicles near Sinmak on the
main Pyongyang-Seoul road.
Chorwon. alreadv heavily blast
ed by long Tom 155-mm. artillery,
is one of the main objectives of the
Allies on the central front.
Allied authorities estimated
some 600,000 Red troops were
massed north of Chorwon for an
exnected all-out spring assault.
Flamethrowers were wused
Thursday southeast of Chorwon to
dislodge a small band of Reds who
clashed in hand-to-hand combat
with Allied troops.
Little Ground Activity
There was little ground activity
elsewhere Fridav morning along
the 140-mile front.
The Reds continued their slow
pullback. They sent a few pa
trols probing into Allied lines on
the central front Thursday night,
but all were driven back with
osses to the Red feeler units.
United Nations warplanes roared
to }he attack Friday morning after
a 4 day of rain-caused idleness. The
Allied bombers and fighters
mashed anew at Red airfields,
sunnly routes and other targets.
The eoncentrated bombing of
tnemy air strips is designed to
keen the enemy on the ground.
The Far East Air Forces com
mander, Lt. Gen. George E. Strate
meyer, has warned that the Reds
may throw their air power at any
lime against U. N. ground troops.
Allled warships Friday pounded
rubbled Wonsan on the east coast
for the 62nd straight day. Farther
north, naval shells screamed into
j"jm!n port for the 43rd straight
With Allied troops well north
0f the Red Korea border, the feel
-12 was growing at the front that
he U. N. troops had pushed as far
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The trial of Morris Cunningham
" a charge of ‘assault with intent
'ibe neared completion shortly
¢r one o’clock today when final
‘rsuments on both sides were fin-
Ished in Clarke Superior Court.
Judge Henry West was expected
to charge the jury early this after-
Moon and the case be received by
.1e jury then. Trial of the case
Yecan yesterday and was contin
ued today,
b Indictments returned by the
j"}und Jury prior to their ad
l,’v“mment_ Wednesday afternoon:
’y\(ilph Ollie, colored, transporting
(1uor; Richard Dean, colored, vi-
Olating motor vehicle law; Way
mon Sims, colored, permitting an
inlicensed person to operate a
:“”tor vehicle; Norman gre;y, as
“’Ulllt with intent to murder; and
meoiam E. Jones, unlawful saie of
Tortgaged property.
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of a United Nations assault force rest on the bank of the
Hwachon Reservoir on the central Korean front.” They
have just returned from an attack upon Communist
forces on the north side of the reservoir. These troops
paddled small boats across the dam to hit the Red de
fenders, but were turned back by heavy Red fire.— (AP
Wirephoto.)
President Names New
Wage Board Chairman
BY HAROLD W. WARD
WASHINGTON, April 20— (AP) —President Truman
has begun the task of rebuilding a Wage Stabilization
Board to help check inflation and iron out defense disputes.
The White House announced yesterday that Mr. Truman
hz,d named Dr. George W. Taylor, of the University of
Pénnsylvania, as chairman of a proposed 18-man board to
supplant the one rendered inoperative when labor mem
bers walked out February 16. i
Taylor, credited witn being the
author of the ‘“Little Steel Form
ula” of World War 11, agreed to
head the new board for the period
of organization only, the White
House said.
Steel Formula
The steel formula, introduced in
the spring of 1942, limiied wage
rate increases to 15 per cent above
Jan. 1941 levels. Wage stabiliza
tion officials may have used it as
a pattern for present efforts to
hold wage increases to a percent
age limit. !
The original wage stabilization
board, headed by Cyrus S. Ching,
adopted a 10 per cent ceiling on
wage increases after Jan. 135, 1950.
Mr. Truman began setting up a
new board late yesterday. His
mobilization advisory board had
voted 12 to 4 in favor of such ac
tion, Industry representatives cast
the dissenting votes.
Employer spokesmen reluctantly
acknowledged that if they were
asked by Mr. Truman to propose
a slute of employer members for
the proposed wage board they
would—out of patriotism—comply.
They were not pleased, however,
about the projected wage=dispute
authorization for the new agency.
Board’s Suggestion
The mobilization advisory board
suggested an 18-man wage panel
consisting of six members for la
bor, six for management and six
Millions Turn Out In New York
To Welcome Returning MacArthur
By DON WHITEHEAD
NEW YORK, April 20—(AP)—
The magic name of General Doug
las MacArthur drew millions of
persons to the streets of Manhat
tan today for perhaps the greatest
welcome ever given a returning
hero. =
The crowd was expected to reach
5,000,000. Many poured into the
city by automobile, train, bus and
subway for a glimpse cf the old
soldier who was ousted from his
commands by President Truman.
This number is 1,000,000 more
than the mammoth throngs which
turned out to greet Charles A.
Lindberg in 1927 after he made his
non-stop flignt to Paris.
Top Crowd
And it tops by the same total
the crowd that cheered Gen.
Dwight D. Eisenhower when he
came home in 1945 after the con
quest of Europe.
An estimated 1,500,000 swarmed
out last night to give MacArthur
an unotficia& but tufixultuous wel
come. Crowd-wise New York po
lice kept them in handuanfiithgfie‘
were no near-mob scenes liké the
riotous welcome in Honolulu and
San Francisco,
It was a sentinental jcurney for
for the public.
Dr, Taylor represented the pub
lic in heading the World War II
labor board and presumably would
be one of the six public members
in the proposed new board. He
is a professor of industry.
The wage stabilization board
issue was only part of the battle
between labor unions and the Tru
man administration’s mobilization
program. Settlement of that part
of the problem, however, seemed
certain to help blaze a trail to
ward full scale resumption of la=-
bor’s participation in defeuse roles.
CPA Trustees
Meet Tomorrow
ROME, Ga., April 20.—(AP)—
Twenty-six new certified public
accountants will be awarded their
certificates here tomorrow when
the trustees of the Georgia Society
of Certified Public Accountants
meet with the Rome chapter.
The new CPA’s passed the state
examination last November.
Awarding of the certificates will
be made by W. W. Stribling, chair
man of the Georgia State Board
of Accountancy.
High M. Mercer, manager of the
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the general—this return to New
York. It wa% 14 years ago that
MacArthur married pretty, dark
haired Jean Faircloth of Murfrees
boro, Tenn., at the municipal
building.
MacArthur told a greeting par
ty: “When we reached the city of
New York, we knew we had come
home.”
Excitement mounted steadily
this morning as the time neared
for the start of a big three-hour
parade (11 a. m., EST). It was the
same strange excitement that
seems to surround* ‘MacArthur
wherever he goes—the same deep
emotion that drew ovatiors from
hundreds of thousands in Hawaii,
San Francisco and Washington.
Parade Climax
The climax will come when the
general travels along Broadway—
that famed street where other
heroes have received their acclaim
throughout the years. . ;
And this list ig long fwith names
that li\ge i history: Admiral
Gegorge Dewey of Spanish-Amer
ican war fame , . . General John
J. “Black Jack” pershing . .. Ad
miral Richard E. Byrd who made
the first flight over the north
ATHENS, CA., FRIDAY, APRIL 20, 1951,
Deparfment Of
Inferior Budget
Cut Favored
By WILLIAM F, ARBOGAST
WASHINGTON, April 20—(AP)
A seven per cent cut in the In
terior Department’s budget for the
fiscal year 1952 was recommended,
today by the House Appropriatiovs
Committee. ¥
It was the largest percentage cut
recommended in the three depart
mental bills for fiscal 1952 sent to
the House floor so far this year.
The committee approved $520,=
031,500 of the $559,286,000 re
quested by President Truman, the
recommended allotment beln"l
$58,619,325 less than funds pro
vided the department for the pre
sent year. 4
The largest single cut was in
funds of the department’s Re
clamation Bureau, which wanted
$252,075,000 for the fiscal year be~
ginning July 1, and was given
$233,575,000.
All the recommendations are
subject to House action when the
bill financing the department
comes up for debate next week.
In the two appropriations meas=
ures previously passed by the
House, the budget for the Treasury
aud Postoffice Departments re
duced 1.3 per cent. 3
The committee recommended in
clusion in the pending bill of a
provision permanently setting
aside 10 per cent of the federal ex
cise tax on fishing tackle for assis
tance to states and territories in
developing better methods of fish
management,
Ban Lifted On
Aluminum Uses
WASHINGTON, April 20—(AP)
The government today lifted its
May 1 ban on using aluminum in
making more than 200 eivilian
products. It ordered instead a 50
per cent cut in use of the metal
during May and June,
In another order, the National
Production Authority (NPA) put
plastic type nylon under allocation
beginnir:ig June 1.
This does not apply xtile
nylon from which ’hflmma
other wearing appare/ are manu
factured, but does apply to the
nylon used in making paint
brushes, lenses and various indus
trial parts.
Reasons
NPA said it relaxed the alumi
num ban to allow additional time
for manufacturers of less essential
civilian goods to convert to de
fense production.
In applying the ban to more
than 200 consumer items, the
agency had allowed producers to
continue to make other consumer
goods with aluminum but cut use
of the metal 35 per cent under
average use during the first half
of 1950. &
Today’s order allows manufae
turers of consumer items for which
aluminum had been banned com
pletely, to continue using the metal
during May and June at half the
rate of use during the first half
of 1950, The 35 per cent cut on
other non-defense aluminum items
remains in effect.
Necessary Action
NPA said that the decision to
parcel out supplies of plastic type
nylon was riecessary because, with
imports of natural hog bristles
from China greatly -curtailed,
brush production has switched al
most entirely to nylen filaments.
Also, it said 72 per cent of all
plastic nylon production is needed
now for defense orders, mainly for
wire covering for the military
services,
After June 1, plastic nylon can
be obtained only with an NPA au
thorization. *
pole. . . . Admiral Chester E.
Nimitz, the Pacific war hero , . .
and score of others.
MacArthur—with his wife and
their dark-eyed 13-year old son,
MacArthur — swept into Idlewild
Airport' from Washington last
night aboard' the General’s con
stellation transport, the Bataan.
- Excited Group
An excited group of about 300
persons broke through police lines
and dashed onto the airfield as
the plane was landing. But police
quickly rounded them up and
there were no further incidents.
City officials headed by offi
cial city greeter Grover Whalen
were on hand to welcome the Gen
eral informally. Mayor Vinecent
Impellitteri promised his visitors
the city’s “biggest and warmest
welcome.”
Whalen declared: “let New
York be one city on the General’s
return that Eba§ bgen orderly and
Ha 3 Bet rolighed himr up. X
The General appeared somewhat
tired from his visit in Washington.
pausing before reporters he said:
“You know, it has taken me 71
years and traveling 10,000 miles
in the last eight days to find out
who truly rules the United Siates.
I found out. It’s you, the press.”
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GENERAL MacARTHUR LEADS PARADE IN WASHINGTON—GeneraI Douglas
MacArthur rides in an open car at the head of the parade down Pennsylvania Avenue
in Washington after his address to Congress Thursday. He is saluting the crowd
lining both sides of the historic street. The nation’s Capitol is in the background.—
(AP Wirephoto.)
Fight To Finish Is Seen Between
M’Arthur, Truman Administration
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At Vanderbilt
NAS;W ;u.r.. Tenn., April 20
(AP) — Vanderbilt University’s
male students voted Richard
Felker, Monroe, Ga., as the
“Bachelor of Ugliness” yesterday
and his sweetneart, Miss Betty
Sims of Nashville, “Miss Van
derbilt.”
Felker defeated Whitfield
King of Dothan, Ala. Both are
senior academic students.
Tanker Lost In
Gulf Collision
NEW ORLEANS, April 20—
(AP)—Two tankers collided in the
Gulf of Mexico about 200 miles
south of Morgan City, La., early
today and one was believed *“lost
with al] hands.”
The other was reported afire
fore and aft with her first nrate
dead and a number of crewmen
badly burned.
The lost vessel was tentatively
identified by the Coast Guard as
the ’Gator, a type T-2 tanker that
normally carries a crew of 35 men.
It was not immediately known to
“whora she belonged.
The burning vessel was the Esso
Suez, one of the new super-tankers
~of the Esso Standard Oil Co.
- The Coast Guard said the Esso
Suez radioed, “Struck tanker and
-apparently all hands were lost.”
The collision occurred about 5§
‘a. m. (CST), the Coast Guard said.
The Coast Guard said the Esso
Suez reported that although it was
afire it was not in immediate dan
ger of sinking,
The Coast Guard pinpointed the
location of the collision at latitude
26.18 north; longitude 91.27 west.
The Coast Guard said it did not
have the name of the chief mate
of the Esso Suez.
A Coast Guard PBY, a flying
boat, was sent from Corpus Chris
ti, Texas, and another flying boat,
a PBM, with a doctor aboard was
also sent from there. The cutters
Tampa of Mobile and Triton of
Port Isabel, Texas, were also en
route to the scene.
At Baton Rouge, La., the Marine
Department of Esso Standard Qil
Co., under which the Esso Suez
operates, said it had no informa
tion except that the Esso Suez
was in trouble in the Gulf.
MARIETTA JETS
ATLANTA, April 20—(AP)—
The fastest known stratojet
bomber in the’ world is scheduled
for production at the reactivated
bomber plant in Marietta, Ga,
The 600-mile an hour 185,000~
pound plane will be produced by
lAJ:rckh(;ed, Boeing anthouglas
irgraft Companies. They will
work &gm&y ig a mannér sim‘x%r
to methods used for B-17 produc
tion during World War II
The Boeing Company will fur
nish tooling, engineering and other
information to Douglas and Lock
heed. It will also be responsible
for continued development and
modification of the swept-wing
bomber,
By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER
WASHINGTON, April 20—(AP)
It looks like a fight to the finish
between Gen, Douglas MacArthur
and the Truman administration
over the best strategy for victory
in the Far East.
A surprise Defense Department
statement last night putting Presi
dent Truman's dvfl.flp\ and mili
tary advisers squarely behind his
dismissal of the general was wide
ly taken here today as a display of
administration solidarity in pre
paration for a showdown policy
struggle. The White House au
thorized the statement.
On the other side of the argu
ment, persons in position to know
MacArthur’s personal feelings de
scribed him as deeply convinced of
the rightness of the ideas he ex
pressed in his address to Congress{
yesterday and determined to see
them through in the belief that
majority opinion in Congress and
throughout the country would sup
port him.
“Regimentation”™
Moreover, hig attack in a talk to
the Daughters of the American
Revolution late yesterday on
“regimentation” in the United
States indicated a willingness on
his part to broaden the field of
conflict to domestic as well as |
foreign policy issues.
Administration strategy in meet
ing MacArthur's headon challenge
—as it is now being developed
under White House leadership—is
understood to be designed to ac
complish two purposes: |
1. To convince a majority of
Congress and public opinion that
MacArthur’s key proposals to seek
an early victory in the Korean War
by taking new military measures
against Red China actually would
create "a serious danger of setting
off World War 111. |
2. Te demonstrate that in de
veloping his own policy of fighting
only a limited war in Korea, and
in sticking to that policy, the Pres
dent has acted on the advice of di
rectly responsible military counse
lors—the Joint Chiefs of Staffs.
Weighty Opinions
On both these points the opin-~
ions of military men are expected
to carry great weight. The Presi
dent therefore is due to rely heav
ily on the testimony before con
gressional committees of Secretary
of Defense Marshall and Gen.
Omar Bradley, chairman of the
Joint Chiefs of Staff. Both, like
MacArthur, are five-star generals.
Earlier this week Bradley entered
the MacArthur Controversy pub
licly with a defense of the limited
war poliey.
Last night the Defense Depart
ment as @ whole swung into the
fray with a statement expressly
prompted by General MacArthur’s
reference in his Congressional
speech to the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
After. advocating the program
which he said was designed to pro
duce g Korean victory with mini
mum delay and to save American
and Allied lives, MacArthur de
clared he thought other military
leaders in the past had shared his
views about the military necessity
of such action and that this in
cluded the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Key Point
Congressional crities and sup
porters of the general alike seized
upon this as a key point: If the
JCS thought MacArthur's ideas
were right, then presumably they
had disagreed with Mr. Truman at
least in some respects and this, if
publicly documented, would weak
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Disconfinued
The Black t:dndbwmu'x‘cahbl Sglm
pany, a yJ. T, e
btooh,om moved its effice and
cab stand to the former location of
the Co-Op Cab Company on the
corner of College avenue and
Washington street,
Mr. Middlebrooks said today he
discontinued the Co-Op taxi-cabs
and is concentrating on only one
company so as ‘“to provide better
service.” Telephone number of the
Black and White Cab Company,
which serves colored citizens, will |
be 3400. i
The change reduces the number
of taxi-cab companies here from
three to two. The gther company,
besides the Black and White, is the
Veterans Cab Company, which
serves white citizens.
.
Red Casualties
Set At 813,873
WASHINGTON, April 20—(AP)
The Army estimated today that
enemy forces in Korea had suf
fered 813,873 casualties through
Wednesday.
A spokesman said the total has
been broken down to 504,835 North
Korean Red casualties ana 291,895
Chinese Communists plus 17,143
not yet distinguished between
Chinese and Korean.
The total includes 145,145 enemy
soldiers taken prisoner.
Overall United Nationg casualty
figures for the Korean campaign
are not available here,
Announced United States cas
ualties through April 18 totalled
60,775, including 9,195 killed, 40,-
681 wounded and 10,899 missing,
ATHENS AND VINCINITY
Fair and warm today, mild
tonight and warm again Satur
day. Sunday partly cloudy and
warm with showers late Sunday
afternoon. Low tonight 54 and
high 78, Sun sets 7:08 and rises
5:55,
GEORGIA — Fair weather,
warmer in interior this after
noon, mild tonight, Saturday
partly cloudy and continued
warm.
EXTENDED FORECAST
Extended forecast for Georgia
from Friday, April 20, to Friday,
April 27 — Temperatures will
average near normal, warm Sat- -
urday and Sunday, cooler Mon
day, warmer Wednesday. Show
ers late Sunday and Monday
with total around one-fourth to
one-half inches.
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Inches last 24 hours .. ... .33
Total since April 1 ~ .... 1.95
Deficit since April 1 ~ ... .75
Average April rainfall ~ .. 3.95
Total since January 1 .. ..11.84
Deficit since January 1 ... 5.97
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EDITION
Statement On
High Command
Causes Furor.
BY JACK BELL
WASHINGTON, April 20,
= (AP) — General Douglas
MacArthur’s claim that the
Joint Chiefs of Staff once
shared his views on Korean
war strategy fired demands
in Congress today for a pol
icy showdown with the mili
tary high command.
The 71-year-old General of
the Army had gone om to
New York, there to receive
the nation’s biggest welcome
home, but he left behind him
a capital torn with the bit
terest controversy of a de
cade.
From Democrat as well as Re
publican lawmakers came demands
that the joint chiefs of staff an
swer quickly whether they agree
—from a military standpoint--with
a four-point win-the-war program
the deposed Pacific commander
laid before a cheering Congress
yesterday.
The Truman administration re
plied immediately to MacArthur’s
statement that he believed his
strategy views had been shared in
the past by most military men,
“including our own joint chiefs of
staff.”
The reply did not directly re
fute that declaration, Clayton
Fritchey, chief public relations
man of the defense department,
said he had been authorized by
the White House to say President
Truman's action in firing MacAr
thur “was based upon the unani
mous recommendations of the
principal civilian and military ad
visers including the joint chiefs of
staff.” .
QOuster Reasons
The statement also referred to
the reasons for MacArthur’s ouster
—Mr. Truman’s expressed belief
that the five-star general was un
able to give his “whole hearted
support” to administration far
eastern policy. :
MacArthur’s program for pros
ecution of the Korean war was in
effect a protest against the admin
istration’s efforts to limit it
strictly to the embattled Korean
peninsula.
“Why, my soldiers asked of me,
surrender military advantages to
an enemy in the field?” He said,
“I could not answer.”
The MacArthur program involv
ed (1) intensification of the eco
nomic blockade against the Chi
nese Reds, (2) naval blockade of
the China coast, (3) authority for
Allied airpower to operate over
Manchuria, and (4) logistical
(supply) support of the Chinese
Nationalists for “effective opera
tion against the Chinese main
land.”
Lawmakers rose and cheered as
MacArthur said it was his under
standing that, from a military
standpoint,-these views had been
shared in the past by the joint
chiefs of staff.
Gen. Bradley
Gen. Omar Bradley, chairman of
the top military pelicy group, had
no direct comment, but he told re
porters after a speech at Chapel
Hill, N, C., that as advisers to Mr.
Truman the joint chiefs “render
our advice to him on a military
point of view.”
“1f we are going to be of use
to the President, we feel our ad
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Methodist Men
To Meet Tonight
The Men’s Club of the First
Methodist Church will meet to
night at 6:30 in the church annex.
Following the supper meeting
there will be a musical program
under the direction of Edwin Blan
chard, minister of music. Mr.
Blanchard, who is a member of
the University music department
faculty, will present some of his
students in the program.
Attendance captains named by
Clyde Fitzgerald, president, fol
low:
Sam Heys, -Joe Foster, N. G.
Slaughter, Joe Williams, J. N. Re
per, Ed Williams, R. E. Sharp,
Frank Coile, Ellis Garrett, Jack
Nunnally, Hilliard Thompson,
George Dean, J. W. Simons, Ri.ch
ard Bloodworth, John Thurmond,
W. G. Lanier, George Strother,
Wallace Sessions, A. E. Patterson,
C. C. Henson, John Alsbrooks.
The program committee is eom
posed of Raymond Lester, chair
man, W. A. Sutton, and Tom Do~
ver.
Members of the Advisory Board
are Hugh Inglis, Ed Williams, John
Bondurant, John Mauldin, Sam
Heys, Joe Williams, Smiley Wolfe, .
W. A. Sutton, George Dean, angd.
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