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By TOM HORGAN
BOSTON, JAN. 3 — (AP) —
Charged with accepting bribes to
influence tax cases Denis W. De
1-ney, deposed collector of Internal
Revenue for Massachusetts, was
called for trial today in Federal
Court.
Incictments accused Delaney of
accepting $12,500 and with falsely
certifying tax liens of SIBO,OOO,
which had not been paid. -
An attempt will be made to
obtain a jury of 12 from a venire
of 110 men and five women.
Delaney was the first tax of
ficial of his rank brought to trial
in a nation-wide investigation of
the Internal Revenue Department.
One other collector has been in
dicted.
‘43 Appointment
Originally appointed by Presi
dent Roosevelt in 1943, Delaney
was reappointed by President
Truman who refused to accept a
recignation from him last June but
Jater suspended him.
His counsel sought to have the
indictments vacated, contending
wide publicity given Washington
hearings made it impossible for
Delaney to obtain a fair trial.
Judge, Charles E. Wyzanski jr.,
nresiding, declined to entertain the
dicmissa] motions and an appeal
wos taken which cannot be heard
bv the U. S. Court of Appeals until
after the trial,
Delaney, 55 has on more than
one occasion demonstrated a rug
ced personality. He enlisted in the
Army in the first World War, was
sunded and gassed in the Argon
we Forest, again wounded at St.
Mihiel and emerged from the con
flict & several-times decorated
Ceptain in the 82d division.
Contractor
Returning home he established
a contraeting business which was
wiped out by the depression. De-
Janey then joined the WPA as a
pick and shovel laborer, but
speedily rose to hgad the agency
in Massachusetts.
Long an energetic worker for
charitable causes, Delaney has
been much in demand as a pub
lic speaker. Frequently he con
cluded addresses with songs.
Delaney is married and has a
daughter. He is a member of many
organizations, including the United
States Association of Collectors of
Internal Revenue, of which he once
was president.
Government officials indicated
about 30 witnesses probably will
he called by the prosecutor, special
Asst. Atty. Gen. John H. Mitchell
o’ Washington. -He marshalled
much of the evidence on which
Delaney was indicted. Mitchell has
as his Chief Alde Asst. U. E. Atty.
William J. Keen,
Delaney placed his defense in
the hands of Atty. C. Keefe Hur-
Aflanfa Fi
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ATLANTA, Ga.—The Nunnally
& McCrea Company of Atlanta has
acquired the business and major
assets, including plant, equif)ment
and trade names of Bellgrade
Manufacturing Company of Win
der. Bellgrade Manufacturing
Cempany, with no change in name,
will operate as a wholly owned
subsidiary.
The late John J. Wilkins and
John J. Wilkins, jr., of Athens,
started Bellgrade Manufacturing
Company twenty-seven years ago
with nominal capital. Under wise
guidance and = strong leadership
this company, manufacturing work
clothes, became highly suecessful.
Mr. Wilkins, jr., becomes chair
man of the board of directors of
the Nunnally & McCrea Company
and chairman of Bellgrade Man
ufacturing Company.
Alexander H. Henderson, presi
dent, and chief executive officer
of the Nunnally & McCrea Com
pany also becomes president of
Bellgrade Manufacturing Com
pany. W. Y, Smith, Vice-President
of Bellgrade Manufacturing Com
pany will become treasurer of both
companies. The other officers of
Bellgrade Manufacturing €om
pany continue as follows: J. M.
Rceves, vice-president; E. L. Wil
l'ns, vice-president; William Hart
Sibley, secretary; R. L. Ethridge,
ascistant-treasurer; H. V. Cronic,
arcistant-secretary.
M. C. Courts of Courts & Com
pcny retires as chairman of the
board of Nunnally & McCrea Co.
0 become chairman of its execu
live committee consisting of him
self, Mr. Wilkins and Mr. Hender
sSon.
The Nunnally & MecCrea Com
bany, manufacturers of overalls
and working clothes, with plants
In Atlanta and Jasper, has been in
operation some sixty years. Under
Mr. Henderson the company has
become a substantial factor in the
Industry. The net result is a con-
Solidation of interests on the part
of the owners of two large and
v;‘n;mhshed businesses which
imu‘wl further stabilize the indus
iy Negotiations were handled
and consummated by Courts &
Company, investment bankers of
Atlanta and New York.
A
RUSSIANS UN MOVE
> PARIS, Jan, 3 —(AP)— Soviet
‘ussia, in a surprise move, pro
tmsed today that the United Na
'ons - Security Council intervene
;n the Korean armistice negotia-
Uons. Tt asked that both Korea
an the lessening of ‘world tensions
¢ considered at a high level, ;pos
s TbY foreign ministers or ehiefs
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SNOW FUN-—Guests at the snowbound lodge at Donner
Summit, Calif., toboggan from the roof after a heavy fall
brought drifts of 45 feet. The lodge is located high in
the Sierra Mountains, 170 road miles from San Fran
cisco.— (AP Wirephoto.)
Rescuers Reach Snow
Bound Areas In West
Western states today (Thursday) are crawling out from
under the paralysis of a three-day snowstorm and sub-zero
spell that marooned motorists, tied up rail traffic and took
three lives in Colorado. Another two are missing after the
cab of a semi-trailer was swept off snow-packed Wolf
Creek Pass in southwestern Colorado in a snow slide.
Rescuers last night used snow
plows, sleds and snowshoes to bite
through eight-foot deep banks of
snow and rescue 21 men marooned
for more than five days in 10,000~
foot Cumbres pass on the Colora
do-New Mexico border.
The men were brought to Cha
ma, N. M, last night aboard a
rescue train., All the men were
reported in good shape. They in
cluded employes of. the Denver
and Rio Grande Western narrow
gauge railroad way stations, crews
of four trains stalled in the pass
and rescuers who were isolated by
the storm. - e
The pass remained blocked
Thursday, one snowplow—not used
in three years—was stuck in deep,
icy drifts and communications to
the summit of the pass are out.
New Mexico
Eastern New Mexico, most of
west Texas and the South Plains
area of Texas is locked in the grip
of an ice storm. Telephone calls
out of Lubbock in West Texas are
expected to be on an emergency
basis only Thursday because of
ice on wires. Thirty minor wrecks
were reported on highways in that
area. The cold and ice extends as
far west as Central New Mexico.
An estimatea 1,000 persons,
meanwhile, were freed when high
ways connecting Utah’s Uintah
Basin with Salt Lake City were
opened. The persons had been
isolated since Saturday. Trucks
reached the region last night
bringing in food supplies, which
had run dangerously low. Coal
supplies were reported short in
Duchesne and Roosevelt, Utah.
Wolf Creek Pass in Southwest
ern Colorado remained closed to
day. A big truck was swept off
the highway Sunday night and
two men were believed trapped in
the cab, which has not been found.
The men were identified as
Reynolds Bradshaw and Earl
Croft, both of Los Angeles, by the
Watson Brothers Transportation
Company. A passenger in the
truck, Melvin K. Herron, 38, of
Ontario, Calif., escaped when the
compartment in which he was
sleeping was torn loose.
Two Frozen
Two men were frozen in a bliz
zard near Cortez in the Mesa
Verde country of Southwestern
Colorado. Earl Lewis, a mail car
rier, and Ernest Sharp were trying
to walk to Rico when their truck
stalled seven miles from the town.
The crash of a light plane near
the top-of Monarch Pass in Colo
rado during a snowstorm Tuesday
night took the life of Sandra Kay
Moran, four month old Dumas,
Tex., child. Her parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Tom Moran, were injured.
The bite of sub-zero tempera
tures, dipping as far as 30 below
or more in some places, continued
Wednesday night and Thursday
morning, but considerable warm
ing was predicted over much of
the Western States today.
Blasting of dangerous slide areas
in Colorado began Wednesday to
prevent further stranding of mo
torists such as happened two and
three days ago when 400 were
closed in on mountain roads.
More snow was held likely Fri
day for areas of Utah now shaking
off effects of the storm. Otherwise,
it appears most of the area will
slowly return to normalcy under
sunny skies Thursday and Friday.
1952 SOVIET DRIVE
By The Associated Press
Moscow appears today to have
kicked off for its major 1952 drive
—aimed at clearing the decks for
an all-out economic offensive
against the United States, with its
major theater in Asia.
In Paris, Soviet Foreign Minis
ter Andrei Y. Vishinsky proposes
a Security Council meeting to
bring about an armistice in Korea.
This fits neatly into the pattern of
Soviet diplomafic activity in the
past few months.
By The Associated Press
Davidson Di
PARIS, Jan. 3.—(AP)—Jo Dav
idson, 68, famed American sculp
tor, died of a heart attack last
night at his country home in cen~
tral France.
The bearded sculptor, who rose
from New York’s Lower East Side
tenements to the top level of art
and living, had been regarded as
in relatively good health despite a
few minor heart attacks in recent
months.
His wife telephoned friends in
Paris that Davidson died near
Sache, a village a few miles from
Tours. He had gone fronr his Paris
home to Becheron, his country
place, for the Christmas and New
Year holidays.
He became ill late yesterday
afternoon and a doctor was sum
moned. Four hours later, at 9 p.
m., French time, he was dead.
Paris Burial
Funeral arrangements were be
ing made today. Burial probably
will be in Paris, his widow said.
Many of the great men of his
time sat for Davidson’s sculpture
and many of his works are on
permanent display in museums
and government buildings over
the world.
In recent years he had taken an
interest in political and social
trends.
He won many prizes, including
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National Award Again
Won By McGregor Co.
National School Service Insti
tute’s “First Award in the Nation”
has been presented The McGregor
Company and the achievement is
all the more remarkable because
it marks the second time the local
concern has been designated for
the award, a record no other com~
pany has been able to attain.
The previous time McGregor
won the award marked the first
time it had entered the competi
tion—competition that inciudes
some of the largest firms in the
country dealing in school supplies
and equipment.
In a letter to G. A. Booth, pres
ident of The McGrzgor Company,
notifying him his company had
been selecfed by the judges, none
of which, incidentally, were from
Georgia, L. E. Parmeter, execative
manager of the Institute, said:
“Congratulations on winning the
NSSI Advertising Award for the
second time. That really is an
outstanding achievement.
“As you know the judges were
all school men and not from your
state, any of them. Again con
gratulations on being: the first
company to win this award twice.”
The McGregor Company, es
tablished in 1888, submitted its
1951-52 school supply and equip
ment catalogue in the competition
and captured the highest award of
the Institute, an association of
manufacturers and distributors of
school supplies and equipment.
The many entries, according to
Executive Manager Parmeter, were |
judged on: |
1. Cover design and cover print
ing and paper. |
¢ Meréhin&'islnf ability of ig;‘
catalogue which indluded delling
copy, clarity of illustration and in
SERVING ATHENS AND NORTHEAST GEORGIA OVER A CENTURY
ATHENS, CA., THURSDAY, JANUARY 3, 1952.
Danner Elected
Mayor Pro-Tem
By City Council
The 1952 Mayor and Council got
under way here last night with
the organizational meeting at City
Hall at which time Councilman W,
N. Danner was elected Mayor Pro-
Tem and committees were formed.
Council standing committees are
finance, streets and parks, public
works, and stockade. Mayor pro
tem Danner will serve as ex of
ficio member of all committees.
Serving as chairman of the fi
nance committee will be Merritt
Pound with committeemen includ
ing Luther T. Bond, Albert T,
Wier, Curtis L. Lovern, and John
P. Bondurant. Continuing to head
the streets and parks committee
will be councilman Dick Thomp
son. Serving on the streets and
g;rks committee will be C. S.
nney, O. M. Roberts, jr., C. L.
Lovern, and J. P. Bondurant.
Chairman of the Public works
committee will be Luther T. Bond
who served as Mayor Pro-Tem for
the past year. Committeemen will
be O. M. Roberts, jr., C. S. Den
ney, R. W. Phillips, and Dick
Thompson.
Continuing to head the stockade
committee will be R. W. Phillips
with A. W. Wier, jr. and M. B.
Pound serving with him on the
committee.
> Communications
Communications which were
read at the last meeting and held
by the clerk for reference to new
committees were rererred to pro=
per committees for study and in
vstigation.
With the completion of business
which included the setting of reg
ular Council meeting for Tuesday
night at 7 o’clock and with the mo
tion that the regular January
meeting be held immediately fol
lowing the organizational meeting,
the meeting was adjourned and re
opened for transaction of business.
Following the reading of the
minutes of the last regular com
munication and the minutes of the
called meeting of January 1, let
ters received by mayor and coun
cil were read and referred to com
mittee.
Mayor Jack R. Wells adminis
tered the oath of office to newly
elected mayor pro-tem W. N, Dan
ner, Councilman M, B. Pound
rose to a point of personal privil
ege to welcome the newly elected
councilmen John Bonduramt and
Curtis L. Lovern.
Councilman Poun%_hflh;;ged to
the new members of the Council
the cooperation of all members
Land expressed the desire thui they
should receive great pleasure in
th execution of their duties.
Mayor Wells, upon the recom
mendation of Councilmen Curtis
Lovern and R. W. Phillips of the
fourth ward, nominated Dr. J. K.
Patrick to succeed himself on the
Board of Education. Upon the
recommendation of Councilmen
from the fifth ward, John Bondu
rant and Albert Wier, jr., Mayor
Wells nominated J. W. Mathews to
succeed himself on the Board of
Education. Both were elected
unanimously to serve on the Board
for the next five years starting on
January 1, 1952.
Individual Reports
There being no citizens on hand
to present matters to the Council,
reports and requests from indivi
dual councilmen were heard.
Councilman Bond requested the
study of the traffic problem at
Clayton and Thomas Streets, the
acceptance of Appleby street by
the City, a street light at the end
of Carr street, and an investigation
of the sporting goods licenses to
make it possible for some concerns
selling some lines of sportinfi goods
to do so without excessive license.
Councilman Wier proposed a
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formation aiding the user of the
catalogue.
3. Good indexing and printing.
4. Printing technique, type com
position, quality paper and plates.
After being notified the com
pany had been selected by the
judges for the first prize in the
nationwide competition, Mr. Booth
designated W. I. Hopkins, com
pany treasurer, to go to Chicago
recently and recenve the award
at the national annual meeting of
the Institute. Mr. Hopkins re
ceived the award before the sev
eral hundred delegates attending
the Chicago sessions.
In addition to its retail store on
Clayton street and the printing de
partment upstairs, The McGregor
Company operates one of the
largest and best equipped school
supply houses in the state and
South.
Listed in the colorfully bound
171-page catalogue are literally
hundreds upon hundreds of items
ranging all the way from a lead
pencil to a fully equipped modern
school including even the stage of
the auditorium with curtains and
the outdoor and indoor spectator
stands for athletic events, The
index of the catalogue alone oc
cupies five pages of condensed
type. In addition there are still
hundreds of other items that could
not be included in the catalogue
for lack of space.
Few Athenians ean realize the
magnitude of the operations of this
“home town” concern until they
have opportunity of seeing a copy
of the prize-winning catalogue,
but when they do a sense of pride
will immediately be generated that ‘
this community s the home oflficdl
of such a business,
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DISABLED FREIGHTER RIDES STORM — The U. S.
freighter Flying Enterprise, battered by fierce gales,
lists heavily in the stormy Atlantic Ocean off the English
coast. Her skipper, Captain Kurt Carlsen, has refused to
leave the vessel. Fifty passengers and crewmen were
taken off the ship by rescue vessels which rushed to her
help. This picture was taken by a crew member of the
rescue ship S. S. Southerland which arrived in Rotter
dam, Holland, with some of the survivors. As long as the
captain stays aboard the ship and cargo belong to the
ship owners. If he leaves, they are a free prize on the
high seas for any takers.— (AP Wirephoto.)
Carlsen And Freighter
May Not Survive Storm
LONDON, Jan. B.—(AP) A secor.d big storm in the
Atlantic, driven by winds of Ear-hurricane force, brought
doubt today that Captain Kurt Carlsen and his crack-bot
tomed freighter could stay afloat until night brings a hur
rying tug.
The U. 8, Navy destroyer John W. Weeks, standing by
as guardian for Carlsen and his Flying Enterprise, radioed
that “prepaartions have been made with Captain Carlsen
for rescue if required.” ‘
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ATLANTA, Jan, 8. — (AP) =
Edgar Dunlap, jr., of Gainesville’
will replace General Sandy Beaw
ver as a member of the State
Board of Regents, Governor Her
man Talmadge disclosed last
night.
The Governor said Dunlap, an
attorney who supported Talmadge
in his two campaigns for the gov
ernorship, will be sworn into of
fice today.
Dunlap is a graduate of the
University of Georgia Law School.
He has served as chairman of the
University Board of Managers and
has also been a trustee of Brenau
College at Gainesville, He served
a term as Georgia state comman
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ATHENS AND VICINITY
Mostly cloudy with occasional
light rain and turning colder to
day and tonight. Friday cloudy
and colder, Low tonight 40; high
tomorrow 45. Sun seis today
5:35 and rises tomorrow 7:40. |
G EORGIA — Increasing
cloudiness with rain beginning
over north portion today; mostly
cloudy tonight and Friday; rain
tonight and over south and cen
tral portions Friday; colder Fri- i
day, turning colder in west and |
north portions tonight and in {
extreme north teday. }
TEMPERATURE
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RAINFALL i
Inches last 24 hours .. ... .00
Total since January 1 ~ .. .00
Deficit sineé January 1 ... . ‘.40"
Average January rainfall ~ 484
This was the first indication
that the doughty Captain may not
be able to stick out his lone, iron
man attempt to stay with his crew
lesg ship.
The destroyer said the flying
enterprise was rolling heavily in
squalls driven before winds rang
ing up to 63 miles an hour.
At times, the weeks reports, the
skip heeled over 80 degrees—al
most flat on its side.
Carlsen survived another stor
my dawn after five defint and
freightening nights alone on the
Flying Enterprise, a 6,711-ton
freighter built during the war for
Pacific coastal trade.
ok Help Rushed
Help was on the way. The Turm
oil, one of the biggest deep sea
tugs in Britain, battled through
high seas and hail squalls, ex
pecting to complete her 300-mile
dash from Falmouth to the floun
dering ship sometime tonight.,
~ Sea-faring 3itons, proud of any
+man who stan ug to the anger of
the seas,mamed Carlsen “Captain
terprise” and avidly read the
ont page accounts describing his
_defiant bag e against the stormy
orth A ic.
1 " Carlsen, a Danish-born seaman
from Woodbridge N. J., apparently
secured himself to the bridge of
the tossing vessel. Its port rail
was smashed and heavy seas
washed against the deck.
The U. S. destroyer John W.
Weeks stood by a mile away to
save Carlsen if his vessel breaks
up and sinks. |
Keeps Contact |
Although its batteries were
weakening, Carlsen’s radio tel
graph equipment enabled him to
| keep in touch with the destroyer,
assuring his guardian he still wasl
with his ship and its cargo to
keep its value from falling into the
hands of anyone able to take it in
tow.
The Weeks reported by radio to
U. S. Naval headquarters in Lon
don that the weather was very
rough, with rain squalls and very
heavy swells.”
. Other vessels in the same area
reported winds of 50 miles an
hour whipping the seas. The huge
liner Queen Elizabeth radioed
gales would make her a day late
into Southampton.
~ Still Carlsen stuck, vowing to
stay ‘until I'm towed or suck”.
~ Whether the Flying Enterprise
could be towed to port was an
open question.
Frederick Parker, Captain of the
Turmoil and veteran es 45 years
at sea, made no promises. Sizing
up his chore, Parker said:
- Massive Job e
“It will be a massive job, a
ticklish job.
“It means first getting about 12
men aboard te handle tow ropes.”
These from the tug’s 27- man
crew picked to go aboard the Fly
ing Enterprise will need some of
the qualities of human flies to
stick to a deck tilted 60 degrees of
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Read Daily by 35,000 People In Athens Trade Area
Truce Subcommittee Confinues
Deadlocked On Air Base Issue
BY DON HUTH
MUNSAN, Korea, Jan. 3.—(AP)—The Communists to~
day turned down an Allied plan for exchanging war pris
oners and civilians as ‘“no more than a barter of slaves.”
But a U. N. negotiator said he “rejected the categofiul
rejection of the Reds.”
North Korean Major General Lee Sang Cho said he
wanted no part of the Allied plan because it was “simply
and solely on a one-for-one exchange.,” The Reds want an
all-for-all trade. i
Rear Adm. R. E. Libby said that
was the end result of the Allied
plan. ;
He refused to accept the Red
rejection because they ‘“either mis
understood our proposal or they
are deliberately misinterpreting it
in order to deliberately obscure
the issues.”
Libby indicated Lee might be
waiting for new instructions.
He reiterated that the U. N.
plans to return every prisoner of
war who wants_to be repatriated.
He said the one-for-one exchange
called for in the first two points
of the Allied plan would control
merely the rate of exchange— not
the number of war prisoners and
civilians ultimately traded.
Still Deadlocked
Another subcommittee, dealing
with truce supervision, remained
deadlocked Thursday over Com
munist insistence on the right to
build and repair military airfields
during an armistice,
Both subcommittees will return
to Panmunjom at 11 a. m. Friday
(9 p. m. EST Thursday).
Under the Allies’ plah offered
Wednesday, prisoners of war
would be exchanged on a man
for-man basis until all prisoners
held by one side are turned back.
Then the side still holding prison=
ers would trade them for civilians.
When all prisoners were traded
there would be a mass exchange
of remaining civilians.
However, the Allies specified no
one would be handed over against
his will. The Red Cross would in
terview each one to make sure he
wanted to be repatriated.
While the Allies hold far more
prisoners than the Reds, Libby
said thousands of South Koreans
serving in the Communist armies
should be reclassified as war pris
oners and exchanged.
' Lee said Thursday no South Ko
‘reans have been impressed by the
North Koreans. He said South
Koreans in the Red Army are
“reawakened Korean patriots.”
Lee spent an hour and 40 min
utes blasting the Allied plan. He
called it “no more than a barter
of slaves” and “an attempt to
detain an overwhelmigf propor
tion of the prisqners war” in
Allied hands.
Red Demand
Chinese Col. Tsai Chang Wen
said the Reds Insist all prisoners
of war be released and displaced
persons be assisted back to their
homes. He said the U. N. was
“not going to be able to capture
anybody at the conference table.”
Earlier Thursday Red China’s
Peiping radio called the plan a
“brutal and shameless” proposi- !
tion.
The broadcast said the Allies
first agreed to an all-for-all ex
change but then “refused to re
patriate all prisoners of war and,
in substance, proposed an ex
change on a one-for-one basis.”
The U. N. has scaled down the
nuraber of prisoners it holds from
132,474 to 116,200—20,700 Chinese
and 95,500 North Koreans. About
16,000 Koreans are in the process
of being reclassified as South Ko~
rean civilians.
The Communist prisoner roster
given the Allies Dec. 18 carried
11,559 names—3,l9B Americans,
1,219 other U. N. soldiers and
7,142 South Koreans.
However, the Allies have asked
for an accounting of more than
50,000—most South Koreans. Pre
sumably many of these now are
in the Red army.
The South Korean government
has estimated that 113,000 civilians
were taken north when the Reds
retreated from South Korea.
South Korean Foreign Minister
Pyun Yung Tai said the Reds hold
30,000 government officials, edu
cators, religious and civic leaders
and youth workers. His list in
cluded 3282 government officials,
among them 27 members of the
National Assembly.
South Korea's President Syng
man Rhee has said he may go to
Washington to appeal to President
Truman to oppose any armistice
which leaves Korea divided into
two countries.
Rhee expressed fear that “cur
friends are sacrificing our safety
in order to come to an understand
ing with the Communists.”
The Chinese Nationalist embassy
in Pusan said Thursday more than
80 per cent of the 20,700 Chinese
prisoners in Allied hands are
former Nationalist soldiers and
most of them do not want to go
back to Red China.
McCARTHY SUED
WASHINGTON, Jan. 3—(AP)—
A SIOO,OOO suit charging slander
and breach of contract was filed
against Senator McCarthy (R.-
Wis.) here yesterday by Charles
E. Davis, the man convicted by
Swiss courts of political spying for
the senator.
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EDITION
POW,
Plan
UN Units Refake
Strong Points
SEOUL, Korea, Jan, 3.—(AP)—
Tank-supported Allied infantry
men attacked behind a thundering
artillery barrage today and reeap
tured two strong points on the
western front,
The sudden outbreak of fighting
in Korea was ordered to regain
ground lost to a Chinese assault
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Today’s fighting was fierce, but
brief.
The Eighth Army said attacking
infantrymen wers heavily engaged
for an hour. Then two Red groups
retreated and abmdnn:o the
strong points to the Allies. The
Allied infantrymen had wonm their
limited objective by 11:05 a, m., a
communique reported.
The action was west of Keoran
go, just south of the 38th parallel
and about ten miles northeast of
the truce village of Panmunjom.
Small Fights
Three other small fights — ail
started by Red probes—were re
ported along the freezing 148 mile
front. Two squad sized probes
were tossed back on the eentral
front and an attacking Red pla
toon was driven back after mearly
two hours fighting in the early
morning west of Heartbreak
Ridge.
The American jet pilots report
ed Communist jet airmen are
getting bolder and more skiliful.
The report came after a clash
Thursday in which one Red MIG
-15 was damaged.
Chinese Communistg have been
getting almost daily maneuvering
practice—sometimes costly—when
they venture from their Manchu
rian bases into northeast Keorea's
MIG Alley, patrolled by Sabre
jets.
“We saw plenty of MIGs up
there today—members of the'séme
class we have been obm for
three weeks,” gaid Lt. w.
Dymock, jr, Sabre pliet frem
Grants Pass, Ore.
Bolder and Bolder
“They are getting bolder every
'day and more skfll}ul as well, We
just couldn’t maneuver them inte
position to give them the busi
ness.”
The damaged MIG was credit
ed to Second Lt. Don J. Burke, jr.,
25, of 194 Franklin avenue, Val
ley Stream, N. Y.
The Fifth Air Force did net re~
port how many jets were invelved,
It said no Sabres were hurt.
The jets and raiding bombers
struck as haze and fog lifted over
North Korea.
|Mixed Reaction
WASHINGTON Jan. 3 — (AP)
— President Truman's prepesal
for a ‘“sweeping reorganization”
of the scandal-scarred Internal
Revenue Bureau got a cautious
reception on Captiol Hill teday.
In advance of the return of the
main body of Congress members
next Monday, lawmakers already
in town were divided in their
reaction. Few showed any enth
usiasm.
With government corruption
charges already high on the Re
publican list of election-year is
sues, Mr. Truman made plain his
move was but the first of a “series
of actions to insure honesty, in
tegrity and fairness” in Wash
ington.
‘ln addition to the reorgamiza
tion of the Bureau of Internal Re
venue,” he said, “I expect to take
further administrative action and
to make other recommendations te
the Congress to insure ccn;:hte
intergrity in the operations of the
governrment.”
Mr. Truman’s statement was
followed quickly by the risclosure
that 53 more Internal Revenue
Bureau employes have been sack
ed or suspended since the last of
ficial announcement, which eov
‘ered the first ten months of last
year,
This made the total for the year
166, compared with 40 in 1950 and
36 in 1949. Of the 1951 total, 20
are suspensions, still under in
vestigation. j
Congress members for the most
part reacted to the President's
reorganization plan with a ‘u
but-—" attitude. Some said it
n’t go far enough. Some thought
perhaps it went too far in eertain 11?
respects. Rep. Byrnes (R-Wis)
said he hoped it wasn't & 3
screen.” Other reaction was i
ilarly qualified. -
