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PEACEFUL PAUSE—A Korean mother pautes during her washing In a river bed Just
outside Taegu, to nurse her*baby. The scene of this peaceful Incident may soon give way to
one **f (t*ntfr and destruction If the battle to atop the Red Korean Invaders engulfs the
pivotal city of Taegu. Defenders are preparing to fight In the streets, if necessary.
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Koreans Singing People;
Sing in Training, at War
®y TCD. QJUIGG •
UnlM Plw staff C«r«p.a4>at
A Tpwn in Korea. W>—A litUe
while in Korea.convinces You that
Korea naare a sinning people. They
train for war kinging and they
inarch aff to war singing.
There are few things more pulse-
stirring than, the, sight and sound
of a detachment of Korean troops
marching down the road ih quick
-! ■ . .'1 r: > "1 v* t t 1 i——rew
UN ACCEPTS AID
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Off a BELGIUM,
NETHERLANDS
cadence to their own tunes. They
swing their arms high and sing full
and free. As they go past They
charge the air with a spirit some-
thing like that of a college town
igp p football Saturday.
Their inarching songs wake you
up, in the morning. In twilight the
same songs come at you over tile
straw rooftops as some dusty
of small brown men shuf-
down a loose rock street.
! .. . One Sung Moat Often
There is one song they sing more
than all the rest. The rise aad fall
of its tune got to bothering me so
I walked over to a Korean tfuta-
«* »«»d Mp^e^sot c^ytofuid
out wljnlTt was irid JKK the
words’ meant. .
Jt was a long, hot walk through
St roots lined with little frame
- r+ »• *j" £&£ SrS’tira
infants in cloth slings on their
backs, the patriarchs with exag-
gerated stovepipe hats, the hus-
bands and wives with heavy house-
hold loads on their heads trotting
along with knees half bent, the
toddling kids with little underwear
shirts flapping down navel high
and nothing below—all were war-
driven somewhere, yet going no-
where.
Korean Kida Leant Greetings
Korean kids grinning by the
roadside already have learned to
aay, “Alio Joe” to passing Yanks
and to hold out their small hands
for favors.' Sometimes they add,
“Hey, okay” and grin some more.
Along the streets was an occa-
sional sign or a banner saying
“Welcome Crusade of UN Armies.”
There were several little wooden
ptfisards tacked to store fronts and
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BIG THREE TO
DISCUSS WEST
GERMAN ARMS
New York, 8ept. 14 (lb—The big
three foreign ministers agreed to-
day to raise the question of West
German participation in a Euro-
pean defense force at tomorrow's
meeting of the 12 North Atlantic
Treaty foreign ministers.
The unexpected decision even to
raise the question for further dis-
cussion did not mean, authoritative
delegation sources said, that the
Big Three had finally approved
German participation in a Euro-
pean defense force. They said the
question could now be ‘‘openly and
freely discussed” on a broader
European level.
Ministers Are Agreed
“The ministers are fully agreed
on the principle of a European de-
fense force and that the question
of German participation in that
force will be discussed in the North
Atlantic Treaty council meetings,”
an official informant said.
The decision for further discus-
sion of the German problem mark-
ed a shift in the position taken ear-
lier against such a move by French
Foreign Minister Robert Schu-
Dallas Oil Man Charged in
Lottery Case Free on Bond
TEXAS SHERIFFS MEET
Galveston, Sept. 14 (lb—Texas
sheriffs opened their three-day
convention yesterday and imme-
diately started a campaign to win
four-year terms for themselves. A
six-man committee was named
which will askw the Legislature for
TOffSSSS^tr **-w
spa to South
ive sources
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3 Former Weatherford
Bonk Officials Fined
Waco, Sept. 14 (lb—Wilbur Ar-
thur Brian, Dallas oilman arrested
and charged in connection with a
$2,000,000 international lottery
ring, was free on $2,600 appear-
ance bond today.
Brian, one of 10 persons arrested
in a nationwide FBI roundup, was
taken into custody yesterday as
he entered the Fall Hotel at Marlin.
Brought to Waco, he waived pre-
liminary hearing last night before
U. S. Commissioner J. W. Cocke
and was released on bond. He must
appear before the U. S. Federal
District Court at Miami, Fla.
Arrest of the Central Texas oil
operator came after a tip from the
Canadian Royal Mounted Police
led to seizure of $460,000 in un-
distributed lottery tickets at the
Franklin Press in Miami.. Tickets
worth some $1,500,000 were taken
from the 10 persons arrested, the
FBI report
Sweepstake for Race
The federal agency said the lot-
tery was-u'sweepstake for the Dec.
26, 1050, running of the Christmas
two-year-old stakes’ race at Knuts-
ford Hark Racecourse, Kingston,
JayiaieV British West Indies.
Those\arrested were charged
with conspiracy to transport lot-
aries, a federal crime carrying a
aries, e federal crime carrying a
maximum penalty of $10,000 fine
and five years’ imprisonment.
* Henry O. Hawkins, agent in
charge of the Dallas FBI office,
said Brian’s arrest was preceded
by seizure of 240,000 lottery tick-
ets with a face value of $300,000
at the oilman’s Dallas home.
•j—-“They apparently arrived in Dal-
las by air express on Sept. 1 when
Small Hurricane
Headed Slowly
Toward Florida
Brian was out of tne city,” said
Hawkins.
A similar opinion was expressed
by Brian’s wife, who said the
search and seizure “came &is a
terrific shock.” She said she had
no idea how the tickets came to
be at the house.
“They came by mail while my
husband and I were at Marlin and
apparently the maid signed for
them,” Mrs. Brian said.
“My husband had nothing to do
with any lottery. He doesn’t have
to make money that way.”
K1
LATE
WIRE
FLASHES
By UNITED PRESS
FIND MAN’S SKELETON
Dallas, Sept. 14 lift—Workmen
preparing to make way for a new
street in a suburban Dallas area
today found the skeleton of a man.
Detective Capt. Will Fritz said
the man apparently had been dead
about three months. There were
no identification papers but in the
pocket of his clothing was a metal
tag with the name “Mack” stamped
on it.
Brian brought in a new oil well
near Marlin on Tuesday.
Agent Hawkins said the lottery
tickets weighed 510 pounds, and
were arranged in 20,000 books of
12 tickets each.
Others arrested were:
Carl L. Bess, described as the
“world agent” of the ring, formerly
of Chicago, and seized at Foit
Lauderdale, Fla.
Sam Salone, 42, Rochester, N.
Y., alleged agent for Canadian
sales.
Beresford Sylvester Briggs Trot-
man, 30, a British subject who
came to this country in 1047, ar-
rested in New York with 1,000 lot-
tery ticket books in his possession.
He is the author of “Who’s Who in
Harlem.”
Joseph Corbi, 40, operator of a
juke box repair shop in Baltimore,
in whose home 120,000 tickets were
found.
Michael Austerlitz, 39, Pitts-
burgh, in whose home 09,600 tick-
ets were seized.
Carl Angelo Rizzo, 35, arrested
in Canton, O.
John Melito, 50, arrested in
Utica, N. Y.
Arthur L. Blaz, arrested in
Beverly Hills, Calif.
.Serafino Camiolo, 54, ex-convict
who served time for counterfeiting,
arrested in Rochester, N. Y.
MILK MAN KILLED ! FATAL COLLISION
Houston, Sept. 14 (If)—Joseph D. I Garrison (Nacogdoches County),
Sorrell, a 22-year-old route fore-| Sept. 14 tlb—Carl Duke, of Tyler,
man for the Lone Star Creamery, I about 35, was killed yesterday in
was killed today when the milk i a two-car collision on a farm road
truck on which he was riding near here. John Spivey of Garri-
smashed into the rear of a parked son, driver of the other cur, was
trailer truck. hospitalized in critical condition.
4etherlands off
offered 2 or 3
and a com-
pany Of Army infantrymen. Bel-
_*—w*» said, agreed to send
rhat larger force,
of both countries will be
welcomed by Gen. Douglas Mac-
Arthur*s battered United Nations
fohcesi
Supply Problem Easy
kill about the movement and
of the troops still are being
Ited out. Neither the Dutch nor
soldiers should be too
to supply.
I^lglura purchased large
amount* 6f American Army equip,-
ment at the end of the war, and
American-made weapons are stan-
dard equipment in its army. The
Belgians thus will be able to draw
ammunition and spare parts from
the U. 8. supply line. ' 1
The British, which already have
troopa fighting alongside the
Americans and South Koreans,
would-be expected to help supply
the Dutch .forces. The Netherlands
equips its troopa with British-
made weapons.
1$ Nations Now AlHc*
Belgium was the 15th member
of the United Nations to offer
usable ground; sea, ah- or medical
units to DfacArthur. The .Dutch
already have a destroyer operating
with VN forces off Korea.
Australian and New Zealand in-
fantrymen are expected to be in
actiop on,the battle lines before
long.
OthfW1’. rfqtion* whose offer of
aid has been accepted are Canada,
Francp, Greece, Norway, The Phil-
ippines,-Thailand, Turkey, South
Africa, India and Sweden.
. India aqd Sweden offered only
medical detachments. But the Uni-
ted State* feels that It ia en-
couraging to get these two coun-
tries—which are playing a middle-
"vof-the-road role i in the cold war—
ho take sides even that much.
Me&o&toWiU
Hear District
Superintendent ~
Dr. C. H. Stsserson. Cljhume,
superintendent of the Cleburne
Methodist District, will preach in
the First Katliodist Church. Ste-
phonville, Sunday evening at 7:45,
following which he will hoid the
chureh'a First Quarterly Confer-
ence.
The pastor, Rev. Wm. Lae Hank-
la, will preach at the morning impoaeibl
service beginning promptly at 10:50 put otua,
City Wins First
Round Disposal
Plant Case
Judge Floyd Jones of Brecken-
ridge Wednesday dented a plain-
tiff’s petition for a temporary in-
junction against the city of Ste-
phenville and against Allhands
and SWatsell, Cleburne contractors,
on the construction of a dike at
the rite of a proposed disposal
plant,
Plaintiffs E. >f. Apple, J. L.
Lewis and Oscar • 8.- Allen have
filed notice of appeal.
J.udge George L. Davenport of
granted a temporary ic-
ing order against the city
contractor August 29. The
began Saturday, Sept. 10,
continued through Monday and
and Swatsell had been
awarded contracts for tha dike and
disposal plant July 6, having sub-
mitted a low bid of $84,866.02.
Joseph Chandler represented the
city in the hearing, and Sam Rus-
DsIUa, Sept. 1, W—U. S. Db-
trict Judge T. Whitfield Davidson
today fined three former officials
of the Weatherford First National
Bank who pleaded nolo contendere
to charges of conspiracy to defraud
the federal government of $48,000.
Affine of $1,000 was levied
against George Fant, former bank
president. Mrs. Fant and James
Whitsett, vice-presidents of the
bank, were fined $100 each.
Two others accused in the case
invt^ving a loan by the Recon-
struction Finance Corp.—T. C.
Hatchett of Weatherford and Guy
L. Stroud of Odessa—did not ap-
pear. They will be tried next week.
Admits Statements .
Counsel for the former officers
of the Weatherford First National
Bank explained the trio, in effect,
admitted fraudulent statements to
the RFC in order to obtain ap-
proval of a loan to the Abilene
Sand and Gravel Company, owned
by Hatchett and Stroud.
But the attorneys said the Fanta
and Whitsett had repaid the RFC’s
$86,000 guarantee of the $48,000
loan before any inquiry by tha RFC
began.
Fant was president of the bank
and hi# wife and Whitsett were
vice-presidents. They resigned
their positions after the inquiry
began.
The indictments against the five
persons were returned by a federal
grand jury here last May 3.
After accepting the no defense
pleas. Judge Davidson ordered
testimony to begin. -
Stroud and Hatchett were part-
ners in the company, which went
into bankruptcy,
i Allegedly Concealed Debt
The bank officials were made de-
fendants in the case for allegedly
concealing that the sand and gravel
company owed the First National
Bank of Weatherford $28,000.
The RFC in 1948 approved the
bank’s request to underwrite the
$48,000 loan and guaranteed 75
per cent of the total, or $36,000
The complaint charged that the
Abilene Band and. Gravel Company
repaid its “hidden” $28,000 debt
to the Weatherford bank, used the
remaining $20,000 in other ways,
and then took bankruptcy.
Aa guarantor 6f the loan, RFC
paid the Weatherford bank $36,000,
or the portion of the loan which
it underwrote. The complaint said
that when RFC began making an
investigation of the transaction
later, the bank officials repaid the
full amount of the loss, then re-
signed.
Miami, Fla., Sept. 14, OP*— A
small but severe hurricane pack-
ing winds of 140 miles an hour
was located today 1,370 miles east
of here and rolling slowly in the
direction of the mainland.
The Miami Weather Bureau said
in a 10:30 a.m. EST advisory that
the hurricane, sixth of the year,
endangered only shipping at pres-
ent but was moving at six miles an
hour in a west-northwesterly di-
rection.
Its position of latitude 24.2 north
and longitude 69.1 west placed it
630 miles northeast of San Juan,
Puerto Rico.
Strongest winds near the center
were estimated at 140 miles an
hour and hurricane force winds
extended outward 25 miles. Gales
reached out 50 to 75 miles in ail
directions.
FAKE DOCTOR FINALLY CAUGHT UP
WITH; SENTENCED T012 MONTHS
Senate Whip Thinks Congress
Can Adjourn Next Saturday
Truman Requests
Jap Peace Pact
Washington, Sept. 14 WI—Presi-
dent Truman disclosed today that
he haa directed the State Depart-
ment to renew efforts to write a
Japanese peace treaty.-
Truman told his news confer-
ence that, at first, the efforts will
take the form of informal discus-
sions with the nations most active-
ly concerned in the Pacific war, in
World War II, including Russia.
He also said this government is
exploring the possibility of re-
operiing negotiations for peace
treaties with Germany and Aus-
tria.
Dobbs Ferry, N.Y., Sept. 14 IIP*—
State police checked records of at
least eight New York metropoli-
tan area hospitals today to learn
whether William H. MacLeod ever
made a fatal “mistake” in the five-
years he masqueraded as a staff
physician.
Medical associates of MacLeod,
37, were “amazed to learn that
the man they trusted as a “highly
competent” surgeon and doctor was
only a self-taught medical fake.
After serving successfully as a
staff physician in New York, Conn-
ecticut and New Jersey hospitals,
MacLeod was unmasked yesterday
as an imposter with no more than
a high school diploma.
Judge John T. McCormick, who
himself was treated by MacLeod
recently at Dobbs Ferry Hospital,
sentenced him to one year in pris-
on for practicing without a license.
Never l.oat A Patient
State police said that the suave,
mustached MacLeod, who claimed
he delivered 475 babies without
mishap in one year at a Brooklyn
hospital, had to their knowledge
never “lost” a patient or com-
mitted a serious medical error.
But they were checking the records
of two Brooklyn institutions, two
in Hartford, Conn., and hospitals
at Manchester, Conn., and Preal:-
ness and Bayville, N.J., plus the
Dobbs Ferry Hospital, to make cer-
tain.
MacLeod, born in St. Cecile,
Que., was tripped by a financial—
not a medical error. The “doctor,"
a former railway clerk who picked
up his medical knowledge while
a private in the Army Medical
Corps, was caught when he drop-
ped two payments behind on his
new car.
A Hartford finance company
complained to police who made a
routine check and learned he nev-
er had obtained a New York State
Medical License.
Discovered in February
However, in Hartford, State
Police Maj. I>eo F. Carroll said
that MacLeod was uncovered as a
fraud there in February, but was
not prosecuted because he prom-
ised to study for a medical degree
under the GI Bill.
Carroll added that MacLeod as-
sured him he would not practice
again until he was fully qualified
According to Carroll, MacLeod
practiced as a physician and sur-
geon in several hospitals in the
Greater Hartford area. Authori-
ties became suspicious of him. Car-
roll said, because he rarely stayed
at one hospital any length of time.
The officer said that Macl^od was
arrested at request of Connecticut
state police when they learned he
had failed to keep Jus promise to
them and had set up an office at
Dobbs Ferry.
JITTERY REDS
FEAR INVASION
HAS STARTED
By RALPH TEATSORTH
Unit'd f*r<M Staff t’orraapondenl
Tokyo, Friday Sept. 15 (lb—The
mightiest Allied air-sea bombard-
ment of the war has blasted the
Korean port of Inchon, gatewfiy
to Seoul, and given the enemy his
greatst case yet of invasion jitters.
American and British cruisers
and destroyers levelled their five
and eight-inch guns against Inchon
and its island approaches, while
Navy Corsairs climaxed a two-day
attack by strafing, rocketing and
basoline-jelly bombing enemy air-
ports and other installations in
record numbers.
Hundreds of fires were started
both at Inchon and at Seoul 18
miles away.
The jittery Pyongyang Radio,
acknowledging the record strike,
said:
‘‘On Sept. 13, the peoples army,
navy and coast defense units shell-
ed United States warships which
penetrated near the Inchon area
greatest case yet of invasion jit-
and sank three small-type destrov-
ters.
3 Destroyers Damaged
(In Washington, the Navy said
three United States destroyers had
been “superficially damaged” by
Communist shore batteries in the
Inchon area. A spokesman said
personnel casualties were “light.”
It was the enemy’s first men-
tion of Allied landing craft in the
Inchon area, and indicated that
the Communists believed United
Nations forces were softening up
the Korean west coast for an am-
phibious assault deep into the
heart of Red-held South Korea.
Military quarters here quickly
denied enemy claims of losses
against the combined task force
but refused comment on the land-
ing boats.
They pointed out that any plans
for a United Nations offensive
would involve the strictest security.
Lull on Hattie Front
It was a day of comparative lull
on the battle front—the 120-mile
preimeter protecting the Allied
base of Pusan at Korea’s south-
western tip.
The Taegu front at the north-
west corner of the line remained
the hottest spot. There, United
Press Correspondent Peter Kalis-
cher said that lT. S. First Division
cavalrymen had recaptured two
hills to the west and most of an-
other eight miles north of Taegu,
a vital communications center.
Kalischer described the fighting
as “small-scale hut savage."
Along the Naktong River front
to the south, Second Division in-
fentrymen captured a small hill,
but action in that sector was light
except for sparring and a number
of air strikes.
Reds Tough in South
Still farther south, on the Masan
front, United Press Correspondent
Gene Symonds reported a twin-
proged “local" enemy attack, which
drove one unit of the American
25th Division out of its position in
the central sector. Approximately
500 Reds were involved in the at-
tack and at nightfall Thursday the
Americans still had not been able
to regain their position.
fuflnwhington, Sept. 14, (lb—Sen-
ate • Democratic leader Scott W.
Lucas of Illinois said today he still
believes Congress can wrap up
several billion dollars’ worth of
legislation and quit work Satur-
day.
Sen. Eugene D. Midi kin, R.,
Colo., skid talk of a Saturday
wind-up is nonsense. He said
“there’s not a chance” oT getting
everything done this week that
has to. be dona.
But Lucas thought different. He
even called a conference of Sen-
ate Democrats for Saturday morn-
ing to decide whether they want
to adjourn outright or keep tho
session theoretically alive by just
^ Be both parties want to go
— for campaigning purposes
soon as possible, it was not
that Congress would
>t fviinula hii rsi aruu«]
WXHWWH WITBv W IpOCu
finish up Saturday night. It
can pass bills at » onc-a-minutc
clip when it wants to.
Some Legislation Rending
At the moment, however, House-
Senate conferees still are tied up
oa the anti-eubversive bill and the
$4,608,000,000 war tux boost. Al-
ways awaiting final action are the
$17,185,000,000 supplementary mil-
itary money bill and legislation to
1st Gen. George G- Marshall be-
come defense secretary.
There are many other measures
before Cssgnu, but few of theu
have any chance of passage this
year. l) ■ ' . •"
Other congressional develop*
msnts:
Chapman—Sen. Joseph C. O'Ma-
honey, D^ Wyo., charged^ that ^o-
Oscar L. Chapman’* loyalty were
mad* for ’’political effect.” He
made the charge at a hearing of
the Senate interior committee
which he beads. He brought out
tliat Frank T. Bow, administrative
assistant to Sen. Andrew F.
Schocppel, R., Kan., possessed
certain affidavits about Chapmar
years ago but did nothing abou
them. Bow, a Republican candidate
for Congress in Ohio, produced the
affidavits for a speech Schoeppel
made last Week attacking Chap-
man. O’Mahoney said, VThe whole
purpose of it now is for political
affect.”
May Graated Parole
May—Former Rep. Andrew J.
May, D., Ky., convicted in 1947 of
war contract fraud, has been
granted a parole. He will be re-
leased from federal prison at Ash-
land, Ky., on Monday. May is
expected, to resume law practice
at Prestonsburg, Ky., his home.
Korea—Gan. J. Lawton Collins,
Army chief of staff, told the Sen-
ate armed services committee that
Crash Victims’
Rites Pending
(CuoUaua* oa paga 6)
Funeral arrangements for Har-
old P. Slay, 23, Stephenville, and
Winfred Slay, 21, Palo Pinto, who
were killed in a truck collision
Tuesday, still were pending Thurs-
day.
The brothers died in an acci
dent near Brownsville at 1 p.m.
Tuesday when their trunk collided
with another on Paredes Line Road
and Farm Road 611 near Browns-
ville. A McAllen man, L. E. O’Neal,
27, was seriously injured in the
crash. He waa driving a truck
loaded with diesel oil.
Harold Slay was married end
had one child. His brother is sur-
vived by a wife, who live* in Palo
Pinto. Harold was a veteran of
World War II, and a military
funeral is planned.
Survivors Include a brother who
ia in service in the Pacific.
most POWKEFUL JET FIGHTER—This fragile-looking Glogter Meteor • Interceptor
.tated that one of them haa about the same power aa the four englnea In a Superfortrew.
It waa also disclosed that the “Sapphire” has gone a long way toward conquering tho
high fuel consumption problem that has so far greatly limited the range and endurance of
jet»po*«rod aircraft. “ > h
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