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ABILENE, TEXAS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 20, 1950— TWENTY FOUR PAGES
PRICE DAILY 5c, SUNDAY 10c
Winters Men
Injured When
Home Burns
WINTERS. Dec. 20 (RNS)—Fire
destroyed the home of Howard
Woodrow in the southwest part of
Winters early Wednesday morning.
Woodrow, about 45, suffered
burns and abrasions.
Efforts of neighbors, the J. W
Harts, newcomers to Winters, to
call the fire department were
slowed because the new resi-
dents were unfamiliar with the pro-
cedure necessary in turning in a
fire alarm.
Hart said he beard cries about
3:30 a.m., but thought they were
from a passing car. When they
continued. Hart said he got out
of bed, looked out of the window
and saw a glow in the Woodrow
Home.
He said he ran outside, and
found Woodrow in the backyard
In his night clothes. While Hart
wrapped Woodrow in a blanket,
Mrs. Hart tried to get the oper-
ator. who does not work at night
Hart, a Halliburton Oil Co. em-
ploye, has been in Winters only
three months, and neither he nor
his wife knew how to get the
fire department. When his wife's
attempts were unsuccessful, Hart
ran five blocks to the fire sta-
tion. and turned on the alarm him-
self
By the time the two trucks from
the Winters Volunteer Fire Depart-
ment were alerted and arrived at
the scene, the fire had progressed
too far to be extinguished
The damage was estimated
at 37.500. All furnishings were des-
troyed.
Woodrow is in Winters Municipal
Hospital suffering from shock and
exposure.
* Burns and abrasions which he
suffered were believed to have
been sustained when he escaped
from the burning house.
He was the only one in the home
, at the time.
Due to the shock he suffered, po-
lice have been unable to question
him as to the cause of the fire.
Mobilization
Powers Bid
Reds Held at Bay
Along Beachhead
Profits Tax
Debate (all
Due Action
WASHINGTON, Dec 20. (PL—The
House was ready to act swiftly to-
day on President Truman's request
for wider mobilization powers.
Just two days after Mr. Truman
asked Congress for additional au-
thority, House leaders called up a
bill reviving features of the defunct
War Powers Act of 1941 to assist
him in dealing with the growing
defense program.
It would give the President au-
thority to:
1. Consolidate, rearrange or abol-
ish government offices to make
way for the new mobilization agen-
cies, and to reshuffle powers and
personnel.
2. Modify, revise and alter de-
fense production contracts to keep
defense supplies moving.
The House was expected to give
prompt approval to these emergen-
cy grants of power — borrowed
from the World War II law which
Congress repaired in 1947.
But signs of trouble showed up in
the Senate.
Senator Taft (R-Ohio) said Tues
day he thought the President al-
ready has enough power to do the
mobilization job.
But Senate Democratic Leader
Lucas of Illinois, introducing a
companion war powers bill in the
Senate, called its passage "abso-
lutely necessary."
FIRE DESTROYS APARTMENTS—Fire of undertermined
origin late Tuesday night destroyed two unfinished apart-
ment buildings and damaged a third. Snyder firemen,
gathered at Central Station for their Christmas party, ex-
tinguished the flames before the third structure was destoy-
ed. Above picture shows the two four-unit structures after
they collapsed. The picture below shows spectators watching
as firemen extinguished the blaze in the nearby apartment.
Only one of the four-unit apartments was occupied at the
time of the fire. See story, page 2 (Photos by Lee Watson of
the Snyder Daily Times.)
HITCH-HIKER UNHURT
AF Sergeant
Dies in Wreck
ALBANY, Dec. 20 .— An Air
Force sergeant on his way to El
Paso, was killed when his car ca-
reened off the Breckenridge High-
way. seven miles east of Albany
early today.
The new Nash left skid marks
which showed that it went off the
highway just before reaching a
bridge over a creek. A man about
21. who said he was hitch-hiking
with the sergeant said he awoke
during the last roll of the car.
which ended upside down, with all
wheels knocked off, in the bottom
of the creek bed, 40 to 50 feet
from the highway.
The unidentified hitch-hiker es-
caped with only slight scratches.
The sergeant, identified at Castle-
berry Funeral Home in Albany, as
Woodrow Wilson Hobgood, 32, of un-
determined address, was thrown out
of the car, presumably long be-
fore it came to rest, and was 50
feet away from where it stopped
rolling.
He was taken to Shackelford
County Memorial Hospital in Al-
bany, but was pronounced dead on
arrival at 8:30 a.m. Time of the
accident was placed at about 8
a.m.
The hitch-hiker said the sergeant
was already out of the car when he
awoke. He said he presumed the
service man had gone to sleep at
the wheel.
Sheriff Charles H. Arendt was in-
vestigating the accident.
The hitch - hiker said he was on
his way from New York to Los
VARMINT TURNS
OUT TO BE PET
A coyote that caused excite-
ment here Tuesday by killing
some of Mrs. C. C. Mauldin’s
chickens turned out not to be
of the wild variety.
It was a pet coyote kept by
one of the neighbors.
Veteran police officers told
the Reporter-News Tuesday that
the call they received about the
coyote was the first such alarm
they could recall in their ex-
perience with the department.
Several Abilenians reportedly
keep coyotes for pets, and the
domesticated variety is not vi-
cious — even though they do
like chickens.
Hoover Urges
Caution on
8th Army
Fights Minor
Eng
menis
MacArthur Imposes Right
Of Censorship on News
WASHINGTON. Dec. 20. V—The
Senate called up the multi-billion
dollar excess profits tax for de-
bate today amid predictions that
more big tax boosts are coming
very soon.
Leaders pressed for a Senate vote
on the measure tomorrow, confi-
dent of getting Senate - House
agreement on its terms before New
Year's and possibly before Christ-
mas.
Slav Aid Measure
WASHINGTON. Dec 20. I—A
bill authorizing $38 million in aid
for drought-stricken Yugoslavia ar-
rived at the White House today for
President Truman's signature.
ABILENE’S 1950
TRAFFIC COUNT
Consecutive deathless days 80
Fatalities............3
Accidents
Injuries
GOOD CITIZENS
... 1,072
114
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Voluntary Wage Curb Plan
Pledged; Price Cuts Asked
WASHINGTON, Dec. 20. The
government today promised a vol-
untary wage ceiling formula "as
soon as possible" to match the na-
tionwide honor system price con-
trol newly put into effect for all in-
dustry.
The Economic Stabilization Agen-
cy summoned into a meeting here
today the management and union
leaders of more than 1 million
auto workers for talks which may
provide a clue to the coming wage
restraints, on all labor.
The agency meantime hoped for
a wave of voluntary price rollbacks
—mostly at the mill, mine and fac-
tory level — in accordance with its
price - profits formula announced
last night.
But if compliance does not come
voluntarily, ESA Administrator
Alan Valentine warned, compulsory
price ceilings will be clamped on
and the standards may be "more
rigorous" than those now set forth.
STOP-GAP
" There was ample indication that
GIVE HAND SIGNALS ESA considers the voluntary form-
Western Powers Hold Out
New Peace Offers to Russia
BRUSSELS. Belgium, Dec. 20
(—The big Western powers held
out new offers of peace to Russia
and arms to Germany today.
Britain. France and the United
States have accepted in principle
Russia's proposal for a Big Four
conference on the unification of di-
vided Germany.
The three Western nations are
known to have stipulated, how-
ever, that the Russians discuss the
whole range of problems that have
been causing East-West friction.
Russia proposed the conference
to discuss only the unifying and
neutralizing of Germany.
The three countries have pre-
pared similar notes to be dispatch-
ed shortly to the Kremlin.
The Big Three foreign ministers
approved the notes last night To-
SHOPPING
DAYS LEFT
7LON6 DISTANCE?
MR S. CLAUS
PLEASE,
day the foreign ministers of Bel-
gium. Luxembourg and the Neth-
erlands get a look at them-more
or less s gesture of international
etiquette to the Benelux nations
who, with Britain and France,
form the West European Union.
The representatives of these five
nations today agreed to "reorga-
nize" their joint military planning
set-up to conform to the new in-
ternational command established
this week by the Atlantic powers.
Their announcement indicated
an end to the Western Union mili-
tary headquarters at Fontaine-
bleau under Field Marshall Vis-
count Montgomery. A spokesman
said, however, such a decision
would be up to Gen Dwight D.
Eisenhower, the new commander
of the International force the At-
lantic nations hope to build to 1
million by the end of 1953
DEPUTY TO HIKE
Montgomery, reportedly, may
become a deputy to Eisenhower.
The Atlantic Council's historic
decisions now will be placed be-
fore West German Chancellor Kon-
rad Adenauer He and most other
German leader, have voiced de-
termination not to arm the Ger-
mans unless they get complete
equality with the Atlantic powers.
The 13 pact nations were re-
ported ready to give the Germans
representation on Elsenhower's
staff, but not to allow them to
create a foreign ministry, or de-
fense ministry on their own—at
least not for the moment.
ula a stop - gap. If it restrains in-
flation until March, the infant agen-
cy may be ready to enforce manda-
tory controls wherever needed.
Rowland Jones, Jr., president of
the American Retail Federation,
criticized the voluntary "freeze"
announcement as “vague in some
aspects" and said it raised “serious
questions of theory and policy
which must await further investiga-
tion and clarification."
Jones said in a statement that
some of the suggested principles, if
they became part of a mandatory
price control system, “could raise
obstacles to the end-objective
of increased production and effi-
cient distribution."
The federation is made up of 55
state and national trade associa.
tions which list more than 500.000
retail stores among their members.
Two Republican senators, mean-
while. charged that stabilization of-
ficials ignored the intent of Con-
gress in taking price control action
without parallel action on wages at
the same time.
SIMULTANEOUSLY
The senators. Bricker of Ohio and
Capehart of Indiana, said Congress
made it plain during debate on the
defense production act earlier this
year that price and wage action
should be taken simultaneously if
taken at all.
Bricker and Capehart likewise
expressed doubt that a voluntary
price freeze would do much good
They and a Democrat, Chairman
Maybank (SC) of the Banking Com-
mittee which helped write the act,
called in separte interviews for
broad, compulsory wage . price
controls now.
What about violations? An ESA
spokesman said Valentine will rely
on consumers and buyers to report
any price increases which seem un-
reasonable. The ESA has barely
started to build an enforcement
staff.
TOKYO. Dec 20. (—General
MacArthur’s headquarters today
imposed the right of censorship
over all news of Korean military
operations without calling it an act
of censorship.
A memorandum from MacAr-
thur’s public information officer,
Col. M P. Echols, said news dis-
patches and photographs must be
submitted in Korea or Japan for
security "screening" and clearance
by military authorities before being
sent out.
The brief announcement did not
specify any penalty for evasion or
violation.’
The order was effective immed-
iately. The Tokyo headquarters
Press Advisory Division immed-
iately became swamped with copy.
The division up to then had op-
erated solely as a guiding influence
on news involving security.
From the beginning of the Ko-
rean war June 25 correspondents
were placed on their honor not to
disclose information that might help
the Reds. This voluntary system
TROOPS LIVE IN HARMONY
Allies Make Korean
Towns International
EDITORS NOTE William
Barnard is former Texas state
editor for the Associated Press
who is now on the Korean war
front. .
By WILLIAM BARNARD
A KOREAN TOWN ON THE
ROAD TO THE FRONT. Dec 20:
(—This is an international town
where fighting men of many na-
tions live in harmony
It is a center of United Nations
forces. Walk down a winding, ice-
coated street and you’re likely to
find two or three nationalities to
the block The French are here,
the Dutch, the British Here are
Siamese: Greeks skilled in guerril-
la warfare, Americans, and quite
a few Turks.
Capt. Cornelius Marion of the
Netherlands Forces, a 29-pounder.
6 feet 2 inches tall, a blue eyed
man of 37. said:
“These men of the Netherlands
unit are all volunteers and they
are tough. Some are here for ad.
He apologizes that he has no spe-
cial food to offer his guests but
C Rations served with cer3mony.
He personally ladles chicken soup
into tin plates for officers and
guests. He often peers around the
sputtering lamp urging further
helping of luncheon meat and cof-
fee and corned beef His officers
call him general, for the 58-year-old
Monclar is a lieutenant general of
the French army who took a tem-
porary demotion to serve in Ko-
rea. “Why did I volunteer?" he
asks
“The United Nations is the hope
of all humanity When I die my
son will be able to say his father
was a member of the first United
Nations army."
didn’t always work. Some so-called
news "beats" resulted from rather
loose individual interpretations by
war correspondents on what con-
stituted security.
ASKED CENSORSHIP
Since early in the campaign
some of the press had asked for
the imposition of formal censor-
ship—not only to provide real secur-
ity on important military moves,
but to give all correspondents an
even break on big stories bearing
on marginal security considera-
tions,
Lt. Gen. Sir Horace Robertson,
British occupation chief in Japan
and commander of Commonwealth
troops in Korea repeatedly had ad-
vocated formal censorship of Ko-
rean war news He said interven-
tion by the Chinese Reds made
such action imperative.
Army authorities in Tokyo have
contended they lacked the manpow-
er to enforce such censorship and
that it would be ineffective without
similar regulations in Washington
and other world capitals.
Voluntary news blackouts pre-
vailed; correspondents generally
followed the established practice of
not sending certain information un-
less some individual correspondent
broke the story ahead of time and
thus gave the enemy access to the
information.
News Morsecasts by radio are
monitored by the Reds. Once pub-
lished or broadcast in the United
States and elsewhere in the world
the information also is available to
on-the-spot agents.
Until today, the latest headquar-
ters policy had been that all stories
written in Korea and Tokyo were
to be submitted to appropriate pub-
lic information officers within eight
hours of filing.
Sending Troops
NEW YORK, Dec. 20. W—For-
mer President Herbert Hoover said
today that no more American
troops should be sent to Europe
until the “American people and the
Congress have had an opportunity
to explore the whole question."
The 76-year-old elder statesman
will deliver a major radio and tele-
vision address tonight titled "Our
National Policies in This Crisis."
Friends said the speech would be
one of the most dramatic of his
career.
Mr. Hoover, intimates said, will
outline what he thinks should be
the United States’ future course in
| relation to free nations willing to
join in practical resistance to
communism.
Asked the probable nature of
his address, Mr. Hoover said that
he proposed to appraise American
policies as related to the critical
world situation.
"No promise,” he said, “should
be made at Brussels to land any
more American land forces in Eu-
rope until the American people and
the Congress have had an oppor-
tunity to explore the whole ques-
tion.
"Congress may have surrendered
much of the right to make war or
peace, but in our form of govern-
ment, if we are to have unity, we
must hammer out such vital poli-
cies before we are committed.”
Mr. Hoover’s address will be car-
ried over the radio network of the
Mutual Broadcasting Company at
7 p.m. (CST) and rebroadcast by
the National Broadcasting Com-
pany at 9:30 p.m.
TOKYO, Dec. 20. — Beachhead
(efenders of the U. S. 10th Corps
held pressing Red forces at bay to-
night all along the Allies’ deliber-
ately reduced Hungnam port area
in Northeast Korea.
The planned withdrawal was pro-
ceeding under protective fire of ar-
tillery and the guns of warships
standing in to shore. Doughboys
now hold a relatively small slice of
land only a few square miles in
area around Hungnam harbor.
The big job of keeping the Red
troops from massing for an all-pot
attack on the Americans fell to the
gunners lobbing tons on tons of
shells at the Chinese and Korean
Reds trying to push the 10th Corps
elements into the scp.
While the gunners held off the
enemy hordes, there was no way of
telling how long they could keep
back the pressing thousands creep-
ing ever closer to the Allied toe-
hold on the beach.
PLEASED WITH BATTLE
Maj. Gen. Edward M. Almond,
10th Corps commander. Mid he was
pleased with the battle waged by
his men and their naval surface and
"flying artillery" support.
Marine and Navy pilots hit 24
enemy trop concentrations and
claimed to have inflicted 1.300 cas-
ualties on the Chinese and North
Koreans. Eight thousand Red Ko-
reans have reinforced the estimated
100,000 Chinese swarming down on
the beachhead.
With nearby Yonpo Airfield aban-
dned, American wounded were
rushed to the water's edge in jeeps
and then sped by boat to a well-
lighted naval hospital ship- in the
busy harbor.
Across the Korean peninsula in
the west, U. S. Eighth Army troops
fought minor engagements with
North Korean forces eaving over
Parallel 38 in a 30 - mile spread
around Chunchon.
Chunchon is 45 miles northeast of
Seoul and 10 miles south of 38.
An Eighth Army spokesman said
there had been a two day lull in
that sector and all enemy troops
there had been identified as North
Koreans.
General MacArthur's late Wed-
nesday war summary said Eighth
Army units in the Hwachon sector
held all its positions Tuesday in a
series of skirmishes. Hwachon is
about 20 miles north of Chunchon
and is north of 38.
Opposition Arises
To Troop Transfer
rhe i-J S-.SJ5E! venture, others are men who say
ing index appeared heading for a
new all - time high.
Latest figures by the U. S. Bu-
reau of Labor Statistics showed
wholesale prices for the week end.
ing Dec. 12 where 102 per cent
higher than just before the out-
break of fighting in Korea.
So it appeared certain that prices
will stay above the pre - Korea lev-
el even if there Is a rollback to the
level of Dec. 1
ROLLBACK
The new "fair pricing standards"
call for a rollback of any price in-
crease made by a factory or mine
since Dec. 1. if the increase brings
the company's net profits above
the average dollar profits, before
taxes. In the years 1946 through
1949
In the case of storekeepers and
wholesalers, the gross profit mar-
gin on any Item may not be in.
creased above the June. 1950, level
If this would make the dealer's
total profits bigger than his IMS-
41 average.
"Services” as well as foods are
covered. Laundries, restaurants,
barber shops, shoe shine parlors
and dry cleaners are subject to
the ceilings.
‘What is Holland? 1 want to see the
world.' But most are here because
they are bitterly against commu-
nism.
WON’T WAIT
“I have three children and anoth-
er is on the way. I remember 1935
and Hitler and how we waited
until he came I do not intend to
wait for Joseph Stalin. It is better
to die on the field than in the door-
way of your home."
Capt Alfred Van Meurs, a physi-
cian with the Netherlands forces
and formerly of Jakarta (Batavia),
Java, said: "It is splendid bow
well men of so many varied na-
tionalities get along in this crowded
place.
“Our men play soccer with the
British, the American dentist pulls
teeth and the British dentist fills
them, and our men are delighted
with American rations
"Our own soldiers, don't eat half
as well at home The amount of
meat and canned fruit is amazing.
These C rations would be a luxury
In Holland ”
FRENCH GROUP
Visit the French contingent and
you, find plenty of hospitality from
Lt. Col. Ralph Monclar. command,
ing.
Christmas Gift
Suggestions
Read the Gift Spotter in the
Classified section.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 20. (—Op-
position arose in Congress today
to any speedy transfer of addition-
al American ground troops to Eu-
rope.
President Truman’s announce-
ment that more U. S. soldiers will
be sent across the Atlantic as soon
as possible brought demands from
lawmakers for:
1 — Detailed information on oth-
er nations’ troop pledges to the
new combined Western European
defense force: and
2—Assurances that the United
Whot—Where Is It?
I
States will not he stripped of mili-
tary reserves at home
Senators of both parties said Sec-
retary of State Acheson and Sec-
retary of the Army Pace will be
called on by congressional com-
mittees to report on these points
from the Brussels conference
The 12 foreign minister, of the
Atlantic Pact nationa have agreed
to try to assemble under the com-
mand of Gen. Dwight D Eisen- .
hower a 1 million man force by
the end of 1953 to guard Western
Europe against possible Soviet ag-
gross ion
President Truman told a news
conference yesterday he will know
today — but won't make the in-
formation public — how many
American troops eventually will be
involved.
There has been speculation that
five to 10 or more divisions may be
sent to Europe in addition to the
100.000 men already there.
Senator George (D-Ga). a mem-
ber of the foreign relations com-
mittee, told a reporter he thinks
Congress will want to know before
a single soldier climbs aboard a
transport just what Western Euro-
pean nations propose to do about
helping defend themselves.
"And we will want to know just
bow much we are expected to con-
tribute to this defense ' force,"
George added.
THE WEATHER
FEW HAVE EVER SEEN THIS—Although you may pass this object two or three times
daily, it is doubtful if you have ever noticed it. In the first place.,it's located at a spot
where you are not likely to look See page 19 for where and what ii it. (Staff photo )
U. S. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
WEATHER BUREAU
ABILENE AND VICINITY Fair this
afternoon, tonight and Thursday: cooler
today High temperature today and
Thursday about 55 degrees; low tonight,
28.
WEST TEXAS: Fair this afternoon, the
night and Thursday. No important teme
perature changes
EAST TEXAS: Partly cloudy, this aft-
ernoon and tonight. No important M.
perature changes
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