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THE EVENING STAR
Washington, D. C.
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 23, lt&3
Allied Planes Blast
Red Supply Lines;
Land Action Slow
By rite Auociottri ,r»»»
SEOUL, Feb. 23.—Allied war
planes laid a heavy hand on
Communist supply arteries and
stockpiles again today while
ground action along the 155-
mile Korean front diminished to
a near standstill.
United States Superforts struck
the heaviest blow—a pre-dawn
raid on a supply center west of
Chaeryong in western Korea.
The 12 B-29s also hit repair
facilities 5 miles northwest of
Pyongyang, the Korean Com
munist capital.
Bomber crews reported some
anti-aircraft fire, but no opposi
tion from Communist fighter
planes.
Many Vehicles Destroyed.
B-26 light bomt/ers ranged
over large sections of North
Korea in the dark. Their crews
reported destroying 125 Com
munist vehicles, one locomotive
and hits on a communications
center.
The United States sth Air
Force said last night’s toll
brought to 1.303 the total of
Communist vehicles destroyed in
the last 12 nights.
On the ground, allied infan
trymen beat back two small
probing attacks on the central
front—one by a Chinese platoon
against Finger Ridge and the
other by some 25 Reds against
an outpost in the Mundung
Valley. Brief patrol contacts
were reported elsewhere. Low
clouds and haze hung over the
front. Temperatures climbed to
the mid-forties.
The Bth Army said four small
acale but bloody patrol clashes
raged on the front yesterday.
Battle Near Panmunjom.
Twenty-one Chinese were re
ported killed northeast of Pan
munjom—site of the suspended
truce talks—in an eight-hour
battle.
Eighty - six North Koreans
were killed in two clashes near
Anchor Hill. The Bth Army said
it was a 30-minute skirmish
started by an allied raiding
patrol.
Another group of allied raid
ers hit Chinese, positions west
of Korangpo. The raiders re
ported they killed 18 Chinese.
In Tokyo, the Navy said
planes from the United States
carrier Valley Forge pounded po- j
sitions near the northeast coast'
port of Wonsan with rockets,:
napalm (jellied gasoline) and
cannon fire.
Jack Benny, Flu Victim,
Sees Self on TV From Bed!
By »h« Associated Frost
HOLLYWOOD, Feb. 23.—In
stead of appearing on televisreti
last night as scheduled, Jack
Benny, stricken by flu, sat up in
a hospital bed and saw himself
on a TV film. A spokesman re
ported his condition "fine.”
The comedian was taken to
Cedars of Lebanon Hospital
early yesterday ifter suffering
severe stomach cramps. He was
stricken about 11 p.m. Saturday
after dining at the home of Dore
Schary, M-G-M production chief.
The comedian’k regular Sun
day radio show went on the air
on schedule, it was taped several
days ago A filmed television
show starring Ann Sothern,
which occupies the TV time spot j
between his appearances every
fourth Sunday, replaced his
scheduled live TV show.
Mr. Benny saw the Sothern
telecast, in which he had played
a bit part.
Broderick Crawford Boat
Damaged in Collision
By tho Associated Pr*ss
NEWPORT BEACH. Calif.,
Feb. 23.—Actor Broderick Craw
ford's 32-foot cabin cruiser
smashed in the side of another,
smaller cabin cruiser 2 miles off
the harbor jetty yesterday.
Mrs. F. L. Dunlap was dunked
in the ocean from the other boat,
the 25-foot Twin Oaks, by the
impact. She swam around and J
was pulled aboard the larger
craft, the Banshee.
Mr. Crawford was not aboard
his boat. It was being operated
on automatic pilot by his agent,
Mortie Guterman, who shares
ownership of the boat, the Coast j
Guard reported. Mr. Guterman’s
father was asleep in the cabin.
Mrs. Dunlap's husband said
the couple was fishing and. with
the wind blowing toward the
Banshee, didn’t hear its ap
proach
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was towed to Newport harbor by
a Coast Guard vessel.
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Reed Faces Growing Revolt
On Social Security Proposals
By Robert K. Walsh
House sponsoro of some of the
scores of bills .to broaden social
security said today they would
point to Representative Reed's
past voting record as proof he
plans to prevent action on such
measures this year.
Another revolt threatens the
1 veteran New York Republican
1 who heads the Ways and Means
1 Committee. First rumblings are
expected on the floor tomorrow
1 when the House considers reso
lutions concerning investigating
travel of various committees.
Republicans Are Restive.
This new opposition centers
• on Mr. Reed’s move for a pro
longed and thorough subcom
mittee study of social security
extension preposals.
It differs from the effort of
House G. O. P. leaders to stall
his drive for income tax relief
June 30. Protests against his
stragtegy on social security come
1 mainly from within the commit
-1 tee itself at this point. Demo
' crats are the most vocal but
some Republicans seem restive.
Mr. Reed and Representative
' Curtis, Nebraska Republican who
, will head the subcommittee, in
sist the study is essential to avoid
patchwork and piecemeal legis
lation. They deny Democratic
charges that the study is a side
tracking device running contrary
to President Eisenhower’s re
quest for prompt action on social
| security extension.
At least one high-ranking
Democrat on the committee was
inclined to minimize the idea 1
that Mr. Reed’s move is retalia
tion against Republican leaders
attempting to delay his tax bill.
i Stand Called Consistent.
"There's one thing about Mr.
j Reed that people ought to
know.” this member said, "He is j
I consistent. As long as I can re- j
I member he has voted against i
social security proposals,
j "As chairman of the Ways and ;
Means Committee, of course, he |
D. C. Soldier Listed
As Captive of Reds
More Than 2 Years
A 20-year-old District soldier
who was captured by the enemy
more than two years ago in
Korea was officially listed as a
j prisoner by
the Defense
D e p a r tment
last night.
He is Pfc.
Tyson Sim
mons. 20. son
of Mr. and ifSHHIHF
Mrs. Samuel m, >
Simmons 4439
E street S.E. i Jkggpl9|
His parents mk
were notified
he was miss
ing in June.
1915. In De
cember of that rte - simmon*.
year his name was included on
the Communist-issued list of
prisoners of war. A month later
the first of 10 letters he has
written home arrived here.
4 Area Men Wounded.
Also listed on the department’s
casualty list No. 754 were four
Washington servicemen wounded
in Korea. They are:
Army Pfc. James Lindsey,
whose mother. Mrs. Della Bauk
night, lives in Saluda, S. C.; j
j Army Pfc. Jesse L. Staton, whose
wife. Mrs. Hazel M. Staton, lives
at 120 Florida avenue N.W.; |
| Marine Pfc. Robert S. Davis, son
of James O. Davis, 6820 Oxon
| Hill road. Oxon Hill, Md., and
Marine Pfc. Ralph E. Deane, son
of Mrs. Ollie L. Deane, 1332%
North Capitol street.
During his captivity, Pfc. Sim
mons has grown several inches
taller. His most recent letters j
reached his parents last October, j
Before he was reported missing, i
he was a member of the 24th 1
Infantry Division. He had vol- I
unteered in April, 1950, and was j
in Korea by September. In
school here, he played basket
ball at Brown Junior High.
Wounded by Mortar.
Pfc. Staton’s wife was notified
he was wounded by mortar frag
ments in the back on February 4.
i A native of Tarburo. N. C., he j
moved to Washington about nine
years ago and was employed at
! the Washington Hotel here. He
has been in the Army since the
spring of 1950 and in Korea since
last April. He has served as an
ammunition carrier in the 15th
Infantry Regiment, Third Divi
> sion. He is 22.
Pfc. Deane, 19. suffered missile
wounds in the back on February
3 He arrived in Korea around
Christmas as a member of sth
Marine Regiment. Ist Marine
Division. Born in Luray, Va., j
Pfc. Deane enlisted in the Ma- i
vines last July. His father, Oscar j
L. Deane, lives at 1133 Sixth
street N.W.
i is in a strong position to hold
| weapons over the Rules Commit
tee if it sits too long on his tax
bill. One of these weapons is to
refuse tg act on any social se
curity legislations requested by
the administration until the
House gets a chance to act, on
the tax bill. But a lot of us think
this latest step for a subcom
mittee study is principally be
cause he just doesn’t want social
security legislation.”
Mr. Reed, when appointing the
subcommittee last week, re
marked that the length of the
study probably would preclude
action on such legislation before
the intended adjournment of
Congress in July.
Democrats, most of whom pre
ferred not to be quoted immedi
ately on counter-attacks they
have in mind, indicated that
potent ammunition will soon be
fired in the House. And these
Democrats predict some Repub
lican support.
Almost 200 bills to amend pro
visions of the social security
statutes have been introduced in
the House since January ,3, many
bv Republicans. Some 25 bills
alone would remove the $75 a
month limit on outside earnings
by aged persons receiving bene
fits
Another measure understood
to have considerable bi-partisan
support was put in last week by
Representative Forand, Demo
crat. of Rhode Island. It would
increase benefits payable to a
wife, dependent husband, widow,
dependent widower, dependent
parents and mothers of retired
deceased workers.
Several House bills urge social
security coverage of an estimated
additional 12 million persons
such as farmers, professional
people, and State and local gov
j ernmental employes. About 66
; million persons are covered now
! Sponsors of this extended cov
i erages say their bills seek sub
■ stantially what President Eisen
i hower recommended.
Roaming Romeo, 16,
Missing Again, but
Not With His Co-ed
There is only one question to
day in the strife-torn romance
of Bethesda’s 16-year-old Mich
ael O’Connell and New Jersey’s
Jacque'ine Jane Mengoni.
Where’s Michael?
Miss Mengoni, 18, who fled to
Florida with Michael a few
weeks ago with mariage plans in
mind, is back at her home in
Trenton, N. J„ her parents in
sist. She was a Bucknell Uni
versity student before leaving
school for the Florida trip.
Michael’s father of 9401 Cedar
lane, who objects to the marriage
plans proposed by the Mengonis,
says he doesn’t know the where
abouts of his son, who disap
peared from home Saturday.
Seen in Bethesda Movie.
Mr. o„’Connell had a telephone
message from the mother of one
of his son’s schoolmate)* this
morning, saying Michael was
seen in a Bethesda movie last
night.
“Obviously he isn’t in New
Jersey,” the father said.
"His mother is ill from shock
and' hasn’t been able to rest
| since Michael left. We just want'
to let him know that he is wel
come to come home.”
He said he had talked with i
Mr. Mengoni and the Mengoni !
1 attorney yesterday. “They told
me the girl was at home with
them, but that Michael was not.
I don’t know whether that is so
or not.”
A routine 13-State police look
out has gone out over the tele
type system in the search for
| him
On $5 Weekly Allowance.
“He was broke after the Flor
i ida escape,” the father continued.
I "He was on a $5-a-week allow
ance, which he got last Friday.
This time he doesn’t have the
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New Austria Coalition
Seen as Socialists
Score in Elections
By th« Associated Press
| VIENNA, Austria. Feb. 23.
Another coalition government of
conservatives and moderate left
ists appeared in prospect for oc
cupied Austria today, following j
parliamentary elections in which
the Socialists scored marked
gains.
The Communists, neo-Nazis. |
Catholic conservatives and all j
other factions in the country!
astride the Iron Curtain lost j
ground in the voting, held ini
the nation’s American, British,!
French and Russian occupation:
zones.
The Socialists polled the
largest number of votes and |
picked up six new seats for a!
total of 73 in the 165-seat lower
chamber, but the country’s com
plicated voting laws again made |
Chancellor Leopold Figl’s Con- 1
servative Catholic Peoples Party.!
Parliament’s largest with 74
members.
| New Cabinet May Be Asked.
Because of this, President
Theodor Koerner, a Socialist,
was expected to ask Mr. Figl to
! form a new cabinet.
The Catholic leader, who has,
headed the country’s governing
Socialist-Conservative coalition
since it was formed in December,
1945, appeared certain to ask the
I Socialists again to participate in '
| the cabinet.
Socialist Interior Minister Os
kar Helmer said his faction
I would "continue to co-operate
I with the Peoples Party to spare
! the country further suffering.”
Mr. Figl said he was proud
that his party was still backed
by so many Austrian voters,
“even if the balance is only by
a mandate of one.”
Communists Retain 4 Seats.
The yesterday elected
74 Peoples Party members, 73
Socialists, four Communists and
14 members of the extreme-right,
neo-Nazi League of Independ
ents. This represented a gain of
six seats for the Socialists, losses
of one each for the Conservatives,
Communists and Independents,
and the removal of three splinter
party representatives generally
allied with the conservatives.
The total valid vote was 4,319,-
274—125,541 more than in the
i last parliamentary voting in
11949 and about two-thirds of
; the country’s population.
This was the provisional vote
I (1949 figures in parentheses):
Socialists, 1,818,811 (1,623,524),
42 per cent of vote: People's
Party, 1,781.969 (1,846,581), 41.3
per cent; Independents, 473,022
(489,273), 11 per cent; Com
munists, 228.228 (213,066), 5.3
per cent; splinter parties, 17,244,
0.4 per cent. -z
Gl in Korea Traps
! First Part of Mink Coat
By tho Associated Prow
I SOMEWHERE IN KOREA,
Feb. 23.—Pvt. Phillip L. Haw
| kins of Franklin, Ind., a hunter
: and trapper in civilian life,
: spotted a familiar track in the
Korean snow recently.
Taking time out from his job
as company clerk at sth Reg
imental Combat Team head
, quarters Pvt. Hawkins rigged a
trap.
He snared the track-maker
and is on his way toward getting
. a genuine Korean mink coat.
i
car or the gasoline credit card.
I don’t know whether he has any
other money than what was left
of the allowance.”
Relations between the O’Con
nell and Mengoni parents were
“more or less cordial ’•’ until I
balked at the marriage,” the
boy’s father said.
In Trenton, Mr. Mengoni said
“my daughter is home with us.
She has been home all week end.
As for the boy, I don’t know
, where he is.
"But I wish we did.”
Durkin and Advisers Begin
Work on Labor Law Revisions
By James Y. Newton
The Eisenhower administra
tion today will attempt to win
at least partial labor and man
agement agreement on changes
to be asked in the Taft-Hartley
labor relations law.
Secretary of Labor Durkin and
15 top representatives of labor,
industry and the public began
I conferences at the Labor De
! partment aimed at development
I of administration policy toward
| Taft-Hartley. Amendment of
{the six-year-old labor law is
i being studied in Congress and
i the White House hopes to sub-
I mit its suggestions on the sub
ject soon.
The 15 men tackling the big
] task are members of the Labor
I Department advisory committee,
j which Mr. Durkin established
| last week at President Eisen
hower’s suggestion. There are
, five representatives each of in
j dustry. organized labor and the
public.
Partial Agreement Hoped.
Mr. Durkin said he was hope
■ ful the labor and management
j officials would be able to agree
j at least partially on changes that
should be made in the Taft-
Hartley law. But even in ad
vance of the conferences some
of the conferees privately were
pessimistic that anything sub
stantial would be accomplished.
Chairman H. Alexander Smith
of the Senate Labor Committee
i said, meanwhile, he is attempt
ing to get agreement between
union and management repre
sentatives on certain changes
both sides concede should be
made.
“My feeling is that we have
in the past gone at it the wrong
way,” Senator Smith said in a
copyrighted interview with the
magazine U. S. News and World
Report. “We started throwing
things around and disagreeing
before we really got our funda
mental areas of agreement laid
down.”
Bargaining May Be Issue.
He said he sees as major areas
of disagreement the question of
Nation-wide bargaining, the
i Taft-Hartley ban on the closed
shop and the provision for
handling emergency strikes.
On the latter point, he said,
it is his feeling “that we haven’t
explored compulsory arbitration
far enough as a last resort in a
national emergency.”
The Taft-Hartley Act is a
national code of conduct tor
labor unions and employers. All
sides generally recognize the
“code” can be improved in the
interests of more harmonious
labor - management relations.
Senator Taft, Reublican, of Ohio,
co-author of the statute, has
introduced bills comprising 15
changes in the law. The House
Labor Committee already is con
sidering amendments, and the
Senate Labor Committee will
swing into action soon.
But the labor unions and em
ployer groups have widely di
vergent views as to changes they
desire. Programs developed by
the AFL and CIO amount to re
peal of Taft-Hartley and re
storation of the earlier labor
law. the Wagner Act, which
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placed no restrictions on unions.
Management groups, on the
other hand, feel that if the law
, is amended, the changes should
. be aimed at tightening the reins
, on the labor unions.
Widely Differing Views.
Represented in Mr Durkin’s
, conference are viewpoints as far
i apart as the poles.
Members of the conference,
expected to last at least a
week, will tackle the problem
! of amending Taft-Hartley in
i “teams.” There will be general
sessions, too, but for the most
part the work will be done by
sub-committees selected on an
individual industry basis.
One “team” which will try,to
reach agreement on what should
be done to the labor law on the
basis of coal industry experience,
will be made up of President
i John L. Lewis of the United
Mine Workers; Harry M. Moses,
president of the Bituminous Coal
1 Operators Association, and an
unnamed public Representative
Paired on another sub-group
with two public members are
Walter P. Reuther, president of
the CIO and the United Auto
Workers; David J. McDonald,
president of the CIO United
Steel Workers; Ben Moreell,
chairman of the Jones & Laugh-
I j lin Steel Co., and Frank Rising,
president of the Automotive and
j Aviation Parts Association.
I I The third "team” brings to
! gether two public members, AFL
' President George Meany. George
1 M. Harrison, head of the AFL
Railway Clerks; David Zeller
-1 bach, San Francisco industrialist
! i and John J. O’Donnell, New
i York City contractor.
! j
Pope Forced to Miss
Lenten Broadcast
Pope Pius XII today apologized
to Catholic school children in
the United States for being un
; able to address them by radio
i as he does each Lent.
In a letter distributed through
| J the National Catholic Welfare
| Conference asking them to sup
j port the Bishops’ Fund for the
] \ Victims of War, he said:
I “This year the influenza, or
, | as you so often call it the “flu,”
| has found its way even into the
1 Vatican here in Rome, and We,
j like so many of you, have had
, to stay in bed for a while in or
der to get well and strong again.
That is why the doctors say that
this year We should not speak
to you over the radio.”
Calling for aid to foreign chil
i dren, he said, “Too many of them
! still are hungry and cold and
j homeless. Too many still need
): medicines and vitamins and
. milk. Too many, just your age,
have to wear clothes that do not
. protect their little bodies from
the wind and rain and the cold.
And now, just lately, because of
the terrible floods in Holland
and England and Belgium, many
more thousands of children have
lost their homes and everything
, they once had.”
Gen. Bradley Blasts
Idea That America
Is in World War 111
By tho Associated Pross
WINTER PARK, Fla., Feb. 23.
—Gen. Omar Bradley calls
tricky, false and danegrous the
j slogan “let’s face the facts—
we’re already in World War HI."
The chairman of the Joint
Chiefs of Staff said ‘T hope we
can develop a better slogan be
fore we become victims of this
false one.”
“If we were in World War in
right now,” he said in a speech
yesterday at Rollins College,
“neither you nor I would have
; time to sit here and talk about
it. As a matter of fact, we would
not be here to talk.”
He continued we should “get
a straighter line on what we are
actually in—a tough period of
tension not of our own choos
ing.”
“I have absolute faith in the
patience and steadfastness of
Americans,” Gen. Bradley said,
“and I know that we can prove
to our allies that we are not a'
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replaced by wood at a cost of
$25,000, the repair chief at the
station said today.
1 ! The wood floor will remain in
place until next summer. It was
1 said that it will take that long
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