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237 Member Audit Bureau of Circulation MATTOON, ILLINOIS, MONDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 27, 1952 Member, Associated Press All Phones 5656 Price 5 Heavy Damage in Coles Farm Fires Lewis Orders Miners Back to Work Hundreds Of Scene of Allenville Freight Train Mishap (-G Staff Photos) An Illinois Central freight train plowed into the rear of 8. second IC freight on the Peoria, Decatur and Evansville branch line at Allenville Saturday and (at top) this is what happened. H. Wayne Johns, 33, a brakeman, suffered second and third degree burns when steam lines broke in the above locomotive. Two other crewmen were less seriously hurt.

Johns is seported in "good" condition at Memorial Hospital where he is being treated. At top, workmen begin clearing the wood rubble, all that was left of the caboose on the lead train. Notice the tracks at right, running perpendicular to the engine. Fire broke out Saturday afternoon in a freight car being removed from the track. Cutting torches set afire paper in the car, and workers were still combatting the flames Saturday night when the lower photograph was taken.

The Mattoon fire department helped fight the fire earlier but the blaze was brought under control rapidly. However, it continued to burn for hours and required constant vigilance. Eisenhower Await Answer Stands Pat On Of Russia On Korean Views Korea Truce By RELMAN MORIN By A. I. GOLDBERG ABOARD EISENHOWER SPECIAL IN PENNSYLVANIA (A)Gen.

Dwight D. Eisenhower, opening his final drive of the election campaign, said today he will not be turned aside by any criticism from the view that South Korean troops should man the major portion of the battleline in Korea against the Communists. He told a Philadelphia crowd jammed into the Pennsylvania Rail. road's 30th Street Station that he holds this view "entirely aside from any political Police Commissioner Thomas Gibbons estimated the crowd at about 4,000 persons. If the United States is to live in freedom and peace with the rest of the world.

it must do SO through cooperation, Eisenhower said. And 50, in Korea, he went on, the population that wants to defend itself must not be denied the self -respecting right of contributing its utmost. He struck at the Democrats saying it seems strange that charges of bigotry are being raised in this campaign. "I deplore every single kind of argument, charge or false assertion that is brought, forward to acouse 'me or with this most evil of all crimes in our daily lives," he asserted. "As we move into this last week of the political campaign we may expect new barrages of charges from every corner," the general said.

After a full day today in Pennsylvania, the general planned to return to New York for an intensive sweep through the city and its populous suburbs Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. Another appearance in Chicago has been set for next Friday and there was a possibility he might go from there to California. 'He is scheduled to. be in next Monday; the day before the election. His strategy in the closing stages of the campaign.

appeared to be to make the Korean War the foremost issue. His, advisers consider Democrats are more vulnerable on that question than on any other. Elks Clinic Charleston, Oct. 29, 1952, 9 a. m.

at Christian church. All old and nay gases welcome 10-27 From Other Cents Acres Seared Move Follows Conference With Truman WASHINGTON (AP) John. L. Lewis ordered coal miners back to work today while it is decided whether the miners may have. $1.90 a day pay increase which the industry has agreed to.

The Wage Stabilization Board trimmed the rise to $1.50, 1 holding that a higher boost would violate the government's anti-inflation program. Lewis telegraphed the back -towork message after promising President Truman his "cooperation" at hastily summoned 24-minute meeting Sunday night. Truman invited Lewis to the White House Sunday night and made the request. Lewis promised co-operation. Immediately after this conference, the President left on his final political campaign tour.

The industry. and the union have Jointly appealed the decision of the Wage Board. Their appeal is to Roger Putnam, Economic Stabilization director, who has authority to overrule Board decisions. Associates of Lewis have made it plain 1 that he expects the full pay raise will be approved in a day or two. Lewis' telegram said it will require "a reasonable time" for a decision on the recent coal pay hike negotiated by and the industry.

Lewis' action followed a direct appeal to the UMW chieftain by PresIdent Truman. Immigration Law Needs Changing Says McGranery WASHINGTON (AP) -Atty. Gen. James P. McGranery said today that the new immigration law which becomes effective Dec.

24 is badly in need of change and qualification. The attorney general listed what he regards as defects in the statute in an appearance before the Commission of Immigration and Naturalization. The Commission was recently created by President Truman to analyze the law and provide advice on how it should be administered. The group, headed by former Solicitor General Philip P. Pearlman, has held a number of hearings in Ocher parts of the country.

As head of the Justice Department, McGranery noted thah he is the official chiefly responsible for enforcement of the statute, adopted by the last congress and known as the McCarran Act. McGranery said the law, which was supposed to codify all existing immigration regulations and add new provisions, is full of ambiguities. He said it suffers from faulty arrangement of sections, making intricate cross references necessary to determine what the rules are. Two Escape From Pontiac Prison (AP) police manned road blocks along Illinois' major downstate highways today in an effort to recapture two convicts who escaped from the Illinois State Prison here late Sunday night. Warden Ross Randolph Identfled the men as Walter Molander, 35, of Rockford, and Joseph Goleman, 36, of Chicago.

Both were patients in the tuberculosis ward at the prison hospital, Randolph said The warden said a third patient, Stanley Lapa, 40, also escaped from his hospital ward but was apprehended before he could scale the prison wall. How Molander and Golman made good their escape was not immediately known. Delta Theta Tau Free Marionette Show Washington School, Monday, Oct. 27, 7:30. Free will offering for hospital fund.

10-27 Help Wanted Experienced kitchen help, apply in person after 1 p. m. at Villa Nova. 10-27 Change of Hours The Subway Pharmacy, formerly the Frank J. Ritter Drug Co.

will be open top 9. 8 2. Med Red Artillery Fire Drives Yanks Back By STAN CARTER SEOUL, Korea (AP) Punishing Red artillery fire tonight drove U.S. Marines off the crest of "The Hook" a few hours after they recaptured the western ridgeline in bitter closequarter fighting. A marine officer at the front said the Leathernecks pulled back from the crest and forward slopes at 8:55 p.

m. There was no indication whether the Chinese Communists moved up to occupy the high ground. The Reds earlier had attacked with 2,000 men along a three-mile front. The marine officer said "the Communists made only 8 small penetration in our line. It was contained and never got out of hand." Main target was The Hook and marine outposts along a three-mile sector to the north.

The Hook "is about 10-12 miles east of Panmunjom, site of the recessed armistice talks. The Leathernecks of the U. S. First Marines rolled with the punch, then started a series of counterattacks that carried them back to the top. A staff officer told AP correspondent Milo Farneti the Leathernecks forced back the Communist battalion (500 to 750 men) which had seized one end of the Hook, killing an estimated 300 Reds.

Farneti said the Reds and Leathernecks "at times were actually wrestling in the trench lines." By nightfall the Marines had recaptured, all but two or three outposts guarding the Hook. The Communists Sunday knocked a hole in the U. N. lines and seized one end of "The Hook," a mile-long ridge northeast of Panmunjom. The Red attack opened with a thunderous artillery barrage.

Then about 2,000 Chinese swarmed across the three-mile front. They overran three of five Allied outposts guarding the fish hook-shaped ridge. The Marines withdrew from two positions. There has been no report from the third outpost since the Chinese swarmed over the top. The Marines counterattacked at 9 p.

m. and fought up a trench atop "The Hook" during the night. Allied tanks and planes moved in to support a second counterattack shortly after noon Monday. The Communist advance marked the first Red penetration to the key ridge since Allied forces seized it months ago. The main Red blow was seven miles northeast of Allied-held Bunker Hill, where bloody fighting raged earlier this fall.

A staff officer said there was no action on Bunker itself. Close Election In Prospect NEW YORK (AP) The sixth weekly New York Times presidential campaign survey, published today, indicates a close election with a week swing" likely to decide the outcome. The newspaper bases its reports correspondents' talks with political leaders, local and statewide polls and personal surveys. The Times said: Reports from correspondents indicate that Gen. Dwight D.

Eisenhower, Republican presidential nominee, is reasonably certain to carry 10 states with 69 electoral votes. Gov. Adla! E. Stevenson, the Democratic standard-bearer, seems equally sure to carry nine states with 92 electoral votes. Eisenhower leads in 16 other "doubtful" states with 195 electoral votes.

Stevenson leads in seven apparently doubtful "states with 102 electoral votes. Six states with 73 electoral votes were classed as toss-ups. The- total number of electoral votes is 531 with 266 required for election of a president, Republican Dinner rally at 6 p.m., Masonic Temple, tonight, bring covered dish table service. Program will be interrupted at 8:30 for the broadcast of Senator speech. Public invited.

10-27, Grant Democratic Rally. Hear local and district candidates on Oct. 28, 8:00 p. m. at the school.

Free refreshments, 10-27 Fires Ravage Drought-Hit Farm Lands (-G Staff Photo). Numerous farm fires today and during week- caused untold damage throughout Coles county. One of the most spectacular cut a swath three-fourths of a mile long and a half-mile wide through farms of P. E. Newby, Everett Hildreth and the Scott farm approximately a mile southeast of the Monroe School shows the fire still smouldering but south of the Old State Road.

The from the road. The fire seemed to sing crossing. The top view, looking east, under control along the first road lower photo is looking directly north follow a bone-dry creek bed, spread. outward. Air Force Sets Stevenson In New Policy for Hard Drive For Peace Planes Eastern Vote By ELTON FAY WASHINGTON (AP) The Air Force is leaving to its pilots and overseas commanders the decision of what to do if Soviet fighters again attack American planes flying peaceable missions over nonRussian territory.

A USAF spokesman made it plain today, in answer to questions, that the crews of a plane, like the B29 shot down by Russian fighters over Japanese waters on Oct. 7, has the right to fire back in self-defense. Another answer by the spokesman indicated the Air Force now is ready to cope with any such attacks by Soviet fighters by assigning fighter -plane escort when needed. The spokesman said, "Day-to-day tactical considerations dictate whether escort is provided." This double-barreled self -defense program- apparent blanket authority for plane crews to protect themselves and for commanders to assignfighter escort when needed- -seems directly related to the formal note sent to Russia by the State Department Oct. 17.

That note protesting the Oct. 7 incident and demanding compensation for the loss of the B29 and the eight men aboard, urged the "Soviet government seriously to consider the grave consequences which can flow from its reckless practice, if persisted in, of attacking without provocation the aircraft of other states." Apparently, one grave consequence could be the failure of Russian fighters to return to base after an attack on American aircraft. During the last two years Soviet interceptor planes have made a number of deadly, or alarmingly close attacks on United States aircraft. The first serious incident occurred in 1950, shortly after the outbreak of the Korean War, when Red planes shot down an American navy plane over international waters in the Baltic Sea. Illinois Quarterback Club Tuesday, 7:30 p.

I. 0. 0. F. Hall, 1712 Charleston, 3rd floor, Il- linois vs.

Purdue. Membership available at door. 10-28 Film Developing 1 day service, Arcade Drugs, By Flames By Flames Fire raged through fields of the Ohm farm five miles south of Mattoon and west of U. S. Highway 45 this afternoon.

The blaze was reported dangering adjoing property. Chest Fund Aids Salvation Army's Work During the past year. were you ever hungry and without means to obtain food? Or were you ever in a strange city and had no place to sleep? Or in this city and no way to go to your destination? Or did you want for clothes and shoes to keep you warm? Probably not, but there were more than 300 persons wanting one or all of the above things in Mattoon during the past year. They were helped, thanks to the Salvation Army. And if you gave to last year's Community Chest fund drive, you can feel you had a part.

But the Army has turned again to the public, its source of supply, to carry on its campaign against need during the coming year. The SA will receive $4,900 of this year's $22,955 Red Feather goal here, an increase of $900 over last year's quota. Helping transients is only one front on which the Army workers battle. They also wage a campaign of spiritual character building and family relief and welfare. Major Charles Mahr commands the local Salvation Army work.

"The Salvation Army workers are consecrated to minister to people's material and spiritual needs, regardless of race, creed or color," says Major Mahr. "Our slogan is 'With Heart to God and Hand to Man, Marching on Towards a Better In its work, the Army conducted 540 senior and youth meetings in Mattoon during the past years, and some 750 visits were made to homes in spiritual and family welfare work. The job of the Salvation Army here has become increasingly during the past two years, with an, of 300 per cent in family welfare and relief. Major Mahr said increased sickness and the high cost of living have been responsible for the increase in welfare and relief work. During the past year the local Salvation Army gave 238 grocery orders to families in dire need, 32 fuel orders, 7,000 garments, 455 pairs of shoes and 219 articles of furniture.

Three families who lost their homes in fires received considerable help and some 6,000 loaves of bread and other food items contributed by local groceries and bakeries were distributed. The world-wide organization of the Salvation Army is well known. It has worked through the wars in aiding servicemen away from home. Yet, only 10 per cent of the Army's local Chest quota goes into state and national funds. Your gift to the Chest keeps the Salvation Army at the front battling poverty and misfortune.

UNITED NATIONS, N. Y. (AP) The United Nations Assembly rounds out: its second week today on a note of nervous expectancy, hoping but doubtful that Russia will give the word to break the Korean truce talks deadlock. A pronouncement by Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Vishinsky, before the scheduled Assembly Political Committee this afternoon could. provide the Russian answer.

But over the week-end Vishinsky kept the U. N. in doubt even on whether he would speak today in answer to the long indictment of Russia in the Korean War, voiced last Friday by U. S. Secretary of State Dean Acheson.

Waiting for Vishinsky, other delegates kept their names off the debate list. The Assembly itself meets again today to decide a new East-West struggle--the clash between U. backed Yugoslavia and Sovietsponsored Czechoslovakia for 8 vacancy on the U. N. Economic and Social Council.

The two deadlocked in 10 ballots Saturday after five other council vacancies were filled quickly. Actress Hattie McDaniel Dies HOLLYWOOD- (P) Actress Hattie McDaniel, the "Beulah" of radio and television and an Academy movie actress, died Sunday of cancer. She was 57. AwardIllness forced her retirement 'from the "Beulah" show more than a year ago. The show continued on radio through use of radio criptions her voice.

Miss McDaniel was the first member of the Negro race to recelve an Academy Award, won in 1939 for portraying Scarlett O'Hata's mammy in "Gone With the Wind." Costumes $1.98, $2.59, $3.19. Clown, cat, Mickey Mouse, Minnie Mouse, TIgers, devils, and many others. F. E. Walters 5 10.

1509 Broadway. 10-27 Notice Dr. A. Leffman, 212 16th will return to his office on Monday, Oct. 27th, 10-27 By DON WHITEHEAD ENROUTE WITH STEVENSON IN NEW ENGLAND (P) Gov.

Adlai Stevenson- -swung into the final and decisive week of the presidential campaign on whirlwind drive to capture the 73 electoral votes of Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island and New York. His crowded schedule included a night address in New York City's Harlem. Both Stevenson and his GOP opponent, Gen, Dwight D. Eisenhower, were slugging it out for the votes of the industrial East in these final days before Nov. 4, Interest in the campaign seemed to be building up the highest peak of all times with no signs of a levelling off in the response by voters.

Stevenson told a group of veterans in Boston Sunday that he hoped they would help find ways of cutting federal spending. "We are in a time now," he said, "from the point of view of the federal budget, of extreme exertion-extreme pressure. I am not sure how long it 1s going to last. Presumably through fiscal 1955. "In.

that interval, we have got to restrain ourselves. I would hope that the veterans might be one of the leaders in ways and means of reducing federal or, at least, in sharply controlling them at a time. like this when the disaster of inflation or over -expenditure strikes evenly. Nobody escapes." Search for Plane Off East Coast MIAMI, Fla. (P) -The Coast Guard continued its search today for GorClauser, 40-year-old Norman, man who reported his plane was running out of fuel, over water east of Miami Saturday night.

Four planes and assorted surface craft carried on the search for Clauser, who may have been the victim of a hurricane he tried to tame with a secret formula. Clauser's wife told the Miami Her. ald by telephone from her home in Norman her husband had come here to fly into. the storm so he could scatter pellets in the turbulent clouds, confident he could stop the hurricane passing east of Florida. Hear H.

J. (Jack) Hasch on WLBH at 4:30 today. 10-27 By RICHARD L. THOMAS (J -G Staff Writer) Hundreds of acres of tinder-dry fields and in Coles county were swept by fire Sunday and today, resulting in thousands of COTE lars damage. At noon today two fires raged in fields near Mattoon.

One fire was in a pasture near the H. G. Bowen home on the Country Club Road. It was extinguished short time later. The other was on the George H.

Rudy farm, south of the General Electric plant here. At least two fires Sunday burried fields of unpicked corn, while near Charleston some 400 acres of brushy; river bottom were destroyed by fire. From an economic standpoint, the most serious fire Sunday be lieved to be on the O. R. Clark farm, some three and a half miles southeast of Mattoon.

Forty acres of corn were destroyed there, and on an adjoining farm tilled, by Gene Overton some 10 acres of alfalfa were also destroyed, All told, some 50 to 55 acres were burned, according to Mrs. Clark. The fire started about 3:30, p. and was brought under control al 5 p. m.

When the fire, which started ditch along the road, reached the cornfield flames swept across the field in 10 minutes, Mrs. Clark said Both the Clark and Overton farm homes and other buildings were threatened by the fire, Quick action by farmers plowing furrows across the field stopped the blaze just short of the Clark home Some 35 men battled the flames with wet sacks. Mrs. Clark the scene where the fire started indicated that one had thrown a cigaret in ditch, Mrs. Clark estimated that 2,000 bushels of corn were destroyed though there was some hope that part of it could be salvaged, About three acres of corn.

on Overton farm also burned. Two other field fires near toon were burning at the same timer A fire started in a ditol near the Phon Newby farm southeast Mattoon and spread to land farmed by Everett, Hildreth and Mr. Scott. The fire burned through corn field in which picking operations had just been completed Friday. Ta moved to a wheat field and stopped.

Volunteers from Mattoon, using wet sacks, helped neighbors fight the blaze. Mrs. Newby said their greatest concern was for some 70 acres of timber, and it was through the forts of the volunteers that the fire was checked before 16 reached the woods. Mrs. Newby hauled milk cans water to the fire scene, "The fire cleaned out the hills and gulleys like someone had swept them," she said.

The fire cleared a path some three quarters of mile long. The other fire was on land farmed by William Bell and Horace Dole, west of Mattoon. The fire started about 11 a. m. and lasted some four hours.

Flames spread through part of 30 acres of corn owned by Bell. Considerable damage was done to standing corn when tractors were driven through the fields to plow furrows. A fence row of trees and a dredge ditch were cleaned out by flames. Some 400 acres of river bottom land burned about six miles south of Charletson, but the fire was checked with slight damage to pastures and fields. Most of the burned area was brush land.

North of Charleston firemen were called to a farm home to help fight a fire that was endangering a farmer's buildings. 'At Greenup a fire in an alley destroyed a shed and spread to house occupied by Kenneth Strong. Greenup firemen extinguished the blaze after some damage had been done to the rear of the house. Meanwhile, Mattoon firemen who helped fight the Clark ton fire were having their busiest time in years. The local fire department has battled 20 fires since Thursday, most of them trash and grass blazes.

Eleven of the fires were Saturday and Sunday. Among them was a grass fire at the Albert Whitley residence, 804 Shelby about 9:45 a. m. Saturday. The blaze spread to outbuildings and caused an estimated $200 damage.

prairie fire on the Harlan Groniger farm, just northeast of the city, was brought under control before it could do much damage. Officers were looking for several at youths. seen setting tire to the field with matches. Sister of Local Resident Dies Special to The Journal -Gazette CHARLESTON, Mrs. Eva Jane Johns, 75, died Sunday in the home of a daughter, Mrs.

Arnold Duckworth in Charleston. She was a sister of Ernie Cox of Mattoon. Mrs. Johns had been ill several months. Funeral services have tentatively been set for 10 a.

m. Thursday. in the Lewis funeral home. Rev. Leo.

K. Ruley will officiate. Burial will be in Whetstone cemetery near Charleston. She was born 16, 1877. She married James W.

Johns Jan. 26, 1899. Surviving relatives in addition to Mrs. Duckworth are five sons, including Harold Duckworth of Casey and two other daughters. IF YOU'LL JUST STOP TO THINK ON NOVEMBER 4, YOU'LL THINK TO STOP, AND VOTE! Sce You at the Polls!.