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Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1951-03-13
Snow Today At
Cincinnati

CINCINNATI, MARCH 13 =
(AP)-Winter paid a return visit
to the Cincinnati area today
bringing snow and one traffic
fatality.
Mrs. Agnes Tschida, 72, was
killed by a truck on an east
end street. Frank Hodge, 81, driv-
er of the truck, said he was un-
able to see the woman in the
early morning darkness because
of the heavy snow and her dark
clothing.
The wet snow made driving
conditions hazardous in some hill
ly section of the Cincinnati area
but main thoroughfares quickly
cleared of the slush.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1951-03-13
e our
"a town y !
cops

Have made my last Sat
urday trip to Columbus. Like
so many unsuspecting visitors,
it was my bad luck to park in
a restricted zone and my car
was towed away. Now, this
fact is bad enough but quite
proper since police regulation
must be met with but what
happened after that is an
other story. Here it is:-
Having long been conscious
of Mayor Rhodes insistence
that Columbus Is just about
the friendliest place on earth,
it is naturally assumed that
some Of this "friendliness"
would rub off on the vaunted
Columbus police. Let me say
here and now that this is not
the case. At least, it is not
the case with a certain desk
sergeant with the rather
quaint name of S. B. Miller.
Armed with my car keys,
license number and a COM
plete description of my auto
mobile, l presented myself be-
fore the glowering sergeant
only to be asked if / had
my registration card, title,
motor number, drivers license
and other pertinent data.
Unfortunately, I had come
away from home without my
wallet and this fact served
to provide the sergeant with
enough ammunition to berate
me for about twenty minutes.
You know how it goes
I'VE can't release cars to
people we don't know" I'VE
don't care who you are,
'Whaddaya think this is etc
etc" Nothing / could say
would appease this GREAT
MAN. The fact that I knew
my car was gone and that |
knew the license number and
everything about the car and
even had the keys to same in
my pocket, did not even rate
q civil answer.
BY and by, after I had
made several telephone calls,
the GREAT MAN allowed me
to go to my car and bring
forth my license registration,
but not before informing me
that he didn't HAVE to do it.
After paying a total of s8
in penalties for my uncon-
scious mistake and with. fur
thcr references to my charac-
ter, the GREAT MAN mag
unanimously allowed me to
proceed. The time consumed
in this asinine negotiation
was a mere two hours. In di-
recting me to the police lot
this sterling character asked
me if i knew WHERE the
Broad street bridge was and
/, of course said, No This
answer did not help matters
in the least, ! can assure you,
hut, then, a simple question
deserves a simple answer and
same could not be resisted.
There seems to be a kind of
Illustration among certain
stalwart law enforcers which
causes them to enjoy making
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1951-03-13

others miserable just for the
sake of having the authority
to do same. Oh yes, he was
RIGHT, alright! There's no
argument about that. But,
like said, I've made my last
trip to Columbus except to
pass through. ! don't mind
the eight bucks but the extra
CUFF isn't worth eighty.
"A little courtesy goes >
long way but blunt discount
esy goes on forever. We won
der how many other unfor-
tunate souls are made to toll
crate this kind of treatment.
III you 90 TO Columbus don't
park In the wrong place--bet-
ter stilI--don't 90 to eolum-
bus at all.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1951-03-13
Beef Cattlemen
To Convene Here

The Madison County beef cattle
feeder meeting has been scheduled
for Thursday March Is in the
basement of the Court House,
London, according to John Moore
County Agricultural Agent.
A small group of beef cattle
men met Wednesday evening,
March 7, at the Extension Office,
and discussed possibilities of beef
cattle improvement program in
the county, which would possibly
cooperate with the State Wide
Beef Cattle Feeders Organization.
The group elected Marion Meats
of Mt. Sterling as temporary
chairman and voted to schedule
the meeting on the evening of
March Is, and invite all beef cat
tie men in Madison County to this
meeting at which time, if agreed
by the group, they would elect
officers and make more definite
plans for the beef program in
Madison County.
H. w. Rogers, Manager of the
Madison County Agricultural Ex-
pertinent Farm will attend the
meeting to discuss the beef cat
tie feeding work at the farm the
last several years, including the
value Of corn cobs in beef ration,
plus the new grass silage expert
ment started this year.
Mr.. Rogers work in beef cat
tie feeding is recognized nation
wide. The meeting Is open to all
farmers interested in beef cattle
production.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1951-03-13
Granville Man
Admits Forgery
OF Sale Checks
Checks Ranging From
1915 To SLIPS Given
At Sales. Deputy Says

George n. McMiIIen, 20 of
Granville, o., Route I, was
apprehended Saturday even
ing at II pm. at his home
and confessed TO Madison
County Deputy Sheriff Rob-
ert Allison and Sheriff Jay
Mckeefer, Champaign county,
to issuing forged checks.
According to Deputy Al
Iison, McMiIIen had been op-
Grating at farm sales and
purchasing property with
checks signed with fictitious
names. The checks ranged
from S576 to s1fe5.
He started operations April
IL, 1850, when he went to a farm
sale in Logan county and pur-
a tractor. He paid for this
with a check for S1195 issued on
the Central National Bank Lon
don. lie attended another sale in
Ashland county June 80, 1850
and made purchases amounting to
1885. This check was issued on
the Farmers Bank Plain City.
At the w. P. Noble sale near
Bloomingburg, December IL, he
purchased three cows and paid
S1075 for them with a check on
the Huntington National Bank,
Columbus.
The middle of February ap-
proximately he attended a sale in
Champaign county. and issued
checks ON the Farmers Bank OF
Plain City for his purchases.
Deputy Allison and Sheriff Nc.
Keefer located all the property
purchased with the forged checks
with the exception of one COW.
McMillen was returned tc
Champaign County with Sheriff
McKeefer and is being held ii
the county JAIL
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1951-03-13
South Charleston
Woman Dies Sunday

Mrs. Winnie Brandenburg But
cher, II, native of Clark Coun-
ty, died at / a. m. Sunday in
Mercy Hospital following a long
illness. Mrs. Butcher was born
Nov. 8, 1879. and had resided in
the South Charleston area her en-
tire life.
Her husband, John r. Butcher.
died in January Of 1919. Mrs.
Butcher was a member Of the
Methodist Williams Chapel.
The body was taken to the
Sprague funeral home. Sonff4
Charleston, where friends may
call from Monday evening until
time for services at ! p.ms Tues
day Burial in Greenlawrl Gene
terry.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1951-03-13
Two Ohio Lepers
Sent TO Hospital

COLUMBUS, O.. MARCH 13 -
(AP)-Ernest Goolsby, Ohio Pen
itentiary convict and Mechor Cor
tez, of Port Clinton-both lep-
rosy cases, were flown Saturday
to the u. S. Marine Hospital at
Carville, La, the state Depart
ment of health said today.
Gov. Frank j. Lausche commut-
ed Goolsby's l to 20-year sentence
So he could receive treatment.
Cortez, a native Texan of Mexican
extraction, had his case diagnosed
as leprosy in mid-February, but
was allowed to remain at his
home in Ottawa County.
Both men were flown to Baton
Rouge from Lockbourne Army
Air Base in an Ohio National
Guard plane.
The State Pardon and Parole
Commission announced today that
Goolsby had been paroled from
Ohio Penitentiary. The governors
c0mnutauon MADE the parole
possible.
The Commission said the parole
was on the condition that Gools-
by stay at carville until he is re-
leased by the commission.
Goolshy had been serving his
penitentiary sentence for shoot
ing to wound. He was found to be
q leper BY an Ohio State univer-
sity medical student who had been
doing routine physical exanina-
tons of new inmates.
The disease had affected the
nerves and bones of both feet
and certain muscles Of GoolSby's
: hand.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1951-03-13
Farmers Club To
Hear OF Europe

Mr.. and Mrs Herbert Harper,
Of Lafayette. will tell of their
European trip last summer, at
the meeting of the Madison Coun-
ty Farmers Club Thursday. March
is. Tap dancing numbers will be
presented by Nancy Ann Taylor
and Marilyn Miller
The program will follow the
dinner at 1890.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1951-03-13
ALLIED TROOP PLUNGE
AIMS FOR ENEMY BASE.
az oIen clements


TOKYO, MARCH IL -(AP) -
Allied troops today hurled three
pronged spearhead at the heart
OF Chinese Red resistance in
Korea.
The center prong stabbed to
within five miles OF Hongchon, a
a huge communist troops marshal
ling point and once reported to be
Chinese general headquarters.
Red rear guard fighting stiff
fened, limiting the communists
would make. last-ditch stand be-
fore Hongchon, an important
highway town. Allied field officers
expected a counterattack from
the Red staging area.
British, Canadian and Austral-
ian troops advanced to within five
miles of Hongchon from the south
They were % miles south of the
38th parallel. That is the north
ernmoSt advance of the current
dlAtr0 AfldJOA OllcIlSlNG.
The y. S. First Cavalry and the
u. S First Marine Divisions drove
on the Red supply ceRter from the
southwest and southeast Th e
cautiously advancing Marines
were reported about six miles
from Hongchon. The cavalrymen
were reported about seven miles
southwest of the town.
On the right side of the TO
mile United Nations front, Red
resistance evaporated suddenly.
Allied troops quickly captured
towering Mount Taemi, a mile
high vantage point. Not a shot
was fired.
Seizure of the commanding
peak straighted out the east-cen-
tral front. H was dented five
miles last week by a ferocious
Korean Red counterattack.
Front line officers said there
was no danger OF future buck
ling of the line in that sector
1t. Gen. Matthew B, Ridgway
u S Eighth Array Commander
told war correspondents that UN
forces have. let lot Of air on
Of the inflated balloon of tn,
Chineses military establishments.
In six days the. grinding alliec
offensive has killed or wounded
about $4,000 communist troops.
Ridgway said the ratio of com
munist casualties to u. N. losse:
was wen over so to l.
The commander said 1T would
be tremendous victory for the
United Nations if the Korean
war ended at the 38th parallel
The parallel was the pre-war di.
viding line between Red Nortt
and Republican South Korean
Ridgway said also that new
American troops are appearing ir
Korea as requirements for com.
bat veterans. He called it the be.
ginning of a greatly increased
flow of requirements"
The Chinese nationalists de.
fense ministry reported from Tia,
ipei that heavy losses have forcec
the Chinese communists to order
more than 100000 more troops Il
Korea, including a whole new
army.
The Taipei statement said the
Reds decided to send 10000 mer
of their second field army, dis
patched 10000 "irregulars," anc
had another 10000 waiting to go
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1951-03-13
Take Exams

Madison County men who went
to Ft. Hayes, Columbus for phys
ical examination Monday morn
ing. were, Harold Brady and Rob-
ert Forrest, West Jefferson: Jesse
Hicks. Mt Sterling; Marcus r..
George. Sunbury. Charles r. VIII
son, Canoya Wilson and George
Shoaf, all of London.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1951-03-13
Snow Here

Eondon's spring-like weather
reverted to winter Tuesday. Snow
began falling with the rain short
ly after 1890 pm.
The snowflakes were giant-size,
some appearing as large as half
dollar. Optimistic local residents
believed the snowfall would be
of short duration.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1951-03-13
Bank Robbed
Road Blocks
SetUpHere
KirkersvilIe Bank
Robbed; Gunmen Flee
West On Route 40

Madison County officers, city
police and highway patroimen es-
tabIished road blocks on all prin-
cipal highways in vicinity OF Lon
don Monday morning when band
its who robbed a bank at Kirkers-
vile, Ohio, were reported trying
to make getaway west on Route
40.
COLUMBUS, o., MARCH 13-
fAP) - Police today rated the
two men who robbed the Kirkers-
vile Savings Bank as rank am
ateurs at that type of a holdup
The pair escaped with $180
Monday morning shortly before
the bank was due to open. Later
they escaped police who had set
up road block near the eastern
limits of Columbus by wheeling
around and out-racing a police
car.
COLUMBUS, O., MARCH 12-
(AP)- TWO men robbed the
KirkersviiIe Savings Bank this
morning (s:45 A. M at kirkers-
vile, Licking County, % miles
east of Columbus.
They fled in an automobile, head
ing toward Columbus on u. S.
Route DO
The Ohio Highway Patrol threw
up roadblocks, and Columbus po-
lice were alerted.
First reports said the men took
an undetermined amount of silver
but no paper money.
One robber invaded the bank
while the other stayed in the
car. The car bore a license plate
stolen last Friday from Richard
Singer, an apprentice at the Gro
well-Collier Publishing Company
in Springfield.
The Licking County Sheriff's
office said one of the robbers was
about IS years old. five feet, ten
inches tall, and weighted 16C
pounds. The only information
available on his accomplice was
that he was about five feet, six
inches tall, and wore light coat
Bank officials would not dis
close the amount of money taken,
pending a check by the FBI.
Several hours after the hold
up, officials said the robbers got
$3.50.
Cashier Treasurer George A.
Shank started to enter the bank
as the gunman of the bank-rob-
bing duo came up. The gunmen
showed q revolver and said:
This is a holdup. Keep quiet
and get inside"
The gunman didn't gain en-
trance to the bank vault. He
forced Shank and Mrs. Louise
Emswiler. a bank employe, into q
rear washroom and locked the
door.
The two employees broke out
and sounded the alarm in a few
minutes.
An hour and a half after the
holdup, an automobile, identified
tentatively as that of the robbers
was spotted at the eastern edge
of Columbus.
The car turned south, and soon
nearly 20 police, highway patrol
and sheriff's cruisers began
searching the southeastern section
of the city. Additional roadblocks
were thrown up at several points.
State highway patrolmen said
the two men came into Columbus
on Route is. In trying to escape
police road blocks. they were seen
along Bixby Road, which is state
route Isl; Livingston Avenue and
Hamilton Road.
Police said road block net
work has been thrown up in Ian.
caster and Delaware and Pick
away counties.
One of the holdup men, said po.
lice, is carrying a nickel-plated re-
volver.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1951-03-13
DEMONSTRATION
PLANNED HERE

The Madison County Swine
Committee is sponsoring a meat
type hog car load grading demon
stration Friday. March If, at the
Producers Stock Yards in London.
Ohio. Swine men in Madison
County interested in observing the
demonstration may attend. &C
cording to John Moore. County
Agent.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1951-03-13
Action On Roof
Saves Home As
Flames Threaten
Family Away When
Mo+orist Discovers
Fire Sunday p. m.

Except for the heroic efforts of
the London Prison Farm and West
Jefferson Firemen, aided by vol
unteers, the horne of Mr.. and
Mrs. James r. Eittler, near Plum
wood, on Route 80 nine miles
north OF London, would today be
in ashes along with the barn
destroyed by fire Sunday
This was the opinion expressed
Monday by Mr. Litter, who with
members Of his family were away
from home. attending church and
visiting in Raymond. Ohio, when
the barn burned early Sunday
afternoon. The loss was estimated
by Mr.. Littler at $4,000 partly
covered by insurance.
Origin of the fire was undeter-
mined, but was believed to have
started from one or both of fwo
hog brooders or from defective
wiring,
Flames and smoke coming from
the barn We're first discovered by
p w Jackson, Route 3, Marys-
vile, who chanced to be driving
by the LittIer home.
First on Scene
Mr. Jackson and John Adels-
berger, and Russell Lightle of
London were the first to arrive on
the scene and turned in the alarm
to West Jefferson and the Prison
Farm.
"A high wind famed the fire
which was quickly out Of control.
Flames and burning embers we're
blown toward the Littler home.
and ignited the roof Of the house
Ffremen extinguished the fire III
the roof and once had to cut
through into the attic of the
house to get at the fire.
''Eiow they saved the house,
I'll never Know Mr. Litter
declared. q
"The house is between the
barn and a tree and that
tree caught afire and parts
of it burned off and fell to the
ground. Yet they saved the
house." he explained. II
can't say enough to thank
them aIlo
A Columbus man, early on the
scene, drove out the Monroe
school bus stored in the barn. A
Ford tractor also in the barn
was saved by another fire-ffghter.
The tires of the tractor were part
ly burned, it was reported Hogs
in the barn were also saved.
The $4,000 loss on the barn
included an estimated eight tons
of hay and straw and large
quantity of small tools and other
equipment, which Mr.. Litter
said would today be difficult to
itemize A small truck near the
harm also burned
A number of smaller buildings
near the barn were damaged by
the fire, but were saved through
efforts of the firemen and the vol
unteer fire fighters who soon join
ed in efforts to save the house.
Grass near the barn ignited
and burned toward the house.
Fire also ignited the grass on the
opposite side of the road. t
Firemen Hurt 4
Lewis Wetzel, assistant chief
of the West Jefferson Fire De-
partment, reported two of the
firemen were injured slightly in
fighting the fire
Steve Chenos of the West JEFF
ferson Department suffered in
jury to his left foot when he
stepped on a nail and Martin
Price of the prison farm depart
ment suffered a cut finger. They
were treated at the scene by State
Highway Patrolmen.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1951-03-13

Auditor Begins
4-Ye ar Term

Forrest r. Hanson was sworn
into office as auditor of Madison
County Monday morning by Judge
Roscoe G. Hornbeck. His term
of office is for four years.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1951-03-13
LEAVES HOSPITAL

Mrs. w. v. Scott, East First ST.,
who has been in White Cross Hos
pital. Columbus, for the last
month. has been removed to the
home Of her sister ct T29 Ninth
Street, Portsmouth, Ohio
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1951-03-13
BROTHER DIES

Noah Jenkins Of Kits Hill,
Lawrence County. died Saturday
at his home. lie was brother of
Rufus Jenkins, South Solon.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1951-03-13
Weather

Snow Ground three 70 four
inches in southwest, ond rain
changing 70 snow in east ond
north portions tonight. Snow
"Wednesday. Colder except in
extreme southwest portion.
Low fonighf 20 southwest.
and near q eosf and north
portions.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1951-03-13

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Evening star., 1951-06-06
Wallace Denies Telling Chang
Of u. S. Communist Patriotism

part OF the record" that Mr.. Wal
lace tried to bring the Chinese
Nationalists and Communists to-
gether in a coalition government
in 1884,
"That is not true" he said.
What Roosevelt tried to do was
to bring about unity of effort to
defeat the japanese. I made it
repeatedly clear to Chang in 1914
that the United States Govern
ment was not interested in the
Chinese Communists but in the
prosecution Of the war against
the Japanese"
At that time Mr.. Wallace was
in China as a special emissary of
President Roosevelt.
you quote from John Carter
Vincent's report on my converse
tions !. to the effect that I said
the American Communists were
taking a patriotic attitude >
Mr.. Wallace wired.
Either John Carter Vincent's
report of my conversation with
Chang conveys a false impression
or my original language was moi
sufficiently clear"
Evening star., 1951-06-06
BY the Assoeiaied Press

Former Vice President Henry
Wallace Yesterday denied that he
told Chang Kai-shek that Ameri-
can Communists were taking a
patriotic attitude in 1914.
What I actually said" Mr..
Wallace stated In a telegram to
Senator Knowland. Republican, Of
California, "was that the Ameri-
can Communists were going all
out to support the war effort in
the United States against Ger
many and Japan, and I could not
see why the Chinese Communists
should not be as eager to defeat
the Japanese as the American
Communists"
Senator Knowland made the
text of the telegram public with
out comment. 1t was read into
the record Of the hearing this
morning.
In the telegram, Mr.. Wallace
said that Senator Knowland, in
cross-examining Defense Secre-
tary Marshall and Secretary ot
State Acheson in the Macarthur
hearings, "endeavored to make il
Evening star., 1951-06-06

command function was given to
the United States. yes, sir.
Senator Gillette-And it is also
your Interpretation that the Unit
led States without an interposition
'of the Security Council or it's
agents can change the character
of the war, can expand the war
or contract the war in any way
1T sees fit, subject only to report
OF what it has done.
Secretary Acheson-I don't make
that contention at all, sir. have
said that what the United States
has been trying to do was -.
to assist the Republic Of Korea
in defending itself against armed
attack.
Now the military aspects of that
campaign fall under the command
direction, and if it becomes nee
essary in the military conduct Of
the war to move here or there or
respond to this or that attack,
then the command has that au-
thorlty.
Seeks Support of All.
Senator Gillette-Then why, Mr..
Secretary. did you when you were
contemplating the question of hot
pursuit, when you were contem-
Iplating the question of blockade,
take it up with the other ma
lions? -.
Secretary Acheson-Well, it is
very important that in carrying
out this campaign we have the
enthusiastic and warm support
of all those who are taking part
in it. -.
Senator Gillette-Do we have,
in your Interpretation, the author
Iity to take action to close the Ko-
rean war without submitting it to
the United Nations? -.
Secretary Acheson II should
think the Unified Command
would have the right, if it wished
to, to bring about an armistice.
I think it has that right. -.
I think that the United States,
as the military command, would
consult in the closest possible way
with its colleagues in this opera
ton before making proposals
about an armistice or before &C
cepting proposals regarding an
armlstice which have been put
forward by the other side.
Evening star., 1951-06-06

pressed ideals far too often pro-
vide a cloak for realistic thieving
and graft.
ITO fight communism China
needed well-fed and disciplined
troops equipped with small arms
and ample ammunition, COM
manded by officers themselves dis
ciplined and convinced they were
fighting in a sound cause, for a.
government that would meet its
commitments of supply and sup
port, and committed to restora-
ton of normal life and trade for
the populace.
Areas Treated as Colonies.
Instead the Nationalist gov
ernment's policy since VJ-day in
Manchuria and North China has
been treatment of these areas as
virtual colonies. Trade and COM
merce have been stif1ed, the peo-
pie taxed numerically and swim
died out Of their reserve holdings
of merchandise, bullion and for
eign currencies, had forced upon
them the burden of unwanted So
called armies of liberation (ac-
tually occupation) most of whom
were virtually foreigners coming
from the south, ill-fed, poorly
clothed. and commanded by off,
GERS with a single-minded objec-
tive (from generals DOWN of
as much personal wealth
as possible.
Armies lived off the country,
thus engendering the hatred of
the people who had looked to be
liberated from the ravages of ban
ditry, strife since prior to the
Japanese occupation. In isolated
cases where Nationalist troops did
successfully fight Communists the
government failed to make good
its promises of bonus pay and