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Evening star., 1951-12-25
Combat Duty in Korea Turns
Music Student Into Song Write,

the lyrics he wrote about Noreen.
He said he hopes to get hearing
on Songs for Sale," a radio pro-
gram that provides amateur song
smiths a chance to hear their Gre
ations played and sung by profess
sionals.
Meanwhile. Mr.. Fortyune has
been working with his father and
uncle in the furniture repair busi-
ness. His parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Frank I. Fortyune, live at 1929
Savannah street Sc.
And later, he hopes somehow to
resume his studies at Catholic
University and make another try
for his music degree.
Evening star., 1951-12-25

ct Valley, Md. With him are MS
wife, Iris Joan, and two children,
Leanora Sue. 3, and Richard, jr.'
who is 3 months old.
Corpl. Fortyune, who was re-
leased from active duty last No
vember !, almost didn't have the
chance to compose his ballads.
He joined the 5th Regiment OF
the lst Marine Division last
January at Pohang and was lucky
to be alive q month later.
He was in a 6x6 truck with
about IA other men early lr
February, when it slipped from a
mountain road and crashed down
the mountainside. He said the
truck rolled down till it hit tree.
Only he and two others survived
the accident.
He spent three weeks in the hos
pital after that and returned to
duty with his outfit. They pushed
north as far as Chunchon. In
April, Corpl. Fortyune was near
the Han River when he was seri-
ouSly wounded by an enemy gren-
ade. His left arm was broken and
he suffered from conclusion.
Up to the time he was wounded,
Corpl. Fortyune had found time
to compose what he describes as a
torch love song. Before becoming
a Marine, he had completed 212
years of music course at Cath
olic University here.
In the hospital on Japan, there
was more time for music and
lyrics. During his 31a months
there, Corpl. Fortyune was asked
by friend Of his. another wound
ed Marine, to write song about
the friends wife. The corporal
obliged by penning words and
music about a girl named Noreen
"a name he found euphonious
and easy to compose around.
He is going to try to get the
songs published soon, but until
they are copyrighted, Mr.. Forty
une won't release for publication
Evening star., 1951-12-25
Bodies of Three Men
Frozen to Death, Found
by tho Associated Press

By tho Assceiaied Press
ST. PAUL. Dec. 25.-The bodies
Of three men. apparently frozen
to death. were found yesterday In
q garage used as living quarters.
One Of the victims was identi-
fed as Maurice Jackson. about IS
and another as Lester Manning.
about so. The third victim was
not Immediately identified.
The bodies were discovered by
Louis Finn, a druggist. and Joseph
Seltz.
Mr.. Finn told police he had not
seen Mr.. Jackson for several days
and decided to investigate. He
and Mr.. Seltz broke open side
door Of the frame garage and
found the frozen bodies.
Evening star., 1951-12-25

In Korea and
in q hospital
on Japan. He
was on a troop
train som e.
where between
here and the
West Coast. on
the way to
Korea.
Today the "a
ye ear-old ex-
machine gun
ner is spending
a quiet Christ
mas at his
h0poa in podi.
Evening star., 1951-12-25

Last Christmas Day, Marine
Corpl. Richard F. Fortyune was
on his way to a couple Of songs
he was going to run into and write
Evening star., 1951-12-25

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Evening star., 1951-04-25

This view pictures him as a nice
Brooks Brothers type, rich and
well bred. but strictly show win
dow for the CIO. But Walter
Reuther is objecting that he
wanted the labor Mayor of
Grand Rapids, nor was a cour-
tesy offer of the place made to
Mr.. Reuther which had also been
forecast.
Senator Moody could do that
convention job well. He is
famously energetic and his &C
quaintance is vast.
The women delegates could
also be expected to warm up to
his dimples. Up to now, Capitol
guides have reported that the
lady gallery-goers more often
ask who Senator Cabot Lodge.
Jr, Massachusetts, Republican.
is than any other Senator. They
are already saying that they
think the Democrats have a
dream prince in Senator Moody
who could conceivably nose out
Mr.. Lodge. Senator Lodge, in
cldentally, is an ex-newspaper-
man, too.
Senator Moody is a liberal
many of whose colleagues would
have guessed hC was a liberal
Republican. This may be be-
cause he. was naturally very
close to the Michigan Senators
who were so important to his
Detroit paper and they were
Republicans.
Evening star., 1951-04-25
Thomas L. Stokes:
Thomos [. Stokes:
Dissent Todoy-Low Tomorrow
Buchanan Speaks Boldly and Clearly in Public Interest
In Tokine Issue With Big Power and Oil Componies

The dissent of today becomes
the law of tomorrow, it is some
times said. in proof of which
you can point to the dissenters
Of yesterday.
AS, for example, in the field
of social and economic stand
ards. it was the pioneering of
the Fighting Bob" La Toilette
George w. Norris Republican
insurgent dissenterS of the Cen
trail Northwest who paved the
way for the Roosevelt New Deal
and the Truman Fair Deal.
In the field of law, there was
the great dissenter" on the
Supreme Court, Oliver Wendell
Holmes, who blazed the trail
for civil rights and social JUS
tice, finding a mate later in
another outstanding dissenter,
Justice Louis D. Brandeis.
In the field of Federal admin
lstrative law We had dissenter
on the Interstate Commerce
Commission in Joseph w. East
man, who struck at abuses by
the railroads contrary to the
public interest, though his pio-
neering still waits fruition, for
the ICC today is still moribund
and tractable.
1t is always refreshing to see
another diSsenter arise to speak
out bodily and clearly in the
public interest.
So bouquet to Thomas c.
Buchanan. This bluff and
plain-spoken lawyer from Bea-
yer Falls, Pa, who served ably
on his States Public Service
Commission, has become a
valuable dissenter on the Fed
eral Power Commission here.
which is delegated by Congress
to administer regulatory laws
in the field of electric utilities
and natural gas.
Time after time he has stood
up to take issue with powerful
interests which seem to COW
other FPC members, lone dis
senter often in the last few
months. What he says so
frankly in his dissenting opin-
ions ought to be the law of
today Congress was under that
impression when it wrote It.
some Of 1t many years ago.
We can only hope it will be-
come the law of tomorrow.
Not long since the FPC ma
jority authorized a merger of
Colorado Interstate Gas and
Canadian River Gas, but with
ont benefit of an explanation to
the public. Commissioner Bu-
chanan. who thought the mer-
Evening star., 1951-04-25
Korean Battle to Put Policy to T est
New Wave of NeutroIisn' Will Sweep Allied Europe
# U. N. Forces Are Beaten in Biz Red Offensive
Constantine Brown:

Masses of fanatical Chinese,
directed by Russian general staff
officers, are driving hard and
recklessly against United Ma
tions forces in Korea in what
is considered the most momen-
tous offensive yet staged by the
Reds.
With the assurance that the
United Nations will not permit
its air force to molest them in
Manchuria, the Chinese have
been able to concentrate the
largest force yet mustered in
this war. For more than two
months they have been gather
ing new troops, military equip
ment, ammunition dumps and
planes.
While the remnants of the
armies from last winters often
sive shadow-bo and fought
a delaying action against u. N.
troops, several Chinese field
armies were massed under the
noses OF our air force, which
was not allowed, on orders from
Washington. to break up those
concentrations.
Because American ground
forces are thinly spread over
the globe. Washington has been
compelled to use them, SPAR
ingly. We sent seven divisions
to Korea and it is highly un-
likely, in view Of the admins
tration'S definite commitments
to Western Europe, that we can
add anything more than re-
placements to our army there
1t is remarkable that the
Pentagon has been able to send
even some replacements. After
all. the official casualty lists
contain some $1,000 names.
among them more than 20 900
killed or missing. Under these
circumstances the divisions
committed in battle since last
summer have had little chance
to rest.
These overWorked troops now
are brayely meeting a new Of
fensive with fresh and rested
Chinese and possibly some "vol-
unteers," who may be either
Russians or japanese from the
Old kwangtung army.
The administration and its
supporters maintain that the
policy Of forbidding the bomb
ing OF Chinese bases in Man
cnuria was the only course
which could have been adopted
IN order to prevent the spread
OF the war and to postpone, if
Evening star., 1951-04-25

times. Ordinary correspondents
are not allowed on the floor or
in the cloakrooms while the
Senate is in session; they may go
in after adjournment and nab
their quarry if they can.
1t is widely anticipated that
Senator Moody will appear in
still another role next year
floor manager at the Democratic
National Convention for a
favorite-son candidate for Presi-
dent. an in-earnest candidate
for Vice President.
Gov. G.. Mennen williams,
who appointed Mr.. Moody, is
young, attractive and from a
pivotal State. These are ideal
qualifications for a Weep, espe-
cially if the head of the ticket
is an older man and not a
Governor, specifications that al
most certainly will fit the Dem
ocratic nominee. s-FH'
1t must have occurred to
Gov. Williams when he chose
Mr.. Moody that he was also
answering some of the criti-
cisms made of himself. He
is alleged to be too liberal along
the lines of Americans for Dem
ocratic Action. But he rejected
their candidate who was for a
long time regarded as the lead
ing possibility.
He is alleged to be a sort of
stooge for such hard headed la
Dor leaders as Walter Reuther.
Evening star., 1951-04-25

ger contrary to public interest,
issued such a provocative dis
sent, charging the merger would
be IAN unreasonable and un-
considerable burden on the gas
consumers of Denver, Cheyenne
and the Rocky Mountain area"
that the majority was irritated
into explaining its action, and
about time, since it is a public
agency. So we had the spectacle
OF a commission majority re-
port forced by a dissent.
But it's big oil that so plaques
the commission by its efforts
to fend off regulation of natural
gas. 1t is getting away with It,
too. But Mr.. Buchanan con-
tinues to speak out and tell us
what's going on.
g-standing is the case of
Phillips Petroleum Co., ninth
largest. Nearly three years ago
the FPC. then under sterner
management in the public in
terest, ordered an Investigation
of rates Phillips charged for
natural gas delivered to the
Michigan-Wisconsin Pipe Line
Co. The commission acted on
complaints of excessive prices
from the city of Detroit and the
State Of Michigan. The FPC
staff has been working since and
has gathered necessary data.
But it never has been pre-
sented. Phillips constantly has
resisted the formal public IN
vestigation. Finally a few days
ago it came through with
motion that the FPC confine its
proceedings to the question Of
whether it has power to investi-
gate Phillips rates!
The FPC majority first grant,
ed this request. Then, when pub
lie indignation mounted, it COM
promised by a ruling that this
jurisdictional question would be
taken up first, and thereafter
the question of whether the
rates are reasonable.
Mr.. Buchanan promptly dis
sented. He pointed out that
Phillips would throw the whole
issue of jurisdiction into the
courts if the FPC ruled that it
had the power to investigate
rates. That would take at least
three years, judging from past
experience with such cases. If,
after all this is settled, the FPC
subsequently found rates too
high, the consumers would have
had to wait three years for JUS
tice, he pointed out, and with no
recourse whatever to recover for
three years overcharge.
He argued for concurrent pro-
Evening star., 1951-04-25
Henry WcLen1ore:
Dizzy Dean Is q Natural
For Baseball via TeIeVision

But when he calls a baseball
play, you feel as if you are
hearing an authority.
He even has to ask his as
sistant who is catching.
But he doesn't mind sticking
his neck out and saying a hit is
a hit, or if the fielder played it
wrong.
OF course, I'm biased about
Dean. In my many years of
writing sports Oh Diz was the
most colorful, and most capable,
player talked with.
He never was modest as a
pitcher. If he thought he could
win, he never failed to say so.
] remember talking with Dizzy
the day he went against Detroit
in the World Series. Bill Corum
of the New York journal told
Dlz that there must be a ton of
money riding on him as a win
ming pitcher.
Bill" Dizzy said. "they could
MT have their money riding on
a better pitcher" And he went
out to win. easy.
On television he Is as natural
as taxes. Radio and television
haven't touched him a lick. He
is not awed. Many more sea-
soned performers have been
scared by radio and television,
but not Dizzy. He is the same
fire-b -balling fellow who came out
of the West years ago.
He seems to say: I'm a base
ball player. I am being hired to
talk baseball. That's all I know"
Distributed BY McNaught Syndicate. Inc
Evening star., 1951-04-25
Doyid Lomence ~s-.. 1e --
Tragic Disunity in Government
Lack OF Leadership Is Obstacle to Cooperation Even
Between Elements Which Fovor Some World Policy
Dovid Lowrence:

The state of disorganization
and disunity in the American
Government today is indescrib-
ably tragic.
The lack of leadership is a
manifest obstacle to co-opera-
ton even between those ele-
ments which favor the same in
ternational policy. The White
House has failed signally to
keep foreign policy out of poll
tics and has accentuated q deep
cleavage between the two major
parties.
For, whether President Tru-
man intended it or not, he has,
In effect. decreed that the mi
nority party in America must
be prevented from knowing the
facts about the Government and
particularly the facts about our
war operations.
Though it will be repeatedly
denied, the truth is that the
principal offense Of Gen. Mac
Arthur was in answering a let
ter from Republican Leader Jo-
Seph w. Martin. Apparently
members of the armed services
hereafter must not answer any
letters from Congress except
those from Democrats.
Two Democratic Senators -
Douglas of Illinois and Lehman
of New York-take the position
that the letter which Gen. Mac
Arthur wrote in answer to one
from Representative Martin was
an act of military insubordina-
ton and was in disregard of the
"civil authority" of the United
States.
This is a strange view for two
men to express who are supposed
to be liberals" and who spend
a good deal of their time de-
nouncing the Hitler and Stain
concept Of a single political
party. Evidently, as Senator
Evening star., 1951-04-25
Doris FIeeson:
Moody Envied by Colleagues
Vondenberg Successor Admired for His Hard Work;
Women Politicians Could Warm Up to His DimpIes

Vice President Barkley tacitly
has given permission to the
press galleries to break the rules
and applaud when one of theirs,
Blair Moody, is sworn In as
Senator of the United States.
They will unanimously take ad-
vantage of that tolerance; the
handsome young successor to
Arthur Vandenberg is liked for
his fnendliness, admired for his
hard work.
1t is a safe bet that SO per
cent of Mr.. Moody's former
colleagues will be envying him.
They. too, have been watching
Senators and are perfectly
certain that anything Senators
do, the correspondents could do
better.
incidentally, no Senator who
has been liberated by the voters
or retired from the Senate has
ever made the journey upstairs
to the press galleries and
scooped the correspondents.
That may be another precedent
Senator Moody will break.
His friends hope the Michigan
voters will want his services
permanently, since that is his
wish. It has occurred to them,
however. that if said voters don't
and he returns to the fold, they
will have to be on their toes.
because former Senators enjoy
the privilege of the floor at all
Evening star., 1951-04-25
Henry McLemore:

Baseball is not a game for
scholars.
For every Phi Beta Kappa
who ever made his name in
baseball I can name you a
hundred athletes who couldn' t
differentiate between Caesar
and Napoleon, but who could
put the Oh wood on the bat,
or throw a fast one past a
batter.
I would go SO far as to say
that the men whose names are
in the record book didn't spend
much time leaning against old
oaks on the quad, or wearing
ivy in their hair.
To name few, Ty Cobb was
a star when most college men
were writing home for money.
Ruth's knowledge was limited
to what base to throw to, and
Jackson could hardly put his
name on a hotel register with
out using an x.
All of which is an introduc-
ton to my favorite person on
television.
His name is Dean. Jerome
Herman Dean. if you want his
full handle.
He is calling the Yankees.
I'll admit that his English isn't
anything that will cause him
to get a full professorship at
Oxford. He won't spend his
declining years teaching Ian
guage Cor Languages at Yale,
Harvard, Princeton, California
or Columbia.
But when he calls a baseball
game you'll have to admit that
he knows his subject.
When he says the pitcher was
outside with a knuckleball. you
believe him. Because he threw
that sort of ball when he was
far and away the best pitcher
in the National League. The
same thing goes for his call
on curves, fast balls, and change
of-pace balls.
Red Barber is a good friend
OF mine, and so is Mel Allen,
but neither Red nor Mel would
say they know as much base
ball as Dizzy does.
Dizzy doesn't remember many
averages. Except his own. Dizzy
doesn't tell you where a fellow
was born. where his mother was
born. and how much the COM
bined weight of his family is.
Evening star., 1951-04-25

dency the right to stifie discus
sion and they insist. in effect.
that members of the armed
services are not to be permitted
to say anything publicly which
is at variance with the party
line" as proclaimed by the
President or his advisers.
If the minority party has any
assertiveness at all, it will accept
the challenge and bring the real
issue to the attention of the
country. It concerns the funda-
mental right of the American
people to get the truth of what
is happening in the making of
public policy.
The American people do not
even know how Macarthur was
dismissed and by whose recon-
mendation. An effort has been
made to give the impression that
the Joint Chiefs did it. Actually
Messrs. Acheson, Rusk and Har-
riman-the foreign-policy COM
mand-are primarily responsible
for influencing the President to
fire Macarthur forthwith. When
the congressional committees
put every member of the Joint
Chiefs on the stand, as they
inevitably must, they will learn
that there is no record of mill
tary INSTRUMENTATION and that
differences of policy alone led
to the political decision by Mr..
Truman to make a change in
command in the Far East.
1t is because the Democrats
have insisted on distorting the
issue and have continually tried
to pin "warmonger" label on
Gen. MacArthur-very much as
the Communists do to most
Americans nowadays-that the
bitterness on Capitol Hill is
increasing instead of diminish
ing.
Reproductions Rights Reserved.)
Evening star., 1951-04-25

Douglas told his constituents,
Gen. Macarthur had no right
to reply to Mr.. Martins re-
quest for his views. Senator
Lehman cites the letter to Mar
tin specifically as a ground for
dismissal of Macarthur and
says thus the civil authority
was challenged"
Evidently the Congress of the
United States is not a civil au-
thority-or at least the Repub-
lican Party isn't a part of it.
Yet in Korea the sons of Repub-
licans are being killed, just as
are the sons of Democrats.
There is no hope for unity
when two important Senators
adopt the view that it is a vio-
lation of the military code of
the United States 20 commune
cate with members of Congress
who happen to be in the minor
ity party and for the latter to
make public the letters they
write-not on military details,
but on broad policy questions.
The letter to Representative
Martin was a routine answer
to what appeared to be rou-
tine inquiry. Gen. Macarthur
had said the same things pub
licly many times before and
also in his official reports. But
because the press emphasized
the incident, President Truman
chose to make an issue of it,
though he could just as well
have ignored the affair and sent
for Macarthur so as to argue
out the differences, if possible,
in a personal conference.
What is more serious is that
there are influential members
OF the Democratic Party who
actually believe that America
today is and must be governed
by a single person. They in
clude in the power of the presi-
Evening star., 1951-04-25

the administration and the Brit
ish and French governments
loudly proclaim that they are
trying to preserve peace by not
permitting their forces to full.
fill their strategic missions in
Korea. the fact that Russia has
threatened us indirectly in an.
other way is being kept quiet
and is overlooked.
Soon after President Truman
announced that he would order
four additional divisions to 60
to Europe, Moscow stated that
the sending of these troops
would be considered a provoca-
tive act on the part. Of the
United States. Consequently,
the sending of that insufficient
force to Western Europe could
be regarded as a risk of World
war LII, just as much as the
bombing of Manchurian mill
tary installations or permission
for the Chinese Nationalist to
cross Formosa Strait to harass
the rear of the Chinese Com
munist armies.
The fact is that either Rus.
sia is ready for a showdown
and we shall have it whether
we want it or motor Russia is
still in the stage of prepara-
ton and all her threats are
mere bluff and intimidation.
But one factor is inescapable:
If the United Nations forces,
overwhelmingly American, are
defeated in this new all-out Of
fensive, we shall be confronted
with new wave of neutral
ism" in Western Europe, with
far-reaching consequences for
its military preparations.
Evening star., 1951-04-25

not avert, the outbreak of World
War III. This means that
Washington decided to trade
lives for time.
The argument propounded by
the highest officials in the land
is that the bombing and break
ing up of enemy offensive
preparations in Manchuria
would inevitably bring the
Soviet Union into the war. The
basis for this argument is the
mutual assistance pact between
Russia, China and North Korea,
which provides that the con-
tracing parties will help each
other in the event that Japan,
or any other nation associated
with Japan, commits an aggres-
sion against any of the sigma
tories. Moscow could interpret
this pact, If it chose, to mean
that America was associated
with Japan and it could enter
the war with all it's forces avail
able in the Far East.
From the practical point of
view. the whole question turns
on whether or not the U. S. S. r..
is ready for an all-out war this
year. The American. French and
British general staffs believe
that Russia will not be ready
for action until some time in
1858.
If the estimates of the West
ern general staffs and diplo-
mats are correct, the interven-
ton Of Allied air forces in the
U.N. campaign in Korea would
not cause Russia's open inter-
vention while she is still un-
ready to risk a third world war.
But while the spokesmen of
Evening star., 1951-04-25

ceedings on Jurisdiction and
rates. That always has been
the practice before, he pointed
out.
Thanks. MIR. Buchanan. Keep
on ferreting the truth out and
keep on telling us about it.