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Evening star., 1952-01-11
DC. Man Rejects Honor Medal
And Silver Stur Awarded Sons

The father of two heroic Wash
'ington lieutenants who were killed
leading their troops in Korea has
refused to accept posthumous
awards Of the Congressional Medal
of Honor and the Silver Star.
Refusal to accept a Medal Of
Honor-the Nations highest deco
ration-is without precedent in
military history. Defense De-
partment spokesman said.
The father. Halsey McGovern
Iof 4610 New Hampshire avenue
NV, refused to accept the awards
in letter to the Defense Depart
Iment. The Army refused to
divulge his reasons for turning
down the medals.
The Medal of Honor was award
ed to 1st 1t. Robert M. McGovern,
%, of the 1st Cavalry Division and
the Silver Star to his brother, I'd
lit. Jerome F. McGovern, Il, Of
Evening star., 1952-01-11
Fairfax Captain Facing Trial
In Traffic Death Shoots Self
Army Veteran Of World War II, Koreo Found
Wounded in Apartment Basement by Wife

Alexandria coroner, issued sui
eide certificate.
Capt. Schlichting, a Purple
Heart medal holder from World
War II and holder of a Bronze
Star with Oak Leaf cluster
for gallantry in Korea, was
charged with manslaughter, hit
and run and reckless driving after
an accident December ID.
Warren F. Judy, 81, Of Route /,
Alexandria, was killed when the
Army officers car struck him as
he was pushing a stalled autonlo-
bile on Route ! about four miles
south of Alexandra, according to
the police report.
Capt. Schlichting has been sta
toned at Fort Belvolr since his
return from Korea last May. Be
sides his widow, he is survived by
two sons and his parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. Walter w. Schlichti1g OF
Milwaukee.
Evening star., 1952-01-11
Featured Reading
Inside Todoy's Star

CHI cHANGEs-subseribers Of
Group disqualification, Inc, who ore
hospitcIized owoy from the Woshina-
ton orea will get increased benefits.
These and other policy changes by the
prepayment plan ore discussed in the
second Of series Of two articles on
pose AIS.
FOR DUCK WIDoWs-Wish onother
duck hunting season over, the wife Of
the eoger hunter csa relox for another
year. This occasion for her Joy is COW
cred in feature article by Reporter
John N. kouffmonn on pose A-s.
FASHION PREVIEW-subtIe changes
hiehIisht the new fashions for wos zen.
Eleni. The Stor's fashion editJf, gives
her impressions Of what the Ieodins
New York designers ore coming up
with in her illustrated report on pose
B-l.
Evening star., 1952-01-11
Ramspeek Directs
u. 5. Agencies 10 Fire
All Incompetent Help
Supervisors Are Ordered
To Make ApproisoIs Of
Practitioners in Writing
By Joseph Young

Chairman Robert Ramspeck OF
the Civil Service Commission to-
day ordered all Government de-
|partments and agencies to take
immediate steps to fire incompe-
tent and undesirable employees
from the Federal payroll.
The order is directed against
those employees in Government
who have not yet served theil
years probationary period anc
whose work or character is be.
low standard.
The agencies were ordered IL
require supervisors to make a writ
ten appraisal of each employee
service, conduct and genera
character traits at least tw,
months before the end of tn.
|one-year probationary period eact
lemploye is required to serve.
This will insure against at
Itainment of permanent rights by
default and will expedite the re-
moval Of employees found to be
incompetent or undesirable, Mr.
Ramspeck said.
Two Objectives.
Once an employe has perma-
nent rights, he becomes entitled
"to invoke time-consuming re-
view procedures and appeals,
which make it most difficult te
get rid Of incompetents, Mr.
Ramspeck told the agencies, ir
explaining the commissions di.
receive.
The commission listed two OBJ.
Ijectives in the program:
/. Full use will be made Of the
probationary period to impose or
each employe the responsibility
Iof meriting the approval of his
supervisor before he can expect
to make good"
2. Personal responsibility will
have to be assumed by the super.
visor in the form of the positivs
action of making written ap-
|praisal; his name will be signec
to each employees report.
Allows Earlier Firing.
The written appraisal must be
made not later than the end o1
the 10th month of the trial period
(See STANDARDS, Page A-4.)
Evening star., 1952-01-11
Franklin D. Roosevelts
Have Buby Daughter
BY the Assoeieted Press

NEW YORK, Jan. 11.-A
daughter. Nancy. was born today
to Representative and Mrs.
Franklin D. Roosevelt, jr., at
Leroy Sanitarium.
The child, weighing nine pounds
and one ounce, was the couples
first. Mother and child were re-
ported doing we'll"
The mother is the former Suz-
anna Perrin, daughter of socially
prominent Mrs. Lee James Perrin.
She and Mr.. Roosevelt were mar
ried in 1949.
Mr.. Roosevelt had two children
by a previous marriage to Ethel
du Pont. They are Franklin D
Roosevelt, III, II years old, and
Christopher. 8 years.
Evening star., 1952-01-11
Strange Big SnoIs
Invade New York's
Central Park Lake
BY the Associated Press

NEW YORK, Jan. 11.-Strange
snails about the size of golf balls
have invaded Central Park lake
Castof shells by the hundreds
are visible around the edges of
the frozen lake.
The American Museum of Nat
ural History made three guesses
about the unusual specimens yes
terday: They may be of japanese
or European origin or a variant
of species long known in the
Eastern United States.
The Agriculture Departments
Bureau Of Entomology and Plant
Quarantine is investigating, too.
Snails. the bureau said, can
multiply as fast as rabbits and
may spread human diseases.
Evening star., 1952-01-11
Four MICS DESTROYED
AS Korean Air Battles
Extend Further South
U. S. Sabre Jets Rout Foe,
Damage Fifth PIone in 5
Fights Over 75-MiIe Area
By the Associofed Press

SEOUL, Korea, Jan. 11.-Red
jets flashed south almost to
Parallel 38 today-and paid for
their audacity with loss of four
MIG-15s.
They were shot down and a
fifth was damaged, in five blazing
battles with American jets.
The air war famed within 30
miles Of the Panmunjom truce
site. One fight was nearly 18O
miles from the Yalu River boun-
diary between Korea and Man
churia. This is far south of MIG
Alley where the jets usually fight.
Gabreski Adds to Total.
The new outbreak of air war,
after jets were snowbound yes
terday, raised the Allied total for
the week to II jets shot down and
13 damaged
One jet destroyed today was hit
over Sariwon, $50 miles southeast
|of the Yalu. No MIG had been
bagged so far south before.
One MIG was downed in the
same battle by Americas top ace
Col. Francis S. Gabreski of Oil
City. Pa, 51st Fighter -Interceptor
Wing commander. It was his
fourth MIG and his SD plane In
two wars.
This battle, between % Sabre
jets and so very aggressive Rus
sian-type MGS, ragged for IS
minutes over a 75-mile area. It
was as long as any jet battle re-
corded.
All of the days kills were made
by F-86 Sabre jets.
Venture Further South.
But the southernmost fight in
volved F-84 Thunderjets. Three
MICS attacked them near Kum-
chon, 180 miles southwest of the
Yalu and only II miles north Of SO.
This was the most southerly jet
engagement ever fought in the
Korean war.
Mai. William Waltman, Air
(See KOREA. pare A.4A
Evening star., 1952-01-11

An Army captain, veteran Of
Korea fighting and World War II.
shot and killed himself today
shortly before he was to be tried
in Fairfax County Court on a
manslaughter charge growing out
of a traffic accident, county police
reported.
Capt. Herbert r. Schlichting,
36, Of AS Biscayne drive, died
in Alexandria Hospital three hours
after he was found by his wife,
about 7 am, in the basement of
their apartment house. A Rus
sian-type .38-caliber pistol was
found nearby, police said.
Mrs. Schlichting told police she
heard the shot shortly after her
husband left their ground floor
apartment.
She. said he had brought the
pistol home from Korea, according
to police. DR.. John A. Sims
Evening star., 1952-01-11
Infant Boy Kidnapped
By Armed Woman Is
Returned 10 Mother
1S-Doy-OId Boby Found
Unhurmed II Hours After
Minnesota Abduction
BY the Associated Press

NEW uLM, Mimi, Jan. 11.-An
18-day-old baby boy was found
unharmed here today, II hours
after he was kidnapped from his
home in Mankato, % miles south
west of here.
A short time after he was
found. the infant was restored to
his mother, Mrs. Eugene Gala
han, who was called here from
her Mankato home.
Chief of Police Edward L. Lar
son said Mrs. Leonard Scheid, a
childless woman in her middle
30'S, had admitted taking the
baby to replace Ole she lost four
months ago through miscarriage.
The baby was found in Mrs.
Scheid's apartment over q tavern
in downtown New Ulm.
Chief Larson said he got his
first tip from Mrs. Frances Pregler,
a neighbor of Mrs. Scheid. Mrs.
Scheid told Mrs. Pregler "I'll feel
better if I tell some one about it."
Called for Police.
A short time later, Mrs. Scheid
herself called police, sobbing. and
asked that some one be sent over.
When she returned to her home
yesterday afternoon from Man.
kato, however, she had told an
other neighbor who asked her
where she got the baby, "Oh, I
had it."
A police matron took care of the
baby-who has not yet been
named-until his mother arrived.
Mrs. Callahan, 35, mother of six
children. said that a strange wom-
an who said she was pregnant,
appeared at the Callahan home
yesterday about l pm. to seek ad-
vice on childbirth. She arrived
shortly after four of the Callahan
children had left for shchool.
Mother Tells of kidnapping.
Stanley w. Christ, Mankato po-
lice chief. said Mrs. Callahan re-
lated this story:
She chatted a few minutes with
the woman and then the baby
began to fret. Mrs. Callahan went
to the kitchen to prepare a bottle
and then heard shot. The bullet
made hole in the bedroom wall.
At gunpoint Mrs. Callahan and
Iher 4-year-old son we're forced
into a closet and a chair was
Iplaced under the knob.
When Mrs. Callahan had freed
herself, 20 minutes later, the
woman and the baby were gone.
Mrs. Callahan phoned a friend
and the two summoned police.
Mr.. Callahan, a heavy machin-
cry operator, returned only re-
Gently from a defense project in
Greenland. ..
Evening star., 1952-01-11

the I'd Division. Robert was killed
January 80 and his brother fell in
battle II days later. Both were
buried in Arlington November IS.
Robert was killed when he
charged a machine-gun position
that had halted the advance Of
his men. When he was within
10 yards of the position a burst
of gunf1re ripped his carbine from
his hands, but he continued on
throwing grepades until the gun
was silenced.
Jerome, although wounded, re-
organized his platoon and led a
charge against the enemy until he
fell with q second wound His
citation said he displayed "asso-
lutte fearleSSness."
Robert enlisted in the Army in
1946 and Jerome in 1948. Both
were graduates Of st. Johns COL
llege.
Evening star., 1952-01-11
Adenouer PIuns Visit
Here This Spring
By the Associated Press

BONN, Germany, Jan. IL
West German Chancellor Konrad
|Adenauer announced today he will
visit Washington this spring.
Mr.. Adenauer told the Bund-
|estag 0ower house) this today
during the debate on the Schu-
man Plan. He was illustrating
the change in attitude toward
West Germany shown by the oc-
|cupation powers. He made no
mention Of the dates.
Evening star., 1952-01-11
Evening Star Games Tickets

Tickets for The Evening Star Games tomorrow
night at the National Guard Arnory will remain on
sale in the lobby of The Star Building until p to-
morrow evening. Sale at the Armory will start at
o'clock tomorrow afternoon The ticket office for the
Games at the Fairway Sports Store at 1928 street
NV. will remain open until the close of business today
Special tickets for men in the Armed Services are
for sale at ST. EACH AL others So and $ 81 tickets
have been exhausted
Evening star., 1952-01-11
Sea and Air Hunt Fails
To Turn Up Trace Of
Ship and HCrewmen
Three Ships and ] PIones
Searching Area Where
Freiehter Was Abandoned
BY the Assoeiofed Press

SEATTLE, Jan. ia widening
sea-air search for the freighter
Pennsylvania and the As men who
abandoned her wallowing hulk
Wednesday was underway today
over a large North Pacific area.
Three ships continue to comb
thea and seven airplanes were
alerted to participate in the sec
ond day of searching the windy,
surging ocean spot where the men
last were heard from.
Canadian and United States
ships and planes yesterday con-
Quoted a day-long criss-cross
search of the region 465 miles
northwest of Vancouver Island
where the broken and water
logged freighter last reported be-
ing in difficulty.
They found nothing. Not even
a scrap of wreckage, a drifting bit
Iof clothing or a life preserver.
The surface search for the four
Ilifeboats from the Pennsylvania
kept up all night as ships crews
maintained a ceaseless vigil,
searching the wild swells and
troughs with the aid of lights and
flares. Airplanes were forced to
return to their bases at nightfall.
Comdr. r. M. Dudley, chief pilot
|of a Coast Guard flying boat, re-
turned to Seattle and reported
simply: \
1--WE didn't see a thing. Not a
trace"
The flyers said they felt little
hope that the 7,800-ton Victory
ship was still afloat.
Nothing further was heard Of
yesterdays lone slim clue-a radar
"blip" on the screen of the Liberty
ship Cygnet III. That unidentified
object was estimated to be Is
miles away from the Cygnet III at
midday.
Evening star., 1952-01-11
Atomic Gun
Model Shown
ToLeeisIotors
By the Assoeicted Press

The military today showed to
the Senate-House Atomic Energy
Committee a model of an artillery
gun designed to handle atomic
shells.
The model was. inclosed in a
concealing wooden box when car
ried into and from a closed-door
session of the committee.
Chairman Mcmahon refused to
say wether the model was that of
a gun already constructed or of
a gun still to be built.
Senator Mcmahon said the
committee members looked at the
model and discussed it. He re-
fused to say more, except that it
was the first time such a model
had been shown to the committee.
Evening star., 1952-01-11
Annapolis Mayor Dies
In Bed Of Heart Attack
BY the Associated Press

Mayor Roscoe C. Rowe of An
napolis died of a heart attack to-
day at the Bethesda Naval Medi-
cal Center. He was 81.
A spokesman for the hospital
said Mayor Rowe was found dead
in his bed shortly after he ate
breakfast.
The Mayor was apparently on
his way to recovery after a recent
operation to relieve pressure on a
vertebra in the upper part of his
spine. He was reported resting
well yesterday.
Evening star., 1952-01-11
Court Rules Einanciel
Owes $24 Million 10
Utility
q Judge Holds Harrison
Williams Dominated
Richmond Firm in '20s
BY the Associated Press

NEW YORK, Jan. 11.-A Fed
eral court judgment amounting
Ito $24 million was handed down
yesterday against Harrison Will
liams, who built a fabulous fortune
in the 1920's.
Federal Judge Edward Weinfeld
ruled that the utilities executive
now 7S, owed $12 million, plus in
|terest since 1927, to trustees of the
Central States Electric Corp. OF
Richmond, Va. The interest would
double the $12 million.
The judgment -one of the
largest in history against a single
individual - stemmed from the
boom years before the 1929 stock
market crash.
Judge Weinfeld held that Mr.
Williams, while in control Of Cen
trail State and other corpora
|tions, domino d the utility
|company's directors and maneu-
vered transactions to serve his
own interest.
The Judge ruled that the
financier received proceeds from
an $11, ,46O, 900 stock sale made by
Central States in 1929 when the
company should have received the
money.
The other three transactions on
which the Judgment was based in
volved stock sales between COM
|panies he dominated.
The court ordered. however, the
return of 68,423 shares Of North
American Co. stock to Mr.. VIII
liams. They were estimated to be
worth between Sc and So million.
Two court-appointed trustees
for Central States-Carl j. Aus
ftrian and Robert G. Butcher
filed the suit in 1945.
They claimed that 40 individual
defendants and 6 corporations had
wronged the corporation through
I13 transactions during the years
1927, 1928 and 1929.
They were appointed after the
company was reorganized in 1942
under approval by the Eastern
Virginia District Federal Court.
Judge Weinfeld held that MIR,
Williams was responsible for the
Judgment and cleared a group of
we'll Wall Street figures.
They included Clarence Dillon.
John Foster Dulles, Sidney J.
Weinberg and Clifford F. Stone.
They figured in the interlocking
utility holding corporations estab-
Ilished between 1921 and the 1929
crash.
MIR. Williams, whose wife often
has won the title of America S
lbest-dressed woman, once was
rated . Millionaire.
Evening star., 1952-01-11
Soviet Official Is Dead

MOSCOW, Jan. II R.-The
death of Mikhail Kramorov, chief
controller of the Ministry of State
Control, was announced officially
today.
Evening star., 1952-01-11
u. n. Will SET Up
Board 10 Study
Disarmament
Vote Is AZ to 5
For Investigation Of
Step-by-Step Cut
BY the Associated Press

PARIS, Jan. 1.-THE United
Nations General Assembly voted
AZ to 5, today to set up a u.
nation disarmament commission
The body will study step-by-ster
reductions in arms and armed
forces, climaxing at some future
date with prohibition of atomic
weapons.
The Western Big Three powers
the United States, Britain and
France-sponsored the measure
the major achievement of the
sixth U. N. Assembly here.
-Four weeks of debate in the
AsSembly's Political Committee
including private Big Four talks
with Russia and Assembly Presi-
dent Luis Padilla Nervo for one
week in an attempt to reach un-
derstanding-preceded today's de-
cision.
Russia Withdraws Changes.
At the outset of today's ses-
sion, Russia withdrew amendments
1t had previously attempted in
vain to get adopted in the Po-
ltical Committee which would
have demanded immediate prohi-
bition of atomic weapons.
The Assembly voted down
Czechoslovak attempts to emascu-
late the Western power resolution
especially on the step-by-step pro-
cedures. Avoidance of a fight over
the Russian proposals speeded up
the Assembly action.
The proposal calls for the II
nations making up the Security
Council plus Canada to study all
disarmament proposals beginning
within 80 days and to submit its
first report by June, 1852.
The Soviet bloc voted against
the measure today as it had in the
6O-Nation Political Committee
Argentina joined several Arab and
Asian countries in abstaining.
Commissions Merged.
The new measure actually
merges the present Security
Council atomic energy and dis
armament commissions, which
have been deadlocked for three
years over U. NJ majority plans for
atomic energy control.
The new disarmament commits
sion, after preparing a schedule
for disarmament, is to draft
treaties for the regulation, limi-
tation and balanced reduction of
all armed forces and all arma-
mentS. and for the effective inter-
national control of atomic energy
to insure the prohibition of atom
ic weapons and the use of atomic
energy for peaceful purposes only y
A world census of all arms and
armed forces before the commits
sion prepares a schedule is one
keystone of the plan. The Soviet
bloc had called for reduction of
all armed forces and arms by one
third, as we'll as atomic weapon
prohibition, before any census was
taken.
Hailed by JeSSup.
Philip C. Jessup, United States
delegate, told the Assembly When
all the treaties have been fully
negotiated and adhered to by all
nations of significant military po-
tential, we can begin to disarm.
He hailed the adoption of the
measure as new step toward re-
lieving the world of the danger of
war.
Frances Jules Moch said the
action held sign of hope because
Russia'S Andrei Vishinsky hao
promised in committee debates
that Russia would cooperate in
the work of the new commission
Mr.. Vishinsky told the Assembly
he did not insist on his amend
ments today because he will revive
them when the Political Commit
tee takes up the Russian peace
plan, perhaps tomorrow or Mon
day
Evening star., 1952-01-11

(See CRIME, Page A-4.)
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(See SKIPPER. Page A-3)
Evening star., 1952-01-11

(see KOREA, Page A-40 !.
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The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1952-11-27

Mr.. and Mrs. Orwell Follas and
family of Elida, were Sunday dinner
guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Joe Follas
and daughter, Joan.
Mrs. Chas. Fridley and Mrs. Sam
Kohler called on Mrs. Sarah Niswan-
der at the Russell Huber home Sun
day afternoon. They also attended
the golden wedding of Mr. and Mrs.
Chas. Kiefer.
Mr.. and Mrs. Guy Eikenbary, Mr..
and Mrs. Kenneth Chidester and fam
lily, Mr.. and Mrs. Richard Stoodt and
daughter and Mr.. and Mrs. John
Chidester spent Saturday evening
with Mr.. and Mrs. Gerald Chidester
and daughters in honor of Darlene's
birthday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Horace Green and
children, Mr.. and Mrs. Howard incl
and family of Urbana, o., were Sun
day dinner guests of Mr.. and Mrs.
Rhuel Kohler.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1952-11-27
THE BLUFFToN NEWS. BLUFFToN. OHIO

/, try later dwindled to almost nothing
Until 1850 Meigs County had {
monopoly in coal trade down the Ohio
and Mississippi rivers-even though
by 1887 mines along the Hockins
River were producing 100000 ton.
of coal year. Mines in the Mahoninf
valley were opened in 1845, most Goa
from there going by canal boat {,
Cleveland to fuel the Great Lake.
steamers.
The Ohio coal field is a part of tn,
Appalachian coal belt, which run.
from Pennsylvania to Georgia through
parts of nine states. Ohio strata ar,
of two kinds-the upper measures,
600 feet thick and the "barren meas
ures," 400 to 600 feet thick. The up
per measures have nine beds of coal
of which the lowest, Pittsburgh coal
is most valuable. The lower measure.
have IL to Is different beds of coal
and the barren measures have no Goa
worth mining and only one bed thar
can be worked at all.
Coal mined in the Mahoning valley
Hooking valley, Tuscarawas valley
and in the Salineville, Coshocton
Sherredsville, Cambridge, Jackson
Ironton, Dennison, Steubenville anc
GAINESVILLE regions all is from some
one of the lower beds. Coal in ths
Hooking valley is mined from the
Jacksonville or great vein of the states
lower measures-the most extensively
mined in Ohio.
The Jacksonville vein is the thickest
in the state and rises in many place.
in the Hooking valley to 10 feet O,
more. Nowhere in the region is il
less than five feet thick.
Ohio has more than 10000 square
miles of soft coal lands from which
coal is extensively mined in 2s
counties-Athens, Perry, Jackson
Hooking, Stark, Belmont, Guernsey
Columbiana, Mahoning, Jefferson
Medina, Trumbull, Tuscarawas, Car
roll, Meigs, Lawrence, Wayne, Mus
kingum, Summit, Gallia, Portage
Vinton, Coshocton, Harrison, Holmes,
Washington, Morgan, Noble and
Scioto counties.
In 1925 the first canal boat load of
coal went from Briar Hill, near
Youngstown, to Cleveland. On that
line James A. Garfield, then Is and
later president, had his first job
driving tow-mule on the tow-path.