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Tim AY'S WF.4TIIER tl( INWTl ainl VI( IVITV: 1' a I I 'nance Of Thundcrshow.T Today. Tc.nit;lit. Low 60, High 85. IL'IX DETAILS. MAP ON PAGE 17, Urfttt ClrcifiMo lay Cincinnati Niwsppr April I'aifl Circulation DAILY: 191,334 SUNDAY: 279,861 Clouifitd Want GArfi.ld 4100 Ttltphon: PArkway 2700 THE CINCINNATI ENQUIRER 113th YEAR NO.

61 DAILY FINAL 34 Pages FRIDAY MORNING, JINK 12, 193.1 NEWS SERVICES: Now York Tim.t At.nrl.Ud Internal, on.l N.i Unitnl Pr.it AP Winpho4o 5c copies 7c beyond tail trading znn. bap iw nnrvn lilnllniLQ 13 Ml 1 ffflflRIM RifiPlliir5) rait, uulnMliM riiiauCiljM fl IT3 A q)p ik)lfuMlniil5 Mil Wounded Soldier Prays For Higher A id As Troops Toil Back To Army Hospital H0PESCL0UD But Don't Fade Reds Retain Break FOUR IMAGES In Main R0K Line: Look From Peak U. SJJOSHED "By Her Allies" Ambassador Is Terse In i i it Pressure "1 Stopped By Yanks Tor Armistice Despite Illiee's Opposition As Successor Speaks At Toot Of Kiislimore "We Are Going To Live As Free, Secure, Peaceful People," He Says I MT. June 1 how IT i i 1 1 RI'SHMORK, S. I (AP)- President Risen-today warned would-bu oi again st.

at lacking Amei tea 'except at your then told a Republican rally hi WITH THE THIRD DIVISION, June 11 (INS) Lord," said the private, Lord Lord!" Rlood streamed down his dark cheeks, but he looked up into the sunlit mountains and sky and prayed aloud. Lord," he said, "Take care of my body now." He stumbled along a hard sfone path under the hot noonday sun ami looked back but once at the jagged little west-central Korean hill rock called Outpost Harry. Other American Infantrymen followed him on stretchers, on foot, on ambulance curriers, on sheer courage and the will of the li i ma ll heart to beat. He led this strange procession of broken American foot soldiers with a magnificence that su allowed the sorrow and ache beneath their heavy helmets. Lord," he prayed again, "Listen to my prayer." Down the road to an aid station they came the victorious delenders against the first.

Chinese assault on beleaguered Outpost Harry. There they were bedded down in ambulances. For at least a short time these bedraggled men had abandoned everything but to fight and live for the smoking ruins of the Shell-raked hill. Now they came, and the men along the dusty Korean highway halted their jeeps in silent tribute. "Do we still hold Harry?" a jeep driver shouted.

No one answered him. But the wounded had held in the face of almost 2'ti)() charging Chinese who fought them body to body and bayonet to bayonet, all through last night of liame and shell. (lint the men who remained on Outpost Hurry have had no rest. The Chinese, came again shortly before midnight tonight, swarming up the hill from lour sides. Ihe Americans were holding fast at last report.) Medical Corpsman Pvt.

Joseph SKOUL, June 12 (Friday) (AP) -The Korean front thundered with some of Ihe heaviest fighting and cannonading of the last two years yesterday on what seemed almost the 'eve of a final armistice agreement. Advancing behind one of the wars greatest barrages, iiom SHOO to Chinese Communists struck the cenlial and eastern fronts, broke the main South Korean line in the east, but were slopped with heavy losses by the U. S. Thinl Division in the center. The break in the South Korean line was a local pellet ration of no serious consequences since roads southward lead nowhere, but the Kelts defied all counterattacks.

Fighting raged on peaks more than half a mile high, or more than twice as high as the Lmpire Slain Iluililing in ork. It was the lust such loss ot lemloiy the United Nations foiees have slllleied since the flout stabilized in November of HOI. Chinese guns and mortars opened up Wednesday night in the east on a 2oo0-vaid trout spanned by three bill positions held by the Republic ot Koreas Fifth Division. Shelling mounted steadily until liy morning the licit bad fired AI.IHMI rounds by lilghth Army count probably the greatest single Communist barrage of the war mill a whopper even by I standards. It equaled the UN's best day of tiring in last November's Kunihwa Ridges battle, as well as some o( Woild War II barrages on a naiiow front.

At midnight, two regiments ol Communist infantry, CiOOO to 7000 men, poured through the artillery Ine and into Ihe Ri trenches in wild hand-to-hand fighting on peaks rising neailv 3000 teet above sea li vcl. Ity dawn, the lieds had the three hills anil had pushed a I force soulhwestwatil through the main line of resistance along a. ridge line. There the attack was held. All dat long, starting with earliest morning, the ROKs counterattacked.

During the day they regained one of the three lulls, only to lose it again (is night II. Heavy fighting continued into the night as the ROKs, who have been threatening to cany the war alone against the Communists, were put upon their mettle. Simultaneously, more than 1 01 Ml Chinese attacked several positions held liy the F. S. Third Division on 11m central front northeast of horwon.

Troop of the ith Regiment drove back the main attack on outpost Harry, III mill northeast of horwon, and smaller Ited assault nearby. The Third Division estimated fiOO Chinese killed or wounded. There was iin estimate of enemy casualitir.i in the east-ceiitrnl front fighting. 'f i -rj A (Ail BATTLE TENSION SHOWN IN FACES Taut but determined expressions are revealed in the faces of two officers of the 110th Tank Battalion which held out for 15 savage hours against reinforced North Korean troops. The officers are Capt.

Duane Doherty, left, Geneva, N. and Col. William Fondren, Memphis, Tenn. The isolated tankers, who defied death against overwhelming numbers in the "Luke the Cook's Cafltle" area on the eastern front, wree relieved when UOK troops broke through in a counter-attack. AP Wirephoto.

N. C. Spencer, of Gastonia summed it up: to a still figure in a nearby cot, sb id: "He's dead." A radio played a lonesome song "My liaby's Coming Home." The soldier was still praying, Lord. Lord." "I've only been in Korea about three months. I've never seen anything like today.

I never want to see it again." A young soldier from Chicago broke a long silence and, pointing "Will Be Bloodiest Peace In Dr. You Says Of Armistice PHII.ADKI.PHIA, June (AP; Tin' Smith Korean ambassador to the United St.ites said today liis country had been threatened with an embargo by Vnited Nations ol finals on military supplies and food miles Korea agreed to the proposed truce terms. Pr. You Chan Yang made his Statement during a press conference here following a delivered at the opening of a blood donor center. "They are trying to force our government, trying actually with various he said, "to force us to accept the truce terms." lie was asked if he meant the threats had been made by officials (if the 1'.

S. government. He replied lie meant "official (if the ('tilled Nations." "I S. 1( SHU)," II SAYS Pr. Yon declared the United States "has been pushed against the wall by some of her so-called allies." "The United States is in a very difficult position," lie said.

"We know that." "You ak me why the United Nations hae accepted all of these Communist demands?" the ambassador went on. "They want peace may I say, parenthetically, peace at any cost to appease the Communists at any price. "I tell you, it is not peace it will be the bloodiest peace in history." Doctor Yon said his country has been under pressures and "under threats from some UN officials." These threats he said, were to cut off military supplies and modern weapons and second, threats of economic barriers even including shutting Of! supplies of fond." Under questioning by newsmen, he declined to name any UN oificial. Doctor You claimed that the rations proposed for the UN truce commission Poland, Czechoslavaki.i. India.

Sweden and Switzerland would vote 3 to 2 in favor of the Communists on any issue of importance. IN 1)1 Oll KIDS? "Do you suppose," he asked, "that the Communists would have nominated India if tin did not know, in advance, how she Would vote?" On Ihe prisoner repatriation Issue, the ambassador declared that "on January Hi, Premier Javvaharlal Nehru of India went on record speaking before bis own parliament and said that non-forceful repatriation did not mean that at all: that it meant forceful repatriation." "Some folks ask." "llow can you people go on alone if 'they don't give you any supplies? I say, it will be very (liflictilt but we hope tiiat the United States of America, which nlwa.vs has stood for the rights of Ine men. for liberty and for freedom, will see our way and rot condemn us for bring willing to fight for liberty." Violence Is Feared As Witness Is Sought; $2000 Theft Resulted In Threat, Court Told administration was dedicated to winning liec world security ag oust Communism. The President sounded warning in a speocr at Garrison Dam ceremonies at Riveidale, North Dakota. He (old an applauding crowd of nboiit fiiMIO person there the Fulled Slates had to "keep our material strength great" and nay to all others: "Do not attack except at your peril, because we are going to live under iod as free, secure ami pi aielul people." lleie at Mount.

Rushmore National Memorial, in the South Dakota Hills, the President told thi' convention ol the National Federation of Young Republicans tbi' party's future depended on advancing a program serving "ihe interests and needs ot ail our citizens. MT. Kt SIIMOItF. AT HACK Speaking against the liaekilrop of the colossal stone image of ashingtoii, Jefferson, Lincoln mid Theodore Roosevelt, Mr. Fis-enhowi'r told an audience of about (iollll: "There ha been change In Washington." He said the new administration was "profoundly young in and that the men in charge "are uneompromised by years of political promises and campaign or a tory." At.

(lie outdoor rally the President declared fhe new regime had made a "good beginning" toward winning free world collective security, modernizing military defense plans and insuring "equal civil right to all our it lens." lie also said the party, since January, had ocned tin ellectivo nl tack on crime and corruption, and had moved to keep subversives and security risks out of Federal jobs. That task was being tackled, be added, "with a Igor long ov erdue Mr. left Mf. Rush-mure bv car for the game lodge nt Custer State park, where he will pass Friday fishing and relaxing This was the game lodge's pi esid' lit i.al visit; Calvin Coolidge vacationed there in R)27. in i at stops Warm receptions greeted Mr.

Li.soiihovvcr at each stop in North. Dakota and South Dakota. "Hi, Jke!" can Is blossomed all along the route of the presidential caravan. Mr. F.isenhower told the younst Republicans "it would lie foolish to pretend these achievements are more than a beginning, but I sincerely believe, they are a good beginning." At Itlverdale the President described the huge (iarrison Dam as "something people hi re could not do for themselves." He de.

(hired that under such circumstances it was the obligation of the Federal government to lend a hand, although he added that slate and communitle also had Important role in development of flood-control and power Police and the county prosecutor's office were searching last night for a key witness in a giand larceny case who disappeared under circumstances which led officials to believe the missing man might have met with Violence. Object of the search was Por-man Tumble, 2t, 6iti Garrard Covington. His disappearance was revealed yesterday atternoon in Judge Louis J. Schneider's Criminal Court where he was to June appeared as a state's witness in the trial of Alexander Morris, 1 230 State and Robert Hughes, 31, Central Ave. Judge Schneider ordered the authorities to make a "diligent search" for Trimble.

Trimble, Morris and Hughes were jointly indicted several weeks ago on a grand larceny charge involving the theft of $2f)0D from the cafe of Ambrose Ferguson, 9-10 State Ave. Trim ble pleaded guilty in Criminal Court on April 27 and was put on fie years' probation. The trial of Morris Hughe was called yesterday, but hearing of the case was held off when Assistant I'rosecutor Kenneth Mooter introduced a motion asking that the bond of the two men be increased. He told the court that C. Watson Hover, prosecuting attorney, had been 'nfor ed by police that Trimble was missing and that threats had been made against other in the ease.

During testimony on the motion, Charles Park," 221(1 Gest said he had overheard the following remark made by Hughes to Ferguson, the cafe owner, in the cafe Wednesday night: "I heard that Alee Morris pulled Don Trimble off a truck and heat him up and put him in a hospital." Ferguson, himself, said he had been threatened if he testified in the case and other witnesses said they had heard statements in the last week that Trimble never would take the stand. On the basis ol the conversation which Paik said he had overheard. Detectives William Jlasenmueller and Kaymond F.ilerman conducted a search of hospitals but were unable to find Trimble. After hearing testimony on the motion. Judge Schneider rejected Mooter's request to increase bond on Morris and Hughes because the information presented was "vague." The judge continued the start of the trial Until next Tuesday alter ordering the authorities to search lor Trimble.

The detectives pointed out that Trimble, if he was staying away from the trial of his own volition, was risking loss of his probation, lioth Morris and Hughes have police records. Appears Certain On Premise That R0K Will Change Mind UN'S AN, June 12 (Friday) (API Unbending South Korean opposition to a truce clouded UN "hopes for a last-minute change of heart today, although stall ol-ficers Thursday neared completion of details on the armistice document itself. ('resident Svtigniiin Ithee again rejected ll truce on present terms declaring the "crucial point" of Ills opposition was that "we cannot live while the enemy troop remain on our land." In his 1 i ist reply to a friendly but linn letter from President F.isenhower last Sunday urging acceptance of the truce President Rhee said in a statement Thursday: "We regret it very much that we take a view dillerent to his llisenhoweri friendly advice that this is unavoidable because a truce on present terms simply means death to us. We have been explaining this point to our allies ually." President Khee reaffirmed that South Korea would "fight by ourselves" if necessary to drive out the Chinese. Hut he called for no unruly outburst In continuing anti-armist ice.

demonstrations. MAY NOT WITIIim.UV South Korea's Acting Prime Minister, Pyun Yung Tai, hinted strungly that South Korean troops manning two-thirds of the liw-mile battle line would refuse to withdraw 1 miles to create the defnilitarized zone called for in the armistice agreement. J'yun said "we cannot mid will not accept any part of the armistice terms." The national assembly in Pusan voted to send mcsages to UN countries involved in Ihe Korean war asking I hem to abolish Ihe present truce plan and launch new efforts to solve the problem. (In Washington, Sen. William Knowland (R.

Calif, acting Republican floor leader, said the United States should demand at the coming Rermiida conference that Rritain and France support V. S. insistence on the unification ol Koica. (Senator Knowland said be believed the repeated pledge by the United States to strive for the unification of Noilh and South Korea would in the end persuade President Ithee to stand by and await the outcome of peace nego-t. aliens alter an armistice i SK.MMi A I HTAIM Despite the vehement South Korean stand, the FN command apparently was proceeding on the premise that the Republic of Korea armed forces would not physically oppose the armistice.

Formal signing of the comnlel-ed document still seemed a virtual certainty when the stalf olli-ei'rs finish detailed arrangements within a few days. It appeared one group of staff rifticers was discussing a demarcation line to separate the opposing armies and the second gioup was threshing out the mechanics ft pnsoner exchange. Boy, 3, Killed By Family Car After He Falls Three-year-old Stephen H. Rut-ton IV, Hox 337, Greenwood Road, Springfield Township, near (ilendale, was injured fatally when struck by his father's car in the driveway ol his home late yesterday, Coioner Herbert P. Lyle was inlormed.

The boy's parents told Deputy Sherilf William Harnett Stepln ii went out to play in the yard shortly before supper "time. It was surmised that the boy entered the front ol his fathers car, leaving the door fin the driver side open. As he was playing in tiie car, the aid, the boy evidently fell otf the front seat and feil against the steering wheel. Tne impact apparently unlocked tiv brakes and the car started lolling backward down a sligiit giade. As he clung to the wheel, the boy shouted to his parents, who looked out a window just as he lost ins grip on the wheel and fell out ol the car, the officer said.

The left front wheel of the car rolled over the boj's head, crushing it. His paients took him to the office of Dr. L. O. Fasoldf, (ilendale, who pionounccd the boy dead.

Since the accident occurred on private property. Coroner Lyle said, the boy's death would not be listed as-a traflic fatality. The Schaefer Husby funeral home is in charge of arrangements for the services. British On Way To Peiping Talk On China Trade LONDON, June 11 (APi-A Rritish gioup, piomoting Fast-West trade, disclosed today more than 20 Rritish industrialists and businessmen have lift, tor Peiping In discuss prospects of boosting trade with Red China. A spokesman for the Hoard of Trade said the llrllish government knew of the departure of the team, which includes representatives of some of Britain's hest-known engineering firms, machine tool makers, and electrical equipment ami automobile manufacturers.

lie sanl the businessmen bad no ollieial status and any oidois they undertook would have to conlorm with Rntain's embargo on Hie export ol sliatcgic goods to Communist countries. The Rritish team's imminent talks in Peiping follow on the heels of a million tiade pact between Red China and France. In the view of Riilish officials these are the first shots in an international battle lor Ihe China market. Ihe I lilted States Is expected by the Rritish to Join this battle eventually. The Hoard ot Trade recently reported that more than 4U American businessmen representing the Detroit Hoard of oinmerce had called at Hung Kong.

Their purpose, said the Rritish, was to study conditions for investing capital and doing more business with Far astern countries, including hina. 'Ihe private Rritish group, known as the Rrilish Council lor the Promotion of International Tiade, is headed by Loid Rojd-On, who once headed the United Nations sponsored lool and agiieultuial organization. An otficial ol the council said the Rritish industrialists and busines-men bad accepted invitations from Chinese Communist authorities. Rritain, and othn' UN nations, have banned the flow of goods deeni' strategic to ail Communist, countries and particularly to Red China when she joined Hie Korean lighting. 'Ihe pnsident of the Hoard of Tiade, Peter Thorrieyerott.

told a parliamentary questioner today Rritain intended to maintain those restriction? "until the circumstances which gave rise to them have ceased to exist." Evendale AEC Job Is Unaffected As To Size Despite Cuts In Funds, Report To Enquirer Enquirer Burrnu Fpcrial WASHINGTON, June 11 The Atomic Knergy Commission's re-search project on atom power for Life Restored To Girl, 2, Drowned In Little Miami COME TO THINK OF IT: Lawmaker Abducted? II I A i June 11 At') Police said State Rep. Clem (irav-er, a hii ago Republican, wa reHirted abducted tonight. Police said neighbors of the legislator related that draver was approached by three men after he parked his automobile at a garage near his Southwest Side home. Th men toned (, raver into an automobile and drove away, police said HitnesM's reported. All available detective bureau squid cars were sent to the area to search for a Itt.KI automobile which the men reportedly were driving.

Well, Maybe WASHINCTON, June (AP) The House Judiciary Committee today approved, a bill to prohibit the transportation of fireworks into states with laws birring their use. W' i airplanes at Kvendale, Cincinnati, is being reorganized and its funds are being reduced somewhat, but the actual sie of the project is not being curtailed, The Enquirer was informed here today. The information came from Rep. W. Sterling Cole N.

Y.I, chairman of the joint committee on atomic energy, at the behest of Rep. William K. Hess Cincinnati. Inquiry was made because of frequent reports in Cincinnati and Washington for curtailment. "It Is true, that some technical changes are being made In the aircraft propulsion project," Mr.

Cole said. "In terms of the amount of work done out there at Cincinnati, however that Is, in personnel employed and research carried on it will certainly be no less. There may be more." Mr. Cole said that this did not necessarily mean that every person recently working there would remain employed. "One kind of work may be" curtailed, another expanded," he explained.

"The work force would change accordingly." Details on the changes and on the amounts of money involved Man Dies As Cars Crash COLUMRUS. Ohio, June 11 (API- Morris Wright, Philadelphia, was killed today in an automobile collision here. John Henry Withcrspoon, (', also of Philadelphia, was hurt critically and his sister, Rosaline Withcrspoon, 7, was less seriously hurt. Police said they were riding in a car driven by Wesley Shelby, 40, of Columbus. cannot be disclosed for security reasons, the congressman explained.

"There are some people who would like to know all that," he said. "What this change means I that some expensive things are being cut out, but they are not being cut nut because they are expensive," Mr. Cole continued. "The changes were dictated by the technical progress of the, work, not by the budget. They would have been ruttde if all the fund contained in the Truman budget which was prepared last ii Incidentally were made available, "The amount of savings, as a matter of fact, is really insignificant in comparison with the defense budget a few million dollars alongside sums of billions." Meantime today a search in testimony taken by a House appropriations subcommittee May produced an official ARC rx-plana'ion of all this.

Ooidon Dean, commission chairman, explained then that the former objective of the research project had been to get "something in the air by some time in l'XM, something that could go 3oo miles an hour." He continued: "The program now will be recast in such a way to get the best possible development we can for an airciaft reactor without the assignment of a date and without the goal of simply getting it off the ground." L. R. H.Tfstad, director of the ARC reactor division, told the same session that the aircraft reactor program, which includes the Kvendale woik along with mher plants, was being reduced $7,100,000 by the commission. family. Unable to understand the excited boy, the men went to Hobby's home, where he was able to explain Pamela's plight to his mother, Mr.

I'eters and Montgomery ran to the river bank, where they found her floating, head-(loun, in four feet of witter. She had been In the river at bast 0 minutes, It was estimated. Mr. P( ters pulled the girl out. She was not breathing.

Hut young Montgomery, who later said he feared she was dead, administered artificial respiration for almost 115 minutes. Chief Francis Wnlfangel of Anderson Township Life Squad said the girl had Just begun to breathe fitfully when his men arrived. She was taken to Our I.ady of Mercy Hospital, where she was given emergency treatment. She was reported to be out of inger last night. "Those three are real heroes." Chief Wohangel said, referring to Hobby Savas, and "Her little hrotlvr's (puck action in attracting help, James Peters' jumping into the river and pulling her out, and l.elan Montgomery's giving her artiticial respiration were team actions that unquestionably saved Pamela's life." Last Tuesday.

Marion ami Fverett Reck drowned in the Little Miami, near the scene of yesterday's rescue. Persistence of a team of resellers yesterday sued the life of a two-year-old girl who had fallen into the Little Miami River near Newtown, only 200 feet from the spot where two young brothers drowned last Tuesday. Pamela Savas. daughter of Mr. an 1 Mrs.

Robert Savas. 53 Sump-ter old Fort Countiy Club, was saved after she had lain for 10 minutes in lour feet of whirling water and had ceased to breathe. Figuring in the near tragedy, which occurred just before noon, wtre the girl's four-year-old brother, Hubert Peters, flii, 1 1 ort I.ee Old Fort Country Club; his companion, l.elan IX, Klmira, N. mid member of the Anderson Township life sipiad. The following account was pieced together from the reports jif County Patrolman Hi nson and the participants: Little Pamela and her brother, Hobby were playing fin the river hank" vv hen the girl tumbled otf her tricycle into the water, jjobby made a quick attempt to mll 'her out and ran for help when he found he couldn't reach her.

The girl bad drilled out some 10 feet from the bank. Three blocks from the river, r.obby met Mr. Peters and l.elan Montgomery, who is vacationing here with a relative of the Savas Amazing, isn't it INSIDE THE ENQUIRER: I'age Page i i Amusements 2(! Obituaries 1 Rridge 13 Opinionnaire 3 City Mirror 7 Radio-TV 12 lassitird 17-25 Columbus 17 8 Columnists 4-5 Smiles Comics 3U Society 10 Court News 8 Sports 28-30 Crossword 12 Star Gazer 9 Fditorials 4 Washington Food II, 13 Weather 17 Journey End 17 Women's 9, 11 Markets 81-32 Word Game 3 what a little reweaving can do? a iiiji r.ti A i n't SW" A -t A it Tun mi -A.

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