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State Department Strikes Back at Senator McCarthy , . ' . point-by-poi- . 2-- 10 ........ .1 San Francisco To Angeles 12-1- 1-- Merry-Go-Rou- nd Min. 3, Sec. air-tig- ht ...... ce 10-1- 1, Girl 16, Stabbed to Death: On Own Doorstep old Lt.-Cm- dr. . ; 86 i- - - his-ow- n . - .x::a -- s. z. J - SOUTH AMBOY, N. J., May 20 (U.PJ A coast iruard hearing disclosed Saturday that two boxcars of dynamite and 10 boxcars of mines blew up in the explosion that ghat- tred this port city and apparently killed 2J persons. Four bodies were in the morgue and 23 .stevedores, were missing and presumed dead. It was possible, however that, two unidentified bodies were those of persons on. the missing list. Police said S52 were injured, five critic ally. Property damage was estimated at $20,000,000. State Department Probe As the coast guard launched its inquiry into the disas- s Marine Held Captive In China Gets B i g Welcome By H. D. QUIGG United Press Staff Correspondent -- 6iaV four-year-o- Kpysjini Two Boxcars of Dynamite, 10 of Mines Blow Up In New Jersey Harbor Blast - ur 1 1 re- duction. He predicted that unless the .v.. committee moves swiftly no excise tax relief bill will be approved, at this session of congress. "To pass an excise bill we must 'i. i V ai have prompt action," the New York said in a state- Marine Sergt. Elmer Bender, (right) mem. Republican 'CAPTTVES RETURN we can no amy-aai- iy smiles broadly as Navy Chief Petty Officer William Smith, claspWe must postpone con longer. embraces Los at Mrs. Smith Mike and his sons, Pat, (left) ing of proposals other than It was the first time sideration excise reduction Dahlbiusch No. 6 Alamitos Air Base in Long Beach, Cal. until a later Belgian-owntwo airmen had set foot on the U. S. mainland since they date or until the next the session of pit near Gelsenklrchen. The were taken prisoner by the Chinese Communists 19 months ago. congress." Bender worst mine tragedy in' German Following questioning by intelligence officers, wijl fly The ways and means committee, which has been studying tax explosion to Chicago to be greeted by his wife. history a coal-miwhich took 400 lives occurred legislation since early February, nas tentatively approved almost four years ago in Kamen, 30 miles i in excise tax reduc $1,100,000,000 ' i scene of from the Saturday's tions. It has been working reblast. . cently on proposals for offsetting tnis prospective loss of revenue Twenty-eig- ht bodies and 42 into the federal treasury. jured survivors had been brought ' to the surface by late Saturday Veto Threatened were severely burnJ President to 20 (U.ft) Mar the statement made night Thirty Truman, who asked the he CHICAGO. May ed, and Dahlbusch hospital au- ine C. Bender got Cninese at a later date. Public that excise reductions be held to Elmer thorities said several probably a hero's welcome and kisses from relations officers then steered the $695,000,000, served notice on would die. congress in January that he will his wife Saturday and told news interview to other subjects. crowd of 500 men there, An ashen-face- d At Long Beach, Calif., Friday veto any excise reduction bill "is sometmng to" person v mostly women relatives reports that he signed a statement Bender said he made a "state- that, does not make up for the of the victims, huddled around about spying on Chinese com- ment" at Tsingtao before his re- cost revenue. the colliery gates as ambulances, munists who held him captive for lease, but he denied it was a "con . Reed, however, maintained that fire trucks and official cars 18 months. fession" as reported by Pieping the ways and means committee should procede with the excise whisked In and out of the Bender landed at Glenview radio. reduction part of the legislanaval air station Saturday mornBender and his party were tax grounds. tion immediately lest time run Rescue squads were at work ing.' He was greeted by his pretty whisked to a downtown hotel out. ld where the of the explo young wife,: Shirley, his , within a half-hohandsome, The tax bill must clear both the sion, 'which occurred at 8:30 a.m Kathy, his leatherneck was a guest of honor house daughter, . mother, Mrs; Edna Bender of at an armed forces day luncheon sent toandthesenate before ait can be (3:30 a.m. EDT). process president - The He listened attentively as Sec 15a Cincinnati, and by his wife's par included dead known is certain to consume several , retary of the Navy Francis P. that year-ol- d boy, son of a ; miner, who ents. a news conference! At was working as an apprentice. shortly Mathews said in an address that weeks. Reed recalled that the Repubhe' would Russia would use force if neces licans Four of the dead came from a afterward, heout said tried from the outset to " sarv world to and about attain . conquest reports straighten single family. get consideration of excise cuts now U. S. as is in fthat the much : The was believed explosion suchliems as luggage jewelry, after-Pea- rl Har on caused by an - accumulation ' of danger as it was furs and travel tickets ' cosmetics, ' ' ' 'Ji bor. ; Top German mining ahead of the remainder of the tax was an to Head Heinrich later juenaer Kost, officials, including program. The Democrats rejectarmed forces parade through the ed head of the west German coal ad this approach. loop to the cheers of 15,000 spec ministration, helped direct rescue "Unless the Democrats on the tators. work. committee stop When Bender's plane landed he ways andandmeans . i Gelsenklrchen lies some five reverse their previrushed to his wife, hugged and stalling miles northeast of Essen in the ous there will be no ex kissed her and picked up the cise actions heart of the Ruhr. tax relief this session of he had not seen in 2 V4 congress," Reed atsaid. daughter PORTLAND, Ore., May 20 (U.R) years. Sen. Wayne Morse said Satur Smeared with lipstick, fie told day his primary election victory newsmen he plans to stay in the over a conservative opponent. Marines. Dave Hoover, demonstrated a Bender said he and Chief Petty new swing toward liberalism in oracer William C. Smith of the the Republican party. navy were flying near the for Morse coupled his triumph with mer U. S. naval base at Tsingtao SEATTLE, Wash., May 20 TJ!) that of Gov James Duff in Penn- wnen the engine of their plane Agreement on a 10 cent hourly sylvania last Thursday and said "cqnkea out" and they were fore pay hike Saturday had averted they both showed the same trend. ed to land behind Chinese com the threat of a strike by 104200 "It shows the people feel it is munist lines. That was on Oct. 19, Puget Sound lumber workers, MELVILLE, La., May 20 U.R A new $350,000 tug sank within time the Republican party should members of the AFL He said he believed he was over sawmill workers union.lumber and two minutes In the swift Atcha-fala- adopt n program of constitutional, river late Friday night, and liberalism. I will, continue to nationalist territory, and added, Agreement in the dispute came one of the six presumed victims vote independently on issues as "I'm asnamed to say I didn't know at the end of 5 months of newas found alive later by a fisher- I see them." my. position.' gotiations. man. Wins Two To One The tug, the Jane Smith out of Pittsburgh,' Pa., was on her maidMorse, who frequently was reen voyage to the Gulf of Mexico jected party discipline to Jump with two empty oil barges when into the Democratic camp on senshe was swept into a bridge pil- ate issues, won renomination over ing and went down. Eleven men Hoover by a two to I one margin on the basis of returns from yeswere on board. Five Rescued terday's election. WASHINGTON. Mav 20 (U.R) Hoover had made such a stateFive were rescued.: Five others Hoover, a political unknown The state department struck back ment any similar one. It proas a "real" again Saturday night at Sen. duced ora letter were asleep below, deck when she who described himself from Ford saying sank.: Marine Supt, L. C. Jones of Republican and attacked Morse Joseph R. McCarthy, R., Wis., ac that "Mr. Hoover did not make the Oil Transport Co. of New as a party truant, conceded defeat cusing us cniei tormentor oi the statement which has been for "without has which owned the regret tug, Orleans, early today falsehoods and charging attributed to him." uttering the made assumed that these five and Capt. having fight." him with attributing to FBI chief The "cateeoricallv Lennis Verret of New Orleans, a Returns from 1781 Of 2017 pre- J. Edward Hoover a statement he denied" department McCarthy's charges that cincts gave: were drowned. did not make. u is pilot, service s lawyer the - But Verret turned up before U S. senator: Republican For the second time in a week, secret giving which the documents McBride Hoover 14,224; 55,219; nt noon today on the west bank of the department issued a president has denied the senate, ' Morse 104,902. Democratic La- the Atchafalaya,' denial of communist this so that he can properly deThe bodies of the men who tourette 68,247; Wood 60,379. charges made by McCarthy in fend Mr. Service." Governor: McKay Republican recent statesank when were asleep the tug speeches. The new It also denied McCarthy's were believed locked in the hull 107,177 (unopposed). Democratic ment variously accused1 McCar charge that department loyalty Pearson 39,374; thy of "crude of the tug on the bottom of the Flegel 49,483; misquotation," xnes on hi cases, made available Wallace 47,299. 110 "misstatement" an down. and feet to a senate subcommittee investigiving river, The hottest contests of the elecfalse impression", in a gating Communism, are "purged" tion developed among Democrats "entirely 6. or "phony" files. The deoart- speech May in races for U. S. senate and gov- Chicago specifically listed 14 charge! ment said the files are "full and ft . an ernor. Latourette, Oregon made by McCarthy in a speech Inside the Herald Today and "current." City attorney, held a slim, in- before the Midwest Council of complete" Fares decisive lead over Dr. Louis Young Republicans and in other Wood, retired University of Ore statements. It answered Central Utah News ... 3 gon economics professor. The public each with what is listed as "the News Briefs winner will meet Morse in the facts." County Fare Column 1 November election. The department quoted McBusiness Page In 3 It was touch and go in the Carthy as Sports saying that far eastern Los 9 Democratic contest for governor, diplomat John S. Service "was Around the World .. Women's Features . . . Sec 2 with State Senator Austin Flegel picked up by the FBI in connec- 32 56 holdintr a narrow margin over tion with the Amerasia case . ,L Church and School News .... 4, 5, C, See. 2 Lew Wallace, a political veteran The papers carried the story that LOS ANGELES, May 20 Editorial Pace 7, Sec. 2 who was. defeated two years ago J. Edgar Hoover stated that this (U.R) a- - Cant. Richard D. case 7, "Sec. 2 by Gov. Douglas McKay. The is a 100 per cent his air 26, hurtled Creighton, Flegel-Walla2 Radio Pros rams of See. bat' the winner of 7, espionage." force from San plane jet . 2 '. No Comics tie will oppose McKay in 9, Sec. In reply, the department said Francisco to Los Angeles Classified Sec. 2 vember. Both Flegel and Wal Peyton Ford, assistant to the in 32 minutes, 58 Amusements 11, See. 2 lace are Truman fair dealers. attorney general, was asked if Saturday seconds to establish a new speed record between the two cities. Averaging 640 miles per hour, he shaved almost two minutes off the former unofficial record set Jan. 22, CHICAGO, May 20 U.F A ever, believed it might have he had been held up by a negro 1950, by John L. girl was stabbed and been rape.. a . Mrs. Ann fatricia Ruby, beaten to death on the doorstep "I don't know why I did it," Butts, who flew the 341 his wounds miles in a navy F9F Panther of her home early Saturday and police quoted Jenko as saying. "I neighbor, bandaged in 34 minutes 54 seconds. police said Raymond Jenko, 19, never saw the girl before. I Just and took him to Englewood hosa convicted burglar, .confessed got an urge and I began slashi- pital,. Attendants there ignored Capt. Creighton, flying an F-:, the slaying. his plea to "keep it quiet" and ng.".-.' Sabre, was one of three Patricia Swartz, Englewood The girl's parents heard her notified police, who took him pilots of the first fighter high school junior, was stabbed screams and rushed to the door- into custody. group March air force base nine times with a butcher knife steps to find her dying, sprawled Police then went to the Jenko who flew from San Francisco and her skull fractured. Police in a pool of blood. The killer had home to question his mother, as part of the Armed Forces said the girl apparently put up fled,but she had disappeared. Ruby, Day celebration today. " Jenko ran the few short blocks Lt. John Golden and chief of One other flier, Capt. Wy- -' desperate struggle. Jenko admitted the slaying in to home, cut and bleed- detectives Andrew Aiken said man D. Anderson, 29, also a formal statement to the district ing from wounds inflicted with Jenko admitted the slaying after broke the old record, making lie detector tests disclosed dis the run in 21 minutes, 11 attorney's office, and said his his own knife in his motive was robbery. Police, how- - with ths girl. He told his struggle seconds. mother crepancies in his story. ne .n A Vtoitomi In) member of house ways and means committee, accused his Democratic colleagues Saturday of flmh The west German coal administration announced that not one of the 96 men working in the mine at the time of the blast escaped injury. All had been accounted for late Saturday night . In Belgian Mine The explosion occurred in the FIVE CENTS kjying. K GOP Member Predicts No Bill This Session If Delay Is Continued tax-frami- PRICE 1950 11 Republican the ot 21. iiniri ter, the state department in Washington ordered a full investigation into the licensing of munitions for export. The munitions that blew up were destined for Pakistan. Ten of the boxcars that blew up at 2 :27 EDT last night i XiWl OUT WCLL contained 8,000 boxes of anti-tan- k mines each powerful enough to wreck a jeep and kin. or wound Its occupants and 1000 boxes of mines, each containing two and one-ha- lf A ounces of TNT. Some of the mines were hurled into the sky unexploded. They rained down along the water front, turning this town into a booby trap within a radius of one-ha- lf mile of the scene of the: explosion. WASHINGTON. Mair 20 U- .-i Demolition experts were rush The state department ordered the dan full invsetigatlon Saturday into ed in to "mine-sweecer area and all citizens were the licensing of the Fakis warned not to touch "suspicious ton munitionsphase 'i which shipment Objects" because the mines were blew up in South Amboy, NJ dangerous." r En route to "live aand WE'RE WEARY AND WET BUT WE'LL WIN! mgnt. before riaay At two-hohearing A department official emDha- build up sagging and crumbling dikes, Sam Gyrlik (left) and five-mcoast guard marine sized, however, that such investi Nick Letkeman pause to read morals; building message on the board of investigation, Albert E. "routine" whenever Winnipeg, Canada., Ross, of Trenton, claim agent zor agations areoccurs marque of the City Hall in mishap involving arms Letkeman traveled70 miles from Whitemouth, Manitoba, to help the Pennsylvania railroad, prooverseas. lit- said shipments which has at forced least River Red. the rampaging fight duced way bills for 10 of the there is no evidence of irregu- " already 110,000 persons to flee the city. cars. lauijr o tar in wic case . These bills showed the muni Pakistan cargo, tions were from the Kllgore A spokesman said it had been O., Co., Newark, Manufacturing confirmed by port officials in and Rutherford, Pa., and were South Amboy that the . Pakistan bound for Pakistan aboard the munitions, anti-taincluding S.S. Flying Clipper. and mines, were involved in the blast. Supervisor Testifies The second witness was Austin Embassy Donbtful The Pakistan embassy said that Stolte, supervisor of unloading for the Pennsylvania railroad, a munitions consignment for Pakistan was, due for shipment and one of the few from South Amboy "at about this London of the threat from "those of the blast. He escaped death WASHINGTON. May 20 U.R) he had missed lunch and time." But the .embassy said America's ' lighting forces across who would impose their way of because was eating a sandwich in a 'such ammunition .would nor the world paraded Satufeday in life upon all others friend's car when the explosion mally be incapable of creatine the mightiest show of U.S. power such a blast as in fact occurred.' occurred." Other Leaders Speak since World War II. of the An statement as id three said all but Stolte From Tokyo Bay to the Berlin Lt. Gen. Robert L. Eichelber- - 12 cars had been unloaded onto that it embassy had no definite informaof soldiers, the iron N.C.: armed at The curtain, edge Asheville, ger barges and that two were tion from the stricken port to ana airmen forces now are "on a stronger four sailors, marines in the process of being unloaded show that the Pakistan shipment Forces "Armed turned their first footing than at any time since when the blast shook the water- caused or was involved In the war the demobilization that followed front. Day" into a thundering cowj blast. demonstration oi American pre- World War II." no he had He testified The statement said Pakistan that f paredness, Adm. Forrest P. SheAnan, idea of the cause of the explosion had "lisht defensive munitions Pres chief of naval operations, at St. and no suspicions of sabotage and such as The commander-in-chie- f, and antithe Louis: Until the cold war with saw nothing unusual on the pier tank mines" onj order from Amident Truman, reviewed central ceremony here ifli the Russia is resolved "we must just before the. blast. erican commercial sources and caoitaL where 6500 troops in maintain a powerful military Cant. William Geftman a VS. due for shipment from South battle dress marched down 'Con establishment." The U.S. navy, he marines munitions expert, said Amboy now. stitution avenue between clank- said, has control of the seas and some of the mines had detonators "Fullest investigations are being columns of tanks and mobile intends to keep it. attached, in violation of military ing made," the statement said, j guns. At Miami, Fla., assistant army practice, and suggested that this and "the result must be awaited." "to all The embassy-(extendeIn New York. 1.000.000 spec secretary' Karl R. Bendetsen might have caused the disaster. tators lined upper Fifth avenue called for a "total national ef- He said each mine was five times concerned in the disaster its most to watch 30,000 service men ana fort" to back up the nation's as explosive as a hand grenade. deep and sincere sympathies in The force of the blast aowed the loss of life, In the large numveterans march under a canopy defense strategy. mines along the ber of people injured, and in the of bombers and fighter planes. unexploded Assistant John navy secretary extensive damage to property." Waterfront. .devastated Veterans of the Canadian, British, T. Koehler said at San Antonio, were found on the root ot aSome six- French and Belgian armed forces Tex., that "we must be prepared army and story building. The paraded witn tne Americans. to pay the price if we are to state alleys police ruled roof-top- s, A flight of eight B-super- - fulfill of and vacant the responsibilities tots "off limits" to giants world leadership. bombers, the civilians until demolition squads that would carry America' at Navy Undersecretary Dan A certain these areas were omic punch If war came, winged Kimball, at Buffalo, N.Y., Warned made In mine-fre- e. to out from their Texas base ny that the United States must keep The and Power Central Jersey state capitals. strong reserve forces and have singly over the 48 plant stopped usJet planes flashed overs the standby emergency powers to Lightcoalcompany stock its open-bifrom men ing and here abroad, civilian and mobilize marching Industry when mines were discovered in and the navy opened Jts. fighting manpower in case of war. the boiler COLUMBUS, p., May 20 U.0 Francis P. them. Mines fed "into ships for inspection in home and Navy Secretary could flatten the big plant, The former head of a California Matthews said in a radio broad fires foreign ports. is so full of poten- mental cast (ABC) that "the navy is and tial"This place hazards Institution reported to In will lt that Germany i Biggest feeble minded perthat day always has been a loyal and de- take explosive to clean it sons were946sterilized about four days of this defense In 1849 to Gen. Douglas MacArthur sus pendable member we said Lt Hugh Casey, of the up," for team which on their them depend upon from, duties passing routine keep occupation pended 10th engineering regitor the day and marched his men our security and for the preser army's De- defect to future generations. in from flew Fort who ment, Dr. Fred O. Blutler told the anin Tokyo, Yokohama and other vation of peace. four-ma- n deIn Chicago Matthews told a von, Mss., with a nual cities of Japan. meeting of )the American Asmine will molition squad and three Russia that luncheon eroup on mental deficiency sociation went of all The biggest show should have a force if necessary to gain" detectors. "We California led all other states that on in Germany, where more than use a team." of instead battalion here aoal of world domination. 85,000 Yenks demonstrated their her were shells and in such operations with. 237, that this country is in He said there North Carolina iwas acconaiwith readiness. And the big punch of He added as grave as that it faced land mines in the danger .area as 172 and Virginia third with 11. the German display was staged danger shells. as well He said "it Pearl Harbor. When the number of operations in Berlin, where eight days hence after Coroner Frank Kurzawa found were later in her (Russia's) Comunist , youth forces are ex could be of compared with the populathe a of body along world conquest than part the "protection rate" was tion, pected to put on a monster rally. program en Pace Eleven) we think." in Delaware with six the greatest American the Everywhere, per 100,000 Inhabitants, followed forces were far fewer in numbers by Virginia, North Carolina and than when they laid downtheir Iowa, Dr. Butlef said. Dr. Butler arms in victory five years ago. served 30 years as ipertntendent But their ranks were packed, ' with of the Sonoma State Home in power and their r message was Sonoma, Calif. plain: the United States is awake "Sterlization ljtws which are in to the menace ot communist in 27 states have made poseffect aggression and is - readyings its Dunkley, Deer Creek project Whether the Provo river the defenses. sible protection from parentengineer, who also stated President Truman sounded that will reach flood stage this hood of 23,903 feebleminded perthat runoff from the dam sons." Dr. Butler said. "This will theme Friday night when he told within its banks, will be held down until the an armed forces banquet that if year or keep probably prevent the' birth of will upon end of this week to protect entirely depend universal his bad congress more than 19.000 feebleminded passed a contractors at work on . five the weather, Frank T. Wentz, children." military training program? diversion dam in Provo canProvo river water commisyears ago "there would "have He added thai sterilization has yon. been no cold war." sioner, reported today. also been used to keep 22,844 inSa turday's reading for "If the nights continue Defense Secretary Louis Johnsane persons from reproducing. above 4488.33 was Utah to lake cool we will be able son, who accompanied Mr. TruDr. Butler pointed out that the or above sea level, slightly handle the runoff with ease," man to the banquet and stood was 'Isimple' and that operation the last JO years average,, it does not Mr. Wentz said, "but two beside him at today's parade, Interfere with the C. Elmer manager could Madsen, on weather invited all Americans this day weeks of hot or norappearance, sex glands, enboat harbor Provo of the "to take stock of the state of change the situation life. married mal said Saturday. H our readiness to defend ourselves tirely." He added that "while anot all May 20 is usually regarded Between 14,000 and 13,000 against aggression." as the high water date for of the children! of the' mentally acre feet of water can still Adm. Richard L. Conolly, comdeficient will inherit the handiUtah lake in normal years, mander of U.S. naval forces in .be put in Deer Creek reseradded. cap, the proportion Is high.' Mr. Madsen R. voir, according to L. European waters, warned from anti-person- nel ? Munitions For Pakistan; Order Probe p" 4 ur an flood-plagu- ed - n ui America's Fighting forces Parade In Mightiest Show Of U. S. Power Since World War II nk anti-person- nel eye-witnes- ses ..." jj i anti-person- nel ,. , California Leads 36 six-engin- ed Sterilizing Of Feeble Minded ns , anti-person- nel Water-(Contlnu- ed ' Flood Possibility On Provo River Depends On Wepther v S |