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COMP mm US) ran pp. JL U. of 0. Library Eugene, 0re. Congress Meets For Considering Emergency Bills Truman Agenda ' Unlikely To Get G.O.P. Support By WILLIAM P. ARB0GAST WASHINGTON P The 81st Congress returned today for short "lame duck" session and it was pretty evident the lawmakers were not in the mood to do all the things President Truman wants them to do. Republicans generally haven't ' left much doubt that they would prefer to leave everything lut emergency legislation until Jan. 3, wlarn Jhe new 82nd Congress with increased GOP strength takes over. , , Many of them subscribed to the program of Senator Taft (R-Ohio), who when asked what he thought the expiring Congress should do, quipped: adjourn. The program Mr. Truman wants is pretty well known. It includes a (4.000,000.000 excess profits tax on corporations, rent control exten sion, statehood for Alaska and Ha w a i i, relief funds for drouth strirkon Yugoslavia and probably $10,000,000,000 or more in new mili tary money. Truman Loses Top Aides The dying Congress contains a lot of "lame ducks'' legislators who have been defeated at the polls. Al together, some 75 are near the end of their terms. Ten senators were defeated; four did not seek re-election. Thirty - two house members were defeated; about as many re tired voluntarily. An additional factor which may reduce While Howie influence is that Mr. Truman's two top senate lieutenants floor leader Lucas of Illinois and Senator Myers of Penn sylvania are lame ducks. Both lost to Republicans. Tax Bill In Offing In the Senate, with its unlimited debate, prospects are that a lot of time will be spent talking about for eign policy, especially in the Far East. A good many Republicans have been claiming that the elec nonreturns indicated a repudiation of the programs of the President and Secretary of State Acheson. The house committee may finally agree on a combination excess prof its tax and higher corporate income , levy. House approval oi sucn a Din is expected, but the Senate may not act. -- ' - -f - - f A bill to give "bonus" pay to GI's may be submitted by the Defense department. If so, it is expected to have little opposition. A number of inquiries are in the air. They involve military nun power, the Gl insurance program, veterans' education programs, food adulteration and subversive activi ties. Senator McCarthy (R-Wis) is re ported planning to renew his charges that Communists infest the State department. Lovesick Rivals Duel By Bumping Their Autos PROVIDENCE. R. "i. P Police arrested two lovesick boys because they keep bumping into each other with automobiles. I.t. Charles W. Rathbun said charges of reckless driving were brought against Stanley G. D'Orsi, 18. and Frank Hennessey. 16. Rathbun said the pair have been dueling with automobiles ever since a night six months ago when they both tried to date the same girl. Sunday night their cars rammed again and D'Orsi's smashed into a tree, Rathbun said. He said he asked the pair; "You mean you've been battling like this for six months?" and one of them answered; "Not all the time, just most of the time." FOG BAFFLES DUCKS LONDON tJP) Fog thick as duck soup Sunday had even the wild ducks befogged. A patnlman in Islington found a wild duck in a shop doorway, wait ing for better flying conditions. A cep on the Bayswater beat came across another duck running around in frustrated circles, afraid to take off. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS Do you like mysteries? If so. to day's developments in Korea ought to suit you to a T. This, for instance: "A 100.000-man United Nations army drove forward on a broad front in an all-out offensive to end the Korean war before Christmas . . . The attack came after a pro longed lull and rumors of peace . . . The advance covered bv al lied planes MET LITTLE OPPO SITION." And this: "General MacArthur. V.N. com mander, flew to the front to super vise the four-nation drive toward the Yalu river border of Manchu ria. He said: " 'Te'.l the hoys when they reach the Yalu they are oing tome I want to msVe good m m stve ment that they are going to eat Chrismas dinner at home. ' Try this on your record player: General MacArthur made his in spection flight in his .unarmed of- (Centinued en pee faur) 'fit- lv Ji vA. J GRANGE MASTER Herschol D. Newtom, above, Columbus, Ind., farmer, is the new head of the National Grange, He was elected in Mipneapolis, Minn., to fill the unexpired term of the late Albert S, Goss, who died suddenly last October. New. som has been a member of the Grange for 35 years. Extend Control Of Rents, Truman Urges Congress WASHINGTON Presi dent Truman today asked that Congress extend rent controls un til March. II. The present con ret program expires Dec. 11, ex cept in cities which decide they want to keep controls for six months longtr. Acting shortly before Congress reconvened, Mr. Truman sent let ters to the capitol saying he felt the controls should be keot in force ui.til the new Congress, meeting Jan. 3. haa a chance toipass on the lent control issues. "We are stepping up our produc tion of defense items and increas ing our industrial capacity," Mr. Truman said. "To carry out this program successfully and to safe guard our economy, it will be nec essary to keep rents in vital de fense areas from rising to unrea sonable levels." 2 New States Wanted Senate Democratic Leader Lucas announced after a conference with President Truman that the admin istration will seek passage of a statehood bill for Alaska as its first order of business in the short ses sion. He said that if (his measure can be passed over admittedly stiff op position it will be followed by a second bill to provide statehood for Hawaii. Meanwhile, President Truman drafted a formal letter to Vire President Barkley asking immedi ate passage of both bills in the in terest of national defense. Newspaper Appeals Libel Suit Judgment PASCO, Wash. I.V) The Tri City Herald has appealed its libel suit to the Washington state su preme court. The appeal asked the high court to set aside a S2.000 judgment awarded against the newspaper to William J. Gaffney, Franklin county prosecutor. Publisher Glenn C. Lee said the case was appealed because of the "dangerous precedent" it would establish. Czechs Try Catholic Heads On Treason Charge PRAGUE, Czechoslovakia t.V) Nine Roman Catholic churchmen were put on trial here today on changes they conspired with the Vatican to overthrow the economic and social order of Communist ruled Czechoslovakia. Bishop Stanislav Zela, auxiliary bishop and vicar general of the OI mutz archdiocese, in Moravia, and eisht others were charged with hish treason, espionage and other offenses. PLANE CRASH KILLS TWO I FAIRBANKS. Alaska (.Pi An F-94 jet fhhtcr on maneuvers : crashed 250 miles west of here Sun day, killing the pilot and radar ob server. Names of the two victims were withheld. The Weather Partly cloudy today, tonight and Tuesdey with scattered showers today, cooler tonight. Highest temp.' for any Nov. 74 Lowest temp, fer any Nov 14 Highest temp, yesterday (1 Lowest temp, last 24 hours 44 Precip. last 24 hours .23 Precip. from Nov. I 5.44 Excess from Nev. I 1.34 Precip. from Sept. 1 11.53 Sunset fader, 4:40 p.m. I Sunrise tomorrow, 7:22 a.m. Establish 1173 mm' death ran up t Fires In Eight States Claim Twelve Lives Fifteen Persons Injured, Damage To Property Set At More Than $3,600,000 By Tli Aoclald Pr rires in eigni stales caused ai i least 12 deaths Sunday and d- st roved more than 13,600.000 worth of property. Fifteen persons suf fered injuries. Four persons died in flames that swept the Tower, a residential I hotel in Minneapolis. Six persons j were injured. The hotel occupied the top three floors of a four story building. The dead were listed as Nels dlson. .VI; Henry M. .lemmings. 67; Mrs. Edna Sell, about 45, and an unidentified man. The property loss was expected to reach more than 1500,000. In Hyannis, Mass., flames gutted a two - story wooden lodging louse causing the deaths of Joseph M. James Jr., 24, Edward Kelley, 22, and Eino Mattson, 48. Three hundred convicts escaped injury when flames destroyed a wooden Alabama State prison bar racks near Montgomery. The fire was believed to have started from the chimney of a coal heater, overtaxed by 20-degree weather. Fire whipoed through three blocks of buildings in Moultrie, Ga., a cotton and peanut center in the southwestern part of the state. No injuries were reported but damage was estimated at more than 12, 250 000. PENNSYLVANIA Fire de stroyed a home near Butler causing the deat.is of Frank Miller, 76, and his 20-monlh-old granddaugh ter. A 20-inch snow prevented fire men from reaching the house. At Pennsylvania Slate college, an un occupied men'a dormitory was de stroyed. VIRGINIA Mrs. Nellie Ather ton, 73, died in a fire that destroyed her Chesterfield county home. At Pichmond the Monument Methodist church burned, with an estimated loss of tfoo.ooo. ALABAMA Joe 0. Shelton, a restaurant operator, perished in his flaming Cullman. Ala., home after he rushed in to search for his wife. She had already escaped, suffering only slight burns. At Selma, a gasoline tank caught fire after a truck carrying it backfired. An explosion followed, sending the tank spinning toward a nearby crowd. W. W. Steward, Corsicana, Tex., was killed and eight persons were iniurea, i ARIZONA Firemen extin- guished a small blaze at the Ari-jlava flowing from the fractured zona Sta'e hospital for the insane I side of Mount Etna still threatened in Phoenix. Sixty - two aged and half a dozen hamlets on the north infirm women were removed from; eastern slopes of Europe's highest a ward. There were no injuries. volcano todav. NORTH CAROLINA A girl's 1 Since Saturday night, however. dormitory fire at St. Augustine col - lege in Raleigh, caused an esti mated $100,000 damage. Plane Crash Victims' Bodies To Stay In Snow MORAN. Wyo. -lip) The eight children and 13 adults aboard the missionary plane which crashed into Mount Moran last Tuesday will remain in their icy tomb far above timberline until spring. That's the decision of mountain climbers and aviation experts. I ney feel attempts to remove any thing from the charred wreckage of j Francis Scott Key, who wrote the the DC-3 would only endanger more "Star Spangled Banners" died Sun lives. I day. She was 90. COMMERCIAL STANDARD FOR AIR TRAFFIC Completion Of Airport Improvements By Fall Of 1951 Forecast, Contingent On Early CAA Approval Of Plans ; Completion of an airport to pro - "it luriuiir mil u a la i iuii ; for the citizens of the Roseburg area is foreseen by the fall of 19M, I according to City Manager M. W. Slankard. This forecast is based ron ex-1 i pected early acceptance by the i Civil Aeronautics authority of plans 1 and tnrifiratinn Inr thji nrnrwtd ' i airnort rievelnnment This i 1 - nttui h Ian 1 nul Clanlrarrf The city council on Nov. 20 ap - nrnved the nlani nresented hv i n. gBen' B.Trtirlg' AHm.PI a'nd n...i ' i ,k. rA c.i. .u" . "1 ." . I r mm uiai uuiit: inf-T IMU31 wirICiMT forwarded to the Seattle CAA of. lire lor final apprOVJ Unless . . - , . iir iift-wie iisii-y. ruw uiwun $ll.fZJZt-'i" " h '""' nn the TeLmen. fovernment . ,urroundlng nj, lnd ,w0 rdio or fZT . : i CJelectronic beacons will be em- me o-veiopment worK proposed consistPof realigning t(i present , .ui.wa. iu kite iik. i,a DEER STEALS GUN Revived Animal Runs Off With Rifle On Horns. MANISTIQUE. Mich. (IP) This deer really outsmarted the hunter. He stole his gun. Harry G. Thompson and Charles F. Massey, both of Grand Rapid Mich., were hunting Sunday north of this upper Michigan city. Massey brought down a buck. i. ,i, ,.mi, ik. .:..! Thompson noticed it was still kick! ing and thought he had better shoot it in the head. "Don't do that." said Massey. "The head will make a fine wall piece for the cottage." So Thompson laid his rifle on the deer's antlers and got out his knife to slit the throat. But the buck snored, jumped up and dashed deep ino the forest bearing the gun aloft. Use Koch Again Placed On Trial AUGSBURG, Germany (P) Use Koch, the witch of Burhen wald, now 43, went on trial before a German court today, accused of instigating murder. The prosecution accuses her of instigating the murder of 45 inmates of the Nazi Concentration camp at Buchenwald, alternating to instigate the murder of 13S others and acts of brutality to still others. It was the second time she haa been on trial for her actions at the infamous concentration camp wnicn ner late husband com manded. A U. S. war crimes court sentenced her to life imprisonment at trials in Dachau. The term later was commuted to four years and sne was released amid a storm of protest. The Germans picked her up immediately for another trial. The first sentence was for crimes against foreigners: this trial cuses her of crimes against Ger mans and Austnans. The prosecution says It is going to call 430 witnesses. Some of them are expected to testify about charges that Mrs. Koch selected handsomely tatooed prisoners to be murdered and thus provide her with decorated human skins for lampshades. Three judges ami six jurymen are hearing the case. The maxi mum penalty is life imprisonment since Western Germany has abol ished the death penalty. Eruption Of Mt. Etna Lessens In Volume CATANIA. Sicilv IPi Hot 1 when the 10.741-foot high volcano ripped into action, the hot flow had slewed to a speed of about 100 feet an hour. Its most advanced stream had narrowed to a width of about 500 feet. The lava in its path down the iltep slone burned off a grove of chestnut trees. The eruption was accompanied hy earthquakes that shook the vil lages without causing casualties. ANTHEM'S KIN DIES ROSS, Calif. HP) Jane Fran cis Brice. la granddaughter of J end of the present runwsy 200 feet to the east. To accommodate com - mercial planes, the present 3800-i Oregon Slate Boan' of Aeronau foot landing strip will be extended tics, said Slankard. He added that on the north end to 4700 feet, with j the CAA. through Jake Fryber a turn around at each end. Also to ger of Salem, has been most coop be provided is an emergency area erative in getting the correct infor in which to set the plane down in j mation .for drafting plans and case of engine trouble immediately ! specifications for the project. upon taking off to the north end 1' he landing Strip Plans also include necessary 1 !"1in; """1 nd P,V'n,(KW,'.lh 1 r "'ncn surface of asphaltic "".T''. t'A'X?.T2?.. : ways, aprons and buildings are in- eluded, if available money is suffi - ,, ., cient to cover these items. r Lights to outline the landmsvayea' . p,Ced 2000 feet from the end of , the runway and five and one-ialf ,m uui iium ui ruivT w prn- tOSEIURG. ORECON MONDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 150 Six Indicted In 'Commie' Investigation Earl Browder On List Of Accused In Refusal To Answer Questions WASHINGTON-S Earl Brow. der, one time No. 1 American Com munist, and five other persons were indicted today on charges of con tempt of Congress. The indictments were based on the refusal of the six to answer questions asked by congressional committees or to give requested in formation. Browder, Frederick Vanderbilt Field and Philip J. Jaffe were ac cused of contemptuously refusing to answer questions during a senate investigation of "Communist in government charges." Dr. Edward A. Rumely, execn live secretary of the Committee for Constitutional Government, and two others were indicted for refus ing information asked by a house lobby investigating committee. The others were Joseph P. Kamp, executive vice chairman of ; the Constitutional Educational league, and William L. Patterson, j executive secretary of the Civil Rights Congress. Conviction for contempt of Con gress is punishable by up to a year's imprisonment and $1,000 fine. Browder bossed the American Communist party for years until he apparently missed a turn in the party line from Moscow and was removed from his job several years ago. Stems From McCarthy's Blast Browder, Field and Jalle were cried by the Senate Sept. 22. The senate's action upheld a rec ommendation by a foreign relations subcommittee which investigated Communist-in-government charges of Senator McCarthy R-Wis). The committee, headed by Sena tor Tydings I M-Md), failed to get answers to many questions put to Browder, Field and Jaffe. Field, a wealthy New Yorker, re fused to tell the committee whether i ' Surgeon, used bron he is or ever has been a mmber of choscope to remove the sun the Communist narty. He is a for mer member of the institute of Pa cific Affairs. 1juia Budenz, a former Commu-I nist who renounced the party, had j testified to the committee that the institute was infested with Reds. ' Jaffe was etlitor of the now de funct Amerasia magazine which figured prominently in the senate ! inquiry. Jaffe was arrested in 1945 j with five others on charges of con spiracy to obtain illegal possession of government documents. The ar- rests were made after hundreds of j secret federal papers were discov-i ered in the New York office of Am- erasia. j Jaffe pleaded guilty to unlawful, possession of government docu-) ments and was fined $2,500 in that case. j When subpoenaed before the! senate committee, Jaffe refused to answer many questions about the Amerasia affair. Annexation Hearing Set By Sanitary Dist. The board of directors of the inrtn KoseDurg tianuary district will hold a hearing on annexation i to the district of an area from the! Roseland auto court, along high i way 99 to the highway scale. The I meeting will be held Tuesday at) 7:30 p. oi. at the Riverside school. All residents on both sides of the highway are fnvitetl to come. ( These requirements have already 1 been annrnvaH hv tha fii anrl fh ' ; Plans call for all buildings to be ! located in the southwest corner of i the airnort. The airnort entranre ' ""id " fiT?' con'nr.7'1,n1'1 , entry would be by way of Mulhol- i nr,h G'rd'n V""y rosd. The citizens of Roseburg have au- ! ,hri,- ,h.k . i a :... -.i ! .. ... . . -. -..., , .. ! . '" """ '" lh. airnort Imnrui mnl Tha I 'A A ,. . .. ...... 'will help on a 44 percent city and .y, p.r(.,nl wv,rnment financing (fcasis. The government has aulhor- ized S225.46. making a total of S42S.84 far the improvement. The tnj wnii-nai! pm-ii Hnin. Business Paralysis Grips Ohio, Pennsylvania Cities; $100 Million Damage Figured In New England (By the AuAtiaud Prwal The storm which mauled the whole northeastern section oT the nation with record fury over the weekend hed vanished to de'y but grief, human misery end industrial paralysis lingered on. At least 226 deaths were blamed on the devastating winds along the Atlantic, seaboard and the heavy snow which fell as far south as Mississippi end Alabama. Damege in New England alone was estimated at $100,000,000, with threatened floods expected to add to the cost. Most of western Pennsylvania and northern Ohio still were digging out of snow which brought business to 0 virtual halt in such cities as Pittsburgh, Cleveland Columbus, Ak ron, Youngstown, and Dayton. fefN SUNFLOWER REMOVED Two year-old P r 1 e i Fredeleke smiles . from, her hospital bed after surgeons had removed miniature sunflower plent from her lung. Mr. and Mrs. Joe Frodeleke of Offerlo, Kes brought their' daughter to Kansas City, Mo., for removal of a "foreign object", shown by flower seed which had sent up a lusty sprout and had devel oped roots. (AP Wirephoto.) Parley On Rail Wages Resumed WASHINGTON VP) The White House resumed efforts to day to settle in a single deal the demands served by four major unions of the nation s railroads. Heads of the four unions, repre- senting about 350,000 operating rail workers, were summoned to an other conference with John R Sleelman, assistant to President Truman. The railroads have been under nominal government seizure for several months to prevent a strike hy two of the unions, the Railroad Trainmen and Railway Conductors. These two, plus the locomotive I Kngineers' and f tremen s brother hoods, have demanded wane i n- j creases ranging up to 35 centa an i hour. Also involved is the demand for a 40-hour work week for most employes still working a longer week. Fifteen unions representing about 1,000.000 non-operating rail employes have a separate dispute for a 25-cent hourly wage iiicrease. j of land to the north of the present airport, consisting of a 16 11 acre trad belonging to J. M. Hnusley and M.48 acres belonging to How ard Bourock, has been necessary. The Boucock home is to be moved, and other obstructions on the hill, lying to the north, are to be sheared away to eliminate land- ing hazards. Rock fill for the Mr- ' port will also be taken from this hill. Slankard pointed out that for quite some time the citizens, serv - ice organizations, chamber of com - merce and the Umpqua Flying club have hen askine fnr Pie imnrnvr . i ' . ; ,,,, t0 th. R0,eburg municioO airport to provide adequate lanli-' ties for a landing strip and build ings to accommodate local and commercial aircraft from and into Roseburg The added transporta- Hon facilitiea are needed to cope with the rapidly expandinvarea. 177-50 226 ine wind wnicn hammered parts of the Atlantic coast with a force aa much as 108 milea an hour at times was described by the weather bureau aa the worst ever to hit that region. It left many areas atill without power service today and thousands still shivering without heat or lighting. Losses to boat owners were the heaviest since the 1938 hurricane. The blow was accompanied by torrential rains which had lent some New England streams out of their banks. Some otheri were threatening to overflow. Resumption of normal business in the snow-bound sections of Pennsyl vania and Ohio still was not in sight today. Transportation facilitiea were too crippled to carry aufficient work era to their jobs. Many schools were closed for the day at least. All public and parochial schools remained closed in Pittsburgh where the snowfall measured a rec ord 27 inches. Mayor David Law- rpnpA rlar I arAt atat nf imr. gency in he city and appealed to I all but essential workers to stay off their jobs and help clear the city'a side streets. All bus service in the city- was enow-bound and only partial trolley service had'been resumed today. Emergency Declared With more snow forecast for to day. Gov. Jamea H. Duff declared an emergency in 17 western coun ties and declared today and tomor row legal holidays there so that the banks could remain closed. The shutdown in Ohio was more widespread. There, too, banks and schools remained closed and trans portation stalled as crews bored through snow drifts as deep as 23 feet in some places in clearing the highways. Gov. Frank J. Lausche also urged motorists to stay off the streets and declared today a per missive legal holiday so that banks and other financial institutions could remain closed. The cost of industrial shutdowns in Cleveland alone was estimated at $10,000,000 a day. The snowfall there was more than 20 inches. Only a few buses are operating. Cleveland still was under a state of emergency declared Saturday and police and 4,000 national guardsmen were under orders to "shoot to kill" anyone found loot ing unprotected stores and cars. In Columbus, where the snowfall was only about 12 inches. M large factories announced shutdowns "for the duration." and all schools and most stores were closed. Snow drifts in some places were five feet deep. In Cincinnati, Akron. Youngstown and Dayton nearly all the schools were closed. Many stores and plants also closed in Youngstown, and in Cincinnati the Fisher Body company shut down. Eugene Man Kills Wife, Then Commits Suicide EUGENE (rPl An unem ployed metal worker shot his wife and then turned the gun on him self early Sunday to end an argu ment over why the woman was late getting home from work. Deputy Coroner Robert Berg strom ssid 15-year-old Beatrice Taylor saw her father, Elba, SO, fire two bullets to kill the mother. When she ran for help, the father turned the .32 caliber pistol muzzle j toward his head and fired a fatal bullet The wife worked nights aa a kitchen assistant in a hotel. Two other chihlren, boys ages 12 and 15, slept through t h e tragedy. Suthetiin Driver Dies In Plunge Of Truck REEDSPORT tIPi Police lifted a panel truck from the bot tom of the Umpqua river Satur- 1 dv "' couldn't find any trace of . m,n lh ck owner thought I n""' have been a passenger. ' )unr Jhn T Owner John Taber, Florence, i "'"P " 'he rear of the truck when it Dlunced off the Drain, Kcedsport highway. He was eently celebrated his 151st thrown out and injured, but the birthday. Probably the eele driver. William Lawhnrn. Slither- bro(lt wof r0y about 0B, half r.ir ,hflT' n' ! od. blrt l"ei"ed Mtmelf the water trom the cab. ( . . ,. . . i Tahar had InM nnlira ha thnnht ; hOVlnaj IV0 mUCK 108904- another man might have been in the truck. Offensive Facing Threat Of Collapse Smash Of Two Chines Armies Scores Heavy Gains On Korean Front TOKYO a Complete cel. lapse ef (tie United Neliena end-be-war offensive was threatened today by heavy new Chinese et eacks en the frozen northwest Ko rean front. The U. S. 24th division. Its right flank Imperilled by Infiltrating Rod farces, pulled beck from Chefigiu neer the west eeest. It wea the second time this month that the battle hardened Americans were forced te give up without a fight the reil end high way city SI miles south ef the Menchurlen border. All along the northwest front, allied farces were shaved beck by elements ef two Chinese Red armies mere then 100,000 nen. Swarms f Chinese attacked I n pre-dawn de'knese te the Blare ef bugles. A spokesmen described the situ ation as "quite confused." Field dispatches said the east ern anchor ot the line, Tokchon, had fallen to the Reds. In the northeast, a aurprise tank lia Red attack forced back South Koreans advancing north of Chongkjin, some 55 miles south of the Soviet Siberian border. Stiffening Red resistance was re ported elsewhere in the northeast. U. S. marines, pushing westward in a drive from Changjin reservoir, were halted by dug-in Chinese four milea west of Yudam. Stunning Blew Deelt AP Correspondent Don White head, with the U. S. 25th division, sized up the situation this way: "The nig United Nations offen sive to bring an early end U the Korean war was threatened with complete collapse today. This wat the atark reality of the situation after 48 nours of aavage fighting. "Chinese and North Korean Red troops have dealt stunning blow lo United Nations forces. The of fensive that rolled forward for two ri.iys has been stopped cold. U. N troops are on the defensive after giving up most ot their gains." Reserve unit of Americans, Brit lih and Turks were rushed up to bolster a sagging 30-mile eastern rection of the winding 80-mile 'ront stretching inland from the Ye'low sea. The front runs from 40 lo SO milea south of the Manchurian border. An estimated 130.000 Reds most oi them Chinese in quilted winter uniforms began the counter-assault late Saturday night. Allied Cesualties Heevy Field dispatches indicated heavy a'lied casualties. An indirect cen sorship settled over operations as security measure. In Tokyo, General MacArthur' spokesman said the Chinese caun-ter-blows were expected. He a s serted that the U. N. offensive, which MacArthur hoped would end the war by Oristmas, was halted "temporarily" but "is continuing." The spokesman described Sub dav's withdrawals aa limited and added that, in any general advance, the foremost spearheads can be ex acted to be pushed back.. That'i what Is happening now, he said. Btit he declined to elaborate on what waa mesnt by limited with drawals. Only in the northeast were allied advances reported. But Red resist ance in some sectors there waa stilfening. Long Island RR Nearly Has Another Wreck PATCHOGUE. N. Y. ffr The Long Island railroad escaped an. other wreck Sunday when an 18- inch piece of rail broke off aa the last car of a train passed over it. Brookbaven town police said a passing motorist telephoned them shortly after the Montauk-bound train passed the south country road crossing at East Patchogue, about 60 miles east of Manhattan. Police notified the railroad. Emergency crews were dispatched to the scene, repairing the break before the next train passed. Last Wednesday night, a wreck nn the Ixng Island railroad in New York City killed 77 persons and in jured 332 others. 'Black Dahlia' Murder Confession Hoax No. 27 OAKLAND, Calif. OPV- Police today listed as false confession No. 77 an Oakland woman's story that she butcliered the "Black Dahlia" in Los Angeles in 147. Mrs. Catherine Sharp. 34. who f'rst gave her name as Mrs. Chns- I i,ne Reynolds, was held for a men tal examination after officers de cided she did not stab 22-year-old Elizabeth Short to death and then hack her nude body. Walter Hawkinson. head of t h e police homicide detail, said Mrs. Sharp broke when confronted with e picture of the Black Dahlia's butchered body. Levity Fact Rartt By L T Reuenstein A Moscow dypotch re pom i mot Russian mounroineer r yndor e Communist fejrw ef few 11 ; approach to the field. Realignment vide a tQck for planes coming in I To make passible the expanded both inside and outside the present Iprant consist of i.ioving the north , for ifjandicx I facilities. purMase of two parcels city limits, he sairl. O