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By JACK JAMES, United Press Staft Correspondent
‘WITH AMERICAN FORCES -ON-THE KOREAN FRONT, July 4 —
~GI Joe has met the enemy again and defeated him. : American infantrymen fought their first battle -of the Korean war against 30 Communist guerrillas on-the outer defense perimeter of Pyonktaek, 40 miles south of captured Seoul. When it was all over, four Communists were dead and the remainder had fled. There were no American casualties. The first American ground action since Japan's surrender nearly five years ago began at 8:30 a. m. (Indianapolis Time) yesterday. The guerrilla band heaved hand grenades at one of the outer Amerfcan defense positions. The Americans responded with mortar fire. It wasn't much more than a local skirmish, but it tir gave the Ameri:
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~~ Americans to leave Korea
Soviets Stand Ready To Defend Borders Against Armed Attack MOSCOW, July 4 (UP)—
{Russia said today that the {United States is heading to(ward “open war” and must ibear the consequences of its | “aggression” in Korea.
At the same time, the Soviets
{called upon the Security Council to demand the immediate with{drawal of all American military {forces’in Korea.
Russia denounced America's
{“violation of peace” in a 14-page |declaration issued by Deputy] {Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei
can troops their baptism of fighting in Korea on the eve of the 174th |Gromyko, distributed by the offi-|
anniversary of the signing of the U. 8. Declaration of Independence:
lclal Tass News Agency and pub-| [lished by every newspaper in the/
Now that the first shots have been fired, it seemed likely that [Soviet Union.
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Americans soon would be in action along a wide sector. Infantrymen were moving into position all along the front. Their first task will be to stop the North Korean advance. Then will come the task of driving the Communist invaders back across the 38th
U. 8. Embassy Silent The U. 8. embassy made no
comment on Mr. Gromyko's declaration. However, Ambassador Alan Kirk and all responsibie embassy officials spent American
parallel border into their own country. Independence Day behind their). The Americans, many of them battle-wise veterans of World War II, desks in the Chancery building
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North Koreans ; Capture Suwon in Stiff Battle; ki Airfield Also Evacunted :
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GI's Kill Four Insurgents in 5'2-Hour Skirmish; No American Lives Lost
War at a Glance
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WITH AMERICAN FORCES IN KOREA—U. S. infantry, repulses North Korean Communist guerrilla attack and braces to meet full force of invading army which took Suwon and its strategic airstrip. No U. 8. casualties reported in first American ground action of the war; four guerrillas killed.
TOKYO — Victorious Communist forces sweep through Suwon to Chanji five miles south and only 15 miles from American-defended Pyongtaek. South Korean forces refreat inorderly fashion. North Korean radio claims American planes raid Communist capital of Pyongyang with 600 bombs. !
“that he will hold them responsible for any mistreats ment of Americans or members of other armed forces under his command.
| MOSCOW-—Russia warns that the U. 8. must bear the colle sequences of its “armed aggression” and says Americ. is heading toward “open war,”
| WASHINGTON—U. S. officials shrug off Russia's charge of
will have to show the tank-shy South Koreans how to deal with the Kirk tehed a note to| ag jon as. Soviet bid -to-revive-its ba lumbering armored vehicles from the north. = a Soviet Foreign Ministry An-| ws onquer doctrine, No indication seen nee *d divide forming it of President Truman's - q Kreme Too often, the South Koreans have broken and fled i in n terror when a - Jor der for a naval blockade of the lin will scrap its “hands off” attitude. tank hove in Sight and rolled on impervious to their bullets. |Korean coast, effective at once. | : — | The note arrived as the Boviet | Aircraft Carrier Boxer may ferry units of the first
: ; Tr navy newspaper Red Fleet was Mari 3 ft wing which has been ordered Gen. Postal Clerk Held Chicken Pox (ff-Duty Officer When's the Best Holiday Deaths EE i et is tr NACHT pr Eas headquarters for Korea action
hat so long as the capitalist - Airmen and leathernecks to ship out of West Coast
Locks the Doo
‘Fishing Time?
ports immediately. Undisclosed number of B-29 supere
get t In Fatal Beating On Mrs. Maher “Wounds Youth 300 Sports Pages Hit 16 | in State he EERE bombers also being sent to Kores to strengthen jet.
LOUIE JR, Eddie Mac and, @ Best time to haul in that cialist motherland, the Soviet hter force. Terre Haute Man's [Kevin Mahern arent going tal Accuses Suspect Fourth of July see ng of | 3 Die in Traffic; | people take all measures to rendy| 18 nL bie to their mother and ; i - OBERECHT, Correspondéntial LN Benefactor Killed Brac ney i othte go Of Stripping Cars i of are 3:30 this afternoon One Drowns jhe are 10% es ot Stange. BY EARRESTH Vateod SycatiBiatt i Times State Service grand homecoming they planned. An Indianapolis youth was shot| - and 9:35 tonight. Indiana's toil of violent deaths p.; Fleet said Viadivostok on: TOKYO, July 4-—U. 8. infantry beat off a Communist
TERRE HAUTE, Ind.—A 33-| Mrs. Louis Mahern, whose ,.4 critically wounded last night! @ That's straight from one |continued to mount today as holi-|
the Siberian Pacific coast “is an!
year-old postal clerk was held 8 lia Pi a uth a rainy an off-duty policeman who said | ya Jamin —_ day celebrators prepared to close [advanced outpost ot tha Soviet the North Korean army, believed only 15 miles away after here today for questioning-in-the [method has “been appearing in|the youth wae stripping oars n=" “John Alden Knight—who he long uy FE we 8 over a labor of grr capturing strategic Suwon.
death of his benefactor, the 62-| The Sunday Times, will be re- a used car lot here.
prepares the Solunar The fatality list mounted to 1
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year-old owner of a dry cleaningleased from St. Francis Hospital| Lowell - Robert Henderson, 18, | Tables for The Times. today with the addition of three business. on schedule 10aay. Be ad lot 4733 ‘Stratford Ave. was taken aths Jack Osman, mail clerk at the|& ay-o cheal won't go directly|to General Hospital with a bullet the sports pages of The Latest victims were: "erre Haute Post Office, admitted home to 1505 Kelly St. | wound in his abdomen. He was Times. The best fishing Allen Neese, 24, Aurora,
Here's why—Louis Jr., 8, and fighting with but denied the fatal Kevin, 2, have chicken "pox.
Mrs. McGough told Sheriff John Mrs. Mahern. went to the hos- at Strickland’ Motors. The shoot—fTrieweiler and State Police De- inital. In the excitement “we ing occurred at the Strickland
| * beating of Frank J. McGough| pq year-old Eddie can be! Spots. Prowlers { : her, IIL, traffic. last night, police said. The vic-| lexpected to break out “just any-| Henderson wag shot by Oren, 50d ous-Balf 0 two Hours Te Doyle Anderson, 26, Andrews, . tim was a well known citizen of | time,” his father said. Sowers, 32, of ®702' Carrollton! : I. y igh These |drowning. Terre Haute. Osman told author- 2 = = |Ave., a ‘city ‘policeman on leave Coen o a os is ange " Also reported w {ties they were attacked. - Fr ALL began June 25 when of absence who has been working ah 68 JOT 44 JCal, Is One [Clarence Haynes Jr.
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Gromyko's statement on the death of Can intervention carefuily for as 23, a 328! [clue to Russia’s future intentions. | villas fled.
of the country’s top ex- Obse iled ticul tten- . W. 12th St. He died of traffic in-' FYErS called paricyar ailen ; : Ee ne ei tion to the references to American Advance American headquarters in South Korea ane
Soviet peoples.” : “No force in the world can bend : ® The Tables run daily on |traffic deaths and one drowning... grmness of the Soviet war-| can ground action o qu [riors of the army and navy in|four guerrillas.
“kee an honorable and responto undergo surgery today. . . . periods extend from the |trafie. = : ou eshing an 1 a a There were no American casualties.
time indicated to an hour | Mrs. Stella Rogers, 45, Christo- boo ose aig.
- The repulse
the guerrilla attack was the first Amerie e Korean war. The Americans killed
“The five and one-half hour skirmish took place at one.
Foreign diplomats studied Mr. of the American outer defense positions guarding Pyonge
Amer al taek, 20 miles south of Suwon. The Temainder of the guer=
tective Harold « Roseberry that didn’t pay too much attention to used card lot, 1320 N. Meridian ® Tables for today and the Mr. Neese died yesterday in responsibility for the consequen- ‘nounced the fall of Suwon, 2 miles south of the old South:
Osman’ attacked her and Mr. Mc- [6uje’s complaints of ‘mosquito’ St.
though -without-funds,-he had an first week to-his-grandsons: = —Hendarson was charged with ra (UP)—Oklahoma voters. decide] othérs in the boat were rescued:
arrangement to buy the place] from Mr. McGough by paying him ACT TO BAR RAIL STRIK
down payment, Mrs. McGough | ors mediators held extraordinary] Mr. Sowers joined the force last ington for a fifth term.
said. Osman told Sheriff Trier- holiday meetings today in an at-| March and com - pleted his one-year, They also will determine weller the sale “was the bestitempt to head off a strike by! probationary period. He is on whether Johnston Murray willl" > crashes over the nation killed Prosperity Marks Fourth.
break 3 ever—had.” _ {more than 250,000 condu ~““Like a Father
Osman sald the victim. —— 15. | said.
: |third degree burglary. His com- itoday whether Elmer Thomas, a toda = +panion,-17 years-old. was turned mem roof the = 8:-Senate for > $250 2 month with very small] CHICAGO, July 4 UP)—Fed.| aver to. Juvenile Aid Division. ey 1 aE The “gloomiest pre- 1e mes
ors, leave. pending. gclear-up of a tem- follow..in..the..footsteps. .of his. ot “jtrainmen and yardmasters -ater porary physical disability, police famoys father, William H. (Al Tay ¥ Foun el THiy Seu
remainder of the .week |Kendallville of injuries he received Ces of its action and to references Korean capital of Seoul.
| The “bigy was Tecovered early
124 years, will go back to Wash-| | dictions of safety experts were
{ being surpassed today as high-
{more persons hour-by-hour during;
ition ifalfa Bill) Murray, as governor) The total killed in trafic,
of Oklahoma.
Page 15 miles north of American-de-
—ene-TOGay in Business, by Times Business Edi-
+44 (Navy planes have been thrown oj “1{Ato tHE Korean struggle RS COVEr| fatiween the east and west
- Gough wihiile the three were rid- bites. But the following Tuesday Mr. Sowers said he spotted two are on page 14 of today's | Friday night when his motor-| to the Security Council. | Communist tanks entered! ment of Navy patrol planes ta ing in the McGough car, when he said he had them all youths prowling around the front Times. |eycie overturned on Ind. 6 near] "OASIS OF LIBERTY = 1 | Korean. waters was in ak Mrs, McGough, who is 53, said over we checked,” Mr. Mahern of the Jat where he was working | Brimfield. | CRICAGO. July 4 (UP)—Vicel Suwon at 3:30 a. m. (ndianlis mean that air cover is needed she broke free and hitchhiked to said. as a guard. He said he saw them : | Mrs. Rogers died at Bedford President. Albe wh Barkley 2a 5 apolis Time) after the South | protect the movement of. Terre Haute. . “He had. Only, they weren't take two rear-view mirrors off Oklahoma Votes {yesterday as a result of infuries| 1 1°" \ is R is of iberty hd K def “put | United States forces to the ‘Koe Osman and Mr. McGough Were mosquito. bites.”...... ‘Lone car-ahi-then-a mounted. tire. + suffered--Priday-night—in-a otha. de en ; on Be Tn thel orean defenders ‘‘put up 2 rean peninsula.) a discussing sale of the dry ciean-| Meanwhile, Mr. Mahern, who from the trunk of another. lision at the intersection of U. 8.| he Jesert of despo aw n . ® good fight” and made an or-j . South Korean troops have ing business to the younger man.'is spending his vacation this, '50-and Ind. 37- {Middle East. He appealed for fiery retreat ai American drawn. up a defense line just Mrs. McGough told authorities week “as chief cook and bottle] Calls Before Shooting In Prima Toda % vi {support to the nation last night|derly {south of Chanji and north of the Osman, sitting in the back seat, washer, has arranged for his! When ‘he’ shouted, ‘the youths pear-lake Vietim before delegates to the b3d/gnokesman said. | Americans, the spokesman said, attacked them without warning wife and child to stay next door, | started to run, Mr. Sowers said:| . Anderson drowned in Spear, annual convention of the Zionisti Suwon . airstrip, four miles] He said five North Korean die or provocation. 11509 E, Kelly St. with Mrs. Ella He called two more times. and Veteran Sen. Thomas Lake. Kosciusko County, = last Organization of America. | south. of the city, also was evac- Visions were reported to have Osman ‘worked for Mr. Me-! ‘Baker, {then fired the shet which dropped ‘night when a fishing boat cap-! {uated by the South Koreans: the| taken part in the Suwon. drive. Gough in the cleaning plant un-| “Mrs, Mahern's father, Edward Henderson. The other youth, Seeks Renomination sted while he and anather zh id f | spokesman said. [These would includs 35.000 uc Hi about eight years ago. Al-Cantwell, ‘served af nurse. the] stopped. OKLAHOMA CITY. Okla. july Pant were trading piace Two JIAGICI@ OQ Reds Reach Chandi. [5 BH Cr tom oh itaation OF
Communist vanguards were re-| North Koreans nthe field, he 7 4 ported to have overrun the air-| said Be
| strip” and “reached "Chanit, five | miles south of Suwon and only
the North (Koreans are using some 50,000 ‘troops altogether
fended Pyongtaek.
{for U. 8. shipping and protection! 5¢ Korea.
tor Harold Hartley.... 16 against enemy submarines, the The North Korean government
like a father to me.” i The tough senatorial campali r hi we Mrs. McGough was treated in ”. Cycle-Riding Youths Ready Parton ug? uatonial » mpaign gn| | (Continued on n Page 5 —Col. 8) | Towser hits the road
Terre Haute hospital for bruises. |
The beating took pl and 'Rep. Mike Monroney wn miles voriheas of Tors Haute For Little 500-Mile Race lied heavy voting despite ne Husband Swap
Man's best friend takes the vacation trail, pic-
along a county holiday. ¥ tures and story by Mr. McGough's body was founa| Event Instigated by The Times Carriers in !\7 th Sovernors race, Mr. Was All Wrong,’ Marjorie Turk. ....... a 30 I Ed 5) fat Bom 1946, to Be Held at Midget Track © JO. Coe, attorney and Worl Wife Confesses | Hoosier Fair Season
jack was found beside it. | The roar of the midgets“and “hardtops” at W, 16th Street. ‘The victim's wife said the beat- Speedway will fade before the grunts and groans of racing young-
ing occurred in the car. sters at 1:30 p. m. Saturday,
Osman drove the McGough car: That's when a group of eager bicycle-riding East Side boys, 1Board. : to about a mile from the scene 13 to 15, will carry out the Little 500-Mile Race at the quarter-
and telephoned the sheriff's office mile track.
War II veteran, and Frank P.| Douglas, former member of the NORWALK, Cal. July 4 (UP) | National Railway Mediation one half of a husband-and-wife |
Murray Favored | trading deal agreed today “it was| Mr. Murray was favored to | #11 wrong.”
to report he and Mr, McGough | ‘Instigated in 1946 by a group ™ a ys ore cheduled to be-.
“were attacked.” He did not ela- [of newspaper carriers for The borate, the sheriff said. Times, the first race was held
lead in the first primary, but, Mrs. Lynn Moore, 31, who was
Osman is being held on a vag-jon a muddy, now - abandoned quire circling the quarter-mile/jority is needed for nomination, | Ceremony was over” that she and,
rancy charge pending filing of track at 21st St. and Sherman other charges by Prosecutor John Drive,
track in a minute. Most of the Showers may siow down the her next -door neighbor, Mrs.| riders, either present or former, |balloting “in southeastern Okla-| Frances Hardy, 35, made a mis-|-Times carriers; will wear uniform {homa, where Democrats are more take ‘when they swapped hus-|
R. Jett who is out of town. : por Rapley Grows | N blue “jeans” and white T-shirts, numerous, but skies should be bands after getting divorces. | Volcani 1 le -|Ewing st. pacesetter “for thls/ 1th baci Sloth numbers sewed clear elsewhere in the state, the . Her husband, David Hardy, 43, Famous volcanic is . |year’s 25-Mile “classic,” was one| shirts to mark them. {U.’ 8. Weather Bureau said. agreed. In Indonesia Erupts of the carriers that gathered Participants to date include, There also was a souped-up| MT Hardy's ex-mate, now mar-|
at the station at 11th and Dear- David Murphy, 100 N. Gladstone|race for the Republican senator- ried to Mrs. Moore's former hus-|
JAKARTA, Indonesia, July 4 bo Ave; Donald Sickle, 1417 N. Tux- band,- apparently was perfectly] i rn Sts. lan a bicycle race. ; y fal nomination, with the Rev. Bill (UP) — The famous volcanic! Every a the carriers edo St.; Ed Barker, 1369 N. Gale] Alexander po pposing Raymond Satisfied with the arrangement, |
island of Krakatao, which almost told their buddies of past races, Bt Robert Smith, 1328 = Sale Fields, Guthrie newspaperman however. . Blew ‘itself out of existence in[until a full field of 33 set out on st. Buiery Banta. 1 ney and former public relations direc-
the old
- 1883 with one of the greatest But this year officials at the ing St.; David Bradley, 910 N. Ew- Wind Up Drives
explosions in history, eruptedimiqget track loaned them the st: Robert
» i MRS. MOORE explained that! she and Mrs, Hardy went to' Las Vegas, Nev., to obtain divorces]
N. EW- tor for the American Legion.
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again last night and sent show-/more-modern track. Since paid Ninth St.; George Scalf, 1401 N.| Mr. Thomas and Mr. Moroney last year. The day after they got
1307 night with arguments on world bands. Mrs, Moore married Mr. government and the farm ques- Hardy, and ‘Mrs. Hardy married ition, Ft - "| Howard Moore, 31. - John Strau-! The VFW opposes the UWF But, Mrs. Moore told a tent re- | Thomas and Mf Davis said he did mot|vival Sunday, “I had based my| St. John Mr. Thomés had favored! life on sin and knew that it could : the “resolution” when he indorsed not work.” \ mary nti ob 8 She ots annulment of Ly
- ers’ of cinders and stone 2000/admissions require a cashier and| HAE St: Glenn Crouse, 1205 N./wound up their campaigns last, their decrees, they traded Bor}
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observers believed he would bel converted at a revival meeting. mp, oneng brief cms “U.S. Action in Korea Gives Formosans Hope for Own
at 6 a. m. Saturday, will re- forced into a runoff as a ma-| Said she realized “the moment the]
stay tied for lead after rapping Louisville twice,
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Indianapolis today faced the] LOCAL TEMPERATURES
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{last night, the weatherman Sad ; {skies over the Hoosier ca .€ lt | would clear today but pecome| Mystery Sub Reports | cloudy again tonight and tomer- : an ie row.
Gen. Douglas MacArthur warns ‘North Koreans $ret
illa attack today and braced to meet the full forcé of =