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: hit railroad bridges in the areas pr eriv oh until their ammuni- , the North Korean tion was exhausted. The survivors
of Pyongyang capital, Kanko and Shinashu, and! an air field at Wonsan. One) bridge was damaged. A dispatch just before mid-|
- night from U. 8. headquarters in
Korea disclosed that ’the Yanks. and South Koreans had given up| a defense line they had sought to establish on thé south bank of a river flowing alongside Com-! munist - captured Pyongtaek, 21. miles south of Suwon. { The Communist drive along the western tidelands of Korea was reported halted at a point less] than 50 miles northeast of Tae-| jon. Whether the halt was any more than the usual pause at! nightfall was not indicated. ‘Rain Clouds Lift The low scudding rain clouds
kept both Allied and North Kor-
ean air activity to a minimum.’ They lifted late in the day. . Front dispatches said American® outposts suffered “heavy casualties” in their futile efforts to stem the northern advance. The North Korean government radio reported that more than 150 American soldiers were killed and 50 others captured 6n the muddy battlefieid yesterday. The Communists were said to be using 160 to 170 armored ve-! hicles. ranging from armored cars, to medium tanks to back up their | offensive. American forces be lieved they have knocked out 25 to 35 of them and the Koreags, another 15. . Spearheaded by 40 tanks and 1000 infantrymen, the Communist column was punching its way south so rapidly that headquarters for the advanced American forces had to be moved three times within 24 hours, Out of Ammunition Reports reaching Gen. MacArthur's headquarters said the Communist command had thrown five divisions—some-50,000 troops: -~into their main frontal attack! on the American defenses. below Suwon. ~~ Allied strength was not disclosed. The only ¢lue was an official report last week that an American divi§ion, nominally 15, 000 troops, would be in Korea by the Fourth of July to bolster the retreating South Korean forces, First ‘hint-of -the- American set back came in front reports telling of outflanked American outposts
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{the situation was
Toward Pusan;
“heavy” ca sualties, but
{made their way back to American lines in the rear. Then Maj. Gen. William F. "Dean, commanding U, 8. Army {forces in Korea, said the Armeri-
icans had “withdrawn slightly to' to| improve their positions” and were |
‘holding along a river line “somefiers south of Suwon.
Becomes Full-Fledged’ “Rout, Writer Finds
By JACK JAMES | United Press Staff CO. WITH U. 8, TROOPS ON THE KOREAN FRONT, July 4 (Delayed)—We took a half-hour nap) in Suwon today, and woke to find! the town abandoned. In those 30 minutes, a general
Small Detachments _ Finally a spokesman at U. 8 {Advance headquarters in Korea! {reported the loss of Pyongtaek and added: “Actually we've only withdrawn! {eight or 10 miles. We only had] {small advance. detachments at
{Suwon and Pyongtaek.”
He said Pyongtaek lies on the north bank of the new river line being defended by the Americans.| Tonight, the spokesman said, “stable.” This| afternoon, he ‘had said, it was “Auld.” The spokesman said the Ameri-jcan-South Korean defense line ‘across the 200-mile waist of the! Korean peninsula runs from a point south of Pyongtaek, through Chéchon, 63 miles east northeast of Pyongtaek, to Nokchonni, 92 {miles east of Suwon. American reinforcements are on the way to the front, he said. Fragmentary reports from the front indicated the Reds pushed! their offensive continuously from the time they launched their first:
ifeint at American outposts below
Suwon soon after 5 day . (Indianapolis
p. m. TuesTime), then
swung wide xround the advanve munications equipment had been}
positions and smashed at artillery batteries in the rear. American officers conceded that the strength of the Commu-
‘nist attack surprised them. But
they said American reinforcements were pouring into the front. lines and clearing weather should | bring the first air support of the battle. The North Koreans also were claiming a naval victory. Radio
‘Pyongyang said the North Kore-
an navy sank an American cruiser and two other warships in an engagement off Chumunjin, on the east coast just south of the 38th parallel border between North and South Korea. Navy spokesman at Gen. MacArthur's headquarters dismissed” the report by saving it was * news to us.
War Reporter Captured
TOKYO, “July 6 (UP) — The] North Korean government radio said today that Northern troops have captured United Press War Correspondent Peter Kalischer on the Suwon front, The Pyongyang broadcast said Tom Lambert of the Associated] Press also had been captured at! Suwon. However, UP Correspondent Robert Miller said he found Mr. Lambert safe at advanced American headquarters .in South Korea after the broadcast. i
Mr.-Kalischer last was reported,
with American troops holding a/
700-foot ridge commanding a val-|and Luzon in the Philippines, and, Wounded.
ley through which ran the road
Mr. Kalischer went to the front. to relieve UP. War Correspondent Jack James. Communications
‘with the advance outpost were
{cut soon after Mr. James reached the rear. ; x The 35-year-old Kalischer was born in New York and studied at] ‘Columbia University. During! World War II, he was a special] lagent in the U. S. Army Intelli\gence Corps in the Pacific the- | (ater. His assignments “took him to! Hollandia, New Guinea, Leyte!
finally Japan. - Discharged from
drawal had become a full-fledged
iroad slowed traffic and at times
but leisurely South Korean with-
rout. And there were only ad-
vancing Communist troops ahead |- lof .
us: Capt. EM: Lowry of Santiago, [Cal., an American adviser to the {South Korean army, Acme Pho{tographer Richard Ferguson and 'T had jeeped into Suwon shortly before noon. South Korean staff officers there admitied the looked serious, but no one seemed to be in a hurry about getting out! of town. re So we: drove our jeep into a protective area near the South] Korean army headquarters and] broke open a carton of C- rations) for lunch. Awakened by Blast’ Having had only an hour an aj half sleep the night before, we] then took a nap. An explosion roused us a half hour later, When we looked around, we| rubbed’ our eyes in disbelief. Wel" were the only persons left at army headquarters, No other ve-! hicles, no other human beings were -in sight. All maps and com-|
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stripped from the offices. We didn't wait to a: estigatel further. We got into our jeep and| drove out through the towering | medieval South Gate. Just, a short way along the road, ‘we caught up with South | Korean troops marching south on | (either side. Then we ran smack into traffic jam of former American Army trucks packed with Korean soldiers, jeeps carrying eight or nine passengers, and ambulancés| filled with men, 4 Bike With One Tire {
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One soldier with his rifle flung|
across his back was pedaling south on a bicycle that had only: one tire. I driven—wit Carts and trucks on the narrow
stopped it altogether. Near Osan, 11 miles south of Suwon, traffic was jammed for nearly. six miles, That was where the North Korean Yaks hit us. We saw five of them in time to get the jeep off {the road and camouflage it in a farmer's yard. I found protection behind a {hedgelined dike and soon .was | joined by a score of scaréd South i Korean soldiers. The strafing planes set a truckload of gasoline drums afire and soon the street nearly was blocked by flames. But the strafing generally was ineffective. We counted only two dead in Osan and there were very few
and railway approaches .to Su-|the Army in Japan in December, ! won. He had left for the Northern | 1945, he joined the UP in Tokyo.| positions at 5 p. m. Tuesday, In- In October, 1947, he married Miss
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Declares Fleet Is Adequate
TOKYO, July 6 (UP)~—The commander of the U. 8S. Seventh Fleet’ now guarding the Chinese Nation-
“alist Island of Formosa against
Communist attack said today that the fleet could prevent any large scale invasion of the island. “I don’t anticipate letting any large invasion, get through,” Vice Admiral Arthur D. Struble told a press conference. Adm. —Struble, who commands combined... American-British naval force, left the fléet in a carrier-based plane ~ and then transferred to another plane on land to report here to Gen. Douglas MacArthur and Vice AS miral Charles T. Joy, comman
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“of Naval Forces in the Far East.
Adm, Struble said the Chinese
Mustangs Muster in West
WASHINGTON, July 6 (UP)— ‘An undisclosed number of - Mus-| tang fighters assembled on the’ West Coast today to join the bat-
“tie for Korea and give-the-Ameri= 'some 300 miles away,
can air offensive the punch Jet
_planes could not deliver.
The Air Force would not say when or how the Mustangs will get to Japan. But they may ride along with Mariné air units now expected to be ferriéd to the Far East by the carrier Boxer. : Once on ‘the war front, the Mustangs are expected to replace rapidly the F-80 Shooting Star jets which have prov ed ineffective
Soft Shoes Trap Y
Soft shoes ma yhelp a burglar, but in this case they also led to his detection. y Investigating an over n igh t| burglary at the Bynum Market, 910 - Virginia Ave, Patrolmen Kenneth ‘Stephens and Edward Donahue spotted a unique shoeprint on an enamel table top. The print was dotted, apparently from a rubber soled shoe. About an hour later | the police-
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Discounts Early. ,
Reverses in Fighting (Continued From Page One) military picture in Korea. He said was not in a position to com-
ent. "He knocked down several re-
Communists did not have enough warships to challenge directly his fleet off Formosa. Adm. Struble’s ships and planes hit North Korean targets July 3 and 4, . He said the carrier planes. dia he not find many North Korean ™
lanes and-that anti-aircraft fire! § 2h “minor the first day.but in- Ports concerning possible mobili
creased on the second.” He said Zation of reserves in this country. his-forees-aeccomplished ‘consider-+ He said a great many arm-chair
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Adm. Striible said two North Ang up reserves has’ not been Korean planes attacked the -car- discussed. :
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in combat against ‘the North Ko-| not at the present time.
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1 been hampered. by distance an | weather—and their own speed. ~Operating from Japanese bases, “Desperado Hunt { they have; MUNICH, Germany, July 6 been limited to 10 minutes or less (UP)—U. 8. Air Force and Gerover the -target:area. They also man police threw road lode! have been forced by foul Co ) | weather to fly low, boosting their 2C€TOSS highways leading Roth fuel consuniption. from Munich today in their Furthermore, pilots of the 600- gearch for two Air. Force des-mtle-per-hour jets have complained that if ‘they missed, their| peradoes who: broke from an first pass at a Yak, even at! Afmy, jal three days ago. slowed-down § speeds, the ‘jets! The escaped prisoners, Pvt. would be miles away before they Lon Stephens, 19, of Pampa, Tex., could turn for another attack, land Corp. John Vetter, 20,. of ‘— I Mobridge, 8. Di, 8 | heading north toward ,Stuc art outh. in Burglary [by automobile. men spotted a boy in the area’ The desperadoes,. convicted of! wearing soft shoes. The size and armed robbery and awaiting trial lunusual pattern checked. * |for previous jail breaks, cut The boy admitted the theft and through the plastered ceiling ‘of {implicated three -others. Police | their cell block Monday might and took the four boys, one ¥ and| disappeared into the Bavarian three 16, to Juvenile Aid.” They woods. admitted stealing $15 in pennies, They were believed armed with 125 cartons of cigarets and three a tommy gun and 1000 rounds of cartons of chewing gum. {stolen amunition. The boy said he climed on the| Police received orders to shoot table to reach a high shelf, ‘to kill.
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