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‘Talk About David and Goliath’

Texan With Bazooka Bags Tanks Like

By ROBERT C. MILLER, United Press Staff Correspondent

WITH U. S. EIGHTH ARMY AT THE FRONT, July’ 13—A slightly-built, 24-year-old master sergeant from Texas became the first Korean war candidate for the Silver Star today by destroying two Communist tanks with a bazooka. Sgt. J. R. Glaze, Linden, Tex., is a tank commander. His tank was shot out from under him in his first battle. He jumped out, grabbed an infantryman’s bazooka, knocked the turret off one North Korean tank, and set fire to another. The battle took place when Sgt. Glaze’s dug-in tank began a fight with a Russian-built T-34 carrying an 85millimeter gun. The American tank fired four rounds at the heavier opponent and accomplished nothing. Cpl. Roy E. Morthew told the story: = “Sgt. Glaze started to cuss when the first Korean shell hit us. He jumped up and told me to take command of the tank. Artillery and machine gun and rifle fire were buzzing all around the place, but Sgt. Glaze managed somehow not to get hit. “He yelled for.a bazooka team. But everybody was

Army to Form Two Divisions of Draftees

Sik States Whose Units Are Most Nearly Ready Probably Will Get First Guard Call By JIM G. LUCAS, Scripps-Howard Staff Writer WASHINGTON, July 13—The Joint Chiefs of Staff have agreed tentatively on partial mobilization of the National Guard, probably next week. At the same time, it was learned, the Army plans to use draftees to build up at least two new permanent divisions as part of its mobile striking force. Overall, it now

i normally based intent, Hawali with 72.7 per cent, whieh, . 50 y Mississipp! with 71 per cent

dl | Japan, are in action in Korea. one Tiatrict of Columbia with 80.8

A ‘third, the Second Infantry per cent. at Ft. Lewis Wash, has been| Numerically, the 10 strongest alerted to go. The Army's mobile guard states are New York with striking force now consists of five|29,573; California with 20,499; divisions, all based in the United Pennsylvania with 19,974; Illinois States. lwith 19,003; Texas with 14,474; : {Ohio with 14,039; Masachusetts ed + ’ Or Sizally, a Ay Dl, With 13,242; New Jersey with 11,mobile striking force and six aver. N67: Tennessee Naih 10,662 and seas. In 1949, however, the Presi- Nationally the guar d has 51.7 dent's defense budget ceilings. cent of its 1952 goal of 685.forced it to eliminate the Sixth 500 men. If any part of it is mo-

B-29s Drop

500 Tons Of Bombs On | | Guard Mobilizing

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(UP)—An American tankman fired his cannon repeatedly at a near the engine, setting it afire.” : ' § ; First B-29 Shot Raiding C rews

group of heavier, more powerfully gunned North Korean tanks : : y yesterday, but the shells just bounced off them. For his work as the first “infantryman” to knock D : i : own by Red Fliers! Mostly War Il Gls By EARNEST HOBERECHT | By RUSSELL BRINES |

The tankman, whose name must be withheld, jumped out of out two tanks, his commander has recommended Sgt. United Press Staff Correspondent | Written for the Combined Allied Pr

his tank, grabbed a bazooka from an infantryman and in a few | i seconds knocked out two tanks with point-blank fire at vulner- Glaze for the Silver Star. : i ed, 3 able spots. He was killed by machine-gun fire, Another tanker nominated for bravery was, Sgt. TOKYO, Friday, July 14—| “TOKYO, uly 13—Nearly (Editor's Note: This story and the one by Mr. Miller are Paul V. L i Ww i . ; i Columns of Communist tanks! almost identical, but the United Press reports they are two dif- » Lana, Naupaca, Wis. He rescued two dis-| 50 B-29 Superf ferent instances.)

=: ortresses plast. abled tanks by fighting his way through North Korean Struck out for the mountainiered a key North Korean

een ————— infantry to a sister tank, riding it back, and using it to Passes of Central Korea to-mij i dug in where it was safe. Finally a GI handed him his start his tank, which had a ty knocked TE Then day in a flanking drive dol ae aech Vith SO tous bazooka. Glaze went after that Russian job. Sgt. Lanaie got out again and using his tank as a tow Signed tc slice in behind the jest single air blow of Eh “Talk about David and Goliath. He cut through dragged the second disabled American medium tank to | American forces along the Kumig,.aon campaign i . the woods and came out about 20 yards to one side and , safety. . | River defense line before Taejon.| ne mission inaugurated mass

{ (At Washington, the Air Force| let fire, From the way he stood there, exposed to every The chunky sergeant got a smashed hand out of the today reported the first loss in Precision bombing by two groups

North Korean infantryman in the place, you would have = deal when a turret snapped shut on it. Although re- Sombat ED bomber nthe i Supesients haseted here from ; : 3 eir West Coas R thought he was on maneuvers. peatedly splattered with mud and dirt by near misses (An Alt Force spokesman sald| yap trained note fl “The bazooka caught the tank right at its turret f t d rifle fi i i the B29 crew Daileq cutiin wel a te 3 g of mortar and rifle fire, Sgt. Lanaie was unhurt until the ad Ble ions bug fan ar a .|Seoul area after being attacked four-engine bombers from two off. e Korean tanker came out of there cover hit him. “by an unknown number of Far Eastern bases through rain

like a rabbit and beat it.” “It was all my own fault,” he said. “I forgot to [SPemY aircraft.” and mist for the largest mass But Sgt. Glaze wasn't satisfied yet. fasten the thing. Guess I must have been a little ery. Neue Jeport dicated that he ore Tl RE Desarget He went after a second tank. He stalked it from = ous.” : |many days, was now going aloft:the 38th Parallel. :

i vw um oo x. ow : again.) { All of the planes and the > | the or Korean push around eager, utr veterans oe hats » eas of the Americans i Héirr as reported by field dispatches thott meeting opposition and Gen, Douglas MacArthur's . hi ’ Y |nike eign das to ’ . “Enemy y 000m. She | But He's No Kin [Enemy enveloping forces re gary “oversens orders’ were” ok - To the Harry S. bek mountain passes in an at- Jelivered to the release of the . s ite 0 brea roug! tween , | SAN FRANCISCO, July 13 Taegu and Taejon,” Gen. Mac. In that time the men, thelr {4 i” arty ruman was fined! A pthyr reported. ‘plans, and most of their equip131 Job sing arunk in and about! guch. a breakthrough would ment were moved 8000 miles and jan, 0 ha ran ine a parked cut the arterial transport lines prepared for an air blow that 15a uman, 60, 1s a Demo-ipetween the Americans digging in meant a round trip of more than. a and a stevedore. He claims along the Kum River and the big 1500 miles. no relationship to the President. American entry port of Pusan on Noties to J Ei FRANKFURT Germany. July the southeast coast. ne hy l13 (UP)—Germans e drinking! Dirty Weather “ Alr officers hers © said ! this ? {lass beer now than 5 years ago, | any Wehner in the hatte a the speed with which stra. the German Brewers ation | round-the-clock tegic bombing assignments could |saia today. 4508! " assault by American Aus- be throughout the 1000 astoiation said {hat in directly heHIRd the lines One of 1B par eabita beer conBumption "“.,. C RA el 8 IH URE {was more than 118 quarts an- | ~ “American ground units in Ko-'ers, 1st Lt. James T. Pat ek, BP ‘nually, The average now is 30 '°» are fighting one of the most Carnation, Wash., said it differ , |quarts annually. yskilltul and heroic holding actions ently: ad : ro» in history,” Gen. MacArthur said.| “This will make Uncle Joe sit NEW YORK, July 13 (UP)=~ | The regular midnight communi \up and take notice.” © Pete, the oldest hippopotamus que, trailing well behind field re-| "This correspondent was in Pate , in captivity, celebrated his 47th [ports, said American and South ; RO 2 Tw birthday today at the Bronx Korean forces “continued to with- 4 7 J of toc Zoo. raw before numerically superior) after gets % NT a ey $85 » {forces to take up defenses behind [Fo But a few miles ay 0 Ee PLAINFIELD, N. JI. July 13 ting our plane — and ‘its 20,000 : Pe ag » No J, July 13 prepared positions and natural ds of bombs—off the gro ‘ Yai (UP)—Kings Super Market hére barriers.” ¢ jpounds of -bom ground, Vial ©» 3 a imoved automobiles in among its| The main movement to which =, had to turn back with a& WS aa a. {groceries today and started sell- it referred was the U. 8. with. faulty engine.

{ing them at 72 cents a pound. {drawal to the south bank of the! The remainder of the bombers Acme telephotos by Fd Hoffman That's a total of $1495 for the Kum, a dozen miles north of ade a perfect overwater rendez.

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Division, formerly based in Korea. ,i;04 the draft will be used to ang io drop plans for the Eighth pring those units up to full mo-| Ditsion in this country, {bilization strength, They also|

Presumably, the Sixth andiyy receive the arms and equip-| Eighth Divisions now will be re-imant they need for eat] Py

activated. {Korea—or whether they will re-|

Air Guard Unaffected i Each state—plus Hawaii, Puer- Place regular Army divisions in {this country—is not known.

to Rico and Alaska-—has its own National Guard. However, they]

are organized into 27 divisions | AT my Says Guard

t d and 25 infantry. In| addition, there are 17 air wings. Call Not Planned

For the time being, however, P there is no thought of mobilizing] WASHINGTON, July 13 (UP)

the Air Guard. |—An Army spokesman ‘said to-

; lday that there is no plan to issue The guard has approximately ,nother draft call or to call up 350,000 ground force officers and tne National Guard enlisted men. Approximately one-| go warned however, that nothird of the guard went to SUMmMer | ,,4y cap tell at this stage of the

camp in June, another third is ; training this month and the re-| orean fighting what future re. 08 : quirements will be, mainder will go to camp in Aug-| ° g.joetive ust. oe " |ordered to draft 20,000 men and It was learned that the jointlexpects to have them in camp by chiefs have their eye on six of Sept. 30. the guard's best trained and or-| There had been reports that

Whether any will be sent to|

ganized divisions. That does not the Army would soon’ call for 3

mean all will be called. But some yq4djtional draftees. Some cox—or parts of some-wik [gressmen -want the National Alabama in Lead {Guard mobilized. : ” _ The National Guard Bureau| But the spokesman said no gays all of its divisions are in such plan is in the works now. about the same state of readiness.| The Korean war conceivably It refuses to say that one is in could make another draft call better shape than the others. | necessary to replace troops sen However, the guard's most to the Far East. recent press release says the five

leading states.in percentage of Wampler Loses

total strength are Alabama with,

80.9 per cent of its total aliot- To Alex Garbacz

ment, Tennessee with 73.6 per

Earlier Story, Page 36

Alex Garbacz, South Bend, shot a consistent one-over-par 71 to

Fashion Note: eliminate Fred Wampler Jr. one-

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— Dior — who launched |11, 14 and 15. the “New Look” ‘way Both Garbacz and the defendback when. You'll find [ing champion shot nifty one-un-out about it tomorrow in |der-par 34's on the front nine to Louise Fletcher's fashion |finish all even at the turn. They report from New York. [cooled off considerably on the 1 * back, Garbaez posting a 37 and ® Miss Fletcher, The Times Wampler a 38 on the medal. Woman's Editor, is there

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Bazooka man Pfc. Mervin Humphreys of Story, Ark., looks over ridge beside his weapon as he British-made Hillman Minx cars: Taejon. (vous and released their bombs at guards ‘a 155-mm. gun position in front line against Red tanks in Korea. { They're being sold just like! It was after the positions in 1102 & m. (Japanese daylight ; {meats or produce, said Joseph the U. §. sector were stabilized ime) through mist so thick that Bildner, president of the 20-store along the Kum that front re. [®dar was used to sight the tar chain. No salesmen, just an in, ports said Communist troops, 8®% : [formation clerk. Immediate de- armor and artillery were reported| . Ma). Gen. Emmett (Rosy) livery. Cash sales rung up on the wheeling eastward to join in the O Donnell directed this first mis. | register. : | big-scale flanking maneuver, sion of his new command, the Far 8 2.2 Gen. MacArthur reported that “ast Bomber Command (provise EAST LANSING, Mich., July | tw, Communist divisions, the 5th 10081). The 43-year-old general,

18 (UP)—William Kramer, 43, land 15th, were mauling South Once a West Point football coach, was held on check forgery .

{led the first wartime B-290 raid | Kore for > charges today. He was arrested |xo Se northeast of Tasgm {9B Japan. = when 1 ne SORENTO Je | The South Koreans were falling] Combat Tested with his right Ae. {back in the general area to the, About 60 per cent of the men

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; Dram | east of the U, 8. positions. /in his new command are combate = | “Reinforcements believed to be tested veterans of thunderous pats | ; { Korean veterans from Manchuria tern bombing missions from Gers & | Id 0 d {are reported in Seoul,” Gen. Mac- many to Japan. They were geared | h | Arthur reported. (\ [for battle today with confident . : |. North-Korean armor, artillery eagerness. ; Ss 3 F > ~ land infantry were reported wheel-| The bombers were skittish, each { I EH 0 ing eastward from the Kum River loaded with 10 tons of explosives, | ’ ? [restos United Press Copesong. jand precision flying as well as . . . ent Rutherford Poats said ina precision bombing was essential. Fo Will Be in Uniform |dispatch - from the Korea war Pe squadron v3 carried more On zone. explosives than three times as | Y or Before Sop, 30 “Heavy pressure -on-the ‘south many of the famous B-24s ung = y G GORDON {Korean lines and a buildup of loaded in World War II, a | Indianapolis and Marion County Red forces on the southeast coast. "I wish they had forgotten my {will furnish 100 men in Indiana’s ahove Pohang supported the be- name this. time” said Staff Sgt.

578 first “emergency call," State lief that the invaders m w pokane, k > a illiam Kofmehl, of 8 Selective Service officials said to- planning to by-pass the Ya pn ne 5 _ day. Nationally the call is for River and hit through the middle,” (Continued on Page 3—Col. ¢) 2000. en. wiil be. » Mr. Poats’ dispatch said. | Re 9 eg oo. g r ; [oodles en € in. uniform Slugging Through Hills i . a lm Nis Ea 4 al j50t later than Sept. 30 and prob-| A spokesman at advanced CONViCIS Seek fo Enlist oY Ba Be reign : vw 1 |ably before. American neadquarters said North| LAGRANGE, Ky., July 13 (UP) - |, Jota. breakdowns for Indi- Korean armor and artillery “SAOUL 299 Senviets at the ats First Ameri . " info araves in first America ocal boards were as- already was slugging down Teformatory petition . can casualties of war are lowered into graves ican cemetery to be 'signed today following receipt of through the hills NEES miles adjutant general today for res a complicated and detailed for- south of Chongju, north of Tae-/ease so they can volunteer for

established on Korean soil. {mula from national draft head- jon, and approaching the eastern combat duty in Korea. The pris. |

: : ° i : quarters. ' reach f the Kum. ™h ./oners, all war veterans, said A On the Inside : ! Have a Question - 400 To Answer Call phen oF Te ZI 278 BEE would like to atone for our mis.

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