Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 July 1950 — Page 1

FORECAST: Warm, humid with occasional showers today and tomorrow. High today, 87; low; 70. High tomorrow, 85.

MONDAY, JULY 11, 1950

Entered as Second-Class Malte 4 at Postofiice

An Editorial— : Prepare! Prepare! Prepare!

AMERICA stands today in deadly danger. the National Guard and the organized Three weeks of the crisis that took vio- reserve be called up for training now. lent form in Korea have made our coun- Brave Americans in Korea are paying try’s peril starkly plain, "the fearful price of inadequate training President Truman's swift reaction to 2nd inadequate weapons. that crisis was brave and right, and for Other Americans who may have to it there should never be regret. fight deserve the fullest possible opporBut every passing ‘day has shown tunity for adequate training before they more clearly how ill prepared we are to *'° sent into battle.

: They deserve an adequate supply of carry out the task so willingly and proud! y eq pply undertaken. gy P Y the most effective weapons their country’s

Each day has brought some com- unequalled industrial system can produce, |

pelling new necessity for revising upward OFF1 > 3:9 to Congress Wednesday a CIAL Washington is wasti ial tinin the official estimates of what that task’s gt ng |special message outlining

o precious time debating whether it will completion will require.

Reds Working To Undermine i U.S. in Korea

RED Communist Party LTR Here Fights Against

rag Yanks on Home Front By FREDERICK WOLTMAN Se ~Howard Staft Writer WASHINGTON, July 17— The Communist Party has launched an all-out offensive to undermine America’s military intervention in Korea.

From its peacetime role as Stalin's advance propaganda FO agent here, it has turned to a new, far more dangerous vener ture, The Communist Party is now in the fighting war—on the side of the enemy, | Tts immediate strategy is to undermine morale at home and 3°) give all aid and comfort possible to the North Korean enemy and {ts sponsor, the Soviet Union. And there's nothing Uncle Sam ean do about it, In the absence of a formal declaration of war, the Sedition Act is useless, No Legal Weapon Even if the Korean conflict breaks wide open; with Russia lined up against the democracies, the United States has no legal weapon readily available to deal with the Communist fifth eolumn. Yet, since the Korean outbreak June 25, the Communists’ antiAmerica drive has been mounting daily, Their mouthpiece, the Daily Worker, slashes with increasing fury at America’s policies, motives and military preparations to withstand Soviet aggression. . Last Thursday, the party's official organ played up an obviously . phony charge that American military advisers had used human, ' living targets while while traning Sout

(Continued on n Page 3-—-Col. 8)

Inside of The Times

Page Gordon Dean, new chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, received his post by “a mere process of elimination,” reports Peter Edson, Jimmy Byrnes, sure to be Governor

Only Two Red Tanks Break Across River; Yanks Knock Out Both

Enemy Clamps Pincer on 3 Sides of City; U. §. Forces Escape North and West By EARNEST HOBERECHT, United Press Staff Correspondent TOKYO, Tuesday, July 18—The main American force has abandoned the strategic city of Taejon, a dispatch from the front said today. The Communists are closing in on the city from thres sides. Taejon formerly was the emergency capital of the South Korean government, (At Washington high military spokesmen said today pr what the home front must dress nation. a he eas Korean reakeiougl there i 4if nece \ ™ 4 os e an ace in which to stabilize Bn eure os 5 a sary to mobilize for all-out war |do to assure victory in 5p

; production, ret: var “R iti D raft land throw back the invaders.) first that American sea and air forces Tt is urgently necessary right now— | He also will broadcast to the ECT in ’ Id Gen. Douglas MacArthur's midnight communique did could quickly liberate South Korea from | pation at 9:30 p. m. (Indianapolis » St I not mention abandonment of Taejon, but said heavy

and not by the fumbling, piecemeal | I Time). 5 ! half a dozen invading Communist divi processes of World War II which failed This was revealed today pressure from two and possibly three Communist divisions sions, believed to have a few Russian to insure utmost speed in production or |cOnressional leaders after a c had forced an American withdrawal in the Tasjon-Kongju~ . i f ith Mr. Trum aks which wold be Iceciv in te in prevent grave infamy damage 1 |“ vie Ho lr 7 Rogihants ‘Mot Nigel H th . . the national economy. man would announce: =k Selective Service Bich bel a que sal e mmunists: were paying OW wrong they were. This week the President expected to ONE: Plans for calling some of Recrulting offices and draft a gh price for the ground they gained and that the * ¢ call on Congress for la the National Guard into federal bo American withdrawal was orderly. AFTER THR i rge additional mili- service to replace Regular Army ard workers reported another R EE weeks of American {apy appropriations. divisions sent to the Far East; |\beurae of inquires today fol- 2 Tanks Knocked Out defeats and retreats it is evident that very He will do well to ask for more money, | TWO: Ask more money to fi- a Te uu It added that only two Communist tanks had succeeded large ground forces, well equipped with less, than he is 2aid to have in mind. [hance the war; At Marion County Draft Board|i! crossing to the south bank of the Kum River and that heavy weapons, will have to be supplied 5,4 he wonldl do well to ask. at the aaron THREE; Perhaps ask for ex- Glen Ju, Helen Mitchum said/both had been destroyed. : ’ cess profits taxes on corporations; the offices were “mobbed” this if South Korea is to be liberated in six FOUR: Seek anti. inflationary morning with men eager to The news of the abandonment of Taejon came from controls on consumer credit; register. Gene Symonds, United Press war correspondent who

FIVE: Some controls to assure| U. 8. Army, Air Force, Navy toured the city around 6 a. m. (In i that armament plants get suffi- and Marine recruiting stations. He said that y ron allv th ( dianapolis Time) today. clent steel without delays. 'had all the business they could cally the Americans still held Taejon,

The President will follow up the| handle, Army clerks were pre. but added: message with a broadcast on all| paring for an even greater rush “The onl i major radio and television net- When prospective enlistees who jcall y parsons in the . WOThs. previously failed to pass entrance Practically deserted city were War afl a Glance— White House Secretary Charles | tests discover the required score some South Korean soldiers TOKYO — U. 8. forces, outs

G. Ross said the message to Con-|{has been lowered. gress would be “quite comprehen-| Indianapolis’ call to colors re- whose vehicle had stopped, numbered 10 to one, abandon Taejon, rail and high-

sive, giving the background of the Rive a greater response than{one or two civilians and situation, explaining all the steps Other large cities. about a dozen 8." taken by this government and National Response ‘Spotty’ Mr. d dose Ola ted way hub, under pressure of a three-pronged pincer; fall M |there ‘was some doubt whether| so. orth and. west; only r. Ross said the radio address convenience of enlistees reported iy. rest could Set out before the would be “possibly a simplifica- & “spotty” response. Chicago was | re be able to understand.” Army headquarters termed enlist-| rhe patter 'AT THE FRONT — Y (8 Reporters asked if the message ments “disappointing.” fighting GI's red oa Jasiausly slaughter Red } . nk Mr. Ross replied that of course flict. it would be concerned with do-| At the Marion County Draft| Their defense of Taejon was message on Korea Wednesday; President to broads man will ask for more billions in|to handle applicants. ; valor and effectiveness against military funds—the guesses| Mrs, Mitchum asked all vet- overwhelming odds.

All Networks Of Radio, TV To Carry Talk

Due to Explain Duty of Public

In Korean War

By LYLE C. WILSON United Press Staff Correspondent

WASHINGTON, July 17— | President Truman will send

1841: every CI ale 1 age] (CH cu. ft foot

President Truman , , . fo ad-

4511S re

time, for stand-by total mobilization powers. Nobody relishes the thought of government controls of industry and materials -and manpower, of higher taxes, of ceilings on prices and wages, of rationing of scarce essentials, of all the things that had to be done before, and weren't done well and goon enough. . But no sane American can afford to tolerate the thought of what will surely happen if, while refusing to do these things in time, we attempt to produce the vast supply of military materiel made essential by America’s deadly danger. * oo MAKE NO mistake, have no illusions, about the realness of that danger. Partial exposes our own country to fearful risk of invasion, conquest and destruction. We need nothing less than all the preparedness work and skill and money can provide and time permit. Our only safety is in preparedness. Our

months or longer, It must be, can be, will be done. But meanwhile the revelation of our unpreparedness even for a minor war in Korea has alarmed our friends in Westérn Europe and is undermining their faith in our ability to help them in case of need. And meanwhile our weakness is an open invitation to our enemies in the Kremlin to order new acts of aggression by .their puppet satellites, or to attack America itself before we can recover the strength we need. There is only one safe answer to this threat. We must prepare. At whatever cost, at whatever effort, at whatever sacrifice of business and politics as usual, we must prepare. And we must never again fall prey to the delusion that Stalin can be swerved from his career of conquest by preparedness plans that remain on paper. $ & ¢

containing certain legislative rec- Recruiting officers throughout ommendations.” the United States who manned (S70S that some Americans Easy to Understand | desks Saturday and Sunday. for | aejon, an : two Red tanks cross Kum tion” of the message to Congress| “much better than expected” but vic closing Bs Eo mmunist] River In breakthrough, —“g speech that everybody will| Boston was “very slow” and Fifth. tapped ia both knocked out. would contain any “domestic rec-| San Francisco officers said en-|the city after Comm : ommendations as opposed to mil-|listments had “sparked up con- |outnumbering them use Tors, into GI foxholes like ants, itary recommendations.” siderably” during the Korean con-|the defense positions along the WASHINGTON—Con to ust River Borth of Tasjon. hear President Truman's mestic problems, but he would Board, Mrs. Mitchum praised vol-ithe stiffest delaying action yet not go into detalls. i help at eh she fought in the Korean War. Gen. It seemed certain that Mr. Tru=|said, it would have n difficult Douglas MacArthur praised their : cast to nation Wednesday night; high military spokes.

rs gE

ER pron

of South Carolina, is now in a much better position to wage his states-rights batThe last chapter in the life of “a wondrous monster named Mister Colin Glencannon” has closed with the death of his oreatoer, Guy Gilpatrie, Robert C, Ruark records his Capitol Oilers eek out a 4-3 win over the E. C. Atkins squad in yesterday's Amateur Day program at Vietory Field. Proposed comeback for Joe Louis has many angles to it reports Dan Daniel. Tribe gains ground in the AA race while taking a drubbing from the Brewers in MilWAUKES «casssscacnansslly #Shish-Kebab” chapeau for women brought back from Africa hy Mr. Fred of John Frederics, Inc. How are you going to pack your car for a long vacation jaunt? Here's a schedule you might follow Loot from the forays of a North Side teen-age gang may run into several thousand dollars. «..coceses King Farouk of Egypt secretly married Narriman Sadek last May and the couple may be expecting a baby soon, according to London's Sunday Pictorial. TU math prof. given the Indiana authors’ award for 1940 for his_ history book. “Lincoln Finds a General”

sass ssnanensn

eversesnssrsssnnendy

sess nanns

‘Does your mouth water when

you smell the sizzling onions in a hamburger joint? Do you think it would be swell to own one? You'll get your chance if you read Harold Hartley's “Today in Business." Amusements siseseccsden 6 Bridge SANNA NBNRNNIE 4 Classified #..00veeenss 14-18 Comics astm atssusenrn SS 17 Crossword Sessssensensne 11 Editorials essssssascense 10

ssssssissssscsnne 10

Movies Ni ssassnstsnsne Pattern s.oocecsacsnsence RAG Svs CRANE NBBNARIRNIS Side Glances S88 sene adh dot 8 3 5 EERE SEE ES } 7] RAS AEARSNG LE. Sports Cesssnnarearnns } Teen Problems Sasa nana ; Earl Wilson SESE innnne 2 WOmMED'S «.ovrrvrsvornien

, mission Tuesday for permission

VOLUNTEERING quickly proved not enough to fill the need for military manpower. The draft is not enough. It operates too slowly. Prudence dictates that members of

Better too

|38-Apartment Unit Send Pictures

Of Servicemen

Zoning 0K Sought To The Times

@® The Times wants to 17 Buildings Planned

honor servicemen—or For North Side

servicewomen—in your family by publishing The Edge Mere Corp, headed| by M. L. Hall, will go before the

their pictures in The Times with information Marion County Planning Com-

about them, ® How to get that picture

for , the of 8 t to in The Times is explain-

only chance of deterring Communist aggression is in preparedness. Our only hope for world peace is in preparedness.

And better too Boon than too late.

range as high as $8 billions, But that probably is too high—and spell out the needs’ in industrial and military manpower.

much than too little.

ed on Page 9 , .. where you will also find a convenient coupon to list the information needed. TURN TO PAGE 9

build 10 apartment buildings with 58 separate apartments. The project would include 17 three-bedroom apartments, 26 two-bedroom apartments and 15

one-bedroom apartments Mr Oliver Plant Strike St actures “garden type” Ends at South Bend

The tract is located 300 feet| SOUTH BEND, July 17 (UP)— west of N. Keystone Ave. on the Some 475 workers at the Oliver orth side of 524 St. B Nine other tracts congisting of day to end their 40-day-old strike 240 acres will be up for approval against the company.

of the commission along with The strikers, members of the lots am, iy seven nit 387 CIO United Auto Workers union, |

sions. walked off their jobs June 6 to} larges le protest the discharge of a union | The k Sing 8 Tequest 18 committeeman accused of destroy(Continued on n Page 3-—Col. 8) e a time study report.

By ROBERT 'C. MILLER, United Press Staff Correspondent WITH AMERICAN FORCES ON THE KOREAN|.

FRONT, July 17—The Communists came by the thousands

ER in fanatical, screaming waves. Right into American foxholes

and beyond. American artillery fired at point-blank range as fast as it could be loaded, but it couldn't stop them for long. Neither could U. 8. machine-gunners who piled up Communist bodies like cordwood in front of their guns. For every one killed, 10 took his place. And still they came. An aid station was enveloped. The North Koreans killed all the wounded, even the chaplain who had stayed behind to comfort the men. That is how the North Koreans caved in the American line on the Kum River north of Taejon Sunday. They won sheer weight of numbers. In simple arithmetic, it was

Corp. plant here voted yester- |

The nation eventually may be many burdensome wartime con{trols unless spending and time " = = = limits speedily are fixed in the | ISION Korean fighting. i oo Controle and taxes may be pro-| y posed piecemeal because this is a To Get First Call Vice President Alben W. Bark-| ' ley said Mr. Truman will not go! before Congress in person, | Congress Ready Order Wednesday Lucas (D. I.) said Congress will] Top state military leaders ex- act “with all speed” on whatever’ pect Indiana's all-Hoosier Na- recommendations the. President] ; {sends to Capitol Hill tional Guard division to be one of the first called to thé colors {ing that would hold up action on in the event President Truman the President's recommenda-| orders any National Guard troops tions” he said. C - into Federal service. {| Mr. Lucas said the Congres-| { “They probably will call the sage with the President only “in| {best trained outfits,” one high- a general way.” When reporters ranking officer said tod asked what type of controls the 8 - 2y;, “%n0 | President would -seek, Mr. Lucas { sion.” Ibe controls.” | One officer said he Jooked for| As to whether Mr. Truman will| Pre 3 “ sient. Truman 10. order] {Mr. Rayburn said the presidential some guard units” to federal message—not yet completed—will land the nation Wednesday | With the Korean fighting going Meanwhile, Indiana National against the Americans, the Presi{Guard officers prepared for the dent is expected to request at! division’ s annual encampment at least partial economic as well as

asked to accept higher taxes and campaign year. One Officer Expects | Senate Majority Leader Bcott “There is no legislation pend-| {sional leaders discussed the mes-| that's us, the 38th Infantry Divi gig “1 do not know if there will | duty in his message to Congress have to speak for itself. [Camp Atterbury July 30. {military mobilization.

LT. A. A. DIANDA of Marquette, Mich., told how it was in the front lines.

couldn’t miss. | “We were dug in on a dike along the river,” he said. | “They opened up on us about 4: 30 a. m. Sunday. The fire|

“The first attack came right behind the barrage. This | first group of North Koreans carried only knives and hand | grenades. “They swam the river and. ‘scrambled up the banks and came right into the foxholes where we were ducking]

EE Aira Int sows 7

erans born before Aug. 30, 1922, to refrain from sending In changes of address or status, since their records are not on file in Indianapolis. Not Required It's not required for them,” Mrs. Mitchum said, “and it just; slows us down to have to handle the extra mail.” Army recruiting men were doing a “rushing” business today, laceording to M-Sgt. Henry Hawes, He said prospective enlistees were asking for Air Force duty {iva to one, but generally failing the Armed Forces Qualifying Test by Air Force standards. “Then it takes only a. little {sales talk to get ‘em into the Army, because the requirement has been lowered,” Sgt. Hawes said. “We expect a big rush of men who couldn't get in before.” More service activity was due in Crane, Ind.; where a new commanding officer will take over the Naval Ammunition Depot tomorrow, Capt, E. C. Rook, who arrived at the depot last night, will formally assume command at a 9 (a. m. ceremony, He replaces |Commander J. T. Bland, acting

lask for “all-out mobilization,’ '| commanding officer since the re-

tirement June 30 of Commodore J, H. Jacohson.

L Dea. TEMPERATURES m.., 72 10a m.. 80 Mm. 78 11 a m.. 82 wo 1312 Toon) a2 . Moo 19 1p m.. 82

Yanks Slaughter. North Korean Reds Streaming | Into Gls’ Foxholes

“THEN CAME the ma poured out of the woods on

“We must have killed 1000 of them,” he said. “You just in groups ‘of about 70 yelling, ‘Banzai! Banzai!', and

running straight at us.

“They were all well- aniformed and every fifth man

‘carried an automatic weapon.

did not hurt us much, but we had to keep our heads down. the hole they had made in our front-line defenses but

'we were ready for them.

“We had the area zeroed in with heavy mortars and ‘artillery and blew them to bits at point-blank range. “From 6 until 8 a. m,, they kept coming out of those for cover. As fast as they'd clean out one foxhole, they'd woods and we kept blasting away at them. : move into another in sort of leap-frog fashion.” In ‘this way, Lt. Dianda said, the Reds cleared ano us and then ‘give us the works.

“They pushed through our forward positions, but we|

“They would hold their

Outflanked and threatened with envelopment, the Americans gave up their airstrip outside Taejon after destroying the four planes left there.

Then with the Communists| fore counter-offensive. {slugging into the suburbs they

began to fade back along the| ews Va. and Pfe. Johnny Mare trunk transport lines leading to|'i™ 19, of Beeville, Tex, Pusan, the entry port on the 1° reported earlier that the southeast coast. Communists appeared to be just Mr. Symonds reported ftom outside the city on the north and somewhere outside Taejon that Photos, Pages 3 and 8. just before leaving the city he g toured its “empty streets” over a To driving nl Nuien “an ominous silence set-| “migh ofcers have told the . front-line troops that reinforce heed 20 Eufite or, helms she S37The “uy, tad, Be Amer around the city,” his telephoned best" Mr pre DOVE S10 Pah Agh dispatch, said. eM badly a nined, Sees Dozen Gls the Americans ig not muiteting His call was interrupted. When excessive casual and their lines the connection was restored, he|Were intact. Enemy casualties added the details of the deserted ap uehaous® city—a vehicle load of South Koreans, one or two civilians and nounced in a communique at 2:20 about a dozen GIs. a.m, that the 24th Infantry Divie Sgt. Jimmy Lipps, 33, of Day- sion under Mali. Gen. William y. ton, Ohio, whose job it was to get| Dean continued to hold the ad. the trains out of Taejon, told Mr. |Vancing North Korean army, Symonds: thrust toward Taejon. “We'll be here as long as there] But the wording of the eomare wounded to be taken out and|Munique elearly ind indicated that by ag long as they'll let us stay.” Col With him was Cpl. Slio Pal- (Continued on Page 3—O nu vachio, 25, of Cleveland, who used RACE SPECTATOR KILLED to work in a medical collecting] LAPRAIRIE, Quebec, July 17 company. Other scldlers in the (UP)—One woman was killed and lonely station were guards whoifour, men and three women ine ride the train. Mr. Symonds also yesterday when a racing car saw two ambulance drivers, Pfec.|eras a wooden fence [Linwdood Rainey, 25, Newport at Kempton Park track. The drive er, James A. Curry, rawied out {of the wreckage unhurt,

Livable, Roomy in attack” he said. “They 3-Bedroom Home the, other side of the river| Near School 60

men say that time and space still favor U. 8, forces in Korea; long pull seen be-

They tried to come through

fire until they were on top)

Aten Yop dt 8

‘

fod