Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 July 1950 — Page 1
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By FRED SPARKS, Times Foreign Correspondent ~~ BERLIN, July 20 — If an internationally
The new Wehrmacht of East Somany is becom-
—the new German army that the Communists
hav . x powerful television camera had been focused ing the most formidable war machine west of Ruisia 3 Seanad schafiin. now 50,000 strong, one day this week on a rolling plain near Jena, on the European continent. Germany's children of jg yg pidly expanding. Dr, Kurt ‘Schumacher, in Eastern Germany, this is what you would defeat, too young fo wear the Nazi uniform, are the jeader of the German Socialist Party, said it have seen on your screen: sinews and heart of this growing monster nurtured by aims at a strength of 350,000 to 400,000 men. Dummy pillboxes are sud- the Kremlin's special brand of hatred. “And tonight the world wonders: Will it denl:’ pounded by unseen artil- Will the East Germans play the same role as the 4 in the same way in divided Germany as lery. North Koreans in attacking their fellow countrymen north Communist army is being used in di Through the clouds of _in the name of communism? . vided Kotea™ y g smoke and showers of dirt a These are the faces of typical front-line What I have written above is not an imagiline of Wehrmacht tanks, Nazi troopers—some 35, some as young as 186. nary play with words. their ugly snouts spitting shot If you came into your parlor after the Such a maneuver did take place this week and flame, appear to:knock introduction you might now expect the com- in Eastern Germany. It could not be exhibited ho out the battered forts. Mr. Sparks mentator to say: in your parlor becausé of the geographic and In the wake of the Panzers come German “You have just seen an old newsreel clip political limitations of television and Photog. ; infantrymen, machine guns stFifing any of Hitler's Wehrmacht in training before it sent raphy. / “enemies” that survive the initial armored its spearheads to crush Poland, France, Bel- But the maneuver tells the sad story of a / thrust. gium, Holland . . .” - peace that failed. The camera cuts close to their faces and Actually he would say: On the 11th day of February in the “vie you see hardened troops, lean, fit, brutal, fear- “You have just seen a maneuver of the torious” year of 1945, Franklin Roosevelt, ; SOME raw) Bereitschaften fe pronounced burr-rite-shaften (Continued on Page 2—Ool. 1)
Heavy Tax Hikes For Arms Loom
Big Majorities Seen For Truman Program
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“Hoosier Herges. " pictures and stories men serving in all ae of the service around the world, will be
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By HAROLD H. HARTLEY Business Editor 2g Hone were movisg in day, openly attacking Stocks of | sugar, nylons, | paper products, and toilet soaps.
‘of The Times. Kenneth Bush has lined up a dozen of Indiana's warriors to-
By LYLE OC: WILSON ~ | United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, July 20. Powerful congressional majorities were forming rapidly today to! give President Truman crisis ap-|
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Side, Pieck Declares By JOHN B. McDERMOTT United Press Staff Correspondent BERLIN July 20—Eastern Germany’s President Wilhelm Pieck told 4000 cheering Communists today that the German people will fight on Russia's side in| case of war with the United! States, The claim was a highlight of hizs six-hour speech at the open-
ing of a German Communist con-
vention. He accused the United States of fighting in Korea in order to stave off an economic crisis at home. After denouncing U. S. leaders as “warmongers,” he said “the; German people will support the; Soviet Union should the, United States attack the Soviet Union.”
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It Can’t Happen To Indianapolis— Or Can It? |
® Could Russian hombers reach Indianapolis . . , wreck us with an air atfack?
® Russia is closer... by alr ! . + «+ to Indianapolis than most Hoosiers realize. ® To show how pr: carious our position is, The Times has called in experts to produce a map showing exactly how many miles . « « how few hours . . . Russian bomber planes are away from Indianapolis. ® This revealing map . . . the hold truth about the possibilities. of Russian attack on Indianapoliz. ., will be shown in The Sunday Times. It's an awakening report that EVERY HOOSIER must read.
RUSSIAN BOMBS ON INDIANAPOLIS? Read the Story...
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First of State Draft Group
To Come From Indianapolis Marott Building Leased as Induction
propriations and war-time con- | trols. | Tremendous tax increases will come later. { The administration's call to arms will hike this year's government spending to about $57.4 bil_{lion, perhaps’ more. The President told Congress {and a television:radio audience yesterday he wanted an imme-|
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diate $10 billion emergency ap-
Center; Physicals to Begin July 31
propriation for new military spending “ in the Korean-world crisis. Officials estimated that
home-front spending to save money for war expenditures. The Senate is rolling right over him, Two Indianapolis policemen should be removed immediately from all police duties for allowing their prisoner to be assaulted. The man’s crime, If any, should not be considered. ........ isens ves 24
| Eight student nurses honored
with the Jaycee's Student Nurse Award at luncheon
. yesterday. Fresh homegrown
fruits and vegetables fill this
week's “Market Basket.” 11, 13
First of Indiana's 578 draftees to be processed in the new cen- would ask for another $5 lio (Cards smash Giants to break
tralized Armed Forces induction station here will be from Indianapolis. That was the tentative plan State Selective Service officials made here late yesterday, it was learned. Meanwhile, the processing station, leased through the Public
{342 Massachusetts Ave, to con-| {duct physical examinations of Army and Air Force recruits. Status for Activation First examination of draftees by| Indianapolis’ 16th Infantry Ma- both civilian and military person-| rine Battalion was alerted. by nel will begin July 31. The * ent, liam C. Smith. . . State Draft Director, said that re order roma pen anized four or five times the number of | * 8 bo Men needed to fill the state's first
Buildings Administration yesterHeadquarters of Marion County boards was in the Marott Building | Washington today to “stand by” run” will probably be smaller than for activation orders. The 500 of-|/the planned daily processing of | Reserve will be| {ordered to active duty on date 3U°ta would have to be examined. | Indiana ‘Military District officers
day, will be open Monday in its Gets Net Order during part of World War II. ficers and enlisted men in the 16th 100 to 150 men. {to be announced by Marine Corps | licensed phy-|
new location, the Marott Building, | Placed on Stand by Exams Set for July 31 are commanded by Lt. Col. Wil-| Brig. Gen. Robinson Hitchcock, | .Units will be as- Put out a call fc:
be issued by the Pentagon. der current planning, a maxi-| “Movements to stations wii um of $25 a day would be paid come within 10 days following re- for this sc vice. ceipt of orders to active duty.” The Marott Buliding office also USMCR training headquarters will serve as the Indiana main; Drive in- recruiting stafion, said Maj. Nor-|
all organized USMCR units will uty for recruiting for the State ibe called in the order of their of Indiana. preparedness and up to full bat- It will be used to give physical itallion strength. Intensive training schedules were ordered to whip Marine Re-| serve units into shape throughout the state. Col. Smith said the 18th Marine Battalion was fully equipped, at two-thirds authorized strength
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Bush vs. Fulmer In Golf Final
Earlier Story on Page 34.
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and “excellently” trained. Au-| | thorized battalion strength is 708 enlisted men and 32 officers.
Cooler. Weather
To Follow Showers Partly cloudy skies and cool weather tonight will follow light afternoon showers,
By JIM HEYROCK Times Sports Writer | PT. WAYNE, July 20--Power-! {hitting Mrs. Richard Fulmer, Indianapolis, and Mrs. Betty Bush, Hammond, today: won their way linto tomorrow's 36-hole final of, [the 27th annual Women's State the: Weather Golf tournament here.
In semifinal play today, Mr. Fulmer, runner-up for the 1950
to step up military aid to Atlantic| Pact Allies and other foreign nations, Weighs Credit Curbs | Federal income in this fiscal year is expected to be about $37.3 ibillion. That seis up a potential {deficit of more than $20 billion, less whatever may be raised by higher taxes. The Armed Services began call-| ing up Reserves yesterday and may begin summoning National Guard units of battalion strength| today. | Chairman Millard E. Tydings,| (D. Md.) of the Senate Armed! Services Committee summoned a meeting to discuss removing the, 2,005,882 limit on military manipower. The committee also will {consider a bill to extend the en-
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Yank Who Never Had Opened Throttle Backs Wounded Buddies Into Tunnel
By PETER KALISCHER, United Press Staff Correspondent
WITH. AMERICAN FORCES AT THE July 20—Staff Sgt. Eimo Smallwood got himself a néw name
TAEJON FRONT,
today Casey Jones-—on his first run at the throttle of the old 219. Five American soldiers owe their lives to Sgt. Smallwood. He stepped across the riddled bodies of a Korean fireman and a critically wounded engineer to drive a rescue train out of blazing
Taejon. Sgt. Smallwood headed a quartermaster rescue train into Taejon, which was already reported in enemy hands, late this afternoon. He wanted to bring out the wounded of the embattled 34th Regiment, of which he was a veteran throughout World War II. The train, with the Korean engineer at the controls, nosed into the Taejon yard at 4:30 p. m. The engineer saw that the track ‘was ripped up 100 yards ahead. He started the train back. -
. “THEN ALL HELL broke Smallwood said.
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the fireman riddled wi with bullets ; which had pierced the steel guard. The fireman's body was leaning against the red hot firebox and was ablaze. The engineer had been critically wounded by the same burst, Sgt. Smallwood, who is In the bantamweight class, pulled the dead fireman aside and grabbed the trottie. , "It was the first time I pver ran a train, but no one else was there to do it,” he said ” » ” A KOREAN interpreter was cowering under the box in the
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away at ‘existing stocks “enough to jolt prices upward. | Next week coffee prices will up 2 cents, Canned meats,
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Spam, Prem, | will move up from 4 to 5 cents. Sugar will go from 95 cents to cents for a 10-pound package. Salmon is due for a 5-cent rise.|
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in fats and cooking oils, And some of the independents have put a 10-pound limit on sugar. {The chains have not. These higher prices shortage of supply, the big grocer |said. They are the direct result of lover- buying, emptying the pipe-| lines, There has been a8 mild run on Jello, gelatine products and pudding mixes. Syrups, used as a sugar substitute in World War II, as yet have|
not been touched. They will begin,
{to move, as sugar ‘gets higher, [grocers xaid. Nylon counters were being hard
{hit by the hosiery: hoarders to- sault forces smashed into Taejon|
day. ding, Iw The two busiest phone lines in| [os big) department store this | morning led to the nylon hosiery land bedding departments. Some women were buying as many as a dozen pairs, and many
The same was true of bed-|
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Smallwood Is Rounder's Name— . | sici ill t d i- F nt 0 one ge, i ore, omens en On @ Korean Wheeler He Won His Fame
“A. machine gun bullet drilled! through the wooden car roof foot from his head,” Cpl. Mec-| Callum said. “I swore, but my] eyes were too full of coal dust to see what was going on.’ In the cab, Sgt. Smallwood “got going in reverse. He headed the three-car train for a tunnel. n” " »
MORTAR shells fell 25 feet | behind. as he picked up speed. |
With machine guns barking and rifle bullets whistling, Sgt. Smallwood drove old 219 through the tunnel and south to safety. “I didn’t know whether we could take the curves at the speed we were going, but 1 didn’t slow down for five miles,” he said. “Then the Korean interpreter jumped the train” Sgt. Smallwood has the Bronze Star and three battle citations for fighting in the South Pacific. His home is in Lexington, Ky. He took the train, with steam fro ;
blowing m ruptured pipes, within three miles of Okchan,
a town 12 miles south of Tae-
jon. There i 219 died ae many water was
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shattered and burning city.
| William F. Dean, commander of the 24th Division, had
{been unofficially reported as missing in the fighting at
Taejon. When last reported he was in the thick of the
| fighting and had knocked out! one tank personally.
| (The Army spokesman safd of-| |forts are being made to check on/
{the only word received here was {2 news service report that the general was missing.) A dispatch from the hills outside Taejon said the Americans were pushed out after battling desperately all day against a tidal}! {wave bf North Korean tanks and! troops. But word around midnight from {the blazing battlefront said some! units which were forced to pull! back earlier in the day were try|Ing to relieve an undisclosed num-! ber of men still in Taejon. GI's Break Block
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and at the same time threw a! cordon around it, blocking the escape road to the southeast for! a time, But the Americans broke the block and in a caravan of trucks and jeeps ran a gantlet of rifle and machine gun fire through. a {narrow yalley to the southeast. They took up new positions south of Taejon, prepared to halt any new Communist push southward, a front dispatch reported. Gen. Douglas MacArthur's midnight communique reported the | co-ordinated infantry-tank at- | tack on Taejon and said “final | reports indicate the U, 8. 24th Infantry Division still is holding 3 firm despite this sharp increase {in Red activity.”
| But reports direct from the
Taejon sector, obviousiy some ~hours later than those on which the communique was based, told | & different story,
Other sectors of the front were! ” - n
Huntington Youth ‘Reported Fighting In Taejon Battle
{ A 21-YEAR-OLD Huntington | soldier is the first Hoosier to be definitely named as fighting on the Korean front.
United Press dispatches reported Pfc. Keith Conklin in the thick of fighting in Taejon today. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Harold D. Conklin, Huntington. Pfe. Conklin had written to his isister, Miss Jean Conklin, from [Japan on July 3 and said “we'rd packed and ready to move.” | ~ » - PFC. CONKLIN, born in Hunt|inton, was graduated from Hunts {ington Township High School in [1947 ‘He worked with his father lin the plumbing business until Apr. 6, 1949, when he enlisted in {the Army, | He went to Japan last Septem= ber from Camp Stoneman, Cal, after taking basic training at Ft, Knox, Ky. He ig in the survey corps of the 24th Infantry.
relatively quiet, the headquarters communique said. Peter Kalischer, United Press | correspondent, reported from a post just outside the city that it “still is burning” near midnight. The fires, apparently set by artillery bursts, were reported to have destroyed most of the southern
thriving rail and road junction of 150,000 persons. A jet fighter pilot who flew over ‘late in the day said the whole city seemed -ablaze, and Communist artillery was “beating {the hell out of it.” | The Americans, left in Tasjon when the main force pulled back.
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today in the (In Washington an Army spokesman said Maj. Gen.
part of the town, normally &