Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 July 1950 — Page 16
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Stories of Captured Soldiers Reveal Low State of Morale
TOKYO, July 20 (UP)-- Stories |
mercial center of 150,000
soldiers reveal a startling low state of training and morale id some Red divisions, Gen. ~ MacArthur's headquarters re the fighting front today, ‘ ported today.
sald that in many cases North | the silence. Korean draftees went into battle Last week soldiers and civilafter firing a little as three prac-| {ans jammed the sidewalks. tice rifle shots, Endless streams of honking “The North Koreans do not! trucks, cars, jeeps and busses surrender easily because they ex-| jammed the streets. Shops were pect to be executed,” the com-| gpeg from dawn to dusk. Huckmunique sald. "One they find| stars cried their wares from they are not going to be shot! gou1.smelling alleys. they become anxious to expose It was the provisional ca the tactics the Communists use’ .r gouth Korea and advance to enlist their support.” U. 8 military headquarters for The communique said that U. 8.| goreg. intelligence had formed a ‘clear Today the South Korean gov-
"The biggest battle of the Korean war Is shaping up at Taejon, former provisional eapital of South Korea and once a busy com-
population. Communist troops broke into Taejon today. They found = city deserted except for its rear-guard American defenders. Here is a n of Taejon from a United Press staff correspondent who walked through its streets only a few hours before the Red attack
told by captured North Korean Degen. ce By ROBERT C. MILLER, United Press Staff ‘Correspondent __TAEJON, Korea, July 20—Taejon, only last week a crowded, - “bustling military and commercial center, is a ghost city just behind
Its streets are deserted. Its shops are shuttered and locked. A headquarters communique’ The lonely GI's on guard duty walk softly as if afraid to disturb
tically deserted. Down its tree-
lined length, there is not the slightest sign of life. The hot wind swirls a few puffballs of dust from a side-
street and quietly rusties the
green leaves of the trees. Everything that lived and breathed seems to have abandoned Taejon. Thousands of Americans have dug in north, west and south of the city, but thev are hidden from view,
icles which only a week ago were ferrying shoving, pushing | crowds from one end of city to the other.
ses than passengers in Taejon | and it's hard to believe that these empty vehicles once were black with humanity. Over on the right is the scaffolding of a half-finished brick building over which swarmed dozens of Korean bricklayers last week. You wonder if it ever will he finished.
Telephone and power lines dangle from the poles. No one |
tries to repair them.
The sandy -bottomed river |
which splits the city no longer is the public laundry center and gossip mart for hundreds of women.
The ,post office is closed and |
fts steel doors are barred. Every boarded and bolted.
» = ” HERE AND there shuffie a few diehard civilians with packs on their backs, the last to leave Taejon.
ramshackle shop is |
‘Teeming Capital Is a host City ie Few GI Rear Guards Remain in Silent Town; Stores, Buildings Locked and Boarded
flames swept within one mile of | winds the community. 2 &# Fire fighters had only one bull- QUEEN REIGNS 83 YEARS TODAY there are more bus- | dozer and one truck to battle the | Queen Victoria Telgned 43 | blaze which has burned over more years.
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The railway station sits masslve and still with only a few dusty and quiet Americans lounging about the halls. The thousands of refugees who filled its platforms are miles to the south. Uptown, the bus depot is a cemetery of rusty, flat-tired ve-
picture of a recently formed on ment has moved on to a new North Korean Infantry division provisional capital. Advance ~the 15th. American headquarters has “Rattle-tested officers and non-| pean set up farther south commissioned officers from Man-| a» churia and China formed the Sore THE BROAD avenue that vated at Kumhwa in Bodh irl links the railway station with i ern Korea,” the communique said.| the municipal building fis prac--It said that soldiers trained in| { the North Korean army provioed Polio Aid Cost the skeleton of the division and
that it was then filled in with Tops Last Year
1 draftees. : “Most of the conscripts were NEW YORK, July 20 (UP)
Two Global Teams—
1950, for training in an organiza- polio so far this year than in the tion called ‘The Young Mens same 1049 period but heavier
Traini Bchoo DEmOCTaG aE treatment expenses have taken
! “During the first month the more March-of-Dimes funds, the school taught close order drill and National Foundation for Infantile the second month was spent 1 Paralysis reported today. id the field. But in many cases } trainees fired as lMttie as three] UP to July 13, the foundation practice rifle shots.” The communique added that more than for the same period + the fire “the training program wasn't as last year—had been spent for Mr. Truman used some plain limited in political ‘education’ as epidemic ald. ords. and he made it clear that . at frequent intervals the unit poli-| The foundation, which helps i fears the Communist adventical and cutural officer lectured Polio patients who cannot meet i... in Korea may not be the the men on Communist theory.” full treatment costs, listed Massa- 154¢ fling Moscow will take in its On June 26 the school students chusetts as first among states opin gamble to dominate the were handed arms and ammuni- needing financig! aid last week, world. tion and notified tey were mem- It received 380.525 for the week “The attack upom the Republic bers of the 15th Infantry Divi. ending July 15. of Korea,” he said, “makes it plain gion, the communique sald. Next came Texas which gotheyond all doubt that the inter“The next day they joined in $45. 875; i Naw Jersey, $35,000; Colo- national Communist movement is the invasion of the Republic of "ado. $26.325; $2,250. $24,275! prepared to use armed invasion to Korea ..." and California, $23,250. conquer independent nations, We “Their first contact with the' must therefore recognize the posRepublic of Korea defenders) sibility that armed aggression brought heavy casualties and may take place in other areas.” | panic spread through the ranks; Nations Will Choose Sides f ot ihe Juotsore ey unit,” the Those words drew a line around “Only Ants of their| [the globe. On one side is Moscow fanatic leaders kept them at the and her satellites; on the other battleline-—but even then many the United States and her friends. deserted or fled to th rear.” _ Sooner or later all the nations of| the world probably will choose
one side or the other. Mr. Willkie's appeal on “One|
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| cow. The Communists seized] power in Czechoslovakia, they | blockaded Berlin, they hoycotted, | the United Nations and, finally, | they struck at South Korea. } Experience taught the demo-| 'eratic nations a hard lesson--that! the Cominform will resort to any| tactics to gain its ends. It i= a historic decision that
plied pledge to defend free men ‘any place and every place. It {may mean a new way of life for all Americans for a 7Zeneration. { They will live in a state of ten-| sion and alarms knowing that
‘New U.S. Bazooka Smashes 8 Red Tanks af Taejon
SOMEWHRE IN KOREA, uly 20 (UP). Here is the new superbazooka that knocked out all eight enemy tanks trying to capture the Taejon Airdrome today: It iz a 3.5 inch rocket launcher
and resembles the orthodox A RAL bazooka that blasted German
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. » . » IT WAS reported officially that the bazooka could penetrate all armored vehicles. It also can be used against fortified positions with an effectiveness similar to the S1-millimeter mortar. : The bazooka is fired from the . shoulder and weighs only a few ES . . - pounds more than the older baFruit stains, beverage stains, grass and many hy
other stains are easily removed with Roman I Ente NY ne ; . . > “reflecting sig superimCleanser. Many ordinary stains come right out poses the scale on the field sight. when you add Roman Cleanser to the regular This acale enables the gunner to washing water. For stubborn stains that require
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obtain angular leads on targets moving up to a speed of 40 miles
4 special treatment (also for scorch and mildew), an hour. see directions on Roman Cleanser label. Expelled Union Blasts Use of Atom Bomb / | CHICAGO, July 20 (UP)—The
lexecutive board of the Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers Union says that any nation which used the atom bomb first “should be dealt with as a war criminal” The union recently was expelled from the CIO as a left-wing organiza-
ond Dv Laon oe | Its “important to disinfect bath towels, dish towels, hankies, bed ~ linens—to help guard against the fipsead of germs. Roman Cleanser also an effective germicide for in kitchen, bathroom.
‘Truman's Pledge to World i voung farmers called up in April,|'The nation has suffered less from May Mean New Way of Life |
For Generation U. S. Might Live in State
Of Tension, Alarm, Fearing Atomic War
Ry HARRY FERGUSON, United Press Foreign News Editor Wendell Willkie's “One World” has become two armed camps. That is the grim fact that emerged today from President Truman's call to action yesterday, By now the word has reached the > Kremlin that no matter where in the world it lights the flames of said, $3,965.500 some $507.000 oo oreggion, the United States is going to rush there and try to put
has led to wars in the past,
| Warld"” fell on deaf ears in Mos-.
Dust already has coated the ’
mirrors of the corner barber
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