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| China Reds Shell Islands Off
Water Supply To West Side Cut by Break
Geyser From Main Floods Michigan St; Traffic Rerouted
Eighty-five Indianapolis
| Review of Hal Ellison's “Tom-
Fred Sparks spoke to ordinary and high allied officials. This is
lof Health building, 1330 W. Michigan St., today cut off water service between Lan sing St. and White River. The break created a miniature
soldiers and officers, deserters the third of a group of articles. |
By FRED SPARKS, Times Foreign Correspondent
BERLIN, July 21-—Field Marshal Joseph Von Stalin, la stream several feet high and!
actual boss of the new German army, controls his Wehrmacht as rigidly as you could control a Pekinese with
a steel-chain leash.
Not only do his agents attend general staff conferences, but he has spotted Russian officers and spying-
sneaks in every Bereitschaften training camp and mobile unit. Take for example the bleak infantry installation at Kirschmoesser, huge, dusty locale of a former DP camp, where 1000 rugged R e ichkinder are being daily drilled into C o mmunist combateers. The 15 German officers are, on the record, the Prussian potentates of K i rs chmoesser. But in practice the foremen are two squat Russians— Maj. Soboloff critically eyes the military movements and Lt. Smirnow makes sure rookjes learn the ABCs of Marx, Lenin and Stalin. » » » WHILE BOTH these gentlemen go around at all times clad in Beretischaften uniforms, they are as easy to spot as a strip teaser at a Daughters of the American Revolution Convention. s Remember how sloppily (then) good friend Stalin wore his uniform when photographed parlaying with Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill? That is the way Soboloff and Smirnow spot the black Wehrmacht jackets. While the average German warrior looks as smart as a West Pointer, these two Russkies “always look as crisp as a napkin after a fried chicken feast. A Bereitschafen ser-
Fred Sparks
geant, who recently served at Kirschmoesser, told me: “The
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priests, following the example of St. Francis Xavier, will preach on Hoosier streets this summer Complete .coverage of. the city’s church news on.....4, 7 Local corporal writes on leaving Japan to help establish an Army headquarters in Korea . . . News of Hoosier Heroes on
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two feet wide. Indianapolis Water Co. repair crews immediately began repair! work. Service was not expected to be resumed, however, until about 4/ {p. m. today. The water woul
Sovietniks can be identified by their broad, flat-footed walk, and the stiff way they wear their hats, brim down at eye level.” ; Despite his lesser rank, Lt. Smirnow casts the blackest shadow. He is an operative of the NKVD, which has the same bad, torturous manners as Hitler's garroting Gestapo. {
Indignant residents in the two block area on Michigan St flocked to the scene of the break
cut-off at their faucets. Women Halts Washing One woman said she had laundry in the washer when her water supply failed. { | “If you don't get me water, a8 8 {I'll be washing until midnight,” ORDINARY SOLDIERS and [she said. i officers, who are stool-pigeons | A man waving a safety razor, working for Lt, Smirnow, pad {his face half-covered with lather,
{wanted to know where he could through the barracks and offi- |ring water to complete his shave.| cers’ mess. Their big ears are
“Try White River,” a police-| tuned to the slightest anti-Com- |man guarding the break sug-| munist murmur.
| guested. { Furthermore, the chief of the five German commissars, who Sd autical a Smir- [28 the break threw up dirt and! now fat files kept on each |gravel along with water. Fritz, If a German GI gets ho hum marks in Communist knowl edge on his report card, and the spies find him critical of mother Russia, Smiriiow has the frightful authority to break him—and I do mean “break.” Frail, . 20 - year-old rookie Hans Fetscher was one silly boy who decided he wanted out. “I didn't join to fight for Russia,” he told a political commissar. Then he went on a sitdown strike during each morning's “news survey” and ignored teacher. He was popped in and out of prison like a flying fish skimming the surface. x x = 5 ONE DAY he cursed the German commissar, a muscular
No Investigation mass, and shouted: “My nose
is full of Russian lies. Down Yet in Beating with Wilhelm Pleck!” (flabby, | pour gays after two policemen)
(Continued oi Page 2—Col. 8) Were reported allowing a prisoner | 2 - {to be beaten, local police officials {have sti" failed to press the in{vestigation of the incident. |
—————————— a ———————— 1 Editorial, Page 10. i { Chief Rouls, who was off duty] today, apparently is sticking to {the decision announced yesterday! : {that he will not make a full inBroderick Selects | vestigation before next month. He . | said police will wait for testimony Milwaukee Outline fat the Aug. 2 court hearing for
Indianapolis will pattern parts | the prisoner, Walter Hendren, 30. of its civil defense program after| one adopted by. Milwaukee.
Traffic Rerouted { Traffic was rerouted away from
education” |the flooded area on Michigan S8t.|
hospitais, all part of the Indiana University Medical Center located immediately east of the 1300] block, were unfounded. { Water company officials said! it would not be necessary to boil the first water flowing through faucets when service is resumed. The repaired area is flushed thoroughly before sending water through again, they said. { The break was declared due to pressure in the main, which blew out one side of the pipe.| Water immediately forced its; way to the surface by breaking ‘through the street near the side-| | walk,
Civil Defense
llowed the preliminary probe made
Acting Civil Charles R. Broderick, who said pandren while two parking lot at-
the has written Milwaukee's mayor! tendants beat him, (for a copy of the plan. t
Mr. Broderick said the Mil- Truck Driver Killed waukee plan is regarded as one Times State Service of the most complete in the na-| VINCENNES, July 22 John tion and may be adopted as a Riley, 46, of Gary, was killed model for other large cities. early today a mile north of here “Since Indianapolis and Mil-[on U. 8. 41 when a steel dispatch waukee- are approximately the truck he was driving hit holes same size, many of their plans can be applied here,” Mr. Broderick explained.
state police reported. LOCAL TEMPERATURES
Gets Outline 6a m..5 10a m..7 The Civil Defense chief said] 7 a. m... 62 11 a. m... 78 he has received an outline of the 3 a. m... 67 12 (Noon) 80 9a m.. 72 Ip m.. 82
a copy of the full report. Mr. Broderick, who was pointed a week ago, said his first
undetermined number of advisory board members. He said existing facilities, such as fire and and Red Cross agencies, will be used wherever possible to simplify defense operations and minimize the cost to the city and county.
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Police Inspector Leolin Trout-| man said no investigation has fol-|
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Young ‘Weatherbug’
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Elmer Chowning Jr. . . . the Weather Bureau's mystery voice
Bureau's ‘Mystery Identified as 12-Year-Old
Youngster Requests
To See How His ‘Predictions’ Score "By GALVY GORDON
Indianapolis’ own “mystery voice” has been identified. It is that of 12-year-old Elmer Chowning Jr, “weatherbug-| be
extraordinary.”
Gls Near Taejon Dig In To Halt Attac
Soviet Officers Rigidly Control New Wehrmacht
Agents Attend Staff Meetings, | Spy-Sneaks in Every Camp Stalin has formed a mew German Wehrmacht—the Bereit-
schaften—another important link in his chain of stooge armies. To get the inside, human story of this Communist Prussian force
List Gen. Dean Officially As Missing
24th Division Head Believed Wounded In Taejon Fighting WASHINGTON, July 22
| (UP)—Maj. Gen. William F. ‘Dean, commander of the U. S.
|officially reported missing in| {action today after apparently {being wounded in the losing {battle for Taejon. “It is still hoped that this gal-| {lant officer, if alive, has not fallen {into enemy hands,” Gen. Douglas {MacArthur said in a mesage to ithe Pentagon. : | { Gen. MacArthur said indica{tions were that the 56-year-old {Gen. Dean had been wounded {when North Korean Communist i forces stormed into Taejon Thursday and trapped units of the 24th! Division. Gen. Dean at that time was fighting alongside his troops and had personally destroyed an enemy tank with a bazooka. Wounded Report Gen. MacArthur said the indication that Gen. Dean had been wounded came from the general's Korean interpreter, who escaped from Taejon in the final hours of the battle. But he said the interpreter himself was so badly wounded that he was unable to give a clear account of what happened to Gen. Dean. A spokesman here, personally acquainted with Gen. Dean, said {his conduct in fighting and stay-
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Daily Forecasts
124th Division in Korea, was/dug in today in the hills
Formosa;
Invasion of Nationalist Bases Expected Next; 1st Cavalry at Front
24th Division Chiang Queries
Forced to Retreat U. S. on Action
By EARNEST HOBERECHT By ARTHUR GOUL United Press Staff Correspondent United Press Staff Correspondent
TOKYO, Sunday, July 23—| TAIPEI, Formosa, July 22 American forces, their line{—The Chinese Nationalists bolstered by arrival of theannounced tonight that the crack First Cavalry division,/Chinese Communists had shelled two Nationalist-held astride the highway south-lislands off the China coast east of Taejon in preparation for and apparently were preparing to the next Communist thrust. invade them. The big guns of the dismounted, The announcement raised the First Cavalry already were bom-| question of whether the United barding the North Koreans, who| States would intervene in line in return sent patrols with small with President Truman’s orders |to the American Seventh Fleet to {protect the Nationalist strongarms and automatic weapons | hold of Formosa. : against the cavalry advance lines. The islands are Kinmen and Gen. Douglas MacArthur an-|Little Kinmen. They nestle close nounced in his early morning to the Chinese coast directly communique that the Taejon front across the Strait of Formosa in South Korea was “relatively {rom Generalissimo Chiang Kaiquiet.” {shek’s island fortress of Formosa. Gen. MacArthur's communique Attacked Friday : No. 123. issued at 12:45 a. m.| The Chinese Nationalists said Tokyo time, said American units the shelling of Kinmen occurred were maintaining “constant con-| Friday night. Today, they added, tact” with the Red forces along| the Communists began to pour the Taejon-Yongdong road to de- artillery fire into Little Kinmen. termine the direction of the next The barrage lasted from 6 p. m. Communist move south and south- until 8 p. m, (Formosa time), east.
War analysis, Page 2.
Red's Regrouping ; Gen. MacArthur said the North | Koreans apparently were regrouping to continue their offensive southeast of Taejon. The battered American 24th Division had fallen back some seven miles along the highway and railway to the southeast before the First Cavalry arrived.
{ing with his men is “what could expected of him.” He called Gen. Dean “a man of
In a voice just "changing from the squeak of childhood to STreat personal courage.”
Fears that the break would . adolescence, Elmer, son of Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Chowning Sr. | $ effect Riley, Long and Coleman gse w 27th St, has been calling the Weather Bureau every day Ing alongside his troops inside ~1 for the past month. He telephones| Taejon on Thursday,
Plans to Activate State Guard Drawn
Nearly 5000 - Men Would Be Recruited |
- By IRVING LEIBOWITZ The state’s top military authorities today readied plans to acti-| vate the State Guard in the event] the National Guard's 38th In-| fantry Division is called into Federal service. Plans to recruit nearly 5000 men between the ages of 32 and 40 are in the blueprint stage. No definite date was set for the
Status of local service units in emergency . . . Page 2.
enlistment of State Guards, but] the state is ready to act quickly if a major national emergency should develop. “All preparatory arrangements have been completed and they will be effected immediately,” one high-ranking military officer said
in referring to reorganization of
the State Guard. ! 1s right at Douglas pool. |
{ One month ago, Adj. Gen. Robi-| |son Hitchcock sald current plans and stuff like that in .general wife, the foriner Mildred Dern, a six tanks and This was revealed today by after the incident Tuesday. Threeica)l for the deployment of the science at school, I got interested. niece of the late George H. Dern, in Taejon.
Protect Industrial Areas
major industrial areas, He said
[the program would hinge on! ie needs of the Armed Forces or in the: weather, too. There's his, . . | “whether they take the 38th Divi-| flower garden, envy of several Unidentified Subs sion into active service.” | The State Guard will be federal-|
{ized and its members will receive jarmory drill pay from the Federal | Government, one state military leader said. | “Its officers will be examined ‘and approved,” he said, “and it twill be fully equipped.” State officials, including Gov. { Schricker, are expected to encour-
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move will be intment of 10 e : x : os “aaputy ‘reese wns. 10 Wild in Chicago Suburbs
Police ‘Rope’ Iron Horse After It Races
ide Last 8 Blocks
CHICAGO, July 22 (UP)—An Illinois Central locomotive ran roared
~ are,” he said.
shortly befaithfully at around 10 a, m. [fore the Korean Communists surHis question seldom varies and rounded and captured the city. he doesn’t care if he's talking ) ‘Got Me a Tank’ : Chief of Bureau J. J. Davis or
It goes something like this:
“What's the weather going to a bazooka team and announced Taejon. i y J be like today?” kK a grin: ‘had reported they continued on relation to mainland.
sntity ] “I just got me a tank. Mentity Mysiory Hundreds of GI's fought thair
A resume of the day's forecast) ay out of the Taejon trap, but |
and technical data on cloud for-! Gen. Dean has not been heard mations and other atmospheric|srom gince. Army spokesmen here conditions follows. The chat ends| 3.4 at the front had been hopeful with a hearty “thank you” al-|iyna¢ he would make his way back ways before forecasters could 4 the American lines, but they gu Tig Pom remained a mys {refused to put Him ob the official tery until recently when Mr. Davis] lasing list ay, Gen. prefaced his weather resume with! naan was a veteran of two name and address questions. |woriq wars. He commanded the Elmer is only one of scores of 441, Infantry Division in the people who call the Weather| pronean Theater during World
| Bureau daily, anxious aboutyyey 1, where he won a distin- | weather for picnics, farming, and guished Service Cross for hero-
swimming. But workers there jo and a repiitation as a frontconsider Elmer their “best and jin, fighting general, most faithful customer.” { Led "Occupation “I guess I'm just powerfull yo pecame commander of U. curious about the weather,” thelg ,ecupation - troops in South seventh grade pupil at School 42g rea after the Japanese -surtold The Times. | render “Sometimes I want to go some-|named him chief of staff of the place with my three brothers.{; § Fighth Army in Japan They're about my age and We when the Korean occupation go swimming when the weather ended, / Before he led his division into School Spurs Interest laction in Korea, Gen, Dean had “When we learned about clouds peen living in Tokyo with his
Defense Director | theses is TL Jack state Guard throughout the State, Now 1 like to see how my pre- former Secretary of War. jGorycon an am Clark held, ticularly for the protection of dictions work out. That's all,” ex-| Gen, Dean’s family home was B-29 missions
plained the budding weatherman.|at Berkeley, Cal. Elmer has a “personal” interest rs ————
of the kids in the block. Too, he
{learned that if he becomes a Boy Seen Off Canada
{ Scout, one of his fondest dreams, | : a | they give a merit badge for| OTTAWA, July 22 (UP)~—Rear weather knowledge. |Adm. F. L. Houghton, vice chief ‘As for the fishing, he does|of the naval staff, said today East that with a long cane pole Coast naval forces were “investi[Suotend ng over the waters of | gating” two reports from fisher- |" “It T had a reel and an honest- men that they had sighted un- | to-goodness steel pole I could identified submarines. | throw my ‘crawdad’ bait way out! Adm. Houghton said there were lin the middle where the big ones|No, reports from other sources. i “Then maybe on If people can see flying sau- | fishin’ days I wouldn't have o{Ceia be, suid, they can see subworry so much about the Adm. Houghton said the re-
weather. {ports came from “near New i Brunswick” and from “quite a ‘VFW Declares way out in the Atlantic off Newfoundland.”
It was assumed here that no War on Reds Canadian vessels which might be William M. Cox, commander of| yistaken for submarines were in the Indiana Department of Vet-i; eq areas,
4 miles through five Chicago erans of Foreign Wars, last night
Police summoned by startled motorists chased the switch engine and caught it for its embarrassed crew. The locomotive rolled
suburbs today, dragging a motorist and his car for the last 8 blocks. ared communism and declared war. on AA Umpire Called
Gen. Dean last was seen fight- isi] a town 50 miles south of Tae-
| A front dispatch said the sandy- western end of the American line, to one of the other meterologists. haired, six-foot-three-inch general had captured Chonju, highway! {strode into a command post with and rail center 38 miles south of
The early Sunday communique also disclosed that, contrary to previous reports, the Americans and South Koreans still held Im-
jon and halfway between Taejon | and the south coast of Korea, | The Communists in a sweeping drive on the American west flank, | {presumably designed to turn the
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Map shows i mosa and outlying isla
Gen. MacArthur earlier
Fore mo-
southeast down a two-lane highway to take Ismil, . have massed 1300 junks Ismil Still Held tor boats in preparation for Today's communique said Ismil amphibious assault on the twe still was in American hands, but islands. : added that fighting was continu-| The Nationalist government ing in the area. {here sent a message to WashingGen. MacArthur reported that|ton asking, in effect, what the Yechon, on the central Korean United States planned to do about front, was taken by American the artillery attack and the apunits after “a seesaw battle,” He parent impending assault om said the village had been cap- Kinmen and Little Kinmen, tured and lost four times within / U. 8, Orders the last two days. | When President Truman oe (The American Negro unit of| dered the American Armed Forces the 25th Division which joined to support the South Koreans, he South Korean forces in recaptur- also instructed the U. 8. Seventh ing Yechon was identified in/fleet to guarl Formosa against washington as the 24th Infantry the possibility of Communist at~ Regiment.) |tack. Whether he would broaden The communique said Far East that order to include Kinmen and naval forces continued their Little Kinmen was a question to sweeps along the Korean east which the Nationalist government
gr nds in The Communists were said to and an
and Gen. MacArthur coast to prevent Communist land| here anxiously awaited an answer
{and sea travel. | tonight. { Air Force Sortles | Kinmen and Little Kinmen hawe | The Fifth Air Force reported been usec as naval and Air Fores lits pilots in 92 sorties had de- bases by the Nationalists in their 'stroyed 14 railroad cars, two/| attempt to blockade the coast of itrucks, and two other vehicles. Communist China. : > It also reported the damaging of| This is not the first Red attack trucks and vehiclesion Kinmen. The Communists The Far Eastern | assaulted the island last October Bomber Command reported 22/and were beaten off in one of the had been conducted [few Nationalist victories of the i i {Chinese war. ; (Continued. on Page 2-—Col. 2) The Nationalists ha about
EN. {40,000 troops on the two islands; Dutch Navy Joins
under command of Gen. Hu Lisa, { »
{ . " : \Far East War In Korea Action At « Glance Be : TAIPEL" FORMOSA — Chi‘Terrific Damage | nese Nationalists announes Credited to Shelling | Communists shelled twe WASHINGTON, July 22 (UP)| Nationalist-held islands off oy at spo ough fir China coast in apparent ni ; has gone into action with Assth preparation to invade, & on and aon warships off el Question of American inThe spokesman would not iden-| tervention raised. re tify the Dutch unit or say where TOKY() — American forces consolidate positions along Taejon-Yongdong road im
it was operating. But he said preparation for expected
naval bombardments of the Korean east coast in the past week Communist attack; First
have caused “terrific damage” and have been credited with halting the North Korean Commu-
nists on that sector. : Na tr : Bi, a Destruction of North Korean Cavalry Division moves up ing. troops by naval gunfire, he said, 19 ovard Sagtle osition. Commander Cox, speaking at a “effectively reduced enemy capa- WASHINGTON — Naval week-end meeting of VEW dis- To Active Ar my Duty bilities to retaliate against Amer- kesman 5 ays Duteh trict council members in Hotel LOUISVILLE, Ky. July 22 (UP) ican and South Korean forces. Spo spl dias Antlers, instructed the state's —The American Association lost| Co-operation between the Navy, navy unit has gor umpire today when Willis Mon-(and Army in Korea has been of ; 31, a Lieutenant colonel in|the “highest order,” he told news-|
men at a briefing. Another Defense