Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 31 July 1950 — Page 1
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2d Division Swarms To Front On L Truman Asks Extra $4 Billion An
Seeks Hike
Anti-Red Force, Hints He'll Accept Controls
Europe Scheduled To Get 1600 Jets
WASHINGTON, July 31
in West's
‘Won't Veto Bill, Rayburn Declares WASHINGTON, July 31
“additional $4 billion in for-|and rationing controls if Con-
(UP)—President Truman (UP)—President Truman will asked Congress today for an accept standby wage - price
eign arms aid to build up the gress insists on adding them West's defenses against com-to his economic mobilization
munism, Chairman Clarence Cannon, ({D. Mo.) of the House Appropria-| tions Committee, said the President told House and Senate lead-! ers at’ a White House conference’ that he wanted “emergency” action on the arms funds. Mr. Cannon said his committee would act on the request immediately. Mr. Truman outlined the foreign military aid plan to members of House and Senate Foreign Relations, Armed Services and Appropriation Committees. Mr. Cannon said there was “unanimous agreement” on the part of the congressional leaders that the extra arms aid request should get immediate, urgent attention.
Approves Lifting Military Ceilings
WASHINGTON, July 31 (UP) —Congress gave final approval
today to legislation suspending;
program, Speaker Sam Rayburn [said today. { Mr. Rayburn talked to White {House reporters after meeting with the President for an hour {and a half, first along with other {top legislative leaders and then with a larger group of House and | Senate members.
talking to the congressional “Big Four,” reaffirmed his contention that all he néeds now in the way of home front legislation in the Korean War crisis is the program of allocations and other mild controls which he laid before Congress recently. Some Say ‘Not Enough’ Many House and Senate members insist that program does not go far enough. A drive is on to
Mr. Rayburn said Mr. Truman,|
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That Pounding’s Not My Heart, Doc
Photo by Lioyd Walton, Times Staff Photographer.
It was hard to distinguish carpenters from future servicemen reported today for induction at the Army Receiving Center, 34
give the President, on a standby basis, authority to slap ceilings] on prices and wages and to ration scarce goods. Reporters asked Mr. Rayburn | if the President indicated that he wouldn't mind getting such a bill {from Congress. | “No, the President didn't say that,” Mr. Rayburn said, “But the
present ceilings on the strength President wouldn't veto such a of the Armed Forces and author- Pill.
On Plan
I Mr. Rayburn, who stands with
have been sperating on 24-hour shifts to get the bullding ready.
Carpenters, Future Gls
Mingle at Induction Center
‘Grand Opening’ for First 72 Hoosiers Drafted Finds Construction Still Going On
Machinery clicked with military precision today as Uncle Sam
izing a $350 million start on ani... pregident against the all-out started building another great defense organization.
. atomic-age Navy.
The House amendments to both the man-
power and Navy bills and. sent! hem to the House for
President Truman’s signature. The present limit on the armed forces is 2,005,000 officers and men. This limit would be suspended until July 31, 1954. The Navy bill would provide for construction of 112 new vessels, including an atomic-powered sub-
marine, and modernizing 29 ships|
in the fleet.
{control program, would not specu-
finally may be approved. Sen. Robert A. Jat Eo a 0.), ‘Who opposes the all TOF! Srice and rationing puss of Bernard M. Baruch, asked the Senate Banking Committee to authorize a program of voluntary allocation agreements among in-
ustry. ® Mr. Taft also asked the committee to knock out provisions for control of commodity speculation and selling surplus farm crops at {below market prices.
‘It Ain’t the Same’'—
Atoms and Si-Kol-O-Gee— oun
Seventy-two prospective GIs from Marioh County's Selective,
were the first of 6000 ’ siers from which the | September Indiana draft quota of| | 1450 men will be filled. | There were others in the group, too. They represented the volun{teers in the Army and Air Force!
2% 0, New Blend In 38th Training z=
Photos, Page 11; Another Story, 2 receiving center, Page 15.
By IRVING LEIBOWITZ Times Staff Writer CAMP ATTERBURY,
fey’ Ave.
jing early this morning as ‘the
July 31|the building.
That's This Here New Army
Purlite Pleas With ‘Please’ Needed - ! To Get GI Joe to Take Up a Shovel
By The Old Sarge
CAMP ATTERBURY, July
tosk a long time but the army of GI Joe and Gen. “Ike”
gave way to a brand-spanking ne Sgt. Neal M, Boas of Seymo that the “rawcruits” never had the opinion of other combat vete
On the Inside Of The Times
Copycat candidates using President Truman's ‘give em hell” style of campaign have had surprising success. Big labor leaders are leaving John L. Lewis out of AFL-CIO peace movements, They are skittish about his reputation for trying to dominate everything he is connected with. Tribe starts on final swing through Western circuit with 001 margin for first place. Chandler-Saigh rhubarb may be a matter of one or the other getting out of baseball.
¥Evacuation.” The word haunts Earl Wilson's conversations with Europeans, He is oa
present in Rome .....ueuss
‘Nineteen men stationed in the
far corners of the world are among today's “Hoosier Heroes.” Atress Jane Greer finds that a proper diet and plenty of ‘rest will prevent post-preg-nancy fatigued feeling. Winmers in 4-H township shows held last week are anBOUNCER ...caconnsiisrenesd . » - Amusements ....asesvese 8
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dead. It finally w army of atoms and psychology. ur swears on his combat ribbons it so good. The sergeant voiced! rans here to help train Indiana's 138th National Guard Division for two weeks. 3 “I dunno about this new army,” |* said another veteran, Sgt. William Hayes, 1209 N, Oxford St. “In the old {days you tell a soldier to dig a ditch and he digs.. These days you almost have to write him a letter to make thim pick up a {shovel.” The officers
31—The old army is
A A i
‘post-war on-
|ing, shooting and cussing.
felt the impact of the new army harder than the Ihe Old Sarge non-coms. “They were told each and every one of them had to at-|
..14, 15!tend without exception an atomic You Can’ ; Win by Riding to Work'—
‘Reds Scrap Like Indians, So It's a Doughfoot's War
warfare school for four days. “I don’t like the looks things” one officer said. “Usually|
4/We come here for a couple of
weeks take a couple of hikes| drink a few beers and go home. This thing kinda looks bad.” | ‘Drop Dead’ Dropping i But despite the newness of the Army there are just some things that the oldline sergeants can't| stand. Telling a non-com to go in! the opposite direction of heaven! isone. But the “raweruits” are learning painfully not to yell “drop
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— The foot soldiers trudged Army personnel mingled with {building workers as the young rifle drills and men assembled for their first {marches of the Old Army here taste of military life. Hammers
today while their officers wentiand saws created a din as the to an atomitc warfare college. boys attended a 15-minute session That was the {of indoctrination. They were inway the third structed briefly on procedure by a regular Army enlistment officer. Take It Off, Bud Physical examinations came next under the supervision of {Capt. W. R. McMullen, officer in
campment of Indiana's National Guard opened-— a little of the
101d Army mixed charge. . up with some | There is no modesty in the new Army de- {Army, The youngsters were told] yelopatents. 1 ito strip to'the skin after having The citizen- a number stamped on their wrist. soldiers have | Then, with their only attire con-
taken over this ne. 1 ibowitz sisting of a tag on their wrist sprawling, warbuilt camp in much the sameling, they lined up for physicals. manner as their older brothers| A corps of civilian doctors was did during World War II-—march- jpastating Army surgeons with the! examinations. The procedure in-! eluded a complete check beginGun Range Action ining with an eye, ear, nose Sin
But the officers are experienc-|throat examination and ending in| ing a new kind of Army, one that [chest X- -rays.
talks of nuclear physics, neutrons, Next came the written exam-| and radioactivity. For four days, |inations. every officer in camp must at-isembled in one classroom and! tend a super-secret atomic war-\yolunteers in another. Printed fare college while the rank-and-iexamination papers were issued | file Guardsmen learn the les-/grter they were told they would be isons of the Old Army.
Col. Edwin Re Marlin’s 151st {complete the test. The examina-
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By KEYES BEECH, Times Foreign Correspondent AT THE FRONT, JULY 31--One reason we are losing. in Korea is that wp are trying to fight a mechanized European type of war againet an Indian-fighting enemy in terrain better suited to mountain goats than men. This was admitt today by a high-ranking Pentagon observer who had” just returned from the South Korean Army front. He was obviously impressed by the way the South Koreans have held their line against heavy enemy attacks while the Americans have been retreating steadily, “Our people, have to learn—and they're learning—that if we are going to this war we have to get off the roads and take to the hills,” he said. The observer refused to be quoted but he continued: “This is primarily a guerrilla war fought by small groups of men in mountains and in valleys. It's a war of ambush and ¢ nt. “You cannot win that kind of war by riding to work.” "= - » r ~ > (AST NIGHT 1 talked with a young lieutenant, a veteran o fighting, as we ‘watched our troops file silently past in another withdrawal. ned He GUE lly fue Sa34 ago 1 replacement OF cer,” he p_ “and aL 1 don” know ‘what
Mobs, Balks At Abdication
\ King's Action May | | Plunge Belgium
Hi di * Lk
Moo | Defies Reds Slash Through
Chinju, Near Pusan, But Yanks Stand Firm
Arrival of ‘Texas Outfit’ Braces GI Morale; Enemy Loses Race for Time, Troops Believe
| By EARNEST HOBERECHT, I
Into Civil War
Inited Press Staff Correspondent
TOKYO, Tuesday, Aug. 1—The American 2d Infantry
| Division reached Korea from the United States today and
BRUSSELS, Belgium, July swarmed up to the battlefront. '31 (UP)—King Leopold III!
defying thousands of Social-/¢oastal tows of Chinju to w
But Communist forces slashed through the south
ithin less than 50 miles of
ist rioters, refused late today to abdicate-—a decision which, {may plunge this little king-| {dom into civil war | A mob of 80,000 Socialist: led | {strikers was reported Jnerching] on Brussels as King Le ferred with political Loom or ing to solve the crisis. Strong! forces of troops and police were massed to meet any mob attack; on King Leopold's palace in sub- | urban Laeken. “*“The King offered to surrender | power temporarily to his eldest] son, but it seemed certain that! the offer would be refused by So-| cialist leaders who are demanding |, eit C when the first 72 Indiana men SIthe mconditiona) abdieation or| 2 Massachusetts Ave. Workmen | Max Buset, leader of the Social- | {ist minority which opposes the! { King, said last night that a clvil | war would result if the King stays!
Local Marine Unit =~ the Son Head for Brussels
Socalist sources said 25.000
strikers from Haine St. Pierre, ! ets -Udy d {25.000 from La Louviere and! [30.000 from Charleroi
i
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were |
marching toward Brussels to de-|
B-29s Knock Out Red War Plant
‘85 Pct. Destroyed,’ Photographs Show
TOKYO, July 31 (UP)—Eighty-| {five per cent of Korea's big Konan
imunitions plant was destroyed or| in Saturday's 500-ton |
damaged {B-29 raid, reconnaissance photos {showed today. falysts described the results as! “excellent.”
Maj. Gen. Emett O'Donnell, ar)
East Bomber Commander, said! 30 percent of the plant's steel and! concrete buildings were wiped out. Forty “percent of the target! |area suffered heavy damage, with] {structural members of key biuldlings broken and blasted out of {shape, and another 15 percent suf-| {fered relatively light damage, | Gen. O'Donnell said.
Several freight cars loaded with!
Operations an-lq
| | 16th BaMalion to
mand that the King step down. lat the front vanished in smoke
| Pusan. { A dispatch from the front |said - American troops there
‘hailed the ‘arrival of re.
| Inforcements as meaning the | “North Koreans have lost the { race for time.”
|
{ “If ever help came in the nick
jof- time, this is it” said one |oficer when he was informed that {Chinju had fallen and that the {Second Division had landed in orea. Word of the reinforcements [spread rapidly through the fox{holes and gave the hard-pressed GI's the biggest lift they have {had since the war started. The veteran 2nd Division which {distinguished itself in the Nore {mandy fighting of World War II {landed in Korea 10 days after {leaving the United Staes, piled {onto trucks and trains and headed {for the front. It “/as expected to be in combat in a few hours, Heaviest Weight The reinforcement of the | American and South Korean armies came as the Communists focused their heaviest weight on
{ammunition for Communist forces| op, American flank anchored on
(first 72 drafted Hoosiers met at!gates was given in the official |
with which to claim their cloth-| [registrants
Drafted men were as-ithat 2895 Indiana men would bel «
allowed exactly 45 minutes to!
King Leopold, who returned ' only nine days ago after five
Leave Aug. 28
Washington today sent down a Years in exile, was reported ready | okayed Senate|/late on what kind of legislation Service Board No. 52 assembled for pre-induction physical examina- 10-day reprieve for Marine re- \° 8iVe up his throne under a tions and tests at, the Armed Forces Receiving Center, 342 Massa-|
ompromise pl serves headed for active duty. — 19- Rs eh pod)
Thirty officers and 530 men of Baudouln, virtual regent of the the 16th Infantry Battalion, reaim, i oR 'USMCR, scheduled to leave In- _ Mr. Buset 1 and Premier Jean) {dianapolis Aug. 18 for Camp day to Pendleton, Cal., will not quit the] Proposal, Mr. Duvieusart said in| sity until “approximately Aug. 28.” formal announcement ‘that!
Announcement of the postpone- talks were in progress, but in-| |ment was made this morning by dicated that no definite conclu-|
discuss the compromise!
Carpenters, painters and plumb- Col. William C. Smith, command- Sion had been reached. {ers were still working in the build-|ing officer of the 16th Battalion.
He told newsmen that he hoped | {the royal crisis codld be settled | later today.
i U.S. Speeds Rate Unit officers, however, specu lated the change might have been ordered because of difficulties ex-| tomic utput
perienced at Camp Pendleton in handling the
No reason for the change in|
notification received here. Speculate Camp Jammed
influx of reserve
ee on WASHINGTON, July 31 (UP) Leathernecks. The Atomic Energy CommisThe 16th Infantry Battalion, sion announced today that it is
composed of Hoosiers from the'building up the country’s already Indianapolis area, is based at the big A-bomb arsenal at the fastest Marine Armory, 2830 E. Riverside clip in history. {Drive. The unit will leave from It was also reported that: there for the three-day train ride ONE: The hydrogen super [to California around Aug. 28 un- bomb project “is now under way " less a further change is made. It will get a $260 million shot in| Meanwhile, Indiana got:orders !N® arm when Congress acts on |from Washington today fo fur- ® sure-to-be-approved request for nish 1445 men in the October, ONY to build additional Bdraft as the first contingent of] bomb facilities. reported for prein-| WO: In speeding production |
|duction physical examinations to °f the A-bomb and development fill an earlier quota. of the hydrogen weapon, the com-
mission assumes. 88 - Brig. Gen. Robinson Hitchcock, ready has the oh that Rus ela fi state director of selective serv- taking” to make the other. {ice, announced the October quo- Get-Raw Material | ta. He said the new number, J yHRER: The AEC and the mili|combined with the first order for Hary are pushing research in use 1450 Hoosiers by Sept. 30, meant o¢ radioactive atoms as agents of ‘radiological warfare.” FOUR: Development of atomic] engines for airplanes is being “accelerated” and “progress has been
|arafted In the next three ‘months.
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their reputations in Europe. Most of their subordinates are ETO veterans with no experience in the Pacific. There are plenty of paved highways in Furope. In Korea there are no highways for armored divisions to roll down-—even if we had an armored division. There are only narrow dirt roads with rickety bridges and peasant paths through rice paddies, This is a foot-soldiers’ war. = ” » » ” » THERE IS A striking difference between approaches to fronts held by the Americans and those held by the South Koreans. Driving up to the American front one sees trucks and jeeps rush“ing pell mell in each direction--mostly to the rear—or closely parked in the obvious place where one enemy shell could destroy the lot of them as has often happened. One sees practically no vehicles on roads leading to the South Korean sector. For one thing, the South Koreans have only what we gave them, and many of them have broken down beyond repair. The North Koreans have learned to sight in on the nearest schoolhouse if they want to hit American command posts. One outfit, shelled out of six different schoolhouses in two days, finally dug in on a hillside, - The South Koreans set up their command posts in mud huts or dug into the hills. The American Army, always prodigal in expenditure of _ equipment and ammunition, invariably leaves valuable stores with eath withdrawal. To the ammunition. 3 this _ nothing appalling
Duvieusart went to the palace to-|
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during the raid. Built By Japanese
* ce on ue [some time. The Konan plant, on the east coast, was built by the Japanese as a source of glycerine and nitric and sulphuric acids used in the {manufacture of munitions. Since World War II, the plant had been considerably expanded, American intelligence officials {said. It was classified in target | folders as a “direct, critical war- | supporting industry.” The big factory, consisting of some 70 main manufacturin buildings, was attacked through {heavy clouds by radar-guided ibombers. Reconnaissance photos {showed the highly accurate,
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‘blind bombing” was
{the south coast, west of . usan. Gen. Douglas ur ree
miles due west of the supply base of Pusan.
troops still were in Chinju at 7 a. m. (6 a. m. Indianapolis time) Monday, but he added “that does not necessarily mean we hold the entire town.”) ’ Thirty - five miles north of Chinju, the midnight communique reported, pressure was ‘greatly increasing” east of Kochang. Units of the U. 8. First Cavalry Division were “engaging in a fire
fight” with two enemy battalions around Chinrye, the communique reported.
Reds Shift Attaek
The communique made it plain
{that the North Koreans still were waging the showdown offensive which began late last week. “Communist efforts to break through American and South Korean defense lines shifted from the central sector to the west and southwest,” it said. It was on the central tront and the northwest ares
pact of the main Communist ate tack.
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KOREA
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ported in his is midughs communiAir Force analysts sald other ane that Americans
{munitions stored there were de- Hining orm North istroyed. They estimated that dam-
Boufings. Maud provent
~adisining it that the 1st Cavalry and 25th Divisions had absorbed the ime«
The enemy then shifted the
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