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To Pass Bill

For Controls

Leaders Hope For Final Vote By Wednesday .

Near Trailer Camp

FAIRFIELD-SUISEN AIR BASE, Cal, Aug. 7 (UP)—Twopropellers of a B-29 Superfortress “ran wild” just before the plane

crashed, killing 19 persons and

injuring 60 as its cargo of bombs blasted a nearby trailer camp, witnesses said today.

...complete its Work. ...... (Within a 30-yard radius Sen. Paul H. Douglas (D. Ill), knocked to” the ground. Framing

oor. The House will. resume. floor-de-{— xo ono-vhoss™ killed “was” (he and firefighters rushed to the

. night.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 7 (UP) Two congressional committees pointed to an all-out drive today to obtain speedy action on emergency economic control legislation with wage - price - rationing curbs. : : While Chairman Brent Spence (D. Ky.), called off a meeting of his House Banking Committee until tomorrow, the Senate Banking Committee also met to put final touches on a bill that would give President Truman a free hand in invoking ceilings and rationing. : : Chairman Burnet R, Maybank

session all day if necessary to

a member of the Senate Banking -Committee, urged that the Senate keep debate on the control bill to a minimum. Prolonged discussion, he said, would stimu-, late inflationary panic buying and hoarding. 4

Resumes Debate i

tion tomorrow and leaders hoped! to get a final vote by Wednesday As its first order of business, the House will take another look] ~-its third-—-at the proposal of! Rep. Clinton D. McKinnon (D.| Cal.) to invoke wage and price! controls automatically when the! ‘government's cost-of-living index. climbs five per cent above June] 15 levels. : The House last week tentatively

agreed -to-accept the pian, then’

reversed itself and voted to junk it. Mr. McKinnon thereupon . brought it up again. Mr. Truman is opposed to Mr, McKinnon's idea. Arms : Chairman Carl Vinson (D. Ga.), | of the House Armed Services Committee believes President Truman will ask for a whopping increase in military appropriations next year. He did not say just how large the fiscal 1952 defense budget will be, but he said it would come to a “considerable amount.” He said the total would include some $500 million to expand the Marine Corps to 174,000 men and to build two extra Marine air squadrons. The corps now has about 74,000 men. Present mobilization plans

call for its expansion to 128,000

men by January or February.

Sen. Walter F. George (D. Ga.), suggested today that a corporation tax increase retroactive to

July 1 “might be the compromise” !:

to settle a dispute over one of President Truman's tax recommendations.

The President has asked that

corporate income taxes be increased from -38 to 45 per cent, retroactive to Jan.-1, as part of his $5 billion war tax

program. | Mr. George, chairman of the

Senate Finance Committee whi

is considering the program, has

expressed doubt that the com mittee would agree to a tax in

AD. 8. C., of the Senate committee| “#aid hie would keep his group in|

Ten of the 20 men abo i

ship were killed. Two others were

missing and presumed dead. The other seven dead, and most of the injured, were rescue workers who were attempting to save the plane from fire when the bombs exploded, me 3 _ Panic spread among dwellers of a nearby trailer village, home of 150 enlisted men and their families, as the huge plane crashed and its bombs started to explode. In the minutes between the crash and the explosion, Air Force police and others guided many of the village residents to safety by way. of a gate. : :

~-Stumble-Bladly-

But in the explosion, persons within a 50-yard radius were

gasoline and bits of burning wreckage spread over a-200-yard circle. Trailers caught fire. People ran blindly, stumbled, picked themselves up again to run some more. One witness said they

ed to safety.

bate on the emergency legisla-'.ommander of this air base, Brig. scene.

More. than. 150. 3

A :

Gen. Robert F. Travis, 46, a hero| Ten minutes later, the plane's sions were touched off as butane

of World War IL Five personsicargo of 10 or more practice de-/tanks in the trailer camp caught

{molition bombs let loose, blasting fire. ? |a crater 25 feet wide and four feet! severe injury but three men suf- 3.., Flaming gasoline and debris Preston, Minn, was one of the rained down in a 200-yard-circle. fire-fighters caught by the blast. of rescue workers in clearing the The blast was heard 50 miles He was unhurt: away. i.

aboard the ship, including the pilot and copilot, escaped without

fered serious wounds and burns.

Dragging Plane

Witnesses said the B-29's commander;- Capt.-Bugene Q. Steffes Jr, of East Chicago, Ind., reported| two mechanical failures just before the crash. “Shortly after the plane took off, Capt. Steffes radioed the air control tower that he had a “runaway” propellér on the left inboard engine. He said it was dragging the plane down to a dangerously low speed.

Next, he reported that his right

ning wild and that he could not gét power to gain altitude. Capt. Steffes put the plane into a 180degree turn to get back on the runway for an emergency landing.’ He was within seconds of his goal when one wing struck the ground, tripping the ship into a cartwheel.| The plane broke in two and,

Rests Af

ter Crash

crease reaching that far back. Another member, Sen. Robert A. Taft (R. 0.), suggested last week that it would be reasonable ‘to make the corporation tax in-

crease effective July 1, -approxi«

mating the date of the

outbreak of ‘the Korean-War.,

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E Capt. E. O. Steffes Jr, East | Chicago, Ind., aircraft commander of the B-29 which

| crashed yesterday in California, |

is shown resting in a hospital.

inboard propeller also was run-|

other

Cpl.

“All

All that is left of a B-29, which crashed and exploded at Fairfield-Suisun Air Base in California, is shown in the above photograph. The picture was taken looking at The rear tail right is the crater left by 10 500-pound practice bombs which exploded. looked like a “crazy Indian dance caught fire as it smashed to earth ship ripped over thé area. Drops sion thew me against a fire truck, laround a camp fire.” Some crawl-|35 yards from the trailer camp.'of gasoline touched off fire among stunning me. Whén I came off the v s the-traiters destFOVIng More than dirt and looked around I could {half of them and damaging al-'see bodies lying on the’ ground. {most all the others. Fresh explo You could see some were dead.”

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Near Chinju And Army Troops :

Face Heavy Fire (Continued Page One)

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Haunched their —offensive. . A front dispatch sent from Ko-|, rea at 12 midnight, Indianapolis time, reported that Marines of the 3d Brigade, and soldiers of the Army’s 5th and 35th Regimental Combat Teams were fighting side by side to clear the Communists out of the heights. : Army, Navy and Marine planes plastered the enemy with bombs, rockets and machine-gun fire. “Front reports said the Americans were advancing slowly in all sectors,” a dispatch from an advance command post said. “They were taking undetermined casual-

ler casualties

Altogether some 15,000 Marines and Army troops launched the of-

~tfensive. at 3:30.p. m.-Sunday, In} gfe

dianapolis time, on a wide front west of Masan on the south coast approaches to the American sup-

section. At the

Clear Trailer Camp

_Base authorities said the num-

Ronald N.. Knudslien of Per of dead was “surprisingly low.” They credited the fast work

{trailer camp in the few minutes | of a sudden she went between the crash and ‘the exFragments of the bomb and whoompf,” he said. “The explo- plosion.

artillery, recoil - less rifles, | proximity fuses. We will an-| nihilate the Russian mass with our new weapons." This dream has faded. In the! first place these weapons are not| in production on the required] scale. In the second place Russian | weapons in many respects are still superior to those of the United! States, though not so finished and polished in appearance. |

in Korea. Studied Figures

tive capacity, save for certain

just as easily as U. 8. productive

Soviet War Plants Rival U.S. in Arms Production

(Continued From Page One) Its intentions cannot be clearly |

“7” matically discounted by large per-

seen, nor its methods understood. All official information from Russia is colored by propaganda. Government officials have auto-

centages all claims of increased Soviet strength, industrial or military. Luxuries Ignored Reliance has been placed on the probably undeniable fact. that by 1960 the productive power of the Western nations will be three to one over that of the Soviet sphere.

Those lessons have been learned Great reliance is also placed on!/Gen. 3 0 'the present probably four-to-one Plane, “The Bataan. : There was no official announceFurthermore, Russian produc- Russia in the production of steel, ment on the nature of Mr. Harri-well-placed

superiority of America a'one over,

Harriman Holds Talks in Korea

Confers With Army,

Averell

But the new concept of Russia man's

produce steel than on its determi-

capacity. If Soviet “conventional”

{fields to American weapons, why 18h they not have new “wonder weapons,” too, perhaps equa — tthe United States? : ”

1 to

It took no “cloak and dagger work by Mr. Raymond to get th figures on ‘which he based h conclusions. He got his information by study of production figures released by the Soviet government and evaluated them on the basis of his own first-hand knowledge.

countries. The

ment in the West. “A basic decision has been made by our government, nevertheless,

listed as slightly injured.

The railroads can haul it

To v

that this country need only preare for war in .a limited

latively small preparations now being made. Though the sum

II peak. S Since the end of the war costs of the machinery of war have increased greatly, partly due to the! arrest due to the increased cost of everything. For example, it now costs $200 millions to equip one average armored division. That is merely the initial cost. . In Washington officialdom has tended to hide behind the excuse that Russia is “unfathomable.”

He studied the extensive Slavic] literature on Russian production.|It did not demobilize as America He had available the knowledge did after World War IL Its war and opinion of American and Eng- plants ‘did not lie idle as they lish experts as well as those of have in the United States. colossal five years it has been steadily in-| [growth of Russia's war potential creasing its war potential while man already has concluded that {has been known to every govern-

| condition: at-General-Hospital to- : That is the base of American gay suffering from knife wounds Of northern and eastern Indiana

policy and accounts for the re- received in a fight last night in cities and counties appeared at

{nation to use the

| purposes. _.It has enough steel to build and maintain the largest peace-time

“military force in the history of

he world ... and it is of little concern to the men in the Kremlin {that there is not much steel left for the Russian domestic economy. It is only in the Western |pations that steel must be rejserved for “necessities” and luxu{ries such as the men in the Kremilin deny to the Russian masses.

Russia has a long head start.

For

America has been steadily de‘creasing its ability to make war.

TOMORROW: How Russia Pre pared For War.

Dick Kaltes, 33, was in serious

ithe rear of 911 W. New York 8t,, | where he lives.

appropriated this year for direct| pglice said they found a pocket | proposed rate increase. military expenditures may rise toi knife with a. three-inch blade on! —+the-total of -$§20-billlons; it “With opavies Catts 21, 2001 WW. New Publ to Service = not even approach our World War| yori with whom Kaites had been | boost its rates for the second It. serves|

| fighting. ft i Catts was booked on charges of disorderly conduct, resisting and

| Kaites suffered knife wounds ‘on both .sides and on his upper left arm, and Catts received a cut ‘on the forehead when struck with a beer bottle during the fight, {police said. A hold order was

placed on" Kaites on charges of so the protest group could pre-

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‘Diplomatic Chief Tokyo, Aug. 7 (UP)—Presidential Foreign Affairs Adviser W, Harriman spent seven hours in Korea today, conferring with top U. 8. military and diplomatic chiefs, i Mr. Harriman, who arrived In

Tokyo yesterday, made the trip in| four : engine

visit, . But

definite limitations in the elec- today puts that line of thought in/sources said without elaboration coming offensive, had dug In tronic field, can be turned to the a different light. Less emphasisithat his discussions were “entirely with qa heavy concentration of production of the new weaponsiis placed on Russia's ability tomilitary.” "| _Mr. Truman's adviser talked maximum|with Lt. Gen. Walton H. Walker, weapons are superior in many amount of that steel for wary § 8th Army Commander; Maj.

ply and reinforcement t of Pu-

30,000 Communist troops. The Marines——a reinforced regifrom -the-—Ist-Division's 3d Brigade—went into action Yot the first time on the Korean front on the eighth anniversary of their World War II landings on Tulagi and Guadalcanal and only 17 days after leaving the United States. One column from the 25th Division's 35th Regimental Combat Team struck out along the main | southern highway and railway from positions believed about 11 miles east of Chinju, and 17 miles west of Masan. This column was reported makIng good progress. : ‘Under Fire at Once

| The 5th Regimental Combat Team, which arrived In Korea! from Hawall only five days ago, came under almost Immediate Communist fire from a hill flanking its point of departure along a secondary road some 22 to 23 miles southeast of Chinju. The fight blocked the route of advance for the Marines, who followed up the combat team in the southwest attack. Soon afterward, the Marines joined the 5th Regiment in fighting to clear out the Communists. 2 Dispatches mentioned 35th Regiment troops in action there, too, indicating that further rein-| forcements were dispatched to! that vital sector. { The Communists, apparently tipped off in advance as to the

76-millimeter artillery and ma-chine-guns_in_the heights over-

vance, :

san. They faced an estimated

looking the southwest road of ad-

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established beachheads on the Allied

TONGYO 9 TH = SpA Seat HY Gls over in Korea lot loose with their first punch. It is not the. one they. reserva for a. Sunday was. areal off

oward Chine

side of the Naktong River,

aimed at cutting the Pusan (4) to Taegu (5) supply-line. Up ‘around

Andong and Yongdong battle fighting.

ines were static despite heavy

2 Local Families Notified Sons Wounded in Korea

Pvt. Carl Fisher, Pfc. Myers Listed

Two Indianapolis families today awaited additional details after receiving Department of Defense notifications that their sons have been wounded in Korean action.

and Pvt. Carl L.

Mr. and Mrs Frank Fisher R. R. 16, 542.

Pvt. Fisher

‘Hoosier Heroes—

Téan area. ae

Reported] wounded ‘were Pfe. Clarence Eugene Myers, son of Mrs. Elizabeth M. Bunch, 1309 KE. 10th St,

“Fisher, son of

* | Korea early this year,

The Department of Defense to- § day announced the following Hoosier casualties in the Ko-

Thieves last night broke open a $47,100 In Gems

| and {took $419. according to Ernest,

i ————————————— TEND MISHAWAKA STRIKE MISHAWAKA, Aug. 7 (UP)— the residence of Actress Rita HaySome. 4200 production workers, worth and her husband, Prince returned to the -Ball-Band plant!

out of rubber workers caused by giver Elsa Maxwell and many

Gen. Earl Partridge, 5th Air Force] Commander; U, 8. Ambassador to Korea John Muccio; and Korean President Syngman Rhee. The talks were held in the 8th Army Headquarters city,

Sees Fighting Front

Mr. Harriman did not vist the {front lines. But the fighting front was visible to him from a window of the Bataan. : Meantime, usually reliable sources said Mr. Harriman and {Gen, MacArthur are finding them|selves “pretty much’ in agreement in their views on the Far East.

Informants said that Mr. Harri-

Gen. MacArthur is following his orders from President Truman to

‘the Tetter and will riot do anything!

beyond them which might emrbarrass either the United States jor. the United Nations :

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ities Fig

|. More “than 20 representatives

|an Indiana Associated Telephone { Corp. hearing today to protest a

The utility asked

the State

(time in three years. 93,000 patrons in 39 exchanges.

{ “PSC Public Counselor Walter

: assault .and. battery. Rr. Jones: and. several of -the -in-}: {expensive new weapons, partly’ yim intent to kill. i

tervening attorneys asked the commission at the outset of the hearing to recess it after the | company presents its evidence in support of the increase, Mr. Jones said the hearing should be recessed for 45 days

{disorderly conduct and assault! pare cross-examination and get|

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Stolen at Party

CANNES, France, Aug. 7 (UP) i--An estimated $47,100 in jewels were Stolen from Designer Elsa

'terday during a party at the

{Riviera Villa of an American In-

{dustrialist.

One front

American offensive, An observation plane reported about 1000 men and several tanks rhoving

forward to the battle area.

Allied planes were ordered to)

go after the column.

If and when the Marines and) soldiers crack the Communist {jeoqa, front lines, however, they may| find the going easier, Field ad-|f,.; > vices indicate that the enemy was Pi ured planning an attack of his own| in the area and was dug in only don. lightly so far as any defense in! depth is concerned.

report indicated the Communists were throwing éverything they have into stopping the

Marie

Indianapolis,

110th St., Indianapolis.

Wopndads ooh bie.

1. Fisher, R. R. 185, Box 542,

Pfc. Clarence E. Myers, son of § (Mrs. Elizabeth M. Bunch, 1309 E.

Pvt. Earl C. Giles, South Bend.

Pvt. Lee Roy Miller, Evansville. Pfc. Bobble Dean Stewart, At-

Cpl. Charles ‘A. Egerton, Cory-

Pfe, Kirby L. McCreary, Rising

“The Defense Department notle fication gave no details on serious~ ness of wounds or in what ene gagements they were suffered. Pfc. Myers, who will be 19 on Aug. 18, has been in service two years. He was sent to Japan in March and in May he was sent to Korea. He is a member of the 35th Infantry Regiment, Headquarters Co. He attended school here and in Paris, Ill, before joining the - Army. . Pvt. Fisher is a member of the 1st Cavalry Division. The 19-year-old soldier ate tended Techni¢al- High 8chool be~ - {fore entering service in July, ‘11948. ‘He sailed for Japan in ‘November, 1948, and was sent to

Pfc. Clarence Eugene Myers

+ + « wounded in Korea.

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