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South Koreans Smash Another Pocket; ‘Looks Like We Got Them on Run,’ Says General

War at a Glance . TOKYO==Redi on run-for-first-tinre-in Korean’ a — South Koreans, “fighting like fools,” break up Naktong River bridgehead imperiling Taegu supply line; ‘South Koreans supported by Yank fliers; slightly south, 1st Cavalry Division hems in another bridgehead which is now declared not to be “worth a tinker's damn”; GI drive along south coast west of Pusan starts to roll again. WITH THE 5TH AIR FORCE—B-29 raid on Pyongyang

‘arsenal in Red Korea “scratches off” second major aerial target.

By EARNEST HOBERECHT, United Press Staff Correspondent TOKYO, Thursday, Aug. 10—American and South Korean forces threw the Communists back at both ends of the Naktong River line today and fastened a firm grip on enemy bridgeheads in between. It was the first effective stand of the war against a . |determined Communist assault on an Allied line. The -U. 8. Marines scored a five-mile breakthrough on

Here smoke and flame

Chemical and light tal lants in Konan, North Korea, are shown hore operating full blast Dg ht maial planks | Air Force Far East command.

before B-29 bombers arrived. :

Beat Capehart

Is Russia Ready? ....No, 3—

A-Bomb Tally Shows U. S. Has 350, Reds 15

American Strategy Based on New _Weapens While Russians Built Up Army

rise from the war Plas after hey were plastered by B-29s of the the South Coast. GI's of the 35th Regiment plunged nearly U. 8. Alr Force Photos From “acme “Telephoto within sight of Chinju on the same front, The Communists - ~~ lwere falling back on Chinju in’ some disorder, abandoning Marines Click Like Machine Scare Buyers much equipment. : They also were reported preparing to abandon Chinju. in Hellish August Weather At the other end of the Naktong line, hard fighting Drive Set hy AFL ere South Korean troops smashed a Communist bridgehead Colonel Clips Orders With All Precision eight miles north of Waegwan. They drove nearly all of Campaign to Get Of Quarterback Calling Football Signals Stores Say Demand the 2000 North Koreans back across the river, Campaign er IL : J at st Under Way Tonight | pA GE RINKS: die Bie Marines Falling, but Not Prices’ of Waegwa, in the northwestern Marion County unit of the parlayed brawn and brains today in a five-mile break-through along By EDWARD WILSON PP provisional capital of Taegu, U. 8. 1st American Federation of Labor Korea's south Sua coast, i ig scare bu) buying in Indianapo- Cavalry troops Slamped an iron ring on angther Communist +wiil get inmotion. hep e.. tonight |. AE Tank. E HE a0 3 8 Aira Ing off haar) 1 A RRS eo: America scrapped the iE Hignpat war machine In the history of’ their Ea EE et pp Conimers nok & w ‘ ro

Eighth Amy ‘Headquarters reported that the Yanks

A Lint rE Bivins thay nat doa Bo drove the enemy back to the water's edgé, and the North = How do we compare, now, after five years of intensive Soviet me i tenant edie Ded tle Ey eS haying ia apt heed, dea Koreans “will be unable to reinforce their units : during the arming . . . and five years of American disarming? |2nions here have been invited | 4..o like The check my Leni en night.” % Richard Wilson, after weeks of research wl Look a : A, oonference at he Claypool SESE ] Times BE... ie SET ORE iy i and The Indianapolis Times, gives the answer of some o e ex- [Hotel at.8 p, m. ay to discuss SBA bly ph © od / a ¥ Fices Molding the rate on on. Still other . y perts in the third of a startling series. on - registeration and ralsing of funds Yer hing “Jeep hls ei Tube rig Sbdh down. Depart- To Land A attacking f, thi oi loss for the campaign, mediate task TD wrote i ny planes and 2 any to the hilll,,...¢ stores report prices are at er Communist bridgehead in th L By RICHARD. WILSON The campaign will be conducted fo dug plastic spoons into a Where the machine gun was 10-/,),,i {he same level, and ture Distress Call b America’s existing military strength looks! by the AFL's Marion County Non- cans of rations. cated, and a moment later the , a Ig bend of the Nakteng where

dealers don’t foresee any hike in

| it turns eastward toward Pus | Partisan League for Political Ac-| Capt. Earl M. English, Crock- hilltop disappeared in a cloud of|,, = 0c tire. | Wa an, puny compared to that of Russia. {tion along lines approved by ett, Tex, reported his tanks had smoke arid dust thrown up by! p.¢ ..is are still hard to get. | | BOSTON, Aug. 9 (UP) ~= Al Case of ‘Going vp The masses-of men and materials Russia has accumu-| ‘national AFL leaders in Wash- driven off an enemy machine gun bursting bombs and Shells. i {Local “dealers won't take any Military transport plane called| Some propre lated since the close of World War 1I may, however, be a ington recently. and mortar company holding up| After a few minutes of cautious CL Lio "ont give out any for help when it became disabled progress waa reported

; :. Fa {the advance. probing, the word came back, “alll, iso and have started using over the sea today, but ‘t Than.| Among the 1000-foot hills on mere illusion once confronted with America's new weapons. | Declared Not Partisan | An Army colonel complained clear! Move out.” Infantrymen {0% PIS PC. SFE PETES Ht Which about 4000 enemy troops

; and safely at Dart- we : These conclusions aré based on conversations with high! Officers of the Political ‘Action he was chased down the road by started down the road and digo L0K¢ your riame and that's all.| y art- were dug in. They had some tank + £

+ 5 military officials and a compilation of information from League said their campaign will another enemy machine gun. shifted into low gear. The attack "a 0 Savmenty or edeposits. mouth, Nova Scotia; Coast Guard) upport,

Inot be based upon partisan poli-| Planes already were on the way. was under way again “Shortage” Items Normal ‘headquarters here reported. | “It 1s so rugged hére that it is many sources on the comparative strengths of the U. 8. tics but on a basis of labor’s| An hour later the road was safe.) Local grocers report a strong, The Coast Guard sald it had {primarily a case of going up and

| the Marines were Cigar Store Raided; canceled \down rather than gaining yardn interest in Congress. Up front, 9 tendency for sales to fall in those canceled an aleri and recalled. n g yar and the U- 8.8. R. military establishment. : | Although the effect of the cam-| {hammering their way through the Pool Selli Char d items hard fo get during. a war|planes sent to the aid of the air. 8° horizontally,” one officer of _Hereis about the way the two countries compare today: paign_to defeat Sen. Capehart| |North Koreans in ‘hellish August F 00 elling ge period. Indiana Retail -Grocersicraft. bound from Lagens in’ the! the U. 8. 24th Division sald. . : Tn. 8S. S.R. TLS [would favor the election of Alex weather. “Charges of keeping a room for] {Association reports sugar, coffee, Azores to ‘Westover Field, Mass,,| Gen. ‘MacArthur's midnight 350-400 |Campbell, Democratic candidate] Out front Lt. Col. Ray. Mur- pool selling were filed today Yleanned goods, and all the rest/With 11 passengers and an un-| communique sald the three U. 8 i ad for. the. Senate..the AFL. of San D oambih v Ra Wallace, 56," 0P-lo¢ the bardetosget Joma, globe) on hi disclosed... number. ental: en Ted IR AL hs 4 Ake Td Can { a iH ne ENE WES i} } 3 ia 3 » Hid dA BS or y i 36,500 Inventory [port Tor the . Democratic cand! ro © i iin EE . a raided. Yy Capt] [normal ATIOuRtS, ; The plane's pilot radioed an offensive ~ of “the ‘war ie

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Tanks Severs 50,000 6000 Wo . 157 (Including 218 Major Combat,

date; one g The big department storesiSO8 at 10:20 a. *n, Indiana 1ia| morning had scored new ins . Opposition to Sen. Capehart$ A tank retriever “dragged a/Ralph Chambers and a police have plenty of nylons which the|time, when he was 8000 font bolt avéraging about three - on

among AFL and other units of burned Sherman out of the ditch!squad. Police reported finding women were fighting for not longithe sea about 120 miles south of, the southern.sector. Airmen. ze-

Ships seesane etiv organized labor started fter (and sweating GI's watched from 27 partly filled books of baseball ago. — They report ‘that “the ten-/H&lfa% N. 8, | ported that the C re ) sesso v ganized labor sta soon a e Communists we Suisliten) ov 731 Total Active the Senator took office in 1945. |any shade they could find, {pool tickets, » Jaeiity 1&6 fof the public’ to buy! But-he managed to Keep the| | getting ready to -quit Chinju. * or ' only a needs, 7

Submarines ,... |erippled plane aloft

nited And almost all other items inland at 10:38 a, m, and sighted, aed As Correspondent

He landed Robert Miller, with the Marines,

175 Front Line 10 Front Line Divisions,

u. S. Will Lose Korea Even If it Wins

ae ve » : {department stores are Sxpepienc- safel 16 mi : Army ASIN .. Divisions. _All Not Fully Trained ing. only. normal sales. - Ey mney Jater. ps Tm L314 they | proke ough | ot . pe America’s mititary leaders havey REDS SHELL Qu EMOYS | wheeled forward » ) g miles after

On the Inside ‘Of The Times

T8en. Cipehart and Rep, Hal: leck put their best

known the figure in the above could cross the Atlantic again. table for many months. ‘They de-{ The plot for Europe is thus: excided, however, that Russia would actly the same as that now un-| «mot. attack for several years... (folding on the Korean stage.) There would be time they Korea isa Tehiearsal for Europe.

thought, to build a tank- killing, | If Gen. MacArthur succeeds in|

TAIPEI, Formosa, Aug, 9 (UP)? two-day bog-down, The Nationalists said today the] BY nightfall Wednesday they {Chinese Reds have resumed heayy Were fanning out and moving 4 bombardment of . the. -Quémoy | rapidly down. the. coast; sn Islands, stepping. stones. on the| {with the U, 8. 5th Regimental foot | invasion route to Formosa. | Combat Team, i | |

In Present War, Ex-Missionary Warns

Asiatic Minds Poisoned “Against Yanks, He Says:

By CARL HENN

forward in the fight for Ee > On the right fl t Tax lane-smashing Western defense holding the -bridgehead in Korea | TATES will lose in Korea - n the right flank .of the of {arranty — Pan with modern weapons. Its/it will then be seen, probably in| PLA RD missionary to that coun. . economic controls legisla- LOCAL TEMPERATU RES tensive, troops of the 35th- Regie mission would be to hold ‘aiEuro- late fall, whether he can stage the ;v said today. how, Dan Ridney : re- 6a m..65 10am. . es |Mental Combat Team were alpean bridgehead until the Yanksifinal act of the drive back. | “The supreme necessity of opposing the ex- BE mint ny som 6 TAM. 86 11am. 70 | most in sight of Chinju, United d S h P Q tH U.S. Pl panstén of communism in Korea and. throughs Beventy ap Breve oak 8 a m.. 86 12 (noon) 70 | ress Correspondent Jack James : Re frengt oses Luestion on ans | out the Orient forces us to fight against tre- the “Tribe a rough time. ’ am... 67 1 p- m....72 (Continued on + Page 3 —Col. n

mendous propaganda odds as well as military odds, said the Rev. Fr. Roland Averbeck, O.F.M,, pastor of Sacred Heart Catholic Church, The Rev. Fr. Averbeck, for 13 years a missionary in northern China, Manchuria and Ko-

This program looks reassuring, in a military plan. But the facts! of Russia's strength at least pose the question of whether American strategy can be successful, In Russia's 175 organized combat divisions it has 50,000 armor$4 Y isin: and behind that the ability to more than replace them: Toke av a Junior Chamber of RE tree One out of 4ix of these combat : { luncheon in the Washington Hotel. vehicles is a heavy tank, and the ‘same class, still they probably. | > & 0% 2 Russian ability to use those| could bomb Indianapolis, Chi- | «ALL ASIATIC people have been told that tanks, firmly established in 3K Detroit, New York, Seat- | the United States and England are looking for World War II, has been reaffirm-| tle. ways to extend their ‘imperialistic’ domination, ed in Korea, where.some Oriental] The ‘Russians have carefully| the Rev. Fr. Avérbeck declared. troops which served in the battle distributed their land forces. The, “If .we had other Orientals besides the South

The Redskins split a twin bill in the Cream City but retain their position in the AA pennant race. Mrs. C. Richard Fulmer takes top honors in Women's Golf Association tourney. Complete results of yesterday's play...... Pages 18, 19. Carefully laid plans for new | “school buildings become unworkable with the in-

War Anclysis—

U.-S. ‘Spars’ in Korea War, Keeping Eye on Main Event

Present Battle Likened to Exhibition As We Get Ready for 15-Round ‘Title Go' 5.

By HARRY FERGUSON, United Press Foreign News Editor

One reason the United States is havi -| | aving such tough going in ad have used them to| Western Allies are faced in East-| Koreans fighting with us; it might make a dif flux of population into pi Stalingrs 1 lern Europe by 30-first-rate di-| ference. But we can’t afford to use the National- the Marion County areas I Rores Is that we are waging two campaigns at once. We are like Haht “dtiction Visions. North of Tiflis in the| ist forces offered by Chiang Kai-shek because surrounding Indianapolis. 2 heavyweight Who Is training for a championship fight and at the w! 1s Russias Jet Je rate of 3000 or CAUCASUS, pointing directly to-| the Koreans are afraid the Chinese would never The last of a series by keep jabbing EE at ry hint iward Near Eastern oil, are 20 leave Korea, once they got in.” Bob Bourne.......... Page 5 n = % 2 more annually, It. has an im. ‘more highly —trained- divisions; Should Red Chinese troops attack Formosa Reds and: yellows get the bag with the other to bulld up our muscles for the main bout.

If the United States could drop) lth wear this fall from backe everything elsé and concentrate Bo Soveriiment to get at Spies. _ to-college fashion shows. on Korea, the war out there, Aj) our military thinking in thes "Page 6 would “bé shortened "by months. last four years has been based ar

pressive force * of heavy long-| r East th range bombers of the B-29 type, jane, dn be Tar as) Shere are probably 400 altogether. Important recent changes have. “Though they are not so mod-1-ern as U. 8S. bombers of the (Continued on Page 3—Col. 2) |

and force us to fight them, the priest said, it | will consolidate Asiatic opinion against American “imperialism.” “A further- problem to-plague-the United Na~ tions when the North Koreans are defeated, ac-

green light for campus

A | But President Truman and Con- on’ one assumption. It is that cording to the Rev. Fr. Averbeck, will be estab- : Bridge ..sisesisns Ceara 6 i : "Asiati 4 | Classified .............20-24 (gress are keeping their eyes on CMe day Russia may attack us IF AN A-BOMB HIT INDIANAPOLIS , . , THEN WHAT?| lishment of a stable government on the penia- Father Roland Avarbusk +. . “Ariafies BOE oanBed «ures ....1..25 [the main bout—the day when we 20d that we must nave ample @® What would happen if an A:Bomb dropped on Indianapolis? v0 want us in Asia, d the -Jabaness Crossword ......sese0ese 5 ‘may have to defend ourselves [Warning 2 a ike fan: “KOREA ruled herself for only a few years Communist-led Chinese forces an e Jap _ Editorials ........ asians 16 against a Russian attack. would be to throw a counter @ The experts KNOW , ,, and in another Times war EXCLU- between 1894, when Chinese domination ended, troops. He said they agreed only token resis Fashions ...... veesseave 8 | Main Bout News ch a biz bo SIVE in THE SUNDAY TIMES you'll read what the experts | 4 1910, when Japan took over. Then the Japa- tance would be offered to the sons of Nippon Yood .......... ra i | MOB OF ns oan Of Washi. punch end our bigs Ombers on have learned about what an A-Bomb can ‘do to a city. | nese systematically killed off every potential I Ye uld leeep. their armies out of Commu- Forum, Shel hata Wa 16 ington. {hese aye os ith ra piu 0! 08CO ; 2| Korean leader. Now there are very few left to n na te ry. rs. Manners L...o.eeee { bout. Ye . Hl ay @ The SUNDAY TIMES story ill A any Tustin | form a responsible goverriment.” 7 When the Rev. Fr. Averbeck returned to China | Movies ...... ne 12-13 ran out, saa a House hile we. were making thes : . important fo YOU. Questions Ke: 5 o tier could | The Rev. Fr. Averbeck saw. first-hand the at the end of World War II he said he found | Othman .....sésssesness If for a speed-up radar warning pans, 3 . lowed re to — ; a he Blown a a ay buildings with. | Attitude of the Chinese change toward Ameri- ~ Communist cells already set up in every village Pattern «ueiv.cseersiers atTonn : Geng’ Bo aot DO Irs In Karen tn bee Pn : "| can: missionaries and all Western people both under control of R roops. Radio J svesvinssnevinass { : Se 2 stand an A-Bomb blast? How could Sitiaens protect them- | before and after World War II, “Their organization is something ‘to wonder RUBEK eon oaeinernnner. 15 in and. when enemy planes Hinks ana Bround Support planes. hington selves? I' He was present in northern China during the * at)" he said. + ; u a "il Side Gliances ..v...se0v. 18 One. Assumption “| rather than the Weapons : : bitter struggle between Chinese and Japanese In his opinion; the Russians have done Bociety ...cesvvvencisnes 8 bi Capitol A. Startling Stoty By “The Experts armies, not leaving until 1940, pa efficient oar or poisoning Asiatic minds. AgINAL | Sports ....c.000n0s 1 : At the. same time : Truman ment of a push. button war. We = : ; In Tainan, capital of Shantung and birthplace the West and in taking advantage of prejudice | Ear) Wilson «. irene {asked Congress for legislation to are getting thos those weajons tne Co. tne. Newt Sunday , . . IN THE SUNDAY. TIMES: ~~ | o¢ “foreigners” by having Oriental Come | Women's r.......fyr: 18 (Protect us irom within__iaws Korea now, 0. ‘ 4 WE REL Sl Tet lt ft Bat 2

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