Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 August 1950 — Page 3

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: Drop Brought -About “By Lower Costs for ~ Vegetables, Pork

WASHINGTON, Aug. 10 (UP) _=Consumer food 4 slightly in the past two weeks of July because of lower costs for ‘fresh vegetables and pork, the Bureau of Labor Statistics re-

But the bureau said July 31 food prices still were 2.7 per cent higher than before War began. ! - The bureau said a special survey made 10 days ago to check the effect of the Korean War on prices showed the consumers food index dropped two-tenths of one

eTSent between Jul 23.800 July

The survey, based on prices of

items in their market basket. But the loyer vegetable and pork

prices more than offset those

s. Egg Prices Higher

In each city they paid more for

~ bread, eggs, hamburger, bacon,

AEA SHEA Food prices generally were low-] er in Boston, Chicago, Detroit, New York, Pittsburgh and St. Louis. They were higher on the average in Buffalo, Cleveland, Los Angeles. Philadelphia, Richmond, San Francisco and Washington. : The bureau estimated the retail food price index for 56 large cities July 31 was 212 per cent of the 1935-39 average. Although it was 0.2 per cent below July 15, - the index was 2.7 per cent above June 15 and only three per cent below the July, 1948, record high. The retail food index accounts for 40 per cent of the Bureau's entire cost of living index. The bureau said it will make another special food price survey Aug. 15 and announce the results

——as soon afterward as possible: —

Chrysler Plant Talks Delayed

-—- A-conference between Chrysler: Corp. officials and members of two city boards was delayed here today until engineers can prepare a summary of available sewer line cornections. > Earlier this week representatives of the firm planned today's meeting with the Works and Sanitation Boards to outline their util-

ity needs for the planned con-|the United States by

struction of a Dodge Division | the B-290 and B-50 ~~“ plant near the Shadeland Ave.| Lyautey, Tripoll, and Suez

the Korean! Prise,

manding officer » - In 13 years, Maj. Nick can has risen the ranks of the 16th Infantry Battalion, Marine Corps Reserve to the post of head man, :

tive officer to commanding

g to Maj. Presecan. But it was no fluke. ’

y rise through positions of increasing responsiBY 10 a demanding service,

t school while at Butler, and was commissioned a second lieutenant in 1938. : Before the 16th Infantry was called to active -duty in 1940, he had been raised to first lieutenant. When the outfit was scattered in

ize the 2d Special Weapons Bat. FEaTion" ah took Cotman Company B. . After attendance &t anti-air-craft school in Ft. Monroe, Va., and appointment as captain, he went to New Zealand with another group, the 3d Special Weapons Battalion. He arrived there in February, 1943. <

Served in Pacific

“Through service on Guadalcanal and in the Russell Islands, the then group commander of the 10th AA Battalion saw plenty of

ferred for raids by Japanese bomber pilots. . His outfit was with invasion troops at Eniwetok in February, 1944, In October of that year Maj. Presecan was transferred to the

size and capacity, Today they

from

branch of Western Electric Corp. | North Africa.

Oscar F. Barry Sr., president of

meeting date lished.

Trolleys Start

Service Monday Trackless trolleys will begin]

operation Monday morning on the.

E. Washington St. line.

At the same time .the service

will be extended to Elizabeth St. | approximately one-half mile east | It looks hungrily at Iran with its British-operated ofl fields at of the present street car terminus | Abadan. Farther south on the Persian Gulf is the little-known 3 { American community at Dhahran, controlling the huge reserves ‘of the Arabian-American Oil Co. a : Ef at direction it will precipitate a

at Sheridan ‘Ave.’

...... Indianapolis Railways, Inc. said

has not been estab- |

Experience in Korea with con‘the Sanitation Board, said more | ventional bombing and the expe- uced time was needed to allow engi- rience of World War II do not ¢ ouiation gasoline. If : neers to present a detailed sum. [apply in the world of 1950. The jayoted its entire 1950 output of mary of sewer line connections American Air Force, with atomic|,; to aviation gas it would not Indianapolis can offer. A future | bombs, can destroy rapidly majori get that much. centers of Russian war produc-

tion, The cost of doing so would un-

war the cost would probably not be too great. Russia is seriously embarrassed by a shortage of oil. Mr. Raymond estimates its oil output for

doubtedly be high, but in all-out| and refining plants which have |

Soviets Can't Get More Oil Without War

Russia cannot fight a long

{

the last street car to run on the] But if Russia moves in th

line will leave the downtown dis-| trict eastbound at 6:22 p.m. to-| forces arrive there the wells and Russia a million tons of shipping

morrow and : all trolley

night’s schedule and on, Saturday |

line transit operators.

OK POWERS FOR PRINCE

BRUSSELS

s will be

general war,

‘refineries may be wrecked.

o OND BanLin rs]

£0 and om “the ‘African “base Its major source of supply is

Grozny is equally as exposed.

Russia's third weakness, in-

| adequate transport, ‘is a distinct! ALLIES BAN RED PAPER Belgium, —-Aug:—10-timiting factor —H— i

{UP)—The House of Representa- to sweep across Europe. Military

tives approved last night a bill

_ transferring * the royal powers]

from King Leopold III to his son,| The Soviet Union achieved its! ..Crown_ Prince Baudouin, 19, The

vote was 165 to

a. , with seven abstentions, :

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich, Aug. 10 (UP)—Cornelius Weda com-! plained to police today that, with the mercury threatening to hit 90, someone broke into his hoyse and started a roaring fire in the furnace,

Going Fishing on Your Vacation?

After a day on the Lake or along your favorite stream, why not sit back 3 ~and enjoy your favorite +» _ hometown newspaper.

Make your -1950 vaca-

way. Have The Indianapolis Times mailed to your vacation address at no extra cost. Daily 25c; Sunday 10c. Dally and Sunday, 35c.

Phone—Riley 5551 The ~~ Indianapolis Times Circu- ~ lation Department. -

freight by rail must be reloaded cross Germany. - The rail gauges are different.

big. World. War. 11..production. bY. uqseiat to the prestige snd: securs!” 8, |

concentrating on guns, ta ammunitions and airplanes. Mr, Raymond points out that production of transport vehicles and facilities came virtually to a standstill. = While tanks were built in auto plants, the Red army rode to victory in 500,000 trucks provided by U. 8. lend-lease. The same is true of other forms of transport. We sent

E. Prese- X from “rawcruit” in

it earold graduste of CC ven hunt wan{2UL4 Piscincls bad

San Diego, Cal., he helped organ-|

‘can says, “but I told them the

work on the ‘moonlit nights pre-|

‘United States, mainly, he believes, because someone forgot to order him to another post in

| Is Russia Ready? . .. No. 4— Oil, Transport, Crowded Industries Soviet Problems

(Continued From Page One) Since the war all these installations have been increased in

“retaliatory blow” if Russia moves in Europe. So mg exposed not only to long-range attack direct from B-36 bombers, but by shorter-range craft like

and before Red,

al These three important limitawound Sunday. New schedule-for-the | field in Baku. ~The field 1s highly tions may give the United -States| trackless trolley operation may| concentrated and its derricks are|time to prepare itself adequately| now be had from E. Washington mostly wooden. Another field at/to fight Russia.

"Maj. ‘Nick E. Présecan . , . new Marine C.O. cl

broken up It was HER HE He arrived on the West Coast Aug. 7, 1945, bound for a return jaunt to those tropical, islands. But orders were fouled up again, and didn’t come through until Aug. 14—which happened to be Va]. DaY, - ii ‘He didn’t go. 0 “1 could have volu

ART TI ERT

‘one of several bits of

nteered for,

{HHO PHETITE Service, "Mat Preses ;

same thing I always did on that

1 volunteered for the

score. Marine Corps . . . them after that.” Returned Home : | 80, he returned in January, 1946, to- his wife, the former Dorothy Lee Moore, of Rochester, ‘and son Nicholas Lee Presecan, {now 10. { | Another son, Phillip, soon 3, ‘has joined the family since. They Hive at 2417 E. 58th 8t., South

! |

ve. | Maj. Presecan in civilian life is a salesman for the commercial container division of Ball Bros. _ The only regret in his new ap-

liam C. Smith had to step aside for the younger man. Maj. ‘Presecan man who loves the Marine Corps and is liked by everybody.”

are on the target maps for the

[Taylor Refuses Reds Break Out of Gi Box on Chinju "To Concede Race 70 B-29s Stage Biggest Raid on Oil

more than 15,000 feet,” as the He is taking off to

-{1daho and former Rep. Terry Car-

election races.

_isurvival after his bolt to the Pro-| gressive Party in 1948, was run--|ning approximately 1000 votes behind former Sen. D, Worth Clark for the Democratic Senatorial nomination in Idaho.

839 precincts gave Mr, Clark 26,546 and Mr. Taylor 25,517.

trailed Attorney Walter Raecke by about 1000 votes in his bid for the

‘ination. All but 18 of the state's

pointment i§ that Lt. Col. Wil-|

called Col. Smith a “fine}

y db | (Continued From Page One) 1000 Vi : : Behind, icolumns joined up “in advances 69 Idaho Precincts Out : United Press Glen H. Taylor of

Chinju approaches. ‘ A threat to Tgegu was eased v's se evening when the U. \. artillery and tank su smashed a Communist bridgehead southeast of Waegwan and some 10 miles from the provisional capital. 2 Sg Way to Top “The enemy force in the 1st Cavalry sector was annihilated,” U. 8. 8th Army headquarters announced. The Americans counted 300 enemy dead and took 200 prisoners. : ; The Yanks surrounded a peak . jon which the Communists were Carpenter Trails Raecke tentrenched. They slugged to the 3 top and a field dispatch said In Nebraska, Mr. Carpenter they “wiped out the last vestige of the Communist bridgehead.” Only yesterday South Korean forces smashed anpther bridge-| 4 head a few miles to the north of “IHaY night BGR that he. still thought he would The winner will face Republican|rean targets today in the biggest Gov. Val Peterson in the generaliraid of the war, leaving behind election. Mr. Peterson won by a them pillars of smoke and flame landslide in Tuesday's GOP pri-| visible for more than 100 miles. mary. | The big bombers hurléd 625 The winner of the Taylor-Clark tons of bombs at the Chdsen oil

penter of Nebraska today refused to concede defeat in hot primary

Mr, Taylor, fighting for political

The count from 770 of Idaho's

Democratic gubernatorial nomi-

Meanwhile, about 70 B-29 Su-

| tal Combat Team and a reinforced contest will oppose State Sen. refinery, two other targets in the {Herman Welker, the GOP nominee’ east coast port of Wonsan, and/ Marine. regiment, broke through

for the six-year Senate seat. [key rail and highway bridges elseepublican nomination to a fouryear term in the Senate. He was

NR WN a HAGE Pa Hoosier On Raid A Hoosier tallgunner

tenshaw, apparent winner of the Democratic nomination. from the tiny town of West Fork, Ind., in Crawford County. 30 CHINESE GO TO CHICAGO| 8gt. York, tailgunner on one of HONG KONG, Aug. 10 (UP) — the. _B-29s that hit the WonThirty Chinese businessmen left safi refinery, said columns of today by air for Chicago's Inter national Trade Fair,

~~ labove our altitude, which was

and British air bases at Port

1950 at. a mere 35 million tons compared to America’s 250 milHons. In World War II the United] ed 20 million i

States

American oil engineers snort at the inability of Soviet managers to operate American oil cracking

been installed there. In the case {of two new cracking plants, the | Russian managers are able to ex- | rast only a small fraction of

their capacity.

war without new supplies of "oil.

{in addition to locomotives, rail

10 (UP)-—The Hamburg Commu{nist.newspaper “Hamburger Volk- | szeitung” was banned for three {months by the Allied High Commission today for articles “prej-

ity of the Allied forces.”

KIWANIS LIST SPEAKER

| Harris 0. Johnson, manager of |

| Dry Products Department of the { Eli Lilly Co., will address a noon meeting of the Kiwanis Clu to- { morrow in the Riley Room, in the

| Claypool Hotel. Mr. Johnson will

| speak on “Why a Hobby.”

the Chinju drive

two. At bridgehead that threatened Ta

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; Yanks pour it on, Reds retreat in 1). sighted by Americans only three miles away. But 4000 Reds at nangnyong (2) have ried the Naktong River in an effort to cripple by cutting the American supply lines in 3) the 7th U. S. Cavalry Regiment decimates a Red.

tacks but Reds drive. south of Yon hands several times.. Broken arrow show

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panic toward burning Chinju

u. South Koreans (4) repulse at-

ok (5) which has changed

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Red push foward Yo. |

westward and northward on the

Thursday 7th Cavalry Regiment with strong],

southeast of Chinju and the same

was expected to be opposed by political among those taking part in the pa. so fast it cannot disengage it was up to|Sclence professor Claude J, Bur- raids.

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planes ed away,

a said

‘Sgt. York he could still see the towering smoke column his was well over 100

scale movément, it would slice behind the U, 8. regimental combat teams closing in on Chinju, which lies 30 miles due west of -The-8th Army communique said

during the day. Enemy resistance in the area consisted mainly of small, scattered units. The Marines reached Kosong, 20-miles

distance southwest of Masan, “which is an advance of 12 miles,” the communique said, The 5th and 35th Regiments joined forces at Pasong, 12 miles east of Chinju, Springing the trap on the hundreds of Communists enveloped by the American drive on Chinju from the east and

On the south coast, vanguards

Fed CRE tHe Nam River miles east of Chinju on the 4t day of the first American offensive of the Korean war. “It's A Retreat * It, along with the 5th Regimen-

the enemy's defense line on the south coast and sent the North [ROYER Gt Division “iid dsorgis

nized retreat.

the teams continued to advance.

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“The division is being driven

itself long enough to take up pre-

He was 8gt. Richard F. York, yiously-prepared positions,” a!

spokesman for Gen. Douglas MacArthur said. { The enemy is abandoning not {only ‘heavy weapons, but even

[1st

the

rifles, light machine-guns and

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nature of a rout.” SE But then the rected himself, : “It's not a rout; but it's a retreat,” he said. “It's more than a withdrawal.” ~The junction of elements of the 35th and 5th Regiments at Pansong virtually completed the Allied recapture of the eastern approaches to Chinju. The 35th Regiment had speared along ' the ‘main Pusan-Masan-Chinju highway and railway virtually without opposition during

while the 5th Regiment Marines had to fight for every yard along secondary roads to

entrenched them, : Trapped . between’ the American counted hundreds of North Koréan troops. A MacAr

nounesment : “Small pockets of the 35th Infantry Regiment

Gen. MacArthur's spokesman sald the North Korean 6th division, which bore the brunt of

though tew prisoners have been taken.

“The enemy is now getting a taste of his own medicine,” the spokesman said. He said it appeared that. the

inally reported in the Chinju area, may have been shifted north to

“Captured orders indicate the {lame and smoke erupted ‘even mortars in his flight, the spokes- Reds are giving first priority to

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the rear,” spokesman said. “It's In the

spokesman cor a re-|{Flizabeth is expecting her second child “any minute now,” her huse band said today. : The Duke of Edinburgh, her husband, was pacing the floor in. side Clarence H , their town mansion. Crowds were ga‘hering

side to await the royal birth, American tourists were among

The baby will be third in line of succession to the British one ~only by Elizas beth herself and her firstbor Prince Charles. She and the duke are hoping for a daughter this time. ; in the hills above Sl EVERYTHING was ready for the birth. Sir William Gilllatt and Sir John Weir, the royal obstetri. cians, moved into Clarence House

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early stages of the

South against Red troops

two

columns were un-

theese! of

enemy

atiered hroughout the being systematically re-

For the first time, Elizabeth did not take her usual walk in - the enclosed lawn of her mansion today. Instead, she spent the morning in her second-floor room overlooking the gardens of St,

even! = : ; : been Smith Named... GOP Publicity Head Parker Smith, formerly of Louisville, Ky., and recently sales manager for a local radio station, has been named publicity director for the Marion County Repube lican Committee. Mr. Smith, who handled publicity for the GOP in Louisville, is credited with the 1944 party slogan: “It's time for a change.”

American offensive, is in a

said,

North Korean Division, orig-

Naktong River front.

Naktong crossings,” he said.

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