Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 August 1950 — Page 1
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61st YEAR—NUMBER 154
SUNDAY, AUGUST 13, 1850
Entered as Second-Class Matter at Postofiice Indianapolis.
Indiana. Tnsed Dail.
American naval men raise the V for Victory sign on V-J Day, 1945.
V-J DAY, 1950
York solders look at dead Gh Avaiing
3 Carefree Kids Who Celebrated V-J Day. Now Are 38th Guardsmen, Ready for War
By MARION CRANEY V-J DAY. The time was Aug. 14, 1945. The war. to end all wars was over. We had won. Everybody. was -gelebrating. : bed
Edward Fleming, 14, cheered as the victory
dishpans, belis and ‘shouts hy diving - from a
statue on Monument Circle into the pool. Conrad -Brown,- 12, and neighborhood kids fumped on a haywagon and rode around town. William J. Vaughn, 12, read the news in the headlines as he went about his paper route. Today, five years minus one day later, the
burial in South Korea.
the money went to Mom to gave for school. “Some went on “Junk, " put he used enough to buy a bicycle.
Rect. Conrad Brown, now 17, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Harold Brown, 1409 E. Sumner Ave, was, when world Yhostilities |
junspectacular roles crawling,
still in grade - school
In summers, liké whén the Japs sur-
JIT. WAS HIS FATHER who piled-him-and-“other neighborhood farm kids on the hay wagon
and jofned in the fun in Bedford.
Rect. Brown, a television tester at RCA Victor here, joined the military police unit-of the 38th Division Mar. 1. Like the others, his family
Men of 38th d Ready, Wiling
Three Hoosiers ‘Among Casualties In Korean War
“The Department of Defense to-
hi
To Go in Army
Hoosier Guardsmen
{diana ‘soldiers . listed as U. 8.| |armed forces casualties in the {Korean area: Wounded: } Pfe. Harry . Cox, husband of
{ries in the back of his mind the
| Mrs. Margie Cox, Columbus, . dug | First Lt. George A. Smith, hus Interest in Training [band of Mrs. Janet 8. Smith, for- , {merly of Indianapolis, residing In By IRVING "LEIBOWITZ the Far East Command. Proud, spirited and aggres-| Missing in action:
sive-minded Indiana National Pvt: Richard L. Moore, son of
Guardsmen today are ready, |- [Paul J. Moore, Uniondale. - -
iting and abi to jin he (Jey Cardoen
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Army. The Army thinks so and! the officers think so. But what is more important, thé men pe I ury S0. For two weeks, I slept, ate, talked and marched along with! 3000 37th Division the men of the 38th National Troops to ‘Maneuver Guard Division. I saw young men Ties. Slate: Mesvice who never before had been away| CAMP ATTERBURY, Aug. 12— from home, marching, shooting! A ximately 3000 Oh and cussing like veterans. | pproximately fo GuardsOn the eve of the fifth anni- men will pour by train into Camp versary V-J Day, the state has Atterbury tomorrow on the heels succeeded in recruiting eager men of homeward-bound units of the for Joltser: Suiy at ts jume Wher Hoosier 38th Division. most y n n of the likes of sergeants and ool The 13 non-divisional units of | ond lieutenants. ithe 37th Division, Every rookie Guardsmen car-
knowledge that superior training oC
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‘effort will pay off in the non-commissioned of- i; ficer and a chance for a commis =fon.
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manned, nor fully equipped. Thus, [9 it is not considered “ready for PArracks and offices. combat.” But the division .has a nucleus of combat-seasoned officers and non-coms whose experi ence has been of tremendous value to the thousands of anxious Hoosier youths who comprise the
division. Ithe half-week building up supplies
. The men have demonstrated a : equi t. Col, J rk, willingness to learn the lessons jand equi praen te dulius Stark,
of war so exactingly taught here | rived Friday afternoon. for two weeks by the veterans of | The major strength of the units Salemnd: Sicily, Bataan and Bas- will be absorbed by the 166th Regimental Combat Team, under
tomorrow.
Combat Exercises Lt. Col. Ed Keyes, Columbus,
toga. have slept on the cold and |Col. Loren G, Windom, Colum iwet ground and have not com-|{0. U. 8. District Attorney. plained. They have worked hard| Maj. Gen. Les M. Kerber, Ohio {with a seriousness that amazed! (adjutant general and 37th Di[regular Army officers. |vision commander, is expected to "Commander Is Proud “+xpend a week ‘here. With ‘him will
Foot soldiers carried out their be Brig. Gen. Kenneth Cooper, as{sistant division comm nder ‘and
men Who never Before had seen|combat team include an ordnance lan Army tent, fired the big guns group, the 122d Army Band from
+of-the division-with uncanny pre: {Cleveland, armored. cavalry, field
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r and accuracy.
| artillery, medical and Infantry Mai. Gen. Jesse McIntosh, com- battalions, an engineer treadway
{manding officer of the all-Hoosier |bridge company and a medical
{Cyclone Division, is proud of his amAance 2 company. troops. He proclaimed the division in|
WE $i. Indiana. National Guardsmen, are ready to
step into another world conflict, a third war toend all wars, * © % ~ MR. AND MRS. William A. Fleming, 530 * Fletcher Ave. hope Eddie does not have to go. “hey remember when his older brother, Alvin,” was missing seven months in Burma. His B-25 was shot down 80 miles behind enemy lines. ; Alvin and his crew safely worked their Wayb back ——40 American-lines:— 8/8gt. Edward Fleming, n now associated with fis father in the contracting business, is in the " gryptogrophy section of the 88th Division Signal , Co. He joined the Guard two and a hdlf years ago, while he was attending Manual High School. He was working as a route boy at $25 a week for a produce firm when the war ended. Part of
doesn’t care for Ti to £0, ot he's “ready RY. EE a: FRET % SER When Bill Vaughn wasn't playing baseball, he was on his papér route. He didn’t care about the war, since his family wasn't directly affected. _His brothers were 13 and 3. Son of Mr, and Mrs. Robert L. -Vaughn, 2507 Guilford Ave. he joined the Guard division's quartermaster corps two years ago. He attended
Broad Ripple High School two and. one-half
years, where he played all sports, He was a
"grocery clerk and theater usher until recently.
These three, liké all other youths in the National Guard, are prepared to enter combat. Two are 17; the other is 19. But celebration of V-J Day tomorrow won’t be the same as it was five years ago. There's another war on.
that
i two weeks they trained here, said:
the “best {POR the training. The general said the di-| vision ranks as one of the best in| the National Guard and could | make as good a showing in com- |Th bat as any other Guard unit. |Hoosier Heroes . Interest Higher ; mean The Army, noting that the over- in the service .... all -interest of the men had sky- | rocketed over previous years of | mild interest and- downright dis-| interest, credits the advance plan=| ning ‘of the officers for the “great
e importance of Indiana in
Michigan .
to setvice
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{day announced the following In-|
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Hit the Dirt, Roll ‘Into Ball, Stay 10 Seconds
Ry JOSEPH L. MYLER
United Press Staff Correspondent
WASHINGTON, Aug. 12— The government told civil de-|
Batt
A-Bomb Raids
Pohang Field Encircled;
bovtil Vehicles Enter . le on Naktong Line
Counter-Attack Launched Toward 9. Held Port;
Communists Bolster C
hangnyong Bridgehead |
By FRANK TREMAINE, United Press Staff Correspondent TOKYO, Sunday, Aug. 13—The U. 8. 5th Air Force
ltoday evacuated its warplanes from Pohang airstrip, the
best the Americans had in {heavy
Korea, under pressure of a
~ommunist attack. from all sides.
On the southern Taegu front in the west, Fresh
{American troops with powerful Pershing medium tanks
~|fense planners today to get set for four different kinds of atomic attack launched separately or in combination,
were thrown into battle against another growing Commus« {nist assault on the Naktong River line. The fresh troops relieved an emergency force of 24th Division clerks, cooks, and military policemen trying to break a Communist road
which went through its maneuvers here early last month, will set up quarters 5 8 in
i distance of
begin Monday. 4 vanguard of 200, which : {arrived Tuesday and Wednesday, Not Fully Manned {began transferring equipment to-
The division is not fully night from three-day-old. head- : uarters to more spacious cam r officials with 4 fact-crammed,
The first trainload of Ohio|456-page handbook called ire troops was scheduled to arrive at/ Effects of Atomic Weapons. the camp depot at 8:15 a. m.
bus; |
“Fire¥ Saction™ EE —
. A daily Times feature on your boy
Times photographer accompanies i National Guard to
Sessa rane
could expect in such attacks, And
What would happen If an ‘A-bomb fell on Indianapolis? Turn to Page 23 for the complete story.
ance that much can be done
| the physical damage.” Within limits, that is. Nothing | {will help much if you are within| half a mile of an atomic target | center. Outside that deadly circle to a
“yery comprehensive and planning.” To make such planning ponsible, the government armed
Hit the Dirt
It contains the most authori-
tative and complete information yet published on what A-bombs,
O., division quartermaster, spent do, and what can-—-and can’t—
be done about them. For individuals caught away, from shelters by a sneak atomic,
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Hunt Private Plane |
Down in Lake Michigan KENOSHA, Wis., Aug. 2 (UP)| ~The Coast Guard station said to-| night two planes and two boats ‘were ‘searching an-area nine. miles) east of Waukegan, Ill, where a| diprivate plane Fepasted!y crashed
'search began after Matt Jensen, captain of the tug boat Grover, reported he saw Aa Taylorcraft plane go down in the lake about|t four miles from his boat. He #aid he went to the area, but found no signs of wreckage.
It gave them the stark official tacts on the ruin and death we block cutting their main supply line in the area of Yongsan,
also practical advice and assuri
28 miles south of Taegu.
A spokesman for Gen. Douglas MacArthur said a ma«
jor new communist offensive is building up against the Naktong River line west of Taegu. He said the Commue
nists already have one divisio
n and an engineer regiment—
| possibly 15, 000 men~—-in their th souher bridgehead along
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the southern Naktong. The Communists made \threé new crossings of the | Naktong last night against
{the 1st Cavalry and South
eight miles—the A-
"lis “practieal, But it will require| ~ Shoot at ‘Bomber Drier *d] HONOLULU, Aug. 12 (UP) Changnyong bulge as the . Three more Red .|Divisions were massing along a ¢|20-mile front north and south of west of ifte Hote in reserve, a an said. :
American naval fliers who re-{4th Division. To: turned here after patrolling wa ters off the eastern China coas said today that one of their planes was attacked by two and possibly ra four Communist fighters on July
[The attackers, the pilots said, presumably were Chinese planes with North Korean markings. Robert Kirschner, 28-year-old enlisted plane cemmander of Omaha, Neb., said that two fighters of the F-51 type bearing the marking of a five-pointed star] {currounded hy a blue circle closed | in on his plane.
North Korean Markings dis. squadron comander,! Charles - F. Skuzinski, 35, of! Grand Rapids, Mich. explained
{this was the same marking used!
by North gs H sald
it was possible the planes wer being flown from China to. join the North Korean air force. Mr. Kirschner said the incident loccured about 12 miles off. the} China coast “in the Formosa — | Straits northeast of Amoy. He said the planes made two passes and fired machine guns for three
They said the attack was made on a U. 8, Navy Privateer plane Co !which was not hit by the gunfire, slo
1dentified. the
Waegwan, 13 miles with two a
North of the 4th Division, the mmunist 14th and 3rd Divie
{line with the 2nd, 13th and 15th { Divisions moving up to the river, The Red 1st Division aldo is be« lieved to be moving forward from {a rear area, the spokesman said, in Noa an all-out attack on e Naktong line was before next Tuesday,’ pipiens versary of the Aug. 15, 1045, libe eration of Korea from the Japas. nese which the Communists would like to celebrate with the capture {of Taegu.
{oA spokesman forthe Sth Ade:
{Force said in announcing the eva~ | cuation of the Pohang alr base
noting ‘the pe with mortary
{ machine-gun and rifle fire.
crack South Korean troops were reported holding their ground in & defense perimeter around the field but were under heavy fire from alf sides. Americans C
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ns are stabbing at the pve.
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i s-BOEQER.. AD. attack Mr... Kirsche) ner sald he spotted two strange. fightérs “far below him. The attack foliowed too quickly for these two to reach him at first, he said, indicating they may have joined’ two other attacking bilanes before the assault was finished. - Cmdr, 'Skuzinski said they had | sighted large concentrations of “4000—to 5000 junks along the coast, plus 65 assorted landing {eraft in Shanghai” ="
“As late as this morning ie Tighter "planes wers of ing from the strip as they have been doing since the Communists
a sudden thrust through the northwest Friday morning,
Earlier today American Negra troops defending the airfield
counterattacked the Communists north toward Pohang after South -
Korea scouts reported the Reds were holding the burned-out town
first drove within rifle shot with
improvement.”
L 1. J Foci Coho Soarad | Jideheunt Sermon of the Week, . . By the Rev. Clement Bosler..
to the Division, said field reports | (Other local, national and war news . . ; plotures.......... Indicate the Army will rate a great many units “excellent” and | “Second Section Bn a few “superior.” Times Fishing Rodeo set for Sept. 16 . . . Phillies and Giants stage brawl of the year :-, . Indianapolis
Not Enough Arms Col. Hildebrant noted, however, | Indians rained out ............. or ; lacked sufficient arms and per- Pictures of Hoosier golfers for State Open at Terre
the .. Hoosier Guardsmen! sonnel for immediate combat duty. Haute tomorrow .... . “It is logical,” he said, “that Exclusive city and county high school football schedules the Division will need further Il training, equipment and personnel | for the season . . . roundup of high school footba before engaging in war service.” prospects by Jimmie Angslopolovs re gE. Sen. Robinson Britsnosk. If an A-bomb fell on Indianapolis . .". An Atomic Energy e 8 utan eneral an draft director who os observed | Commission report . the men in the field for the full Rep..John R. Walsh, Anderson, deplores racial and | religious intolerance in opposition to establishing diplomatic mission to Holy See . . Editorials . . . The Editor's Notes . . . The Hoosier Forum.
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“If it is possible for a man to be trained for combat in two weeks, then I would say it was done here.”
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Ex-Purdue Dean Killed in Crash
Dukes, retired dean
{ University, and Mrs. Dukes were 14 Killed in a two-car collision near i Alton, Ill. last night, Becording! [to Illincis state police; { Mr. Dukes. wha was 82. had re-| { tired from the University | years ago and was widely known | in college circles.
. 28' The couple lived in West La-
favette, The accident occured at the! intersection of Ill. 16 and 11i.| police said.
Yaraeq 1 Funeral Home, Medora, | 1
WRITERS TO REMARRY HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 12 (UP) Movie Writer Alan Campbell, 46, said today he will remarry writer Dorothy Parker here Thursday. His first marriage to the attractive humorist ended May 28, 1947, when she divorced him on charges of extreme mental cruelty.
‘LONELY HART WINS EASTLAND, Tex., Aug. 12.(UP)
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The bodies were taken to the]
with only a thin holding line,
tacking Communist force was not | immediately known, it was pree {sumed that the ‘original guerrills spearhedids had béen reinforced
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Warata Claes By United Press TOKYO—Fresh American troops, new to battle, against Red roadblocks west of Miryang on the Pusan-Taegu rail line. They were supported by . Pershing tanks 90 mm guns, the first Pershe
ings to operate on the Naktong
River front. | POHANG, Korea—Yanks remove warplanes Pohang airstrip; up to 10,000 Reds expected “to attack aie field tonight or tomorrow, South Koreans make j gains in ‘counterattack near city. on TAEGU, Korea — Gen. MacAre thur's spokesman reports Reds _ massing for attack on Taegu ~ on three-division front in Waegwan area; three new. crossings of Nakiong River. made, TOKYO—Three waves of B-20's
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