Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 August 1950 — Page 3

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of Taegu, threatening to cut Wal Taegu-Pugan “supply

regiment and some arti hans 15,000 men in all.

it was known that the Army's

-crack 2nd division landed with the

Marines at Pusan two weeks ago.

The new troops and their mod-

the

4 The 8th Army estimated Cominfantry regiments, one engineer|

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Taegu. However, = Suopy :

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| artillery and other troops battle

route (I) of 24th U, S. Division cut after reinforced | Reds break out of their main Naktong River bulge. Some 10,000 | enemy regroup fo attack Allies’ best air strip six miles from Po. went In ; hang. (2). "Task Force Kean" drives within three miles of China, “Sunday a8 part of Task Force (3) Marines are racing up from. Kosong to form junction. U. _ Kean on the Chinju front.

| at Tukson-dong (4). Five Red divisions threaten Taegu. |

ern medium tanks were cheered by

weary doughboys of the 24th dis ®'p! days ago but did not do so. “lone was

vision when they rumbled to the, The North Koreans apparently front this morning and attacked were trying to infiltrate with the a Communist force which had refugees. Late Saturday a small established a road block cutting) American force east of Yongsan

the 24th Division's main supply line.

The ‘refugees streamed out of

villages in the new battle area. They had been told to leave sev-'roadblock east of Yongsan but

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|was fired upon by what appeared |to be a refugee column, 5 | Late Saturday three U. 8. light tanks successfully ran an enemy

| "Hungry, Poor

Oh Tae Huk's

United Press Staff Corres. pondent Ralph Teatsworth describes inthe following —dispatch the type of prisoners be- | ing taken by United Nations forces in Korea, Most of those captured have been South Koreans forced into service as the | Communists have moved through South Korea and are not regarded as typical of the North Korean troops, many of whom have been highly trained.

enemy thrust across the Naktong.

| disabled by anti-tank [rifle fire. | { - It was not determined how many new enemy troops: were brought into the new roadblock area during the night. However, 24th Division staff officers viewed the threat to the U. 8. position behind the Naktong as “very serfous if we do not clean it up.” The new troops struck out in their first attack against a three-| mile-long stretch of Red-blocked road in the area of Yongsan, east of the Communists’ Naktong river bulge. It was expected they would join 24th and 25th Division troops in new attacks to wipe out the bulge, where the Communists have gradually massed strength

sibly 15,000 men. They were thrown into battle to relieve military police, headquarters clerks, cooks and other non-combatant treops of the 24th Division who hive been fighting since yesterday against the Communist road block. The rear area troops were the only ones available yesterday when the Communists set up their road block. Other fighting = also blazed north of the bulge, where 1st Cavalry officers reported two

{new crossings of the Naktong last}

youngest-is 13. Most are farmers) es a awn PUBIC Warned ~ 1 20 Cents a Month : : ar

night along the vital river line protecting Taegu, . "Force Slips Across River Troopers of the U, 8. 1st Cavalry Division launched one attack against a Communist force which slipped across the river in darkness at Tuksong-Dong, 13 miles southwest of Taegu.

{South Korean army in the last’

/ By RALPH TEATSORTH 7. United Press Staff Correspondent EIGHTH ARMY HEADQUAR0, Oh Tae Hak was a South Korean civilian living in Seoul :

Today he is a prisoner of war : j —Ccaptured in battle while “fight-| WASHINGTON, Aug. 12 (UP) | ing” for North Korea. —A military spokesman said to! . OH TAE HAK is 43 years old. day that the United States has He is emaciated from hunger, a North Korean shell bewildered, ignorant and a Poor which was newly manufactured isoldier. Except for his age. he i8/in Russia. | typical of the type of “North }

have. been surrendering ta the directly sontradiciad a

That

three days.

Oh said he can neither read Sheriff Rescues

nor write. He displayed a small] square piece of paper which bore ne writing. But it was half full of almond shaped holes of various sizes. Oh had torn the holes

Girl Dragged By a Horse |

estimated at 1%; divisions—pos-|to change from work clothes to

with hig fingers. THE SHERIFFS of the old “That is how I remembered| West have nothing on James that T belonged to the first divi-| Cunningham whose latest exploit sion, second regiment, second Involved saving a girl being company and third platoon,” he Ro 2 dragged dy a said, through an interpreter. Bose, Incident Quickly Surrendered 4 : occured Friday He told how he got into the! ! on Fall Creek Communist army. sy Rd, two miles He was in a labor gang in east of Keystone Seoul. One day Red authorities Ave. ordered al! the able-bodied men Sheriff Cunin his group to go into a school | house. There they were ordered

‘before he

dirty green uniforms. In . No one told them they were in : hotse Sas Bis of the army. But three days later Mr. Cunningham TRerescusd ey were on the fighting front, carrying guns they did not know air ! was Mise Jruisia Pobistatt, how te use properly. ' pes. ah Or. e ha [fallen off of her horse and her

“ stv days later, he surren-|)oet foot was caught in the stir-

: rup. South Korean soldiers had > brought in a total of 508 Com.| It. Was a short run and a grab

ningham’s mount out to stop the

? a mE SE RAR : Fi This photograph of a newly-manufactured Russian mortar shell found in Korea was released at a Pentagon press briefing yesterday, ! The date "50" shows at the left of the last line of markings.

statement made by Soviet dele: vaders had been left there two The spokesman sdid it was clean gate Jacob A. Malik during the years ago when Russian forces that the shell was made this year,

{United Natiohs Security Council announced their withdrawal from! The missile bore the date “1950" meeting Thursday. Mr. Malik, at- North Korea. ~~ ~~ [in_Arabic numerals, and letters

tempting to dismiss efforts by The military spokesman showed in Russian.

CITROTER ; munitions being used by the in-'obtained intact

STRAUSS SAYS: TRADITION WITH A TOUCH OF TOMORROW

: {at the reins for the sheriff. Miss Tmunist prisoners of War as of|.,.erstein, her wild ride quickly vesterday, Americans had Cap- |} alted was treated. b i tured about 100 others. « Was treated by a private

The average age is 19. The Physician for minor bruises.

Their military training. has been negligible. Their army seérv-

ice 18 an average of three and On Atom Bombs one-half months, ranging from :

a few days to the four years of ; Four Kinds Listed

Another crossing was made 20 miles northwest of Taegu in an effort to reinforce a narrow bridgehead in the area held by the South Korean 1st Division. Cavalry officers estimated that between 500 and 600 Reds waded the shallow Naktong at those two points Saturday night, opening the Reds second week of persistent efforts to crack American defenses along the Taegu front. United Press Correspondent Robert Bennyhoff reported from

Sgt. Chon Ae Do, who was woundIn U. S$. Handbook

ed and captured on the Allied side of the Naktong River. Several North Korean prisoners (Continued From Psge One) had seen service in the China air purst the government had civil war.” this advice: Red privates receive pay of Hit the dirt, or the floor, inabout 20 cents a month. An in- stantly. You'll know a bomb has fantry lieutenant gets $5.20, ar- gone off by the “sudden increase tillery lieutenants, $6, and regi-/of the general {llumination.” mental commanders, $14. Don’t look at the light; it can Out of their meager pay, sol- gi i Your nis, re ai diers apparently are required té n or protection buy North Korean war bonds in 28ainst it. Do what yeu do quick20 and 40 cent denominations. |\Y: & SPlit second can be the mar-

the front that the Pershing medi-

The North Korean officers cap- 5,4 10 seconds: the worst is then

{gin between life and death. Stay

um tanks were the biggest and tured so far are fot regarded as best tank so far thrown into the of very high caliber. One stopped Korean fighting. .......\school after. the fourth grade... ..| The Pershings made their debut. In the recent stages of the war, |

with Task Force Kean on the|the Communists have been trying C - last. ff

| bro front, - . ,” .|When they find out the kind of] - The Pershing is a medium tank, food they get as prisoners of. the

an-improved version Feplacng Tejatus, their despondency disap-|

World War II Sherman, and |pears fast. mounts a 90 mm. gun compared | to a 75 and 76 mm. gun on the Sherman. ; The Allies still held mastery in the air i

over, if you can avoid fatal injury for another minute you've survived. a —— RE ~ “The Effects of Atomic Weapons” was prepared under the di-

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1of the sort, equivalent to 20,000 FT. WORTH, Tex. Aug12 (UP).tons of TNT. which knocked

Korean” prisoners. of war who a Sell bears the aate “1950,” Union with the invasion of South photographs of a 120-mm. Rus-of mortar shell, made in

EONTEHdEd ERNE any Soviet sian mortar shell Which Wad Been HiRad- been \-tiNed extensively by the To

in South. Korea. North Koreans.

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