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TUESDAY, AUGysY 15, 1950
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| New Soviet Arms Pour Into Nor! llied Fliers Blast Massed Red Tanks
$1 00 Million
- BY EA EARL X RICHERT Staff Writer
WASHINGTON, Au Aug. i, 15—Could the federal government by tightening its belt pay the costs of a universal military training program out of present revenues? Easily, say universal military training advocates. They cite a flock of non-essential spending projects which could be dumped overboard if Congress really wanted
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Take potatoes. The government just got through losing nearly $100 million on its 1949 potato price support program It appears we will lose more on the 1950 crop. Mo.
s = - ® . EVEN $100 MILLION spent on dumping potatoes would give military training to 56,000 men. They would produce enough reserves for nearly four army divisions. Congress could order the government to get out of the potato business now. The same is true with butter. The government already has spent more than $75 million so far in 1950 buying up butter. And no let up in sight. The tax money spent so far this year to prop up the price of butter would train more than 40,000 men, at the annual cost of $1776 per trainee estimated by American Legion defense experts.
CONGRESS ‘COULD go far to offset the set of UMT ‘by heeding Sen. Paul Douglas (D. Ili). Mr. Douglas carefully studied the current rivers and harbors program and found $435 million which he said could be saved without hurting a single essential project. Foregoing $435 million in river and harbor work would pay almost half of what the Legion estimates an universal training program normally would cost, and
Lost On _Spuds Would- Train 56,000- Men-
= ~ We Could Be Prepared With No Extra Cost if Nowtssential Spending Ceased; Sopperien: of. UMT--Declare
about a fourth of what Defense Department officials say might be the absolute peak cost. The Legion visualizes an annual class of 600,000 trainees under an universal training program, at a total cost of $1,086,000,000. Defense Department officials say the annual class-of trainees might go as high as 850,000 men and cost between $1.5 and $2 billion.
s s . 2 . " SEN. DOUGLAS came up with a number of other money-saving proposals in a recent Senate debate on the appropriations bill. Though voted down at the time, his findings could still be used as a guide. The Senator found that $90 million could be trimmed
from the Bureau of Reclamation without doing any great harm. This, incidentally, would buy 750 tanks. Wholesale savings could be made in some other agricultural subsidies, if Congress saw fit. The government now has about $100 million tied up in dried eggs which it can't even-—give-—away.—Congress—could-order—Secretary—
Brannan to stop. ” » 5 = . MILLIONS MORE could be saved by stopping support programs on other non-essentials such as peanuts and raisins, In other fields, there are such places for savings as the Bureau of Indian Affairs which, in the viewpoint of
h Korea;
Taegu Threats Eased IBy Yanks in Pushes.
Against 2 Bridgeheads
Enemy Masses Armor on West Bank; Big Communist Drive Fails to Come Off BULLETIN
MASAN FRONT, Korea, Aug. 15 (UP)—Intelligence officers said tonight there was little doubt that large
the North Koreans. The officers said ammunition captured by the Aericans in their advance on the coastal front within the last week bore stenciled dates as recent as June, 1950. The mileage on many recently captured vehicles such as jeeps and motorcycles has been extremely low, sometimes no more than 250 miles.
By EARNEST HOBERECHT, United Press Staff Correspondent TOKYO, Aug. 15—American and South Korean troops counterattacked successfully today in two sectors at the north end of the Naktong River line where the Communists had seized two new bridgeheads on the approaches of Taegu, U. 8. Eighth Army Headquarters announced the effective counter-blows where North Koreans were battling for toeholds on the west bank of the Naktong. : Behind the bridgeheads, manned by some 6000
uanonnde of now Sovietiwade-squipment: had been: Bont foro
{were massed 60,000 Reds with scores of tanks along a 20+ mile stretch of the Naktong River. Allied air forces poured it on the ‘enemy concentras tions with bombs, rockets and machine-gun fire. A few miles to the south, the U. 8. 24th Division slugged away at the Communist. bridgehead in the bend of the Naktong.
A spokesman for Gen. Douglas MacArthur said the
many, has long outlived its usefulness.
Dr. H. L. Shibler
School Superintenc
Succeeds Virgil Stingbaugh, Present Indianapolis Chief, Who Asked Retirement
By DAVID WATSON Dr. Herman L. Shibler, superintendent of schools in Highland Park, Mich, today was named chief administrator of the Indianapolis public school system. School Board members, who made the appointment during a special session, also authorized a $3000 annual salary increase for the job which brings the salary to $15,000 a year. . Dr. Shibler, who is also president of the Highland Park Junior College, succeeds Virgil Stinebaugh as superintendent here. Mr. Stinebaugh asked to be reHeved of his duties in a request submitted to the board last May. Action on the request was with- ; held until a new superintendent could be selected. Mr. Stinebaugh
Active in civic and educational enterprises in the Detroit area, Dr. S8hibler is chairman of the board of directors of the Metropolitan Detroit Children’s Center and is past president of the Michigan Mental Hygiene Society: Taught Graduate Class The educator has taught grad-
personal health reasons. He willjuate classes during summer ses
igan State College, University of
however, in a capacity to be rester,.... Wayne.
commended. by. his Succes We
The ew tendon has (MicRigan College of Education. been a teacher and school ad-| Besides acting as co-author of
" ministrator for 28 years. A na-'a series of spelling books, the new
tive of Ohio, he was graduated superintendent he]ped write a from Ohio State University where |v on school administration, he specialized in public school ad- {It wiil be published this fall. ministration. Dr. Shibler, who is 48, is marFor 14 years he taught history ried and has four children. His and served as superintendent inappointment here will become effective: Oct. 1... He will serve | .-and-Mt. Gilead, 0, He-also.served Mr. -Stinebaugh's unexpired: for five years as principal of which runs until June 30, 1953. Central High School, Euclid, 0. Mr. Stinebaugh has served as In 1941-42 Dr. Shibler directed administrator nearly six years. Birminghar, Mich., schools and [He Joined the local school system re-organized the system there. 'in 1931. He is 52.
50 Crippled Persons Gather As Farm Wife Awaits Vision
NECEDAH, Wis.. Aug. 15 (UP)—About 50 crippled persons were led or carried today into an enclosure near the home of a 40-year-old farm woman who said the Virgin Mary would visit her today. ‘They were only a small part of the throngs which crowded
about the gray farmhouse dwelling of Mrs. Fred Van Hoof, thelio
sions at Purdue University, Mich=: University,
Price Hike Here
mother of seven children. Laymen led the growing crowd in reciting
the rosary. On the Inside One of the crippled group. was
10-year-old -Gene Altman, Min- Of The Times
doro, Wis., who was brought into|The 113th Fighter Squadron the area in a child's wagon. Both from Indianapolis has been of his legs were in casts, the re-| Picked to receive the Spaatz sult of an accident two years ago.| {rophy as the outstanding Special trains and chartered! Squadron in a five state busses arrived at Necedah from| area .......cevvvveee.,P Wisconsin a n d Illinois. Two|Bright eye-catching - plaids,
busses arrived| Plackboard” grays and conPluss SI om fons to be shown tomorrow
and Thursday ........Page 6 The Roman Catholic Church frowned officially on the pro- to-college style parade. Fash-
vertible outfits lead the backceedings, saying Mrs. Van Hoof's|y,, 1,30 Indianapolis is back claims were of an extremely from vacation, From the way questionable nature. he tells it, we wonder if mayOrder Is Rescinded be he didn’t come back to . However, in deference to the; work to rest up from his VACAtION «vvrvuers.s.. Page 11
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He gave visi per- 13 mission $ocelebrate special] Editorials ............... 12 masses from 4 am. until 11:30] FOrum .......oveeveveess 12 a.m. in St. Francis Parish Church Mrs. Manners sassssekees 22 and in the parish home. Laymen| Movies .........c......0.. 16 quickly erected a makeshift altar trrerisaneenransns 9 in the parish home in préparation] Side SABG8E vurrsrssrirs 12 for the masses there. - % Society .............: 6 Outside the gray —asbestos- Ed Bovola .....cco00v0n 11
BPOrts ...iiiiviveiess 14-15 Earl Wilson ....cvveeeses 22 Women's eases tesannany 7
~+from-a-40-cent boost in premium-.
\disclosed that the premium-over
September. - [AGENTS PLAN GOLF PARTY
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TADOUSSAC, ny Aug. 15 (UP) — Two persons were missing today after fire destroyed the luxury cruise liner Quebec and threatened the lives of all the 550 passengers and crew members aboard, A spokesman for the ship's operators said the twisted ruins would be searched for the bodies as soon as the hulk cooled. The missing passengers were not identified. The Quebec's quick - thinking| skipper was credited with averting! total disaster ‘by racing his! (flaming ship to a St. Lawrence, {River . dock, where all but the missing two scrambled to safety.
Hundreds of American vaca“th
fiery death last night aboard the 5000-ton Canada Steamship Lines’ wooden vacation ship. : Capt. Burch avoided by minutes a disaster which might have duplicated the burning of another CSL {vessel, the Noronic, at Toronto, | Ontario, last Sept. 17. The Nor-
Dr. Herman L. Shibler . , . new school head. :
Plan New Milk
most of them: Americans. -
Heads for Tadoussac The skipper set his course straight for Tadoussac when a
One-Cent Boost Due blaze which broke out on the B
In Month or Two |deck at dinnertime. By the time The price of milk will be raised he docked, 30-foot flames were another penny here in the next|licking the Quebec from the top month or two. {deck to the water-line. That was confirmed today, when it was learned the premium-|“a little panic and a few cases of | over price paid to farmers will hysteria” as the 400 passengers
making it about $4.60 per hun-| embark, but no one was injured dredweight. The current price, not seriously. yet set, is‘ expected to be $4.30 ported minor scratches. $4.35. | The boost to consumers will] come on the heels of another one-| cent raise which went into effect
early this month. That resulted
disembarked and then the skipper|
officer said. fire. from the shore it spread! right-through...the lower. .decks/| {where we had been | shortly before.”
over price. Boosts Producers Premium-over is the pfice paid - producers over the condensary| price. Its purpose is to encourage production of milk in fall and winter, which are normally lean supply periods. § C. Winfield Hunt, executive secretary of the Milk Foundation,
boost will be made. It may come as 15-cent raises Sept. 1 and Oct. 1, in which case the penny hike will start in October. Or it may be combined into a 30-cent boost Sept. 1, which will raise the per quart price 1 cent in
A summer golf party and dinner for members of the Indianapolis. General Agents and Managers’ Association will be held at the Ulen Country Club, Leba-
LOCAL TEMPERATURES 6am... 7M 10am... 7am... 71 11a m... 80 8am... 72 12 (Noon) 81
9am... 73 1p. m... 82 ;
For Aventing Disaster]
Elizabeth Gives Birth Jenner Assails To 6-Pound Princess
Guns Boom Royal Salute, Crowds Cheer
Ih Celebrates New Heir fo Throne By ROBERT MUSEL, United Press Staff Correspondent
LONDON, Aug. 15—Princess Elizabeth gave birth today to a 6-pound girl who may be queen some day.
The birth of the princess, first daughter and second child of the
|24-year-old heiress presumptive to the throne, touched off celebrations throughout the British Empire.
A bulletin signed by the four doctors who attended Elizabeth
maximum depth of the pocket was 2.7 miles and the maxi« mum length five miles. The Americans drove half way Fhrough it in their first as< Monday, : pt Defense Department spokes man at Washington declared that the he Red bridgehead below Chanf« was ‘well under control’) Pr ual headquarters stated a midnight communique would be omitted as no charges had taken place to warrant & statement. The predicted offensive on the Naktong line by the Commue nists Monday on the anniversary
War Secrecy |
People Not Told Truth, He Charges
By NOBLE REED The real truth of events lead--/ing up to the Korean War has been kept secret from the Ameri-
known. until the christening by| the Archbishop of Canterbury in| about a month. Pa
tonic fire killed 139 fassenguts,
said she and the child both were doing well. It allayed anxiety felt because of the difficulty the princess had when Prince Charles was | born on Nov. 14,} 1948.
Several hours} after the birth at 5:50 a. m,
(Indianapolis Time; an official anno uncement
Bt-Was Princess pound and 6 Elizabeth ounces less than
Charles weighed at birth. Her name probably will not be|
Third in Line |
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Guns boomed a royal salute
and thousands waiting in a chill] slight breeze began to fan drizzle outside Clarence House tillery fired only 41 guns from
thundered a cheer when a bulle-|
{sion - where Elizabeth and her| {husband, the Duke of Edinburgh,
A ship's officer said there was! live.
Queen Elizabeth hastened to Clarence House
the baby was born. {He had given up waiting for the
imminent for a week. ~Princess|
also was in Scotland.
Prince..Philip, . Duke .of ,Edin-/that royalty at birth could. g0/peaten; ~bribed-- Or standing burgh, who had paced. the floor only to children of the sovereign
as anxiously as any prospective
father, was first to hear of the birth. He rushed to the telephone to tell the King, as well as his mother and grandmother who were waiting in Kensington Palace. Delighted at the safe delivery of his daughter and the fact that his preference for a girl had been fulfilled, the duke ordered champagne for everybody in Clarence House. In the midst of the excitement
Prince Chatles, who. will be 2 : : Ov. 34,
5 the crowd, a, of his training for his predestined
career.
- ~ How Many Guns? - The British services continued | Shep ancient differences over how
The King's Troop of the’ 400- |
The. baby is third in line _0f year-old Royal Artillery sent 62] succession to. the throne after her guns . mother and her brother, Prince defenses of the Tower of Lon-| Charles.
from: the outer} don, the oldest continuously occupied fortress in Hurope. But the rest of the Royal Ar-!
{Hyde Park, a few yards from
tin announcing. the birth was where radical orators call freely posted on the gates of the man-|for an end to the monarchy,
Elsgewhere in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, as) well as overseas; there were royal| salutes of 21 guns.
from nearby | The child was born a princess sheer survival and the crisis con-| be boosted 30 cents by Oct. 1,/rushed to the lower decks to dis-’ | Buckingham Palace as soon as as a result of a decree signed by fronting us is far too grave for King George [King George before the birth of ny one of us to seek personal OF! ration : from Japan. A few passengers re- wags fn Scotland shooting grouse./Charles. It granted royal tities Political gain.
to all children of the union of
“The passengers were quickly birth, which had been reported! Philip and Elizabeth.
Charles would have been born
ordered the 150 crewmen off,” the Margaret, whose place in line of simply Charles Mountbatten had “As we watched the succession the newcomer took, the
king not amended a ruling! by his father, King George V,|
or ‘the children of his sons,
Mother Of Two War Il Veterans Loses Son In 'Peacetime’ Conflict.
She Hopes Prayers That Brought Pair Back will Save Third Boy ‘Missing’ in Korea
= By DONNA MIKELS
. On an August day five years ago Mrs. Joseph Frantz, like a
million other mothers over the nation, choked up and shed tears
of thankfulness.
. It was V-J Day, the end of the war. and nights of fear for the safety of two servicemen sons, one colJecting battle scars in Europe and the » other f fighting with t the Ma-
{dnd Austria with a Purple Heart Today, just five years and a and whose next eldest, Thomas,
day after the “peace,” tears came emerged safe from the casualtyagain to the eyes of the Indian-|
© rines in the blood-soaked islands
of ‘the Pacific.
apolis mother who thought she had seen the last of war,
“The Department of Defense
It was the end of days
Haden. -beachheads of Okinawa, iT wo Jima and Guam, had sacriIn her hand she held a yellow ficed her youngest son in ences ' telegram: = :
e” ‘battle.
“I thought it was all over for regrets to. inform you that your me” the graying mother of three
son, Pfc. George Arthur Frantz, sons and a daughter said.
is missing in action in Korea ...” Fred, came through the ba
“When my oldest boys came The mother whose Sidest Ao, back I was thankful:
can people, U. 8. Sen. William E. Jenner charged in a speech
of Korean independence and of the liberation from the Japanese
gestive aytibotic el
George " of Afric, Italy, France, Germazy Cty on iv 1)
failed to develop. Dispatches from 8th Army Headquarters sald the apparent miscue in Communist plans could be attributed to the fact that in their constant probing at the line they had found the going rough and paid heavily. The North Koreans man to set up bridegheads 15 miles southwest and 16 miles northwest,
before the Rotary Club here today. He declared that the Washington -adminis-| tration is browbeating and blackmailing into silence anyone who tries to find out the facts °f Taegu. Army compuniyus Te of present porte dq that th ath.
pockets in the Taegu sector, care ried out & successful countess attack Tuesday afternoon,
ng cy imakers Th got us into this mess TE crying ‘don’t play politics| with the Korean War’ and have! jnow issued a public statement | Just to the south, troops of the feontending that ‘isolationists|: S- 1st Cavalry Division coun{must shoulder the responsibility| e+ -attacked successfully, killed {for the Communist attack on| he crews of three guns ani capKorea’ ” he said. tured the Weapons, the 8th Army {reported ___Say People Wa —Its—eommunique said the S4th— sHBurely if. ever the Ameri “Combat: Team: in the people needed to be told the truth! 24th Division area repulsed an {and to be taken into the confi-| attack by 200 North Koreans. ‘It dence of their government, now is did not say whether this fighting the time.” {was In the elbow bridgehead, To the contrary, he said, the| | where enemy troops were estie {people and their elected represen. mated to number 10,000 to 12,000. tatives in Congress have been The 24th Division was waging | groping around in the dark in an| the attack which had Teduced the {effort to find the answers, {pocket sharply. i Attack Still to Come Frankly, America is now | It had been expected that caught in a grim struggle for! |North Koreans would laun their assault on Taegu today, |fifth anniversary of Korea's libe However, {the attack had not begun by late . “The facts behind this crisis are afternoon. so shocking they have rendéred| Communiques and fleld dise party affiliations meaningless. [patches reported these late dee “But, I ask you, how are we velopments on the main fighting {going to get the facts if we|fronts: {permit ourselves to be. brow-| Northwest of Taegu—The North -blackmatied, Koreans- -rossed- the. Naktong at
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