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FRIDAY, AUGUST 18, 1950

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Sot ry to End 3 Living in Psychology

NEW YORK, Aug. 18 (UP)—Thirty days of seeing

upside down and reversed from

Fred Snyder a “pretty stiff hangover” when he returns to normal

tonight;

Dirt of evens ‘Re roid iivingl everything left to right. is to give

The 25-year-old Wichita, Kas, man said he may. even be disappointed with the rightside-up world.

“Girls’ legs look sexier when

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they're dangling in the air,” Snyder observed. He did it with a special pair of glasses devised by Dr. N. H. Pronko, head of the Department of Psychology at the University of Wichita. Mr. Snyder conducted the ‘looking backwards experiment” for his master’s degree.

Studied Habits ; The teacher and the student want to prove that most persons acquire seeing habits, just like they learn to. read and walk. The way ‘Mr. Snyder saw things

and when he went to shake hands with people on his right they turned out to be on his left: Eating was a problem at first but he learned to manage it and even drove a car “out in the

country.” Took Notes

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‘pepping up”

CUES A tIONE Now" He" does every:

- on the “We the People” televi-

All the while Mr. Snyder notes on his sensations and ob-

thing he could do before he put on the glasses and in some cases does it better. In fact, he is so adjusted now that Dr. Pronko said Mr. Snyder will probably be confused when he takes the glasses off tonight sion show over the National Broadcasting Co. “We’ll have to wait and see what happens,” Dr. Pronko said,

“but unless I'm mistaken he'll}

have a pretty stiff hangover.”

LOCAL TEMPERATURES 6a m... 68 10 a. m.......68 7a. m... 60 11am... 67 8a m... 10 12 (Noon) 67 9a m......60 1pm... 67

Humidity at 11:30 a. m., 98.

Today's Pollen Count - 83 Grains

Ne ———

{Spying for Russia, the FBI an-

As Russ Spy

Eighth American to - Be Rounded Up in

Drive by FBI WASHINGTON, Aug. 18 (UP) | ~Morton Sobell, 33, a New York electrical engineer and former Navy employee was arrested toiday in Laredo, Tex., on charges of

nounced. Sobell was the eighth American

Soviet atomic spy ring operating {in the United States. . He was charged with sending “national defense information” to Soviet Russia which he obtained as a radar engineer while working for the Navy.

his deportation from Mexico. The Justice Department said that Sobell fled from the United

the arrest of David Greenglass, ex-Army man also charged with spying for Russia. Sobell is charged with working with the atomic spy ring during the period 1942-47 while he was employed by the Navy at the General Electric Co., Schenectady, N. Y. in aeronautical and marine engineering and radar. Leaves by P lane

Rosenberg, arrested July 17, had warned Greenglass to

nection with the spying.’

Naval I: ; Bl Worker Seized

larrested in connection with a

0 Mexico last June 20 after)

] Indianapolis.

Invalid, Wife, ‘Four Children

FORECAST: Partly cloudy tonight and tomorrow. Cooler tonight, war mer tomorrow afternoon. Low tobight 60, high tomorrow 80.

Homeless-in Fire —

Entered as Second-Class Matter at Postoffice Issued Dally.

Indianapolis, Indiana.

HOME

PRICE FIVE CENTS

ofl stove which set fire to their three-room house, an invalid, his wife and their four children were in need of shelter and clothing

James Proctor and his family escaped injury in the fire at 1018 Collier St. yesterday. They lost all the :

y ®- =» ~PHE-WAYNE PARK Fire De partment was unable to save the, dwelling. Loss was estimated at! $1000. The Proctors spent the night with their landlord, John Finchum, also of 1016 Collier Si. The PFinchum home, already housing four grandchildren whose father was killed overseas during the war, is t00 small to give the Proctors more than temporary shelter. Neighbors were appealing for help for the Proctors today.

Fountain Square Asks for Meters

‘Area's Parking Plans

By DAVID WATSON Bixty-seven Fountain Square business men today asked Mayor Feeney for parking meters on

Tie-up living beyond reels transportation drive to transit terminal points and park their

Part of the when drivers

is then used to reach downtown

Away From Florida

Burning Ship Among Seven Imperiled MIAMI, Fla, Aug. 18 (UP)— The huge hurricane, with its constant ‘winds of 140 miles per hour,

curved northward way from the Florida headed

SRP C5

storm, the, 7247-ton freighter

* {Russell R. Jones, with a crew of

38 aboard, was reported on fire in two holds while on the fringe of the giant storm with ships speeding to its aid. Six others were reported in the path of the raging winds but were believed capable

a RET The bath of the {custom aa Po > BIN:

Pedestrians Flee As Plane Bullets Rip Atlantic City

ATLANTIC CITY, N. J, Aug. 18 (UP)—City officials attempted today to find out which branch| of the Armed Services strafed downtown streets with machine gun slugs last night, scattering Seqestetans and injoring a fire-

to seel Cre e city that they paid no attention > occasional bursts of machine gun fire from planes overhead until 50-caliber bullets began to throw up spurts of concrete and dust from the streets. In the rush for cover no one took time to identify the planes.

BY IP EIESER

Business representatives said they have also been meeting with the off-street parking commission in efforts to solve their problem. Although Fountain Square is the first area to file a request with the city, Irvington businessmen several months ago said they might ask for meters in the future. Fountain Square is one of the |oldest neighborhood shopping districts in the city. Meters were asked for Virginia Ave. from Grove St. to Fountain Square; Shelby St. south to |Orange 8t.; Prospect gE nar to Fy i

westword tot: PEAT ROT St. Patrick's school area from Morris St. to Woodlawn Ave.: Woodlawn. Ave. from" Virginia Ave. to St. Patrick’s.

Enter Second Leg Of 5000-Mile Boat Trip

took [of speeding out of the danger. In a 9:30 a. 2 ns time) huricafie advisory, ood Miami Weather Me cautioned the North Carolina cape section to be ‘on the alert for future advices.” hae

to Florida,” —said- Chief Storm Forecaster Grady Norton.

On the Inside Of The Times

I A Page Gen. Mark Clark, Army Ground Forces chief, plans inspection of Camp Atterbury next month. . . . Dis abled American Veterans call for Congress to Universal Military Training hflrermiseinarvaiseesiseee emia victim Jerry Dunaway, loaded with souvenirs, was scheduled to return

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home today from St. Vincent’'s Hospital, .....c0000: 28 Russia is outgunning the“ United States in the Korean War propaganda battle , . . Editorials and Hoosier Forum. sesvescecessceceess 20

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“But there is no further danger

OFFICERS at the nearby

investigators that no Navy planes were in the area at the time. Authorities said they had asked the Air Force. to investigate the incident. An apartment house and a home were-hit by the slugs. Another bullet pierced the roof of a luncheonette, Yricocheted from a wall and narrovly missed a patron. Fireman John Dillani

is | Pomona. Naval .Alr. Station. told canal. today

ALBANY, N. ¥.-Aug-18(UP)+ —Two brothers entered the barge 5 on: the second: of - a 5000-mile water trip to Alaska im a 14-foot outboard motorboat, y ak Barrow, Woodstock, N. Y., and Carroll Barrow, Norfolk,

in~two years. They plan to take the canal route to Oswego, cross Lake Ontario to Kingston, Ont., then to Prince Rupert, B. C., and to Ketchikan, Alaska.

Jr.,, was cut on .he neck and shoulders by a fragment of ce-| ment, i

U.S. Backs Surplus

As Prices Soar By EARL RICHERT Seripps-Howard Staff Writer WASHINGTON, Aug. 18 One of the weirdest situations “arising from our farm price

: support program concerns pea-

nuts. The peanuts people like to eat at ball parks, circuses and cocktail parties have gone up.in price from 20 to 20 cents a pound in recent months. And yet the country as been having vast peanut surpluses. Under the mandatory price support program, the government bought up nearly half of the last. two peanut crops and crushed them for oil. The government's loss was $73 million, which doesn’t in-

we haven't been growing Shought of the arg, white. Vy-

reason is the government

They arrived here yesterday from Catskill, N. Y., where they

BURNED OUT by an exploding

cars all day. Public transportation |

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Jamiges Shree

Va., hoped to complete the trip}

E. Korea Coast

220 Freight Cars, Railroad Yards, “Bridges” Destroyed i TOKYO, Aug. 18 (UP)— An American heavy cruiser went on a raid up the east coast of Korea yesterday and destroyed 220 freight cars, railroad yards and bridges, Gen. Douglas MacArthur announced today. The cruiser made the raids under cover of Naval Air Task Force 77 and used aerial spotters to direct its big guns, At Tanchon above the 40th Parallel 200 freight cars were blasted to splinters and yard installations and tracks were wrecked. Farther up the coast at Iilsindong, 20 more freight cars were destroyed. Railroad yards at Kunsen were bombarded with resulting fires in yard installations,

Destroy 32 Locomotives In addition to the cruiser raid, Gen: MacArthur disclosed that carrier-based aircraft flew 220 sorties in a series of “devastating

day of the war with Chong‘and Wonsan Dearing the brunt of i» attacks, Gen. MacArthur

“Missing in Korea,

One Hoosier GI

Lr Wounded

ANOTHER YOUTHFUL Indianapolis fighting man has beén in action

reported missing in Korea. The Department of Defense I. announced today that Russei! B. Pickens, son of Mrs. THI 1G. Pickens, 2060. £. Michigan St. had been missing since July 20, © The 18-year- = old artilleryn.an § was with A Battery of the 63d Fleld Artillery. Before being sent to the Korean combat zone, he had been stationed in Japan for about a year. : > oF §5 THE WAR for a Westfield GI has come to a temporary end. Pfc. Joe Watson is in Tokyo recuperating from wounds in his leg. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Carl Watson of Westfield. Joe's mother received a letter from him Wed--nesday assuring her that he was all right. He said he had received the Pur-

R. B. Pickens

old infantryman joined the Army

re- *In June, 1049, after attending the sairs and jet Panthers had their

Union Bible Seminary and Westfield High School. He took his training at Ft. Riley, Kas, and then was sent to Ft. Benning, Ga.

"TOKYO

Saturday, Aug.

spell.

south of Taegu.

from the north.

days of the war. The victories all around

promised to reopen the best south of Pohang.

The Marines and men of

Brid seheadin Nelions Elbow Smashed by Gls: == Recapture Pohang Port

Kigye Also Lost by Communist Forces; Allies Win Biggest Victory of Korea War

By EARNEST HOBERECHT, United Press Staff Correspondent 5 38 19—U. S. and South Korean. . ~ Armies sent the shattered remnants of a crack Communist division fleeing in panic across the Naktong River today. The victory gave the capital city of Taegu a breathing

American Marines and 24th Division troops smashed the big Communist bridgehead in the elbow of the Naktong

U. 8. 25th Division units and South Korean troops hurled back a North Korean offensive aimed at the capital

Other Allied forces recaptured the east coast port of Pohang and nearby Kigye to round out one of the best

the beachhead rim restored

the Naktong line, eased a serious threat to Taegu, and

Allied airport in Korea just

eee citer imei ~Wipe Out “Enemy Bridgehead: ee Sitters mnie mie the 24th Division wiped out the Communist bridgehead in the Naktong bend on the second day of an offensive against the 10,000 to 12,000 elite troops of the North Korean 4th Division. Marine commanders estimated that more than 1000 Communists were slain and the whole division was neutraleized as a fighting force by the American assault,

By nightfall yesterday, front dispatches reported, the

Pte. Watson was then shipped

at oo Aa ce factory

pounders. The was heavily par, aft burning,”

Refugees Por

x large fuel tank at Wonsan Afrfleld was blown up and t/and barracks at the fleld strafed. Eight patrol craft and four power boats and one steamer in the harbor were badly damaged.

Factory Area Smashed

At Chongjin, a factory district was hit with 2000- and 1000-pound? bombs and the Nippon iron works, a power plant and a warehouse also were bombed. Fires were started at a refinery at Munpyongoni and in the same area three oil tank cars were set afire and 22 flat cars loaded with field pieces were strafed and bombed. Elsewhere in North Korea, Navy and Marine fighters destroyed 19 power boats and damaged 14; de

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neu concentrations.

Storms to Hold Mercury fo 75

Parbolled Hoosiers today were enjoying relies from yesterday's Occasional thund erstorms, which began: last night after the thermometer hit 92 degrees, will hold today’s temperature to a high of 75 here, the Weather Bureau said. Tonights low is predicted at 60. The Weather Bureau forecast, partly cloudy skies tonight and tomorrow with a high of 80. Similar conditions were expected throughout Indiang, with highs of 75 to 80 tomorrow. Lows tonight will range from 30 to 55 in the north and. 60 to 65

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started the trip.

Now the Goober Rears Its Ugly Head For $73 Millior—That's Not Peanuts

AND THAT AIN'T PEANUTS

tion of the desirable peanuts fn ‘tts overall programs to; bring

in the south.

‘Consumers Crave Only Big Kind

total peanut supply somewhere close to demand. Sen. Clinton .P. Anderson (D. N. M.) regards the situation as scandalous, “It is not my idea of a farm program,” he says. . He predicts two more years of the present peanut program will so irritate the taxpayers that the peanut program will meet the fate of potatoes. Congress had ordered potato price supports stopped after this year. To try to improve the situation, the House of Representatives has taken time out since the Korean War started to pass a bill which would let the agriculture secretary permit the planting of . more peanuts in Virginia and Carolina where

the soil and ocean air produce |

the kind you can’t resist. Sen. Anderson says any sensible farm program should allow tion of all the kind of & food that people want. | And if only one area can

swollen" p

see Out of Taegu

Most Take Only What They Can Carry |

By RALPH TEATSORTH United Press Staft CO:

TAEGU, Korea, Aug. 18 — Panic-stricken refugees . poured out of this temporary capital today in response to a government order for its evacuation. Most took with them only what they could carry on their heads, in their arms or on their backs. The rest of their possessions they buried or just abandoned. I saw two refugees drop by the roadside Hom hunger or the heat.

ulation of plon foot 0 Pew hours an the evacuation order was given. ~-By-tonight, however, the exodus had dwindled. Some refugees! were returning. A sound truck toured the streets appealing to all able-bodied men to remain.

President Leaves

-—Among —those —who--left-were; Syngman Rhee, president. of the South Korean: Ambassador John Bian Tey headed for the port of Pusan, 55 miles to the southeast, However, they left behind representatives of both the government and the U. 8. mission, The evacuation ‘order was given after the first enemy shells of the war fell in the outskirts of Taegu. Four Koreans were killed. A train tender was damaged and the roof of one house blown off, - Only six rounds fell in Taegu. They apparently had been fired) from the west bank of the Nak-| tong River some eight miles west of the city.

Four Abreast

The refugees marched out of Taegu on some roads four

jettisoned three containers so he could make better time. Even as they left, Col. Alfred G. Katzin, personal representative of United Nations SecretaryGeneral Trygve Lie, announced arrangements had been made to administer aid to an estimated 1 million needy refugees in the Allied bridgehead.

Lure Yank Pilots To Ack-Ack Guns

U. 8. AIR FORCE BASE, Korea, Aug. 18 (UP) -- American pilots disclosed today that the North Koreans have “Radio Loreleis” attempting to lure But

into flak concentrations. But they're not having much luck. pa “ » o THE COMMUNISTS get on the air waves and use American slang and ground control procedures trick fighter pilots into making strikes at fictional targets. howd they fall for the ruse, the pilots would be met by heavy anti- -aircraft fire when they reach

grow that kind, it should be permited to produss

and: Uf.

abreast. “A man -with-an-ox-cart-—

‘Radio Loreleis’ 1

to; ments. But even the talk of the

Yanks had smashed the bridgehead which once was

a unique, the reports from the front, said the pint were being pushed back steadily in the bridgehead. North of Taegu, the communiue said, Korean Republicans regained half to all of the ground lost to the Communist offensive

‘WASHINGTON, Aug. 18 (UP) — The United States announced today it has offers of Great Britain, Turkey, Australia and New Zealand to send ground troops to pnb

Thursday, “and are holding firm in the face of the present main enemy effort.” But front dispatches disclosed

25th Division, rushed to that sec-

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SWEPGEG oon

ABA phe BY “OXehrL TH he" ef hack-thrown- ihe. Communists ht

yar on the horthern approaches f Taegu. gl ns on beyond Kigye in

forces overran high ground and}; set. up relatively stable lines in this sector where a sudden enemy

ried through Pohang and to the edge of its airfield. ‘Waters Run Red Phe waters ofthe River ran red with North Horers blood today.” United Press War Correspondent Robert C. Miller reported from the front. He sald the two-day American loffensive had cleaned out the big enemy pocket for mopping up and won the . “greatest and fastest American victory of the Korean War.” The South Korean government ordered women, children and the » » .

War Analysis—

War prospects has been sharply

presentation to the cold facts of! the daily communiques. This contrast is the more marked because American and South Korean forces today are holding better than they were in the days when Pentagon brass was full of rosy’ reassurances. At that time, American forces, uadequataly equipped and undernned, swapped ground for e and withdrew steadily down the peninsula. =

doubt to tighter security which prevents the identification of new outfits moving in as reinforce-

impending “buildup” for a coun-ter-offensive has been muffled.

‘The Pentagon's circumspection in a EE Was!

pointed ul the massive Braids North Koren

| “miles deep and eight! ~—miles- long: “They “were mop

) its of the U, 8.|. that tank-led units o had taken its objectives today and -

thrust eut of the hills had car-|.

- Security Tigh Part of this restraint is due no|fS0ome

Gl Says He Saw Gen. Dean Slain

ping ttered pockets 24th Division corporal said today up sca on their son saw Maj, Gen William the Hdges. F. Dean shot and killed by the mids North Kotéans nea Tadjon.

said also

burned alive after their eyes had been gouged out. The Biehls talked to their son at the Fitzsimmons Hospital in Denver, Colo, where he was recuperating from Wounds suffered July 19.

aged among the war-swollen 800,000 inhabitants to evacuate Taegu. Communist shells fell in the outskirts early today and killed four civilians. “Every Army and Marine unit

Communists fis in Janie

looking the river. One Army unit got so far ahead of its supply line it had to halt for an drop. In two days, the Marines and

“|intantrymen had gained about

alles. and. Tenemy's crack 4th Division of some 10,000 to 12,000 troops. Much to the Americans’ regret, many North Koreans escaped across the river. The Air Force did its best to intercept them with

bombs, rockets and bullets; but it

had so many calls -it could not catch all the enemy troops fleeing

Air Force Shooting Star jets (Continued on - Page 3—Col. 1) o n »

Pentagon Briefings Revedl

Distinct Lack of Optimism

Reassuring Little Asides Are Missing

Despite Improved Situation of Troops

By PETER LISAGOR, Times Special WASHINGTON, Aug. 18—-Pentagon optimism about the Korean

Writer scaled down.

An observer absent for a few weeks from the briefing room of the five-sided hall of brass is struck by the change. Far from swinging over to gloom, the briefing officers haive simply deleted the reassuring little asides.

They're confining the

west of. the Nakiong River line last Wednesday.

In fact, an AF conceded that one bomb was never a very anti-personnel ‘weapon, several hundred of them

“PALESTINE, Tif, Aug. 18 (UP) -~The. parents of -an 18-year-old -

Mr. and Mrs. Herman Biehl their son, Cpl. Donald Biehl, told them he was a prisoner of the North Koreans when 18 of his comrades were tied up and

mopping their-third and last the east coast attack, allied oy up 1500-foot ridge over-

into the hills on the west bank,

out. the...