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MONDAY, AUGUST 2i, 1950
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Plans Prepared For Creation
Of State Guard
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\Hitchcock Declares Belief 4 Outfits - ——— iiss Americans
By IRVING. LEIBOWITZ
Gen. Hitchcock, wha returned today froth a trip. to
Washington to confer wi 3 Midwest Rail military and Selective Service Bris St il ar
made to better prepare the state “if an-emergency arises." : Commenting on his trip, he | said| it was his personal observation that “four other divisions will be| called before the Indiana Na-| tional Guard Division.” i
Deferments Planned |
B Press 1 FC Ine and conoperations today - but important in industrial
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tional Guard will be deferred “providing they enlist prior to receiving notice to report for their draft physical examintion,” He said the men will be required to perform satisfactorily as guardsmen. Enlistment in the State Guard would not bring such draftproof guarantee, he said.
Plan Organization
However, Gen. Hitchcock sald his staff was working on a table of organization “to immediately reactivate the State Guard in the event the National Guard is|are scheduled for tomorrow. called into Federal service.” The lines affected are all termHe said state military officialaijnal railroads. Small in themare currently deciding which selves, they perform the important cities to place State Guard units|function of moving cars from one {railroad to another or directing Gen. Hitchcock's order defer-ithem from main cross-country ring National Guardsmen was lines into the sidings and yards contained in a letter to Maj. lof industrial firms and merchants. Gen. Jesse McIntosh, command- Small Picket Lines ing general of the all-Hoosier| Small picket lines appeared. 38th Division. About 1000 men: in all were on
strike, but other employees of the Fair, Not. So. Cool.
Cleveland, where Republic \Steel said the walkout halted steel roduction for “some war orde The Minnesota Transfer Cone pany at St. Paul, livestock and industria! center, and the Kentucky arid Indiana Terminal Railroad at Louisville also were halted. Two more strikes, one at Chicago and another at Pittsburgh,
three lines were expected to be idled by. tomorrow. Most. had. Pfr
‘Down yi ap Battle Line on South Coast See-Saws;
Both Sides Trade Feeler Punches : By EARNEST HOBERECHT, United Press Staff Correspondent
TOKYO, Tuesday, Aug.
But they have lost some hills
Red China Calls U.S. Aggressor
Covets All Asia
Says Note to UN LAKE SUCCESS, N. Y., Aug. 21 (UP)—Communist China accused the United States today of invading the territory of the “People's Republic of China” by assigning the U. 8. Seventh Fleet to the defense of Formosa, It said America is “attempting thereby to enlarge the war and attain her goal of subjugating
blunted one Communist spearhead 35 miles west of Pusan,
along the nearby South Korean coastal road. Stalled all around the Allied beachhead, the Noth Ko« reans were reported massing strong forces along the coastal
22 — American troops have
to another column thrusting =
plain between Masan and
Chinju. They are getting ready for another determined push against Pusan, Allied port for troops and supplies, ; American fighter planes went into action for close ground supe port work at night for the first time in the Korean War. They attacked a Communist column Sunday night as it came down the ridges against at joint Amerie can-South Korean force on the Taegu front, Light The Way White phosphorous smoke shells were sent up to light the way for = the American fljers to their tare gets, and they did a thorough Job of bombing and strafing. They, were in the air from 11 p. m.
Asia” and thus “seriously violating peace in Asia and the world.” In a telegram to United Nations Secretary-General Trygve Lie, Coinmunist China's Foreign Minister Chou En-lal also charged
{Sunday until 3 a. m. Monday. The Communist night attack was repulsed. Meanwhile Gen. Douglas Macs Arthur's headquarters said the
that the United States “instigated
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‘work to do today. President Truman, under pres“|sure from the Tall UNIONS to seize!
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LOCAL TEMPERATURES - ithe strikebound lines, returned v 6am. 54 10a mu. 88 irom a week-end in Maryland! on Ble Ta m..5 11 a m.. 67 heard a report on the strike situ- . 8 a m.. 51 12 (Noon) 69 [ation from his assistant John R. 9 a m.. 62 Steelman, and then told Mr, Steel-
man to try to bring union and Humidity at 123 12:30 p. m...45
management representatives together and reach some sort of agreement. The White House has indicated that Mr. Truman is not considering seizure of the lines at present, preferring a negotiated settlement of the differences between the managements and unions.
Anti-Red Drive
State Un-American Probe Group Asked
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By DAVID WATSON American Legionnaires today bolstered their anti-communism drive with new action approved when resolutions were adopted as
Strike Has Slight submitted by the Indiana De-
At Weir Cook Municipal Airport Effect on State partment Americianism commitit was a nippy 47. The rail strike hadn't hurt In- |i. Only 60 hours earlier, the same diana much today. | One major resolution will temperature gauge had soared to, The Monon, first to feel the | authorize the incoming state com-| the highest mark of the year, | walk-off at Louisville, was un-| mander to propose organization! when it Teacher 92 ‘Thursday arts] loading both Sreight and passen-| of a state subversive activities! +
-ernoon: gers; and truck-Dibsing them [committee during wie 1951 session
Today’ s “Pollen Count 314 Grains
If you ran hot and cold last week, it wasn’t chills and fever. It was the weather. A jumpy Indianapolis mercury,
having plenty of ups and downs, slid early today to within two degrees of a record low of 52.!
The Weather Bureau predicted across the Ohio River, veath- |
d colorful. | TE, day in “the parade “of the Indiana Department of the American Legion now in convention. Highlighting the 32d annual conclave, the parade will form at 16th and Pennsylvania Sts. | It will move south to Washington St., west to Illinois St. north to Market St., right about the Circle to Meridian St. and | «morth to Walnut St, foe “Units Will’ be Judged from a reviewing stand on Meridian St. in University Park.
Dut the Monon had an embargol Bands will play a : RR IT AT ESA Elgin, Joilet and Becton line, with which it connheets. at Dyer, Ind. : Other lines serving Indianapolis reported they felt little effect of the five-day -trainmen and conductor strike which started today.
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peratures were to reach 75 today and tomorrow. Tonight's low will be a chilly 52. "The low of 54 early today fell 2 degrees short of the record 52 set "last year, A high of 70 was recorded yesterday afternoon. Officials at the Weather Bureau said there was no frost locally but some might have Settled on “ol EE
. fying on a strefcher, one of the survivors soldiers he accuses of the slaughter. A Russian-made machina gun of the type used in the killing is on the stretcher. %
Stubborn Russ Character Linked to Baby Swaddling
Hurricane Perils _ — Virgin Islands State Recruiting | aw mia, Aug. 21 we) . a . e season's ‘second hurricane, of the legislature. This commitDrive Gains Speed developing rapidly in intensity, he Jr function on a basis : moved toward the Virgin Islands | The drive for increased man-|ioqay with winds up to 105-miles- | similar to the congressional compower for the Armed Forces con- |an- hour. mittees in Washington. tinued with increasing speed -to-! This. same resolution was. day throughout Hooslerland. | The first hig stove pie sea- brought up at two other state’ son, meanwhile e Enlistment totals for all serv- ur Nova Scotia. w elf out legion SOnVEntOnS. ai Ald | Infant Tightly Bound, Allowed ns et or soe en rt UE Mw de | peeps sho ols 0 extent To Express Self Only With Eyes 0 norih of the fimancial aid to “persons enga ; Navy and Marines accepted 178 Virgin-Islands. It moved up the in the front fight Ee By MARJORIE VAN DE WATER, Science Service Psychology Writer Indiana men and the Army and Atlantic off the mainland after communism. ? The primary move NEW YORK, Aug. 21-—-Because Russian babies are bound with _ Air Force enlisted 180, {threatening the - Florida resort|under this resolution will be to swaddling cloths into a rigid, immobile bundle, Navy and Marine Corps re- coast for several days. - |give financial ‘aid to the defend- contend with a -stubborn people whose characters are distorted eruiters in Indianapolis said to-! Its center was expected to pass, ants in the $200.000 libel suit filed by these bonds. 3 day last week was the busiest in!50 miles south of Nova Scotia.’ by theater artist Paul Draper and This is the conclusion of the anthropologist Geoffrey Gorer Indiana since World War II. = Its fringes had lashed the New| |Larry Adler in Greenwich, Conn. whose analysis of the Russian character is published in a new Meanwhile, organized reservists England coast with mountainous | Legionaires contend the defend- book, “The People of Gréat Rus- his n nother. bi s swaddiDE taken were reported returning volun-|waves and winds up to 60 miles ants were on the verge of financial sia.” (Chanticleer Press) out to- 8 MONer, As 8 g
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$800,000 Paid by
Mutual and Gillette CINCINNATI, O., Aug. 21 (UP) —Telavision rights for the 1950 World Series have been sold to the Mutual Broadcasting System and the Gillette Safety Razor Co.
{for $800,000, Baseball Commis- |
sioner A. B. Chandler announced today. Mutual and Gillette met an offer of $800,000 made by the
Allen B. Dumont Television Corp., | Me Chandler said.
‘When Mutual and Gillette ob-1 tained the 1949 World Series tele: | vision Fate for $200,000, the con-
3 lic RE oo a P Es RE 1950 World Series, William commercial manager, said today. “Since we have contracts with all networks, we shouldn't be affected by the. Mutual Broadcasting - System | purchase of rights,” he said.
the Korean incidént and) {launched sea, land and air forces in a direct aggression of Korea.” He sald "Korea [neighbouring country” “hinese people: cannot
tion of the Korean Menhwhile, the challenged Russia to tell
uestion
the
anese war prisoners. It was and Australia. placed on the provisional agenda
pena 3 Flushing Meadows on Sept. Rie Yb -power action came as the United Nations Security Council members met privately at the call of its president, Soviet | Delegate Jacob A. Mali
Yanks’ Letters Delivered ‘Rush’ To Korea Front
| TOKYO, “Aug. 1 (UP)— The | Tetters Trom home -the. No, 17 ‘mordle booster for American! fighting jmen-—are being delivered
disclosed today. {An Army spokesman in Washington said that four to nine days, are required for delivery of air| {mail from the East U. 8, Coast ito GI's fighting in Korea. About! three to four weeks is required
tract stipulated thes that they Seti get the 1950 rights if they
met the highest offer Mr. Chand~ ler received from any other bidder. Mutual and Gillétte also hold| the broadcast rights to the 1950] world series under a long term| \{contract, They will pay $175,000
Nor this.
~ Put in Central Fund Xr: Chandler said all” money] received from the broadcasting
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- and X¢levision rights will be “cen{tral Tund” from which some pay-|
{posited in what ‘he called a
ments are made on premiums for| ‘the players’ pension funds. Dues
the world must ‘paid by the players and clubs de!
not cover the cost of its operation. None of the television or broadcasting money, Mr, Chandler said, will be added to the world series
receipts for division among the
participating clubs, -players, leagues and commissioner. In the, broadcasting money was
added to the series receipts for a
To Extend Facilities Mr. Chandler said Frank White,
In this. alternation of treat- {president of Mutual, still had not
|selected the television network
which will carry the program, munist tank and it explodes. Six hole.” that/weeks ago their rockets bounced | faces for which the Russians are .,p,, facilities will be extended|off.
commissioner added
wherever available. Mr. Chandler said Mutual tele-
[ries outlets in New York, Chi-
cago and Boston, among others, will carry the 1950 world series. No theaters will be permitted to televise the world series this year, Mr. Chandler said.
Draft Physicals Set
physical examinations will be given: this week to 1737] Hoosiers from 27 chinties: That | é total number |of prospetcive drafted men called | iin the state since processing {started July 31.
tarily to service at a rapid pace.'an hour early today. disaster as the result of the suit day. il he ad aha pit} ia : . Ee > although the case resulted in a' The American baby passes his gots fom one extreme of “coms pa Inside The Times (Continued hn Page 3—Col. 4) infancy clothed in loose, light plete restraint to the other of split. Jontinu on a . ; (clothing. He can reach out to complete freedom and satisfaci = . touch or grasp whatever attracts | Reformatory editor tells why our prisons are full of grown A nytime Is his attention. He can kick at ; Juvenile delinquents in the second of a series by Bob will. If he is angered at anything BOUrnE. +.20iseiesed Cassasrisseberaseinrat sat eeres Page 2| y the air with both ment, Dr. Gorer sees the explaLouise Fletcher finds low-priced high- fashion in a preview of ‘Moving Time Dl can arch his back, | nation for those abrupt about-|.. the Rosenfeld fall-winter: collection to be shown here These Days But. can express his emotion with his tomorrow. . Es savas sis vase rena nane dsvessscse Page T y ’ > * ‘whole body. famous in international gatherAmerica’s trouble in Far East is that we don't understand the TWO NEW-—2-Bedrm, mod: ofl The Russian Infant from the ings where they may change sud- | Oriental mind, asserts Paul V. McNutt in a speech to Legion- qilieat: no basement sh Sat of birth 1s tightly swad.|dcP)Y from a rigid negative atnaires .-. . also Legion dedication photos..... veraas Page 9 Forest Bradley, ‘Reattor, CH- er pg strips of i that! |titude to one of smiling assent. Ofl-rich Iran looks like easy prey for oil-hungry Russia, Clyde ® AUGUST IS Ine hold his oo straight and rigid | Russian soldiers are also Farnsworth PePOLER.. .« vas srverarssnrrsssnsvensersens age 9 WEATHER for moving . and bind his arms tightly down at known to switch from brutality] Harold Hartley's back from vacation with a trunkful of-ideas ... what better time than |his sides. to gentleness. Those who have for his business column..... sow eeseaey vessessessssnse Page 11 NOW to BUY the home visited in Russia have been struck About People serene PE MOVIOR +.c sv esnvirsvnnens 4 . you need! The BEST | Although this restriction 2 by the Russians’. endurance of Births, Deaths, Events, Needlework «eceeenssssess 7 | PLACE to start your Movement 2 enraging 30 un | privation alternated with bouts Ship. Movements ...... 2 i home hunting is right - | Ah all the Russian baby can os peqyy drinking and extravaAmus ts ; 4 ODIBATIES "ssesursrnieers 5 g Eg do is to scream and that is soon| { Draft Ee Boni: Othman 9 at home with a COPY Of |jionned by a' comforter. After Sm Chins: Births, Deaths, Events... 5 grussssssss sass The Indianapolis Times y 0 The Russian kas no concept of BriQBe «coieeinsiivernses 6 Pattern ..covevinioneneee 7 Classified Section. that he can give expression only | ‘relative truths or aspects or verComics ...consersrnnsase 17 Radio .evreursersavereee 8 EVERY DAY these pages wih us yes Ble go other part sions of the truth. The truth for brings to 5390° Crossword soseovseesesse 4 RUATK +ovcovsesanncnanes 9 offer HUNDREDS of [2% Bim is capable of movement. |nim js one and absolute. It is a Editorials «ccovivesnanesy 10 Bociety ...cieiisiiiciies 6 Homes For Sale. READ All non-Russians tend to system of interconnected items, Fashions ,.ecvvecnneveses 7 Ed Sovola s.osseesvenass 9 THE TIMES REAL [notice the great expressiveness of arranged In a hierarchy but in Forum v...orervnseranaes 10 Earl Wilson ....cociece0ss 18 ESTATE Classified Col- | Russian eyes. [such a way thath the destruction | Erskine Johnson... xx» 4 Weather MAP csviivesses 11 umns Every Day! At intervals — whenever he is'of one item jeopardizes the whole |Chartur, Mrs. Manners. cessseosess 18 Women's sossevesvenisine 1 ir
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However, letters with three-cent postage are: being. carried. by. air when space is available.) Nowhere along the line is the {front line soldier's mail delayed. | Korea-bound letters are processed
and dispatched the day they ar-
rive from the United States.
is China's] and “the but be| “Imore concerned “about the solu=
United Nations General Assem{bly what the Kremlin has done 1.8 million German and Jap-
supported by Britain The problem was
of the Assembly session which can flank
{With extra inary promptness, a
Base Post Office rg Yokohama
for delivery of mail by surface [midnight
midnight communique would be {omitted since there had been Ino major change in the battle {lines since last night. The coastal battle line shifted {back and forth as relatively small {units of Americans and North Koreans traded feeler punches. Troops of the U. 8. 25th Divie | of Yuchon, 35 miles west of Pusan, They recaptured all ground lost a day earlier and checked the enemy exploration in thas
sector, Rout GI A few miles to the south about a [1000 Communists hit the Ameri in the Chindong-nt laren, eight miles southwest of Masan. They pushed advanced U, 8. outposts off high ground Just inland from Chindong-ni. Staff officers of the 25th Die vision did not consider the pre liminary punches along the coast serious. But they watched closely a reported enemy buildup behind the front. The whole region as far west as Chinju was conquered once by {the Americans but given up” to plug a threatening gap to the north. Front. dispatches said the stab mear Chindong-ni*may have been {designed to prevent the South Koirean ay ines who made a week-
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‘north and establishing a con~ {tinuous defense line up to the Naktong. : Recuptitre Ground United Press War Corres {pondent Robert C. Miller reported from the southern front at 13 (Indianapolis time) that units of the 25th Division re «captured. all territory. lost-ta.the. | Reds yesterday. His dispatch was received shortly after an 8th Army come munique, based on earlier ine
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Gl Buckles Up After Sweet Sip of Victory
Convinced That His General Is Smart The Way Walker Hits Hot Spots at Front
By HARRY FERGUSON, United Press Foreign News Editor No Army. is ever ‘any better than the morale of the man at
the front. The cheering news fro of the- Gl is on-thre up.
“After eight weeks of discouraging odds he sees daylight, He
His ‘Spunk
m Korea today is that the morale i
has confidence in his commander, Lt. Gen. Walton Walker, and...
admires the lightning way the High command has moved troops
{from hot spot to hot spot. {GIs now call themselves rapid transit” army.
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The men also have more con
| fidence in their weapons. A super-| {bazooka lobs a rocket into a Com-
The big upsurge in morale came B-295 into ground-support action
{last week. Three things caused it: NE: The American victory in|
southwest of Taegu. Gen, Army - Marine counter - attack against the bridgehead. Almost every mmunist soldier {driven bai across. the river or {killed - or captured. “American [troops finally tasted victory,” re{ports Uni spondent Ralph Teatsorth from! the field. It gave them much heart.” TWO: The Communists’ fire power has begun to decline. Two weeks ago the GI's a great deal of time flat
“The Little Battle Of The Bulge”
Walker threw a joint
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[their faces in foxholes because {the enemy had them pinned down, Now, as one American officer summed up, “I can now walk around my command post withe out looking for the nearest foxe
THREE: The United States Air {Force on Wednesday sent 98
against Communist troops across the Naktong River. They put 1000 = {tons of bombs into a rectangle of 24 square miles. GI's on the opposite ‘bank watched. “God, those things look ‘good, = sald one Yank. “Maybe when we get started north with that ind § lot close-support stuff. we ol (have to fight anything but Teas ks.” In short the GI's feel theme
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‘spent