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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1950

their “all-out”. offensive.

Four-engine B-29 Superfortress bombers from Okinawa bombs, rockets and flaming jelly bombs at Red soldiers goomed over the battle lines near Kumchon in four waves and dropped 200 tons of bombs in a 30-minute attack. Crews reported “excellent results.” ; The U.S. Tth Fleet pumped fresh squadrons into the desperate battle. More than 200 carrier-based planes raked 45 miles of the crucial Naktong River front from Taegu

south to the sea.

A 5th Air Force spokesman said sorties by their planes flown up to 3 p. m. today totalled 440—“far above any ever flown before during this period.” — Starting at’dawn and continuing as night fell, fighters!

land bombers were making an all-out effort to roll back Reds all day in a “constant stream, the enemy's big push. “A solid air umbrella” covers the ment said. battleground, it was announced.

only a few yards ahead of American troops.

Rivers; shooting up North Koreans who were trying to make bold daylight crossings in rafts and boats.

ammunition at Communists dug into foxholes on a ridge} near Yongbong-Dong.

" a headquarters state-|

| Even the unarmed T-6 airborne controllers were setting | |records. They stayed aloft.longer than previously possible, | ' thanks to recently installed auxiliary belly tanks. Their extra help counted. Fierce ground fighting ‘raged west of Haman on the southern front, pilots re-| They bloodied the waters of the Naktong and Nam ported. * ” Maj. Gen. William B. Kean, confmander of the 25th Division, said:

“Air saved the day here, as it ha ti be- | F-80 jets threw rockets and thousands of rounds of fore.” ® day tere. as 3.50 many ines

Jets and propeller-driven fighters poured _ bullets, |

No. claims. were entered for North Korean I oRBe | casualties. “Conservative totals” for material destroyed or| B-26 light bombers were diverted from their usual| (damaged in the fighter attacks alone, a headquarters state-|

“beat” of night intruder missions on the west coast. They | ment said, included 27 tanks, 56 trucks, 24 buildings sheltertoo were flung into close ground support, which hit the|ing troops; and other equipment.

! Truman Warns Russia Expect 80,000 Auger it looked Like Tornado Motorists Jam

U.S. Will Put 3 Million At Fair Today

Into Battle for Peace

Defeat of Aggression - By All on Home Front,

By EDWARD v. ROBERTS, United Press Staff Writer

WASHINGTON, Sept. 2

blunt ultimatum to world communism, said last night that |

to Require Sacrifice President Says

— President Truman, in a

the United States. will build an armed force of three million | men to block further Red aggression.

He coupled the warning with a rallying cry to the and 100,000 paid admissions were “nations of the free world which the Voice of America will]

hurl around the world today in two dozen tongues. . Ts United States, Mr. said, wants nothing from oe pos d save peace and freedom for all nations and all peoples. To gain these ends, he said, this naEditorial, Page 10

tion will fight to the full limit of

The effort toward that goal, the President said, will require “hard work and sacrifice by all of us.” Delivers Indictment -

Mr. Truman delivered a damning indictment of the Soviet Union and its policies. He warned the Kremlin that Hitler and Tojo fatally underestimated the United States 10 years ago, and grimly added: “Let would-b> aggressors make po such mistake today.”

While the President's address was primarily a simple language expression of American aims and policies directed at counteracting Soviet propaganda, there were in-|t dications that it may have goings) him some support on the domestic] political front. Initial reaction from Congress —wewhere the Fruman foreign policy has become a hot issue— was predominantly favorable. Even his most outspoken congressional * critics did not take immediate issue with the theme of the President's radio and television report to the nation. The President gave an effective and: plain answer to Communist charges that America has imperialist aims in the Far East. He said the Unitéd States does not want Formosa, nor any part of Asia; that it believes in freedom for all Asian ‘nations, and

ge or preventive war. rea, he said, has the right to be’ RT “independent and united, and the United States is golfig to see to«t that it gets. that right. The President's reference to a

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Today's Pollen Count

that it does not believe in aggres-| ¥T®: Democrat, Republican, Pro-

Four Parties

» . | Fail to Qualify By Filing Petitions By IRVING LEIBOWITZ The Progressive, Communist, Labor and Socialist parties will not appear on the state ballot this fail, They failed to qualify for the ballot yesterday, filing deadline. All neglected to enter petitions signed by more than 7000 qualified voters, as réquired by law. The s:atutes that any party failing. 10 obtain more than onehalf of 1 per cent of the total vote cast for Secrelary of State can get on the ballot on petitions with the required number of names. The Prohibition Party’ joined the Democrats and Republicans

votes, almost twice enough to get on the ballot without a petition. | Secretary of State Charles Fleming, 'has..said..vep would not certify candidates from either the Communist or Progressive parties, this morning said he had “scared them off the ballot.” To get on the ballot, the law also requires ‘political parties to present an-oath stating the party is not subversive or connected with a foreign country, and that it does not believe in overthrow .of government by: force.« Parties on the’ ballot in 1947 hibition, Progressive, SocialistLabor and Labor.

MILWAUKEE, Sept, 2 (UP) —At least seven persons were killed and 34 injured in the collision of two interurban electric trains south of here today, the medical examiner reported. Ambulances took the injured to County General Hospital and County Emergency Hospital. There were two cars in each train. One was northbound and

221 Grains per cubic yard of alr.

HERAKLION, Crete, Sept. 2 some abductor of Crete’s modern *

after he and the girl whose love he won by force were married at a

mountain monastery.

{the other southbound.

(UP)—Police arrested the hand‘Helen of Troy” today seven hours

Indiana Roads

Bumper-to-Bumper Traffic in City, Too

Mile-Long Throng Treks Through Gates

llied Comunicalions. B | Prepare New Push Despite High Loss

“Solid Air Umbrella’ Pours Out Bullets, Rockets American Forces Lash

By CHARLES MOORE, United Press Correspondent = TOKYO, Sept. 2—Gen. Douglas MacArthur hurled his entire Air Force, from screaming jets to Superforts, today . at the heads of the Communist foot soldiers to throw back

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iS AtEnemy Hordes Along 120-Mile Fluid Front

| Regain All Lost Ground in Southwest; Report 10,000 Communist Casualties | By EARNEST HOBERECHT, United Press Staff ‘Correspondent TOKYO, Sept. 3, Sunday—The :important "Allied come | munications center of Changyong was ablaze under ‘heavy, enemy artillery and mortag fire today. ; It appeared the Communists were preparing. another (heavy assault in the face of strong counter-blows. | United Press Correspondent Jack Burby reported from ithe swaying Naktong River front that four and possibly| wensive yet. greaten. Rod

five enemy divisions were at-| Here was the picture on the |tempting to shatter the American| Scattered fronts. _ . (line 18 miles southwest of Taegu. MASAN, ON THE SOUTH A 2d Division front line unit| WEST: The port saved, with a radioed that the Reds had loss to the Reds of 10,000 killed {launched a strong attack around Or wounded. Returning pilots said \sundown Saturday. |searinauia of the Communist ih . an visions were “in Reds Mass Tanks |flight” back across the Nam and Air reconnaissance pilots re- Naktong Rivers, leaving thous a the Reds had massed 13 sands of dead behind them.

tanks just east of Lake Upo, five| Exposed to Right Flank {miles inside the Naktong line in United Press Co pondent

backbone of the

Saturday at the Indiana State! Fair today.

| expected before midnight.

ot children who are admitted!

: . {scheduled events. Off Fall Ballot

By CLIFFORD THURMAN Drizzling rain only slowed the

surge of Hoosiers bent on al

Fair Board officials predicted last year’s Saturday attendance f -68,251 would rise nearly one(third this year. Between 80,000

This is exclusive of thousands free today, which is a Youth| Activities Day. A special 4-H| Club activity program is among]

As early as 11 a. m,, ‘parking, {facilities in the infield of the mile’ race track were crowded. Mile-| long throngs trekked in at ey}

gate. Judging Continues | Final of &-E-Club steer, hogs and sheep exhibit continued throughout the day. Prize winners were to be announced to-

Hundreds of thousands of motorists jammed Indiana highways

end got under way. Slowed by rain and the heavy traffic—in some cases bumper to bumper—cars moved slowly in most - sections, state police reported. In Indianapolis, downtown intersections were snarléd with motorists heading for the

or just passing through. At noon, four persons had died in Hoosier traffic. The three-day toll is expected to top 1949's record of 15 killed and 377 injured. The national toll, predicted by the Na“|tional Bafety Council to reach 435, | already counted 24 dead.

eager to

Busses Jammed Busses were capacity loads in “all directions,”

today as the Labor Day week-

State Fair, for downtown stores |

Indianapolis bus, rail and airline! terminals were filled with citizens] CT Unist offensive. ‘escape.’ |

leaving with|,

| nm he center of the 2d Division sec Robert Miller repo ted, ho r,

Division officers still did not tat the straightening of the a kiow what importance to attach {Division lines left it exposed on’ to the latest enemy moves. They the right flank to the Red salient said the reports were preliminary thrust across the Naktong in the and incomplete, U."8. 2d ‘Division sector, , < Gen, Douglas MacArthur's mid-| YONGSAN, -NINE MILES

night communique , reported 15 EAST OF THE NAKTONG: enemy tanks in the area, but said, 'two had been destroyed. [United Press Correspondent Robe

| Meanwhile, strong American lert Vermillion said a unit of the {forces wers on the attack or American 2d Infantry Division counter-attack ail a along the 120- drove forward 300 yards to res. as mile Korean front. ue a second unit which had been | | Twenty-fifth Division officers re. | Sue ut off since noon Friday. oi Fe

moved the port of Masan from the danger list, and reported the re-| Spearheaded by tanks, the res- : {capture of all territory lost to the! cue unit drove the North Ko- 5 | Reds in the first days of the big reans off a hill between them and $

the cut-off Americans and. into a draw, ron atiacked “North Ko-

“off American To nit still had if ( linked up with the main American force.

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GI's Retake Yongsan In the Naktong scctor, American infantrymen and tanks ree ap aptured Yongsan, nine miles east the

by gathering more than 14,000] -

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junior dairy judging contest,

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sheep’ shearing contest. Women’s Bullding—L. 8. Ayres & Co. style show, 11:30 a.m. 3:30 and 7 p.m. Grandstand — Harness races, 1:30 p.m. Grandstand—Irish Horan's Lucky Hell Drivers, 8 p.m.

revue 3:30 p.m.

=o Coliseume—Bob -Heope (Bob Hope in person),

TOMORROW—WAR VET-

servicemen admitted free). Coliseum — Sunday School Hour, Indianapolis Ministerial Association, 10:30 a. m. Coliseum—Bob Hope Show (Bob Hope in person), 1:30. p. mo Women's Building — Old Fashioned Spelling Bee, 2 p. m.

TODAY — YOUTH ACTIV- . ITIES DAY (children under 12 admitted free). Judging—Fat barrow, junfor livestock ‘judging contest,

liseum—4-H state dress 8:30

NS' DAY (veterans and

liseum—Horse show and

by a knife,

fontaine St.

This cloud, resembling a tornado, hovered over Indianapolis before dissipating at about 6 p. mi. yesterday. Weather Bureau officials dismissed reports that a tornado was brewing. They explained it was a shallow funnel cloud carrying light shower.

Garbage Pickups Halted; Strike Violence Reported |

A two-day stoppage of garbage collection was announced today Tby Mayor Feeney as police reported increasing violence ariang from the strike at the city sanitation plant. “There will be no garbage collections tomorrow and “Monday (Labor Day),” said the Mayor. His announcement followed a flare-up between two pickets: last

which one was slashed, night in Mr also reported] polis citizens who, he sald, have

bricks were thrown through win-/been conscientious about burning dows of two workers’ homes.

Clay Whitson, 34, of 1332 Belle-| was treated at Gen- | Sunday and Monday,” he said.

in the aisles. | A similar situation existed at "|Union Station and Weir Cook 'Afrport. Most lines: were bought tout solidly through Monday. . Indianapolis had its special traffic vroblem, thougn no serious bottlenecks or accidents had yet developed, ‘ Police were busy directing heavy traffic at the State Fair. Others were detailed to the City Sanitation Department to keep lan eye on militant workers. iwi! Rain was slowing trafic throughout the state and in places was extremely heavy, “Mooding ‘roads, ‘washing out fills.| Some Are Closed Roads closed by high water included: Ind. 43 around Vincennes, Ind. 59 south of Linton; Ind. 157 west of Worthington and Ind. 245 south of Lamar. The Weather. Bureau reported occasional showers will wet roads and picnic grounds through Monday. Temperatures will fall to 65 tonight, after reaching 80 today; and ciimb to 80 tomorrow. Heavy mid-week rains will swell the Wabash and Ohio

|and burying uncollected garbage. “I hope they'll keep it up over

eral Hospital for a 10-inch gash | “We'll make all the collections iver to threaten crop damage

in the left side.

Police sald the We can today.”

said T. E. Feeney, city pasesnger agent and terminal manager for Greyhound Bus Lines. Only safety rules kept scores from standing

fighting wa- raging about a mile to the west of the ruined town. However, a 2nd Division spokesman admitted that the Reds hold all the territory in the eight mile-wide southern elbow of the Naktong- River, andi ave narrow sallents thrusting into American lines all along the southern Naktong front. On the southwestern front, where. the American 25th Division bore the brunt of an all-out Communist drive to push us into the sea, it was announced that all territory lost to the Red offensive had been regained. | A division spokesman announced jubllantly: te /Masan has been saved.” oficial estimates sald that on the Masan front alone, the enemy in the past two days lost 10,000 men in killed or wounded, the equivalent of an entire North Korean division. In the alr, Gen. Douglas MacArthur threw his entire strength at the Reds, whose offensive of two days ago seemed to have lost much of -its co-ordination and to have left Communist units operating in semi-independent groups. American commanders were confident they Jat broken the

Naktong Saturday and

Aerial observers saw a huge

| “help” spelled out on the side of

a hill with men and material Lines Confused It was in this area covering roughly. 18 miles along the Nake tong that the lines were confused, with each side thrusting spearheads deep into the other's tere ritory. United States tanks and troops recaptured Yongsan Sat-

ay. WAEGWAN-TAEGU AREA AT THE FAR NORTHWEST CORNER OF THE LINE:

tacking 1st Cavalry

troopers were meeting stubborn opposition in their second ats

tempt to take a. commanding... I 1700-foot height foie and a half

miles northeast of W: At sundown the hill still was

held by firmly rooted Commuenists who poured murderous fire

into the advancing Americans, The enemy was using mortars and machine guns with deadly, effect. The Americans earlier had abandoned attempts to take two other hills, on the theory that if they could take the commande

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“| Thousands of ‘children were ad-| through windows In two of their times to see that all laws are en-|

‘Helen of Troy's’ New Mate Seized After Secret Nuptial

Tex Beneke’ s _orchestra, 8 a r Grandstand—Irish Horan’s Lucky Hell Drivers, 1:30 p. m. Grandstand — State Fair Follies, 8 p. m. oo (Above schedule is on Daylight Saving Thne.).

] branch streams pour’ “teut- was ‘inflicted by “Ira Sum-| “At Teast 15 tricks went out on Hi rivers. mers, no "address, during an {regular routes this morning, ac-|— - argument between the two on the | cording to the Mayor. They were eo . picket line. {manned by new employees, city On the Inside Strike in 4th Day jemployees transfered from other] Of The Times {A former Indianapolis pastor and his wife remain at their

The two were, among 150\strik- jobs and volunteers, Philippines mission- post de-

attracted - thousands at noon.

County|

"Muddy grounds were crowded with cated Summers, they said. Meanwhile, Marion spit ! e war and communism milling hundreds. _. | Police guards were doubled at Prosecutor George 8. Dalley "i a ANd News of 35,201 Yesterday |the sanitation plant, and squad warned, strikers that “violence, ... ..o.= ° °° © 0 Officials estimated: the 35,201 cars were ordered to make patrols threats of violence and coercion ung other journalist ever

total of yesterday was about half |of homes of garbage workers who Will not be tolerated,”

»d such nmiass affection,” of the crowd on the grounds. did not strike. Bricks: crashed, “My office stands ready at all voiced :

writes Lee Miller in his new book, “The/ Story of Ernie and without" pyie revfewed on The

mitted free as a part of Youth homes. |forced impartially he! Times book page. «........

Activities Days. | William W. Walker, supervisor special privilege to anyone,” Judging in fat barrows, junior of garbuge collection, told police sald. [Tony Hinkle begins his 16th livestock judging contest and the|a brick was thrown through a| Mayor Feeney said new work-|" year as’ Butlers head foot-sheep-shearing contest -held the|rear window in his home, 2317 ers were being hired to ‘replace ball coach. . Three-game spotlight of the day's activities. |N, Capitol Ave., last night. |strikers. | Loutsville series will wind Izaiah Hillard, plant worker, “We have at least 50 new men,” | up our Indians’ home season said he returned to nis home at he said, “and nore coming in all] . complete sports news.... 1005. W; 25th St, at 1:30 a. m.|the time. Fifteen reported yester- ion 4 {today ahd found a brick had been day. They were checked and Other Features

Sgt,

Thinking of Selling Your Home or

into the

U.S. ‘Attempting to Keep Red Chinese Out of Korea

Reported Negotiating With Foreign Minister

Pare . Through Trygve Lie of United Nations & i

| By ERNIE HILL, Times Special Writer LAKE SUCCESS, N. Y., Sept. 2— The United States is’ te | ing with Communist China through Secretary General Lie {of the United Nations to head off spread of the war in Asia.” ~ Mr. Lie is contacting Foreign Minister Chou En-lal of Come 4 munist China to give him assurance that the U. 8. is without terris torial ambitions even in the case of Formosa and want peace. India ahd Norway, this éorrespondent learns, also-are in direct his representative in the United contact with top Chinese govern-| Nations General Assembly during ment officials in Pelping to try|September. 8 and dissuade Mao Tse-tung from The U. 8. is giving assurances attacking United Nations forces that it will not veto the seating in Korea. a {of Chinese Comniunists or oppose All of the peace efforts are be- | the change too vigorously. ing channeled direct to Peiping—| Mr. Lie is negotiating with | short-circuiting Mogcow out of Chou En-lal on the basis of a

Want No War

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