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PRICE-TEN-CENTS—-
Explode Full-Scale Keron Attack;
120 Mi.
Front Fired In Gigantic Battle
Shock Pain
Mark Survivors
Acme Telephotos
Women trapped in the wreckage of the two electric trains in Milwaukee are shown as they
awaited rescue.
Inside The Times
Section 1
“It's Time to Draw the Line,” first of three articles by William Philip Simms, veteran foreign editor of the
Scripps-Howard Newspapers
Sesssatssssssvsssanness PAgO 2
(Personal property taxes to be mailed for first time in his-
tory, Page 3; Potomac Patter,
Q and A. on the draft,
sermon of week, Page 5; children are safest during
_school, accident survey shows,
Mrs. Manners, Page 7;
Henry Butler, Off the Record, Page 8; Earl Wilson,
* Erskine Johnson, Page 9)
Section 2
Joltin® Joe drives in five runs to decision over Washington.
pace Yankees to 9 to 2 . Hydroplane “Slo-Mo-
Shun” speeds 102.676 mph to set new world record....Page 11
(Local high schools step up
grid training program,
The Press Box, Page 12; The Wright Angle, Blackwell hurls one-hitter against Cubs, Page 13; Haas paces AA hitters with .330; Musial, Goodman lead majors, Page 14; Ed Sovola, Bob Ruark, Fred Othman, the Week in
Congress, Page 15; editorials,
Page 18; Our Fair City,
Washington Calling, World Report, Page 19)
Section 3
_ Children’s museum guild to serve as models in Sept. 12-13
style shows, . . . Horses and
fans “hoof it” to State
. Fair. . . . Euvola Club to celebrate 50th anpiveragty
Friday.
(Society, women's news,
« « « Katy Atkins column .... weddings, fashions,
home
making, gardening, Pages 24-32)
Section 4
Inflation tide lifting home prices-again.......... Akh ton
Page 33.
(Harold Hartley's “The Week in Business,” Outlook in the Nation, building and market news, Pages 33-35;
classified. advertising, Pages 36-44)
Amuséments ..veovees..8, 10 Automobiles LULU LULU
OthIAN +vsvassensennases 15 Pattern” ’
essessenssssanssees 27 Potomac Patter . Business .....0000044..33, 35 Radio sevvvevvesesnceneee 21 . Capital Capers ...c.o.... 28 Records .......cc00000 8, 10 Classified ........20-21, 36-44 Robert C. Ruark......... 15 Clubs ...ivvivencncccanees 26 Sermon of the Week...:.. 5 Crossword «.ceeeeevecesesne 7 Society ..ecveenenaseas27, 28 Editorials cveesvecenesess 18 | Ed Sovola seievievnnisess 15 Dan Kidney cceseeecesess 18 SPOrtS uovinssssossees 11-14 + Mrs. Manhers ..ecceeesees 7 Teens .iv.oveeecesnsssens 32 Obituaries: .c.eeesesesesea 4 Earl Wilson PPAR 9--“I¥'s Much Too Hot'—
Baruch Dries Woman’ s Eyes
Elder Statesman Pro
ves a Gallant
Though She Yelled, ‘Get Off the Road’
NEW YORK, Sept. 2 (UP)—Bernard Baruch, 80, was shaken] -up. in an automobile accident tonight and demonstrated why he|
is known as an elder statesman.
Striding from his chauffeur-driven car after the collision, Mr.|all the children . Baruch went. tosthe other car and leaned in\through the Window Plow through mud, rain.and high,
to talk to its driver, Mary Schaffidy._29, of wy York. She was| water today for a visit to the In-!
sobbing,
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“After She Smashes His Car To Halt Fairgoers
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Killed on Outing
46 Are ‘Injured Near Milwaukee .
MILWAUKEE, Sept. 2 (UP)— Nine persons were killed and 46 were injured today when two interurban electric trains collided Head-on while carrying members of the Natiopal Model Railroad Association on a holiday outing. All nine dead were members of the association, Whose annual convention here was brought to a tragic end. Of the injured, five were hurt seriously. The two trains collided with terrific impact on a stretch of single track while shuttling the sightseers back and forth between
Milwaukee and Hales Corners.
Train Waited Passengers said the outbound
“ltrain “waited at a double-track
station for the Milwaukee-bound
of Train Crash Fatal To ig
* In Industries
Schricker Appoints ot
lcombat Communist
Special Committee | To Probe Subversives' By IRVING LEIBOWITZ The state's campaign to] infiltra-|
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a [tion in Indiana will be extend-|
Indiana Plans Lost Gasp Attempt Drive on Reds To Drive Out UN Forces. [Launched by Enemy
Red Air Force Comes Out of Hiding; U.S. F-80s, Mustangs Roar to Attack By FRANK TREMAINE, United Press Staff Correspondent TOKYO, Sunday, Sept. 3 (UP)—Communist troops exploded a general attack all along the northern and eastern . Korean fronts today.
They gained up to seven miles in the Kigye area west - jof Pohang.
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An unidentified 4 couple oaared with blood, waits for aid | where two. interurbans crashed near Milwaukee.
Laws Conflict
County Election Boards Burn $250,000 in ‘Taxes’
Unusable, Unnecessary Forms Printed,
Sent Up in Flames After Voting Is Over By BOB BOURNE For the last 16 years Indiana county election boards have been burning taxpayers “money” after every election. The cost has been estimated from a minimum of $250,000 into
the millions, Here is why: ONE: A voter-registration law passed in 1034, and revised by an opinion of the attorney general in 1945, made certain affidavits invalid. They are 1} being printed. Hi TWO: Australian ballots ht 0 i dy I d ic still being printed, even in a 2 where voting machines are used| exclusively. They are burned after Kills Bi n State the election. THREZ: Red tape confuses) even election board members and Two Women Die runs printing costs skyward. 2 The wasted money 1s 1 the] In Head-on Collision form of ballots, affidavits and With the holiday week-end just useless effort. Many printed/uider way, Indiana already forms, envelopes and paper bags are ordered, and when they are
train to. pass but when if- failed, to appear resumed its trip over] the single track. | J."E. Maeder, owner and president of the interurban line who was at the controls 6f the Milwau-| tkee=bound train, said he got aj clear signal and proceeded over| the single-track stretch = at 35) miles per hour until he rounded |
on the other side of an incline
. “I leaped from the train and] rolled down an embankment when I ~~ a collision was unavoidMaeder, who :t the line a year ago today.
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Wet Grounds Fail
Saturday Crowd
May Set Record
“Now, now,’ "Mr. Baruch said,
“Don’t ery. Accidents - happen and this was only an accident. There's nothing to worry about. Everything will be all right.” This even though Mrs. Scafidy, who admitted that she was mistakenly driving on the wrong side of the street, had shouted to Mr, Baruch just before the collision, “Get off the road!” Then, Mr. Baruch took out a
him. Cars Disabled “We - sure picked on the right people to hit,” she told him. - | “There's nothing to worry about,” he assured. “It was nobody's fault. Whatever we do, let's not get our tempers up. It's _much too hot.” The conversation was Yeported ! by Patrolman John Kehnle, who handled the accident, in Jamaica, Queens. Both cars were disabled. Mr. Baruch called for a rented lim-. ousine to take him home, but
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fidy and the two persons with her. He offered to take them to a ‘hospital or to their homes . but they refused. He finally left when | arrived to take
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By. CLIFFORD THURMAN Mr. and Mrs. Indiana .. . and|
diana State Fair. _ Sodden grounds and heavy rain| yesterday failed to stop another) record-breaking- crowd. Fair Page Photes, another story . Winners of State Fair whiivits, 21!
Board “officials reported the day’ 8! attendance at 51,841, which fell far short of last year’s first Satur-| day total of 68,000. War Veterans Day was to be] observed today with all servicemen and veterans admitted free. Barring heavy rains Fair officials
| expected total attendance to bor-|
der on 100,000
the first three days of. the Hoo-| sier exposition, officials optimistically predicted a total attend-| ance of a million persons before closing hour on Friday. ‘While rains yesterday brought| about postponement of ‘the har
within the coliseum and other buildings were not hindered, The Cetlin & Wilson Miaway|
| (Continued on n Page’ 2~Col. 8)!
{GP's SON KILLED |
son of a Korean War soldier,
| enactment of the voter-registra-
Mr. Maeder's train, sts destroyed, jof two part wooden and part steel
| unnecessary forms has cost In-
. were ready to|
entire week-end last year. The toll rose to eight with three persons. reported dead today.
not used—destroyed. Forms Useless Now It began in 1934 with the re-
tion law. The law made unwork- Mrs. Thelma Duke, Centerville. able three affidavits which an. | Doyle Duke, 43, Centerville. other law still requires to “be Irene Harris, Columbus, O. | printed. . These are affidavits which— prior to the law—a voter could Swear. out .and vote. “But “with the advent of the| registration law .a person not registered cannot vote, despite any affidavits. In the meantime, throughout Indiana, these affidavits are being printed, and subsequently
Ind.:
on U, 8. 40 yesterday. died five Memorial Hospital, Richmond.
Auburn, Meanwhile, a Hanna: couple were killed in ‘a collision on U. 8. 12, seven miles south of St. Joseph, Mich. Edward T. Yunckr, 58, and his | wife, Maragaret, 49, died when their car struck another car on {the highway bordering the Lak | (Ca ntinued on + Page 2—Col. 8) | Michigan shore.
In’ Marion County alone the forms cost the taxpayers nearly tthe | state's ‘92 counties, for the last {16 years, the printing of these
What Goes Onin China? :
MArthur Hints Red Korea Recruits Men in Manchuria
General Tells UN Foe Concentrates
Troops Near Northeastern Border
LAKE SUCCESS, N. Y, Sept. 2 (UP)-«Gen. Douglas Mac-| Arthur's unified command reported to the United Nations today,
counted nearly half the number! dead In traffic compared with the|_
The latest are: 8
|éd to Hoosjer industries this|
week.
Gov. Schricker has appoint-| ed a special committee composed | of union, industry and state gov-
In the west and south they reinforced their three-day-
old offensive, making a new| lcrossing of the Naktong Riv-|
main . communications point cone
[trolling all highways leading to
ler and launching a new attack [the Pohang front from Taegu and
on Masan, { The new attack in the north!
| Pusan.
The Communist advance at
ernment officials to investigate|clashed headon with joint Amer- Kigye halted a joint American-
subversive activifies in Indiana {plants and factories. The Governor's action followed) reports and complaints that ‘“‘cer{tain Communists” are working at {key jobs in strategic plants here. An undisclosed number of work+ers—in—two— industries in—Marion [County are suspected of being ac{tive Communist agents, | State officials declined to reveal the names of the plants or the persons suspected for fear premature release with hamper-the probe; Details Planned State, Labor Commissioner Thomas Hutson already has met with the special invéstigative committee to work out details of the probe. Another final meeting be{fore the investigation is launched has been scheduled for either Tuesday or Wednesday.
after it is launched.
suspected of being subversive were on the state payroll, Gov. Schricker two months ago ordered a sweeping loyalty probe
"| of ‘all state workers. Two welfare
department workers were fired in the wake of the probe and two others resigned, refusing to take the loyalty oath. Others Cleared Other welfare - workers were ‘absolved of any connection with subversive groups last week when Gov, Benicker J mainder: loyal Americans.” State nfficials disclosed that AFL and CIO union officials were co-operating with industrial leadérs in the latest drive to rid Hoo-
sier industries of Communist workers, One -local industrial figure told |the governor the union had
Willlam Cornett, 27, Waterloo, | oustéd one . worker for reported
“Communist activity” but that the
The two women were killed and| company had no grounds for distwo other persons injured in a missing the. same worker, ‘head-on collision near-Richmond| “This worker comes to work on Communists nade their greatest Mr, Duke|time, does a qualified job,” the hours later in Reid company official was quoted as
saying. “Unfortunately, we have
Mr. Cornett died of injuries re-{no real grounds to fire him beceived Friday in an accident near| cause we are. in no position to
| prove the charges.”
Seti ste
Russ Atom Nests
Unknown to AF
Inquiry Ordered = “On General's Talk | WASHINGTON, Sept. 2 (UP)— |The Air Force said today it didn’t
{know what Maj. Gen. Orval An|derson was talking about-when he
Gov. Schricker and other state Ly 8. 2nd Infantry Division officials intend to keep all details|ine Reds out of -the same of the investigation secret untiliChangn
termed the re- In
way two miles w.st ‘of Angang and began fighting their way up
iican-South Korean drives in the same areas.
South Korean drive north of
|Kigye when the Reds overran a
It set the entire 120-mile Ko-|[cOmmand post on the left flank
| 'rean front ablaze in a gigantic
battle from one end to the other. It was estimated the Reds have thrown 10 to 12 divisions into their “last gasp” effort to drive United Nations forces out.of ie rea. At full strength before battle this would be between 100,000 and! {120,000 men. f {[ The Red air force came out of (hiding for the_first time in two months to join in the general assault, Russian-built Yak fighter bombers blasted American trdops in the Masan sector of the south with five separate attacks. Marines, Join Battle At the same time Lt. Gen. Walton H, Walker threw the U, 8, Int Marine Brigade back into bate along the Naktong to help the
dvdr
that the Reds were b
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k in the
yong bulge area eV pivison
of the push up the coast,
On the Masan front, the Reds gained one mile early today but afternoon reports from the 25th Division said the assault there had been stopped. A Qivision spokesman sald the Americans were counter-attack-ing to re-establish their positions, A front report from the Nake tong River line said the nists were force at of Y
A Point six miles’ south ongsan.
Marines’ left flank after crossing the river. A spokesman for 24 Division said the number of Communists the river Jad she he
air than American F-80 and Dong. Mustangs roared out of Japan to 0 in this meet them n Sombat, Been. walk about 25 to "nilles area American fliers have been walit- south Ing, for two months to tackle the anes Supply otter alse Reds’ airmen. The whereabouts of the Red|Divier® 268inet the ist Cavalry Air Forces has been a big mys-| mq, y ! oft
tery. - U. 8 military experts have speculated that the unists were saving their air strength for their climactic drive. Thus, there further indication that this may belt.
and eastern fronts followed their western and southern offensive by two days, indicating the Communists were throwing all the strength they possess into one last effort to capture all of Korea. Front line officers said many Red tanks and plenty of artillery were sighted all along the front, with 20 tanks in action in the Kigye-Pohang area where - the
gains. Seven-Mile Hole In that assault the North Koreans slammed against the South Korean Capitol Division in the Kigye area eight miles northwest of Pohang and drove a seven-mile hole through the left flank of a 12-mile South Korean front, The _ Communists __ recaptured Kigye and swept on south to eut ithe Taegu-Pohang supply highway running through Angang-Ni, 10 miles southwest of Pohang. A South Korean spokesman {sald the Reds crossed the high«N1
the ridges on the south side of the road.
The Red drive on the northern :
‘ithe big guns of
nists into the Naktong they did onoe before, Soattered Showers The Marines were their drive by th and artillery as
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Communist drive. . . The battle order for today was
American tanks - and troops! were rushed Into the area to:pre-|
the same as yesterday—put every | plane possible. into the fight. And
said at Montgomery, Ala., that he Vent the fall o Angang-Ny, a| (Continued ” n Page 3—Oel. B
could wipe out “Russia's five Abomb nests” in a week. | But a spokesman sald Air Force
{Chief Gen. Hoyt 8. Vandenberg!
has ordered an inquiry into state{ments made by Gen. Anderson
| Washington Calling—
that ‘there are ‘indications that Koreans are - “being recruited in| during a discussion of “preventive
southeastern Manchuria for service
with the North Korean army, |war” which resulted in his suspen-
U.S. Soft Pedals Formosa To Appease Red China
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ness racing program, activities]
|build- up of the now outnumbered {ground forces of this command.” |- Covering operations in the pei from Aug. 1 to Aug. 15, the unified command report carried (this implication 'of open aid to {the North Koreans from the terjritory of Communist China: “In the enemy rear areas, a {large troop concentration was re{ported near . the northeastern {border of Korea, indicating pos|sible recruitment of Koreans,
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{from- southeastern Manchuria.” First Official. Hint This was the first official hint, however tenuous, that Manchurian recruits may be on the point of entering the Korean war if they are not already in action. Cautious observers pointed out, thousan
ihowever, that ds of Koreans . fought with the Chinese armies in World War II. Many
: lof them “were in action in Man-
churia and some remained there as settlers. 7 x" was possible also that Gen.
{MacArthur might be referring to
Koreans ‘who fought with” the
ST. LOUIS, Mo., Sept. 2 (UP)—| Japanese and were detained in Percy Jones Jr. 3-year- Manchuria as war #eisoners of
the Russians. The
+ hip in a fall after funeral ] her
In the third report from the United Nations’ overall command, | sion _.| Gen. MacArthur again expressed “gravest concern for a prompt
quarters that the American ‘Sraop fighting under the United Nations had captured Russian guns and | {munitions from the North Ko- | reans, " But his mention of indications that the Chinese Communists] were. permitting recruitment in| Manchuria: was viewed seriously | here. * | Bome - observers believed that| this reference, contained in one {short paragraph, made it unlike- | “fly that Peking would agree to the American suggestion that India and Sweden be permitted to send a commission into the Commu-nist-held territory to investigate the charge that U. 8. planes had raided an airfield north of the Korean border. The report from headquarters lauded the work of the United Nations air forces but did ‘not mention the - Communist: charge.
OLDS WIDOW DIES LANSING, Mids. Sept. 2 (UP) ~—Mrs, Ransom E. Olds, 86, died today ‘just one- week after her| husband, the late automotive-pio-neer. Mrs. Olds suffered a broken
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as commandant of the Air War College. Based on Polley » The spokesman indicated the suspension was based sh Gen. An{derson’s preventive war statements and not on revealing secret inforination, He said the question {of disclosing - classified informa{tion was not mentioned in Gen. Vandenberg's suspension order, Gen. Anderson did not elaborate his eryptic remark, which ap{peared to-carry an inference that U.-8. Intelligence had pinpointed Boviet atomic production In five secret centers, But a spokesman said the Air Force has no idea what Gen. Anderson’ ‘was talking about.
Girl Admits Fibbing : About Friend's Death
DOVER, N. H., Sept. 2 (UP)—A teen-age girl admitted today that she lled when she said that her girl friend Etta Frisbie, 17, had been pushed to her death from a speeding automobile after she refused her blind date a kiss. : ree youths held for questionHg were re immediately when Corina Ruest, 15, of Dover
funeral services/changed her story and said -that
Miss Frisbié had fallen out of the
Hos-/ear when the. door flew open in
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British Believed Back of Coddling Which Means in End: Come Get It
Other Washington Calling News, Page 19. By Serippe-Howard Newspapers WASHINGTON, Sept. 2—Despite all talk, appeasement is order of the day here. By annduncing that the U, 8. Tth Fleet would ha withdrawn from Formosa at end of Korean War, President Truman: : ONE: Bowed to British policy of coddling Chinese “Reds in hopes of keeping them out of war, — TWO: Told. Chinese Reds, in effect: Just be J Patient and we'll get out of your way in due time and let you take Formosa, : The British fear that if war spreads to all Asis, it would so involve United States that we could be of no help in defending them and Western Europe against Russian’ attack. ‘Also, in general Asiatic war their prize crown colony, Hong Kong, as well as Malaya, would he overrun. There's some-evidenve that our r altered and altruistis policy on Formosa was sparked in London. Observers noted that lengthy question which broached it at Truman press conference was asked by British reporter. : President Truman answered It by reading from p Jared statement. ! ds
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