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A MILITARY MIRACLE
6st YEAR—NUMBER 186
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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1950
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omen pe ge ii = By HUGH BAILLIE, President of the United Press
KOREA, Sept. 14—Americans with other United - Nations forces have accomplished a military miracle in Korea.
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They have done it by:
ONE: Holding the present perimeter.
TWO:
Inflicting casualties at the rate of five to one.
THREE: Destroying the enemy's
best troops.
FOUR: Setting the stage for a
counter-offensive to break stalemate.
The highest possible credit is due soldiers who had to learn bushwacking tactics the hard way, against a crafty,
cunning, resourceful foe.
This is no German campaign with crashing barrages and massive assaults.
the present
Mr. Baillie
It is fought
largely by small groups, often cut off from the rear with
wide e gaps between units,
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Some Increases Laid To Atterbury Men
By MARION CRANEY . Times Staff Writer CAMP ATTERBURY, Sept. 14 = Mixed reactions were expressed here today to a request for rent controls within a 50-mile radius of this reactivated Army camp. | * Some soldiers and officers wel-| comed the promise of protection, against rent gouging. Others in| the 28th Pennsylvania division were afraid controls would scare! some home owners off the rental market, thus aggravating an already tight situation. { And the secretary of the Inter-| City Action Committee said al-| though rents were going up there was-little-gouging. “He said rents were not out of line with similar areas, Warren Spangle, manager of the Franklin Chamber of Com-| merce and gecretary of the InterCity Committee, blamed Army personnel themselves for recent rent hikes.
‘Offer High Rents’
“Officers have been bidding up the rents,” Mr. Spangle said.! “Some offer high rents without| €’en asking .the landlord his| price. They bid for a place to! Nye without: any regard to the, price.” While’ some of the * ‘noni-coms” | and officers smiled at the recom- | mendation of Camp Commander James A. Murphey to the! Indianapolis Office of the Housing Expediter, others weren't too sure whether the fiews was good or bad.
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“It's difficult enough getting a plaster crumbs wit place, without having to worry and surveyed his masterpiece on the Circle today.
about prices,” said Maj." Stanley, Brenton, assistant personnel commander. Maj. Brenton admitted he was shown some ‘pretty sad looking rentals, for the price,” before he! and Capt. John Branca found a “wonderful” seven-room $100- -amonth rental. { They and their families will, share the home. The rent, which! includes all utilities, is split. The house is on a farm west. of Greensburg, 32. miles from- Camp:
Atterbury.
Capt. J. R. Bowers found a
~ four-room bungalow 26 miles from
camp, in Shelbyville, that rents gaiq to for $60 a month, including util- Gen. ties.
Many of the’ officers visited sur-
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Weatherman Has Cheering News
The Indianapolis weatherman sounded happy today. In a cheery voice he said the weather would be Pleasant tonight and tomorrow. . Partly cloudy to cloudy w in prevail throughout the state. Cooler weather was also predicted for the extreme north. Temperatures over the state’ Were expected to hit highs of 70 to 75 north and 74 to 78 south this afternoon. Cooler weather! tonight will find temperatures ranging from 50-56.
LOCAL TEMPERATU RES
6a m..58 10am... 62 Ta m.. 57 11a m..64 8 a. m... 57 12 (Noon) 64 Sam... 61 1p. m.. 65
Humidity at 12 (noon)... 75
Today's Pollen Count
106 grains per cubic yard.
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Circumstances called for improvisation and courage in the highest degree. It was a big mistake to underestimate the" North Koreans. We were fantastically outnumbered against an enemy as crafty as the Indians. Only this time, we were up against tanks and automatit weapons as well. Many enemy units were built around hard cores of veteran Koreans who had fought in Chinese armies. They were masters of envelopment, which, with our small
er] sls
forces, they found easy on account of unprotected flanks
and no reserves close behind: This thin green line of tired guys in fatigues has stood and fought, retreated to escape encirclement and stood and fought again for over two months. The sharpest fighting now is around Taegu. All areas there are blacked out at night. Wherever you RO you are challenged to give the password at night. I witnessed Powerful air pp given. an attack by
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|self to death this morning, | said.
police
nes His wife, ‘Lorene, 36, was in {fair condition at Mercy Hospital | lin Elwood. {her chest and one her back. | Coroner George Compton said it appeared to be & case of at[tempted murder and suicide. ! He sald Davis emptied a six[shot revolver at his wife in her
|plant, where he reloaded and shot
” |himself in the heart, the coroner
|said. Left Note Davis’ = secretary, Miss Mary McAninch; said she “heard the
shot and found Davis on the floor, The coroner said Davis left a
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Otis Davis, 59, was found déad it {in the Tipton County Packing Co.,! a small tomato cannery which he
Two bullets pierced
from shelter to shelter.
Planes appear, then div
e.
You see the flick of
light
when rockets were discharged. Then you hear heavy ex-
plosions rumble.
After that comes the stimulating wrack
of machine guns and the thump of bombs. Then black
smoke plumes show where napalm or jellied gasoline was
blazing.
The planes returned again and again. their fire hit higher up the ridge as the Communists-fled.
Each
time
Finally, the stuff went behind the ridge, showing the
Reds had retreated over the skvline. Artillery then got in on the show. Later an officer said grimly, “Well, we got the hill.
Now let's see if we can hold it.”
In Europe the fighters of the Ninth Air Force flew 35 ber cent of their total sorties in close pet of
th
There's Nothing New, Jacobs Declares Anew
Times | Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON, Sept. 14-—Rep. | Andrew Jacobs, Indianapolis Democrat, today received the following appeal {County constituent:
sary ones would make more room| {for the new ones, and would cer-| ainly simplify a major problem
people in love. Therefore, I am starting a movement for the re-| peal of one of the primary laws lof physics, ie, that two bodies |
cannot occupy the same space at Of Mrs. Margaret Priest, 406 E.
Ithe same time. Very discouraging to romance. Lan yo help?”
MR. JACOBS po this reply:
early session of the Indiana Leg-/
pealed a rule that required the division by 3 14/16 ten thousandths, | .and decreed henceforth that PI would be exactly one-third. “It all goes to prove there js! rothmg new under the sun.”
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ground troops. In Korea, from 50 to 90 per cent of the sorties have been in close support. I saw a big prisoner of war compound in a rear area today. The POW's have shelter from the weather which is better than we treated the Germans in at least one stockade I saw in Normandy. A wide belt along the front has been depopulated to guard against infiltration and enemy sharpshooters pose Ing as peasants or refugees. When you take .a jeep toward the front you always have a shotgun guard. The Gls call it “riding shotgun.” Outside an empty village, at the edge of a farmhouse compound, our escort alerted his carbine and froze, whispering “I think there's a gook.” The gook turned out to be a great-grandmother who had been left behind to starve when her family left, She pointed to a crippled foot.
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Even so the soldiers gingerly examined a little bag
of oddments she had wrapped in dirty rags. It might contain a Ere:
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Reds Fear New Invasion ~ As UN Pounds Seoul Port
3 Local Men Air-Sea Strike Sets
7 Other Hoosiers On Latest List .
Three more Indianapolis men “With all-of- the new laws that-have -been-killed-in action. a cas-' Tipton canner wounded his es-|5re heing made today, I feel that ualty list released by the Depart- | {tranged wife and then shot him- |i, repeal of one or two unneces- ment of Defense revealed today.
KILLED IN ACTION Pfe. James Lee .Smith, son of
Mrs.
Pfc. Robert Groves Jr, Mrs. Mary Groves, Ave, Indianapolis.
son of lapproaches, while 2838 Parla ‘by strafing,
Mamie Roberta Frost, 530 lon mine and a few million other N. Park Ave. Indianapolis.
Killed in Korea Fires by the Hundreds
U.S. Navy Admits Three Destroyers Were Hit With ‘Light’ Casualties
By RALPH TEATSORTH, United Press Staff © orrosgondent
TOKYO, Friday, Sept. 15--The mightiest Allied aire sea bombardment of the war has blasted the Korean port of Inchon, gateway to Seoul, and given the enemy his greats
est case of invasion jitters.
American and British cruisers and destroyers leveled (their five and eight-inch guns against Inchon and its island
Pfc. Herbert E. Jones, nephew ports and other installations in record numbers.
Hundreds of fires were started both at Inchon and at son of Seoul 18 miles away.
0th St, Indianapolis. Pfe. Edgar D. Jones,
(Mrs. Elsie Nancy Baker, ColumIbus.
“Your idea is not original. An
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p Pfe. Samuel Clifford Jumper, | OR ” {fashionable home about 9:30 a. m. islature, having difficulty with the RoR of Samuel C. Jumper Sr. |Davis then drove to the canning mathematical formula of PI, re. Kokomo.
WOUNDED
IN ACTION
The jittery Pyongyang radjo, acknowledging the record | strike, said: “On Sept. 13, the people’ s army, navy and coast defense “units shelled United States warships which penetrated near the Inchon area and sank three small- -type destroyers, four
Pfe, James H. Edwards, son of landing boats and inflicted heavy damage on three landing
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‘Taft to Oppose OK for Marshall
— Sen, Robert A, Taft
He was J. C. Penney, the gentle-voiced humble merchant prince,
who made simple honesty pay.
1 was was his first look at his $6 million building whose gray
Fears General Backs Acheson
with his three sons, one oe - first marriage and tw . second. — white ‘concrete walls skirt the payis listed $44.000 in cash
northwest segment of Monument and $12.000
note directing his estate be left
State High Court Gets Watts' Case
In Sunday 1 Tim
in property aside @FEverything you've Circle. : from the canning plant. He was Sands to know Abort e stepped over loose hoards, regarded as aw - ‘Nl ’ s | elevision's. grow n looked around and spoke so soft- Rarded an a ton nan. Nine Errors Cited Indianapolis . .. the story Iv you had to cup your hand over six months ago. Mrs. Davis filed By Defense Counsel | of nation-wide programs [your ears to hear his words in for divorce and asked $40,000 ali- - Noti-e of appeal to the Indiana Avallable through the {the din of hammer and crowbar, mony. Supreme Court today - virtually: coaxial cable starting and rumbling trucks and shout- Mrs Davis managed the Frank- assured Robert Austin Watts of Sept. 30 . , . will be told. ANE WOTKELS. | ooesieesrimsssoreass Jin-.Jee-Cream: store-here: another stay or FXecution fn the EPR idokided Y ; ‘Retains Sentiment sddaying..of Mary -Lots Burney: a TIMES... - "He's a man who sept senti- “Sharp New a Morth Side housewife. ® THE STORY oF TELE-
WASHINGTON, Sept. 14 (UP) (R. 0.) day he will vote against
ment in business. He's a warm personality who likes people, holds n~ sales, sells values to the
Rocks India-Tibet Border 1.1; .",
CALCUTTA, India, Sept.
14 sentenced to die
George C. Marshall's ap|pointment as Defense Secretary.
retary of State Dean Acheson's hand in dealing with the Chinese Communists, Mr. Taft said. Mr. Taft's stand suggested there would be mere than token
| Republican opposition to the years ago in a town. which was Marshall appointment. little more than a mining camp, Mr. Taft told reporters he Kemmerer, Wyo., with $500 which
would--oppose-waiving -a-legal-re-' striction on naming a military man as Defense Secretary on the same grounds cited yestérday by two Republican senators Wil- « liam E. Knowland of California aha Harry R. Cain of Washing-
* They said it would violate a
Approval will strengthen Sec-
rcash. register tune of $880 million a year.
and wily open 10 more by thé first of the year. When you get that high, they come easy, fast.
he had saved and $1500 which he" borrowed. That gave him a third of a $6000 venture.
(UP)=
He's the boss of 1609 stores, Assam yesterday -and terrified cowered outside their homes to- * and collapse their cracked houses.
He. started his first store 48
onds was greater tham any of the
region” almost datly great Aug. 15 tremor.
‘aince
He had figures on tongue-ti - gu g n CAR CRASH Kil.I.S§ MAN
=A severe new eafthquake chair ut the Indiana State Prison shook the northern province of Nov. 14 1950.
residents of the wild hill country brief today, charged that Watts ‘did not receive a fair and ‘day, fearing further shocks would partial trial.”
Government meteorologists said nine errors which they charge the the quake which-rocked fhe north; court made in conduct of the rial Assam-Tibet frontier for 90 sec-'in Bartholomew. Circuit Court. |
shocks whith have rocked the made by defense counsel was that the the judge in the case erred in “admitting evidence of remotely similar offenses”
whose second trial was Id in Columbus in March, was in the electric]
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His attorneys, filing a 377- page imSpecifically, they
pointed to
Chief among the allegations
charged to the
‘We have 49 stores in Indiana,’ | defendant, he said. ‘The Hoosier state has TT a 8 Sept. JL UR) The attorneys charged that TVIN INDIANAPOLIS been good to us.” ullus Varady, 35. o troit Would Try 1t Again was killed today when a truek (Continued on Page F-Col. 1 WITH SUNDAY TIMES
collided with his automobile on
He swept his gray-green eyes
traditional American concept and ,, route 20, west of Clyde. The admit bankruptcy in civilian around the Circle and said he'd truck driver, Lloyd Ewing, 36, of leadership. hardly have known the town, it's
Senate Democratic Leader Scott Changed so much, grown so fast.
W. Lucas, of Illinois, said a s
pecial bill to permit Gen. Marshall OPened by his manager Ted Allen, [to become Defense Secretary de-|"¢Xt February, will be his finest, along with his big outlet in CinYl cinnati. . He came well prepared with a {bundle of newspapers, ruffled and | Both the Ho and th te read, under his arm. And he [must approve use | nd the Senate believes in his products, confided | whieh- the Senate would vote-on that his hat, shoes, shirt, socks;
{spite the ban will be voted on by the Senate later today. He pre- | dicted its “overwhelming ap-| |proval.”
{actual confirmati t even his underwear, were Penney a onfinmation 01 the Mar |quality, right down to his red bow [tie which he ties himself.
|shall appointment. | No Plans to Speak | Mr. Taft said he has no plans {to speak on the against Gen. Marshall.
|
Senate floor Men, sound ones, to run his stores. But he He checks them carefully, then 'said the issue may be considered] itries to get men who will join
Clyde, was unhurt.
His store here, scheduled to be
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He says there's a lot in picking
& § lat a Republican policy. commit- their towns in community move-
{tee meeting if one is called later ments,
{today. He is chairman of that! committee. .
“Truman sent Marshall to China ves. But, having gone through the to induce Chiang to accept some) tough years, he doubted whether govern- he could recommend it to anyone jelse. =
Communists ‘into his /ment,” Mr. Taft told reporters. | “The Far Eastern section of the
State Department under the Tru- proved. - It's more honest. Goods man administration has always are labeled,” he said, “you know! [been friendly to the Chinese Com- whether it's virgin wool, or half wool and half rayon.”
| munists at least in its leanings. {Marshall's appointment st hens Acheson's hand in
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All Anglers to Receive Soyvenir;
Event Starts at 6, A. M. Saturday By ART WRIGHT Everyone catching fish in The Times Fishing Rodeo Saturday
.A& long as the prizes last. Nearly 100 individual prizes are available.
of legal fishing equipment will “be allowed, There are no age limits, The event is dpen to men, women and
chilren. Many participants Are
“best catches” have been
4 again planning to make it “famf . try it again?” was an emphatic a Scrivps-Howard —1distributed, other gifts will go to ily day.” There is plenty of picnic areas pe EAST Y those who have pulled fish from gpace, tables’ and outdoor ovens.
beat. F d for on the front of the store matches brown
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+It will end at 3 p. m. when the official weighing - stations close. Wardens of the State Conservation Department. will weigh and measure the fish. The Conserva-
10de. the Interest of aatery for,
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The Ladies Auxiliary of the Nashville Methodist Chure’ will set up - a restaurant at the ghelter house for those who don't take their own picnic lunches to the lake. , The top: ‘prize for the ‘best’ Department is co-operating catch” of the day will be A marine The Times in staging the plywood car-top boat, a: gift of + the Em-Roe Sporting Goods Co. The champion fisherman also wilt
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Blast Feeney Claim
Gestapo Tactics Used, State AFL Told
ficially damaged” by Communist
Walker's vow of offensive typifies optimism in Korea.....Page 8 World Report...... coos. Page 39
shore batteries, Casualties were
Mayor Feeney and city disposal called “light.”)
{plant officials were denounced to-
day before the State Fedération! of Labor Convention in the Claypool Hotel. The mayor's announcements that the disposal plant is again, in opération and that some strik“ng garbage “Workers have peste turned to their jobs were branded. untruths. Representatives of the striking workers accused James Bookedis,!| |
plant superfntendent, of using “Gestapo” tactics with official! support. }
| rean War,
“Tried to Break Spirit’ “Mayor Feeney has consistently tried to break the will and spirit of men working at the plant, " said Lee P. Durham, state. rep. resentative of Local 889 State, ‘County and Municipal Employees, ~KFL. “Mr. Bookedis and his sistants have lied to the men and disregarded decent practice, " Mr. Durham said.
strike is still on strike,” he added. He reaffirmed striking workers’ demaniz for a 15-cent hourly raise and remeval of Mr. Bookedis from his position. ‘Wage Increase Needed’ “Our men have not received a substantial raise since the end hi the war,” he sala. “A wag creage is needed and pags tn, Clyde McCormick, secretary of the - Indianapolis Central" Labor Union, also stated the position of the men on strike. The walkout was not a “wildeat” strike, contrary to Mayor Feeney, he sald.
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Following the ro a collection of $405 for benefit of the strikers ‘was taken among the 800 convention-goers. :
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phibious A8- heart of Red-held South Korea, -
personnel denied enemy
it was the enemy's first mention of Allied landing craft in the Inchon area. It indicated that the Communists belleved United WASHINGTON,
Sept. 14
Navy Corsairs climaxed a two-day attack rocketing and gasoline- jelly bombing enemy aire
COPY=Gen. ¥. fawton Collins; Army Chief of -Stafly-told- the ou
Senate Armed Services Come mittee today that “the worst ‘Is over in Korea” unless Chie nese Communists intervene, Gen. Collins appeared, at a closed committee session for a two-hour briefing on the KoActing Chalrman Virgil Chapman (D. Ky.) said all members were ‘very much pleased” by his description of the situation.
Nations forces were softening up the Korean west coast for an ams assault deep into the
Military quarters here quickly claims of losses
against the combined task force “Every man who came out on hut
refused comment on. the
landing boats.
They pointed out that anv plans for a United Nations offensive
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