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Bridegroom of Two Weeks Also Listed In Over-night Toll The death of a newspaper country distributor near Indianapolis today raised the state's over-night traffic |dead to seven.

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Mrs. 38, Edinburg. Charles E. Parks, 21. Goodland. James Willlamson, 25, Valparaiso. Roy E. Sinks, 58, Schneider. Thomas Beck, 12, Greencastle August W. Brinkmeyer, 74, Evansville. Mrs. Leona Lowe, pville.

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60, Evans‘Dies In Hospital Mrs. Thompson died in General 'Hospital this morning after her {car rolled over at Banta Road |and U. 8. 31. The mother of four {children, she was en route to In|dianapolis when she was forced off the highway while passing another car. hs Mrs. Thompson was the country distributor for the Indianapolis {News and Star at Edinburg and was inbound to pick up her papers. Mr. Williamson, bridegroom of less than two weeks, was Killed (yesterday when his milk truck {was struck by a. Pennsylvania {Railroad passenger train at Wheeler, Rolls Over 10. Times | Mr. Sinks, a worker for Inland | Steel in Chicago, died when his car went out of control on U.S. 41 The

Way Paved for Marshall Despite Blast by Jenner

Senate OK Seen Early Next Week

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Probe Registratio ‘Slowdown’ Report

Haymaker Hears

Senator Sees Acheson “As ‘Siamese Twin’

By DAN KIDNEY i ‘ alae! United Press Staff Correspondent } of Irregularities

Times Staff Writer “WASHINGTON, Sept. 16 — The, WASHINGTON, Sept. 16—-Sen- | By NOBLE REED way. was. cleared today for Gen. ate confirmation of Gen. George ps Democratic State Commits George C. Marshall to become C. Marshall as Secretary of De- {qq today began an investigation Secretary of Defense, but he had | fense means turning Secretary of into widespread reports that some a good deal less than a congres- State Dean Acheson into a “Si- yoters’ registration officials in a 3 sional vote of confidence behind amese twin,” Sen. William E. few counties were “slowing down” hear Morroco last night. him. . |Jenner (R. Ind.) told his Senate the listing of names on Gen. Marshall's appointment as colleagues in an hour-long speech. for the Nov. 7 election. Louis Johnson's successor will get! Opposing the law change need-| State Chairman Ira Haymaker! formal Senate confirmation early ed to permit Gen. Marshall to ac- said reports had come to the com-|¥ next week. {cept the defense secretaryship, mittee that Republican members| But President Truman's ap- Sen. Jenner said that it means of registration boards in Lake, pointment of the five-star general The delivery lock, stock and County were telling large num-| fell far short of commanding barrel of the two most important bers of unregistered voters that/iP unanimous, bi-partisan support in Cabinet posts in our government tfey were listed on the books and Congress. he i ag omingtion of didn't need to register. ’ etely discredited presen Most of these voters who were TE (he Taw Secretary of State.” ~_misled_on thelr registrations were which prevents a military man He termed .the World War II reported to be Democrats, he sald. | rr his home.

from--hecoming Defense Secre- CCT Sa a Report “Blocks” Sét Up ‘Billie Eugene Steele. 17. Greentary. But they did so with a lot! ,, = C0 00 i which we are Also the State Committee. in- castle, operator of the vehicle of soul searching over strong Re-| caught.” vestigated reports that some was held irs Putnam County jail publican opposition. | : Called Front Man {Republican board members in pending a coroner's investigation. That meant that the 69-year-old | «Gen. Marshall” S 3 lother counties were ‘deliberately| Mr. Brinkmeyer and Mrs. Lowe, soldier-statesman will take office! B Aarsial pw ohne slowing down registrations by were passengers in a car that was| at the Pentagon next week with Charged, “is not only willing, he pitting blocks of one kind or an- struck. head-on last night by a a somewhat skeptical and divided 18 eager to play the role of front other jn the way of voters seek- truck near Boonville. Congress behind him. It promised Man for traitors. ~The truth 1s jpg (o register.” Anthony E. Mahler; truck-driv-~trouble -in-days-to-eome. that this is no new role for him, Some counties were. reported er, was injured slightly. Waive Provision for Gen. George C. Marshall 1s gejaying registration programs Priest Injured a living lie. : and reducing facilities for voters. The Rev. Fr. Malo T. Topmiller, Technically. both Houses of! “On the one hand he has been 15 jist their names on the books. Shelbyville, was injured when his Congress voted yesterday 10 built up to the point where Presi-. There were no reports of irregu- car skidded off the berm and waive a provision of the 1947 uni- dent Truman has called him the |arities in Marion County, com- turned over three times early tofication law banning any man greatest living American. mittee members said. day on US 29 near Arlington Ave. “who has served “as a commis- “Op the other hand, everything Threaten Legal Acti Sheriff's deputies had to break ‘stoned officer-in- the past -decade-ne has been a party “to durtg ~~ oO. LOEAL ACHON. opp wingantera to = remove the from the Defense Secretaryship. these past 10 years has helped Ine Democratic committee ost who was thrown to the The issue. touched on the tra: betray his solemn trust and .to 2dopted a resolution at a special rear seat of the automobile. ditional American concept which set the stage .for the staggering Meeting here yesterday warning Ryth Shurbert, 34, of 2810 decrees civilian control of the Soviet victory that is sweeping registration boards all over the central Ave. was dragged two military establishment. across the earth.” state that if these practices are feet )ast night when her right The House voted 202 to 105 to Denouncing Gen. Marshall's continued legal action will be jog’ was locked in the door of a waive the law. The Senate vote military = record, Sen: Jenner taken to force compliance with rojley at Central Ave. and 12th was 47 to 21. In the Mouse, 105 blamed him for Pearl Harbor and the law on registration work. St. After treatment at St. Vinof 132 Republicans voting cast deeried-sending arms to Russia to! “We are going to see.that no cent's for a hip “injury and their ballots against Gen. Mar- fight the ~ Germans whem they Voter is deprived of his right to bruised ankle she was taken shall. In the Senate. 20 of the 30 Were needed by American troops. Bet registered and cast a ballot.” home.

. GOP members. voting were op- “Sold Ouf Chiang” Chairman Haymaker said. ferred vy _ posed. Among the. epithets the junior with Democratic candidates on ov

Five House Democrats, with Senator from Indiana hurled at the state ticket re B El t d b I : T : i” the 8 . regarding cam- ElGTe y invasion Ben. Pat -MeCarran, -D..-Nev., Gen..Marshall was. errand-boy. paign strategy and issues that MOBILE, Ala. Sept. 16 (UP) —

voted against the pill which He said the genera! “has either } shall's. confirmation in the top tioned stooge, or an actual co- i i ’ | the 1st Cavalr Division. says defense post. conspirator with the most un- boll bo ava Y, aon: arava ees reasonable array of political cut- Pi pov Te aa Nooth

* — Driver Escapes Shaw Holding Own throats ever turned loose in the Korean lines.

ee : . . Followin Rela se eXetifve branch of our govern: As Engine Hits Car “The average American fight9 P 3 Harold Gooch, 32, of 915 Still- Ing man Would rather get hurt LUTON, England, Sept. 18 |

As Secretaries of State. both while attacking than falling . Gen. Marshall . $ ; 4 (UP) -- Playwright George Ber- en arshall and Mr. Acheson well Ave, escaped death today, ek.” Lt. Rafferty explained. nard Shaw, 94, held his own to- i . HO t

‘when his car was struck by a TL day in an uphill fight agains

2). — —— .. diesel engine on the Monon Ralilcomplications in his recovery from an operation for a broken

Jacket Will Be {road tracks at E. 8t. Clair St. Sound Planning thigh bone.

: Witnesses said the diesel made [nsures : The venerable dramatist took a In Order Tonight

no warning sounds and that the| . f . A : crossing was unguarded and no, turn “for “the "worse Jesleday 1 0001 rpMpERATURES warning wgpals were im opers, SQMISTACHON fiared. Until then, he was making 6 a. m... 5¢ 10 a. m... 67 [U0 ® Plan. NOW to insure : 7a. m.. 58 11am... 7

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times. Mr. Pdrks, a passenger, as killed. His mother, Mrs. Una Parks, 51, Goodland, was injured and taken to Jasper County Hospital critical condition. The Beck youth, zon of Mr. and Mrs. Myron Beck, Green‘castle, was thrown more than 100 feet when his bicycle was struck from the rear by an auto on U.S.

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tage of choosing from a wide selection of homer If you're going out tonight, | GREENCASTLE, Sept. 16 (UP) | @® The best place to shop keep your jacket handy-—it'll be —Six children ranging in age for your home 18s |. Temperatures will fall to about! - : phaned today when their father real estate:columns of 55 lonight alter Yeaching a nigh 4 ied their mother and then him- The Indianapolis Times, __iwill be 4 comfortable 70 with the, me © ran ; | ! 1000 Homes For Sale | .| The week-end outlook fof the| Lester Johnson, 38, shot his state is cloudy and cool with the wife, Martha, 28, with a shotgun ® You can receive your | : Times, conveniently de- | south portiom: Today's high willifront door during a family quarrel.| be about 70, dropping to the mid- ohnson then turned the gun on first thing Sunday ! morning, by simply see the temperature in the middle; The six children apparently wit-| 0's. £2 'nessed the shootings. b; fore midnight tonight.

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. Fog, Cold in Times Rodeo By ART WRIGHT Times Staff Writer YELLOWWOOD LAKE, Sept. 16— Heavy fog. cold weather and a misty morning failed to stop Hoosier fishermen today in the third annual Times’ Fishing Rodeo Fishermen, their wives and children, staved all night on the banks of this. beautiful lake. Even before the sun was up, hundreds had lines out. They were catching fish, goodzed bass and blue gills. Many of the anglers slept all night on

the lake bank to get that early start.

Denham Quits UN Forces Battle Way As Counsel of Across Han River Into Labor Board Battered Capital City

Yanks Link Up 2 Wings of Landing Areas; Heeds Request of MacArthur Orders Foe to “Surrender or Die” Truman; Resignation TOKYO, Sunday, Sept. 17 (UP) — A South Korean Effective Monday

communique said today that United Nations troops had WASHINGTON, Sept. 16 fought their way across the Han River and into the capital (UP)—Robert N. Denham re- city of Seoul. signed today as general coun-| The communique, broadcast from the port of Pusan, sel of the National Labor Re- Said street fighting was underway in the southern section lations Board at President °f Seoul, which was abandoned by the South Koreans in Truman's request. the face of the first big Communist push of the war.

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Vaud . , " Lunch Is Served The resignation and Mr. Tru- The United Nations forces which entered Seoul, Lunch was being served today man's Beeches were announced according to the communique, were American and South by women of the Methodist by the White House which made Knrean Mari Church of Nashville. A Red public an exchange of letters be- -2THIOR: Cross first aid station was idle, tween the two. Americans in the southeastern beachhead also exploded no Sisiooks na Sone astray. The resignation is “fective at an offensive aimed in the general direction of Seoul. Gen. § 8 } close of business of Monday. ; was head man at the rodeo. His - In his letter to Mr. Truman, Mr. Douglas MacArthur was sitempting to catch the Comhelper was Leslie Eckard. Denham said, in part: munist armies in the jaws of a giant nutcracker. os the 6 a.m [paring time, . « you have now seen fit to Gen. MacArthur's 11 p. m. Saturday communique said Te a ural, [nes Cam io request my resignation. In obe-'the Marines were astride the highway to' Seoul and were 2 i ch Ng Other! dience to your wishes-1 feel that : “ Cin i < anglers “rived Vy pon the fast I must comply. meeting only “sporadic” resistance.” growing: crowd o shermen who © ‘ ; { oat However, I cannot emphasize Last reports placed them some six miles past the liber. By 3 p. m. today the anglers © prot ps ep Pd port of ‘Thelin where! pre-invasion bombardment. will have caught the big ones that, 3 {will win ons arid . ® some 100 Das been one of honest and faith-|they stormed ashore yester- Friday was D-Day. different items contributed by the ful adherence to your instruc- day and only about 12 miles Py returning refugees walked [nation’s leading fishing tackle !iONS. and loyalty to the - (Taft- from Seoul. FiEht into the air, sea and found manufacturers and local sporting Hartley) Act and to my oath in, = y Attack and the crossfire be I i iy all respects.” Warhingrr A Gahoausman In Amerieaty and North Koreans. { sen MacArthur “Many were er ly Make it<Family Day’ | Fires Parting Shot had called on Communist Korean! miral RY killed," the Ad- ; Many people were making It Mr. Truman's letter, amiable in troops “to surrender or die.” He! Beachh family day.” = Youngsters Were tone. did not say whether he had said 3 million leaflets carrying the head Expanding fishing right along with daddy.” pequested.the resignation. - warning have been dropped-to ait’ - Thousands of U. 8. Army troops. i he Horners were there, t00.. Mr Denham, a Republican, ong South Korea areas where Red Were pouring into the beachhead i A [OI Spread out their own pag been at odds with the five- troops are concentrated.) {from_the 261-ship invasion fleet. C “hes. : labor board on policy mat-| : : : Wardens of the State Conserva- pn Jy ei oa pA on Bgl | Tanks and other heavy squipment jon ppepaztaent were on duty! pn his lengthy letter, Mr. Den- [of their separate landing areas, were ashore and in action. The - [weighing 1h the fish, - “Tham fred a PAIR Sok at he and that South Korean Marines beachhead was bulging out fast, - Tr — board which, he sald, has "de- were cleaning up the northern| (Ofiéial sources in » |prived the public of that quality half of Inchon under an assign-| eported that 18 Washington ervice p er lof administration” of the Taft- ment to maintain law and order: Por als @ {Hartley law to which he said it in the captured city: jand an Army division, plus atPl p d J |was entitled. City Nearly Destroyed {tached troops, were in the Inchon

Mr. Truman's letter blamed Mr, linvasion force. That would make 'Denham’s difficulties with the, UPited Press Correspondent,

| SY pO eteraam Jh0 ro ae 'board on the Taft-Hartley Act ry Reston oF reported from! [t Gen. Walton H. Walker, ™ | “which invites confusion and con- Rn that some two-thirds of ;

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Conditi T and the board.” “vom onditions fo Truman rthur Took Big Gamble

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personal this two-headed arrangement re-i attention of President Truman mains in the law, to try to make today. ie it work. Charles 1. Spoler. presidential adviser nn morale probTems and a member of thé Presi-’ dent's Committee on Religion and Welfare in the Armed Forces, left Indianapolis yesterday hecur-conference with C Fund an officials.

Against Advice of Aides

Ignored Word UN Forces Were Not Ready,

Takes Over Invasion Himself and Wins

By JIM G. LUCAS, Scripps-Howard Staff Writer WITH THE 7TH FLEET OFF INCHON, Sept. 16—Gen. Doug-

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Long at Odds F “I believe that the differences which have arisen between the board and the general counsel are 80 deep-seated that there is little

after an prospect of restoring between, ommunity them the harmonious relationship qramatic trike for Korea's heartland against the advice of ma d Chamber of Commerce necessary to the effective admin-| goo officers iene agans 1 phat R ) latration of their mingled respon-; ney told Gen. MacArthur that United Nations forces were not eports Progress sibility. X , yet ready for such an offensive. But he sald we had to be ready Here is the progress report Mr. oH Denham 8 dispute With "314 4¢ had to be done \= Spoler will “lay off President board members began soon after G Art e 1 bog Truman's desk: he took office three years ago. 1 Saw Gen MacArthur a few oe iy hen JoGged a down 38 ONE: Indianapolis will have The disagreement centered hours after the superbly coordi- nah pan. at least one service center with- chiefly on interpretation of the nated assault had wrung the rovg ambled on the Reds. We in the next 90 days capable of Taft-Hartley law, with Mr. Den- island of Wolmi from the North bet > wouldn't have too much catering to the needs of an esti- ham following a policy of strict goraan Reds and hurled U. 8. in Inchon and Seoul. We gambled mated 6000-7000 soldiers to start interpretation of the law. This Marines into the important west that even if they got the word— TcoaKt POF Of Thckior, and tiey"did somewhure down the His daring gamble could not be line — they couldn't act fast [called off then.

re sem— enough. The General war going quietly

passes from €amp Atterbury this bers to. aeecuse him of an -antimonth. ) labor bias. TWO: A permanent commit- : tee composed of businessmen, gov- K

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Boy Near Death | From Spider Bite

Toxicologists Fight to Save ‘Widow’ Victim The full resources of state and, city toxicolpgists were mustered at General Hospital today to save the life of a year-old boy, bitten by a black widow spider. While doctors conferred on treatment, little Johnny Abel fought valiantly to stay alive. His temperature was 105, convulsions made it difficult to keep him under an oxygen tent, His

started its softening up attack on Communist coastal defenses. “After two days (Friday), they began coming back.” Friday was D- v.

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YY " brought their child in two days ago for treatment of. a simple Spider bite. The rapidly rising temperature of the infant led hospital authori-|

. . } INS IN. Sept. I in his -bearing betrayed -any excitizens from all walks of life hass BROWNSTOWN, Sept. 16 (UP) g y y a tide that gives you two hours Mr. Spoler came to Indianapolis and Ohi6 Railroads". National’ his supply bases: could follow such a schedule. Our A. Murphey, camp . commander. In The Big to express satisfaction. Frequent astrously if hundreds of thoucivilian agency already function- This invasion so far has been __after weeks of withdrawals and > olore ie Here he addressed board mem- 98 pages. plus colored comics 2 8 = * ww @ Inchon People Not Bitter The complete story of TELESUNDAY TIMES tomorrow By RUTHERFORD POATS, United Press Staff Correspondent Rodeo. Many found their hoffies destroyed by the naval and air bomworld's most famed doou~ But -they are not bitter, accordbishops; are coming to and distinguishing friend from foe to keep worry fromWon Yil said. ‘They knew this Americans and North Koreans. ~County schools, | erations for the spunky little Re- of Inchon had been destroyed or ties to the black widow diagnosis. BUSINESS SECTIONS, | had made: . ‘on Red ‘gun positions. but the

illed by Train '. w N ernmental officials and private y about his day's work. Nothing one of the trickiest in the world— ‘itement as he surveyed the rebeen set up to plan- and co-ordi- John E. Kieffer. 78, treasurer of © yed nate housing and morale facili- the Kieffer Paper Co. here, was Suit of the first phase of the drive Fe ta in he ties killed today when the Baltimore to crush the enemy by cutting oft SUC WF TAREE CAE FOR 19 from Camp Atterbury where he Limited struck his car at a Cross- | Lets Others Talk men did conferred with officers of the 28th Ing near his company’s plant. He let the others do the.tajking.| We gambled on Russia, too. Training Division and Col. James ~ _|Occasionally he nodded his head This operation could end dis He stopped off at Franklin to re- sands of Chinese Commun ceive—the report. of -the hine-city! Sunday Times 1y- he. gave.a. man. an. approving troops-are ordered into Korea. fat Inter-City Action Committee, pat on the back, But we were attacking again ing to provide the morale essen- Tomorrow 2 series of gambles for the United humiliating retreat. And that's tials for soldiers of Camp Atter-| = ores vations’ forces. what seemed important. Attack bury in surrounding towns. Tomorrows Sunday Times We gambled first on the weath- is_our way of fighting. and Parade Magazine will bers: of the World War II Indl ¢,.01ure two full sections of 32 inued on Page 2—Col. 8) Pages on Television. et et ee ! ; ° po ° VISION in Tndianapolis is told Ab t T ¥ Bl } in pictures and stories, ou erri ic as ing Other highlights of YOUR Return to Find Homes in Ruins After include: UN Shelling; Glad to Be Liberated ® Pictures and results of The Times Fishing INCHON, Korea, Sept. 16-—-People of this burned and blasted : city began returning home today as the battlefront rolled east ® Constitution Day . ward with the spectacular Marine advance on Seoul, : articles, pictures and cartoons on one of the | bardment of their liberators. Some found relatives and neighbors dead in the still smouldering port city that only yesterday was ments. . in Communist hands. i . vib ® Methodists . . . 600 top } executives, including 35 ing to Rear Adm. Sohn Won Yi whose South Korean Marine briIndianapolis. gade had the job of mopping up ® “How to be Deliriously Happy” ...a NEW way in the path of the American ad- The returning refugees walked vance. right into the air, sea and ground worrying you. “The people seem happy,’ Sohn attack and crossfire between ® News. and pictures about Indianapolis and Marion was coming. They are glad to see. “Many were killed,” the Ade - the Communists driven out.” - miral said. o | “The Admiral, chief of naval op-. He estimate wo ALL THESE FEATURES PLUS A tint twoetitinds WOMEN'S PAGES, SPORTS | publican sea force, sald Inchon burned, “mostly by shelling.” NEWS, REAL ESTATE AND - |people he had” talked with told | ~The American and British |of the tragic error many citizens naval forces tried to concentrate One suggested treatment is a| AMUSEMENT News ND “People hegan evacuating three guns were all . over the hilly complete exchange of blood of] MUCH MORE EB {days ago,” he said, after the peninsula on which the city is the victim, = i i+ Tomorrow SUNDAY TIMES | American bombardment squadron built. :

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