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By ROBERT VERMILLION, United Press Staff Correspondent SEOUL, Korea, Sept. 27—A dirty-faced U. S. Marine raised the Stars and Stripes over the American ambassador’s residence here today. : When Pfc. Luther R. Leguire, Tampa, Fla., finished his job and stood back to watch Old Glory flutter in the breeze, the capital city of Seoul was in American hands— 12 days after the Inchon landings. The flag raising at the looted residence of Ambassador John J. Muccio in the western part of the town was not the solemn affair you might have expected after almost two weeks of bitter fighting to take the town. The Marines made it a celebration. They joked and yelled at Pfc. Leguire while sprawled on the front lawn as a precaution against snipers. The Marines fixed small American flags—found in a liberated building during the street fighting—in their helmets and on their rifles.
Race Pilot Held As Dope Seller
T-Men Smash Ring At Connersville
Times State Service (4 CONNERSVILLE, Sept. 27—A/! race car driver was held in jail here today following the break-up of a ring which peddled mari-| juana to high school students. | Federal narcotics agents said it was “the biggest narcotics haul in Indiana in over five years.” Trapped and arrested last night was Walter (Pooge) Underwood, 30, Brookville, who is well-known | in central Indiana as a stunt and stock car driver. Underwood entered races in New Castle, Rich-| mond, Indianapolis and other track cities. Sold to 10 Teen-Agers At least 10 high, school pupils were have smoked marijuana ors which were peddled or sold wholesale by Underwood, authorities said. Sheriff Lester Enochs of Fayette County said the investigation started with complaints about the teen Smokers. ! Sheriff Enochs said the investigation started last January. Parents of about 10 Connersville
him and juvenile authorities that their children were “acting strangely” after coming home from dates. “The parents told us that their children came home late at night 4 acting like they were drunk. But the parents were unable to smell any trace of liquor on the youngsters’ breath, so they became sus-} ‘picious and reported to us. We figured it was marijuana, which does not leave an odor on the smoker's breath,’ ” Sheriff Enochs|
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A shot rang out and a
Reds Reported Ready To Seoul Quiet Save For Street Fighting
sniper’s bullet whistled over
the heads of the Marines watching the flag-raising.
One of them spotted t
he sniper on the roof of the
burning Daksoo palace which housed the United Nations offices before the retreat last June. The leathernecks were for going after “that S. O. B.”
. in a body. But their company commander said only one
Marine could shoot at the sniper “because there is ‘only
one sniper.” The Marine took aim—
‘the roof.
For the record, the men
fired—and the sniper fell off
that raised the flag belonged
to “E” Company of the 2d Battalion of the First Regiment of the First U. S. Marine Division. Two other ceremonies of importance took place. At 3:20 p. m.—17 minutes before the ambassadorial flag was raised—the same. set of Stars and Stripes was
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Gls Hoist Old Glory Over Russian EmbassyEnemy Fleeing North
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grounds. It was run right down again, and the Marines said the gesture had the same meaning as “thumbing your nose at Moscow.” A few minutes later; Sgt. Leon T. Reese, Huntsville, Ala., and Hospitalman 3/¢ Jack McGuire, Chicago, found a tattered American flag in Mr. Muccio’'s home amidst the debris left by the Communists. The tattered flag was burned on the walk beneath the spot where the clean, new flag was raised by Pfc. Leguire a few minutes later. When the Stars and Stripes was made secure, the men of Easy Company waited a few moments, then resumed their march through the streets to the west of Seoul, hunting out the last remnants of the defeated enemy.
In Korea Plans
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By ERNIE HILL ” Times Special Writer FLUSHING MEADOW, N, Y., Sept. 27—President Syngman Rhee of the Korean Republic is being politely but pointedly | written out of United Nations) plans for North Korea when the fighting ends. United Nations forces -- not South Koreans—will occupy. the Communist half of the peninsula, it has been agreed in preliminary talks. A United Nations commission -—not Syngman Rhee's govern-|
ment—will supervise the rehabili-!
preparations for nationwide tions. These are two of the main points in a plan for Korea now | circulated for unofficial discus-! sion by Britain before formal presentation for United Nations consideration. . Rhee Unpopular The question of crossing the 38th Parallel remains undecided, although the idea seems to arouse less opposition than it once did. President Rhee, whose record is unpopular with some United Nations members, has announced that his troops will occupy North Korea and that he will supervise the unification of the country at elections. :
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declared. U. S. Agents Take Part Participating in the arrest were| Sheriff Enochs, Federal Narcotics Agent Paul Brigham of the Indianapolis office, and two agents from the Chicago office. [ {
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Prepare to Clamp Down Controls
By LARRY STILLERMAN, Times Real Estate Editor DETROIT, Sept. 27—Greater brakes on credit for buying and
applied here tomorrow.
It will slow down the tremendous home-building operations is how the occupation troops will \even more than curbs applied by President Truman last July. Mortgages insured by Federal Housing Administration and they go across the 38th Parallel. Veterans Administration are expected to be trimmed 5 to 10 per, They are hoping for a
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But Mr. Rhee is due for ‘a firm {overruling. His administration's {reputation for cruelty and for failure to introduce enough democracy has won him harsh crit-| ics, particularly among Asiatics. To take the United States off the spot, Britain is sounding other United Nations members on their ideas about crossing the 38th Parallel and about the unification of Korea. The United States, which is | bearing the brunt of the war and
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BULLETIN FLUSHING, N. Y,; Sept. 27 (UP)—North Korea has expressed its readiness to end the Korean War on terms | providing for United Nations elections throughout the | country, withdrawal of Communist troops behind the 38th | Parallel, and confinement. of United States forces to the Pusan bridgehead, highly reliable sources said today. | The North Koreans were said to have forwarded s four-point peace proposal to the Indian ambassador at Peking through the Chinese Communist regime. When both North Korean and American forces have been withdrawn from South Korea—except from the southernmost U. S. bridgehead—the North Korean authorities proposed that United Nations forces from other countries occupy South Korea.
By EARNEST HOBERECHT, United Press Staff Correspondent © TOKYO, Sept. 27—Diehard resistance appeared to be waning in Seoul today as the city quieted down except for occasional flurries of street fighting. Two-thirds of the city had been blasted of Reds by U. 8. soldiers and Marines. And the Marines were advancing into the remaining third late today as fast as they could walk. A staff officer of the 10th Army Corps expressed his
‘belief that the backbone of the Reds’ resistance had been |broken. But Col. Lewis B. Puller of the Marines said it ‘might take a week to overcome the last trace of opposition,
The main enemy garrison had fled north with the Americans in hot pursuit.
Hoist U. S. Flag Over Russ Embassy
A spokesman for Gen. Douglas MacArthur said American troops were in contact with the rear guard of Come munists fleeing toward the 38th Parallel. But he had no in. formation on how far north the Americans had advanced, Dispatches from warships anchored off Inchon said carrier-based Marine and Navy planes were raking the enemy columns north of Seoul with rockets, fire bombs and
bullets. American fliers ranging over the battlefront in the
‘South complained that they could find nothing to shoot at. - Four U. 8, regiments were battling for Seoul—the 1st and 5th Marines, the 32d Infantry and the newly-arrived ‘Tth Marines, which went into battle today. The Army’s 32d Regiment sealed the doom of Communist diehards in the city by driving north through the eastern outskirts. That advance completed the en- |. circlement of the fiercest remaining centers of resist ! ance, and the Allied bag of prisoners was mounting
400 UN Prisoners Are Liberated Gen. MacArthur's headquarters also reported in a. com. 'munique at 12:20 a. m. that American forces had liberated 1400 United Nations prisoners from a Communist prison in
the eastern outskirts of Seoul.
However, United Press Stafl Correspondent Robert Vermillion sald tonight that the 7th Division troops— found on their arrival at the prison—a converted school —that some 300 American prisoners reported there had
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a surrender] — lor a “cease fire” that would per[mit peaceful crossing.
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Truman Signs $17 Billion Deforrre Fund Measure
| WASHINGTON, Sept. 27 (UP) |—~President Truman today pe the $17 billion defense appro |priation bill to keep up our Li {and world-wide armed forces. [ The bill also carries congres[sional restrictions on Marshall |Plan aid to countries shipping! {war materials to Iron Curtain [oountries.
The two biggest items in the Bore
‘bill are $11,736,000,000 for the {Armed Forces and $4 billion for [the foreign military aid program.
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War Map by J. Hugh O'Donnell, Times Staff Artist, And now what? The question mark on the map. lies abreast
the boundary between North and South Korea before the Red | rounding the status of the prisoners.
invasion of June 25. What to do about North Korea now confronts the United Nations.
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American troops stop at the 38th and permit. pursuit of the Reds |
by a United Nations force composed largely of Asiatics. That | would answer Red China's and Russia's charge that the United States has imperialistic designs in Asia. The arrow-headed lines mark Allied advances since the invasion of Seoul.
Occupation of Red Korea Declared Must to Win War
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U. S., UN May Take Battles but Lose
If Potential Army Escapes Destruction By LUDWELL DENNY, Scripps-Howard Staff Writer WASHINGTON, Sept. 27 — There is danger that the United
“ That will happen if Russia is able to make a deal with the
United Nations to stop Gen. MacArthur's forces at the 38th Parallel, or otherwise leave the Communists in position for a future comeback. Pusan beachhead sealed the trap yesterday by linking
So_far, Gen. MacArthur's great
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been moved north and east from Seoul two or three days ago. The prison was empty. ~ Mr. Vermillion’s dispatch added to the confusion sur
One plan proposed would have the ‘Seek to Break Last Red Resistance
Mr. Vermillion said the Americans were trying to breald [the last Communist resistance in ‘Seoul today with a foul
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Gen. MacArthur's spokesman indicated enemy rear guards in Seoul had been cut off from retreat and had no choice but to surrender or die. Most chose to die, although the Allied bag of prisoners was mounting hourly. Gen. Almond told a press conference that Seoul no longer is of any value to the enemy. With the seizure of
its northeast section, all major objectives have been taken
and only a mop-up remains, he said. Although he did not predict when the cleanup would
States in winning the battles of South Korea may lose the war for be completed, a staff officer said he believed today’ s attacks
would break the crust of Red resistance.
American battle of the Korean War July 5. difficulty), red Nations military occupa-.Lynch” of the 1st Cavalry Division had raced 100 Smiley
truce as soon as Gen. MacAithur| miles southeast of
The 1st Cavalry Division racing north from the oid
up with 7th Division units just south of the airfield at Suwon, 17 miles south of Seoul.
American Troops Nearing Taejon The linkup occurred near the scene of the first “Task Force
{complete the junction.
_ Fanning out across the network of roads within the Pusan beachhead trap, American troops neared Taejon on the main Pusan-Seoul highway, captured Kochang, 50 seven miles southwest of Kochang; Samga, 16 miles southenst of Kochang, and
MacArthur i8-Der- 1, uo eqcaped across that line into] Hadong, on the south coast 20 miles west of Chinju. _
‘South Korean forces chasing seven: Communist di
visions up the east side of Korea reached the 37th Parallel thing to, rob the United States and captured Utchiin, on the coast 40 miles north of Yous. 3