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OFFICE. COPYRIGHT 1950 BY TKZ CHICAGO TRIBUNE) yoLmiE cix. xo. 151 1 UVJ Fnc Wreckage of Lost Air Liner in Lake Off St Joseph VOICE OF THE BUSTED TAXPAYER DEFENDERS LAUNCH COUNTERATTACK, REGAIN 5 MILES NORTH OF CAPITAL Frater Rams Lake Cruise Ship; 3 Killed (Picture on back page) Harbor Beach, June 25 PICK UP PARTS OF BODIES AND PLANE CHART Special Death and panic came U.S. Plane Attacked to a cruise ship 1 A President and Top Advisers Confer; No Comment 'A by Red Fighter; Seoul Bombed TRIBUNE WRITER TELLS HOW WAR LOOKS AT FRONT TjFf FI6HT IT Wrfmm 1 OUT BETWEEN ImWi 7 I 'i- A yourselves 1 mm Ships Search Area 12 Miles Out MICHIGAN in the fog Shrouded dawn today in Lake Huron when the nose of a Norwegian frater ripped a hole 60 feet long in the side of the passenger vessel, shearing off the DETROIT av vv I 131120 0MUJI3 U.

N. ORDERS CEASE FIRE U. N. security council votes United States resolution ordering cease fire in Korea. Details on page S.

OHIO Floating wreckage and parts of human bodies, believed to be from the missing Northwest Airlines plane which disappeared over Lake Michigan early Saturday with 53 persons aboard, were discovered in the lake 12 miles northwest of St Joseph, last night. The wreckage included seven blankets with the markings "NVV" flanked by wings, an airplane log, (Picture and map on page 3 and 4 and back page) SEOUL, Korea, June 26 Monday (JP) South Korean troops today started a counterattack and reportedly drove the invaders from communist North Korea backward five miles on a front 25 miles north of Seoul, the South Korean capital. United States military advisers said the drive by two American-trained divisions could not be called BY WALTER SIMMONS Chicago Tribnn Press Service UIJONGBU, South Korea, June 26 Monday This is how the Korean civil war looks in the muddy rice fields and slippery mountains where it is being fought: Two divisions of khaki clad infantry are pushing north this morning to regain the ground they lost yesterday. Every kind of outer walls of a dozen staterooms and spilling their sleeping occupants into the lake. At least three passengers were killed, another is missing and presumed dead, three others were injured critically, and a score of others were hurt less" seriously.

Sailors in lifeboats plucked at least 10 persons from the water. a ship's maintenance chart, several transport is being used, from mod' BULLETIN ANCHORAGE, Alaska, June 26 (Monday) (AP) Lt. Gen. Nathan F. Twining, commanding officer of the military forces in Alaska, ordered all Elmendorf air force base fighter groups and anti-aircraft units on the alert yesterday.

Twining indicated the alert was a routine precaution. A similar alert was called at Ladd air force base near Fairbanks. BY WALTER TROHAN Chicago Tribune Press Serrice Washington, June 25 Presi em American trucks to ancient Japanese buses and taxicabs. The road from Seoul, 12 miles to the south, is choked with a motley array of vehicles, some broken down. A trainload of troops has just pulled in.

Two Russian built North Ko rubber cushion seats, an arm rest, and a quantity of new clothing identified as part of a shipment carried on the missing plane. The wreckage and parts of three bodies were found in an oil slick, 100 feet wide by half a mile long, by a coast guard patrol boat commanded by Boatswain First Class Joseph Bartneck. A short time later the coast guard cutter Woodbine reached the spot and radioed details to the Cleveland coast guard station. Four Other Vessels Join Search Soon four other coast guard rean tanks clanked 25 miles yes dent Truman conferred with his top diplomatic and military aids on the Korean crisis for three terday and almost overran this grimy village on the main Invasion route. Twenty more Red tanks are approaching today, but hours The hastily called Sunday meet a major counteroffensive.

Instead, they called it a "corps maneuver" designed to regain outpost positions along the border of the divided nation. The drive was aimed, however, at the strongest elements of the northern army which are reported supported by 50 tanks. Five Miles from Border The counter-attack carried almost to the village of Tongdu-chon, 25 miles north of Seoul and five miles south of the border. It toas on this sector of the front that the Korean minister in Tokyo had reported that invaders had reached Uijonabu miles north of Seoul. TongduchoU due north of Uijongbu.

There has been no indication from Seoul that the invaders actually reached Uijongbu. Earlier Seoul had an air raid and a Russian made plane at the enemy has not moved up his THE WEATHER ing in Blair house broke up shortly before 10 p. m. State Secretary infantry. Americans in Peril MONDAY, JUNE 26, 1950 Acheson said there would be no vessels searching for the lost statement from the state depart 210 on Cruise Ship The ships were the City of Cleveland, carrying 80 members of the Benton Harbor Chamber of Commerce on a Chartered cruise, which started at Benton Harbor Thursday, and the Ravnef jell, 2,500 ton frater from Oslo, Norway, which was en route to Milwaukee.

The City of Cleveland is a 4,568 ton vessel, 390 feet long, with capacity for 750 passengers. The 80 Benton Harbor business men were the only passengers aboard but the ship had a crew of 160. All the damage was above the water line. After emergency repairs, Capt. Rudolph J.

Kiessling headed the ship under its own power for Detroit. The frater suffered no disabling damage and resumed its trip to Milwaukee after its crew had assisted in rescue operations. Coast guard officials said a board will inquire later this week into blame for the disaster. Officers of both vessels said fog was so dense that lights could not be seen. Collide Miles Offshore The collision occurred ZV2 miles offshore, southeast of this port city.

Harbor Beach is on the ment on the surprise attack by communist troops of North Korea More than 60,000 refugees spent last night plodding thru the rain toward Seoul, but today many are heading northward again. Their 19 Drown, 25 Are Missing in Flash Flood (Picture on back page) West Union, W. June 25 (fl?) Nineteen persons drowned and into republican South Korea a move that stirred war fears in faces are blank with suffering and Washington today. hunger. Nearly every woman carries a child on her back.

A few minutes later, a White House spokesman announced that Mr. Truman would have no state A handful of American military 25 others advisers is unshaven and exhaust plane the cutters Frederick Lee, White Lupine, Mackinaw, and the Hollyhock converged at the spot. Capt. Nathaniel Fulford, in charge of the Chicago area, went to St. Joseph to supervise the search.

Choppy seas prevented a diver from making an immediate search on the bottom of the lake. Because fragments of bodies were found, searchers said the big plane possibly exploded in midair or exploded and disintegrated upon striking the water. The parts of bodies included a woman's skull and a man's torso. A severe electrical storm was raging at the time the plane tacked a United States fighter. PA.

ed after a sleepless night. Each of them had at least one close Ten persons at the United States brush with death yesterday. I ment tonight. The spokesman said, however, that the conference, in effect, "is continuing" because the President would meet again tomorrow with Acheson, Defense Secretary Johnson, and other gov embassy said they saw a Mustang fighter engage in an aerial duel Lt. John Airsman of Peoria, 111., uircr uutnil Ci CHICAGO AND VICINITY: Partly cloudy; less humid and cooler; high, 84; low, 60; westerly winds 20 to 25 m.

p. h. Tomorrow, fair and cool; high, 79. ILLINOIS: Partly cloudy; turning cooler north; scattered thunder-showers south. Tomorrow, fair and cooler.

TEMPERATURES IN CHICAGO 3a.m.. ..67 11a.m... .82 7 p.m.. ..88 4a.m.a..66 ....83 8p.ni....85 3a. m.

...65 1p.m.... 85 8p.m. ...83 2 p.m. ...86 10 p.m. ...82 6a.m.

...65 3p.m... .89 11 p.m.. ..81 7 a.m.. ..67 4 p.m.. ..89 Midnight.

.81 8a.m.. ..71 5 p.m. ...90 1a.m.. ..81 9a.m.. ..76 5:20.

3 2a.m. ...80 10a. 79 6 p.m.. ..89 tHlth. Low.

Sunrise, 5:18. Sunset, 8:30. Moonset, 2:41 s. m. tomorrow.

Evening stars: Mars and Saturn. Morning stars, Jupiter, Mercury, and Venus. For 24 noon ended 7:30 p. Jane 25: Mean temperature, 78 de(Te; normal, 71; month'i excess, 49; rear's excess, 213. Precipitation, none; month'i excess, 5.82 inches; year's excess, 7.80 Inches.

Highest wind Telocity, 18 m. p. h. Relative hamidltr, 7:30 a. 86 per cent; 1:30 p.

67; 7:30 p. 60. Barometer, 7:30 29.95; 7:30 p. 29.82. Map and other reports cm pare 2.

4 0. T. was trapped at Pochon, nine miles south of the border, when tanks overran the defense positions. He were reported missing tonight in the wake of floods that struck over a wide area of north -central West Virginia. with a Russian-made Yak fighter over, this menaced capital of the United States sponsored South Korean republic.

ernment officials. Cuts Missouri Visit Short slammed his jeep into a flooded rice paddy and managed to escape, WEST VIRGINIA 40 i'es Guarding Yank Civilians The American plane presumably covered with mud, by a side road. Mr. Truman abruptly cut short a week-end visit to his family home in Independence, to fly Captains Lee Kelly of Denver Unprecedented rains last night and Elmer Howry of San Diego was one of those sent here from nearby Japan to provide air cover for the evacuation of American were bracketed by shellfire and washed out sections of the Baltimore Ohio railroad's mainline back to the capital after telephone conversations with Acheson on the Korean situation. The President earlier acknowledged the situation narrowly escaped.

women and children. Another dispatch said it was a P-61 Black track thru the flood area. Dam age ran into the millions. Battalion Flees in Panle A lieutenant has not been re Widow. The Yak was believed could be "dangerous," but said he would have nothing to say until from the North Korean air force.

ported since his jeep was destroyed by machine gun fire at Observers said the Yak attacked The flood, reached a depth of 35 feet in some places. Towns were isolated. A national guard official I have all the facts." The President returned to Wash Pochon. upper reaches of the "thumb" area, east of Saginaw bay. The known dead were Alvin Boyd, 52, police chief of Benton Harbor; Merwyn Stouck, 64, president of the Lockway-Stouck Paper company and former mayor of Benton Harbor, and Louis Pati-tucci, 45, of South Bend, Ind, a dealer in frozen foods.

The missing man is Fred Skel-ley, Benton Harbor automobile dealer. Coast guardsmen, who searched for his body until dark, planned to resume the search tomorrow. Listed as injured seriously in the General hospital here, where they were brought by the coast guard, were three Benton Harbor men, Thomas Spooner, 45, assistant sales manager of an oil company: two American fighters as they droned over the capital. One of the two Americans drove it off. ington at 6:20 p.

m. and was met The North Korean tank attack estimated that 90 per cent of the village of Berea, south of West Union in Ritchie county, had been was so vicious that the situation 29,000 Loop Workers Hit by Rail Strike Twenty-nine thousand commuters along the Rock Island's Joliet to Chicago run will be faced with the problem of finding other transportation this morning because of a strike of 4,000 AFL and four other systems. The walkout began at 7 a. m. yesterday as switchmen's representatives ignored last minute efforts in Chicago to avert the strike until at least tomorrow.

All frate and passenger train service was ended on four of the railroads. Great Northern trains were still running. The strike was called to enforce union demands for a 40 hour week with 48 hours' pay, equivalent to an hourly raise of 31 cents. A Presidential fact finding board recommended the 40 hour week with an 18 cent hourly increase to offset part of the loss of a day's work. The roads agreed to this but the union balked.

Buses Offer Alternative Many suburban riders in Tinley Park, Oak Forest, Midlothian, Hamilton Park, Brainard, Blue Island, Morgan Park and other stops along the Rock Island are expected to switch to South Suburban Safeway buses, which carry passengers to 63d and Halsted near elevated and surface lines. The Bluebird lines will place extra buses in service in Joliet to aid in bringing commuters to Chicago's loop. Chicago transit authority officials prepared to use extra equipment if Rock Island commuters swamp regularly scheduled Vincennes av. and Clark-Wentworth lines. Other lines Affected In addition to the Great Northern and the Rock Island, the strike affects the Denver and Rio Grande Western, Western Pacific, and the Chicago Great Western.

The Rock Island and Great Western have headquarters in Chicago. Approximately 66,000 employes of the four crippled lines will be idled by the strike. Before the strike deadline the at the airport by Acheson and Johnson. They left immediately was grave at 9 o'clock last night. Standing at a crossroads north of for the conference at the Blair The Yak had dropped three bombs on Seoul in the first aerial attack of the civil war.

Police said the bombs killed six persons. swept away. 200 Homes Destroyed here, the Americans watched a house. Truman in Grim Mood panic stricken battalion flee south ward toward Seoul. State police reported 200 homes Others at the conference in destroyed at West Union alone.

Fire on U. S. Headquarters A United States military ob Of the two regiments defending cluded Navy Secretary Matthews, Town officials estimated damage at Weston, a city of 8,000 on the Seoul, one was chewed up. The server said, however, the Mustang, instead of driving off the attacker, Army Secretary Pace, Air Force Secretary Finletter, Gen. Omar confused fighting had scenes of West Fork river, at 2 million dol lars.

both bravery and cowardice. One simply took evasive action and eluded it. He said the Yak fired a Richard Lybrook, 57, automobile Bradley, chairman of the joint chiefs of staff; Gen. J. Lawton company stood off an enemy regi dealer, and Thomas Dewhirst, 4L At Smithburg, five miles east of West Union, six members of the ment for 5'a hours.

Other troops burst at United States military Collins, army chief of staff; Gen, manager of the House of David ran in the face of the tanks. Capt advisory group headquarters. Hoyt Vandenberg, air force chief Lowry chased one anti-tank crew More possibilities for aerial ex- vanished, and it was considered possible that the air liner was struck by lightning. The spot at which the wreckage was discovered was at 42 degrees 15 minutes north latitude and 86 degrees 41 minutes west longitude, which Northwest Airlines officials said was not far off the plane's course, weather conditions considered. Lose Hope for Victims Discovery of the wreckage and the fragments of bodies caused abandonment of hope for any survivors of the crash.

Northwest Airlines transferred its search headquarters from Milwaukee to Benton Harbor. At 11:13 p. m. Chicago time the Woodbine radioed the following message: "Have placed mirkers with red flags at head of oil slick reported by air force. Probable source of wreckage, but plane reports much larger wreckage at position now marked by skiff who reports character of wreckage indicates explosion of plane." The water at the spot where the wreckage was discovered was reported to be about 44 feet deep.

The search was continued during the night with the aid of searchlights and flares. In all, some 125 coast guardsmen were at work. Weighed 32 Tons Shortly aftei midnight, five coast guard boats were at the scene. An airplane droned overhead and dropped Cares to illuminate the search area. Divers will go down today to make further search.

The plane which crashed weighed 32 tons. Unless the fuselage is disintegrated, efforts will made to raise it intact, the cold storage plant Tanic Sweeps Ship B. J. Cooper family perished. Three other victims died there when their home was pounded to pieces against a railway trestle.

of staff; Adm. Forrest Sherman, chief of naval operations; Ambas a mile and a half, turned it changes were foreseen. A spokes around and put it back into the man for Gen. MacArthur in Tokyo said munitions and material would battle. Survivors said panic swept passengers and crew members in the Six persons died at Berea and be shipped from Japan to South Ammunition, Gas Lost first minutes after the crash.

sador at Large Philip Jessup; Undersecretary of State James E. Webb, and John D. Hickerson, assistant secretary of state for United Nations affairs. The President appeared to be Rocky Mountain Rocket arrived in Chicago early yesterday. Arthur J.

Glover, union president, left his home in Buffalo, N. last night by automobile to attend a meeting of the national railway mediation board, the railroads, and the union in the Palmer House tomorrow. 4 INMATES FLEE STATE SCHOOL; 3 FROM CHICAGO Four inmates of the Illinois State Training School for Boys near St. Charles fled from the institution's playground last evening and were being hunted by police and deputy sherifs of the surrounding area. Three of the fugitives are from Chicago.

School authorities identified the escapees as: Andrew Yaus, 17, of 7716 Paxton sentenced March 3 by Judge Robert J. Dunne for armed robbery and burglary; Roger Allen Sykes, 15, of 3640 W. 85th sentenced, May 12 as an incorrigible by Judge J. H. Clayton sitting in Juvenile court here; Joseph Gabby, 16, of 347 W.

60th pU convicted of auto theft in April before Judge William V. Brothers, and Robert Fowler, 16, of Springfield, sentenced from there by Judge Har-lington Wood of Sangamon county for stealing an automobile. Authorities said the four were seen straying from their cottage group and fled over the fence when guards called to them. Korea under naval and air escort. The panicky troops fled without Maj.

Gen. Choi Byung Duk, chie! of staff of the South Korean army. Men in night clothes erupted into corridors and scrambled toward the upper deck, many of them struggling to don life preservers. Shrieks from persons in the water mingled with cries of earlier had reported after a visit Continued on page 4, column ij carrying out the prepared plan to blow up bridges. Cowardly officers suddenly became doubtful that their bazookas would destroy tanks.

A battalion of artillery was to the front that the defenders were more than holding their own. lost when its anti-tank protection Take Town Across Border In fact, United States militar. PURDUE GLEE CLUB APPLAUDED BY 1,600 AT BERLIN CONCERT fled. another at Harrisville, on the north fork of the Little Kanawha. Three other bodies were recovered in the area.

Bodies of four others were reported at mortuaries in Jane Lew and Salem, south and west of Clarksburg, but that could not be confirmed immediately. National Limited Stranded The B. westbound National Limited from New York to St. Louis was stranded at Penns-boro. Passengers were evacuated to Parkersburg and rerouted.

Near Weston, the sudden high waters ruptured a 450,000 gallon At Pochon, large stores of am advisers earlier had confirmed th town five miles inside North terro'" Trom the injured. Both vessels launched lifeboats. Some men virtually were buried in their beds by the collapse of the ceilings and walls of their staterooms. Radio calls for help brought a coast guard cutter from the Harbor Beach station. munition and gasoline were lost.

Enemy tanks, some of which were believed piloted by Russians, filled Korea had been seized In a counter-attack. BERLIN, June 25 (P) A mixed American and German audience of up on the fuel and shells. Gen. Choi said the northerners 1,600 filled Titania Palast in the The attackers' losses have been appeared to have pulled back after American sector of Berlin tonight huge. At one place hundreds were many of their tanks were mauled or captured.

for the Purdue university glee club's first concert In Germany. Ttd Avmim Mat Fmd Ctrtmlmimn Withdrawal of more than 600 slaughtered when they made a head-on attack with bugles blowing. Thousands of southern troops gasoline tank. The gasoline ignited The concert audience applauded FOR MAY. 1950 the rendition of American folk Rock Island had held back its Los Angeles bound Imperial, scheduled to leave Chicago at 8:30 p.

m. Sat-Jurday. The line's Golden State Limited from Lot Angeles and its are missing but many are emerg wives and children of American personnel In the Seoul area began smoothly today. They will leave songs and the German version of DAILY et 925.000 as it spread out over the muddy waters of the West Fork river, and a barn burned. The rushing water soon dispersed the gasoline.

ing from tht hills and Martin Luther's hymn, A Mighty Fortress Is Our God." THE CHICAGO TR1BUMZ it guard said. Korea by ship with United State iT-V-ja. a a a. fl a- a a a a Jjf a i -t.