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JANESVILLE DAILY GAZETTE Predict Last Push by Red Koreans Strike Closes Key Terminals Railroad Walkout Forces Steel Mills to Bank Furnaces Washington walked out in three key terminals today, and President Truman called on his top labor adviser to make another effort to head off nationwide railroad strike. He ordered John R. Steelman, presidential assistant, to get representatives of the railroads and unions together in another attempt to reach an agreement Charles G. Ross, presidential secretary, said Mr. Truman then will review the situation again before deciding what to do next.

"If this fails," a reporter asked, "isn't seizure the last resort?" "You will have to draw your own conclusions," Ross said. The president, Ross said, directed Steelman to make "further efforts this afternoon to bring the contending parties together to seek an agreement" Dispute Over Wages The country-wide dispute is over wages and hours. Today's strikes were called for five days. Trainmen said the idea is to call attention to the fact that the dispute has dragged on for almost a year and a half without a decision. "Here is where the men went out: In Louisville 230 switchmen on the Kentucky and Indiana terminal railroad left their jobs.

All of the road's 1,200 employes were idled. A union official said the walkout was 100 per cent effective. Where possible, load freight shipments were handled by truck. Passengers were transferred by bus from Louisville to New Albany, Ind. In St Paul employes of the Minnesota Transfer Railway Co.

failed to report for the 6:30 JL m. (CSV) shift The road handles most of the switching of freight cars in and throughout Minneapolis and St Paul. The line's 450 workers are affected by the strike. In River Terminal railway, owned by Republic Steel, was shut down by 200 strikers. Employing some 400 workers, the line serves Republic's big steel plants.

The steel company has laid off 1,500 of its 7,000 workers. Defy Truman's Plea If President Truman decides not to take over the lines, he could take these peace steps: "1" Call in the parties with a personal appeal for them to get the long dispute settled. -2. Direct the heads of railroads to meet with the union presidents. (The unions claim that so far they haven't had any conferences with "top" railroad officials).

The walkouts were ordered in the face of a request from President Truman that the terminals keep working. The unions said tkey would cancel the strikes only if Mr. Truman seized all the nation's railroads. There was no indication he would do so at this stage. seizure has been requested the White House three times by the unions, the Brother hood of Railroad Trainmen and the other of railway conductors.

short line railroads, also vital transportation links to feed raw materials to essential industries, are to be struck tomorrow, in addition. Will Hart Industry The strikes, while affecting relatively small rail lines and terminals and only a few thousand of the 30,000 members of the two unions, are bound to dent output of major industries. Some 400 industries will be affected by the St Paul terminal strike That facility is owned by the Minnesota Railway in turn is owned jointly by all railroads serving Minneapolis and St Paul. It was planned to route through traffic around the St Paul terminal. The two short lines ticketed for strikes tomorrow a.

m. local time) are the Elgin, Joliet and Eastern Terminal Co, Chicago and the Pittsburgh and Lake Erie. Pittsburgh, both serving big steel producers. A walkout on the former would substantially curtail steel and tin making at several big plants of the Carnegie-niinois Steel and the American Steel Wire Co. at Gary.

Joliet, 111., and Waukegan. HI. Bank Steel Carnegie-Illinois, which produces 28.000 tons of steel a day in its affected basic plants, announced that banking of furnaces will begin today and that 10 of 12 blast furnaces at Gary and eight of 10 at South Chicago will be down by tomorrow morning. Forty-seven of 53 open hearth furnaces at the Gary plant will be shut down, and all 31 will be closed at South Chicago. The steel companv estimates that 27,000 of 36000 workers at the big basic plants will be sent home tomorrow.

Car-Bus Crash Takes 6 Lives 11 Violent Deaths Reported in State Over the Week-End ARSOCUTKO Eleven persons died violent deaths in Wisconsin over the week-end, including six members of a Fond du Lac family whose car crashed into a Greyhound bus. Earl Simon, a 34-year-old Fond du Lac machinist his wife, Betty; his mother, Mrs. Nellie Simon. 56; and three children. James.

11. Robert, 9. and David. 3. all were killed.

The women and children died instantly when the automobile collided with the bus and Simon died on arrival at a Fond du Lac hospital. The accident happened Sunday night on Highway 41. six miles south of Fond du Lac. Chester Weier. 41.

Manitowoc, was killed Sunday when struck by a one-ton magnetized ball while working in a Manitowoc junk yard. Police said the operator of the crane supporting the ball did not see him. Mrs. Katherine DbrznsM. 62.

Cudahy. was killed Sunday when struck by a truck while walking home from a cemetery visit. Her companion. Mrs. Mary Glowacki, was injured critically.

Peter Gorkowski, 72, Fairchild. was killed Sunday when he stepped into the path of a speeding North Western road 400 streamliner at Fairchild. Coroner Wallace Stokes of Eau Claire said the death apparently was accidental. Russell B. Long.

32. New Milford, was killed and his wife and daughter were hospitalized Sunday after their car collided with another near Kenosha Sunday. Patsy Cline. two and one-half year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

Everett Cline. Mukwonago. died at a Waukesha hospital Sunday from burns suffered in her home Saturday. Coroner Alvin Johnson said Patsy's clothes had caught fire from gas ignited by a spark from the lead taps of the child's shoes. He has been unable to determine sources of the gas.

3 Axe Killed Enroute to State Fair Rockford. Iowa men and one from Wisconsin were killed today in a head-on automobile collision two miles east of nearbv Durand. 111. Dead were Claude D. Hart.

74. and his brother. Paul. 70. both of Clinton.

and Erving L. Guth. 58. Stoughton. Wis.

The Harts were en route to the Wisconsin State Fair at Milwaukee. Claude was a race horse breeder. Crippled Child Is Victim of Drowning nine-year- old crippled child from Williamson. W.V.. drowned in Brown's lake shortly after noon today.

She was Henrietta Plymle. who was in a boat with eight other persons when it was swamped. Witnesses said the boat sank about 50 feet from shore when a guest of wind set it rocking. Only three of the nine persons in the boat were adults. All came from the crippled children's camp located on the lake.

Sobeli. American radar expert charged with telling defense secrets to Russia, is pictured in jail at Laredo, Tex. Sobcll. 33. of Russian descent, ran to Mexico when the FBI began seizing suspects in the Klaus Fuchs spy ring.

A Mexican government official said the night of Aug. 18 beli was arrested in Mexico and turned over to the FBI at the U. S. border early Friday. Specific details of the arrest and transfer were kept an of- fical secret (AP Wirephoto).

Seek to Speed Anns Program Immediate Passage of Emergency Fund Asked by Acheson Truman administration will drive on two fronts this week for a speed-up of western rearmament to meet any threat of Soviet aggression in Europe. In midweek, Secretary of State Acheson will appear before the senate appropriations committee to press for immediate approva. of an emergency Sl.000.000.0f>. foreign arms aid fund to strengthen America's allies in Europe, the Middle East and the Far East Tomorrow, Acheson's deputy, fresh from a conference with President Truman, will meet in London with representatives of the North Atlantic treaty nations to urge that they greatly expand their defense programs beyond proposals they have already laid out. The United States is taking an extraordinarily firm position in its dealings with Britain, France and the other treaty powers because of what officials here conceive to be the dangers of a Soviet conquest of western Europe.

State department officials and the president himself have been generally restrained in their public statements on the position of the west, but one of their associates put aside his official cloak Saturday night to reflect their view that the U. S. and its friends must make a far greater effort than they are now making to shore up their defenses. The man who called for all-out rearmament is John Sherman Cooper, former Republican senator from Kentucky and recently an adviser to Acheson on Atlantic treaty defense negotiations. He spoke in New York.

Cooper barred no holds in his oratorical attack on the Soviet Union. He branded the North Korean Communists as tools of Moscow and said flatly that Russia directed "the bare faced aggression" against South Korea. That means. Cooper asserted, that there is a grave threat of Soviet aggression elsewhere in the world. He said western Europe, vital to the security of the United States, is in "mortal danger." No Fatalities in 15 Crashes; Loss Is Heavy Week-End Total One of Worst of Year; Eight Suffer Injuries Wrerkage of automobiles was scattered from one end of Rock county to the other over a wild week-end of accidents, but the final score of injured showed that good luck was generally with the drivers and their passengers.

In all. 24 vehicles were wrecked, several of them completely. There were eight injured, only one seriously, and six were arrested. It was a busy week-end for the sheriff's department, with a total of 18 arrested for various offenses. Janesvillc police reported only two minor accidents inside the citv.

County authorities were attempting today to speed up the construction on shoulders along U. S. Highway 14 from Evansville northward. New pavement has. been built there bv a private con-! AAr TMLAM tractor, and there's a drop-off of i QS 1 GlKttl five to eight inches from the, pavement to the shoulders.

The' death of a Kenosha man in a TQUCG burning car was caused bv thej unfinished condition of road I former first ser- Friday afternoon, and two more'geant in the infantry says that accidents have since been record- i a picture the Communists deed. Drivers run off the pave- scribe as showing American priso- ment. then lose control in at- oners in Korea was taken in tempting to get back on. France during World War II. The record of rural accidents Llovd Mabrav, who now man- Is as follows: aRCS a Dallas hamburger drive- Saturday.

6:41 P. ia. County: in. said the picture was taken on Highway D. six miles north of a pontoon bridge he guarded in ftVJZ Fentlers and bumpers 1941 and shows a group of iTi nR A nrt nwins freed from a German labor son.

42. loli Merrill street. Be- mn loit. and Merit L. Saunders.

17. "i it 1026 McKinley street. Beloit I lffh ae nights and I sure remember it. AMERICAN PRISONERS SAVS picture was distributed In Berlin by the Russian-controlled German news agency "ADN" with a caption saying it American Prisoners of the North Korean Reds crossing a Han river pontoon bridge near Seoul on their into captivity behind the battle lines. (AP wirephotoi.

Says Photo Soviet Must Soon Make Decision in Korea War were damaged. Saunders was lbrav nU Iast night driving out of a driveway at the Rollin Bell farm and was hit bv Anderson, who was going north at about 60 miles per hour. Saunders was held on a charge of intoxicated driving. Saturday. 7:34 p.

Highway ot JZ? rti men marching over a pontoon 3 bridge past stone archwavs. The brain Sku i' German news ruTh? iai atienc ADN with when his car struck a CA lon show Ameri car of a of the North Ko- The acddSm 'hX a Han river Deputy George Miller ir? br l1 ncar vestigaUng Ihf and ll river the Mozelle in France and the BV ELTON FAV 'a direct hand In war with ihe Washington will; United States and United Nations. Russia do when her North! Ru a 1f re I JL 0 i may conclude the time to move Korean satellite begins to lose now but alcr wnen her the war? itary strength is even greater. Reverses for the Red Korean meanwhile using the Korean sit- armv will force a decision by the uation as material for her pe- Soviets on whether to move culiar propaganda technique, openly into the Asiatic war or Some officials at high level In bide their time for another day Washington incline to the belief when the stakes could be great-, that Russia doesn't want to pro- er and the odds better. voke a world war until later.

The time for Moscow's deci-when she is fully prepared, sion apparently is coming nearer, The timetable they use In these The swift and long advance of! cuesses varies the North Korean army two to five years, ground down to at least a tern-' The Soviets have an immense porary halt The build-up of estimates range strength by American forces. I around 4.000.000—which is equip- with more help from other United 1 pod with superior tanks and ex- newsnaoer the idenfieal I members in the offing, cellent artillery. They have a ermi wcnncai fa undcr wav An offensive to large tactical air force for sup- Korean Red military port of the eround army. The picture show's a column of is in prospect for the! But the Russians may want months lust ahead. And It is more time to improve and aug- then Russia will have to decide, ment weapons in the highly tech- She will have to weigh thejnical categorv.

possible effect on other nations Another two or three vears within the Soviet sphere of de- mav be needed for them to stock- feat for her Korean-Communist pile a larger number of atomic state against the risks of taking bombs. Mabrav said the picture appeared in the army newspaper Stars and Stripes and in a London men were freed Europeans being taken to Nancv. France. He said thev looked like Americans because "the Red Cross had given them some discarded American uniforms. attempting to get the road clear ed.

Ellis was driving south and crashed into the rear of the Anderson automobile. His own car was demolished. He was taken to Beloit hospital. Margaret Anderson. 42.

of 1517 Merrill street, was also slightly Injured. Saturday. 7:33 p. Highway 14 three miles north of Howard McKenzie. 25.

of 327 N. High street. Janesvillc. escaped unhurt but his convertible was wrecked after a collision with another car and a crash into the bridge railing at the Three-Mile creek. He told deputies he was rounding a curve at 50 to 55 miles per hour and sideswiped the fender of another car.

This caused him to lose control, and he hit the bridge and went into a ditch. The other, car was operated bv C. A. Howcn- 1 doctor who has spent a lifetime stein. 37.

St. Charles. 111. Dam- caring for Burmese sick, is be- "Burma Surgeon Is Under Arrest Burmese Government Says Doctor Aided Rebel Chief Escape See Passage ot Control Bill Today State Defense Program Voted Legislative Council Approves Committee to Draft Plans age to it was minor. Saturday, 7:19 p.

County LTi senate wrote into its home front mobilization bill today blanket power for President Truman to make! Madison The Wlscon- any needed improvements in sin legislative council voted to- govemment-owned war plants. dav to up machinery for Key provisions of the far-' state-wide civilian defense, reaching measure to gird the! The council adopted unani- country's economy for emergen- i tnouslv a resolution creating a ey would let 'he president of legislators and Ranroon Gor-! IH ct cr 5 dh a ot mate-. 1 private citizens to study civilian and he decidcd thcy defense and to submit to the oonb tamen Amencan neoded put on and (council before the 1951 session, price ceilings and ration consu-. legislation for a state civil de- mer goods. fense organization.

The corn- After days of debate, the sen- mittee will be named later today, ate met under an agreement to The resolution also asks that remain in session until it com- a state guard be set up, family ing held on suspicion of aiding the Karen rebels, the Burma Trunk Two drivers both! government has disclosed. blinded by oncoming headlights' Officials said no charges have ctc action on the measure, allowances be provided for en- Secret "Grand Jury" Works Against Reds in Germany BV TON REEDV secret grand jury is functioning against Communism in the heart of the Russian zone of-Germany. It investigates and indicts men for crimes against humanity. The bills of indictment carry no weight now. But the drafters of those bills believe one day Communism and its police state methods may be routed out of Germany.

They are saving the indictments for the day. This "grand jury" calls itself the "Union of Free Jurists of Eastern Germany." Not even the size, let alone the identity, of the membership is known. The men are judges and lawyers. They say they are fighting simply to retain the mild German concept of legal rights for man. That they are anti-Communist is a side issue.

Some contend they fought the same fight in Hitler's time. Reds Take Over Courts The league.grew out of a rising tide of resentment last year when the Communists moved into legal circles, threw out time- honored ideas about law and posed their own ideas. Judges who paid attention to the law itself and ignored politics were ousted summarily. So were attorneys. Peoples' courts came into being.

Gavels were bring pounded in these proceedings by carpenters, brickmasons, callow vouths. Decisions by these peonies' judges were based on what the party thought, not on what the law required. In this respect, the new East German Communist courts are almost an exact parallel of the Nazi tribunals in addition to having exactly the same name. Old-time judges thought for a while they could temporize with the Communists. They explained to the ruling politicians that the new courts obviously knew nothing about the law and they offered to help as advisers.

This was turned down. It dawned on the jurists finally that the eastern authorities were not just fumbling around in the dark with their new judicial system. It started to shape up as carefully forged weapon to CM. Indications were that it would run far into the night. Voting began with a scries of non-controversial proposals.

Soldier Is Held on Rape Charge sideswiped on County Trunk M. been placed against Seagrave. of So'fh whose book. "Burma Surgeon." church. They are Douglas George; ade him known to millions.

Schinke. 22. of he will appear shortly Lake and Edson L. Og- fotSrr a Burmese court. He is avon teinz held in an undisclosed jail nosha.

Cars were damaged, but in Rangoon lM SJS ri 2- A Burmese government spokes- Mid is suspected George R. Cunningham, f.l. Mil ha ctb ton Junction farm hand. wns! vca rs IO sct up an indc cndcn fined S83 for intoxicated driving and SI for driving with an ox- embassy officials said the pired license as a result of a year old surgeons arrest was crash with a car of Harvov F. a "sw'ous An embassy Sockness.

23. of 317 Pearl spokesman ssld American Janesvillc. Sockness said cials had been permitted to visit that Cunningham's car crossed the doctor in fail and found him the highway several times before I good health and receiving sideswiping his car. Cunning-! good treatment." ham said that he did not knowj Seagrave was arrested Friday what happened. i.

Saturday. 11:50 p. m. on V. S.

Highway 51 north of All I. New Name Added to Historic ambulance after their car fig-'. Peaks Atrocity Hill Janesvillc. crashed with a car of Stanley J. Dague.

22. of 1659 Mc- HAL BOYLE Kinley avenue. Beloit. Ellis and Taegu, his wife. Marion.

50. were most military campaigns one jured. The accident happened or more hills gain a brief or long in front of the Beloit Trailer; renown as giant memorial grave- camp. Stories of the two drivers' stones for the men who bled upon differed. Dague said that he 1 their slopes, glanced to the right of the In war vou've got to control and when he looked back was the high ground to win listed men called to active duty and the date of the primary election be advanced in future years.

Sponsored by Sens. Warren Knowles (R-New Richmond) and Melvin Laird (R-Marshfieldi. the resolution stated that "the vivid recollection of the lack of preparedness in the past dictates that consideration of the problem P. Runge. 1 of state defense be made at the assistant U.

S. attorney, said possible moment." day that Pvt. Carl C. Robinson.) Knowles said that the Korean Gary. was being held in; war might result in a larger con- Monroe county jail pending ar-1 tlin and in this event the state raignment on a rape charge in- must be prepared, before the volving a 17-year-old Sparta 1 session, with legislation Runge said that Robinson.

a would enable a civil de- member of the organized reserve! fcnsc organization to begin op'- era lion when needed. in training at Camp McCoy, appeared before U. S. Commission- Zelotus Rice in Sparta and I was unable to funish $5,000 bail. dangerously near to a car ahead of him.

He turned out to co around It. and as he did. Ellis also attempted to pass a car and they met in the center lane of the highway. Ellis said that there was a line of cars approaching him, that one turned out to pass, and that Dague- then attempted to pass that one. coming over into his lane of traffic.

Ellis was arrested for not having a driver's license. Sunday. 3:09 a. on County Trunk in disabled car in the roadway caused a wreck in which Mrs. Margaret Solvog.

23. of 1526 Fredrick street. Janesvillc. suffered an injured nose. George E.

Solvog. There was hill 609 in Tunisia. Troina in Sicily. Monte Cassino in Italy. Mount Suribachl on Iwo Jima and Sugar Loaf hill on Okinawa.

Now a new name can be added to this historic list "Atrocity hill" Scene of a four day fight that ranks as one of the bitterest of the Korean campaign. Hal Boyle It was in a ravine of horror on this hill that 25. driver, said that the engine'Red guards executed with burp of his coupe stalled and he was gun fire 36 bound American pns- just getting out to warn traffic oners. (CMtinrt rw li. coi.

I This massacre gave the hill Its the map it is marked only as hill number that it probably the thing those who fought there will remember most about it. the heat and the stench of death under a blazing sun. But the lasting Importance of the battle of Atrocity hill is that it ended in the destruction of a growing beachhead across the Naktong river that had put the enemy within 12 air miles of Taegu. then the provisional capital of South Korea. Exposed by Dogs.

To save Taegu. the United States First Cava rv division had to hold this frowning ridge that stands as a sentinel bulwark east of the Naktong river. It is a steep rugged, wooded hill about 1.000 feet high, two miles northwest of Waegwan. and overlooks the main highway leading from Seoul through Taegu to the supply port of Pusan at the south end of the peninsula. The battle began last Tuesday.

Some stray dogs came up and sniffed the foxholes where a CMttaaM rate M. 41 Laird said that at the present time many Wisconsin citizens of low army rank are being called to active service with the result that their families are in want. Present law does not provide for family allowances and neither docs the federal government, he said. He suggested that one of the problems on which legislation be drafted cover family allowances for members of the armed cervices. THE WEATHER Wteraula: iMlikt.

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30.08- ftaartw. nonat, NOON TO MIDNIGHT. AlC. IS Communists Are Ordered to End War by Aug. 31 Enemy Suffers LoatM in Last Three Days of Fighting Tokyo.

Tuesday. Aug. Communist casualties, totalling a minimum of 11.000 and possibly as high as 15.000 in three days, soared Monday as the North Korean Reds strove in desperation to crack the United defense lines in South Korea. Despite their punishing losses, mostly in dead, the Red invaders were continuing to mass men and to probe the lines on the central and southern fronts for the big push which Americans predict may be their last. They are under orders from their high command to wipe out the defense by Aug.

31. At one point north of Taegu on the north central front the Reds made a tough two-mile rain before being halted by a brilliant night air-artillery cooperation. Today, however. General MacArthur's Tokyo headquarters omitted its usual early-morning communique, saying the situation had not changed since. Reds Change Tune Significantly, the North Korean communique, broadcast by the Pyongyang radio, dropped its usual "total success" theme and complained that the American and South Korean forces "are heavily counterattacking on all Tokyo headquactera put the total Red casualties on the entire front Friday and Saturday at 10.092.

This included only an unspecified part of the 3,500 casualties it listed as being inflicted on the enemy in the region north ot Taegu alone. In addition, frontline dispatches reported at least 1.350 enemy dead counted in a single action on the extreme southern front, and a South Korean spokesman reported 2,450 Red casualties Inflicted by the South Koreans in recapturing a hill on the northeast flank of the front above Taegu. South Korean naval forces reported they sank one Red troop and- ammunition ship and damaged another off the south coast causing heavy but undetermined casualties. Even allowing for many duplications, the North Korean losses were terrific Artillery. Planes Attack The Allies yielded in only CM sector for a two-mile loss a dozen miles north of Taegu on the central front But there the Reds were stopped by a flare-lit American artillery and plane attack fey night The back of this most immediately threatening lunge at Taegu was believed broken by the unusual teaming up of planes with big guns at close quarters.

The night-flying fighter-bombers were guided to their targets bv the bright glow of phosphorous shells Doured among enemy troops by field artillery. The other immediate threat appeared to be in the deep south where the Reds were building at Chinju for a new offensive aimed at Pusan. the main allied port on the southeastern tip of the peninsula. In fighting over the week-end from tip to tip of the 120-mile long front, the Reds lost nearly 2.000 men in the south. 6.000 on the central front and the remainder on the east coast line north of Pohang.

Lose Key Heights Associated Press Correspondent Stan Swinton reported from the southern front that Americans lost a key and bitterly disputed mountain position In a give.and take battle two miles southwest of Haman to 1.500 wildly charging Reds. Fighting has raged around Haman since Saturday. The sector Is defended by the U. S. 25th infantry division.

It is 10 miles northwest of the south coast port of Masan. 27 airline miles west of Pusan. The Communists gained two miles before the American 27th regiment and South Korean troons stopped them. Previously General MacArthur had reported these forces had regained all ground lost last week to the Reds moving on Taegu. These developments came after week-end amphibious landings ot allied South Korean marines on the South Korean coast, southeast of Chinu.

and on Yongchung island, southwest of Inchon, port for Seoul. General MacArthur warned North Korean Premier Kim II Sung that he would hold Kim personally responsible for any more atrocities such as the massacre of more than 30 American troops last week by the North Koreans. Hour I II 41 81 SlWUIlg Trmp. MIDNIGHT TO NOON. AlC.

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Scotland f.fi Princess Margaret Rose stepped blithely out of her teens today and thereby cracked a romantic legend. The younger daughter of King George VT and Queen Elizabeth celebrated her 20th birthday stJD a soinster. That upset the story darJiuj back to antiouity that any girl born (n Glamis castle will marry before she is 20..