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POST-HERALD REGION 7, 1950 VIRGINIA SMOKELESS COAL FRIDAY MORNING, JULY Half A Battalion Of Yanks Hold Off Red Division For Six Hours Before Retiring With No Shells Eyewitness Tells How First Foot Soldier, Pvt. Kenneth Shadrick, Wyoming County, Met His Death State's National Guardsmen Ready For Call To Duty CHARLESTON, July 6 -(P)- West Virginia's 4,000 National Guardsmen are ready for a call to active duty if the need Adj. Gen. Charles R. Fox said today.

He described the men under his as "younger but more experienced" than the state's preWorld War I Guardsmen. There are more they are better trained' and equipped, he added. The present allotted strength of the state organization, including Air Guard, is just under 6,000, but budgetary limitation have kept the actual number down to slightly more than 4,000, he explained. These are atiached to 52 units in 28 cities. The Guard could be called into order of the President under the service for 21 months by personal 1 terms of the recent draft extension act and it also could be ordered to duty, with the consent of Congress, it w'as explained.

In the latatiter instance, it would become fedremain in effect until the emerhaveleralized and, enlistments would gency was declared ended. The 167th Fighter Squadron, which has already ferried some of its F-51 planes to the West Coast, conceivably would be the first! called for active duty, General Fox said. The $197th Tank Battalion, a part of the 29th Infantry Division: composed of units from Virginia, Maryland and West Virginia, would stand a good chance to be second on the list. he added. The 167th Fighter Squadron, based Kanawha Airport in (Charleston, is equipped with F-51 fighters, A-26 medium bombers, C-47 cargo planes and T-6 trainers.

B-29'S. BLAST AWAY AT SUBS IN KOREAN HARBOR TOKYO, Friday. July U. B-29 Superforts returned, the acrial war in Korea and blasted away at what appeared to be four submarines in the port of North Korea's Red capital. Two missions for the second straight day plastered targets in Northern Korea without opposi-! tion, a Far East Air Force commique said.

The North Koreans are not known to have any submarines. Before the outbreak of the war. the Russians were reported by U. S. officials to have at least 75 subs in the Pacific.

The craft in harbor. 20 miles southwest of Pyongyang, the North Korean capital. STORE ROOF FALLS HENDERSON. Texts. July 6- The roof of the Sears buck store collapsed today.

just after 15 customers and the store's clerical force fled from the building. Rainwater had collected on the roof. causing the collapse. Army Signal Corps Area Soldier, Tells Overrunning By O. TAEJON.

Korea, Friday, is glad the fellows waited from a hill surrounded by Turnbull, an Army Signal first U.S. foot soldier killed right beside him. The photographer had gone bazooka leams slopping the graveyard, on the outskirts of ka teams hiding behind grave (Sojong is 18 south of city and air Suwon, the communist captured Seoul. It was in this area that an American element was Behind the mounds, besides. the bazooka teams, were a few in-! fantrymen and Turnbull.

was getting some good pictures," Turnbull said, "but two rounds were fired we moved to another position to get a better sight on enemy tanks. "They fired one round new place. Pvt. Kenneth Shadrick, from Wyoming, West Virginia, would count 'one, two, three' so I could get the flame shooting from the end of the bazooka. "As Shadrick said 'three' he raced up to see where the projectile went.

He was hit in the chest and right arm at the same instant. "He moaned 'oh my arm' and bow and shoulder was shattered.led noticed the bone between the el "As he fell forward a lieutenant Associated Press Leased 1 Wire SINCE THE telephone direcdoes not list the PostHerald, we to know its 3321 VOLUME L-NO. 32 BECKLEY of Audit. Bureau Circulation American Officer Loses Contempt Of North Koreans After Watching Red Tanks Duel With U.S. Gunners men duelling point-blank with Some fights were at 100 yards; range.

The Americans "ducked, raised up, and fired again," said the officer. Along a broad front, the icans and their Korean allies withdrew at southe points tonight. Northern tank and infantry lunged 15 miles and overran Pyongtaek and Songhwan and nosed into Chonan. Pyongtaek is about 36 miles south of Seoul, Sun? Songhwan Choanan another is 7 miles miles south south, of Songhwan. In the past week Red tanks have raced about 50 miles against crumbling South Korean opposition and have overrun several American positions.

In rear guard actions the Americans have destroyed at least two tanks, according to front line ports. Later, unconfirmed reports today said the total is ten. In a rail station a senior American commander told several re-! porters: "It was a bad one this time." He 'said possibly 40 Red tanks, supported by "very strong force" of infantry had staged a small scale blitzkrieg. The tanks rolled out of Sojong before dawn, about 6 miles north of Pyongtaek. Several dynamited North Korean tanks.

By TOM LAMBERT AT AN ADVANCED OUTPOST, South Korea, July been a little contempluous of them." (North Koreans). "Not any more." A senior American officer dropped this remark tonight after watching his artillery- bridges didn't stop them. They said he believed they were reached Pyongtaek by daybreak. "heavy" in at least two units, Sgt. Lester Loeflen, of Mt.

Airy, The onrushing Reds apparently N. saw eight tanks and 800 to were not hit by American planes "They were marching in col- weather. He hadn't seen an infantrymen. today, he said, because of And. umns-smoking veteran cigarettes," relat-erican plane attacking the Reds ed Loften, a of day, he said.

Several correspondents, includwarfareorporal in my outfit three British journalists, they came on like rats in Frank Holeman of the New York droves." Daily News, and myself met the A senior officer one Red evacuating Americans while tank was hit by an American ar-eling to the front." tillery burst. The crew leaped out, (Lambert telephoned Tokyo: their clothes flaming. The tell everyone I'm all icans called to them to surrender. right," after the Red radio They refused. They joined other Pyongyang had been broadcasting units and came.

on against the all day that he had been taken American positions. Meanwhile United Press As artillerymen abandoned their Correspondent Peter Kalischer positions and guns, they took off still had not been heard from by breech blocks and sights to make his Tokyo office.) the weapons useless. Jeeps and trucks with A reliable source who made the faced drivers and GI's traveled withdrawal with the Americans slowly south along a road crowded said some equipment, ammunition, with refugees fleeing the Commuand food was left behind. nists. A key American command post The Americans carried in a was.

evacuated before the blue-grey blanket the body of munist armored drive. Soldiers GI killed in this latest Red push. left behind to fight a rearguard They had fought bravely. A action were outflanked as the Senior officer said one. unit stayed Reds came at its position seven hours batThe senior ODificer was not sure fling the Reds and withdrew.

only about American casualties its ammunition ran out. MRS. E. M. TUTWILER, OF MT.

HOPE, DIES IN OAK HILL HOSPITAL MT. HOPE, July 6-Mrs. E. M. Tutwiler, 56, of Mt.

Hope, died at 2:45 p.m. today in an Oak, Hill hospital. Death came as the result of a cerebral hemorrhage suffered only two hours earlier. Mrs. Tutwiler, wife of the manager of stores for the New River Company, was born in Roscoe, and was a member of the Mt.

Hope Presbyterian Church. Funeral "services will be conducted from the residence Saturday at 10:30 a.m. W. W. Pharr officiating.

Burial will be Highlawn Memorial Park, Oak Hill. The body will be removed to the home from Tyree Funeral Home at 1:30 0 p.m. Friday. Survivors include her husband, a daughter, Mrs. Edgar Mohler, Beckley; one son, E.

M. Tutwiler, two sisters, Mrs. Ronald Snyder and Mrs. H. F.

Randolph, all of Mt. Hope; EWO brothers, John R. Porter and Ross Porter, both of Oklahoma and two children. BIG RUBBER COMPANIES of ASK GOVERNMENT FIRE UP SYNTHETIC PLANTS WASHINGTON, July 6--(P)- Major rubber companies asked President Truman to fire up some of the government's old wartime synthetic rubber plants. The industry also asked steps protect U.

S. natural rubber supplies from "the spreading threat Communism" in the Far Pacific. Today's action apparently not mean that any rubber shortage inimminent. Because of an crease in natural rubber industry leaders had suggested the reopening of government-owned synthetic plants even before the Korean war broke out. Industry officials recently have emphasized there is no prospect of tire shortage in sight.

Red Press Blares U. S. Potato Bug Infection Story MOSCOW, July 6 -(P)-. The Literary, States Gazette authorities declared ed to infect the Soviet Union with harmful western insects, weeds and plant diseases through supplies shipped to this nation in World War II. Soviet alertness, it said, blocked the plot.

The charge was played up in a three- column article by science writer Gennadii Fisch. TE was headed "Six-Legged Ambassador 'of Wall Street." Food and seeds sent as UNRRA' and lend-lease aid were declared to have been infected artificially to sabotage Russian crops. This followed up Communist assertions that American planes have dropped Colorado beetles in Eastern Europe in an attempt to cut down the potato crops. (Western Allied experts in Germany speculated this week that East European Communist leaders were preparing the people for a food shortage this year. An American official in Berlin said the "potato bug, campaign" could be explained only threats of 8 crop failure in East Germany.

Poland and Czechoslovakia. The U. S. formally embassy denied in Prague Wednesday charge that Americans plantpotato bugs in that country. It called the allegation false and preposterous.) M'CARTHY OPENS NEW ATTACK ON ACHESON WASHINGTON, July 6-(P)-; Republican Senator McCarthy day fired 2 bitter new blast at;" Secretary of State Acheson, the State Department promptly accused the Wisconsin lawmaker is of fabricating "a dismal parade of distortions." Renewing his Communists-inGovernment charges, McCarthy told the Senate "highly placed Red counselors in the State De-! partment are far more deadly than Red machine-gunners" in Korea.

la Russia Rejects Appeal To Force Korean War End EXPONENT OF THE WEST BECKLEY, WEST VIRGINIA, PENTAGON SAYS KOREAN BATTLE 'NOT SERIOUS verses the battle situation "not serious in any way." Air and sea reinforcements are now being sped to the war zone, the high command said. At his news conference, President Truman sounded a note of calm optimism in the face of some of the darkest reports yet received in the Far Pacific conflict. Everything work out all right, Mr. Truman said. The President also told newsmen that at present he has no plans (1) call up the National Guard or the Reserves, or (2) to ask Congress for more money for the armed forces.

As for industrial mobilization, Mr. Truman, said the planning on! that is up to date, but he would not say whether he might ask Congress for authority to swing the nation's industries to full or partial wartime production. U. S. military headquarters the Pentagon said assurances received from Gen.

MacArthur that the situation of American field troops in the combat zone is not critical despite sharp gains scored by the Communist from North Korea. Frontline dispatches said 40,000 North Koreans, led tanks, had swept 60 miles beyond the fallen South Korean capital of Seoul and that U. S. troops had fallen back for "regrouping and reorganization." American losses were described as nominal to "heavy." No figures were given. An Army spokesman here denied that an American infantry outpost had been "wiped out" by the Russian trained invasion 'Everything Will Work Out All Right," Says Nation's Leader WASHINGTON, July 6 (P) military leaders said today the buildinjup U.

S. forces in South; Korea is making steady progress and despite stiff re- troops. He said the outpost withdrew with "very moderate" losses when its position became untenable. Although it was apparent taken that American GI's had not yet part in any big-scale engagement, the Defense Department hinted that an American-led counteroffensive may not be far off. The department said the buildup of vast quantities of supplies, weapons and ammunition prerequisites for a major counter blow is going "quite A defense spokesman cautioned, however, that it takes time when troops heavy distances equipment in bad are over long weather.

This is the monsoon season of heavy rains in Korea. Meanwhile, the Navy reported that the aircraft carrier Philippine Sea, accompanied by two last destroyers, night, left. San presumably Diego, strengthen the American-British naval blockade of Korea. 1 The Air Force is rushing both B-29 Superfortress bombers and smaller aircraft, including F-51 Mustang fighters, to the war zone. Military experts said one reason for the atmosphere of cautious son timism reflected in the Pentagon may be that American and British air power apparently is beginning to drive the from the skies GREENGLASS INDICTED AS ATOM SPY FOR SANTA FE, N.

July 6-(P) A federal grand jury today inDavid Greenglass, 28, on a charge of conspiring to give atomic secrets to Russia. In 3 two-page true bill, the jurors charged the former Alamos. technician with four speovert acts. It declared On June 3, 1945. Greengless met in Albuquerque with Harry Gold.

On that same date, Greenglass; received $500 from Harry Gold. Greenblass made a sketch of high expiosive lens mold. This reference to a "Tens mold" was not explained further, and AEC cials would not comment, saying the "whole subject is classified." He prepared for Gold a statement of the Los Alamos atomic project. U. S.

Judge set Carl bail A. at Hatch of Albuquerque the same amount set for the for-: mer Army technician after he was: arrested June 15 in New York. Greenglass is being held in a New York jail in default of Gold has been accused of being an intermediary between the Soviet spy ring and Dr. Klaus Fuchs, imprisoned British scientist who confessed getting atomic secrets for the Russians. 4- 4.

moderate humid. arid Photographer, Buddy Of Of North Korean American Outpost P. KING July 7-(P)-Sgt. Ray Turnbull for him before they drove away North Korcans. He is safe today.

Corps photographer, saw the in the war. lle was standing forward io get piciures of North Korean tanks. In a Sojong, were several bazoomounds. where squash plants were growI made better time and reachour group of jeeps. "We took off fast." rushed to his side.

I said it was too late because I had seen the hole in his chest. I got a picture of the lieutenant feeling for his pulse, but in 30 seconds Shadrick: was dead." Turnbuli said there were 40 infantrymen and two other bazooka teams there when he was changa film pack but when he looked up he was alone. "The others," he related, "had dashed down the hill, but I was pinned. down by rifle fire for 10 minutes. Before I could crawl ward the road to a rice paddy the was on a railroad track about 200 yards parallel to the road where sure? cars were.

They fired at me." Turnbull said he dived into a rice paddy and crawled -100 yards on his hands and knees. "When I reached the next hill, Freak Santa Fe Collision Fatal To Nine, 75 Injured MONICA, July 6 UP)high speed Santa Fe Railway streamliners, streaking eastward side by side, bumped midsections in a freak collision today that crushed nine persons to death and injured about 75. a The crash came at a stretch of tracks near Monica where daily the 90 miles-an-hour El Capitan flyer from Los Angeles passes the 70 mile an hour Kansas City Chief from Kansas City. Both trains were bound for Chicago, 148 miles northeast. As the El Capitan began pulling! its mail car lurched, left! the tracks, and jacknifed into the first car and side of the Chief's locomotive.

It was 4:30 Central Standard Time. The men's wash room of one El Capitan's coach was crowded with men. They were shaving before going to breakfast in the diner. Many passengers still were asleep on both trains. The collision slammed the Elf car back across its own! tracks.

The locomotive and sevferal forward cars of the El Capibroke loose and barreled down the tracks. The El Capitan's rear cars piled into the wreckage. Sleeping passengers were bounced around in the cars like balls. Twisted metal trap-; lped some in their scats. Four of the dead were in the washroom of an El Capitan They were pushed into the walis and crushed to death.

The victims were five men and four women. One man was de- Switchmen's Union Ends Strike On 4 Of 5 Roads CHICAGO, July 6 -(P)- The AFL Switchmen's union called off: its strike four of five Western railroads today hours after President Truman threatened drastic action if necessary to end the walkout. But the union said it will continue its 12 day strike against the 8,000 mile Rock Island System "to learn whether free men in al free country can still bargain with altheir employers without fear that big Government will team up with obstinate employers." At St. Paul, officers of Great Northern Railway said the road will resume operations "just as fast as we can." Other roads affected by the Switchmen's announcement did not disclose their plans immedi-! lately. A union spokesman said the Rock Island, which runs from Chicago and connects with West Coast lines, is paralleled by other! rail systems.

He said a work stoppage on this line creates no emergency. The union said its men will go back to work "whenever railroad management wants them" on the Great Northern, Chicago Great Western, Denver, Rio Grande and WEATHER Virginia Sunny with. temperature and less Friday. Saturday fair warmer. PRICE 5 CENTS NORTH KOREANS DRIVE 60 MILES FARTHER SOUTH Red Radio Claims 24th Reg.

Of U. S. 44th Div. Destroyed By DON HUTH TOKYO, Friday, July 7 -Defense forces fell back regrouped in embatlled South Korea Thursday as American commander disclosed that so far 500 Americans have action. Three.

North Korean: Infantey divisions preceded by a cutting one armor captured speared :60. miles Seoul. A communique said today U.S. troops, outnumbered eight to one, off the best Communist diviand 40 tanks for six hours the first engagement of the General MacArthur's headquarcommunique said the Ameriwere. threatened with encirclement and withdrew only afttheir ammunition was exhaust- LAKE SUCCESS, July 6-(P)- Russia's Andrei A.

Gromyko served notice on Trygve Lie today the Soviet Union will do nothing to help the United Nations repel Communist North Korea's invaslion of South Korea. No one here expected the sians to do anything, but. it was considered significant that the Soviet Union even replied to a gram from the N. secretarygeneral asking all U. N.

members how much help they could give. The Russians are boycotting 30 U. N. organizations, but keep their delegation here manned and maintain close contact with U. N.

headquarters. Forty-three N. members already have told Lie they will give active support in form ofiplanes, warships or supplies or that they endorse the Security Council resolution recommending the U. N. furnish such assistance as needed to repel the North Kojrean attack and restore peace.

Gromyko apparently is serving as acting foreign minister of the Soviet Union, although his telegram to Lie was signed simply Mr. A. Gromyko, affairs." deputy The minister foreign foreign minister, Andrei Y. from Vishinsky, since has! crisis arose June 25. Korean Answering Lie's appeal for an estimate of help, Gromyko merely referred Lie to Gromyko's telegram of June 29 on the Security Council resolution.

Maritime Union Asks to! Laid Up Fleet Readied CIO National Maritime Union NEW YORK, July 6 de -(P)-The day asked President Truman order thousands of laid up merchant vessels readied for use again in view of the "Korean situation and tense world picture." The union's head, Joseph Curran, telegraphed Mr. Truman that "thousands of merchant seamen workers are unemployed and available for this important work in the interest of our nation's welfare and preparedIness." Truman Blasts Democratic Senator Johnson For Voting With The GOP By D. HAROLD OLIVER WASHINGTON, July 6 (P)ition President Truman today publicly reproached Democratic Edwin C. Johnson of Colorado. saving Johnson votes more bfien the Republicans than the Democrats.

A1 a news conference, the President took Johnson to task tori joining G. O. P. Senators in voting against Sumner T. Fike for another term on the Atomic En-1 ergy Commission.

Johnson, as a member of the Senate panel of the joint atomic energy committee, joined Republicans in adversely reporting the Pike nomination to the Senate. Asi charman of the Senate Committee, he also voted the nomination of Martin Hutchinson, a Richmond, lawyer, a position on the Federal Trade Commission. The President said the opposi- Vacation Time Have The Post-Herald Follor: you each day while on vacation. 35c per week cash with order or at cir-. cuiation desk.

No Charge Accounts. Phone 3321. capitated when thrown through a window. The locomotive and two front cars of the Chief also were derailed. Several cars telescoped and tracks were torn up for a quarter of a mile.

All available doctors, nurses and ambulances sped to the scene Victims were taken to hospitals in Peoria, 20 miles south of the small village of Monica, and to Galesburg, 30 miles west. Thirty eight were hospitalized. in critical condition, and the others were given first aid at the scene, Because of the early hour, cue work was slow in starting. axes paths to those Some came running with farmers, I trapped in the debris. Lock Adams of Chicago, member of the El Capitan dining car crew, said the impact threw him from his bunk.

"I grabbed my trousers and barefoot from, the dormitory and the top of the Chief's locomotive," he said. "I snatched a sledge hammer and beat my way into a telescoped car. I saw two men dead and two more badly injured inside. "Bill Durn of the train crew. who had been asleep also in the dormitory, followed me into the car.

We didn't bother with the dead. but began handing the injured out through the windows of the washroom." MOSCOW WARNS NAVAL IS ILLEGAL LONDON, Friday, July 7-(P)- Russia charged today the American blockade of Korea was act of aggression" and warned she would hold the United States responsible for any damage to inlerests as 3 result of shel blockade. The Russian position forth in a note sent to the United States embassy in Moscow, the Moscow radio said. It was in answer to one sent by! the United States July 4 informing the Russians, that United; States established the blockade "in keeping with the United Nations Security Council's request! for support to the republic Korea in repelling North Korean invaders and restoring peace in Korea." Huntington Granted TV Experimental Permits WASHINGTON. July 6 The Communications Commission today granted construction for two experimental television relay stations designed to! provide television netwrk service in Huntington, W.

Va. The grants were issued to station WSAZ-TV at Huntington which proposes to build the relays to link up with networks through Cincinnati, Ohio. The communique. said the Americans numbered less: than. battalion.

The U.S. S. commander South Korea gave the number around 500. estimated casualties at approximately. 10 per cent.

The "half a battalion" of Americans Sent against a Red. tank column were. driven back but nevertheless did their job well. Their casualties were about ten cent. The commander asked corres-.

pondents. to "help me pray for fair, weather" which. would Air Force to: deal. heavier blows to the lengthening Red supply columns. An Air Force communique said two.

railroad; bridges and two highway bridges Had been out and clainied the Red movement southward had been slowed stopped, a claim not wholly. substantiated in dispatches other headquarters and from fighting areas. Headquarters acknowledged that major invader was speared by the North Korean First, Third and Fourth: Divisions (possibly 30,000 to 40,000 Their objectives were. described as Osan and Pyongtaek, and 25 miles, respectively, south of the fallen. Suwon.

Associated Press Correspondent. Tom Lambert reported from front, however, that the Red vaders already had. overrun Pyongiaek. and had nosed into Chonan, miles by road farther south and 60 miles south of Seoul. The Red radio at Seoul claimed Red forces now are 41 miles south of Suwon, a few miles farther than previous American reports placed them.

The voice broadcast heard Tokyo claimed capture of Pyongtaek at 3 p. m. July 6 (midnight E.S.T.). The Red radio also claimed "destruction" of the 24th regiment of the U. S.

44th Division. American forces have not disclosed what units are in action. The communique made no mention of casualties. A field headquarters spokesman, however, placed American losses as running from nominal to heavy." There was no indication of the of the American units, or what might be regarded heavy losses. Associated Press Correspondent O.

H. P. King, at Taejon reported unofficially that American dead thus far total twenty. About to 100 have been wounded. King's dispatch apparently referred only to ground casualties and did take into account air losses (Lambert's dispatch apparently included later information than available from Tokyo headquarters).

A new Red threat also was veloping on the rugged east coast, where the North Koreans established beachheads in amphibious landings the first day of the vasion, June 25. Loving Husband Breaks Wife's Leg In Atlanta ATLANTA. July 6 -(PAn Atlanta housewife was in a hospital today, the victim of her husband's love. Returning home from work yesterday afternoon, the husband found his wife sitting in a chair. Sentimentally, he sat on her lap to kiss her.

But, suddenly -snap, crackle. The 116-pound wife was taken to Grady Hospital with a broken lieg. Grady withheld names and the husband's weight but did say he is. a butcher. Today's Baseball 1:15 p.m.

Cincinnati at Chicago WCFC 101.3 Mcs. at the in- at size 80 not in to Pike was purely if Republican politics you The Senate will vote on the nomi-, nation Monday. Democratic leaders predict Pike will be confirmed. Johnson was out of town on a South American trip, and was not due back until tonight. Therefore there was no immediate comment from him.

Mr. Truman discussed the Pike nomination at his weekly meeting with the press, during which also: Said he has no present plans to call Reserves or National Guard troops to active duty in connection with the battle for South rea. He expressed confidence the American resistance to the North Korean invaders would work out all right. 2. Demanded an immediate to the 12-day old Switchmen's strike on five Western railroads.

He called strike unjustifien, and said the 4,000 workers have an obligation under the Pailway Labor Act to return to work at: once. This would be a patriotic thing to do, he said, although he labelled the strike domestic one a' without a bearing on the Korean crisis. Mr. Truman had no voluntary i announcements today. The de- question dealt with the Switchmen's strike.

The President said he hopes it will not require drastic action, but he' will take steps if necessary. "Are hopeful about the Korean situation?" a reporter asked. Of course I am, he replied. ladding it will work out all right. Asked when he might expect a report on industrial mobilization plans.

he replied these are up to heidate and he can get them into operation any time. He did not elaborate. He expressed gratification over Secretary of Defense Johnson's statement cancelling all July speeches by Defense Department officials lest they muddle the Korean situation by laying it open Ito misinterpretation. He's happy that the Defense Department is going to devote all its time to work instead of making speeches. he commented with a grin.

He added he has no plans to speak himself. Apparently nettled over opposi-! tion to several of his recent inations chief executive call-! ed the opposition to Pike, a Maine Republican. a foolish proicedure. He said Pike had been i confirmed twice before and it is pure politics to fight him now. Western and Western Pacific.

A Rock Island spokesman said the road's president. J. D. rington. was "shocked that the Rock Island should be singled for continuation of the strike.

Arthur J. Glover. president of the union, announced its action at a news conference The union called out its 4.000 members on the five roads June 25. The Rock Island employs The other four roads employ 2,500. All the roads except the Great Northern halted operations, and the Great Northern cut its freight and passenger service.

The union called the strike to support its demands for a 40 hour: work week at 48 hours mand rejected by a presidential fact-finding board. The board instead proposed 40 hour week at an 18 cents hourgly pay boost about balf what the union wanted. President Truman called the strike unjustified. The patriotic thing to do, he said, was for the men to go back to work. But would not say what he would if his suggestion was ignored, example, whether he would seek Government seizure of the struck roads.

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