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CINCE THE telephone direc- tory doest not list the Post- Herald, we want you "2291 rTlCT. JL 1" EM'ONENT OF THE WES'I VIRGINIA SMOKELESS COAL HEiilON WEATHER West Virginia Sunny "Vitb moderate temperature and humid Friday. Saturday faif arid warmer. VOLUME L--NO. 32 Member of Audit: Burou 'of Circulation BECKLEY, WEST VIRGINIA, FRIDAY MORNING, JULY 7, 1950 American Officer Loses Contempt Of North Koreans After Watching Red Tanks Duel With U.S.

Gunners 'By TOM LAMBERT AT OUTPOST, South Korea, July been a little contemptuous of them." (North Koreans). "Not any more." A senior American officer dropped this remark tonight his artillerymen duelling point-blank with Korean tanks. Some fights were at 100 yards Associated Leased Wirt PRICE 5 CENTS Half A Battallion Of Yanks Hold Off Red Division For Six Hours Before Retiring With No Shells range. The Americans "ducked, raised up, and fired again," said the officer. Along a broad front, the Americans and their South Korean allies withdrew at some 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, Songhwan another 5 miles south, and Choanan is 7 miles 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 reports. Later, unconfirmed reports today said the total is ten.

In a rail station a senior American commander told several reporters: "It was a bad one this time." He "said possibly 40 Red tanks supported by a "very strong force' of infantry had staged a smal scale blitzkrieg. The tanks rolled out of Sojong before dawn, about 6 miles north of Pyongtaek. Several dynamited Bridges didn't stop them. They Pyongtaek by daybreak. Sgt.

Lester Loeflen, of Mt. Airy, saw eight tanks and 800 to 1,000 infantrymen. "They were marching in columns--smoking cigarettes," related Loflen, a veteran of European warfare. "A corporal in my outfit said they "came on like rats in droves." A senior one Red tank was hit by an American artillery burst. The crew leaped out, their clothes flaming.

The Americans called to them to surrender. They refused. They joined other units and came on against the American positions. As artillerymen abandoned their positions and guns, they took off bieech blocks and sights to make the weapons useless. A reliable source who made the withdrawal with the Americans said some equipment, ammunition and food was left behind.

A key American command pos was evacuated before the Communist armored drive. Soldiers left behind to fight a rearguarc action were outflanked as the Reds came on. The senior officer was not sure about American casualties bu PENTAGON SAYS KOREAN BATTLE 'NOT SERIOUS' 'Everything Will Work Out All Says Nation's Leader WASHINGTON, 6 -() American i i a leaders said today the i 1 rfght." afTer radio of U. S. forces in South aid he believed they were 'heavy" in at least two units.

The onrushing Reds apparently vere not hit by American planes oday, he said, because of bad veather. He hadn't seen an American 'plane attacking the Reds all day, he said. Several correspondents, incluu- ng three British journalists, "rank Holeman of the New York Daily News, and myself met the evacuating Americans while 'traveling to the front." (Lambert telephoned Tokyo: "please tell everyone I'm all Eyewitness Tells How First Foot Soldier, Pvt. Kenneth Shadrick, Wyoming County, Met His Death Pyongyang had been broadcasting prisoner. Meanwhile United Press Correspondent Peter Kalischer still had not been heard from by his Tokyo office.) Jeeps and trucks with grim- faced drivers and GI's traveled slowly south along a road crowded with refugees fleeing the Communists.

The Americans carried in a blue-grey blanket the body of one GI killed in this latest Red push. They had fought bravely. A Senior officer said one. unit stayed at its position seven hours battling the Reds and withdrew, only when its ammunition ran out. ivorea is making steady progress and despite stiff re- Red Press Blares U.

S. Potato Bug Infection Story MOSCOW, July 6 The Literary Gazette today declared United States authorities attempted 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, itiager of stores for the New River MRS. E. IL TUTWIIER, OF IT.

HOPE, DIES IN OAK HILL HOSPITAL MT. HOPE, July 6--Mrs. E. Ml 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 man- said, blocked the plot. The charge was played up in a article by science writer Gennadii Fisch. It was headed "Six-Legged Ambassador 'of Wall Street." JFood and seeds sent as UNRRA'ahS lend-lease aid were declared to have been infected artificially to sabotage Russian crops.

This followed up Communist assertions that American planes 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. with Dr. W.

W. Pharr officiating. Burial will be in Highlawn Memorial Park, Oak Hill. have dropped Colorado beetles in Eastern Europe in an attempt to cut down the potato crops. 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 by threats of a crop failure in East Germany. Poland and Czechoslovakia. The U. S. embassy.in Prague Wednesday formally denied a Czechoslovak charge that Americans had planted potato bugs in that counUy.

It called the allegation false and preposterous.) M'CARTHY OPENS NEW ATTACK ON ACHESON WASHINGTON, July Senator McCarthy today fired a bitter new blast at Secretary of State Acheson, and the State Department promptly accused the Wisconsin lawmaker of fabricating "a dismal parade of The body will be removed to the home from Tyree Funeral Home at 1:30 p.m. Friday. Survivors include her husband, a daughter, Mrs. Edgar Mohler, of Beckley; one son, E. M.

Tutwiler two sisters, Mrs. Ronald Snyder and Mrs. H. F. Randolph all df Mt.

Hope; two brothers John R. Porter and Ross Porter both of Oklahoma and two grancj- children. Russia Rejects Appeal To Force verses the battle situation State's National Guardsmen Ready For Call To Duty is CHARLESTON, July 6 (ff)-'not serious in anyway." iWest Virginia's 4,000 National Air and sea reinforcements are readv for a call now being sped to the war zone, the high command said. to active duty if the need arises, Adj. Gen.

Charles R. Fox said to- At his news conference, dent Truman sounded a note of calm optimism in the face of some of the darkest reports yet received in the Far Pacific conflict. Everything will work out all right, Mr. Truman said. The President also told newsmen that at present he has no plans (1) to'call up the National Guard or the Reserves, or (2) to He described the men under his command as "younger but more experienced" than the state's pre- World War II Guardsmen.

Army Signal Corps Photographer, Buddy Of Area Soldier, Tells Of North Korean Overrunning American Outpost By 0. II. P. KING TAKJOX. Korea, Friday, Ray is glad the fellows waited for him before they d'rove away a hill surrouiuled by North Koreans, ile'is safe today Tunibiill, an Army Signal Corps photographer, saw tile first U.

soldier killed in the war. lie was standing right beside him. The photographer had gone forward to get pictures of learns storming tho Nor Hi i ir, rriu j- cij in iina died Ui There are more of tnem and (advance American element graveyard, on the outskirts of Sojong were several bazooka teams hiding behind grave mounds. (Sojong is 18 miles south of Suwon, the Communist-captured city and air base 23 miles south of Seoul. It was in this area that an they are equipped better trained he added.

and The present allotted strength of the state organization, including the Air Guard, is just under 6,000, but budgetary limitation have kept the actual number down to ask Congress for more money for slightly more than 4,000, he ex- LAKE SUCCESS, July Russia's Andrei A. Gromyko served notice on Trygve Lie today Soviet Union will do nothing help the United Nations repel Communist North Korea's invasion of South Korea. 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.

plained. These are attached to 52 units in 28 cities. The Guard could be called into service for 21 months by personal order of the President under terms of the recent draft extension act and it also could be ordered to duty, with the consent of Congress, it was explained. In the lat- was cut off). Behind the mounds, besides the rushed to his side.

I said it was too late because I had seen the hole in chest. I got a picture of the lieutenant feeling for his pulse, but in 30 seconds Shadrick was NORTHKOREANS DRIVE 60 MILES FARTHER SOUTH Red Radio Claims 24th Reg. Of U. S. 44th Div.

Destroyed By DON HUTU TOKYO, Friday, July 7 forces fell back and regrouped in embattled South Korea Thursday as the American commander there disclosed that so far nly 500 Americans have een action. Three North Korean irrfsntry ivisions preceded by a cutting dge of armor speared 60 miles outh of captured Seoul. A communique said today U. S. oops, outnumbered eight to eld off best Communist divi- 'on and 40 tanks for six hours the first engagement of the bazooka teams, were a few in- Turribuil said there were 40 in- U.

S. military headquarters atjter instance, it would become fed- the-Pentagon said assurances have! eralized and enlistments would i tant. fantrymen and Turnbull. "I was getting some good pictures," Turnbull said, "but after two rounds fired we moved to another position to get a better sight on two enemy tsnks. "They fired one round from the new place.

Pvt. Kenneth Shadrick, from Wyoming, West Yir- 'one, two, three' 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 in- i i a i the gmi a wo ld SQ could No one here expected the Rus- been received from Gen. Douglas BIG RUBBER ASK GOVERNMENT FIRE UP SYNTHETIC PLANTS sians to do anything, but it was considered significant that the Soviet Union even replied to a telegram from the U.

N. general asking air 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 U.

N. members already have told Lie they will give active support in the form planes, warships or supplies or that they endorse the Security Council resolution recommending the U. N. furnish such assistance as needed to repel the North Korean attack 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. deputy minister of foreign affairs." The foreign distortions." Renewing his Communists-in- Government charges. McCarthy told the Senate "highly placed Red counselors in the State Department are far more deadly than Red machine-gunners" in Korea. Mac Arthur that the situation of American field-troops in the combat zone is not critical despite sharp gains scored by the Communist; invaders from North Korea.

Frontline dispatches said 40,000 North Koreans, led by 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 troops. He said the outpost withdrew with "very moderate" losses when its position became untenable.

Although it was apparent that American GI's had not yet taken part in any big-scale engagement, the Defense Deoartment hinted remain in effect until the emergency 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 sajd. The 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 at Kanawha Airport in Charleston, is equipped with F-51 "He moaned 'oh my arm' and I noticed the bone between the elbow and shoulder was shattered "As he fell forward a lieutenanl antrymen and two other bazooka there when he was chang- ng a 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 1C minutes.

Before I could crawl toward the road to a rice paddy the enemy was on a railroad track about 200 yards away parallel to the road where our 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 where squash plants were grow ing, I made better time and reach ed our group of jeeps. "We took off fast." Freak Santa Fe Collision Fatal To Nine, 75 Injured MONICA, 111., July 6 Two high speed Santa Fe Railway streamliners, streaking eastward side by side, bumped midsections in a freak collision today that crushed nine persons to death fighters, A-26 medium bombers, and injured about 75. C-47 cargo planes and T-6 trainers. minister, Andrei Y.

Vishinsky, has' not been heard from since -thel a an American-led B-29'S. BLAST AWAY SUBS INK The crash came at a stretch of tracks near Monica where daily the 90 miles-an-hour El Capitan fler from Los Angeles passes the mile an hour Kansas City Chief I Kansas City. Both trains were bound for TOKYO, Friday, July 7--(P)-- Chicago, 148 miles northeast. Korean crisis arose June 25. Answering Lie's appeal for an WASHINGTON, July estimate of help, Gromyko merely Major rubber companies today referred Lie to Gromyko's tele- asked President Truman to fire up some- of the government's old wartime synthetic rubber plants.

The industry also asked steps to protect U. S. natural rubber supplies from "the spreading threat of Communism" in the Far Pacific. Today's action apparently did not mean that any rubber shortage is imminent. Because of an increase in natural rubber prices, industry leaders had suggested the reopening of government-owned synthetic plants even before the Korean war broke out.

Industry officials recently hive gram of June 29 on the Security Council resolution. Maritime Union Asks Laid Up Fleet Readied NEW YORK, July 6 CIO National Maritime Union today asked President Truman to order thousands of laid up mer- counter-; offensive may not be far off. The department said the buildup of vast quantities of supplies, weapons and ammunition the prerequisites for a major counter blow is going "quite well." U. S. E-29 the Superforts war in returned As the El Capitan began pulling! its mail car capitated when thrown through window.

The locomotive and two fron cars of the Chief also were derail ed. Several cars telescoped an tracks were torn up for a quarte of a mile. All available doctors, nurse and ambulances sped to the scene Victims were taken to hospitals i Peoria, 20 miles south of the sma village of MoYuca, and to Gales burg, 30 miles west. and blasted away, at what ap-i tracks, and jackriifed into the toThe submarines in 7u rl- others were given first aid at the to oe lour suomarines m.f i C3r a i of North Korea's Red a scene. the port of North Korea's capital.

Two missions for the second straight day plastered targets in locomotive. It was 4:30 Central Standard Time. The men's wash room of A defense spokesman cautioned, Northern Korea without one El however, that it takes time when troops and heavy equipment are moved over long distances in bad weather. This is the monsoon season of heavy rains in Korea. Meanwhile, the Navy reported that the aircraft carrier chant vessels readied for use again ip hili pine Sea accompanied by i rHrk e-11 i 1 in view of the "Korean situation and tense world picture." The union's head, Joseph Curran, telegraphed Mr.

Truman that "thousands of merchant seamen and shipyard workers are unemployed and available for this important work in the interest of our emphasized there is no prospect nation's welfare and prepared- a tire shortage in sight. iness." Truman Blasts Democratic Senator Johnson For Voting With The GOP two destroyers, left San Diego, last night, presumably to strengthen the American-British naval blockade of Korea. The Air Force is rushing both B-29 Superfortress bombers and smaller aircraft, including F-51 tion, a Far East Air Force om-j crow4rfed Capitan's with men. coach was They were General MacArthur's headquar- ers communique said the Anieii- ans were threatened with en-" irclement and withdrew only aft- their ammunition was exhaust- d. The communique said the Americans numbered less than ont battalion.

The S. commander South Korea gave the number at around'500 men and estimated casualties at approximately 10 per cent. The "half a battalion" of Amer- cans sent against a Eed tank column were driven back but nevertheless did their job Their casualties were about ten per cent. The commander asked correspondents to ''help me pray for weather" which enable the "Air Force to deal heavier- blows to the lengthening Red supply, columns. An Air Force communique said two and two" highway-bridges Had knocked out and claimed the Red movement southward had been slowed 1 or stopped, a claim not wholly substantiated in headquarters and from fighting areas.

Headquarters acknowledged that the major invader was speared by the North. Korean. First, Third and Fourth Divisions' (possibly 30,000 to 40,000 men). Their immediate' objectives were described as Osan and Pyongtaek, 15 and 25 miles, respectively, south of the fallen, airstrip at Suwon. Associated Press Correspondent, Tom Lambert reported from the front, however, that the Red in-: vaders already had overrun Pyongtaek and had nosed into Chonan, 14 miles by road farther south and 60 miles south of Seoul.

The Red radio at Seoul claimed Red forces now are 41 miles south Because of the early hour, rescue work was slow in starting. Some farmers came running with axes and chopped paths to those mique said. The North 7 trapped in the debris, shaving before going to breakfast A a ftf Lock Adams of Chicago, mem- Koreans are i the diner. Many passengers I ber of lhe a i a in 'j car known to have any submarines, still were asleep on both trains. said lhe impact threw i The collision slammed the El from his bunk.

Capitan's car back across its own! "i grabbed my trousers and ran at least tracks The locomotive and sev-i' barefoot from the dormitory and jeral forward cars of the El jimbed onto the top of the Chiefs an broke loose- and barreled he said. "I snatched Before the outbreak of the war. the Russians were reported by subs in the Pacific. The craft were hit in Chinnampo harbor. 20 miles southwest of Pyongyang, the North Korean capital.

STORE ROOF FALLS HENDERSON, Texts. July 6-- down the tracks. The El Capitan's of Suwon, a few miles farther than previous American reports placed them. The voice broadcast heard at Tokyo claimed capture of Pyong- taek 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 head- a sledge hammer and beat my way quarters spokesman, however, rear cars piled into the wreckage. ip. to telescoped car. I saw twojP a American losses as run- were I men dead and two more badly in- from or TM a 5 to heavy." There was nc indication of the Sleeping passengers bounced around in the cars i inside.

TMbber balls. Twisted metal trap- -Bill Durn of the train crew, as ieep also in tne for the atmosphere of cautious optimism reflected in the Pentagon may be that American and British 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 clerical force fled from the build-'They were pushed into the walls dead but be an nanding the in- thus far total twenty. About 80 3 A A 1 1 A a i A 4 I I I I A 1 A Mustang fighters, to the war zone.K^-The roof of the Sears Roe- ed some tne5r sca Military experts said one store collapsed today, just! Four of the dead were in thejdormi.ory^ followed me into after 15 customers and the of an El Capitan coach.icar. We aidn bother witn the ing. and crushed to death. ijured out through the winnows 100 have been wounded.

King's air power apparently is beginning! Rainwater had collected on the! The victims were five men and: washroom." apparently to drive the enemy from the skies, i roof, causing the collapse. Uour women. One man was de; lo ground casualties ana dia not take into account air losses in By D. HAROLD OLIVER GREENGLASS INDICTED Union Ends i MOSCOW WARNS NAVAL dwitcnmen union anas BLOCKADE WASHINGTON, July 6 () tion to Pike was purely political--j question dealt with the Switch President Truman today publicly politics if you men's strike. The President said! A reproached Democratic Senator The Senate will vote on the nomi- he hopes it will not require dras- rfic Edwin C.

Johnson of Colorado, nation Monday. Democratic lead- ASATOMSPYFORREDSj Strike On 4 Of 5 Roads itch SANTA FE, N. July 6-tfP) 11 spatch apparently information than was available from Tokyo head- LONDON, Friday, July 7--()-- quarters). saving Johnson votes more bften'ers predict Pike will be confirmed. if necessary.

5-tfP) grand jury today in-' ed David Greenglass, 23, on a AFL Switchmen's union called Western and Western Pacific. CHICAGO, July 6 Russia charged today the American blockade of Korea was a ''new act of aggression" and warned she would hold the United States A i ci 1 1 i i CMtri rai I vv uuiu iium i vj vjian-j tic action, but he wdl take steps charge of conspiring lO givej i strike on four of i Western! A Rock Island spokesman said for anv'damage to So- inr i atomic secrets to Russia. Russia. railroads today--eight hours after; the road's president, J. D.

Far-iviet interests as true bill, the i President Truman threatened jnns'on. was "shocked that the! blockade. the former action if necessary to Island should be singled! The Russian positi A new Red threat also was developing on the rugged east coast, where the North Koreans established beachheads in amphibioui landings the first day of the in- with "the Republicans than with 'Johnson was out of town on "Are you still hopeful about the! In a two-page the Democrats. South American trip, snd was notj Korean a reporter ask-! jurors charged a news conference, the Pres-j due back unti toni Therefore ed. Of course I am, he replied, technician with four spe-'the walkout.

lout" for continuation of the forth in a note sen ident took Johnson to task for 5 no immediate comment I jt work put all right. acts. It declared But the union said it will con-j Arthur J. Glover, president qfjstates 'embassy in joining G. O.

P. Senators in voting against Sumner T. Fike for, another term on the Atomic En- i nomination at his weekl. TM the press dunng era tion any time. He did not elab- result of thelvasion, June 25.

ergy Commission. salso: rt Johnson, as a member of the, gaid he has no present plans Sena ve a 1 a to call Reserves or National Guard position was i TT to the united Husoand Moscow, the! Wife's Leg In Atlanta I ATLANTA. July 6 --()--An one sent Atlanta housewife was in a hos- informing ipital today, the victim of her hus- energy committee, joined Republi- troops to active duty in connec- i fa '5! tion wrth the battle for South Pike nomination to the Senate. As i res. He expressed confidence the son, a Richmond, lawyer, an immediate halt a position on tne federal 12 day ol( Switchmen Commission.

strike on five Western railroads. The President said the He ca the strike unjustified, He expressed gratification over oi Defense Johnson's cancelling all July Secretary statement speeches by Defense Department officials lest they muddle the Korean situation by laying it open to misinterpretation. He prepared for Gold a state- ust ment of the Los Alamos atomic He's happy that the Defense pro ect Department is going to devote all Jud Carl A. Hatch of Al- its time to work instead of making jbuquero.ue set bail at SIOO.OOO-- speeches, he commented with same amount set for the for- support its demands for a 40 hour; Other roads affected by work weck at 48 hours Swuchmens annpuncemen, i a rejecled bv a presidential Huntington Granted TV not disclose their plans a i board- Vacation Time Have The Post-Herald Follor- you each day while on vacation. 35c per week cash with order or at circulation desk.

No Chargz Accounts. Phone 3321. said the 4,000 workers havejgrin. He added he has no plans toj rTier Army technician after he wast 1 00 I a obligation under the Fnilwaylspeak himself. arrested June .15 in New York.

1 Labor Act'to return io work'at Apparently nettled over opposi-j Greenglass is being held in a The board instead proposed a A union spokesman said the; 40 hour weck at an 18 cents hour- WASHINGTON, July 6 which runs pay boost--about half what Communications Commission Chicago and connects with Westj union wanted. 1 today granted construction per- lines, is paralleled by other The 116-pound wife was taken, to Grady Hospital with a broken leg. Experimental Permits I Gra withheld names and 'husband weignt but did say he is a butcher. lonce. This would be a patriotic tion to several of his recent nom-lNew York jail in default of i rail systems.

He said a work Gold has been accused of being i Ipage on this line creates no emer intermediary between the So- ency. to go back to work. But i Huntingdon, W. Va. tri umon sa men go I would not say what he would do The grants were issued to sta- cairf P-I.

pyr 5 I5d work "whenever his suggestion was ignored, for! tion WSAZ-TV at Huntinstfon jcedure. He said Pike had British scientist wants them" on whether ho would seek! which proposes to build the relays Mr. Truman had no voluntary, confirmed twice before and it isjconfessed getting atomic iue i today. The first pure politics to fight him now. for the Russians.

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