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tew fife THE WEATHER Forecast by V. S. Weather Burea Philadelphia and vicinity: Partly cloudy and a little warmer today and tomorrow. Gentle southerly winds. Complete weather data tir State and Nation on Page till CITY EDITION "II IIM mi mi i- tt An Indepe People WEDNESDAY MOPwNING, SEPTEMBER 27, 1950 Copyright, 1950, by Triangle PuDlieations, Inc.

Vol. 243. No. 89 August Circulation: Daily Sunday, 1,110,258 122nd Year WFIL 560 First on Your Dial FIVE CENTS Yank Clo Pocket on 4-" Essssss i l-r 'Death "Reds Unified Wo Europe A rmy Approved by Allies BeachheadLink-up UtUUUS Ir iAnr At IPjfPSSX 5 Youths Held Yfs i Can Clinch IS Eisenhower Mentioned as Commander nunq Samchok tm. wr fcwaaaawa m.

Ml I 3a. I "SS SS A tk Flags Today The Phillies and New York Yankees moved nearer a World Series meeting in baseball's pennant races yesterday. Both clubs could clinch the flags today. The Phils eliminated the third place Boston Braves from contention by beating them, 8-7, while the second place Brooklyn Dodgers were ror I rial in Gang Attacks Montgomery County Hoodlums Accused Of Beating Up Drivers Traps 100,000 Foe, Seoul Fight Rages TOKYO, Sept. 27 (Wednesday) (AP).

A link-up of the two United Nations beachhead forces turned the Korean war today into a giant mop-up operation. Spearheads of American forces from the Inchon and Pusan beachheads met about midnight Tuesday near Osan, 30 miles south of war-ravaged Seoul. American intelligence officers estimated 100,000 Reds, the bulk of the Communist army, were cut off by the link-up. Pact Nations Delay Vt L-H ALLIED UNK-UP i 1 bCzA BLOCKS ESCAPE downing the New York Giants, 8-4. The Whiz Kids still hold a five-game lead.

I TC fi OF COMMUNISTS! it Urchin Action on Germany, Plan Adequate Force By IVAN H. PETERMAN Inquirer Staff Reporter NEW YORK, Sept. 26. The 12 YANKS, SENATORS SPLIT The Yanks split a doubleheader with the Washington Senators, win ning the nightcap, 10-7, after losing the opener, 11-9, while the second place Detroit Tigers beat the St. North Atlantic nations announced tonight an agreement on the early composition of an integrated mili YongdoW Gen.

Douglas MacArthur said the fate of North Korean troops caught in the pocket was "sealed." Fierce fighting continued in the streets of the 500-year-old Korean capital against die-hard Communist defenders. aw rViTTFW il Louis Browns, 5-3, after dropping a 3-1 first game. The Yanks still lead Detroit by 3 games and the idle Boston Red Sox by four. tary force, to be trained and equipped under a supreme commander with The Phils could clinch the pennant General MacArthur announced an international staff and dedicated POHANG today by winning their doubleheader tactical liberation of the cityll I I i fNI to the defense of western civiliza tion. A gang of 17-year-old hoodlums charged with halting motorists on lonely roads and brutally beating them for no apparent reason was held for Montgomery County Court at Norristown yesterday.

Five youths, who dubbed themselves the "Dirty Dukes," and wore soiled clothing in keeping with the title, were arrested yesterday by State Police on warrants charging them with aggravated assault and battery. Although offenses committed by boys of that age are generally dealt with in. Juvenile Court, Peter J. Frascino, chief juvenile probation officer of Montgomery county, certified the case for criminal court before President Judge Harold G. Knight.

ALL SIX FEET TALL Police listed the boys, all six feet Germany, despite some reluctance yesterday. U. S. First Cavalry Division troops completed a 115-mile dash in five days and nights by con SSl fOFOCfS I Kochang TAEGULV''J with the Giants at New York, while the Dodgers were splitting with the Braves, or by winning one game while the Dodgers were losing two. Any combination of Phils' victories and Dodger defeats adding up to three settles the race.

AT SHIBE PARK TODAY The Yanks, who meet the Ath on the part of European members of the coalition, will be asked to "con-, tribute to the build-up of the de -m. 1 XI ft-r LSI- II flMTT I 9 -SS I Korea umiy nan As Peace. Basis Drafted by British Pyongyong tacting U. S. 7th Division troops fense of Western Europe." near Osan.

ESCAPE ROUTES CUT DOOR LEFT OPEN But the precise question of wheth The link-up did not stretch a solid line of American troops from Taegu er German divisions should be included in the new military force, one of the most thoroughly discussed letics today at Shibe Park, could land their league championship by beating the Mackmen while the Tigers were losing to the Browns md the Red Sox were splitting witn the Senators. The combination points before the North Atlantic in the southeast to Osan. But it did sever most of the possible routes of escape for the shattered Red army. Some fleeing Reds probbaly will escape through the hills. Treaty Council, was left over until next month.

lumber for the Yanks and their con renders is two. The communique issued by the tall and weighing more than 160 The Phillies came from behind Council tossed the question of util wice in their game with the Braves. It was grimly fitting that the izing German manpower to its De They scored four runs in the seventh fense Ministers, who will meet in OUR BEACHHEAD AT ITS SMALLEST ON SEPTEMBER 7 Americans, who now have too much strength for the Communists, joined Washington Oct. 24. vo take a 5-2 lead, only to have the Graves come back with five in their half, during which relief pitcher These Washington meetings also NEW YORK, Sept.

26 (AP). Britain has taken over the task of finding a solution to the Korean war and "maintaining the impressive unity" of Allied forces in the closing phases pf the campaign, an informed source said tonight. This source said Britain had written the draft of a resolution which would call on the United Nations General Assembly to: .1. Establish an independent, united Korea. 2.

Continue to furnish assistance to repel an armed attack. 3. Establish a democratic gov are expected to result in the naming Jim Konstanty made his record- of a chief of staff for the integrated forces near the site where the first thin lines of the 24th Division first met defeat by the Reds in the Korean war almost three months ago. It was 4 few miles south of that the first American soldier was pounds, as Gerald Miner, of Delphi, said to be the ringleader; Henry C. Virkler, of Skippack, and Merrill Erskine, Robert Blattner and Bernard J.

McGee, all of Schwenksville. State police said the first complaint came from Benjamii Prower, 18, of Oakes. Brower told authorities that at 9 P. M. on Sept.

15 while ihe was driving on Fort Providence rd. toward Oakes. an old sedan in front of him and forced him to stop. breaking 71st appearance. The Phils then rallied for three force.

A supreme commander will not be appointed until later. Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower has been mentioned for this post. runs in the eighth on a walk, killed in this war.

He was hit by a angles by Dick Sisler and Del En WHERE AMERICAN FORCES LINK UP TO TRAP RED FOE While United Nations troops continued yesterday to mop up remaining Red forces in Seoul, First Cavalry tanks, driving from the south, and 7th Division troops, from the north, linked up between Suwon and Osan (boxed area) The junction threatens to clamp a huge trap on thousands of North Korean invaders in the southwest sector. burst of fire from a North Korean nis, an error and a one-bagger by 50 DIVISIONS MENTIONED (jrran Hamner. Blix Donnelly blank tank made in Russia. The communique said the force, nd the Braves in the eighth and Five masked figures leaped frm PENINSULA SHELLED proposed by Secretary of State Dean Meanwhile, a Navy" task force ninth. Complete Sports on Pages 41, 42, 43, 44, 45.

the car, jumped into Brower's auto Continued on Page 21, Column 3 IS oic to Lay a Nest Egg began a heavy bombardment of the Ongjin Peninsula on the edge of the Douglas Resigns Acheson, shall be "adequate to deter aggression and Insure the defense of Western Europe." It did not state the exact size of the new European force, but up to 50 divisions have been mentioned in military circles. 38th Parallel 80 miles northwest or recaptured Seoul. Allied headquarters announced that U. S. Navy planes and a cruiser French objections to use of Ger As London Envoy Bonds Are the Safest As Investment Security and destsoyer force conducted a ernment in all Korea elected under U.N.

supervision. BIGGER VOICE FOR ASIA 4. Set up a new U.N. commission, stronger than any established previously, to make sure the U.N.'a recommendations were obeyed. This commission, it is believed, would be heavily weighted with Asian members in order to give that great continent a very definite interest in the future of one of its states.

The source refused to say, when questioned directly, whether the U.N. or the United States would order morning-long coordinated bombard man troops were met in some degree by referring the question to the Defense Ministers. Acheson, Coun New Tax Rise Certain, Snyder Warns Nation By E. S. ISANKS Inquirer Financial Editor NEW YORK, Sept.

26. Secretary of the Treasury John cil chairman, insisted that ultimately ment of Fankochi Point. "Large-scale fortifying activities have been reported on the peninsula," the communique said. Illustrated on Page 3 WASHINGTON, Sept. 26 (UP).

German manpower would have to be used. Mac Arthur's headquarters an The Council concluded its sessions Lewis W. Douglas resigned today as nounced that at least 1235 Commu- after having been in recess from U. S. Ambassador to Great Britain This is the second of a series of eight articles dealing with the techniques of American finance and designed to show the average woman how financial securityjcan be achieved by prudent investment.

The articles are condensed from a forthcoming book, "How to Lay a Nest Egg," by Edgar Scott, senior partner of Montgomery, Scott Co. Sept. 18, when Acheson's proposals Continued on Page 2, Column 3 lor an integrated West Europe force, and Administration sources said he would be replaced by Walter S. Gif- U.N. forces acting under Gen.

Doug- "Continued on Page 7, Column 8 Continued on Page 2, Column 4 ford, 65, retired president of Ameri can Telephone Telegraph Co. Snyder warned Americans today that additional "tax increases all along the line are inevitable" under the mobilization facing the Nation. This mobilization, he declared at the 75th annual convention of the American Bankers AssociatiDn, will hit with an that By Edgar Scott Douglas quit the Nation's number TN THE preceding discussion the 10 Rodeo Horses Die Mysteriously lew now anticipate. one ambassadorial spot for "personal considerations, including those, of health," he told President Truman. Headline Hopping By Ollie Crawford HUGE DEFENSE PROGRAM -L providing of Venture Capital was pictured partly as a noble duty, like brushing one's teeth or putting some U.N.

Membership Voted Indonesia NEW YORK, Sept. 26. (AP). The Security Council tonight recommended United Nations membership for Indonesia. The vote was 10 to 0 with Nationalist China abstaining.

This action by the 11-nation council assured the young republic a "I don't think that people have NEW YORK, Sept. 26 (UP). Ten He suffered complications from an any notion so far," the Secretary wild horses, slated to appear in the eye injury incurred during a fishing Chair Ruled Out For Son in Killing sud in an interview, "of the size of rodeo which opens tomorrow in thing extra in the plate on Sunday, and partly as a way of doing yourself some good. Now let's forget tie defense program this countrv accident. UNDER CONSIDERATION 10 Saved as B-17 Crashes Off Japan TOKYO, Sept.

27, Wednesday (AP). The Amy public information office announced a B-17 crashed in Tokyo Bay early today. Ten of the 11 persons aboard were rescued. The missing person was a passenger. The plane belonged to the Far East Air Force.

The Army announcement said Japanese fishing boats picked up the 10 survivors almost immediately after the crash. ill get next year after Coneress has Madison Square Garden, have died mysteriously in the last two days, it about the noble duty, and let's get ceen at work for a while. The name of his successor came specific. What's in it for you? If a was revealed today. 'A quick end to the Korean war place in the U.N.

Favorable action from an unimpeachable source who will have no effect on the Adminis- Laboratory tests will be made to said the appointment was being con sidered now by the British Govern t-ation's plans to put the country on determme if the bucking broncos died of poisoning, a virus infection Illustrated on Page 3 The Commonwealth opened its murder case against Allen Pollock in from the General Assembly is expected. Once admitted, Indonesia would become the 60th member of the a strong delense footing. ment. or other disease. "Force must be met with force, retired last Dec.

31 as That is the only language that some Bucks county Criminal Court at president the vast AT empire Six of the horses died Sunday night and Monday morning in their stalls rations understand." girl puts into industry a part of the money vshe has managed to squeeze out of her salary, housekeeping allowance, Christmas check, and the sale of the old vacuum cleaner, what does she get out of it? In the first place, she has the satisfaction of owning actually owning a part of one or more companies and, so to speak, growing with them. Greater 'return than money in a Continued on Page 48, Column 7 that paid him a salary of $250,000 yearly. His pension is about $80,000 at the Garden, and four others died TAX RISE INEVITABLE in the auxiliary stock yards the rodeo Doylestown yesterday with a statement that it would not ask the death penalty for the 17-year-old boy charged with killing his father to annually. "Tax increases an along thfc line uses on llth ave. and 41st st.

Three When reached at his New York Picture Story of Korean War on Page Other War and Home Front News on Pages 2, 4 and 5. home, Gifford's only comment was: are inevitable," he stated, pointing out that Congress had committed 3n 3wpttor WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 27. 1950 Departments and Features other horses, which were ramming their heads against their stalls in misery, were saved after treatment "Well, I guess you'll have to take protect his mother from a beating. District Attorney Williard S.

Cur-tin told the jury of eight men, four Continued on Page 48, Column by the rodeo's veterinarian. Continued on Page 5, Column 4 women and two men alternates that he would produce evidence to show that Allen killed his father, Irving, SUN turns purple over Eastern United States. With the temperature in the 40s, who didn't? The sun was just the color of a Phillies rooter on a bad day. Science blames smoke from Canadian forest fires. Those forests must grow nothing but rubber boots.

Smoke hasn't traveled this far since the long cigaret-holders Somebody should teach those Canadian forests to inhale. You couldn't get that much smoke by burning John eyebrows. The smog may come from all those doctors smoking camels. It's no wonder they go back to smoking cigarets. This is the oddest effect of smoke since Junior tried his first cigar.

Junior saw a purple sun, and- seven peppermint-striped moons in a polka-dotted sky. The sun really looks purple because so many people are telling the Reds to turn blue. As Gelett Burgess didn't say: never saw a purple sun, And now that I have seen one; I always knew it could be done; I'd rather see a green one. Pfftlt's Gone Foundation 65, with a shotgun the night of July Groggy GI Tank Crews ,11, as the elder PollocS was choking and punching his wife, Mrs. Mamie Army Hospital Opens in 3 Wks.

Picture Page 3 Port in Storm 38 Puzzles 30, 31 Radio and Television 32 Shipping News 48 Sports 41, 42, 43, 44. 45 Women's News 36, 37, 38 Pollock, in the bedroom of their Amusements 32, 33 Bridge 37 Business and Financial 46, 47, 48 Comics 30, 31 Death Notices 45 Editorials 34 Feature Page 39 Obituaries 28 To Foster Peace Battle Red Fury in Seoul Neshaminy home. MOTHER NEAR COLLAPSE Firing 'Saucer dust Dissolves TOUR South Philadelphia police officers had a new explanation last night for what happens to those The neatly dressed defendant lis tened witn apparent composure as the Commonwealth's first witnesses gave preliminary testimony to establish the cause of death. But his By TOM LAMBERT SEOUL, Korea, Sept. 26 (AP).

U. S. Marine tank crews, leading the battle up Seoul's main street today, fired until they were groggy from fumes in close-quarter combat with the Red garrison. The Valley Forge Army Hospital at Phoenixville will be ready to receive casualties from Korea within three weeks, a hospital spokesman an KEW YORK, Sept. 26 (AP).

The huge, multi-million dollar Ford foundation for Human Welfare to-d ly announced Ithe five fields in hich it will seek its goal: The quest ir world peace, the strengthening of democracy, world-wide economic mother, a frail woman clad in black, appeared on the verge of collapse several times during the description Franjc Brookhouser Page 29 John M. Cummings Page 34 Leonard Lyons Page 39 Herman A. Lowe Page 39 Louella O. Parsons Page 39 armored force, ramrod of the nounced last night. The hospital, which has been on a cf the scene at their home just after flying saucers people are always seeing: They dissolve.

That's what happened last night to the airborne object first seen about 10 M. by Patrolmen John Collins and Joseph Keenan. The two officers said they were patrolling in a red the slaying. stand-by basis since last month, re Sitting beside her 12-year-old drive toward the blazing capital's i heart, blasted sandbagged roadblocks with 90-mm guns. It plowed through burning debris to a point near the French consulate Ivan H.

Peterman Page 39 Portraits Page 34 Victor Riesel Pare 39 ceived orders from Washington late improvement, the expansion of education, and a fundamental study of daughter, Beverly, the widow listen yesterday to return to active status human conduct. Continued on Page 13, Column 4 on Oct. 1. It will be unable to accept patients, however, until a staff can On WFIL Today car on Vare blvd. near 26th st.

when this afternoon. be assembled. through the windshield they saw what appeared to be a parachute J. M. Roberts, Jr.

Page 39 George E. Sokolsky Page 34 Mark Sullivan Page 39 Danton Walker Page 39 John Webster Page 41 Walter Winchell Page 39 Operations will begin gradually, MacArthur OKs Free Beer Offer PASSAIC, N. Sept. 26 (AP). John R.

O'Brien, senior vice commandant of the Marine Corps League, said Gen. Douglas MacArthur had approved the league's offer to send beer to Americans fighting in Korea. The league wants to send an extra can of beer daily to every Ameri Ford Foundation's resources are estimated at close to $215,000,000 in grants and income from the late enry Ford, his wife. Mrs. Clara J.

Ford, their late son, Edsel, and the Ford Motor Co. drifting slowly down from the upper Miss Kellems Fails To Get on Ballot with 15 physicians scheduled for assignment at Valley. Forge on Oct. 15. The institution will accept patients LOST AND FOUND "a few days thereafter," the spokes 1 Sept.

26 FURIOUS TANK BATTLE Hours after the first announcement by the 10th Army Corps of Seoul's liberation the Leathernecks fought a desperate duel with Red tanks in the snroke-filled city. Seven enemy tanks were knocked out. (Bill Ross, Associated Press correspondent, a few blocks away, placed the figure at 11. apparently in the same battle.) Behind the American tanks. Ma 560 FIRST ON IOCI DIAL 1:30 P.

M. Mary Jones 3:00 P. M. Three Hours of Music, with Howard Jones, Tom Moorehead and Bob Horn 6:30 P. Sam 7:15 P.

M. Elmer Davis 11:00 P.M. Valley Forge Stardust Time, with Bob Horn WFIL-TV CHANNEL 6 man said. NEEDS STAFF OF 2000 air ahead of them. When first seen, the thing was at treetop level, they said, and appeared to be about six feet in It settled in an open ffeld near 26th st.

After summoning Street Sgt. Joseph Cook and Fatrol-man James Casper, his driver, they went into the field to investigate. uoi. AiDert tc. ureisoacn, com manding officer at Valley Forge, said can fighting in Korea, regardless yesterday that with a normal ca FIVE OBJECTIVES The foundation trustees said it ould concentrate "for the present" five objectives "leaving to oth-ei the continued exploration of such v.

tally important fields as the phy-siial sciences, medicine and public The Ford foundation was first set in 1936, but only now with the flial settlement of inheritances taxes is beginning to function fully. LOST Sat. eve. Ept. 23rd.

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LOST Youth male white Act brow- pacity of 1600 beds, the hospital needs of his branch of service. The allotment would be in addition to the free PHHE four officers stood a few feet UP). Industrialist Vivien Kellems, bitter foe of the Federal withholding tax, failed today in a last-ditch effort to qualify for a place on the Connecticut voting ballot this November. Secretary of State Winifred McDonald disclosed the newly formed Independence Party lacked sufficient petition signers to put Miss Kellems cn the ballot. Miss Kellems had only 36 of the 6323 names she needed.

from the object, they said, and v. m. Baseball: Athletics vs. daily can now provided for combat a staff of at least 2000, including about 90 physicians', 180 nurses, ward attendants, maintenance workers turned their flashlights on it, men. whereupon it gave off a purplish and guards.

"I hasten to accept your offer to rines stalked warily down the littered streets, their weapons ready. They ducked into doorways and fired at unseen Red snipers who had the advantage of cover and the chance to fire the Tirst shot. If the city was liberated the re- glow, almost a mist, that looked as contribute beer to the welfare and The physical plant is ready for pa New York 5:54 P. M. News 9:00 P.

M. The Don McNeill Show 10:00 P.M. Wrestling, from Chi cago (Fpota. brown eara. Red Reward Paul Hoffman, retiring head of the though it contained crystals.

comfort of our unified figkting forces W. bedgwick t. og 8-4140 tients at a moment's notice, Colonel Dreisbach said. Its stock rooms are Cooperation Administra- in Korea, who are giving their "all Collins stepped forward and tried LOST Amethyit bracelet. Cam-bna au Sat, eve Rew GA 3-5092.

Other Lost and Found Page 49 to re-establish peace," O'Brien quot ed MacArthur' message. Continued on Page Column Continued oa Page 2, Column Continued on Fac 4, Column 4 Continued on Page 2, Column 5.

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