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2 a THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER, WEDNESDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 27 Published ind Sunday. Entered daJi matter. DefembT 1. 1SS7, at the Post Office at Philadelphia. under Act of March 3, i 1D30 First to Be Freed by GIs, 3 Yank Captives Weep YONGDONG, Korea, Sept.

28 (UP). "We're taking this joint over," a voice said, and two tough sergeants and a private who had been held prisoner by the North Koreans for 25 days began to cry. Chicago 'Saved' in Test Against Atom Bombing By JOHN M. McCULLOUGH Inquirer Staff Reporter CHICAGO, Sept. 26.

Chicago was able to beat down "fires springing from three simulated atom bomb explosions as a result of dispersing almost two-thirds of its fire apparatus to the out I "When he said that I knew he was Draff Aide Spikes Talk of 26-35 Call I P' I irws I -I Vu dlUll pi fnMf" I i a i 4 yJ nV- i I mii-riifi "TV mm mi "i-iitii -fffr mfrnf't tnf "Tnnil "fl'm'M rtn mnii mmiimni i TURNING THE TABLES: AIR FORCE RECRUITS LOOK OVER A SERGEANT Master.Sgt. John Cristapoviz finding himself the cen- terday. They are (lefj; to right) Betty Scott, Jacque-ter of attraction as he walks past a group of Air Force line Sellers, Joan McCarey, Doris Hollowell and Virginia recruits at the 13th and Market sts. headquarters yes- Yost. Sixth, Rosemary Corcoran, is obscured by sergeant.

Death Pocket on Reds Navy to Call Up 15,000 Officers skirts of the 210-square-mile city, metropolitan civil defense plan ners claimed today. Both the bombing and the dispersal," of course, were "on paper." although tests to determine running time actually have been made by each type of fire apparatus from its home station with bells and sirens silent, and by observing traffic lights and ordinances. These precautions w-ere taken, planners pointed out, in order not to alarm the general public. 20 STATES REPRESENTED The second day of Chicago's test "Exercise Survival" hit a stride today which had 700 representatives from 20 States, including the sizeable Philadelphia and Pennsylvania delegations, sitting on the edge of their chairs in the Field Museum's theater auditorium. Pennsylvania's delegation is headed by Maj.

Gen. Richard K. Mellon, director of the State's Military and Civil Defense Commission. The Philadelphia delegation, six strong and due to be reinforced tomorrow with additional representatives, Is headed by Maj. Gen.

Norman D. Cota and one of his four staff operations officers, Col. Jesse R. Hunt. Chicago's test "Exercise Survival" and that is exactly what it is is purely a "paper" plan.

There is no fully-trained and recruited civil defence organization, with its hundreds of key staff and operating execu tives, and its tens of thousands of working level men and women. At the moment, it is a staff organization solely. EXTENSIVE EXERCISE The exercise now in progress, which will conclude with a summation seminar on Friday, is probably the most extensive and intensive "dry run" on oivil defense planning ever held in the new world. Under sponsorship and with the active planning assistance of specialists of the National Security Resources Board, led by Philadelphia-born Eric H. Biddle, Chicago's municipal departments and the best brains of its civilian populace literally have run themselves ragged in the last three months, whipping into shape a plan which, when implemented, will work it is hoped PLAYS TWO ROLES Pennsylvania's newly-elected civil defense director, Col.

Alton C. Miller, is wearing two hats, in the familiar military phraseology. He is an active member of the NSRB specialist staff here and at the same time is -holding conferences with State and Philadelphia representatives on specific future activities. Colonel Miller, incidentally, has been cheek-and-jowl with civil defense since 1940, and he played an active part, directly or indirectly, in the formulation of the three major post-war American civil defense documents: the report of the "Butt board," submitted by a board of general officers of the Army in 1947; the so-called "Hopley Report," 1948. and the NSRB's civil defense "Blue Book," published Sept.

18. SIMILAR PROBLEM Merely write Philadelphia for Chicago, and the' significance of what is going on here between the banks of the Chicago and Calumet Rivers and the shores of Lake Michigan could be transposed easily to the banks of the Schuylkill and the Delaware. Pennsylvania's and Philadelphia's delegations will take back to their jurisdictions the most valuable collection of documents and sober judgments on the problem of civil defense ever hammered out by voluntary action of free American citizens in the face of an emergency which can't, it is unanimously agreed, be licked by any measures other than all-out pre-crisis planning and training. Soviet in Arrears On U.N. Payment LAKE SUCCESS, N.

Sept. 26 (AP). Russia still hasn't paid her $2,166,378 United Nations assessment for 1950, a U.N. report showed today. The United States made the last payment recently on her $13,596,243 contribution.

Reds would stop short of that boundary between North and South Korea, -some 30 miles north of Seoul. Meanwhile Allied aircraft dropped more than 2,160,000 leaflets exhorting the Reds to surrender. The leaflets, written in Korean, advised that Seoul and Inchon had been captured, all possible supply routes had been snapped and further resistance was futile. The combined might of land-based and carrier-based aircraft swept Korea on tactical missions, ripping into fleeing groups of the Korean Red Army as it retreated on all fronts. a GI," said Pvt.

James E. Martin, of San Andrea, Calif. "When those GIs walked into that jail I cried." "I thought I was too old to cry, but I dropped a couple of tears myself," said Sgt. Frank R. Freede, of Mo-nett, and Long Beach, Calif.

FIRST CAPTIVES FREED Martin, Freede. and Sgt. Blaine Mackrall, of Colome, S. and Ta-coma, were the first American prisoners of war to be liberated in the Korean fighting. They were freed by tank men of the 24th Division who came through Yongdong on their way to Taejon about 5 P.

M. today. The tank men shot the doors off the jail and gave each of the liberated Americans a big slug of whisky, C-rations and chewing gum. Freede, Mackrall and Martin said they were well treated by the North Korean army but mistreated by the Red police. BARLEY 3 TIMES DAILY They said they were fed only a handful of barley three times a day and had to sit in one position for 16 hours, from the time they got up until they went to bed.

The three men were unaware of the victory of the United Nations invasion forces at Seoul and victory by U. S. forces in the southeast perimeter. "We thought the gooks had taken Taegu and gone through," Freede said. Mackrall and Freede were members of the U.

S. Second Division. Freede, who had been wounded by a mortar shell, was the only survivor of a group of eight GIs who ere machine-gunned In a ditch by North Koreans. Although wounded the foot by machine-gun fire, he managed to crawl away to a hilltop 'vhen it became dark. He lay there or nine days until some North Korean medics discovered him.

HIS DEATH RUSE FAILS Mackrail said five men were with him when they were surrounded and Machine-gunned by the Reds. He said he played dead until one of the Communists threw a rock at him snd found out he still was alive. Mackrall said he started out as one cf 67 prisoners, managed to escape and then was recaptured when he crawled Into a truck with a North Korean. Martin was with the First Cavalry Division when he was captured. The three men said they were treated by 'North Korean doctors who were well educated and spoke English.

'WE DON'T HATE YOU' They said one doctor told them, "We don't hate you. We hate your government." This doctor also told them North Korea had plenty of planes and a "tecret weapon" north of the 38th parallel. He sketched a rough map for them, pointing out that behind North Korea was Communist China arid behind Red China was the Soviet Union." The three Americans said the Ko-rem Reds had great confidence in Cc mmunism and in Russia's leadership. S. Africa Fliers Leave for Tokyo JOHANNESBURG, South Africa, Sept.

26 (AP). "Members of a South African fighter squadron left Prtoria on a special train ester-da to join U.N. forces in Korea, it was officially announced today. They will arrive in Tokyo in about nv; weeks, the announcement said. 19SO 29 30 1950 September tm MOM TUt WfB IHU 27 28 5:52 A.

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26. 1950. Temneratur 1950 October 1950 SIM MOM TUf WfO TMU Ml 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 i 9 io lrgsriia is 16 17 is rr 20 21 22 23 24 Citqto Sun rises 5 Sun sets Korean War Comimin i ucs TOKYO, Sept 27 (Wednesday) (UP). Text of United Nations communique No. 10: Elements of the 8th Army and 10th Corps have linked up In the vicinity of Suwon.

This completes a phase of the United Nations "counter-attack to liberate South Korea. On Sept. 26 elements of the First Cavalry Division attacked north from, the vicinity of Chongju and completed a juncture with the 7th Infantry Division just south of the airfield at Suwon after dark. The First Cavalry Division's armored task force advanced approximately 55 miles to close the trap on North Korean forces presently occupying the southwest corner of Korea. While mopping: up fighting is still in progress in this area, all effective escape routes are closed and the fate of North Korean forces caught in thl pocket is sealed.

U. S. 8TH ARMY HEADQUARTERS, Korea, Sept. 27 (Wednesday) JAP). Text of Xth Army communique No.

113 issued today at 10 A. M. (8 P. M. EST Tuesday) Forward elements of the First Cavalry Division made contact with the 7th Division 6000 yards northwest of Osan at 11:45 last night.

The advance was made against no enemy opposition. The 24th Division, continuing up the main Taegu-Seoul route, was midway between Yongdong and Taejon at dark yesterday. After capturing Kochang, troops of the 2d Division continued southwest and advanced seven miles. Other elements of the division were still engaged in clearing enemy troops between Hyopchon and the Naktong River. A task force of the 25th Division was advancing northwest from Chinju yesterday and at last report had gained 15 miles against increasing resistance.

Most of the division was engaged In reorganizing and clearing small pockets of the enemy in the Uiryong and Chinju areas. On the northern front, ROK (Republic of Korea) forces continued their unopposed advance. On the coast, the 3d Division moved 26 miles during the past 24 hours, reaching Toksin. Elements of the Capital Division gained 12 miles to Togye, 24 miles northwest of Yongdok. The 2d Division continued northwest between Namchang and Ye-chon while the 8th Division had elements seven miles south and southwest of Yongju.

Reds Yield on Area Claimed by British BERLIN, Sept. 26 (AP). The British announced today the Russians had agreed to recognize as British territory a border strip on the western outskirts of Berlin. It had been the object of a week-long dispute. British troops painted a white strip across the road to designate their border and the bloodless "Battle of the Barrier" was expected to come to a peaceful end with the Russian-withdrawal.

British spokesmen have said that the issue could have been settled at once without fuss if the Russians had asked to use the road before moving in. THE WEATHER OFFICIAL U. S. FORECAST FOR CITY AND NEARBY STATES Phil adelphia and vicinity: Partly cloudy and a little warmer today and tomorrow. Gentle southerly winds.

Eastern PennsyWania and Maryland: Increasing cloudiness and warmer today. Southern New Jersey and Delaware: Some cloudiness and warmer today. Western Pennsylvania aid Western New York: Rather cloudy today with some chance of rain tonight; highest temperature 68 to 75. Northern New Jersey and New York City: Fair and warmer today with the highest temperature in the middle 70s. Interior Eastern New York: Partly cloudy today; not so cool tonight.

District of Columbia: Increasing cloudiness today with the highest temperature in the low 70s. Virginia: Increasing cloudiness and somewhat warmer today followed by rain in the southwest portion tonight. West Virginia: Mostly cloudy today followed by rain tonight; highest temperature 65 to 70. Ohio: Cloudy and rain in the southwest portion today, spreading to the east and north portions tonight. Connecticut: Fair with somewhat higher temperatures today and tonight.

Block Island to Cape Hatteras: Gentle to moderate winds, mostly southwesterly over the extreme north portion and northeasterly over ms extreme south portion today. oomt cloudiness and good visibility. POLLEN COUNT The pollen count for yesterday: 2 granules per cubic yard of air. This is the average of counts taken at nine representative counting stations throughout the city. On the same date last year the count was 13.

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O'BRIEN Inquirer Washington Bureau. WASHINGTON, Sept. 26. Men in the age group from 26 to 35 years will not be drafted in the foreseeable future, a high-ranking Selective Service official said today. Colonel Daniel O.

Omer, general counsel of Selective Service, told a special farm labor manpower committee that the age group from 19 to 25, including veterans, would be exhausted before the older men would be called. He said that men over 35 probably would not be drafted at all. BOARDS CRITICIZED Omer criticized draft boards for being too free with occupational deferments of men in the 19-to-25 age group. He also said that dependencies other than small children should no. be accepted as grounds for deferment in that age bracket.

Omer took the position that vet- erans in the 19 to 25 age' group should be drafted, pointing to the fact that they are being called up if they are members of the National Guard or the organized reserves. Elimination of deferment for veterans also is favored by Chairman Carl Vinson Ga.) of the House Armed Service Committee. At the same time, however, Vinson believes Congress should consider the feasibility of raising the draft age limit. PRQBE OF MANPOWER A sweeping investigation of thr Army's use of manpower was announced by Vinson. He said his committee would hold hearings covering every angle of the subject from the reasons why so many draftees were being rejected to estimates on the number of American troops who might have to help guard Europe-against Communist aggression.

(In New York Maj. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey, Selective Service director, charged that the standards set up by the armed services for acceptance or rejection of inductees were "too rigid" and must be relaxed if the goal of 3,000,000 men was to be achieved.) ACTION UP TO CONGRESS Regulations concerning deferment for dependency and occupation in the 19-25 age group may be changed by. Presidential executive order, but any change in the draft age limits or the deferment of veterans would have to be authorized by Congress.

The armed forces now have men and plan to induct another 1,200,000 between now and July, 1951. After the peak strength is attained. r. i .1 oeictuvc oei vice wui De caiieu upon to supply about 100,000 men a month to maintain the armed services at full strength. 1 Marshall Confers With President i WASHINGTON, Sept.

26 (UP). Gen. George C. Marshall had his first conference with President Truman today since becoming Secretary of Defense, but was mum about their discussion. He told reporters afterward that, since it 'was the first meeting, "naturally we had a great deal to talk about." But he ducked nearly all other questions.

"All I can do is smile," he said when asked about including Germans in the European defense force. "I must smile again," he parried when queried about reports that Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower may be picked to head the unified West European command. Morocco Flood Kills 30 FEZ, Morocco, Sept.

26 (INS). Thirty persons were reported killed in the village of Sefrou, 15 miles southeast of Fez, today when heavy rains flooded the region, sweeping away houses and shops. Tribune, Keyes Beech of the Chi cago Daily News and this correspondent climbed into a shell-riddled concrete schoolhouse atop a sniper-swept hilltop for a look at the heart of Seoul. We saw the doomed capitol with its tall campanile-type tower whera American occupation forces used to attend movies. We saw the city hall and Banto and Chosen hotels.

From our vantage none of these buildings appeared damaged. Below us lay the main railway station, battered by shell and bomb and smoking dully. A rusty streetcar lay on its side in front of the depot. Duk Soo Palace was not visible. As the fight for Seoul nears iti finish one of its pitiful aspects grows: the battle dead and wounded among civilians.

This correspondent saw one little girj about 7 who had been burned by white phosphorus. Whether it was ours or the Reds' was uncertain. Both sides used it. FACE PUFFED, PITTED' The girl was bandaged from head to foot. Only the tips of her fingers extended from the white wrappings.

Her eyes were swollen almost shut. Her face was puffed and pitted black, as if it had been heavily peppered. She whimpered a thanks for the chocolate bar she was given. To one room of Seoul city prison the Koreans brought their civilian wounded. There was little Oriental impassivity here.

Women crouched on their heels and' crooned over an injured child or husband. One old man sat silently holding the hand of his elderly wife, whose lower lefi leg was almost blown off. A youns girl smiled tremblingly and tearfu'ly. No one stood sympathetic watch over her. Blankets were pulled over the faces of the dead.

This was the humar. wreckage of Seoul the prict of liberation. Yanks Close Continued From First Page nists were killed in Allied air attacks along the battle lines yesterday. The announcement, quoting Air Force reports, described the North Korean army as "rapidly disorganizing." It said the targets were becoming so scarce that 34 sorties returned without finding anything to shoot at. South Korean and American troops fanned out today over highways in South Korea toward cities that are communication points.

The U. S. 24th Division approached Taejon, whose occupation would seal a network of rail and highway routes. Taejon is nearly 90 miles south of Seoul. TRAP BEING CLOSED TJ.

S. 2d and 25th Division troops threatened to close a trap on about 30,000 men of three Communist divisions. Second infantrymen swung south from Kochang, 65 miles northwest of Pusarr. They advanced seven miles toward the area where the Communists are. Another arm of the trap was being extended toward Kochang from Chinju.

Last reports placed 25th Division troops 30 miles northwest of Chinju. Kochang and Chinju are only 35 air miles apart but slightly more by road. A juncture appeared imminent. Bern Price, AP correspondent, said scores of Communists were moving out of the hills and surrendering. Seoul, a city of fire and death, paid the full price for its liberation from almost three months of Communist rule.

MacArthur announced on behalf of the United Nations Tuesday that "envelopment and seizure" of the Korean capital had been completed. Hours later, savage house-to-house combat still raged through its flaming, streets. LINE RETREAT ROUTE U. S. Marines, 7th Division infantrymen and the South Korean 17th Regiment closed in on some 5000 Korean Reds who preferred death to surrender.

The remainder of the garrison was in flight to the north. A 10th Corps communique early today said the South Korean units moved rapidly through Seoul to the east, reaching high ground eight miles from the center of the devastated city. This was along the northern retreat route the Reds were taking in their flight toward the 38th parallel. Three counter-attacks were broken up Tuesday night inside Seoul, two of them by the Marine First Division and the other by the 7th Division. The attacking Red forces were destroyed.

An estimated 650 Korean Reds were captured. BARRICADES BLASTED Hundreds of North Koreans were slain in the convulsive fighting. About 1800 died in 36 hours of combat in one northwest sector alone. Non-combatants tne men, women Another Medal For Sen. Vaughan WASHINGTON.

26 (AP). Maj. Gen. Harry H. Vaughan.

military aide to thev President, got another medal today. The Regular Veterans' Association presented a gold medal to Vaughan "for meritorious services to the armed forces and to veterans." Rentzel Heads CAB WASHINGTON. Sept. 25 (AP. President Truman today named Delos W.

Rentzel as chairman of Jhe Civil Aeronautics Board. Pfftli's Gone Flying 'Saucer SMssoIves Continued From First Pag to pick the thing up. The part of the mass on which he laid his hands dissolved, leaving nothing but a slight, odorless, sticky residue. Within 25 minutes, as they stood and watched, the entire substance had evaporated. It was so light, they said, that it did not even bend the weeds on which it lighted.

Sergeant Cook notified the FBI a little sheepishly, since, he pointed out. he'd have nothing whatever to show them when they arrived, except a magic circle on the ground where something purple, and quite evanescent, once had been. and children who made up Seoul's more than 1,000,000 population struggled to keep out of the fighting swirling around them. But there was no safety. Flames from burning structures lightened the path of Marines fighting their way toward the American Embassy near Duk Soo palace in the heart of Seoul.

At one point Marines saw a poster portrait of Stalin and Kim II Sung, the Communist ruler of North Korea, framed in a blazing doorway. Marines used 90-millimeter guns of Pershing tanks, 3.5 bazookas and bulldozers to press through street barricades. Seoul was suffering the agonies of Manila, Berlin, Warsaw and the other devastated capitals of the Second World War. Don Whitehead, veteran AP correspondent, reported: "Not in two wars have I seen anything to equal the battle for Seoul." Whitehead said the Reds were making their death stand from houses, ridges and rooftops of the 550-year-old city. Maj.

Gen. Edward M. Almond, commander of the 10th Corps, said Seoul "no longer is of value to the enemy." With seizure of its northeast section, he said, all major objectives of the Inchon invasion force will have been taken. Seoul's night sky was aglow with fires. It lit up weirdly the smoke-filled streets where Marines dashed past buildings crashing to the ground after fires gutted them.

MANY REDS IN FLIGHT The Reds had chosen to defend Seoul and the Americans were not sparing any building where the Reds had built up strong points. The Allied High Command was determined not to sacrifice lives to save the face of Seoul. Not all of the Communist garrison in Seoul chose to remain. Of an estimated 15,000 to 18,000 defenders when the battle opened five days ago, an untold number fled out of the northeast exits of the city. More than 2000 left Monday night.

Still more followed them after a futile battle early Tuesday when Ma rines knocked out 11 Red tanks. DROP SURRENDER LEAFLETS A headquarters spokesman said remnants of the Red garrison fled northward toward the 38th parallel where they might make a stand. There was no sign that the fugitive Korea Unify Plan Drafted by British Continued From First Page las MacArthur to cross the 38th parallel and occupy all Korea. An American source said the U. S.

had not yet determined whether it would act as co-sponsor of the resolution, but that the U. S. first learned Saturday of the British action and had been kept informed and approved of what had been done so far. OCCUPATION INVOLVED In response to a question, source said the British resolution also envisaged a military occupation of Korea, but said that it would be for as short a period as possible. He said elections would not be held until occupation forces had been withdrawn.

In the Security Council, Jacob A. Malik, Soviet delegation, revived a Russian resolution calling on the United States, to halt its "inhuman, barbaric bombings of the peaceful population, towns and villages in Korea." LIKENED TO 'HASH' Ernest A. Gross. U. S.

delegate, described the Soviet vresolution as "a warmed-over dish of propaganda hash." He did not object, however, to placing the question on the Security Council Agenda. However, the Council adjourned without a vote after almost five hours of deliberations. Gross in a letter to Secretary-General Trygve Lie said he had received information indicating one American plane "may have inadvertently violated Chinese territory and dropped bombs in the vicinity of Antung on the night of Sept. 22." WASHINGTON, Sept. 26 fAP).

The Navy expects to call up more than 15,000 line and specialist officers as it continues the buildup at sea, in the air and ashore, it was learned today. There will be no sudden call for the entire number ultimately needed. But the first 4000 or 5000 reserv ists may be summoned in the nea future. The general increase will be spread out over a long period, Navy offi cials said. It will be synchronized with a progressive increase in ships of the fleet, naval aviation and func tions of shore stations which keep the combat services operating.

EXPERTS CALLED BACK Many of the officers called back to active duty, voluntarily and invol untarily, are doctors, dentists, elec tronic experts and "other specialists. But there also will be "substantial numbers" of line officers (those qualified for general deck duty) In manning the scores of additional ships and 1100 more aircraft for the bigger Navy. Congressional sources disclosed re cently that the total personnel of the Navy would be boosted from 375,000 to 579,000 under the program cur rently under way. The number of ships going into the active fleet, and also the size of some of them, will create heavy de mand for officer manpower. As an example, the Navy had been operating until recently with eight large carriers.

It has expanded the number to 10. Only yesterday a new Essex-class, the Oriskany, was put into commission at New York. At full wartime strength, the ship normally would have aboard 123 ship's officers and 171 officers of the air group. Actually, virtually all Navy combatant ships currently are operating with only about 85 percent of wartime strength. SHIP LEAVES RESERVE Another example is the battleship New Jersey, now being taken out of reserve to join her sister ship Missouri in the active fleet.

That class battleship, biggest afloat, requires 127 officers. Additional heavy demand for ship's officers will corrie from the buildup of other combatant ship strengths. Tank Crews enough to fire their burp guns at the Marines. "By 3:15 or 3:30 A. M.

we had everything pretty well stopped, but when we ceased firing they would open up," he said. "We stopped their tanks, but we couldn't stop their guns. At dawn today one of them still was firing." VETERAN MARINE OFFICER (Major Simmons, whose home is at 345 Billings Paulsboro, has been in the Marines since 1942. the year he was graduated from Lehigh University. During the Second World War he served 26 months in the Pacific and Far East.

(For the next three years he was editor of a Marine Corps paper at Quantico, then transferred to an amphibious warfare unit. His wife, the former Audrey Steinrucken, is now living with her parents in Baltimore.) Red fire continued throughout the day mortars, high velocity weapons, rifles, automatic weapons. This correspondent entered Seoul city prison, which Marines secured yesterday. Two mortar shells fell within the prison compound, fragments from one rattling off the roof of a prison building and onto the writer's cap. FOUND SLAIN IN JAIL The Marines found the prison empty except for one dead Korean, his hands bound behind him and a bullet through the back of his head.

Many of the fume-groggy tankmen had to be relieved after firing until the interiors of their tanks became untenable. The prison was a brief resting place for, some of them. Other Leathernecks took a breather there too. Some lay sprawled in sleep within the cells of the huge building. Others rooted' aimlessly through North Korean military clothing found in a warehouse.

The Marine chaplain had set up a small and simple altar in the prison Battle Red Fury in Seoul A headquarters spokesman said the Reds no longer were an effective fighting army. Hourly that force was being further reduced although rearguard units at a few points continued to hold out. HAMMER AND ANVIL Lt. Gen. Walton H.

Walker's 8th Army had become the "hammer" which was pounding the Reda against the "anvil" of General Almond's 10th Corps on the Inchon-Seoul-Suwon front. This was following to the letter MacArthur's strategy as conceived before the Inchon landing Sept. 15. In the succeeding 11 days the 8th Army, bursting out of its old Pusan perimeter in the southeast, ripped and plunged in a half-dozen directions through Southern Korea's road and rail network. Its objective was to join with 10th Corps units south of Suwon.

The objective was attained when tanks met at 11:30 Tuesday night on the highway. 24TH HEADS FOR TAEJON The U. S. 24th- Division jumped off Wednesday toward Taejon from Okchon. eight air miles to the east.

The 24th had paused at Okchon overnight for rest, gasoline and reinforcements. It was at Taejon that the 24th's commander, Maj. Gen. William D. Dean disappeaFed during the confusion of the retreat early in the war.

Tuesday, the 24th pushed 20 miles northwest of Kumchon to Yongdong, 22 miles from Taejon. There, three American soldiers, all wounded, were freed from a jail where they had been held as prisoners of war. In the south, the rampaging 25th Division with orders to clean up all of southwest Korea broke up enemy remnants in the Sachon area who fled in confusion, downing their arms Groggy GI By TOM LAMBERT Continued From First Page maining North Korean defenders did not know it. This correspondent saw the Reds stage small counter-attacks by walking boldly down the middle of fire-swept streets. Hundreds of rounds of artillery and mortar fire, and the stouthearted resistance of Marines who refused to budge, enabled American armor to beat off the enemy tank assault.

Leathernecks held their ground even when Red tanks blasted sandbag defenses down on top of them. Maj. Edwin H. Simmons, of Pauif- boro, N. heavy weapons officer for one Marine battalion, said the Leathernecks hit the counter-attacking Reds "with everything we had." GIVES TANK ALARM Simmons was preparing an artillery, barrage to precede a 2 A.

M. Marine attack, is command post was on a slight hill overlooking the main north oad into Seoul, along which the attack was to be launched. "At 1:45 I heard tanks coming down the street," he said. "I flashed the battalion command post and grabbed for a radio to notify the Marines on the barricade in the street. "Then the first Red 85-mm shell hit.

I told the barricade that tanks were coming, then dived into the cellar of a house, calling for my radio man. He had been killed by that first shell." In the next few minutes Marine 81-mm mortars fired 650 rounds and the 105-mm artillery guns about 900 rounds. They were joined by fire fiom 155s and 4.2 mortars, and from Marines with machine guns, 75-mm recoilless guns and 3.2 bazookas. INFANTRY JOLXS ATTACK Simmons said the Reds drove five tanks toward his position. North Korean infantrymen, moving up with the tanks, advanced close Atlai ta Atlai tie City Burairck.

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chapel. Two candles flanked a crucifix, in front of which lay an opened Bible. On the walls were North Korean pictures and posters of fat North Korean Red Premier Kim II Sung. KINDLY STALIN PORTRAYED In one corner the wall bore a colored lithograph of a benevolent-looking Stalin, standing beside a birch tree behind a fair-haired Caucasian boy. On the main road into Seoul the street whistled with danger.

Sniper bullets hummed like hornets. Their buzz was drowned occasionally by the deeper bark of a Marine M-l or Browning automatic rifle, or by a Marine artillery or mortar shell. Up the main street toward the principal railway station which the Leathernecks reached today the Reds had erected sandbag barricades eight feet deep at the base, three feet wide at the top and extending the widh of the street. Marine tanks blasted through them. GROWING DEVASTATION As you approach the heart of the city, battle damage becomes more evident.

There will be still more if the North Koreans force U. S. Marines and" soldiers to use mortars and artillery to clear out other strongpoints. Houses and fences are pitted with bullet holes. Few whole windows remain.

Cannon fire has leveled many buildings. The streets and hills echo and re-echo the American mortar and artillery bursts and those of the fiercely defending Reds. Many fires are burning throughout Seoul. In the words of Marine Pfc. David Schrum, of York, and Joseph Laukaitio, of Worcester, the city "was lit up like In mid-afternopn as the Marines slugged and shot their way closer to the French consulate the American and British consulates still were in enemy territory Marguerite Higgins of the New York Herald- L.

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