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PORT HURON" TIME BLERAJLD WEAVHER fD. Watnei Hurtnu torecarO WARM, SHOWERS TONIGHT AND TUESDAY 11 no. u. SIXTEEN PACES TODAY PORT HURON, MICHIGAN, MONDAY, JULY 17, 1950 PORT Published Dally. Sunday by The Ttmea Herald Co.

Entered as Second Clasp Mall Matter. Poetoffice. Port Huron. Mich. PRICE FIVE CENTS FINAU EDITION MalJ Lm MS EMI Escapade Scores II PINCERS CLOSE CITY ackinac Sweep VSNSS inw Washington, July 17 UP High military spokesmen today said that despite the North Korean break-through on the Kum river line there is still plenty of time and space in which to stabilize the line and throw back the invaders.

Truman Expected -5 "2 1 -A W'tfife' ''TTri Sitfllli s' 1'' Detroit Man Drowns Off Pearl Beach Algonac, July 17 A Detroit fisherman was drowned in the St. Clair River near Pearl Beach Sunday when he stepped into a dropoff as he sought to throw his fishing line out to deeper waters. The victim, Joseph John Xawrocki, 44, of 19214 Charest road, was fishing near the shore and waded out to a deeper spot, witnesses said, when he suddenly disappeared from view. Recovery operations were started by the St. Clair Flats Coast Guard Station and private parties in the area, and State Police of the St.

Clair post investigated. A PRIVATE BOAT, manned by Engineman Third Class Dan Hart-man and Seaman Walter Mazur of the Coast Guard, dragged one area 'By The United Press) Tokyo, July 17 The main American force defending Tae-jon abandoned the big transport center tonight to communist troops closing in from three directions. Taejon, key defense city of the central Korean hills, was technically in American hands at 9:05 p.m. (7:05 a.m. EDT), United Press correspondent Gene Symonds reported by telephone after he left the city at dusk.

But he added: "The only persons in the practically-deserted city were some South Korean soldiers whose vehicle had stopped, one or two civilians, and about a dozen GI's." it SYMONDS HAD REPORTED earlier that some Americans already had left Taejon, and there was some doubt whether the rest could get out before the swiftly-closing communist pincers trapped them. The battered but furiously fighting GI's had fallen back into the city after communist forces, outnumbering them 10 to 1, broke the defense positions along the Kum river north of Taejon. Their defense of Taejon was the stiffest delaying action yet fought in the Korean war. Gen. Douglas MacArthur praised their valor and effectiveness against overwhelming odds.

Outflanked and threatened with envelopment, the Americans gave up their airstrip outside Taejon after destroying the four planes left there. Then with the communists slugging into the suburbs they began to fade back along the trunk transport lines leading to Pusan, the entry port on the southeast coast. SYMOXD REPORTED from somewhere outside Taejon that just before leaving the city he toured its "empty streets" over which "an ominous silence settled." "We heard no gunfire from the American defense positions around the city," his telephoned dispatch said. IX THE DRIXK! Eldon Cameron lost his balance and splashed into the water during the log rolling exhibition Sunday which was part of the Blue Water Festival activities. Martin Krueger is standing astride the log as Loren Reid, left, and William Roache, right, steady it.

(Times Herald Staff Photo) sJi CZZXv' a agiwrrtfr wnwiff 4T.3 a 7T WAS HUNDREDS AGAINST THOUSANDS' By ROBERT C. MILLER (United Press Staff Correspondent) With American forces on the Korean front, Korea, July 17 The communists came by the thousands in fanatical, screaming waves, right into American foxholes and beyond, a Marquette, soldier said today. American artillery fired at point blank range as fast at tt could be loaded, but it couldn't stop them for long. Neither could U. S.

machine-gunners who piled up communist bodies like cordwood in front of their guns. For every one killed, 10 took his place. AND STILL THEY CAME. An aid station was enveloped. The North Koreans killed all the wounded, even the chaplain who had stayed behind to comfort the men.

That is how the North Koreans caved In the American line on the Kum river north of Taejon Sunday. They won by sheer weight of numbers. In simple arithmetic, it was hundreds of Americans fighting against thousands, perhaps tens of thousands, of North Koreans. Lt. A.

A. Dianda of Marquette, told how it was in the front lines. "We must have killed 1,000 of the young lieutenant said. "You just couldn't miss." "We were dug in on a dike along the river," he said. "They opened up on us about 4:30 a.m.

Sunday. The fire did not hurt ui much, but we had to keep our heads down. "THE FIRST ATTACK came right behind the barrage. This first group of North Koreans carried only knives and hand grenades. "They swam the river and scrambled up the banks and came right into the foxholes where we were ducking for cover.

As fast as they'd clean out one foxhole, they'd move into another in sort of leapfrog fashion." In this way, Dianda said, the reds cleared an area of about 300 yards on either side of a vital bridge across the Kum which the Americans had blown up earlier. "Then came the main attack," he said. "They poured out of the woods on the other side of the river in groups of about 70 yelling 'Banzai! and running straight at us. "They were all well-uniformed and every fifth man carried an automatic weapon. They tried to come through the hole they had made in our front-line defenses but we were ready for them.

WE HAD THE AREA zeroed in with heavy mortars and artillery and blew them to bits at point-blank range. "From 6 until 8 a.m., they kept coming out of those woods and we kept blasting away at them. "They would hold their fire until they were on top of us and then give us the works. "They pushed through our forward positions, but we caught them with machine-gun fire from our second line of defense along some hills about 500 yards to the rear. "One machine-gunner must have killed 250 of them in 15 minutes.

of the river while a boat owned by Wellington LaParl, Pearl Beach, searched another area. Persons in the LaParl boat succeeded in recovering the body about 8:30 p.m., about one hour and 45 minutes after Nawrocki went under. The body, clad in swimming trunks, was found in about 12 feet of water and about 10 feet south of the spot where Xawrocki was last seen, according to Coast Guardsmen. The remains were removed Sunday night from the Roy T. Gilbert funeral home, Algonac, to Detroit, for funeral services and burial.

St. Clair County Coroner Arthur E. Smith said death resulted from accidental drowning. DROWNINGS, TRAFFIC CLAIM 17 LIVES IN STATE By The United Press At least 17 persons died in Michigan traffic and drowning accidents during the weekend, a United Press survey showed today. Nine persons were drowned.

-Three young boys were drowned in Sunday's worst single accident. Two young brothers, William Garrett, 8, and Donald, 10r and their 11 -year -old companion, Sonny Bohnhoff, were drowned af Bav City's Winona beach. Frederick Wilson, 18, another Saginaw youth, was drowned in the lagoon at Bay City State Park. Two persons died of heart disease while swimming. Lewis Gravely, 32, Detroit, was found dead in one foot of water at the Portland, municipal dam.

Edward Nelson, 16, Chicago, dropped dead in two feet of water in Crystal lake near Whitehall. Both were victims of heart disease, according to coroners' reports. In Detroit, police investigated the mysterious death of 12-year-old Martin Zbozien. He collapsed Sunday while recovering a ball from behind an electric popcorn machine in a candy shop. An autopsy failed to show the cause of his death.

Army Lists First Thumb Casualty The Thumb District's casualty in the Korean fighting was announced today by the Defense Department. Pfc. George Stoeckl son of George Stoeckl Owendale, Huron County, was listed among 21 wounded, according to the Associated Press. No further details were given. OFF TO A FAST START The Boy Scout team of Robert W.

Kesteloot (left in lead canoe) and Raymond M. Currie got off to a fast start in the canoe race Sunday on Black river and came in second in the race, while Gordon Weliman, left, in canoe nearest camera, and Ted Engel right, dropped slightly behind after breaking a paddle on the first stroke of the race. An extra paddle which the boys, carried saved the day and Weliman and Engel won the race in one hour and 40 minutes. The canoe in the background is manned by Bud Cruick shank (hidden behind Currie) and Reed Maes, who came in fifth. Yawl Breaks Race Record By Two Hours.

Wins Fleet Honors, Cruising A Crown In Double Victory By EARL C. HARTSOX (Times Herald Staff Reporter ioard the Mackinaw. July 17 Escapade, after beating the record in 1949 by Royono by some two Sours, was definitely the winner of Cruising Class A when it was determined that it had aved its time over all other boats in that class. Its elapsed, and corrected time, jiisce it was scratch boat, was 25 liours, 47 minutes. 19 seconds.

OTHER BOATS definitely de-flared winners in their class are Kathmar. Mackinac sloop, in Class Cruising Fleetwood. Chicago ketch, in Class Cruising and Pintail in the Racing Class. Aboard Pintail was Reed E. Maes, commander of Flotilla 1403.

U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary, Port Huron unit, as a crew member. THE COAST Guard cutter Mackinac did not accompany the boat to the finish line as in past years but remained at sea shepherding in the tailenders, including Shamrock, only other boat of the Racing Class, originally favored to beat Pintail. Others not arrived yet are Mar-bill, Margaret Malbarm, Meteor, Old Rarity, Rainbow, Tiburon See MACKINAC RACE, Page 2 8 Persons Hurt In US-25 Crash Four Of Injured From Port Huron Muttonville, July 17 Eight per-jons, four of them from Port Huron, were injured in a two-car collision Sunday, three-tenths of a mile north of the 30-mile Road on US-25. The injured from Port Huron were William C.

Nutt, 29, 810 Stone itreet; his wife, Winfred. 31: Kenneth E. Fleury, 39, 3797 Parker and his wife, Verl, 31. Mr. Nutt has lacerations above fee left eye.

and his wife has abraxas on both legs. Fleury has cuts above the right eye, and his wife abrasions of both legs. Others injured were Harold A. Belong, 39, Saginaw, possible fractured ribs; Mary Jane DeLong, 35, canaw, lacerations of both legs; a. Newton Earl, 20, Detroit, puncture wnnnri nf Ipft and Bernard Pikarski, 17, Detroit, shock ad left leg abrasions.

ALL INJURED were taken to St. Joseph's Hosnital. ML Clemens, for treatment except Mrs. Earl, who treated by her family Physician. Newton Robert Earl, 22, driver of one of the cars, ld State Police of the St.

Clair Jst he wag slowing to make a fjsM turn into a driveway and that ear from behind, driven Harold DeLonir. collided iti the rear of his vehicle. DeLong said he did not see the car time to avoid a coUi ft 00111(1 not urn around aecause of approaching traffic. faPLong and all of the in-from Port Huron were riding DeLong car. The injured removed by ambulance to St.

dosPhs Hospital. Weathe rty Temperatures stenUy Today 83 85 83 36 86 78 70 71 70 71 71 71 88 1 a.m. 2 a m. 3 a.m. 4 a.m.

5 a.m. 6 a.m. 7 a.m. 8 a.m. 9 a.m.

10 a.m. 11 a.m. Noon Lowest 71 67 67 67 68 .69 71 72 71 72 73 75 67 P.M. Pm. o.

11 Bin. -cat showers or ued tonht and Tuesday. Jt'I711- Moderate to fresh thn.J "rlln Widely Scattfrv4 Low tonight and Tues-A irrw tonight 7o ui.h Lrate to fresh southwrct inH 1 hTLMn Mostlv howht TdiV. Oe- nl cSoto tonight- Tuesday SUSf at 8 06 m. To Ask Controls, Higher Taxes Swift Change In Korea Trend Seen Only Preventive Washington, July 17 AP President Truman will send to Congress Wednesday a report on the Korean war and legislative steps he considers necessary.

By STERLING GREEX (Associated Press Staff Writer Washington, July 17 A White House message calling on Congress for controls over steel, curbs on consumer credit, and possibly a tax increase was predicted by govern ment officials today. They said Mr. Truman will send it "as soon as possible" but- ap parently not before Wednesday and probably will follow up with a broadcast to the American people on the Korea situation. As late as Sunday night how ever, the four major radio net works said no time had been re quested for such a broadcast. They added they could quickly provide the facilities if asked.

ONE WELL-PLACED official said the President may seek auth ority to put quantity limits on the production of big steel users such as the auto industry, which is pounding toward a record e'ight- million-car year. This official emphasized, however, that there is no indication that consumer -rationing, or price and wage controls will be needed or requested of congress. Stalin's Price-Red China In UN Replies To Nehru's Peace Proposal (By The Associated Press' New Delhi, India, July 17 Generalissimo Stalin has told India's Prime Minister Nehru he considers red China's admission to the United Nations Security Council an essential step toward ending the Korean war, it was reliably reported today. A reliable source said the Russian prime minister, in a note to Nehru, agreed the Korean crisis must be settled peacefully through the Security Council. But the council, Stalin reportedly insisted, must include the Chinese communists among its "Big Five" permanent members.

STALIX'S NOTE, delivered here Sunday in reply to a previous communication from Nehru, suggested that the views of the Korean people be heard, the source said. India, an informed source said, does not expect the United States to take the initiative in securing admission for communist China to the United Nations. India hopes only that the U.S. will not use its Security Council veto to prevent the communists replacing Nationalist China's representative. W.

MAX EDMONDSON Girl Flyer Thrills 3,000 Sky Show, Canoe Race Climax Festival 'k 4k 4JM I sis NlllslilPiiii water in Lake Huron and St. Clair river was too rough for canoes and advised that the race be kept in Black river where it would not be so dangerous. The Boy Stout team of Raymond M. Currie and Robert W. Kestleloot came in second just 15 minutes after the first place team, and the third place team of Gordon J.

Lock and H. "Bud" Cowper was only a few seconds behind. Kenneth Guske and Warren Dell made up the fourth place team, Reed Maes and Bud Cruckshank were fifth and Francis Smith and Jerry Brackenbury were sixth. WELLMAX and Engel, as first place winners, 'will receive a four-day paid vacation at the Lost Creek Sky Ranch on the Au Sable river. A log rolling exhibition was held at the airport at noon with Martin Krueger, Eldon Cameron, Loren Reed and William Roach performing.

pends upon whether Russia decides to provide her North Korean satellite with a tactical air force. There is still another danger, if World War II is taken as a lesson the possibility that the communists might decide to try, V-l "buzz bombs" as the Germans did with damaging results against the harbor of Antwerp. The Russians are known to have captured quantities of these medium-distance missiles and to have been experimenting with their improvement since the war. THE RANGE OF THE World War II V-l was between 250 and 300 miles. The distance from North Korean-held territory to the constricted, congested port of Pusan is only about 130 miles.

There are no good alternate ports in South Korean hands. While information here shows three other ports Masan, Yosu and Mokp'o (also called Moppo) they are small, with shallow harbors and few facilities for handling cvenJ PROBLEM, Fag 4 panies Miss Skelton on all of her tours. THE CANOE race was wop by Gordon Weliman, 21, Port Huron, and Ted Engel Gaylord, who left the starting line on Black river near Baker's airfield at 3:32 p.m. and paddled to the mouth of Black river on St. Clair river and returned in an hour and 40 minutes.

With winds of 25 to 30 miles an hour chopping the river, it was hard work to keep upright, let alone paddle against the current on the last half of the trip. The course originally scheduled for the race was from the airport down the Black river canal to Lake Huron, and thence to St. Clair river, and up Black river to the starting point. THE COURSE was changed after the Coast Guard warned that the The reds piled up like cordwood before his But the Americans did halt that drive, then started a tank-supported counter-attack and drove the reds back across the river. By caved in and the outnumbered 10 a.m., they were in full retreat.

THEN THE AMERICAN flanks Yanks were engulfed by the red "Thev came at us from all sides and we had to pull out as oesi we could," Dianda said. "They killed all the wounded. "Our chaplain stayed with the wounded until the ena, and they killed him, too. We tried to get out all the walking cases, but the litter cases couldn't be moved and they were all murdered by the reds." Dianda said he and his company fought their way to the rear after being cut off by the enemy advance. "It a miracle any of us got out alive.

If you got hit, you kept W. Max Edmondson Named Chest Campaign Chairman Knotty Transport Problem Hampers Korea War Buildup The climax to the 1950 Blue Water Festival came Sunday after noon with a spectacular exhibition of aerobatic flying by Betty Skel-ton and a gruelling canoe race on Black river. MISS SKELTOX, 23-year-old women aerobatic champion in 1948, 1949 and 1950, held an estimated crowd of 3,000 spellbound as she performed snap rolls, outside loops and barrel rolls with her tiny plane, "the Little Stinker Too." The most amazing performance came at the close of her exhibition when she cut a ribbon, held between two cane fishing: poles, with the wing tips of the plane. Winds of 25 and 30 miles an hour and gusts up to 35 miles an hour made the flying extremely difficult. THE FLYING exhibition, origi nally scheduled to follow the canoe races was held at 2 p.m.

to enable Miss Skelton to get an early start on a flight to Oshkosh, after word was received that Lake Michigan would be a storm center in the early evening. Miss Skelton holds the altitude record for light planes at 25,763 feet, is a noted aviation M-riter in her own right, and toured Europe in 1949, participating in the International Air Pageant in London and in the Royal Air Force Show in Belfast, Ireland. Her i chihuahua. "Little Tinker." missed this trin with Miss Skelton, and remained in Tampa, Fla. Little Tinker usually accom- Where To Find It Business Page 10 Classified 14, 15 Comics 11 Dorothy Dix 4 District News 9, 11 Dr.

Brady 4 Editorial 6 Local News 2, 7 Markets 11 Marine News 14 Radio 13 Society News 8 Sports 12, 14 Television 15 Theaters 4 right on going. There are lots of rice paddies lying there ine mua them out. "LOTS OF US DIDN'T know why we were over here fighting, but now we know. We're going to even the score and give those blankety blanks the lesson they deserve. "Lots of good Americans have to be avenged, and we are going to do it, no matter how long it takes." A lot of heroes emerged from this battle.

And a good many of them will have to be decorated posthumously. hordes. overran a front-line aid station and kids we had to leave back in the as mere was no way oi geuing Wallace May Quit Progressive Post South Salem. N. July 17 Former Vice President Henry A.

Wallace says he will abdicate as leader of the Progressive party if rank and file members overwhelmingly oppose him in blaming Russia for the Korean war. "Nobody could lead a group that was overwhelmingly in disagreement with his policies," Wallace said Sunday when asked what he would do if the membership rejects his views. Wallace, who ran for President two years ago on the progressive ticket, said he was "on the side of the U. S. and the UN" in the The 1950 fund raising campaign of the Community Chest of the Port Huron and Marysville District got under way today with the announcement of the selection of W.

Max Edmondson as cam. paign chairman. Mr. Edmondson's appointment was announced at a meeting of divisional and group chairmen in the Chateau at which further plans for the campaign organization were discussed. MR.

EDMONDSON, well known local business man and civic worker, is secretary-treasurer of Mueller Brass jompany and a past president of the Port Huron Chamber of Commerce. A native of Port Huron he attended public schools here and served in the Navy during World War He is a member of the board of directors of the Kiwanis club, president of the Mueller Investment association, secretary-treasurer of Streamline Pipe and Fittings company. See CHEST, Fag 3 By ELTOX C. FAY Associated Press Staff Writer! Washington, July 17 An enormously complex and potentially dangerous transportation program is hampering efforts to build up material behind the U.S. forces in Korea.

A mountain of equipment, weapons, ammunition and other material must go into a single South Korean port daily just to keep forces now there supplied for the bitter fight. That port is Pusan, a tiny place as world seaports go, with limited facilities and a single railroad and inadequate highway routes linking it to the battle zone. IF THE PORT SHOULD be crippled by attack or captured, the whole Korean campaign could falter or collapse. So far, North Korean airplanes have been scarce. The men responsible for getting war goods to the embattled American and South Korean forcs haven't had to cope with attempts to bomb Pusan's harbor.

But whether this continues de War- At A- Glance (By The Associated Press) KOREAN FRONT: Reds pour three and possibly four divisions behind tanks in offensive on Taejon, driving Americans back. Taejon airfield abandoned. To the east, two red columns driving to cut off Pusan port halted by South Koreans supported by firepower of U.S. artillery and planes. ATR WAR: Fifty B-29's plaster Seoul with 400 tons of bombs, rip enemy positions behind central front American and Australian planes destroy or damage 28 tanks and 32 trucks.

Fighters batter red front lines in 'round-the-clock.