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'This Is The One We Have Been For 9 Writes Newsman Waiting to arm them for the attack. Every Marine aboard is a combat veteran who came to a South Korean port directly from the front lines. They were loaded at the same port at which they arrived early In August. But it was a different group of men who trudged aboard this ship after five weeks of battle By BOBEKr C. MHIXB VtU4 Vmm Matt CwmiMlnl With U.

ft. Marten, st ftca, (Delayed) Friday. (UP) Thig is th one we have been waiting for. Within a few hours ships of this blacked out task force will begin a shore bombardment to pave the way for landing craft that will carry the Marines in for what we hope to be the final battle of the Korean War. This is our Sunday punch.

We ance and help against our enemy. Wa feel He Is with us. This ship Is like a highly trained boxer during those dreadful last hours before the bell when the long weeks of training camp ordeal are finished and there is nothing to do but wail. We are crammed with men who have been stacked into every corner of this assault ship. In the holds are the deadliest weapons we pos- will know by tonight CTriday night) I whether It will K.O.

the North Koreans. There arc no excuse for this one everything has been planned and worked out for weeks. The supplies are adequate, the men are trained and the plans drawn down to the merest detail Everything that can be done to insure the success of this operation has been done. We have beseeched the Lord with prayers for His guid the time lost in foxholes and during nightlong vigils in the front lines. Every deck has a dozen card games going, ranging from cribbage sessions to poker.

Rifles and ma-chineguna are tenderly cleaned ana oiled for the 20th time with the loving care that comes from long attachment. The paper work goes on throughout the ship where various sections handle the thousand and one details associated with war. In the and overflowing with wisecracks. The five weeks wrought, great changes: Their cork In has been replaced by a quieter dignity. They know they are good.

They have proved it But they also know the price that war takes and thsy know what's ahead of them now. Many faces are missing in the we: thered ranks which trooped aboard the big grey ships. Some of the missing are in hospitals recov ering from wounds. Others -are dead. 1 These last few hours have been spent in various ways.

The mail sacks are bulging with the "before the battle" letters that everyone has been scribbling wherever there's a few square feet of space to prop up a writing pad. Nearly everyone has slept for hours on end curled up on the decks or stretched out in bunks, collecting upper deck staterooms weary senioi officers confer over top secret maps and documents, memorizing details, making changes and suggestions, anyone of which might involve the lives of every man aboard. There's no rest for them and tht responsibility is the heaviest in the world for they are the ones wha give the word that sends the attack into high gear, and once started there's no turning back. This is it. in Korea.

These are the veterans who came fresh from the states, cocky and eager, with brand new equipment iioms EDITION GOOD MORNING! IT 18 ne wonder that the Korean Beds have a bad ease ef Invasion Jitters. It Is common sense that when we start ear offensive. It will be an all -out one. Amphibious landings will be made art and dawn the coast of Korea and Paratroopers will be dropping all over that land. THE WEATHER CI Pas bb Tletattr: Fair Friday.

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SEPTEMBER 15. 1950 34 PAGES full Leased Wire Report of The Associated Press AP The Catted Press TJP) International News Ban lea (IMS) Member ef Audit Bureau of OfeuIaUoa n3 mm Marines Land Behind Reds On Both Coasts U. S. Intelligence Discounted Invasion Danger, UN Unit Says Senate OKs Emergency Defense Bill Or Trap Foe In South, Cut Lines Lake Success, N.Y. (INS) The lic's army was at least equal to, if again expressed confidence in the UN Commission in Korea declared not superior to, that of the North Korean Army." Thursday night that American intelligence officers discounted a ability of the Army of the Republic to handle the forces of the northern regime in case of attack." In an outspoken plea for a uni South Korean warning of an invasion danger six weeks before the Communists swept over the 38th parallel.

Tokyo. (UP) U. S. Marine fied Korea and for disregard of the dividing line when UN forces assume the offensive, the commis landed behind the enemy lines Washington. (AP) The Senate Thursday night passed a $17,190,000,000 emergency defense bill to expand America's military power and arm In its annual report to the UN The commission said that on May 12 of this year six weeks before the attack two officers from General Roberts' staff attended a meeting at which Col.

Chang Do Yong, chief of intelligence of the Korean Army, explained in detail the discrepancy between the superior-equipped and manned North Korean forces and those of the Republic. The UN commission report stated: sion's lengthy report said: on both coasts of Korea Friday under an umbrella of fire "The origin of the conlfict is to Assembly, which contained a reminder that the 38th parallel is arti from American ships and ficial and precipitated the aggres her allies against Communist sion, the commission placed ail be found in the artificial division of Korea and in the failure of the occupying powers in 1945 (U. S. and Russia) to reach agreement on the method for giving independence to aggression. planes as the United Nations swung to the offensive in the Korean War.

Approval by voice vote came after the Senate voted to shut blame on the North Korean Communists. The commission said, however, that the Americans shut their eyes to the threatening situation. "Following this hearing, members The Eighth Army an of the Commission informally heard Korea." The report then makes this com ment: The report stated that U. S. Brig.

nounced that the Marines had stormed the Korean coasts in a two officers from General Roberts' staff, who substantially confirmed the information given by the Ko move to cut the North Koreans off "Had Internationally supervised from their escape routes to their rean military authorities, modifying only to a small extent some of the elections been allowed to take place in the whole and had a unified land beyond the 38th ParalleL Gen. William L. Roberts and his staff officers in Korea were convinced that the South Korean Army was capable of countering any threat from the north. On that point, the report said: The landings were made at In figures quoted for the strength of Korea thereby come into existence, chon, which was smashed by a combined air and sea bombard the North Korean forces, and recog nizing the growing disparity be the present conflict could never have arisen. The Korean people fer "General Roberts, chief of the ment Wednesday, on the West tween the forces of the north and vently desire to live a unified U.S.

military advisory group, disagreed with Republican estimates those Of the south. and independent Korea. Unification and considered that the approxi can be the only aim regarding "They did not, however, agree on the imminence of any danger and Korea. mate 100,000 strength of the Repub Seoul? sooaw 1 Vatuti wmT" jymJ iaaBMBBaBBaBBBiBaaaaBaaMBBaaBBaaaBaBBBSBaMBBBBMaBM Coast, and at Yongdok, 26 miles north of Pohang, on the east. The Eighth Army announcement gave no details of the time and progress of the American landings.

The most daring of th two landings was the assault on Inchon, the port of Seoul which is the former South Korean capital. The Marines immediately drove inland in an attempt to capture the Kimpo airfield. In a co-ordinated move, South Korean Marines landed a few Testimony Reminds Judge -Too Late! off American financial and economic aid to any nation that sells arms or goods useful for military purposes to countries behind the Iron Curtain. The big defense bill carries to build up thig country's military machine and to help arm the other free nations of the world. It also provides additional funds for stepping up the defense-related activities of various Government agencies, such as the FBI and the Atomic Energy Commission.

HOUSE TOTAL BOOSTED The total of the Senate bill is $421,174,000 more than the the House voted on Aug. 26. The separate measures now go to a Senate-House conference committee for ironing out of differences. The Senate bill carries for the Army as compared with $3,148,499,000 in the House measure; $3,734,291,000 for the Navy as compared with and $4,560,400,000 for the Air Force as compared with $4,535,400,000. Both measures provide for 5333 Dew war planes.

The extra defense appropriation was requested after the Korean outbreak. It is in addition to a Milk Sale Ordinance Changed TRAP CLOSED A United Nations task force led by Brig. Gen. Gar Davidson, former West Point football star and coach, rammed shut a trap on 3000 Red Koreans in the Kongju area (A), lifting a major threat to the Pohang airport. East of Yongchon (B), the South Koreans advanced several miles.

There was very little action in the Taegu area (C), but U. S. 25th Division repulsed two efforts by the Koreans to storm dominating heights in 'Masan (D) area. (AP Wirephoto Map) WINS PAROLE Ex-Rep. Andrew J.

May, 75, (D-Ky.) Thursday was given a parole from Federal Prison in Ash-land, where he wot serving a sentence for accepting bribes. El Paso's health ordinance gov miles north of Pohang, which is at the northeastern anchor of the United Nations Korean beachhead. Gty Council Split Again On Bernhardt Factions of El Paso's divided city Council clashed Thursday at the Council meeting when Aldermen Archie Gill, E. W. Kayser and Jules Carlin refused to promote Lt.

Harry Barnhardt to a captain in the police force. Their stand brought sharp criticism from Mayor Dan Duke and the city's fourth alderman, Carroll W. Smith, Jr. erning milk sales within the city limits was amended Thursday by The invasion, which threatens to the City Council to conform with the national public health laws. Thursday's gambling; hearing; before lassie B.

E. Crawford brought Mm a warning; bat the warning came too late. R. P. Langford, examining a witness as to money passed across the bar, had suggested that people sometimes go Into bars to get change for many purposes, such as nickels for parking meters.

Crawford suddenly looked up, gained and ran from the courtroom. He returned after a short wait holding a green parking ticket. clamp a pincers on the North Korean supply routes, was an amphibious operatien which obviously had the weight and backing to succeed. In a typical move, Gen. The amendment restricts the colo-form bacteria count to 10 organisms Late Bulletins Andrew May Wins Parole From Prison per mililiter.

Big Three 'Fully Agrees9 On Defenses Douglas MacArthur threw a heavy invasion force far behind the enemy's lines to cut his source of sup ply, leaving him at the mercy of 000.000,000 fund provided for this fiscal year in the regular govern the American forces both in the At the session the Council pro North and South. Washington. UP) Former Rep Tokyo. (UP) General Headquarters announced Friday that United Nations forces are again in the walled city of Kasan, 10 miles north of Taegu, from which they were forced to retreat last week. mental appiopriation bill.

An additional military fund re New York. (UP) The Big Three Andrew J. May, (D-Ky), won a SEOUL THREATENED foreign ministers reported Thurs quest, which some congressmen say moted three police lieutenants, J. T. O'Rourke, J.

Risinger and E. Baggerly to captains. Inchon is only 18 miles from may run $8,000,000,000 to $10,000, Frank Hunter, attorney for the Russell Glenn Distributing in Odessa, and Travis White, city attorney, said that -the council may be overstepping its powers in changing the ordinance before the new state health code is formulated. However, the council voted to conform with the national health law. Dr.

L. T. Cox, City-County Health Unit director, said that the new ordinance will be enforced impartially and with absolute fairness to all dairies. day they were "fully agreed" on parole Thursday after serving nine months of an eight-to-24-month sentence for accepting wartime Seoul and is abreast the only first O'Rourke and Risinger were top 000,000, is expected to be made perhaps in January. class line of communication from Northern Korea to the South.

It Business Too Good, Police Raid two men on the list of five who the need to strengthen th free world's defenses in Europe and Asia against the threat of Communism. took a Civil Service examination is 36 miles below the 39th Parallel, for the position in February, 1949. The Big Three reported in an interim communique they were Police Chief W. Woolverton pre sented the list to the council. the pre-war boundary between North and South Korea, and is more than 150 miles northwest of Taegu which is the closest corner of the equally agreed that immediate Predicts GOP To Win Six Senate Seats The three aldermen approved effective steps must be taken." front lines.

O'Rourke and Risinger for cap Police, noting an unusual amount of "business" at the Southwestern The foreign ministers reported From a military strategy view taincies, then by-passed Bernhardt, "This regulation was made part of U. S. public health law to further improve and protect the quality and On The Northern Front, Korea. (UP) Troops of the Capitol Division's First Regiment reached the outskirts of Angang-Ni Friday and began a fight for full possession of the city nine miles southwest of Pohang. Club, 111 East Paisano Drive, raid point, the invasion was a sound third on the list and picked the that during their three-day meeting her discussions "covered a broad range of important problems reflecting the serious situation fourth man, Baggerly.

Also on the operation because: ed the establishment Thursday, purity of milk being sold in all sec 1. It drove into the Communist list was Lt. Jesse Manigold. bribes from the Garsson Brothers munitions Citing May's "age and health" as grounds for leniency, the U. S.

Parole Board said the 75-year-old ex-congressman will be released Monday from the Federal Prison at Ashland, Ky. Dr. George Killinger, board chairman, said May will return to private law practice in his home town, Prestonsberg, Ky. In addition to this, he has a monthly congressional pension of about $278 to support him. May is the second ex-congressman paroled within a week.

Former Rep. J. Parnell Thomas, was freed Sunday from Federal Prison in Danbury, after serving nine months of a six-to-18-month sentence for padding his confiscating a small amount of lot tions of the nation," Dr. Cox said. army's heart and it transferred the which confronts the world today." The mayor charged the three tery equipment.

While their regularly scheduled councilmen with "playing danger main front to the vital center of the Korean republic. "El Paso City Council has voted to go along with other sections of the nation in improving and pro Radio Patrol Officers W. R. Bain ous politics" and said, "this council 2. It lft the bulge of the Red meetings ended Thursday night, they said they would meet again Monday, after the two-day confer attempts to run the business of the and M.

L. Murray said they were in front of the club in their patrol tecting its milk supply. Army along the southeastern perim "It is my duty to enforce city eter without any visible means of supply and support from North car at 3:45 p. m. when they observed several men enter and leave, ence with North Atlantic Treaty foreign ministers beginning Friday.

Chicago- fINS) A. B. Hermann, executive director of the Republican National Committee, predicted Thursday that the Republicans would wrest six Senate and 31 House seats from the Democrats in the Fall elections. Hermann emphasized at a meeting of the national committee in Chicago that he was not being over-optimistic. He said his prediction was based on cold-blooded, hard-headed appraisal of the situation as health ordinances.

Naturally I in tend to enforce this one to the full Korea. police department in its own way, regardless of what Chief Woolverton recommends. The Police Department is getting in a hell of a shape when you try to take it out of the hands of the police chief." Circling the block, the officers said House Tops Truman Veto Washington. (UP) The House Thursday overrode President Truman's veto of an anti-Communist immigration bill and cleared the 3. It presented the Communists est extent of my ability.

All dairies will be treated equally; and those Britain To Send Troops By Plane with a two-front war at a time when they already were reeling from heavy losses in the South. complying with the terms of the ordinance have nothing whatsoever office pay roll and taking salary London. (UP) The Air Ministry to fear. 4. It aimed a high powered wedge kickbacks from employes.

Councilman Smith joined the mayor in his criticism of the trio of aldermen. "It doesn't seem fair to to way for early passage of another at the only good communications 'It has always been the policy of May was convicted in July, 1947, of using hia influence as wartime of today." His confident appraisal was implemented by a fiery attack on the route running from north to south they noticed another group of "customers" and followed them into the building. An attendant, Robert Spicer, 47, of 525tt North El Paso Street, was handing two purchasers a pink slip with several numbers written on it as they entered, the officers reported. Spicer was taken in custody and the two policemen seized three lottery note books, 48 other slips and the City-County Health Unit to en announced Thursday that Britain plans Immediately to send troops by plane from Britain to Japan to drastic measure to deal with domes tic Reds. force all health regulations with in Korea.

chairman of the House Military Af 5. It saved Allied lives because absolute impartiality. This impar tial policy will be continued." bolster United Nations forces in Ko rea. it gave the United Nations a mili By a vote of 307 to 14, the struck down Mr. Truman's veto fairs Committee to get munitions contracts for firms organized by Henry and Murray W.

Garsson. (Continued en pax It, eeJurna 1) Mid-Summer Heat Wave Returns tary foothold in the North that Hastings transports, carrying 35 men each, will require eight days would have been slow and costly The Garssons, who parlayed a TYPHOON KILLS SEVEN Tokyo. AP) Seven persons were letterhead into an $80,000,000 war (Continued on Page Colnmn 1) of a bill to revoke the citizenship of any person who joins a subversive organizatior. within five years after becoming a naturalized citizen. The action requires Senate concurrence one pocket notebook with lottery Mid Summer temperatures contracts business with May's help.

for the trip. They will go by way of Singapore and Manila. UN planes will move the troops from Japan to Truman Administration by GOP National Chairman Guy G. Gabriel-sen at National Committee dinner meeting. Gabrielson chastized the Democrats for conducting a "government by mistake" and asserted the teamwork of a Republican Congress is needed to "undo the mistakes of the White House." Gabrielson asserted that the mistakes of the Administration "shock and alarm the people." numbers stamped in it.

killed Wednesday by a typhoon which struck the islands of Kyushu were convicted at the same time Taken to Police Headquarters, of bribing him with $53,000. the fronts. and Shikoku. to make the law effective. Spicer was booked on charges of The parole board refused in July warmed up El Paso Thursday as the official weather report listed a high of 94 degrees in the afternoon.

More warm weather, again reaching 90 or better, is forecast for Friday, with clear skies. to grant paroles to the Garssons, operating a lottery. He later was released after posting $50 bond. Public Rejects UseOfA-Bomb In Korean War Touchdown Tendencies Will Offer who also are serving eight-to-24 months sentences. TREND MOVING Husband Divorces Actress In Juarez SSLTmSL? 7574 Traffic Tickets Issued political Accurate Grid Pickings In Times Dan Schoonmaker.

New York Although 1949 was the first sea Sticking exclusively to significant During August, Check Shows camera company executive, Thurs mathematical and statistical factors, Riffid enforcement of El Paso traffic laws during the month of By GEORGE GALLUP Director, American Inrtltmte Public Opinion Princeton, N. J. In spite of three months of almost continuous, bad news from the Korean front, and our lack of sufficient fighting man day was granted a divorce from the Smith Touchdown Tendency son that Dr. Allen N. Smith set up his crystal ball on the college gridirons around the country, his Touchdown Tendency System of Iris Adrian, 37, red-haired actress, System ignores sectional favorit clared: "There is no doubt about it The trend is movinr in our direction.

The Republicans are taking oft their gloves for the first time in many years. We feel we can take control this year." Of the 13 Republican senators up for re-election, Hermann said: "Reports from our bird dogs in the field indicate three may be in in the Second Civil Court of isms, hunches and popular opinions. August brought a record number of tickets issued and a corresponding drop in auto accidents. This was revealed Thursday in a monthly activity report of the traffic division of the Police Department compiled by Lieut. Harry S.

Bernhardt, officer in charge of the division. It is based orr the "touchdown ten power there, American public senti At the same time, Helen Beadle- dencies" of the opposing teams, Football Ratings turned out to be the most accurate set of game predictions in the nation. This year Dr. Smith's 1 amazing predictions ton Brooks obtained a Juarez de The reDort disclosed a total of plus the offensive and defensive crease over their performanc dux ing July. ere from Walter Booth Brooks.

factors of each team. 1) rV 1 She. left the court with Schoon Of th 294 tickets, 99 were for will be available to Th Paso This system increases in accuracy maker but the couple refused to moving violations, th report re as the season progresses, on account state their plans for the future. vealed, a 50 per cent increase Times readers, beginning next Tuesday. 7574 traffic tickets were issued by the department.

1307 for moving violations. A total of 253 accidents in which 45 persons were injured was recorded. The number of tickets for August more than doubled those issued in the previous month, July, 3341 tags. A total of 69 persons were injured of the greater amount of data Miss Adrian formerly was mar compared to July. There were 199 (Continued on Page 16, column sj TWC Opening Convocation Today Marking the official opening of the 37th annual long session at Texas Western College, compulsory invocation for all beginning and available for calculation.

ried to Charles H. Over, Jr Pas narkina tickets issued by radio pa Dr. Smith is a man of science, holding a string of degrees from Dr. Smith's college football rat adena, Calif, broker, and George trol division, an increase of 90 per Jacobi, New York night club own cent. Tulane, Georgia Tech, and Oregon ment is overwhelmingly opposed to using the atom bomb against North Korea, a national opinion survey shows.

The Truman Administration announced in the early days of th Korean war that the A-bomb was not to be used. But as the military situation deteriorated with th Red Koreans continually driving our forces back, some observers wondered whether there might not be increasing pressure to use the powerful bomb which five years ago so greatly hastened the surrender of Japan in World War IL Today's survey shows that th public rejects the idea of using the A-bomb in Korea by a decisive ratio of greater than 2-to-l. This does not mean, however. (Conttnaed on Page ft Colaaam 1) ings will appear exclusively in The EI Paso Times twice every week until the end of the year, just before the big Bowl games. Over 700 A pat on the back, received by the traffic division during: the two attorney State, with a background of experience in chemical plant design, in 302 July auto mishaps.

In th report, it also was disclosed that revenue from tickets Aureliano Gonzalez in both divorces. weeks following th reopening of teams, large and small, will be cov school, was announced by Lieuten petroleum refinery development. and oarkina: meters for August was ered, so your team, whether it be ant Bernhardt in the form of letters DEFEB ACTION $38,948, an advancement of $9,018 Army, Navy or Squedunk Subnor received from school officials. (INS) The Senate or July's total ox and government work for th war Department. Several years ago.

Dr. Smith began a systematic compilation of na mal, is sure to be on the list. transfer students will be held at 8:30 a. m. Friday in the Student Union Building.

President W. H. Elkins and Dan J. F. Williams will welcome the students to the campus and will explain the remainder of the man orientation program.

Entrance examinations will follow this first aession. Thursday night deferred until Fri One of the letters, from W. A breakdown of ticket issuance by divisions of the Police Depart day action on legislation opening Webb, director of special activiti DR. ALLEN SMRB Start next Tuesday to match your pigskin savvy with the Smith of El Paso Schools, read in part: the way to appointment of Gen. ment showed that Radio patrol oi Touchdown Tendency System of garded the number one authority "Schools opened yesterday and tional collegiate football statistics.

This research was expanded and re-fiaed each year, till it is now re- George C. Marshall as secretary of fleers issued 294 tickets during the Football Ratings, on relative team superiority aoittk of August, a TO par cent in 4. 7.

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