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DAILY NEWS, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1950 3 I' V- Ms (liwss Em, Ssml Llim By FRANK TREMAINE Tokyo, Monday, Sept. 25 (P). Troops of the U. S. 7th Infantry Division crossed the Han River in a lightning amphibious thrust today and landed in the southeast area of Seoul to join three columns of U.

S. marines driving for tbtt heart of the capital from the north, northwest and souih. The infantrymen crossed the river without much trouble, e. rLlt3 HUE sol ondupwisv a A rl KSEgg sv korea r-Sr. mil 'No 3d War, Says Bunche, Praising UN By Cnited Prcs Dr.

Ra-lph J. Bunche, 1950 winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, said yesterday he does not think there will be a third world war, and he urged the United Ndtions to speed formulation of Korea peace aims. Bunche said the UX should not be satisfied with a Korean settlement that redivided the country at the 38th Parallel. He added that the question of UN forces crossing the parallel would present tha world organization with a "terrific challenge." "The way things are going mili- (Arnie Telefoto) Troops of the 24th Division beach one of their assault boats with the aid of a captured North Korean soldier. Smoke From Canada Turns Day to Dusk A vast smoke cloud, which originated in forest fires north of Edmonton, Alberta, spread across the Midwest and caused a heavy overcast, which occasionally amounted almost to darkness, through the metropolitan area yesterday afternoon.

The immense pall reached the city sometime after noon. (NEWS map br Staff Artist A fourth link in the steel ring closing on Seoul'(A) was forged by the 7th Infantry Division troops who swung to the southeast of the capital and crossed the Han as three columns of marines drove within a mite and a half of the city's center from the northwest and south. Other troops of the 7th still were at Osan. In the Pusan bridgehead. South Korean troops have swept to the outskirts of Yongdok (B Along the western battle line, a UN task force has reached Poun (C), shortening the gap between northern and southern front lines to about 57 miles.

Troops of the 24th S. Infantry have pushed into Kumchon (D) and the 25th Division drove into Chinja. but as they struck inland they ran into heavy opposition. Moving 35 miles an hour at an altitude of 14,000 feet, the smoke cloud, 600 miles long and 3,000 feet thick, reached as far south as "Virginia and west as far as Iowa. At LaGuardia Field, it was disclosed that many planes in the affected area had to fly by instalment and carried extra gasoline as a precautionary measure.

The Weather Bureau forecaster liere reported the condition unprecedented in his 18 years of experience. In Washington, the Weather Bureau said the overcast probably will move out to sea sometime today. Pall Leads Some To Fear War Sfart i By United Press) The weird pall of smoke spread alarm across thousands of square miles in the U. S. and Canada during the day.

In Ohio chickens and birds roosted in the afternoon. In southern Ontario, some persons prayed, believing the return of Christ was at hand. Others believed an atom bomb had fallen and a third World War had started. In Pittsburgh and Cleveland, day baseball games were played under lights. In Michigan, automobiles drove with headlights on.

In Pennsylvania, it was so dark street lights were turned on in many towns. Weather bureaus and newspaper offices were deluged with calls. Much-of the alarm was caused by the fact that the smoke blanket was so far above the earth's surface that it could not be smelled. 4 S(illedr 2 Hurt in Brooklyn Crash Four persons were killed yesterday in an early morning crash of a car which spun out of control through a guard rail and dropped 35 feet into Vermont Brooklyn, from an overpass. They were Girolamo Iacono, 50, of 609 Autumn Brooklyn; his mother-in-law, Mrs.

Carmella Vella, 68; his niece, Jean Pallazzolo, 8, of the same address, and a family friend, Mrs. Antoinette Campana, 50, of 705 Elderts Lane, Brooklyn. -r hit lne crossing, made in amphibi ous trucks under cover of a heavy mist, was preceded by a half-hour barrage of hill positions dominating the point of crossing. As marines fought hand-to-hand 1 TfS? to within a mile and a half of the center of Seoul, rapidly moving spearheads of the 8th Army, battling up from the southern Pusan perimeter, gained 10 to 25 miles in multi-pronged advances. At the closest points, they had narrowed to about 57 miles the gap between them and troops of the U.

S- 7th Division around Osan, 30 miles south of Seoul. At Seoul, where the fighting was stiffest, U. S. infantry reinforcements, poured into Kimpo Airfield, by planes, landing at 5-minute intervals. A giant airlift of 150 transport planes, landing from dawn to dusk, rushed more than 2,400 combat-equipped men toward the- vortexx of the battle.

They had come by sea from the United States to Japan, thencx? by air to Kimpo. At the port of Inchon, 22 miles southwest of Seoul, South Korean marine reinforcements landed by sea to add their weight to the fight. Foe Caught Off Balance. The new 7th division drive on Seoul, less-than 24 hours after the Marine 1st Regiment had hurdled the Han and driven- inland to link up with the Marine 5th Regiment battling down from the northwest. The third Marine column was assaulting Seoul from the north.

The U. S. Marines' crossing of the Han caught the Reds completely off balance. By midafternoon the column of the 1st Marine Regiment, commanded by Col. Iwis (Chesty) Puller of Saluda, had driven three miles into the thickly-popu- (Continued oh page 30, col.

1) Dr. Ralph Bunche tarily," he said, "the UX will find itself in the midt of that issua very soon." The former Palestine mediator, first Xegro ever to win the Nobel Peace Prize, also suggested that the big powers transfer such major issues as the German peaca problem to the UN if they wera unable to find a solution. Bunche warned that "Germany might be another Korea" if it remained divided. He said no effort to forge a peace settlement "on a vital problem that involves tha peace of the world" should ever be given up until the L'N had taken a crack at it. UX Machinery Best.

This was a new concept in thinking about the UX. Up to now, tha world organization has been generally looked on as an organ devised to keep the peace, not make it. "Peace has to be made or it can't be kept." Bunche said. Kxpressing his "full faith in tha UN," he described it as "the one instrumentality on which all hopes rest," and added: "I don't think any other machinery can work as well when problems affecting the peace of tha world are involved." Asked about his views on prospects of all-out war or Bunche said: "I don't think there is going be any war, but I think then? will be many occasions of great anxiety until the East-West impasse i broken." iacono wiie, aiary, anu.w Mrs. Campana's husband, Angelo, 59, were taken to Kings County Hospital in serious condition, Mrs.

Iacono with head injuries and Campana with a broken arm. Campana told police the party was returning from a wedding held at Arion Temple Ballroom, 25 Arion Place, Brooklyn in Iacono's 1933 sedan at about 12:30 A. M. with Iacono at the wheel the car was bound east on Highland Boulevard. At the point where the boulevard passes over Vermont St Campana said, Iacono lost control.

The car careened through a four-foo! iron guard rail and landed upside down in the street below. nen two police emergency. trucks and an ambulance from Unity Hospital reached the scene, only Campana and Mrs. Iacono were alive. (Other picture on page 1) 7, 4 I (NEWS foil by Bob nnllticltor) Car in which four persons were killed whn it crashed through a four-foot iron guard rail and plunged 35 feet to the street below..