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Page 16 THE EVENING CITIZEN, OTTAWA, CANADA Wednesday, August 9, 1950 Herbert O. Swilzer -A City Beautification Program For Garbage Ottawa's garbage-can long a weekly feature of the Capital's residential areas, is due tor reform, Works Commissioner J. H. Irvine said today. No more are discarded grapefruit halves, banana skins and yesterday's leftovers to emerge from soggy wrappings and overwhelm the public view and nose.

I i I L-X Could Stall Russ Attack By The Associated Press PARIS-A high French official said today that six American and six British divisions stationed In Germany would keep a Russian attack away from western Europe for at least a year, and perhaps permanently. In that year, he said, Europe could go a long way toward establishing its own adequate defence forces providing all-out American aid was given. v. .53. Birth Of A Brigade Some 200 men applied for service with Canada's new Special Force here today and another 150 were told to come back later this afternoon as Army personnel struggled to keep up with the flow of applicants.

Above, some of the applicants for the country's United Nations brigade move toward of enlistment the application floor of the Cartier Square Drill Kenneth Bradley, left, and Private are asking the questions: past service, address. From that routine took over and the process began. Photo by Newton Record Smasher Florence Chadwick, 31-year-old San Diego, stenographer, is all smiles before she enters the water at Cap Gris Nez, France, on her record-breaking Channel swim. She swam the 21 miles to Dover, England, in 13 hours and 23 minutes, breaking Gertrude Ederle's 24-year-old record by more than an hour. nea Rdio-Teiephoto Singer Dies At Funeral Herbert O.

Switzer, of the Merlvale Road, died suddenly while singing in a duet at the funeral of Mrs. Susan Laforce Tuesday afternoon in Buckingham Baptist Church. He was In his 59th year. After collapsing in thi choir loft, Mr. Switzer was carried outside and was pronounced dead by a local doctor.

The body was taken to the Cadleux funeral home pending removal to Ottawa. Death was attributed to natural causes and there will be no Inquest. The song which Mr. Switzer and Gilbert Thlbode were singing, "I Won't Have to Cross the Jordan Alone," was one of Mr. Switzer's favorite hymns.

He was an especially good friend of the Laforce family. Mr. Switzer, an employe of the Producers Dairy for 25 years, and a field supervisor at the time of his death, was the husband of the former Anne McDonald. He has resided In Ottawa his entire life. A son of the late Robert Switzer and Jean Scott, Mr.

Switzer was well known in his younger days as a hockey player and fan. In sporting circles he was popularly known as Buck. A veteran of the First World War, Mr. Switzer was an active member in the Holiness Movement. He married prji wife in 1942.

7 Besides his wife, Mr. Switzer is survived by a son, Garry Mel-vin, at home; and seven brothers, Gus and Henry, both of Ottawa; Robert of Toronto, George of Rochester, N.Y., Tom In Victoria, B.C., and Ab and Art, both in Vancouver, B.C. The body is resting at the pariors or a. E. veltch, 453 Park-dale Avenue.

Funeral arrange-ments have not been completed. Menzies From Page On He indicated the possibility of a dollar loan from the U.S. could not be ruled out. There has been speculation that this was one of the reasons of his trip to this side of the Pacific. "Any borrowing transaction we may enter into will be on our own," he said.

A dollar loan would not have to go through the British sterling pool he declared. He felt that Canada and Australia "are a little, remote" from one another. The trans-Pacific Canada-Australia air service was helping to bridge this gap, he said. A visit by the Canadian prime minister would be a fine Idea for the same reason. He said that Australian and Canadian military service regulations were "similar in some respects." A law passed in the last war and still on the statute books provides that volunteers only may be sent north of the Equator.

This means that a Korean force would have to be a volunteer force. He said that Australia's population was increasing at the rate of 3.5 percent annually, around 200,000 persons a year. doubled housing requirements and meant a greatly increased demand for consumer goods, much of which comes from dollar countries. Discussing Commonwealth relations, he said that although some countries have varying ideas, "when it comes to a pinch we are on the same side." He said there might be another reason for dissolution of both Houses of Parliament and an early general election there. It might be on the account of a bill to place a board of directors In charge of the Commonwealth or state bank.

This bill has also been turned back from the Senate and the government' was going to re-submit it and stick to its guns and even If It too meant a general election. military advisory group In Korea. The South Koreans said they drove the Communists back across the river In a counterattack. About 100 North Koreans were strafed while scrambling for the Naktong's west bank. American planes and artillery knocked out all tanks which the Communists had put across the river, the report said.

An American pilot said he saw five Communist tanks Wednesday morning on the east bank. A tank-led attack drove the 6th South Korean Division back several miles at a point west of Uisong and southeast of Ham-chang, 45 miles northeast of Taegu. A briefing officer at Gen. Mac- Arthur's headquarters said other Red assaults without armor made lesser gains through the South Korean 8th and Capitol Divisions on the defence line eastward. The spokesman said the de fenders still were north of Uisong, a town the North Korean radio has claimed captured by the Reds.

The battle in this area was considerably south of the Naktong's shallow upper reaches, which the South Koreans gave up last week. To the west the 1st South Korean Division still was fighting to hold positions near the river. Fourteen miles to the north of this battle, the South Korean 1st Division thrust two miles Into Red territory in a counter-attack Tuesday at Sinchon, about 13 miles southeast of Sangju. Briefing officers at MacAr-thur's headquarters said the American ground offensive In the south had wrecked Communist plans to start a widespread climactic offensive of 5 their own- City Council last night took the first step toward cleaning up the situation by passing a bylaw specifying techniques for handling garbage. Give Up Practice' When the bylaw goes into effect, probably early in September, householders must give up the practice of setting- out water-soaked bundles of kitchen refuse in such unsatisfactory containers as carboard boxes and paper bags.

The law will have It that the stuff put out from the kitchen must have the moisture squeezed out of it; it must be carefully wrapped in dry paper and then placed In a covered, metal container. And there is to be no' more haphazard tossing of garbage, ashes and garden refuse Into one container. Beginning next month, garbage goes into one container, ashes into another and garden rubbish Into a third. Ashes must also be placed in metal containers but no cover is required. Maximum weight of the containers when loaded must not exceed 75 pounds.

And no household shall put out more than four containers for any one collection. If some citizen should have neglected to put out last year's ashes, he can get around his trouble by putting them out gradually or paying to have them hauled away. The third classification, con cerning garden refuse, applies to such things as grass cuttings, leaves, branches, etc. These ma terials may be placed In bushel baskets, no metal container being required. Or, branches and cuttings may be tied In a bundle provided It is not more than four feet in length.

Works Commissioner Irvine noted that the new by-law car ries a wallop, to the tun of a maximum $50 fine- for offenders. But he say the works department Isn't going to be hard on the people right away. First there will be an "Educational" period Next, the by-law will be strictly enforced. Mr. Irvine observed that, the old by-law covering garbage was obviously Inadequate It made only vague references to "metal containers" but did not make their use compulsory.

"The new by-law is for the good of the public," Mr. Irvine commented. "Proper handling of garbage will discourage flies and other pests and help cut down on disease. And too, the by-law will make it easier and less costly for the sanitation department to handle collections." Try New Plan For Traffic Over Viaduct The traffic committee of City Council last night broke even, with one loss and one win as council decided to accept one committee recommendation and reject another. Accepted was a suggestion that the terminal point of the Hull City Transport, opposite the side entrance of the Daly Building, on Mackenzie Avenue, be maintained at all hours of the day and that the location used after 10 p.m., about 300 feet north, be cancelled.

Rejected in favor of a different suggestion from the works commissioner, was a recommendation that three traffic lanes be used on the Wellington Street viaduct, two westbound and one eastbound. The council agreed, instead to try, for one month, a scheme outlined by the works commissioner, that between 4 p.m. and 6.30 p.m., traffic be allowed to move only westbound ov.er the viaduct. Aylmer Tennis Club Dance An outdoor dance will be held on the courts of the Aylmer Tennis Club on Friday night at nine o'clock. Running shoes or other soft rubber-soled shoes will be worn by dancers in order to preserve the surface of the courts.

Proceeds of the dance will go to the Aylmer Tennis Club. A good local orchestra has been obtained by the organizing committee. Those in charge of arrange ments are: President Ray Boucher, Vice-president Gordie Daly, Treasurer Wllf Bowman. Directors are Eddie Quirk and Blythe Meredith. Drowned Hoy's Funeral Friday The funeral of 12-year-old Robert St.

Jean, Ottawa youngster who was drowned at Brantwood Beach early Tuesday night, will be held Friday morning from the parlors of Gauthler and 259 St. Patrick Street, to the Basilica for requiem high mass at 8 a.m. The boy, who is survived by his father Albert St. Jean, 131 Albert Street, and his 10-year-old sister Monique, will be burled in Notre Dame Cemetery, Ottawa. (See also page 5).

1 Recruits From Page On Why was he In the line? "You've got to defend your country," came the reply. Mr. Thibault has five and a half years service overseas with Royal Canadian Army Service Corps. Henry Leroux, 67 Carruthers Avenue, a slim 19-year-old truck driver, put it simply: "I want to go to Korea to help out." wnat about this talk or a U.N. police force? Twenty one year old Don Wood, 81 Melrose Avenue, dress ed in shirt and bright wine-colored trousers, was ready to serve in that kind of force but he hadn't thought about It much.

Anything At All "Anything at all," he answered with a broad sweep of his arm. Bernard Mooney, 37-year-old X-ray technician and veteran of the Medical Corps, was anxious to -get going "anywhere." His main concern was "lineups." How to avoid them, that was the big question. And so they filed by 26-year-old Burton Teskey, a Civil Service clerk from Buckingham who wanted to get back into harness as a dispatch rider; stocky Bill Eades, a veteran of Merchant Marine and Army service; and 18-year-old Bill Crane, 205 MacLaren Street, a fellow with a crew cut and a job as bus boy In a night club. While the men crowded up to the tables some in shirtsleeves, others in sharply-pressed suit-coats and others in overalls, one man directed operations. He was Captain J.

R. Morgan. Captain Morgan kept things moving from the Drill Hall floor application desks to the M-test room, to the medical room, to the placement officer and back to the documentation center. He was assisted by WO 1 R. M.

McKay and Private John Brunning. Down on the" floor, the men filled out their first application slips with the help of a trio of clerks Private Alfred Rockburn, Trooper Aurele Belanger and Sapper Kenneth Bradley. From the medical room, In charge of Wing Commander A. Gardner Watson, came a good report. The men passing through were in "pretty good" physical condition, hardly any rejects.

The final stop before documentation came in the placement office where Captain J. P. Hale and Captain William Davidson fired the questions. The recruits will train at Peta-wawa. The first men to finish were signed on early this afternoon.

Canada's U.N. brigade was underway. But in the trades test room, you would hardly have guessed it. A leisurely crap game was in full swing. Claxton's Opinion By The Canadian Press MONTREAL Defence Minister Brooke Claxton said today that response to the army's appeal for recruits for a special army brigade for the United Nations was "wonderful even In advance of the official campaign." At Dorval airport here where he was observing first test flights of Canada's first F-86 Sabre jet fighter, Mr.

Claxton said in an interview that hundreds of volunteers "who wanted to sign up right away," beseiged recruiting offices across the country yesterday, i "We have put extra men on recruiting staffs now," he said, and we hope to be able to handle crowds without delay." Asked to comment on the cur rent United States-Canada defence talks in Ottawa and Washington, Mr. Claxton said they were "satisfactory." "Of course I can not give any figures about contracts for the present," he said. "But sizable defence orders including those for American C47 and C54 aircraft parts will be placed in Canada by the United States. Cliilil Improving Three-year-old Wailace Geekie, son of Mr. and Mrs.

Arthur Geekie, 247 Arlington Avenue, was said to be in "satisfactory" condition by authorities at Ottawa Civic Hospital, at noon today. The child was seriously injured Monday evening when he dashed from the Gladstone Avenue playgrounds into the rath of fl passim? sutomoh1l. the first stage desk on the Hall. Sapper Alfred Rockburn name, age, point, the Army enlistment The official, who asked that his name be withheld, said the actual presence of more American troops would remove one great European fear the belief that Russian attack would, re sult in quick occupation of all of Europe before the United States came to the rescue. The presence of American soldiers, he continued, would convince the Russians even more than U.S.

action In Korea that aggression In Europe would mean immediate war with the United States. Quick American assistance In Korea has helped to convince the French the United States would come quickly to Europe's rescue In the case of a Russian attack. But the conviction Is not deep-rooted. The French remember that American aid came in the First World War only after France was nearly beaten, and in the second war only after the country had been thoroughly beaten and long occupied. What France wants this time Is cash in advance in the form of American troops already on the spot.

Evidently this was emphasized at the recent meeting of Atlantic pact deputies in London. Full Report On Tragedy No water was found in the lungs of Robert St. Jean, aged 12, who was found dead in the water at Brantwood Beach last night Playgrounds Commissioner J. A. Dulude said this morning.

Mr. Dulude said that when the pulmotors were used on the boy In an effort to revive him no water came from the lungs. Instead a very large quantity of food was disgorged and gives rise to the belief that the boy went into the water with an overloaded stomach, suffered a violent cramp and slipped Into deep water where he died. Off Boom The water on one side of the boom is from 18 Inches to two feet deep, Mr. Dulude said, on the other side it is from five to six feet deep.

Mr. Dulude said the boy was probably on the shallow side of the boom but when stricken by cramps slipped into the water on the deep side. Mr. Dulude said: "The children, from the Bingham Street Playground, were lined up at 6.15 by their supervisor, Denyse Labonte, and at roll call it was found the boy was missing. A search was organized by Ed.

Daugherty, in charge of the Brantwood Beach activities, and when the boy was not found his home was contacted In the hope he had gone there Learning that he was not home the life guards combed the beach without results. "Laurent Paris, 12, a com panion of the dead boy found his shoes and knapsack on a bench and on learning this the search was intensified and a life guard. Jack Nevlns, began diving and the boy's body was found In from five to six feet of water." Mr. Dulude said the diver said there was no evidence of a struggle as is customary where a person is drowned. The body was found extended at full length in the water.

A full report of the circumstances is being made to the Board of Control by the Play- grounds Commissioner. Aircraft Trim Page One Mr. Claxton, standing beside test models of the two new fighter planes at Dorval Air port, said "today Is a big day in Canadian aviation, Canadian industry and Royal Canadian Air Force "Every- country wants modern jet fighters and, in Canada, we are fortunate in having two of the best in their class. "Free nations like Canada are being forced to take strong united action to stay free. In Canada we are building up our own armed forces, and producing equipment as fine as any in the world." Commenting on the Canadian- built Orenda Jet engine, Mr.

Claxton said, "we soon hope to have Orenda engines for Canadian planes. "We have given the engine thorough teats and as far as we can see, it's going to be a great success." He said orders will be placed for mora, transport planes for the RCAF in the near future. Parachutists "Jump" Up By The Associated Press MOSCOW The Russian press told today of two parachutists who jumped up Instead of down. Three lumpers went up in a plane near Minsk. They leaped when the plane was at 2,500 feet.

One sailed slowly down for a normal landing. The other two shot straight up caught In a huge, upward-moving air current. The plane followed them into the clouds as they rose to an altitude of 4,300 feet. One chutist finally came down after 40 minutes aloft. The other was up two hours and landed almost nine miles from his starting point.

His greatest danger, he told the covernment newspaper Izvestia, came from his chute Icing up. He had to keep Shaking me straps to get rid of the ice. Gunners, Rangers Battle To A Tie Gunners and Rangens battled ninety minutes last night in an Important O.D.F.A. soccer game the result no score. The tie leaves the league title now up, to RCAF and Rangers, both clubs have but one more game to play, the Falcons meeting both elevens, with 14 points each.

Tomorrow night the Falcons are at home to RCAF at Cartier Park In a return match In the McGlverin Cup playdown. Commander From Page One Prime Minister St. Laurent has said It would be "available" for Korean fighting If It was still needed there when ready for action. Brig. Rockingham was educated In Melbourne and came to British Columbia as a youth.

In 1935 he joined the Canadian Scottish Regiment in Victoria and was mobilized with that unit when war broke out in September, 1939. The year 1942 found him overseas with the rank of Major and he was transferred to the Royal Hamilton Light Infantry. Less than a year later he was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel and given command of that unit. At Camberley In 1944 he attended the staff college at Camberley, England and then went to Normandy to resume command of his battalion which by then had gone into action. Just a short time later he was made a Brigadier and appointed to command the 9th Brigade, leading it through bitter actions around Caen, the Falaise pocket, Boulogne and the Breskens Peninsula.

Units of his brigade were among the first Canadian troops to cross the Rhine into Germany. Brig. Rockingham won the Distinguished Service Order while leading the Royal Hamilton Light Infantry in Normandy and a bar to that decoration in the Rhine crossing. After the war he was made commander of the British Empire for his outstanding war service. He was to have commanded a brigade in the Canadian Army Pacific Force and returned from Europe in 1945 for that purpose.

But the force never saw action because of the Japanese surrender and he retired to civilian life shortly after that. Brig. Rockingham Is married and has one son and one daughter. cs From Page One His riding embraces the most Civil Servants of any in Canada and promotes him as the natural choice for Such a cabinet appointment. Several parliamentary assistants who received their appointments after Mr, Mcllraith have graduated to full cabinet rank and other private members have received cabinet appointments since Mr.

Mcllraith became Mr. Howe's right hand man five years-ago. His elevation, therefore, is long overdue and in the event of a Civil Service portfolio being formed his appointment as its first, minister would be a fore-Son conclusion. Jobs To Be Protected coruqts. wi'l be proecd In their jobs in the event they enlist in the armed forces.

Provisions governing civilian re-employment which were in force in the last war are In force for the new special service brigade now being recruited. There will be" protection of seniority rights as well as full superannuation benefits for government employes who leave their Jobs for the new force which may go to Korea if needed. Special To The Citizen TORONTO Ontario civil servants enlisting in the armed services will be protected In their jobs, Premier Frost announced today. The government employes will be given a guarantee of their lobs on return, protection of seniority and full superannua tlon. They will be given their current month's salary and all replacements will be on a temporary basis.

This is the same protection as applied during the war. Hon. Arthur Welsh, provincial secretary said he has already received a large number' of inquiries regarding enlistment. Taxes From Page One Lost assessment values on gov ernment-owned buildings would be reflected In the city's grant, authorities stated today. But the likelihood of the gov ernment turning over the Lau-rentian Building to the city Is remote, something the city council is well aware of.

On July 3, this year, Con. C. E. Pickering, chairman of the City Hall Site Committee wrote to E. P.

Murphy, deputy minister of public works, asking for a definite date hen the Laurentian Building would be vacated and removed to make way for a new city hall. Mr. Murphy replied: "Our ownership of this site is represented by a narrow frontage on Albert Street, and in order to be suitable for a public building this department has In mind it would be necessary to acquire additional expensive commercial property to the west. TVe have no plans to that end at the present and as the Laurentian Building is a good substantial building and will serve our purpose for years to come. we do not contemplate moving ior our own purposes within the next five years." On July 6, this year.

Assistant City Clerk A. T. Hasty also wrote to the deputy minister of public works asking when government owned buildings Queen, Albert and Elgin Streets would be available for a city hall site. The reply, forwarded by Mr. Murphy on July 14 said in part: we have no plans for build ing in this area at present.

Space for government offices in Ottawa is still urgently required. It should be pointed out that the removal of the Aylmer and Bate buildings, together with other buildings In that locality, required for the new bridge, is placing a heavy strain on this department to provide space replacements. "We, therefore, hesitate to down any buildings at present In use and as this space will serve our purpose we do not contemplate moving for the next five years." Mayor E. A. Bourque, asked to comment on the' lost tax revenue the city will suffer should business blocks In the area selected by council be removed to make way for a city hall, was reluctant to speak.

Asked if the failure to secure the Laurentian Building site would not be a barrier to the city's plans for a new administrative building, and further that the city will have to expend over a million dollars to expropriate the area the mayor said. "I would rather not comment. I indicated in council, last night, that the expropriation costs would be tremendous. It is self-evident that we will lose tax revenue since the area Is one of the best tax-producers in the city but since council has expressed Its will there Is very little that I can say, now. All the facts were presented to council.

The decision made last night is council's and "do not intend to criticise." Police Solve Old Robbery On Feb. 8, 1946, a district farmer was beaten up and rob bed of a wallet containing $110 in cash and his overcoat. This morning, five years and seven months after the offence had been committed, the man responsible for the robbery appeared before Magistrate Austin O'Connor in Ottawa Magistrate's Court, pleaded guilty to a charge of robbery with violence and was remanded one week for sentence Herbert Alexander Crossman of Nova Scotia, who was taken into custody by Detective Gor don Lowry, of No. 2 police sta tion, two days ago, freely admit ted in court this morning that he had robbed 78-year-old Frank Hudson of Klnburn, of his wallet tn 1946, following a drinking party that concluded west-boro. The detective testified that Mr.

Hudson came to town on the afternoon of Feb. 8, 1946, and had consumed beer In a west-end beverage room. He then visited friends in that section of the city where he met the accused. Mr. Hudson and the accused left the residence in a small car to purchase a case of beer which was later taken to an address on McRae Street in Westboro, where the drinking party was conti nued.

Badly Beaten Up Shortly after the pair left the Westboro home, moans and groans were heard by the residents. Upon Investigating the source of the sounds, they found Mr. Hudson, badly beaten about the head and face, lying semiconscious in a field some 50 yards from the house. He was taken to hospital where he remained for three days. In the meantime, the.

accused had returned to his home on the east coast and had lived there up until quite recently when he returned to Ottawa. Detective Lowry, who was assigned to the case at the time of its occurrence, arrested the wanted man when he recognized him from a photograph. Given Permission To Install Tanks Seven Ottawa firms were permission by city council last night to install gasoline or fuel oil tanks on their property. These were: The Ottawa Hydro Electric Commission, for a tank at 84 Slater Street; Crawford Motor and Cycle Re pairs, for a tank and pump at 320 Pacific Street; Barnes Pick-up Messenger Ser vice, for a 500-gallon tank and pump at 337 Tweedsmuir Avenue; H. G.

Francis and Sons, for a 500-gallon tank and pump at 508-512 Gladstone Avenue; Colonial Coach Lines for a fuel oil tank at 265 Albert Street; Thomas Sales Agencies for a fuel oil tank at 310 Slater Street; Imperial Oil for a gasoline tank at Bank Street and Aylmer Avenue. German From Page On Armed with a tommy-gun, he charged the gunpost single-handed, killed two Germans and took a third prisoner. "It was just a matter of self-preservation," he said later. "They were shooting at me, so I shot back." In Hamilton, Brig. W.

D. Whi-taker, from whom Brig. Rocking ham temporarily took over com-cand of the Royal Hamilton Light Infantry in Normandy after Brigadier Whitaker was wounded, said today: "Brigadier Rockingham has a wonderful personality. He was well liked by the troops and had plenty of drive. He Is a fearless pnd a fine soldier." Korea From Page One The enemy was putting the pressure along the northern front the roof of the shrunken allied position in southeast Korea.

South Koreans were forced to make a two-mile withdrawal at unspecified points on the northern sector, the headquarters summary reported. Ths North Koreans also were building up their forces In the Yongdok sector, on the east coast end of the front. Serious threats to the important Taegu area on the central front were eased by the allied successes in the central sector. A communique Issued by the U.S. Eighth Army reported "aggressive-minded United Nations troops carried out successful action in every engagement with the enemy along the entire 140-mile front." The communique said the Communists in the southern sector apparently were withdrawing toward U.S.

patrols were within seven miles of the burned-out Bayonets as well as modern weapons played a big part in the southern drive. One American unit was said to have killed 40 North Koreans in a fierce, hand-to-hand engagement. Field dispatches from the central front told how U.S. troops chased a North Korean battalion in the hills two miles south of Waegwan, 15 miles northeast of Taegu, the South Korean republic's emergency capital. The Communists had forded the Naktong River in the night and taken up positions on a ridge commanding the road to Taegu.

North of South Korean troops have drove the invaders back to the Naktong River, one hundred fleeing Com munists were mowed down by their own comrades when they tried to get back across the river from the allied east bank. Some of the Reds who had crossed the river six miles south of Changnyong, 23 miles southwest of Taegu, were driven out of the high ground they had seized by American troops. The allied central front is manned by the U.S. 24th Divi sion, reinforced by newly-arrived Second Division 'elements from the United States, the U.S. 1st Cavalry and South Korean troops.

The foremost Red threat reached to 12 miles from Taegu, main supply terminal on the road-rail corridor leading northwest out of Pusan port, the big U.S. base. In the extreme south, where the first U.S. offensive effort bogged down two days ago, tank-led Marines got to rolling aeain but laboriously. They drove past North Korean dead for gains measured in yards, pushing toward burned-out Chinju, 12 miles ahead.

A dispatch telephoned by Associated Press correspondent Don Whitehead from the southern warfront at 8.55 p.m., Wednesday (5.55 a.m. EDT) reported that the American drive forced the North Koreans to begin retreating toward Chinju. Whitehead's single sentence report was not amplif iednmmedi-ately. On the central front outside Taegu, two American units attacked the Reds at their river bridgeheads. The American 24th Division, reinforced by fresh elements of the 2nd Division, stalled before Communist troops holding high points six miles southwest of Changnyong.

The town is 23 miles southwest of Taegu. Twenty miles northward a 1st Cavalry battalion drove against another Red force that crossed the Naktong near Kaepon. South Korean forces reported Wednesday night they had just about cleaned out a Red Korean bridgehead across the Naktong five miles north of Weagwan, 15 miles from Taegu. The report was received by American officials of the Korean.