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fMlfra mm T7 nr llL is. iv. 4 IN RuodUi he, 4 In VL C3 hfti 4 4 4 Mr HUMMf k4 1 Huif.i, A1 r.a BA a DAILY Id I EMTM PMLY YESTERDAY'S DtSTRIBUTIOM 12,888 PfM Action May Be Due To Regrouping or Could Be Policy for Border Area Still No Announced Decision bKetker Allied Armie Will Strike Into Northern Koreo te Mice It; Mof Keep Americoni Out Tokvo. Sept. 29.

Art-South Knran fnree rhatM broken-down Communist Invader unite to Ih parallel border of Red North Korea tonight and then rr rallrti to halt by the allied command. The allied vanguard wa pouring artillery lire on Rm posit tone the line between the Red North and Democratic South. A V. S. 9th army headquartrra apokeaman eai.l the South Korean were ordered to atop their advance and wait for what he called regrouping.

He det lined to mv or apecu-Lte on what would hapin after regrouping took place. VOL LVl CRAN'D JUNCTION, COLORADO, FRIDAY EVENING, SEPT. 29, 10M, (DAILY UNTINtL Af WIRIPHOTO) r. in mnnEcnnuncuT whit)id, ho toneo ht brought om AP CORRtjPUnUtnl thKwn grg moat rraptuc rrportlng. Unl by trr In Seoul gumyinf th nlb! of oar oggliut Uckdropof buildingi act afUm in thi battle for th South Korean capital.

I 'M i A Draft Director Urges Draftees Serve for 30 Intead of 21 Months rfepowl Atoned by Gtnerol Hmh? Meant of Momtoininj Army of Million oM Holf Men; Tbret Other Major Recommendation! thit drafts. 1 MuIkJ lo 30 ln.ll rooothi. ySuSuM provUe for oil month Utinin 21 vanced the propotutlju men ofmklnUinjng, army of 100.000. Soon on tee which la study mi pobi re vision tn the draft. The other ugied ehengee: modify deferment for dependency.

11 would have deferment for collateral dependent wiped out. He did pot aperily In detail but by collateral dependents. Hershey apparently wa Military Orders Washington. Sept gowmmrnf aooe will priority order duetl mill, and mine to fill military ir I jt. 1 TV State Senator Dan Thornton Gunnison, Picked asfGOP Candidate for Governor is PACES TODAY WEATHER Clmmit.

CwUw4 tnm rilih aa4 LMliMi Af WkreheUl 1- 4t4 jsftsrs' i) v.f I 1 V- (b AY Mrs. Henry Ford Dies EarlyToday UD Mrt. (imrd automobile plooeer. oteo hku work was the victim of a W'ddnet a. 9 Henry Ford hospital.

A ipokMman 14 scute comnary occ rhad for some time Mrs. Ford ton troubled wllh JS dll ion and in wt "onha ant kid twice wisitied the On each turned to tho Ford line in suburban Deirtorn nj wn'lnued octlve In her household ind rose garden. lederdajr she pitil lor the last time.Only few wor persons cloae to the family thit her condition had 2 WGara Bryant Ford end Henry death in 1947. were Over the aix decades they were known ae a devoted couple. Their only on, F.dsef.

ln 1M3. At that time he was Presi dent of the Ford Motor Co. as successor to hla father. The Ford had then retired. Mrs.

Ford a survivor Include her jrandson. Henry 2nd. now preal dent of the company. There are three other arena children. Benson, Wllliam CI end Josephine.

All four grandchildren are children of Edscl. Democratic leaders Urge Truman to Make 3 Major Appeals today to be urging President Tru man to broadcast et least three frankly political appeal for election of Democratic congress. The president indicat'd ye-lerdays news conference be thinks he going to be too busy to do nv personal campaigning in little more than five weeks left be-fore the November Democratic national committee officials havent gwen tip hope for some one-shot t.ri5SifInuld be But they indicated they would be glad to ttle tlonally broadcast political appej'j bv the president for support of ms 'hese party leaders want strong, Democratic talk vs. i. wn I next week In a month-long rouna 0fH lUnerary was Tfonal dav bv the Democratic nU0V.f mmlt.ee Barklevwill cover th cointry from California to ton- sssv-ivaw.

Oct 17 Denver, night. TODAY'S BASEBALL AMERICA LEAOrW rz: -i roj- -) and Gro. Krl- (41, Kinder () as, it Kunvi Harris and Cnmo, 17); ktasteraon. AtRina There waa still no announced 4e.f ritlon on whether the virlorlou. I Allied armie In the south would strike Into Red Korea to police It atainst any future Invasion or So-, viet-tnspired uprisings Nor was there anv Indication that boruer-eroaatng might be left alone lo-the -armed South Koreans or other non-American Allies a had been suggested Ml diplomatic circle el-ewher Among the suggestions wa that American might be kept out of any police force going north of th 3th parallel In order not to provoke bordering Red China end nearby Soviet Siberia The advancing South Korean In twin armored prong slabbed up to th Red border on the east coast.

Other South Korean were reported nearing 38 due north of Seoul, the liberated Korean capital 30 miles south of tha border General MacArthur solemnly turned Seoul over to Prealdent Syria man Rhee Friday. Then the lh army eommander. LL Gen. Walton Walker, told eorrespondent in kit Interview tn the capital: "Aa far a we are concerned, the wr over. The enemy army has disintegrated Into Ineffective pocket which have no real offensive power.

He didnt elaborate on "we" But tho lightning northward sweep of th South Koreans lo th Red boundary posed a pressing question: Would heavily armed Korean republican force go across unaccompanied by other Allied troop and wind up the war r. Arthur had broad authority from th United Natlon.to amesh a-eros the boundary. There waa a move In the N. to make the authority specific. The South Korean advance up the east coast had carried nearly 148 mile from their Jumping off flare near Pohang aeaport that for wo month was the eastern anchor of the old allied southeast beachhead AP Correspondent Leif Erickson.

flying over tho boundary on an observation mission, reported the Red apparently were trying to make ajitand on 38 tome five miles aouth of Yangyang and two mile Inland. He aaw shells from South Korean artillery hammering a ridge on the border. About 12 miles north of 38. a small village wa In flame. But Erickson said he could spot no sign of the enemy either In vehiclei or afoot from 12 to 15 miles north of the boundary.

Governor Johnson Glad Thornton To Do Swinging Denver, Sept. 29. (P Governor Johnson said today he was glad Dan Thornton, new Republican candidate for governor. Is going to conduct a swinging campaign. Thornton, arlected yesterday by the Republican atate vacancy committee to fill the spot created by th death of Ralph Carr, said he plant to go Into the November general election campaign awing I1 He a very nice gentleman, th governor aaid.

Im glad he going to do a little ewinging, because that what Im going to do, too. Strong Quake in Japan Cleveland, Sept 29, (AT A "atrong earthquake, which appeared to be rear Hokaldo, the largest of a cha. i of northern Japanese Islands, wa recorded by John Ckrroll univershy todav. Father Henry F. Birkenhaucr, achool seismologist, said the quake undoubtedly caused damage u.tt occurred on land.

U.S. Calls Russia Power Hungry WaUilnttan Kept- 2 KPW The state department ctfb tally de-arrihed Hutata todav "a power-hungry government that la bent on spreading III power by forte, terror In a policy nut line drafted at Prealdent Truman a aiigxeatloo. the department said that inc 1943 the Nov tel I nlntt has anneied aome 7.5(10 000 equare mile of new territory end ha taken more than SO0 000 000 people under it control It I now trying to extend empire scrota Asia." th department added These new denunciation of Maria were eonlained In a 100-page booklet entitled Our Foreign Policy." In a brief foreword. Mr. Truman said ha suggested the work to eet down aa almply and clearly as possible what we arc after In our relations with other govern ments and their people.

A tint printing of 60,000 hook let has been ordered the booklets can be distributed to private organizations, club and libraries In th United State and abroad Th booklet written in simple language, aeeka to explode Moscow theory that the present world tension stem from conflict between capitalism and Com-munlam. The conflict la really between a power-hungry government that 1 bent on spreading It power by force, terror end every other mean and the community of free nation which refuse, to bo conquered or dominated, or to atana by and ae it member awallowed up," the booklet aaid. Salidan Held for Slaying ol Man Sallda, Colo Sept. 29 (JPh-R-maldo Lara. 24, was kined lnriant-ly last night by a hullct thni heart and 45 year old -Mike Gallegos waa placed In county Jail pending filing of murder charge.

The sheriff, office aaid charge would probably be filed tomorrow. Lara, from Leadvtlle, wa hot a he climbed into hla car out back of the Gallego, home here at about 3 15 hi Officer aaid he had gotten In an argument with Gallegoe over ana for 4h marriage of hi aister, Mary Lara, to Gallegoe. India to Oppose Any Plan for U.N. to Pursue Koreans Over Parallel London. Sept.

29. UP) India haa told the United Stales, Britain and other western nation she will oppose any plan for United Nation force to pursue North Korean Communists across the 38th par allot. Diplomatic officials reported todav Indian Ime Minister Jawa-harlal Nehru ha expressed the view to leader of the big western power that the U. N. 1 committed only to the defense of South Korea and not to the aubjugation of North Korea.

Nehru action I considered here as bringing into the open a apltt between the United State and aome of the British commonwea th countries over the question whetn-er North Korea should or should not be entered. IE! ahilii lot LAS 81 5 SI otton Mar-iffled Pna- tte-back. tul how HT or! Great Se th hed tropl-! Colorful gahelL 1 IS relty jins tment of in these ie floral ruffle contrast red ruf-1 ruffles, yourself, luysl TTE fii ons vays re-wehava novelty rquisette youf orders ahead ofany J'W'J Aide of William H-administrator of th duct loo authority day th regulatlea hdue thu weekend or early next wr k. They aaid It will be almplo- but manda- officials dlKlo that me- era! orderw-eeltlri up or limiting th cWUim of warce material ran be expeetad tn th near future One of them, IfPA last night, will allocate synthetic rubber to firm end other rubber SmSnle. Official UU forme nrrdto ration Ue jr lme.

These more underlined Preel-dent Truman's 4rtkm that the armament profram wiil iorit a-head at full apeed dplt the apparent collapa of Communist forces In Korea. At about the wme time Mr. Tru. man told that to hl nw Mn-ference. Secretary of the Chapman aet up defense petroleum agency (DPC to deal With military-civilian problem.

In oil, gasoline and aviation fuel- Higher Pensions Seen lor Stale -Thru U.S. Boost Srt Increased pension, because of Old Age and Survivor Insurance provision of Social Security The payment not a direct one, but an Indirect one, Me County Welfare Director, Lew Wallace points out. for pension fund saved by payment of O- A. and S. I.

will pile up more urpj increase payment for 11 penaion- erThl true only fn Colorado, which ha the Jackpot feature of state pension legislation. For example, In the October 138 of Meu county 2,000 plus pensioners, qualify -for under O. A nd S. TTheje pensioner received in September. In October with the O.

A. and S. I. they w11 receive (4 995.75 an actual laving of 35 to the pension fund. If other counties of the atite have similar number qualifying, the pension fund will stand fo greatly increased, the big surplus piling up for bigger payment.

September the penstoners recelved 78, in October they will receive 85, and withht a few months they Turn to Page 2. CoL 2 NO. 315 ponsibllHie were considered, but non wa Interviewed personally considered every name submitted to or mentioned in th prest," he aaid The committee alio named Wilbur Rocchio. Denver attorney, the candidate for Carr a seat on the Lniverslty of Colorado board of regents. Rocchio.

president of the University Alumni association, lout the Republican nomination (or at tomey general to Duko Dunbar. Millikin hailed the choice of Thornton as "splendid. ing he Is "an energetic campaigner who know the state welt. "Dan will make a powerful candidate, aaid Stale Chairman William Lloyd. He ha humility and common sens, legislative experience and la active in public affair.

Thornton resigned as lel chairman of th Crusade for Freedom, saying he wanted to keep It free from any political ting-Born tn Hall county, West Texaa. Thornton attended Texaa Tech and U.CLA. He met hi wife at the California school, and they moved to Gunnison In 1940 and purchased a ranch a year later. HI TT Thornton Triumphant Hereford soon started garnering blue rib- "Thornton waa unopposed In the primary or general election when he ran for the aenate two year aco. He eeldom apok from the floor at the atari of the aesslon, but later took a more vocal part.

Speculate Eisenhower May Be Commander West Europe Army Washington. Sept. 29. (A) Speculation increased today that President Trumsn may appoint Gen Dwight D. Eisenhower lo command the projected International army to defend western Europe.

This talk la based In part on what Mr. Truman laid about Eisenhower at his new, conference yea-terday and in part on the fart that Washington officials believe a man of outstanding reputation and proved ability should get the u-prema command post. The mere naming of aueh a man high official aay, would help to create In non-Communtst Europe a new kenae of confidence and progress toward real security. Mr. Truman waa aked at the new, conference whether he wa ronaidering General Eisenhower for aome new lob, probably In Europe.

He replied that Eisenhower la alwav available at the president call but that he has not considered him because there is no appointment to make jet. Schedule for Freedom Bell on West Slope Saturday and Sunday Saturday and Sunday ached-le for Freedom Bell appearances en the western slope Is: Saturday Montrose, 12:30 P. Delta. p. Oraod Jmu-tloa 3:34 p.

tn. Sunday Aavd Point. 10 a. Rifle. 11-14 a.

Glenweod Spring. 12 JO p. nu- speaking of relative of tom distance from the draft regWrant a Immediate family, or persona who were only partially dependent on To remove restriction on induction of veteran under 2 year To watch earefully that the "ac-repiabtlity standard doea not get UInexplanaUon of the third uj reatlon Hershey said ha belleved we are going to have to get now approach to capacity to aenm Although ho did not apectfy. ihl apparently would mean leaa atrtet Qualification. Hershey made no recommenda-Uons for changing the preient dran age of through M.

In fact, be believed thet the army could bo ralaed talned by depending on thla ege group if the other suggeitioni are chairman Vinson D-Ca I ta directing the work of the house com- mittee to find what la n.eed.f! he said, to attain the alae of the amy contemplated." Vinson himself did not give any exact figure nHershey said It would take time possibly two or three years to build up to the 1.500.000-man army he mentioned. AUo. in PP.ren Indication that the lf thinking of a large army for some time to come, he said that his rec ommendationa would be If this country have a armed force indefinitely gen- erThwe were earlier that the high command of in irmy of nearly 1 ,000,000 oy next March. Last June nounced atrength was present totals are not ben nounced. However.

50.000 were drafted in September alone. In suggesting a 30-month draft, Hershey proposed that she months be spent intfainlng and 24 months Inductees always should Pcr mined to fiplsh high school before going into the service, Hershey Among the major deferment eategorie he Wted vjren. farmer 118.000 tnose with dependenU 891.000; those de ferred for physical, mental ant moral reasons 606.000; men wh( have passed 26 but are still ried In the pool book. 1.9130W. Also, many thousands ot tbe W-a groups ere In uniform already, or In reserve.

Hershey said the two blggwt aourcea of manpower not now used are veteran and men under 20 who have dependents. A A. aaid hd hasbeen aRepubllckn since be was old enough te vote. Dr, George Unfug of Pueblo announced Thornton unanlmou selection after a daylong committee meeting at a private home In Colorado He aaid 2k Other A DAN THORNTON Colorado Death Toll Rises lo 280 With 3 Deaths in 2 Days (Associated Preaa) Traffic accidents took three more lives in Colorado Thursday night and Friday, raising the atate a total for thla year to 280, Tbe death figure on this date last year was 222 Thomaa D. Oxnam of Sedalla.

wa crushed to death when his gasoline transport smashed Into in overpass on the new northside freeway near Pueblo early Friday. The truck cab dropped 30 feet, leaving he loaded trailer on the highway. Th gasoline did not catch fire. Morgan County Coroner FrancI JolUff said Oral McKinley Barker. 48, apparently threw himself in front of a truck which ran over and killed him half a mil west of Wlggtna.

The truck wa driven by William E. Armstrong, 45, ot Stover. Mo. Another trucker told atate hign-way patrolmen a short time earlier that a man. had tned to Jump in front of hi truck.

By the time patrolmen reach the acene. Barker had been run over by Armstrong truck. Barker, a railroad aectlon worker, had paper giving Crowley, as his homo town. John Joe Garcia. 20.

of La Junta, was fatally Injured when the far in which he wa riding collided headon with another on the outskirts of Fowler. Giant Landslide Crushes 40 Houses in Sweden Goeteborg, Sweden, Sept- 29- W9 A giant landslide crushed approximately 40 house and pnoved a railroad 100 yard in Suite today. Only one person la known to have been killed, police her eeid. Denver, Sept 29. bri Pipe smoking Dan Tliomton, atale aen-tor and breeder of prize-winning bulla, wa selected fast night th Republican candidate for governor of Colorado.

A fivf-man vacancy picked the handsome Gunnison. atockman to replace th let Ralph L. Carr to head th OOPs ticket with U. S. Sen.

Eugene D. Mllllkln. Thornton, a football pleyer end movie extre In hit college day et th University of California at Lo Angeles promised to start campaigning immediately and pull no punchei. Two year. In the Colorado etet senate have convinced me that the state ha untold opportunitlea and many some of them serious, he laid.

Thornton. 29. will oppoeee Gov. Walter Johnson, seeking hi first full term as chief execuUv. Before posing for photographer.

Thornton dug out hi overalaed PiTbl I my good luck pipe" he explained wa, moking It when I sold those two 50,000 bull. Thorntons purebred Hereford cattle won numerous ribbon, at the National Western Stock ahow in Denver, and two bulla were aold for 50,000 each, a world record at the time. When Thornton dispersed hi purebred herd to raise commercial cattle, it brought record 875,000. Thornton admitted that Jhla parents. Mr.

and Mrs. Clay Thornton of Slaton. and his brothers and slaters are Democrats, but U.H. Council Voles To Invife Red China To Present Views New York, Sept. 29.

(P) 1 Tbe security council voted today to invite Red China here for consultations on charge, of American aggression against Formosa, but Nationalist China claimed It had vetoed the decision. The 11-natlon body then became embroiled In a long wrangle over this parliamentary challenge and it still was unclear when tbe council recessed for lunch whether the veto would be ruled out. An afternoon aesslon wa called If the "resolution is finally accepted it would result In an Invitation being aent to the Communist regime of Mso Tze-tun to appear here for discussion after Nov. 15. The debate started when Council President Sir Gladwyn Jebb of Britain ruled tha proposal, apon-sored by Fuador, adopted.

The United State. HJSJ' France and India also Pkf, morning session In Nationalist Chinas claim that the 7 do 4 vote wa, Invalid. They contended that the question was procedural and that the veto dd not apply- Man 80 Cuts Two Teeth Eng. 29. 1-j Eighty-year old EU Bacon reported today that he has Just cut two new teeth.

My doctor tsya they art both foo4 wte too, 10, Robert F. Rockwell, Former Congressman ol Fourth District, Dies Suddenly Thursday Freedom Bell Here at 4 P. M. Salurday; Rally Will Be Held Here as Scheduled (Special to The Sentinel! Paonia, Sept 29. Robert Fay Rockwell.

64. former Colorado lieutenant governor leg! lator and U. S. congressman from the fourtn district for more than seven yearn, died suddenly at hi Crystal Creek ranch home near Maher at 7 35 m. Thursday.

Death wa attributed to a cerebral hemorrhage. A aon, Wilson Rockwell, aaid hi father death came as a surprise, as he had been in good health. Mr. Rockwell political career span many veara. He a her of th Colorado house of representatives from he was a member of the state senate until he took office a lieutenant governor tn 1923 and served as governor five month.

He was reelected to the -state 1938 and 1940. wa for governor tn 19 4 and 1930. In a special election hi 1941 Mr. Rockwell became U.S. representative from the fourth district, following the -death of Congressman Edward T.

Tailor. He served thru 1948 tn congress and was chairman of the committee on Irrigation ana reclamation and senior member ot the committees on mines and min- rally, to algn up peop' haven't yet pledged their faith tho demqcratic form of govern- mThe Montrose Crusade for Freedom is well underway and ia expected to be sparked by appearance of the bell replica there Saturday at 12 30 oclock. In Delta, the Junior Chamber of Commerce is continuing successful efforts to pet many signature on acrolls. Delta Jaycee will conduct an Intensified drive Saturday, when the bell Is scheduled for a 2 clock apnearance. A special atop for the bell has been arranged for Sunday morning at 10 o'clock at Anvil Point, since It was the first western Colorado community to ign scroll 100 per cent, as well a on of first Turn to Fago 1 CoL 3 The big Freedom Rally, planned for Grand Junction Saturday afternoon o'clock et th court house, will be held as scheduled, with the Freedom Bell replica as an outtandmg feature.

However, State Sen Dan Thornton, who was Crusade chairman md who was scheduled to be here for the rally, will not be in Grand Junction. Following hi designation rs Republican candidate for governor, Senator Thornton Immediately resigned as Crusade chairman. In his placfe. the state Crusade organization making efforts to have Judge Lee Knou here for the rillv. Preston Walker, verier Colorado campaign chairman, aaid.

Grand Junction Jaycee. who have been helping with the drive, will be working agaui Saturday at th and Batts. Cleveland betrstt Umon and HafMi Gray and Robinwv (Only imcs scheduled) NATlOldAt. LgAGGg M. a-, 1J I Xrsatlvn JM 5 7 1 Qurkont ind Crandall Doe, Binkhead and Carrpanalia.

cti'-af it st. tni. nijh, lOnly games scheduled) Duhlic land and Indian f- Tun, to Pag 2, CoL 3 1 ROBERT r. ROCKWELL -fewer-.

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