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VOL. UV, NO.f Of tkw Daily Ittna SATURDAY AFTERNOON, JULY 1950 Prict Fire Cent on Standi Delivered fty Carrier SOe. Week TWELVE PAGES ONE HUNDRED AND SEVENTH YAR U. Plent Creshes Suwon Is Held by Nprth Korean FolrGes; Rush U. S.

Gombat Tirdops IpiBaftle Scen Naval Blockade Not; To Halt Red Supplies Warships Will Prevent Furf her Landings of Communists on South Korean Coast and Protect Seaways for Transporting NOT Ctlt OFF FROM RUSSIA I I In Korto 23 Tokjo. July :1 IffV-lfarj! -East'Air force headquarf ters announced today that: a -carrying 23 including, a crew of flvej crashed on a hilltop Pusan, South Korea. 1 The announcement said there were no survivors! the crash. There was no indication that the C-54 was carrying; American troops into. South! Korea.

i The announcement saiA the crash occurred yester-' Washington Reports Temporary Ameri I can Headquarters Ha je Been Over run by Invading Comnunists-jrThreo Planes Lost in Operations During, Past 24 Hours as GI's Land in South' Korea From Japan and Move North-ward. PLAN NEW DEFENSE LINE 1 -1 1 The American navy expects to (By a-Yates McDaniel) make the blockade as tight as Washington, July 1 vr--ine ships can forge it U. naval blockaded Naval men say that it will not 4-Day Holiday Korea Ut expected to help land j- i' M.m-itmm-v' I I i fte. feCLj i a. ivfltn wift be necessary to steam fighting ships up and down the whole Korean.

They believe the same effect can be achieved by throwing a operations against the Invading Communists, but, It keep them from getting military sup- Is Under Way nlies from'RussiaJ In oiderinfithe naya ring Jo naval cordon across the top of Traffic Experts Estimate Washinfton, July 1 (AP) North Korean forces held Suwon at 7.00 m. (EST) today, U. S. defense re the' Yellow sea1 between Dairen In Manchuria and the northwest Record Number of Cars porta from Korea said. Korean port of I lei on'N.

E. Roads. I Army spokesmen said the temporary American Similarly, Seishin neart he ex treme northeastern tip of Korea be thrdwii about the embattled pehinsulaj yesterday President Truman apparently had two objectives' in HI To prevent the attacking North Koreans from making any more landing on the southern 'a. to keep the sea planes open tot the movement of could be isolated by a sea block headquarters in Korea had been oyerun by an inyadinff force of undetermined numbers. These latest reports received thijough Tokyo didnot mention recapture of Suwon as claimed by South Koreans.

The- S. air force lost three -'-hj 'V ade from, the big Russian base at Vladivostok, 75 miles away. Asked et her blockading American vessels would operate hear Vladivostok; a navy official S.troppjp and supplies iro'nj k' i But the; blockade probably will mere was no reuame lniorma combat planes while destroying said: "We believe in the freedom of the -seas outside the three-mile Boston, July 1 on wheels seemed to be moving today as' carefree pleasure-seekers rolled over Nevir England highways for a four-day FourJth of July holiday! j. Autos crawled almost bumper to ibumper over irjany highway in' what traffic experts described as record breaking number's. They were headed for peacti, countr' and mountain resorts, WHERE U.

iNFANTRYMEN'HXVE (above), Korean port city. Brig Gen. John H. Church, commander eif, the American advanced field headquarters In South Korea, announced. Troop! will be rushed from Pusan to the front by train.

Pusan, Korea's largest port city, is located on lie southern tip of the counto. It has a population of some 25,000. (AP Wirephoto) I limit." aircraft in operations over Korea during the 24 hours' ending at midnight June 30, Korean time. hate little effect on the shipment of any supplies -Russia wants 'to send to the Communist troops. In the days when Japan conj- tion whether the column had reached Sjuwon, 23 miles south of the; riverj whidh the American headquarters' hastily After the breakthrough.

Korean! defense "ministry sources sMd the South Koreans wr -'hnliriinv while the blockade may not hamper Soviet shipments to the The, Vr S. lost two F-80 jet Korean Jteds: the U. S. air force may succeed in aomg so now she. tied the road and rajl fighters and one B-26 attack bomber.

Spokesmen said they had no information about; casual- that the "out of bounds" sign has Rail, bus and. termjnals Denies Red Tanks Are South of Han Taejon, July 1 t.P) Korean officials said flat- been lifted from the 38th parallel which divides Korea. ties or how the American; planes Assert Russia Will Avoid Entanglement i i i were jammed Dy tnose taxing a-vantage of the extra long weekend. -J- i the 75-miJe long" strategic Han river line. The same source said 400 southerners had Infiltrated Into Com munist-heSd presumably; for ritreet! fichtirnr or hammm were destroyed.A Mr.

Truman announcement that American planes henceforth ly tonight 44 thf re are no Ehirine jthis period American systems aiUietwo countries together and agled both Jn north)- rrly direction toward Russian borders. At the -time, the- Japanese were preparing for fshowf dotio with the Soviets in Siberia. Th a fairly-good land route exists shipment of supplies inta North Korea from. Russian territory, '1 will strike at military targets in of the Han. The Boston A Maine, Boston Albany and New Haven railroads added hundreds of extra cars; arid tanks! south river.

I planes flew 161' Offensive sortie flights; of B-29 supefc- the invaders' home territory was expected to set off a series of U. S. air attacks on North Korean thej Reds. The Invaders have held the capital since Tuesday night of fortresses attacked North Koreanl many sections to trains. Air lines reported the greatest advance sale in history.

Bus lines weie roads and rail' lines. tanks, convoys, road intersections, and troop concentrations -along the Han river east and west of (By Daniel DeLuce) Berlin, July 1 -4 Soviet propagandists told Jittery Eastern Europe today that Russia fully booked; 1 Wednesday. At least two South Korean divisions re still fighting i UtA north of the Kan riyer1 line. The sixth division is in the Chun In an effort to cut down 1 the Seoul. will avoid open, entanglement in death toll, hundreds of troopers patrolled main the six states.

j. li S. Troops Reach Korea increasingly? grotesque forms in the- western world, where newspapers and radio stations compete in' mongering reports and an atmosphere of general catastrophe prevails, the in full knowledge of their strength stand on guard to protect the the Soviet organ reported. The, U.S. had requested the Russians to interevene to help halt the fighting in Korea.

The Soviet Union replied that it did Long Court Battle Is Ended in Newport Officers of the American military advisory group in s.aid there was no plan at present to re-establish group headquarters at Suwon. The Americans withdrew last hight after reportjj were Received that the in-' vadin: northerners had pushed within a few rniles of Korean miitary sources reported the enemy had made some small breaks In enow area and the eighth division is on theT northeast; coast 'just the Korean war. From Berlin to Bucharest. i (By Tom Lambert Taejon, Korea, July 1 CfV- Cost of Building Materials Higher Boston, July 1 (iP) The average prices of building materials First of the holiday deaths was south of the 38th parallel communist-controlled newspapers American GI's, irt a dramatic Reliahle Atnriiin mtllti- reported at Me. Harold Gould, 21 of Lexingtoh.

flieht through bad weather, ar sources said I the South Korean Newport, July 1 -jA year drowned Moore pond when a emphasized the non-intervention policy of Moscowv The full text of the exchange notes between the UjS. and So divisions which have met the rived in South Korea today1 and rushed northward to repel North boat in which he was fishing Jong court battle between Yociety continued to rise in the Boston with three companions upset. Korean Communist, invaders. matron Mrs. Payton Vanl.Rens, during the p.st month, the viet government on Korea ear Reds In combat are now at 75 per, cent ot strength br less.

Thia gives a good indication of the beatihff lhe" defenders' hay: tlkeit The others were rescued. 5 The Americans are to jgo-into aHaer1 and 'Timmy and Julia Sul lier this week was On -eastern U.S., Labor, department's bureau! bt6CT6nirptgeTtoaiy 1 strate'gie-defepOItion north of Taejon, on the road to Suwon, tne seven aavs oi war. out tnese were ot unae-termind size and location. Bids on Protects The official Soviet newspaper: not approve of the "interference of foreign powers, taJllrrnal East bloc newspapers published only fcrief, fragmentary reports oh the Korean fighting. But they devoted columns to articles on Th L.nrrf till V.nt.

BM i some 93 miles, from here Wendell D. MacDonald, region The long controversy apparently ended on an amicable note yesterday When an agreement was mc nviu iimi int. ail truw ptc coming" spread like a flame Just how; far these positions in Germany. Taegliche Jlunds-rhau, said Moscow's answer to al director the bureau, said Withdrawn by VA through this city, several joyiui lumber lumber products ad the American request for joint reached before Judge Mortimor Appeasement Po intervention 'clarified the Korean A. Sullivan.

7 the communist-sponsored Stockholm resolution to outlaw the atom question." The society woman com Washington, July! 1 (V-The of an American who told them1 the (Associated Press Correspor- Halted'Says Grew "While the war hysteria takes Veterans Administration a plained that the Sullivans, brother and sister, had interfered, with would be front the Communists was not known. Eager young soldiers-In "full field equipmemVJboarded transport planes thismorning and the first ship'started the historic air-lift at 11:45 rh (9:45 ml, EDT Friday) first units arrived irf Pusan 45 minutes later. At least one transport turned back because of bad weathelT At 8 p. m. (6 a.

m. EDT) none her "mode of living" by piling withdrawn a request for bids! on one hospital and indicated half a inicrharnpi Airman dent William Jorden said the men in the American expeditionary. force eppred happy and fit. Jorden is Jin i South Japan and Junk in their yard. All 6 New England States Show Gains lfUVI IUI VrVI nil 1 1 ivi.i dozen other projects may te f.

She- said the Junkr overflowed into Howe avenue. The avenue Is studied to provide greater se saw them take ons They appar- Cannot be Recalled an approach ta her 25-room curity. vanced generally. The greatest increases was noted In Douglas fir dimension which rose from $106.33 to $117. 50.

an increase of $1L17 over mid-May quotations. Prices of some: plumbing and heating materials were higher hi June than in the previous month-Copper tubing had the greatest advance with an increase of S1.25 from $16.84 to $18.09 per 100 feet. -f: Prices of mason supplies re malned firm With the, exception of iminor "changes, the average prices of paint and paint 1 supplies and' other building materials we're unchanged. ently arrived at the airfield lat; nlghU v.v manse on swank Bellevue ave i 1. CP- Former Ambassador Joseph C.

Grew sajja the direct action of the United States in Korea has halted a policy of appeasement of Russfa." i Speaking at Rhode Island State It withdrew a request fpr bids on a 500-bed hospital at Wade nue, of the American expeditionary She had erectecUa high hedge- Park, Cleveland. Ohio. force had arrived in the provi the scene less un row. to make Br m. aHa sional capital.

The VA said this wast done to permit restudy of pans to assure sightly. 1 A reception crowd of citizens, The Sullivans claimed that Mrs. college last night; Grew said: i that the hospital meets the. con upon advise of city officials, went Washington July 1 Army and Air force veterans who were discharged after the last war and who didn't, sign up for the reserves then cannot be recalled to service on the ground that the war emergency has never, ended Van Rensselaer interfered with Boston July 1 (JFh Each of the six New England states have gained in population in the past 10 years, according- to preliminary census figures announced by area. -census feupervisor Paul' G.

Carney. The gain for the region was 868.476 over the 1940 totaL The New England area office struction factors and other standi hasi immensely strengthen- life by coming on their-way of ards established by the civilian The Koreans began and tellirjg them-- their-property i mobilization board." ed our position and our future Constructive Influence In combat among other things how to The bids were to have been dress. ting Communism in thev entire opened Aug. '29. In general, that was the reply A year ago the leourt ordered Clock Islond Swimming The VA indicated it wanted; to Far Eaet.jand everywhere." of army and air force spokes of tine, census listed 'these state study plans to determine whajt men today to these two questions Race Halted by Weather Timmy to reduce' the unk pile.

Yesterday' agreement provides: 1. Both Sullivans and Mr. totals: 1950 Gain construction changes might bf being raised by veterans: made to prpviae greater aecuriry 4,711,733 395.032 Van Rensselaer are enjoined from R. Lt July 1 tifTA against possible bombing attacl 1.. iln case-- of 7 a presidential call up pi reservists, what would be the 'status of former officers Mass.

Conn. Maine any. way with the Bad weather forced postpone Oclals said call! for bids for avenue as a right interfering! in tise of iHowe of way. ment today Of i the; 13.7 miles a auu-oea nospuai ti mianoma 1,994.818 285,576 59379 786324 72,978 529,880 3856 OfWalfhamVatchCo. a.

Al Boston, July; 1 iX-The Re. construction Finance corporation may. block reopening of the Wal-tham Watch Federal'. Judge George Sweeney yesterday approved plan which would permit court appointed trustees to operate the- plant a petition by trustees and favored by slock, holders. An RFC spokesman ildx last night, however, that tbert appear- -ed to be "a reaj possibiHty that the RFC might attempt to block operation of the reorganization plan through court action." The spokesman asked that hi name be withheld.

The RFC -ia the company's principal creditor who did hot sign up lor' the reserve commissions after their city! also may be cancelled Thse early the afternoon i in front Of the gray stone railway station and lined a dozen city blocks. Near the station" were asseny bled camouflaged American and Japanese, trucks. Presumably they were to carry the Infantrymen to their bivouac. A slight" drizzling rain did not thin out the crowd of women and children who were Entertained i by a Korean army brass band which played "Dixie" and "Columbia, the Gem of the Ocean." At 7:50 p. ro.

the station loudspeaker advised the crowd to go home. The people obeyed quickly. 'The picture on the warfront was confused But there to Block Island swim-ring race. i Thf, postponement R. I.

N. H. Vt. 6 21 Van bids were to nave neen opened Rensselaer agreed her t50-yard' long war service? to move backl 375,786 16,555 lias announced" after 30 contest July 25. 2.

yCould a discharged GI be called back to service on the Other pending projects for ants appeared for the event. Of; ficials reported -there, was fog and Totals 9.305,766 868,476 which bidlL have not been grounds that the; draft which hedgerow lor: distances ranging Jfrom two 14 feeetV i Mrs; Van i Rensselaer was so pleased with he agreenqent she said she wotild improve Howe Mr. Carney said the figures ar 9 heavy chop. running, over most Include a 000-bed i hospital at Brockton. Mass.

i I The United States has shown; he said, jthat it is "capable of Strong and determined leadership. Our prestige has this past week been tremendously strengthened everywhere. rv He said the administration Had taken the "oijlysound and sensible decisions 4 many years I have, 'felt that any policy of appeasement of Russia was hopeless," he added, "and that a show of determination and strength was the very best possible insurance against a general war." I He sai4 that International law does not 1 rule today "it is the law of he -jungle and In the jungle it lis the fittest and readiest and strongest that survive." Grew was ambassador 1q Japan from 1932-thfbugh Pearl Harbor. of the course. suDject to revision in.

wasnmg ton before they are accepted' as was effect during the w.ar obii gated him to serve for the dura tion and six months? The Air force iaid any air offi avenue by constructing a gravel official. with road flowers and Bad Weather May Hamper hedges. cer who was separated from the service, without signing up for a new reserve commission, could American Air Force in Korea Police Hold Segee not be recalled. In case the try should flndf Itself In a new On Minor Charqes were these main elements; i One Communist column ap parently succeeded In breaking through, the vital Han river-defense; fine Friday Unofficial estimates of the strength of this, truck eolumn range up to two emergency a spokesman satd. to the extent of $1,000,000.

The epokesman pointed out that the court-approved plan did not meet with RFC approval when it was previously, under1 consid eration by Judge Sweeney along the Air force would review the By Max Boyd) Washlngtoii; July 1JJP The reported virtual collapse" of the rolls of former1 officer and of air and sea support of the defending arm'y. i Yesterday the, White House dis closed that ground forces would be used as well, I Dtea for Men Selected At Hcly Cross Cofitg Worcester July 1 (TV-frhe Rev. Jeremiah, J. Donovan. S.J., has been named dean of men at Holy Cross college effective in September.

FatheryDonovan, Xormer assistant professor of German and religion, succeed the -Rev, J. P. Deevy, who Has been transferred to Boston college fer new. commissions to those It Columbus, July, 1 (JPi outn Korean army means a wanted. Those offered new com Robert D.

Segee, 20-year-old cir hard; bloody and perhaps long missions, would 'not have to ac cus worker rhO; authorities say campaign "for American troops cept: thenv however. tnrowTi into the battle against has admitted setting tne isai Rineling Bros. circus fire I that The spokesman added that dis the Korean Says Chiang Offers 30,000 Troops, for Service in Korea killed fl68 persons, i is awaiting Military men here said the out trial today for setting two minori charge certificates protect enlisted air veterans of the war against being -recalled. look is all the more grim, because high schooL Originally, American planes also had been forbidden to fly qver the communists'! home terri tory.v fA 1 Officials said lt was realized from the start that attacks on home bases' would be the most effective way to fight the air force. But i they added that the ban oh flights above the 38th parallel was ordered to dem-'.

onstrate that the United States The Rev. Joseph A. Glavin. glazes. lt Segee is in the Pickaway court-.

ty jail at nearby Circlevillei He was indicted on twd accounts of ioui weaner may maxe increasingly difficult to bring America's air superiority to bear, At will become moderator of Manchester, N. July 1 athletics, succeeding the Rev. The." president of the -American this time of year, Korea normal iohn M. Tlernan, S.J who will ly enters: season torrentiaf China Policy association says be assigned t6 St Mary's church, uenerallssimo Chiang Kai-shek rains and overcast skies lasting Boston. has offered front-line Na two months or more.

i arson yesteraay in two uircie-ville. fires. -Ohio State Fire Marshal Harry J.Callan" said Segee admits setting" the Ringllng Bros, circus tent on fire in Hartford, ConnM wanted only to drive the invaders During the next few days, when An army representative 'said former army officers, who were "discharged from their commission' and Who did not sign upfor new reserve could not be called back; However, some who were placed on inactive rather than being, discharged, could be. I Wartime GI's whot were discharged couldn't be 'called back under the wartime draft law. In the navy, reserve officers' commissions are for an indefinite Most naval reserve offl- Suffolk County Jury the first U.

S. ground forces are back Into their territory. The was lifted yesterday struggling (6 get established July fi. 1944. Besides the 168 fa-j with two others.

i Subsequent amendments, the spokesman satd, did not change its position. 'AA Employes of the plant were confident that the Court-approved plan would mean their return to work.v. The employes are extremely, pleased at the said Wal ter W. Cenerazzo, president of the Waltham Watch workers in dependent union. "It means American ownership of an American-operated: Jewel watch factory It protects the seniority of the .94 persons, over 45 years ot age.

What is needed now is plenty of hard and cooperation, v- V-y Judge Sweeney approved the trustees plan over those submit ted by the Bulova Watch company and Frederic Cv Duma ine. Boston financier and president of the New Haven railroad. The judge cautioned that bf the plans submitted, including the. trustees' plan, has any guar an lee of kucccsA." He added, however that' "permanent sue cess could be assured the RFC will release the blocked cash account to the trustees." i-. Convicts Potrolmon July" 1 Suffolk and stop the rush communist tanks, the weather, will be' of ex talities, 412 persons were in- and tho new boundary for U.

flights pet at the Korean-Manchu-rian border. 1 superior court Jury convicted Pa jureu. -i the mainland and Formosa has eased pressure against Nationalists on the Island, making the release of the troops possible. "The 'generalissimo and the Nationalist forces "have been fighting the Communists since 1926 and therefore, welcome the opportunity to enter the Korean battle." Loeb quoted Kung as -K vi the Americans supply the planes, guns and tanks the mechanized arms which Mhfe U. S.

Is so skilled Jn' prodyclng the least the Chinese can do ls to supply the manpower. Give us the weapons and. we'll' do the 4 In Nashua, K. Senator Bridges (R NI I) said the Chinese treme-" importance It will decide more than anything else, Whether There has been no I official ex tionalist CWna troops to bear thebrunttof the fighting In Ko Willlamf Loeb," publisher 'of the Manchester quoted HJI. Kung -as saying in a telephone conversation from New York that the offer had been made in cables to Gen.

MacAr-thur and President. Syngman Rhee of the Republic' of Korea. Kung is a. brother-in-law of Chiang and a former Chinese fire, said Callah, Segee has sign trolman John T. Quill early today of assault "with Intent to unlaw fully carnally know a female planation at to why S.

ground Lcers were placed on Inactive duty ed a statement admitting he killed four 4- persons his. own hands? and started more than a minro eif malftrr flroa In thro forces Were not ordered to South Korea (at the start. But ground fighting normally involves larger numbers of men than aerial com The jury returned the verdict the GI's get protection and sup port from the hundreds of plane available on Japan. 'Okinawa; Guam, and an allied aircraft car-riers. Initial limits on armed American aid to Korea were abandoned yesterday, even before' the.

full against the 38-year-old Boston po lice officer after deliberating more than 12 hours. He will be sentenced bat and consequently: more v. is after the war. They are still in the reserve and subject to being recalled to duty. A few have been discharged or have resigned, however, t.

f- Former nay enlisted men. If premier, The government's first plans Kung told Loeb the offer indi proportions of the southerners' The -state' charged' Quill had 7 yf i Segee has not been formally charged in the Rlngling fire. Segee' arson explojts, fire investigators said, were motivated by nightmaresi during; which a "red Indian" riding a flaming; red horse urged him to set fires. i i cated the would be ready apparently were based on the hope that ahef South Koreans: routi became known publicly. sexual relations with "a 15-year- they, did not enlist again follow to embark from.

Formosa as soon In his original announcement would rally after their Initial set ing discharge during a transports are available. offer should be accepted Immediately. He is the ranking minor ity member of the senate foreign of American intervention, Presi- back and offer considerable re- tion, have the same status as an? old school girl after; picking her on his beat He -denied the The ex-prcmier said the patrol aeni iruman naa menuonea oniy distance. nether civilians. of the U.

S. Seventh fleet between relations committee, i.

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