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Victory of More Be Line To No Retreats Aitwi; Troops Slow Korea Predicted By Military Hefads Budget Cuts Valiantly Fighting Soldiers Pushed Back Unofficial Sources Amendment Lucas Hits x' -- Bridges' Supported by Bloc of 35 Economy Senators Hold Out Little Hope For Help From Europe From Kum River Line AMERICAN ADVANCE IN HEADQUARTERS ; J WASHINGTON, July 15 KOREA, n 15 (UP) July Senate Democratic (UP) GI's, sagging under the Leader Scott W. Lucas, 111,, overwhelming Communist as h fight sault on the,; Kum river line, promised . a against what He backed today! into rugged Saturday budget-cuttin- g called "meat-ax- " South Korean mountains demands - from a bloc of which they now hope will be their ' point of no more retreats. 35 senators. soldiers who Am-erica- 5 ; ' ' Lucas told, reporters that the Impact of the . proposed cuts on the Marshall Plan would give "aid and comfort to the Kremlin and demoralize our friends' when Is facing a crisis in the country . the Far-East- wrath was aimed at the amendment, introduced Friday by Sen. Styles Bridges, R, NJL, and 24. Other senators,, to reduce most ry spending items 10 per cent below amounts voted by the senate appropriations . com mittee. It was aimed at. saving more than $800,000,000 on the $32,000,000,000 money bill. Noting that the committee already had cut more than $1,000,-000,0from administration re quests, Lucas said be would ' accept the committee decision but would oppose "any arbitrary, cap ricious, meat-a- x cuts." Stab In the Dark 'It's a stab in the dark that can't be Justified." he said. Lucas refused to predict the outcome ox tne vote on the am . Lucas non-milita- 00 (Centlaued ea Page 14) Solons Begin Miami Crime Investigation " the honest bookmaker-- " Until recently, Gibbs said, he never paid "ice money" for pro- taction of his ' illegal business against arrests other than a standard 50 per cent of his earinings to the S. & G. . ' Demands Deable Cut Racketeer Eddie Rosenbloom "muscled" into the syndicate last winter, Frenchy said, and demanded $75 a week In addition to the S. St G.'s cut. He told the committee he had -- . sneaked away from his wife and son this morning to testify. He has a bad heart, he said. The committee also drew from Miami Beach Councilman Wil liam Burbridge that he was a -friend" of Harold Sal personal vey, one of the S. JSt G. stock holders, and had once loaned Salvey $40,000. He also has had real estate transactions with the syndicate, the councilman said. John Rush, a Jacksonville attorney, told the investigators that syndicate paid him $10,000 to ' draft a bill for the 1949 Florida legislature. The bill would have legalized bookmaking. - off-tra- ck w Inside The Herald A POHANGVWf, It UMf-HO- had vowed the Kum would mark - life-savi- ng - ' (NEA Telephoto) DISGUISED REDS CROSS KUM RIVER Communist invaders disguised in American uniforms forced their wy across the Kum River near Konju (1), but were met by strong American resistance. Yanks sought to hold their defense line (sawtooth symbol) in front of Taejon. Communists continue! flanking moves on west coast north of Kunsan (2) and on central front between Andong and Hamchang (3). On east coast red invaders between Uchin and Wolpo (4) threatened drive (open arrow) toward U. S. base port at Pusan. 15-m- ile . July 15 Top (UP) military officials disclosed Saturday that weapons have been powerful new anti-tan- k LONDON, July 15 (UP) delivered to American forces in Korea, and United Nations member coun they predicted flatly that "eventually" we tries were slow Saturday in will win the war. U.S. tanks also are being shipped to reacting to Secretary-GenerTrygve Lie's request they Korea, it was disclosed. send ground forces to Korea, Fresh from talks with Gen. but it was expected that few Douglas MacArthur in Tokyo, L. Lawton Collins, army of them could spare any Gen. chief of staff, told newsmen at a troops. The appeal, made Friday at Lake Success, had not yet arrived in some capitals. In others, it came too late for official consideration before the beginning of S the week. But unofficial sources held out little hope that European nations could do much about it. They pointed out that most of the larger countries have military commitments elsewhere that have drained all their reserves and that little more than token forces could be expected from smaller countries. Denmark Declines The only clear-cofficial com ment Saturday came from Den mark, where foreign minister Gustav Rasmussen made it clear his country can not meet Lie's request. He said the appeal had not yet ben jreceiyed, but that it would" be studied by the cabinet next week. "We have already notified Trygve Lie that we were unable to offer military and assistance i . i i I. uarcujr anyone u expecting wis (Continued on Page Two) ut . Party in Disagreement Over Its Stand on! Korean Conflict special briefing that: 1. The American defense line in Korea soon will be established. 2. U.S. forces will hold "an ex tended area" to be used as a Dnogeneao" tor future opera tions. 3. The U.S. "eventually" will drive the Communist invaders back to North Korea. A defense department spokes man said meanwhile that the Communist North Korean forces are estimated to have suffered between 8,000 and 9,000 casual ties up to July 13. He said Am erican casualties total less than 500. Collins and Gen. Hoyt S. Van denberg, air force chief of staff. returned from a flying visit to Tokyo by plane early today, ar in a downpour and with riving one engine dead on their four- motored constellation. i Troeiwr Dinr JVell By FRANK TREMAINE North TOKYO, Sunday, July 16 (OR) Korean troops in two savage attacks threw a three-wa- y squeeze on Taejon today, strikone at ing point to within eight to 10 miles of the city. In the Sector held by the south Koreans to the northeast the enemy brought Taejon airfield under' artillery fire and threatened to Tae-jon-Pu- Korean Waii At a Glance! TOKYO Heavily -- armed red troops drive out - numbered Americans back from Kum river line; entire U. S. force in Taejon area threatened with encircle ment, WASHINGTON North Korean forces suffered between 8,000 and 9,000 casualties up to July 13 compared with less than 500 U. S. casualties, spokesman says. : military t i LAKE SUCCESS Top level United; Nations planners considering recruitment of international legion to fight against north Ko . reans, ADVANCED AMERICAN AIR BASE IN KOREA Intrepid American fliers hold some sections of Kum river front slnglehandedly with repeated bombing and; strai- ing attacks. s j Korean Reds' Casualties Over 8,000 Mars Limps In On Only One Engine - w out-and-- out U. S. Holds In 2 Sectors j , -- two-and-one-- " 384 Utah County gh Guardsmen Face Possible Call .. Central Utah News Deaths 2-- .... .... News Briefs 8 ..... 7, See. 7,-- i See. Kadie Fret-ram- s .....1. Women's Features . . 4, See. Church and School i ... See. News . , S, See. Comics . 9, It. 11, Sec (Classified 1-- 5-- 4, . , : Ions-await- ed Six Persons Die in Wreck Legion Urged to Fight in Korea four-engin- ed top-lev- er ide (U-R- , in-ch- slowly-retreati- ief ng - m V 6 British Naval Ammunition Barges Blow Up In Explosion MacArthur Lifts Correspondent Ban Moscow Air Show Tribute to Stalin ed all-me-tal 2 4 4 Statistics County Fare Column . . . . . .12-1- 4 3 Sperts Amusements ....Jl Editorial Page . ...... 7, See. 2 Iferry-Ge-Reu- nd Correspondents at the front said the 'Communists were r expected to try to close their pincers on Taejon within the next 24 hours. The Communists made major breakthrough both on the south Korean front north of Taejon and on the American front to the west. The northern arm of the pincers attack smashed three to five miles through south . Korean lines holding the Americfn east, flank in the horseshoe bend of the Kum north of Taejon. Croaa At Twe Points In this area the Communists reached within eight to 10 miles of Taejon. Pilots reported they already had crossed the Kum river at two points north of Tae jon. Earlier ground reports said the Americans were beating back Communist infantry patrols try ing to cross there. Pilots skimming over the battlefield in fighter planes said the Communists brought Taejon air field under artillery fire from positions on the north. The airfield is two miles northeast of Taejon only six miles from the Kum river at the big bend where the American and south Korean lines merge. It was at the western arm of the Communist pincers where the heaviest fighting was in progress the Communists fought to widen and deepen their bridgehead along the Kum (Continued on Page Twe), International 88-m- multi-motor- Pates 2 2 2 2 2 2 san T-3- ea eecre-tary-gene- i , kin ' sweep on south to cut the supply highway. The Communist radio claimed American staff officers were abandoning Taejon. The heaviest fighting was in the American sector to the west and northwest where the Com munists extended their bridge head across the Kum river to 15 miles and began a wide end run south around the American lines. Front reports said the Americans gave up the western half of their Kum river line and besan falling back through the moun- - "The troops are doing damn welL and everything will 'turn out all right," Collins told news men at National airport. Later he and Vandenberg and other top military and civilian NEW ' YORK. July 15 U.R) North Korean troops back to the officials conferred with President Henry A. Wallace bolted his own 38th parallel. Truman at Blair House for 45 no hold the for brief "I j past beprogressive party Saturday minutes. Presumably, the report Rusor U. S. of either the cause of its stand on the Korean actions they gave him will determine to war and said he was on the side sia, but when my country Is at some extent how far, and how July 15 (U.R) of "my country'' and the United war and the UN sanctions that the nation must go toward A WASHINGTON, fast, counsaid Sat? am on war side of I the my spokesman Nations. military all-o- ut mobilization. that Communist north Ko urday The national committee of the try and the UN," Wallace deMeanwhile, a usually well- - rean 1 orces suxxereo Detween progressive party, which Wallace clared. source 8,000 and 9,000 casualties informed up.1 to congressional . a 1 founded two and one-ha- lf i.u years Union Soviet Attacks man Truman that President ies lo wiui reported compared JUiy (Continued, on Page 14) ago, adopted a statement virtually 500 American casualties. to ; to send is requests expected Amerattack ALAMEDA NAVAL AIR STA congress Tuesday or Wednesday In his first urging the withdrawal of The including Skilled ; . on the Soviet Union since the TION, .Calif., July 15 (U.R) ican troops from Korea. The for additional funds for the woundedfigures, were and missing, from Gen. Wallace, who ran for president cold war began, Wallace flatly navy's 165,000 pound flying boat armed services. They will involve based on reports under the party's banner in 1948, blamed Russia for the Korean Caroline Mars with 18 persons money needed to meet the costs Douglas MacArthur. refused to go along with the pro- war. aboard, limped to a safe landing war. The spokesman told a 3 p.m. Russians on San r rancisco Day Saturday growing out of the Korean the "Undoubtedly EDT, briefing at the pentagon that gressive stand on Korea and is could have prevented the attack after staggering in from 400 miles Mobilisation Unlikely sued a policy statement of his ne nao no estimate ox wum own. by the North Koreans and un- at sea on one engine. casualties. Korean This source said he had heard He agreed there is an element they could .now stop The Mars set down at 6:17 pjn The former vice president de doubtedly WITH AMERICAN FORCES the attack at any time they wish," (PDT) after a worried navy and nothing to indicate that Mr. Tru of error in estimates of an ON THE KUM RIVER LINE, nounced Russian aggression in he said. coast guard followed the air man will also ask for war mobi enemy's losses, but added: Korea and said United the States Sunday, 'July! IS (11 ajn.) OLE) and United Nations must C. B. Baldwin, chairman of the giant's course minute by minute lization powers and economic this one is reas "I push progressive party, said he did not for more than North Korean! suicide attacks He said onablyunderstand controls immediately. to the truth." close were" thrown: back all along the think Wallace wanted to leave hours after her commander, Lt. Democratic leaders in congress The spokesman also said that central and eastern' sectors of the the party and said there was no Cmdr. A. C. Snyder, Hayward, hope there will be no need for on the basis of information from Kum river Saturday night. (It sentiment in the party to kick Calif ., had reported her in trouble legislation to deal with those sub MacArthur, the largest tank being was in the western sector where Wallace out, although most mem- - on a routine flight from Hawaii jects before the November elec used by the north Koreans is the the North Korean break-throu4, a 35- - ton tank with a crew of 15. men and three tion. It was understood tnat Air. ( Continued on Fare Two) Russian Truman has been advised by ad- mounting a m occurred.) gun. j passengers. rescue ministration lieutenants against Small groups! which succeeded A flight of five air-sFront dispatches have said some in infiltrating: American positions of the invaders' tanks are 60- planes from Hamilton air force seeking such powers now. At a late afternoon pentagon tonners. were being mopped up by Ameribase had flown out several huncan tanks this morning. dred miles at sea to escort the briefing Collins Mid U. S. troops The spokesman also said that ' loss of in Korea had been doing an "exme Uomm umsts ODened their race on Mars its that has become information against Approximately 384 men and fine Job," in the face available since the Communist offensive at 9:30 officers altitude. ceptionally county would be were green and aggression began has resulted in last night with S heavy barrage of affected inif Utah When the plane of the fact they seasoned the National Guard is combat a revision of the estimate of the were up nortar against its of left and landed, tank fire both, engines artillery, MANSFIELD, O., July 15 (U.R) were feathered and num- troops. LAKE SUCCESS. N. Y- - July 15 from the north side of the river. called to active service. number of north Korean tanks. the only a vacationSix persons, including tne According to guard officials in that conceded (U.R) Collins estimate should He said the on Recruitment of an internagoing the ber three right engine Cleveof five from Provo, the 384 men are broken ing family Wave; After Wave been rough. Soviet-bui- lt effi- has have been 300. At the outset, tional legion to fight in Korea is at was full operating wing near were killed land, instantly down Into five units, two in el The fourth was opera- tanks especially have given South military spokesmen had estimated being considered by auto- ciency. All during the night they threw Provo bat here Saturday when their a bad time. the north Koreans had 100: tanks United Nations planners, lt was headquarters defenders Korea's in tional spurts. only wave after wave of infantrymen tery wiinGroup an ou men ana xieia artil- mobile crashed into empty and rocket shells available. learned Saturday. Snyder had radioed at Our bazooka Earlier, truck. about against the American positions. lery, 145th battalion, with 24 steel hauling tractor-trailbeen have bouncing 2 400 miles from reported about p.m. Authoritative UN sources re Some tried to: wade the The car, headed south on Rt. 42 men; one in Spanish Fork, Bat off the tough tank vealed that the idea still in a river at its shallower points tery C, 145th battalion, with 100 a half mile south of Lexington, at sea that two engines had gone harmlessly CANT TAKE IT armor. tentative stage already has been while others attempted to cross in men and one in SpringviHe, en- O., collided head-o- n with the out.' 15 NEW ) YORK, de said July Collins But weapons As the plane soared in over the broached to the United States. rubber boats and rafts. gineer battery with between 80 truck, ripping the tractor from Golden Gate the tanks includ- William Seligman, about 55, And lt was indicated that it has it was down to be- signed to stop Small groups managed to cross and 100 men. the trailer. a note wrote saying, "Goodbye been forwarded to Gen. ing tanks of our own are being at a half dozen points and at dawn Less than 10 per cent of those The dead were identified as low 1200 feet and had been losing to Korea. Some al- civilization. I'm going to Utopia, MacArthur, commander - Douglas delivered from all the altitude way steadily had, temporarily cut off some new servine in the National Herman Turner, 47, his wife, plunged to his death from a of UN forces on ready are in the hands of U. S. and American outposts. But Ameri- Guard in Utah county saw serv- Laura, 45, their children, Barb its normal flight altitude of forces. 10th floor hotel room Saturday the more even And powerful around Asiatic feet. 8,000 peninsula. blazing can tanks were rushed to forward ice in World War II, however all ara, 14, Joyce, 11, and Robert, 5 NJ. Whether or not the Selisman gave Feuderne, k weapons soon will be i Snyder radioed as he ap- anti-tanareas and had S field day cleans officers in the guard here did. In addition Mrs. Turners sister, plan is ne as ms nome aaaress wnen he hinted. on the could way, he that the city and it has into proached translated out small Communist pockets, officials said reality Breslin Grace Williams, 30, was found see Mount Ing Hotel at the coniiregistered and all calm "We found will depend drawbacks Tamalpais on the pendecapitated an hour after the insula to the Thursday. His papers gave an serious dent," Collins reported. north of the city. on of reaction the Washington, 3915 accident. Meridan address other "And boy,! does it ever look In the face of continued MacArthur and key UN member No Sabotage Evidence Miami. Ave., on Page Two) nations. good," he exclaimed. The International legion would be made up of volunteers from 'Stalinist Aviation' Era many lands. The proposal was tellspurred by recent dispatches ing of group offers to fight against the red Korean invaders and by Gen. TOKYO. July 15 (U.R) a "rising crescendo" of messages MacArthur Douglas Saturday to UN headquarters seeking enPORTSMOUTH, Eng.. July 15 four other cases of suspected night lifted a ban which had forin the Korean fight. OLE) Naval authorities said Sat Communist sabotage in the Brit- bidden Peter Kallscher of the ment paper, In connection with air flying machine as well as listment HENRY it was emphasized Meanwhile, the aviation urday they had found no evidence ish navy. United Press and Tom Lambert ByMOSCOW. SHAPIRO commemorate motors, to LE Lt. Sunday's show UN the July 15 here that high command of sabotage in the explosion of Strict security measures were of the Associated Press to return Gen. autogyro, the plane, helicopter, Vassili Stalin, deputy com the 32nd anniversary of the United with in is richt step six naval barges carrying more imposed Saturday in Portsmouth to the Korean front. parachute, mander of Sunday's air force founding of the Soviet air force. hydroplane, States stand that a red cease-f- ir than 1,000 tons of ammunition in harbor, main base of the British Vassili said no other air force dirigible and rocket plane.) Earlier, one of MacArthur's of show at Tushino airport, declarto the 38th par the harbor here. of Soviet and withdrawal "All development fleet, where the explosions took ficers had forbidden their return ed Saturday that his father had enjoyed such a "glorious history" "rock-bottoconditions are allel to Officers conducting a too se place Friday night. success in relation all to the front, declaring their dis charged Soviet airmen with fly- as that of Russia which is both aviation, war.. This Korean the for are settling cret inquiry .said there was no Six men were injured. Others patches machines best had "made the army look ing "higher, faster and farther" the motherland and the cradle of the world's Sta- was said to be implicit In with indication that the blasts were working near the barges took bad" and ' "given ' encouragement connected the indissotubly and rocket the jet lin's flying than anyone else. set off deliberately. Trygve Lie's statecover behind defense mounds be- to the name," he said of his father. ment although he ad"This task is being fumiiea plane. that UN mediation and raised The inquiry, headed bf Ad- fore the fire which sparked the mitted enemy," yesterday leader "The in great stories had been monitored Sotheir (Radio Moscow, the son of the west can be reeast and between remarkable educated miral of the Fleet Sir Algernon explosion reached the ammuni- factually correct. The two men successfully," the plelades viet premier said. "And the So London) said Russia's latest jet of Soviet the after sumed "peace only was ofWillis, tion. designers Tupolev, enforcement" action UN's denied giving aid or encourage- viet preliminary to an are; taking all mea- fighters and bombers will be on in Korea la ficial court of investigation. The Yakolev, Mikoyan, The blasts rocked the area, ment to the enemy, and declared sures, people to make the air force even display. It said the show will be Ilyushin, and concluded. others," he said. li successfully called "the festival of Stalinist military intelligence section of breaking windows 15 miles away they were only reporting the stronger and mightier." As one official put it: "We Cassi-the the war office also assigned its and tearing roofs off some houses truth of the Korean actions program, Discussing aviation." Vassili Stalin was interviewed the UN forces said it will commence with the can't mediate-witagents to the case. nearby. Unexploded shells rained something they felt the U.'S. by Pravda. the communist party Young Stalin said the Russians at back Taejon." en Twe) were than Page (Continued They already checking down on the shore. public had a right to know. organ, and Izvestla, the govern invented the first heavier ill MIAMI, Fla.. July 15 (UJD Senate crime investigators looked into the operations of Miami Beach's S. & G. syndicate Saturday as one member of the bookie-contr- ol , firm sent word to the bearing that he feared gangland reprisals if he testified. The committee, headed by Sen. Zstes Kefauver, D, Tenn, took testimony from a half dozen witnesses as it rushed to complete the first of a series of public hearings on organized crime by the end of the third day. The morning's star performer was Leon Gibbs, with an accent . nearly as fat as his frame, who . said he had worked on Miami Beach for 25 years as "Frenchy, . Valiantly fighting their last- withdrawal, were pushed back from the sluggish stream toward the bastion of Tae- jon. The western sector of their line had caved in, but they had not given up. They never stopped shooting, and they did not with draw until they had punished the North Korean invaders severely. , Fliers Prove Value The Australian and American airf orces were giving the Ameri cans help from the air. Australian planes poured machinegun fire on Communists trying to put tanks across the Kum. Apparently they frustrated this effort, and after the planes flew off, the river ran red with the blood of Communists. The Americans threw back at least four enemy, efforts "to cross the Kum In the central and eastern sectors. They smashed the attackers with artillery and machinegun fire, j The airforce knocked out at least four enemy tanks. Some estimates of North Korea tank losses ran as high' as 14. So effective were U.S. fighter Diane attacks: that some serttnna of the American line were being neia ny air strength alone. Between the present 'lines and Taejon are mountains In which the Americans hope to gain more time in their continuing delaying WASHINGTON, al last-ditc- ; By FRANK ELEAZER ral |