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N a ktong C rossed byRedsinNorth
As South Koreans Form New Line;
Foe Massed For Big Pusan Push
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Enemy Rushes Up
Men and Materiel
In Two Sectors
By the Associated Press
TOKYO, Aug. 6.—Moving by
daylight, the Red invaders of
South Korea made an unopposed
crossing of the Natkong River in
the northern sector yesterday and
jammed fresh masses of men
against American positions in the
center and south.
A Korean relaese by Gen. Mac
Arthur’s Tokyo headquarters at
12:50 a.m. today (10.50 a.m. EDT
yesterday) said limited counter
attacks and patrol actions by
American and South Korean
troops throughout the entire de
fense area last night kept the
enemy “off balance.”
However, the release said, “the
enemy has continued to shuttle
troops and materiel during the
day-light hours, thereby provid
ing excellent targets for artillery
and aircraft.
“This indicates that the Reds
are desperately striving for a
main effort and an all-out at
tempt to break through the new
defense lines.”
Reds Attack at Heavy Loss.
The release also reported heavy
losses by the North Korean invad
ers in repeated assaults against
the American 27th and 35th In
fantry Regiments in the Chinju
sector near the southern tip of
the line. Field dispatches and
briefiing officers said these oc
curred Friday and Friday night.
Apparently referring to the de
fended part of the Naktong River,
to which the Americans and
South Koreans withdrew earlier
in the week, Gen. MacArthur’s
realease said “’no crossings have
been made in force by the Reds.”
Field dispatches declared that
yesterday the enemy in undis
closed numbers had crossed the
upper northern reaches of the
Naktong in the rain without op
position.
This was in a sector where
South Korean defense forces
made a planned withdrawal to
a prearranged ridge and moun
tain pass line. It was east and
southeast of Sangju, in the north?
west comer of the Korean de
fense box.
No Immediate Threat Seen.
A dispatch from 8th Army
headquarters in Korea said this
crossing was not considered an
immediate material threat. If a
buildup continued there, however,
it could develop into a threat to
the American right and South
Korean left flanks.
Gen. MacArthur’s release and
all front reports pointed to an
Imminent double-barreled drive
by the Reds in the south and cen
tral sectors.
Gen. MacArthur’s headquarters
speculated that the main Red
effort might come in the south,
in an effort to slash the Pusan
Taegu communications lines of
the defehders.
Pusan is the all-important
American supply port 35 miles
east of the Reds’ southernmost
positions. Taegu is a forward
base 55 miles northwest of Pusan
and shielded by the Naktong
River line.
The North Koreans were re
ported to have three divisions
massed for a strike across the
Naktong near Waegwan, only 15
miles from Taegu.
Four Divisions Ready for Drive.
In the south they built up four
divisions for the big drive toward
Pusan.
15th Red Division Moving.
Elements of the 15th Red Divi
sion were moving toward the
southern front to join the 1st, 4th
(See KOREA, Page A-3.)
Bulletin
Mills Plan Approved
The Senate Finance Commit
tee today accepted the House
approved Mills plan to speed up
payment of all corporation
taxes. It rejected the House
approved plan for a 10 per cent
withholding tax on all corpo
rate dividends.
(Earlier Story on Page A-2.)
Port Lockout at Antwerp
Ordered After Strike
By th« Associated Press
ANTWERP, Belgium, Aug. 5.—
The Maritime Federation declared
a lockout today and ordered all
ships to proceed to other ports.
This was in answer to a dock
ers’ strike which entered its
seventh day this morning. Some
12,000 dockers are out demanding
increased pensions, a production
and clothing premium of 20 francs
(40 cents) a day and better old
age protection.
Since the strike began 25 ships
have been diverted from Antwerp.
The dockers’ walkout coincided
with political strikes all over Bel
gium last week demanding that
King Leopold III give up his
throne.
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Port Beachhead Can Be Held,
Pentagon Officials Believe
Harbor Can Be Kept Out of Firing Range
Within 40-Mile Arc, Military Men Explain
By John A. Giles
Army officials admitted today
| chat any substantial withdrawals
in the southern sector of the
Korean fighting front might make
the situation ‘‘critical” around
the important port of Pusan.
But they still held firmly to
the belief that American and
South Korean forces will be able
to hold a beachhead within an
arc of at least 40 miles in length
—making the port out of the
range of artillery.
On the north and northwest
sector of the present line, they
pointed out, there are a number
of ridges which make good de
fensive positions even though the
Americans and South Koreans are
pushed beyond the Naktong River.
An Army spokesman indicated
the Pentagon believes the North
KofeansCommunists will keep on
pressing the fight as long as they
can regardless of losses.
“When you have an enemy un
der commanders with an utter
disregard for losses, you can ex
pect them to go right to the last
ditch,” a briefing officer told
newsmen.
He drew a parallel between the
action of the Korean Reds in
pushing on despite heavy casual
ties, and that of the Russians in
World War II when the Soviets
lost millions of men but paid no
attention to the sacrifice of lives.
That indicates the type of train
ing the North Korean invaders
have had, the ofiicer said.
There were these other military
developments:
1. A top defense official said
(See DEFENSE, A-3^_
B-29s Again Set Fires
In Seoul Rail Yards;
Red Convoy Blasted
Flyers List 4 of 5 Tanks
Knocked Out in Attack
On Armored Force
By the Associated Press
TOKYO, Aug, 5.—B-29s bombed
the Seoul railroad yards today for
the second straight day, leaving
them flaming and shrouded in
smoke.
The B-29s, flying from Japan,
dropped 100 tons of bombs on
the yard. Yesterday it was 80
tons.
In the central sector of the
South Korean front, American
planes blasted a large enemy ar
mored force one-half mile west
of the Naktong River defense line.
Associated Press Correspondent
Leif Erickson said the American
planes knocked out four of five
tanks moving northeast toward
Waegwan and pounded Red ar
tillery, trucks and troops.
American artillery also hurled
shells into the convoy.
Yesterday set a new record for
the busy Air Force—a total of 550
flights within 24 hours, mostly
against enemy soldiers and their
supply lines.
Four villages were burned out
and planes plastered napalm fire
bombs on the previously undam
aged sections of Chinju, jumping
off place for the Reds’ push from
the west against Pusan, main
United States supply port.
Napalm bombs, made of jellied
gasoline, spread intensely hot
flame over the area where they
hit.
Chinju is 55 miles west of the
port city. Pilots reported the Reds
were building up a force there.
Land and carrier based United
States Marine fighters joined with
light bombers, F-80 jets and Mus
tangs in sweeping up and down
the front, hitting at troops and
supplies as the Reds moved
toward the main Allied defense
line.
A 5th Air Force spokesman said
the planes flew 452 combat sor
ties, a record for a single day.
Strategic and reconnaissance sor
ties raised the total number of
individual flights for the day to
550.
Fifteen night intruder missions
were flown by fighters and bomb
ers in an effort to impede the
night movement of Red supplies
and troops. The night flyers
ranged from Sunchon, on the
southwest coast, northward to
the Red-held capital of Seoul.
Reds Iheaten to Veto
U. N. Condemnation
Of Korea Aggression
Malik Asks Cease-Fire
And Asiatic Communists'
Presence at Sessions
By the Associated Press
LAKE SUCCESS, Aug. 5.—Rus
sia climaxed maneuvers designed
to keep the Security Council from
condemning North Korean aggres
sion by threatening yesterday to
veto any decision taken without
Communist China and North Ko
rea present.
Soviet Delegate Jakob A. Malik,
who ended a seven-month boycott
of the United Nations to take over
the council presidency August 1,
intrcfcluced a resolution calling for
a cease-fire, the withdrawal of
foreign (American) troops, and
the presence of the two Asiatic
Communist states at the council’s
deliberations.
United States Delegate Warren
A. Austin assailed Mr. Malik’s
move as “irregular conduct.”
Malik Fights Delaying Action.
Mr. Malik has fought a delay
ing, procedural action since he
returned to the council Tuesday to
prevent a debate and vote on a
United States resolution condemn
ing North Korean aggression and
asking members to help localize
the conflict.
Mr. Austin was joined by Brit
ain’s Sir Gladwyn Jebb in main
taining that only the U. N.-recog
nized Republic of Korea (South
Korea) belonged at the council
table.
They made it clear the Russian
proposals would be rejected by a
majority when the council resumes
its sessions next Tuesday after
noon after a week-end recess.
Austin Promises Action.
The American representative
told reporters after the meeting
that the council “has a way to
put a stop to these cunning devices
of obstruction—the kind of under
this-shell now, under-that-shell
then, game that is being played.”
He did not say what it was.
Russia’s Mr. Malik has made no
overt move so far, however, to set
aside the council’s decisions of
June and July—made while he
was absent—calling for a cease
fire, labeling Communist North
Korea the Sggressor and setting up
an U. N. fighting force, flying the
international body’s flag, under
command of Gen. MacArthur.
Mr. Malik has said only that the
actions were illegal, a term he
also applied to the defeats the
(See U. N., Page A-3.)
Secret Explosives Wreck Plane
As 6 Escape in Crash Landing
By the Associated Press
OKLAHOMA CITY, Aug. 5.—A
twin-engine Marine transport
plane crashed in heavy fog near
here last night and was virtually
disintegrated by blasts after all
six crew members sprinted to
safety.
Loaded with secret explosives,
the C-46 was coming in for an
instrument landing when one
engine failed. Th^, craft plum
meted earthward on its belly in
a muddy field just east of Tinker
Air Force Base.
The dead engine burst into
flames as the crew scampered for
cover. Within seconds the flames
touched off an explosion that
shook the countryside for miles
around.
Maj. L. W. Wright, Tinker pub
lic information officer, said the
craft was making a fuel stop en
route from Cherry Point, N. C.,
to Moffett Field, Calif.
The violent explosions and fire
flashes attracted thousands of
Oklahoma City residents from
their beds to the scene before road
blocks could be set up.
With explosions continuing for
three hours, fire fighters did not
attempt to come near. Newsmen,
photographers and spectators were
held behind ropes. Maj. Wright
said no pictures—not even by the
Air Force—would be taken.
Crew members, who escaped
with only a severe jolting, were
not allowed to talk with newsmen.
Maj. Wright would not divulge
the nature of the cargo except
to say that it was ammunition.
The crew was identified as Maj.
R. Kolp, pilot, Capt. K. L. Moose,
T/Sergt. W. H. McLoon, T/Sergt.
V. J. Tobin, Sergt Lawrence Aski
nosie and a Pfc. Kuhn. No home
towns were disclosed.
Within a half hour after the
crash, about 25 explosions had
shattered the crippled transport.
The night shift at the giant Tinker
maintenance base was jolted from
its work and plant operations
halted momentarily.
West Europe
Ministers Back
U. N. on Korea
Call Reds Violators
Of International Law
And Aggressors
By th* Associated Press
STRASBOURG, France, Aug. 5.
—Western Europe’s foreign mini-!
I sters, meeting , as the Council of
Europe’s upper house, officially
indorsed today the United Nations
stand against aggression in Korea.
The ministers in a joint message
to the council’s Consultative As
sembly, or lower house, urged the
assembly to express its support for
the U. N. Security Council resolu
tions on the Korean war. The
assembly will meet here Monday.
The message stamped the
Northern Korean regime by name
as a violator of international law,
and condemned its aggression.
Earlier the ministers officially
voted to give Western Germany
and the Saar associate member
ship in the Council of Europe’s
upper house.
Irish Foreign Minister Sean
MacBride, chairman of the Mini
sterial Committee, announced this
decision to a news conference fol
lowing the ministers’ morning ses
sion.
The move was described as a
deliberate step toward full mem
bership in the European Council
—an unofficial parliament of
Western Europe—for the Germans
and Saarlanders.
Western Germany and the Saar
as associate members are repre
sented in the Consultative Assem
bly but not on the more powerful
Committee of Ministers.
French Foreign Minister Robert
Schuman said the three occupying
powers—-Britain, France and the
United States—intend to permit
the Germans to have their own
foreign ministry. When that hap
pens, Germany will be eligible for
complete membership.
Mr. Schuman said the European
Council as such will not request
the occupying powers to grant this
additional leeway to the Germans.
“The ministers realize,” said Mr.
Schuman, “that the three occupy
ing powers are already working
on changes in the occupation
statute. The original intention
was for the statute to be subject
i to revision after 18 months.
“All this is working out nor
mally, and these changes will be
made when the three nations meet
in Washington in October.”
Mr. MacBride said the decision
on Western Germany and the
Saar is effective at once. This
means that either Germany or the
Saar or both may be invited to
sit in on the Ministerial Commit
tee session Monday or Wednesday.
Pope Hits Excesses
Of State Control
By »h« Associated Press
CASTEL GANDOLFO, Italy,
Aug. 5.—Pope Pius XII spoke out
today against excesses of state
control, declaring “neither the in
dividual nor the family should be
absorbed by the state.”
He addressed in French 200 del
egates from 10 nations who had
attended the eighth International
Congress of Administrative Sci
ences in Florence.
He declared that the true no
tion of the state “is that of amoral
organism, based on the moral
order of the world. ... It is not
an omnipotent oppression of all
legitimate autonomy.”
The pontiff said there were cer
tain rights of individuals and fam
ilies the state always protect and
cannot “violate or sacrifice to a
pretended common good.”
He described these as “the right
to honor and a good reputation,
the right and the freedom to
venerate the true God, the original
right of parents over their chil
dren and their education.”
Korean Official Urges
Permanent U. N. Force
By the Associated Press
SOMEWHERE IN KOREA,
Aug. 5.—Foreign Minister Ben C.
Limb of the South Korea Repub
lic said today the United Nations
force being formed for the
Korean war should be made per
manent. ■»
Mr. Limb said in a statement
such a permanent force should
be “strong enough so that here
after no individual nation on
earth, however strong, will dare
to defy the will of the United
Nations.”
He declared Korean suffering
in the current war should be more
than repaid if a permanent
United Nations military force is
established.
jjj I
Denmark Proposes
To Put $57,100,000
Into Rearmament
Expenditure Would Raise
Defense Budget to 29%
Of Total National Outlay
By the Associated Press
COPENHAGEN, Denmark, Aug.
5.—Denmark proposed today an
expenditure of 400 million kroner
(about $57,100,000) on rearma
ment and civil defense during the
next two years.
Such expenditure will boost the
nation’s defense budget to 29.1 per
cent of the national budget.
The announcement of Den
mark’s defense plans is an answer
to a request of the United States
to all its 11 North Atlantic pact
allies to advise what contributions
they are prepared to make toTSol
ster Western defenses against
Communist aggression.
France Plans Contributions.
France is proposing with Amer
ican aid to contribute a sizable
amount of money to munition
plants, informed sources in Paris
said last night. She also plans
to increase her army, build up
her air force and improve morale
by boosting the payroll of the
armed services.
Britain has announced she will
start a three-year $9,520,000,000
defense program, provided she re
ceives substantial American back
ing.
The Danish announcement was
made in a memorandum to the
American State Department. It
was delivered today by Gustav
Rasmussen, Danish foreign min
ister, to the American charge d’af
fairs, Edward J. Sparks.
The memorandum said the
Danish government is willing to
discuss immediately a plan for
Denmark to produce light arms
for the country’s own defense and
for that of other countries. Den
mark also proposed to produce
ammunition for other member na
tions of the pact.
The memorandum expressed
Denmark's appreciation for Amer
ican military aid. The proposed
defense expenditure will be put
before an emergency session of the
Danish Parliament next Tuesday.
5 Seized in Attempt to Kill
Tito Attache in Austria
By th« Associated Press
VIENNA, Austria, Aug. 5.—Five
armed men attempted last night
to murder a Yugoslav diplomat on
the Vienna-Belgrade express, the
Austrian Interior Ministry an
nounced today.
The men—identified as anti
Tito refugees from Yugoslavia—
broke into the compartment of
Vlara Mocnik, a commercial at
tache of the Yugoslav Foreign
Ministry en route from Vienna to
Belgrade.
As they attacked Mocnik with
knives near Werndorf in Southern
Austria, the Yugoslav pulled the
emergency cord of the train. An
Austrian customs official and two
conductors forced the attackers
into a compartment. They were
arrested at the next station.
Mocnik continued on to Belgrade.
Friday's Ideal Weather
To Last Over Week End
Did you like yesterday?
Well, there’s more of the same
due today, the Weather Bureau
says. And tomorrow looks like
ditto.
Yesterday the thermometer
eased up to a pleasant 80 degrees,
and today it’s expected to do the
same, the forecaster said. Yester
day’s low was 64 at 6:50 a.m., but
tonight it should be just a
nippy 62.
It’s expected to be mostly sunny
today and tomorrow with just a
few wisps of clouds.
4
Brewster Admits Paying $100
To Shimon During 1947 Probe
Denies Wire-Tapping; Says Sum Covered
'Expenses' in Ridding Him of Shadow
By Don 5. Warren
Senator Brewster, Republican,
of Maine, admitted last night he
had paid $100 or so to Police
Lt. Joseph W. Shimon for getting
rid of a man shadowing him
during the 1947 Howard Hughes
plane contract investigation.
The payment, the Maine Sen-!
ator said, was for “expenses” the!
police officer said he had incurred1
during his checkup on the so
called “shadow.”
Senator Brewster said this had
nothing to do with alleged wire
tapping; that there had been no
I discussion of that subject. He pre
viously had denied giving any au
i thority to tap wires or even hav
! ing any knowledge of it in the
Hughes case.
The Pepper Subcommittee of
the Senate District Committee,
investigating wire-tapping, is ex
i---—
pected to go into the Hughes
Brewster-Shimon issue, among
other questions.
To Question Secretary.
Subcommittee sources said yes
terday they plan to take testi
mony from Mrs. Frances Dustin,
secretary to Senator Brewster,
who reportedly had made a state
ment that she had paid Lt. Shimon
$100*, although she did not know
what it was for.
She was called to appear before
the District Court grand jury this
week. But since she had gone to
Maine for her annual vacation,
Senator Brewster appeared in hei
stead, calling the subject only s
“routine matter.”
The exact course of the inquirj
to be made by the Pepper sub
j committee is yet to be determined
The group was to have held it!
first session yesterday, but this
' (See WIRETAPPING, Page A-3.)
Stand-By Control Law
For Truman Is Likely
As Wrangle Subsides
Both Houses Quit After
Week of Debate Without
Taking Definite Action
By th« Associated Press
A confused up-hill-down-dale
wrangle over home-front mobil
ization subsided on both sides of
Congress today, leaving prospects
that President Truman eventually
will get standby economic controls.
That seemed to be indicated,
even though both the Senate
Banking Committee and the full
House, during a hectic week of de
bate on the issue, had rejected
such proposals to give Mr. Truman
wage-price controls and rationing
powers for use when he sees fit.
Yesterday the Senate group
went full circle, throwing out an
automatic controls plan it had
once okayed, and adopting the
standby proposal it had once ap
proved, once rejected. Then —
right back where it started on
Wednesday—it quit until next
week.
House Also Quits.
The House also quit in a par
liamentary tangle, after junking
a once-approved proposal similar
to the automatic plan considered
by the Senate committee.
There were signs the House also
might wind up by voting for the
standby idea.
That is the one Mr. Truman has
said he will accept. He has ex
pressed opposition to the other
plan, under which price and wage
ceilings and rationing would go
into effect automatically if prices
rose to a certain level.
Both the House and the Senate
Committee got into the controls
debate when they started con
sideration of Mr. Truman's request
for limited economic powers, in
cluding curbs on credit and com
modity speculation.
Controls Not Mentioned.
The administration bill didn’t
even mention price-wage-ration
ing controls, which the President
has said are not necessary at this
time.
But plenty of lawmakers brought
the issue up, apparently spurred
by the testimony of Bernard Ba
ruch that the Nation would soon
find itself in dangerous condition
without such restrictions against
inflation.
In the House, the issue produced ;
four full days of confusion and
uproar.
The leadership finally called a 1
temporary halt to the debate, and '
the House Banking Committee was ]
expected to meet Monday in 1
(See CONTROLS, Page A-3.) ]
A
Enlisted Reservist Call
For 2d Army Expected
Soon After August 15
District Men to Go
To Fort Meade When
Unit Needs Are Known
By Robert K. Walsh
Army enlisted reservists likely
to be called from the District, un
der the Nation-wide quota of 62,
000 during September and Octo
ber, probably will start getting
calls soon after August 15, 2d
Army authorities said at Fort
Meade today.
Second Army quotas are 6,309
for mid-September and 6,703 for
mid-October. The number of in
dividual unorganized enlisted men
to be ordered into active service
from the District or any of the
seven States in the 2d Army juris
diction cannot be estimated now,
a spokesman said.
Those numbers, he explained,
will be determined during the
next two weeks on the basis of
numbers needed to complete Army
organized reserve units being or
dered to duty, and to meet other
needs yet to be determined.
To Report on Needs.
•‘All of the organized units
called in this area,” he said, “have
been directed to report by August
15 on exactly how many men they
need and the types of skills re
quired. Then if we find that a
(See RESERVISTS, Page A-3.)
Army's Bazooka-Like Shell
Will Be Used in Korea
By the Associated Press
The Army said today that its
90-millimeter shaped-charged an
ti-tank shell is “certainly about
to be” used in Korea, if it is not
actually in use there already.
In response to inquiries about
a press report that a new artillery
shell similar to a bazooka rocket
is on its way to Korea, an Army
spokesman said the 90-millimeter
shell has been included for the
last week in a public exhibit at
the Penatgon of weapons being
used in Korea.
He said there is nothing secret
about the shaped-charge shell.
Although the spokesman would
not officially confirm that Ameri
can tanks with 90-millimeter guns
which can fire these shells are in
Korea, the presence of such tanks
there is well known.
The shell is shaped so as to fo
cus the effect of its explosion.
This device is used in bazooka
rockets to penetrate heavy tank
armor.
The shaped artillery shell is a
postwar development.
Omnibus Bill
For $34 Billion
Clears Senate
Goes to Conference;
One-Package Idea
'Flopped/ Lucas Says
By Cecil Holland
A $34,236,932,228 omnibus ap
propriation bill—the first and
perhaps the last one-package
| money bill in the country’s his
| tory—today was a step nearer
final legislative action.
After weeks of consideration
the Senate by a voice vote late
yesterday passed the measure
carrying funds for the operation
of the Government for the 12
month period ending next
June 30. The bill now goes to
a Senate-House conference to
settle differences between it and
a bill carrying a smaller appro
priation which the House passed
weeks ago.
Final debate was marked by
arguments over whether a one
package appropriation measure
for the bulk of Federal expendi
tures had been workable.
Lucas i>ays It “Flopped.”
Senate Majority Leader LtTcas
said the idea, adopted this year
for the first time, had “flopped”
and that he had found no on©
who disagreed with his views.
Senator McKellar, Democrat, of
Tennessee, the chairman of th©
Senate Appropriations Commit
tee, agreed and said the omnibus
bill was “a terrible thing.” It
would be “better for the Govern
J ment, better for the taxpayers,
j better for everybody,” Senator
j McKellar added, to go back to
jthe former procedure of having
separate appropriation bills for
each Government agency.
Five Republican members of
the Senate Appropriations Com
I mittee took issue with these views
I and said they thought the single
| package measure was a good
thing. They were Senators Wherry
;of Nebraska, Ferguson of Michi
gan, Saltonstall of Massachusetts,
Cordon of Oregon and Knowland
j of California.
j McClellan Reduction Defeated.
I Before final passage, the Senate:
1. Rejected by a vote of 41 to
j 38 a proposal by Senator McClel
II Jan, Democrat, of Arkansas, to
| trim 5 per cent, or $136,338,073,
j from the $2,726,000,000 appropria
|tion for carrying out the third
year of the Marshall recovery pro
gram in Western Europe.
2. Specifically exempted the
Coast Guard from a 10 per cent
cut in non-military expenditures
J previously approved.
3. Adopted an amendment by
Senator Johnson, Democrat, of
Colorado, to permit deficiency ap
propriations to be made, if nec
essary, for the transportation of
mail.
4. Brushed aside on a point of
order a move by Senator Bridges,
(See APPROPRIATIONS, P. A-3.)
Six States to Gain, 8 Lose
House Seats in 1953
By the Associated Press
Tentative 1950 population fig
ures indicate six States will gain
seats in the House of Representa
tives, while eight will lose.
Although the final population
figures the Census Bureau will
furnish to President Truman in
December may change things
slightly, this is the outlook: .
Seat gains will be: Seven for
California, two for Florida and
one each for Maryland, Michigan,
Texas and Washington.
Losses will be: Three for Penn
sylvania, two each for New York,
Oklahoma and Missouri—Presi
dent Truman's home State—and
one each for Arkansas, Illinois,
Kentucky and Mississippi.
No more precise determinations
are possible now because the pre
liminary State population figures
will be changed by the allocation
of some 700,000 persons enumer
ated away from their homes,
chiefly members of ships’ crews.
The seat changes are to take
effect beginning with the 83d
Congress, which will take office in
January, 1953.
Atom Defense Planned
BONN, Germany, Aug. 5 (JP).—
The West German Scientific Re
search Council decided today to
set up a commission of experts to
study methods of protecting the
population against atomic weap
ons. The council’s chairman is an
atomic scientist, Werner Heisen
berg of Goettingen.
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