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Reds Stopped Along Entire Front
Roadblock Smashed Near Taegu;
Yanks Take Hills Guarding Pusan
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27th Regiment
Breaks Out of
Enemy's Trap
By Russell Brines
Associated Press Foreign Correspondent
TOKYO, Wednesday, Aug. 23.—
American troops and tanks wiped
out a threatening Red Korean
roadblock 10 miles north of Taegu
yesterday while their mates took
three commanding hills to block
the coastal gateways to Pusan
port in the south.
The Reds’ behind-the-lines road
block near Taegu had choked off
all Allied supplies from Taegu for
two hours and threatened to trap
troops of the United States 27th
“Wolfhound” Infantry Regiment.
The central front and extreme
southern fighting was the most
bitter of the 24-hour period ended
Tuesday midnight.
Gen. MacArthur’s headquarters
announced its midnight com
munique would be omitted as there
was no change in the situation.
All along the 120-mile perimeter
of the Allied beachhead United
Nations troops held firm or ad
vanced.
90,000 Hurled at Line.
The Reds had shoved 90,000
men—nine divisions—against the
Allied defense line.
For the third straight night the
North Koreans tried to push ele
ments of three divisions down the
same road to Taegu. America^
tanks and men stopped them 12
miles north of the city.
Associated Press Correspondent
Don Whitehead with the Ameri
cans north of Taegu said infil
trating Red snipers and machine
gun fire pinned down troops and
correspondents along the moun
tain road.
The two-hour tank battle, pit
ting big American Fershings
against Russian - made T-34s,
blazed in Tuesday’s early morning '■
darkness.
Four 45-ton American tanks
caught nine 32-ton Russian-built
machines on the same road the
Reds have tried to come down to
ward Taegu. The tanks blazed
away at 300 yards.
Artillery Aids Tanks.
Capt. Otis D. Saum of Water
bury. Conn., in command of the
tanks from the 73d Tank Com
pany. said United States guns
knocked out the second tank in
the column with a shell through
the right front track.
“Then we got a hit under the
turret of the leading tank.” Capt.
Saum said, “and it was set afire
by the white phosphorous shell.”
The tanks hammered at each
other, Capt. Saum said, with
American artillery joining in the
battle.
United States tanks got two of
the Reds’ tanks and artillery got
the other two. That boosted the
number knocked out immediately
north of Taegu in three days by
the Americans to 10 Russian-made
tanks.
All the American tanks escaped
serious damage.
Americans Hold Firmly.
On the blazing southern front
the United States 25th Infantry
Division and the 5th Regimental
Combat Team from Hawaii held
firmly astride the blood-stained
road to Pusan, 35 miles to the
east.
The 35th Regimental Combat
Team Tuesday drove a numerical
ly superior Red force from a com
manding ridge near Chungam,
four miles northwest of the dusty,
clapboard village of Haman.
The 5th Regimental Combat
Team stormed up the steep So
buk Hills near Tundok, just south
of Chungam.
Negro troops of the 24th In
fantry Regiment retook nearby
“Battle Mountain” for the fifth
time in four days.
That straightened out the
American battle line.
Lost Ground Regained.
Associated Press Correspondent
Stan Swinton, in a dispatch timed
after the United States 8th Army
communique at 8:10 p.m. (6:10
a.m., EDT) yesterday, said re
capture of the mountain won
back for the Americans all the
ground they had lost Monday .
The 8th Army communique had
(See KOREA, Page A-3.)
French Ground Force
To Be Sent to Korea
By Itw Associated Press
RAMBOUILLET, Prance, Aug.
22.—France’s cabinet decided to
day to send a French ground
force to fight with United Na
tions troops in Korea.
France’s contribution will be
composed of an infantry bat
talion, probably numbering 800
soldiers, many of whom will be
volunteers, informed sources said.
The decision was reached after
an all-day cabinet meeting held
here at the summer chateau of
the President of the republic, Vin
ypt AurioL
;
First Big Postwar Atomic Oven
Goes Into Action at Brookhaven
Reactor Equipped for All Types of Research
In Peacetime Science or H-Bombs
By Howard W. Blakeslee
Associated Press Science Editor
BROOKHAVEN, N. Y„ Aug. 22.
—The first big postwar atomic
oven, or reactor—barring what
Russia may have—went into ac
tion here at the Brookhaven Na
tional Laboratory early today.
This rector Is designed wholly
for research. It can produce
enough heat to make electric.
, power for a village of 2,000 to
! 3,000 inhabitants.
Opening this reactor is one of
j the big events in atomic work,
because of the oven’s many im
portant uses. Especially at this
time, the research fits into not
only peacetime science, but hy
drogen and other bombs and naval
and aviation atomic engines. This
reactor is equipped better than
anything else of its kind to do
research on the discoveries still
ahead both in military and peace
time atomic progress.
Other reactors have been built
since the war, in Canada, Eng
land, France and the United
States, but none so powerful as
this one. At full power, this new
reactor energy output in a few
months equals the explosion of
an atom bomb.
The reactor stands on the side
of a sand dune, just 75 miles from
New York. All that any one is
allowed to see is a six-story, box
shaped, brick and concrete build
ing, having two enormous win
dows of green glass, 53 feet high
by 33 wide. The reason for the
queer windows has not been ex
plained.
At 2:30 a.m. today Dr. Lyle
Borst, in charge of operations,
stood before the controls of the
great reactor set on the ground
floor of this building.
The controls look like the con
sole of a great pipe organ. This
(See ATOMIC. Page A-6.)
Rayburn Urges Action
On All Emergency Bills
•Before Adjournment
Advises Truman of Plan
For Sine Die Recess,
Subject to His Call
House Speaker Rayburn said to
day that he favored a sine die
adjournment of Congress as soon
as President Truman’s emergency
program is out of the way. He
added that he had so advised the
President.
Leaving the White House with
other Dentocratic leaders after the
weekly conference with President
Truman, Speaker Rayburn said "I
think it would have a good effect
both nationally and international
ly for the President to say that
he has all the legislation needed
to meet the situation,” when the
emergency program has been
cleared.
Then Congress could take a
sine die adjournment, the Speaker
said—subject to further call by
the President.
Psychological Effect Stressed.
Mr. Rayburn explained that he
thought a statement to this effect
by the President would have a
good psychological effect, because
it would show that this country
did not regard the war in Korea
as a “major operation.” Mr. Ray
burn also said that he favored
sine die adjournment or a recess
up to a specified date rather than
a series of three-day recesses such
as has been proposed in some
quarters.
The Speaker added that he did
not want to keep anybody “hold
ing my seat for three days.”
Tax Bill May Pass Quickly.
Speaker Rayburn, who acted as
spokesman for his conferees, said
he was not certain whether Con
gress would be able to get away
before Labor Day as some leaders
hoped or whether it would require
longer.
He expressed the opinion that
the $5 billion tax bill which is
being pushed forward to finance
the early stages of defense prepa
ration would not take long to
clear conference when the Senate:
is through with it. The measure!
is already passed the House in a
different form.
Wed 16 Times, Single Again
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa, Aug.
22 (JP).—James P. Williams, 63,
who has been married 16 times, is
single again. His wife Louise was
granted a divorce in District Court
here. She charged cruelty.
Truck Intrudes
In Living Room at
Breakfast Time
A mother and her son were in
terrupted at the breakfast table
in their two-story frame house on
the Fort Belvoir reservation this
morning when a large trailer
truck crashed into the living
room.
James B. Thomas, 40, of Char
lotte, N. C.f driver of the truck,
Picture on Page A-6
said it skidded on rain-soaked
Route 1 at Accotink, Va., swerved
across the road and into the front
of the house.
James E. Smith of Concord,
N. C., was pinned in the sleeping
compartment on the trailer for 20
minutes before the machine could
be pulled out of the wreckage of
the house. He was treated at the
Port Belvoir Hospital.
Mrs. Ruby Tarpley Blanton, 44,
and her son, James A. Tarpley,
24, escaped injury when wreckage
showered down around them.
They were released through a
|ammed rear door by neighbors.
I
Intelligence Failed
ToReportRedBuildup,
Johnson Reveals
Service Has Received
Shakeup; Secretary
Sees War Until March
/
By John A. Giles
Defense Secretary Johnson has
disclosed that no special intelli
gence report warned of a Red
military buildup prior to invasion
of South Korea. He also ex
pressed the "hope” that fighting
there will end by next March.
But the Secretary, in testimony
before a House Appropriations
Subcommittee which was released
today, indicated that the Nation’s
intelligence services had been
shaken up after the Korean out
break.
"I think that we have the right
to expect now that our intelli
gence is going to be pretty good,”
he declared.
The testimony by Mr. Johnson
and other top defense officials
last month was in behalf of Presi
dent Truman’s request for a $10.5
billion supplemental military ap
propriation.
Repeatedy, the legislators asked
the defense leaders if Mr. Tru
man’s request was sufficient and
received the reply that it repre
sented "our best judgment at the
present time.” But Gen. Bradley,
chairman of the Joint Chiefs of
Staff, warned that “we must also
honestly tell you that we may
have to come back later and ask
for more.”
Chairman Mahon, Democrat, of
Texas, asked Secretary Johnson
how much of the supplemental
money would be needed to fight the
Korean war and how much for
the general expansion of the
armed forces.
Mr. Johnson spoke of various
unknown factors in making such
an estimate. Then he said:
“The other imponderable is that
this money for the Korean opera
tion is based on its running the
normal course of what it might
take for us (1) to stabilize, (2) to
build up the necessary equipment
(See DEFENSE, Page A-12.)
3 Drown in Attempt
To Rescue Young Girl
ly the Auociated Pr«»»
MANTEO, N. C., Aug. 22.—
Choppy seas which followed a
hurricane yesterday caused three
persons to drown as they at
tempted to rescue a young girl
off Kill Devil Hill Beach.
The victims were listed as Roy
S. Frye, 38-year-old president and
general manager of Augusta
Motor Sales, Inc., of Staunton,
Va.; his 35-year-old wife, Mrs.
Jean H. Frye, and Reginald Far
rell, 25, of Nashville, N. C.
Lifeguard Robert Burleson saved
the life of 11-year-old Nathalie
Frye, one of the Virginia couple’s
four daughters, but the Fryes and
Mr. Farrell were drowned before
help could reach them after they
went into the heavy seas to
answer the calls of the girl.
The Fryes left Staunton Sat
urday for a week’s vacation ac
companied by Nathalie and 9
year-old Beverley Frye. The other
daughters—Carol, 4, and Dana, 1
—were left in Staunton.
Mr. Frye took over the head of
Staunton’s Ford agency in No
vember, 1948, after the death of
his father-in-law, Virgil P. Hawse,
a sportsman and dog breeder who
was widely known in Held trials
circles.
Born in Harrisonburg, Va., Mr.
Frye attended night school in
Washington while he was an em
ploye of the War Production
Board in World War U. | j
UMT Bill Pushed
In Senate After
Pleas for Speed
Committee Hears
Johnson, Bradley
Urge Measure
The Senate Armed Services
Committee moved rapidly today
toward approval of standby uni
versal military training legisla
tion and Chairman Tydings an
nounced it would meet daily to
speed the action.
The committee today heard de
fense leaders and representatives
of veterans’ organizations call for
immediate enactment of UMT.
Nine members of the committee
announced they would demand
that Congress stay in session long
enough to pass the measure.
Defense Secretary Johnson
asked enactment of UMT as “a
certificate of readiness of the
American citizen to answer any
threat to world peace and to the
family of free nations.”
Bradley Sees Continued Tension.
He was quickly followed by Gen.
Bradley. Joint Chiefs of Staff
chairman, who urged UMT now
“to produce a reservoir of trained
manpower for the military se
curity of this country—for even
after the Korean situation is set
tled it appears that at best we
may be faced for many years with
tension in international affairs.”
Both officials said the armed
services could not and had no
plans to inaugurate UMT as long
as the fighting continus in Korea.
Mr. Johnson said that if the com
mittee intended to write in an
effective date—as suggested by
Senator Gurney, Republican, of
South Dakota—that it be before
January 1, 1952. At the request of
Chairman Tydings, he said he
and the Joint Chiefs'would for
ward a suggested date tomorrow.
There was apparent unanimity
in the committee in favor of the
controversial legislation which
President Truman has recom
mended on five occasions. Several
of the Senators commented that
the first American troops thrown
into Korea had been ill-trained
and that UMT was the answer to
that situation.
Morse Urges Quick Action.
"Russia intends to lick us if we
get weak enough and our lack of
manpower now gets us pretty close
to that point.” said Senator Morse,
Republican, of Oregon, one of the
nine who want immediate action.
“The operations in Korea have
demonstrated what a lack of pre
paredness can do to our troops,”
he declared. “No nation has the
right to put men in battle without
proper training.”
Others who agreed with Senator
Morse were: Chairman Tydings
and Senators Byrd of Virginia,
Chapman of Kentucky, Johnson of
Texas and Hunt of Wyoming, all
Democrats, and Senators Gurney,
Bridges of New Hampshire and
Knowland of California, all Re
publicans.
Senator Knowland commented
that there would be “no recess for
the troops on Korea.”
Senator Johnson, declaring that
it was time for “the American
people to face up to UMT,” said
that the program probably would
cost in excess of $2 billion annual
ly and Mr. Johnson agreed.
Gen. Bradley said "the necessity
to meet the Korean situation and
face up to world conditions of ever
increasing tension has vividly
demonstrated the need for us to
have either larger forces or some
system by which we can mobilize
trained units quickly.”
He said that to maintain suffi
cient regular forces would be too
expensive and that UMT was the
answer.
He added that if UMT was en
(See UMT, Page A-6.) j
One Dies, 7 Hurt When Engine
Of Airliner Rips Into Cabin
DC-6 With 57 Aboard
Has Close Call High
Above Rockies
By the Associated Prest
DENVER, Aug. 22.—The cabin
of an American Air Lines plane
was ripped open when an engine
broke away high over the Colorado
Rockies early today and the big
ship landed here with one dead
and seven injured.
The four-engine DC-6 was
bound from Los Angeles to Chi
cago, carrying 52 passengers and
a crew of five at 21,000 feet, near
Eagle, Colo., when the right in
board engine suddenly broke from
its wing moorings.
Part of the propeller or a piece
of the shattered engine slashed
through the top of the passenger
compartment, tearing a hole about
4 by 8 feet over the forward three
rows of seats and releasing the
air from the pressurized cabin.
Pilot R. K. Baker reported the
mishap to the Denver CAA office,
(See AIRLINER, Page A-4.)
Mrs. Byron Aboard
Ripped Plane; Crash
Killed Husband in '40
By t*>« Associated Press
DENVER, Aug. 22.—Mrs.
Katherine Edgar Byron, for
mer member of Congress from
Maryland, whose husband lost
his life in a plane crash, was
a passenger aboard the Amer
ican Airlines plane that lost
an engine high above the
Rockies early today.
Mrs. Byron, who lives at
3539 Williamsburg lane N.W.,
Washington, was philosoph
ical about the accident.
“I’ve always felt that you’ll
go when your time comes.
Apparently mine hadn't,” she
said.
Mrs. Byron’s husband. Rep
resentative William D. Byron,
was killed in the crash of an
Eastern Air Lines plane near
Atlanta, Ga., in February,
1940.
Administration Pins
Its Hopes on House for
Revising Control Bill
Measure as Approved
By Senate Restricts
Powers of President
By J. A. O'Leary
The administration pinned its
hopes on the House today to
untie two strings the Senate
wrapped around President Tru
man’s hands when it passed the
home-front economic control bill
last night.
The bill still gives the Presi
dent discretion to decide when
Roll Call on Senate Passage of
Controls Bill. Page A-4
price, wage, ration and other con
trols are necessary, but one Sen
ate amendment provides that if
he invokes price and wage ceil
ings at all he must put them
on simultaneously and virtually
across the board.
The second amendment the ad
ministration will try to change
before the bill leaves the Capitol
designates Secretary of Com
merce Sawyer as the man who
must handle allocations and pri
orities for scarce materials. This
would prevent Mr. Truman from
distributing this power to let the
Agriculture Department allocate
food supply, Interior handle fuels
(See CONTROLS, Page A-4.)
Egyptian Wins Channel Swim;
He and Another Break Record
By th« Associated Press
DOVER, England, Aug. 22.—Two
Egyptian army officers and a
French swimming champion swam
the English channel today, two of
them breaking the old record.
Plowing through rain and
choppy seas in a mass race spon
sored by a London newspaper.
Hassan Abd-el Rehim, 41, of
Egypt, and Roger Le Morvan, 26,
of France, broke the 24-year-old
record of 11 hours and five min
utes set by another Frenchman,
Georges Michel.
Rehim’s official time was 10
hours, 53 minutes. Morvan was
10 minutes behind Rehim, finish
ing the 19-mile course in 11 hours,
3 minutes. Rehim won £1,000
($2,800) from the London Daily
Mail, sponsor of the race, for fin
ishing first. It was his third suc
cessful Channel swim. As he
emerged from the water the big
six-footer declared: "I fee^ very
good. I’m not tired at all. I’m
ready to swim back.”
Third to finish was Mareen
Hassan Hamad, 33, also of Egypt.
His time was 12 hours and 16
minutes.
Rehim led the field almost
from the moment they jumped in
at Cap Gris Nez in the darkness.
Twelve of the starters had
dropped out from cold and ex
haustion before they reached the
half-way mark—among them the
only American competitor, David
Frank, a 27-year-old New York
clothing designer.
Rehim, Hamad, Le Morvan and
Sweden’s Lars-Bertil Warle, 30,
fought for the lead during the
swim.
Eighteen men and six women
began at 2:34 a.m. (9:34 p.m.
EDT Monday) from the isolated
beach on Cap Gris Nez, France,
traditional starting point ofChan
nel swimmers. *4
'Truman Manager/
Unnamed, Is Cited in
Black Market Probe
Candy Manufacturer
Tells Senators He Paid *
Two $5,000 to Get Sugar
A former "campaign manager”
for President Truman was de
scribed to the Senate Crime In
vestigating Committee today as
the man who took a $2,500 fee
from a New York candy manu
facturer to obtain a wartime
sugar quota from the Office of
Price Administration.
The manufacturer, David Lub
ben, created a sensation at the
crime hearing when he told sena
torial investigators that he sought
to buy preferential treatment in
Washington to avoid using the
blackmarket as a sugar supply
source.
He added that after he paid
retainers totaling some $5,000 in
Washington, he was unable to
get an OPA sugar quota and
turned to the black market.
Eventually, he said, he lost con
trol of his business and under
stood that Frank Costello, New
York gambling overlord, became
the invisible head of his company.
Name to Be Supplied.
Mr. Lubben said he had the
name of the mysterious “cam
paign manager” in his files and
would supply it to the committee
later.
Pressed for the name of the
other man he retained, Mr. Lub
ben said he was in the room. At
this point Frank Ketcham, of 2000
Massachusetts avenue N.W., arose
from a seat at the press table
and announced he was the per
son to whom the candy manu
facturer referred.
Mr. Ketcham told the commit
tee he had collected a $2,500 re
tainer from Mr. Lubben and
worked between six and eight
months in an unsuccessful at
tempt to get him an OPA sugar
quota.
“I have done nothing wrong,”
Mr. Ketcham said, "and nothing
I am ashamed of. I’ll be glad to
(See CRIME, Page A-4.)
Late News
Bulletin
Coe Defeats Clasen
MINNEAPOLIS (fl5).—Charles
Coe moved into the third round
of the National Amateur coif
tournament today by defeatinc
A1 Clasen of St. Paul, 3 and 1.
(Earlier Story on Pqp A-16.)
Pepco Calls Increase
In Street Light Rate
Needed for Fairness
Other Customers Now
Making Up Losses on
Service, PUC Is Told
The District should pay more
for street lighting to make the
rates more like those charged |
other electrict service customers,
the Public Utilities Commission
was told today.
H. F. G. Main, Potomac Elec
tric Power Co. rate engineer, de
scribed the need for this rate
boost as the public hearing on
Pepco’s proposed over-all 9.5 per
cent increase in rates entered its
second day at the District Build
ing.
The proposed new rate schedule
calls for the Dstrict Government
to pay an additional $710,000 an
nually for street lighting, an in
incease of 59.8 per cent.
Servicing Also Included.
Street lighting rates cover the
cost of supplying electricity and
of furnishing and servicing street:
lighting equipment.
The servicing includes replace
ment of lamps, patrolling, paint
ing cf posts, replacement and
cleaning of globes and lenses,
maintenance of fixtures, wires |
and cables and other operations
required to keep the system work
ing.
"The company feels that it
should not, in fairness to its cus
tomers, be required to continue
street lighting service work at a
loss when that loss must be made
up by charging the other custom
ers higher rates for their electric
service,” Mr, N^ain said.
1933 and 1936 Cuts Cited.
He said the company’s electric
plant costs tend to show the cost
of street lighting equipment in
1949 was 2Va times the 1939 cost.
A reduction of about 15 per
cent was applied to street light
ing in 1933, producing revenues
some $150,000 below the estimated
minimum cost of furnishing the
service, he said. A further reduc
tion of 10 per cent in the 1933
rate was made in 1936 at the re
quest of the commission, amount
ing to about $84,000, he added.
Mr. Main also said that the
proposed new rates for small resi
dential service still would rank
lower than comparable rates in
several other cities with popula
tions of 250,000 or more.
He presented a comparison of
the proposed rates with those of
33 other cities.
Mr. Main explained that for this
class of service, which takes in
the average householder, the min
imum bill would go from 80 cents
to $1.10 a month, paying for up to
20 kilowatt hours.
Compared With Other Cities.
The price for the first block of
kilowatt hours remains at 4 cents,
but the block would be extended
from 40 to 50 kilowatt hours. The
second block would be extended
from 160 to 200 kilowatt hours, but
the price per kilowatt hour would
be reduced from 1.9 cents to 1.83
cents per kilowatt hour. The price
(See PEPCO, Page A-4.)
Korea No Place
To Let Insurance
Policies Lapse
By rti» Associated Press
TOKYO, Aug. 22.—O. H. P.
(Okey) King, Associated Press
correspondent who was in Korea
when the war broke out and
covered much of the bitter early
fighting, received a letter a few
days ago at advanced headquar
ters from an insurance company.
It said in part:
“You’re in a bad position. Your
.. . accident insurance has lapsed.
“Accidents have an uncanny
way of happening when insurance
is lapsed. So be sure to sign your
card before you forget it again
and send it back today.”
Mr. King mailed the card—
pronto. 4
'Token' Strikes
Of Railmen Hit
Big Steel Areas
White House Strives
Vainly to End Row
Without Seizure
By Joseph A. Fox
The “token” strikes of railroad
conductors and trainmen cut
further into the Nation’s economy
today, hitting the big industrial
areas of Chicago and Pittsburgh,
as the White House sought vainly
to halt the creeping paralysis
without resorting to seizure of
the carriers—the brotherhoods’
price for going back to work.
At 6 a.m. today train crews
went out on the Pittsburgh <te
Lake Erie and the Elgin, Joliet
& Eastern, vital lines serving
steel and allied industries in the
Pennsylvania-Ohio and Ulinois
Northem Indiana regions, bring
ing to five the five-day strikes
launched yesterday when ter
minals at Cleveland, Louisville
and Minneapolis-St. Paul were
tied up.
The roll of idle approximated
40,000.
Switchmen Discontent Rises.
An meanwhile new rumblings
were heard from the switchmen,
who broke off negotiations on five
trunk lines where strikes had been
held in abeyance since the out
break of the Korean war. The
workers said they were getting
nowhere in their negotiations.
When John R. Steelman, presi
dential labor adviser, reported to
President Truman this morning
that negotiations were still dead
locked, he was instructed “to
keep on trying.” Mr. Steelman
thereupon called the two groups
back at 11 a.m. and met with
them separately in an effort to
work out something.
The two groups had met with
Mr. Steelman in adoining rooms
last night. The sessions ended
on a pessimistic note at 1:30 a.m.
31-Cent Increase Asked.
The unions are asking for what
amounts to a 31-cent hourly in
crease for train and yard em
ployes. The railroads have in
creased their offer to 23 cents,
after first standing pat on an 18
cent award proposed by a presi
dential emergency board.
The Pittsburgh and Lake Erie
walkout involved about 1,200 con
ductors and trainmen, but idled
some 7,500 workers. The road is
an important carrier of iron ore
and coal between Pittsburgh and
Ashtabula, Ohio. Neither Jones
and Laughlin nor United States
Steel, served by the line, expected
to curtail operations, reporting
adequate stockpiles of coal and
ore.
United States Steel, however,
anticipates some difficulty at its
plants in the Youngstown area,
which largely depend on the road
to handle materials and finished
products.
The strike will halt from 35
to 45 freight trains a day, includ
ing some operated by the Balti
more & Ohio which uses certain
P. & L. E. facilities. The P. & L. E.
also operates 24 daily passenger
trains, and the B. & O'., 16.
30,000 Idle in Chicago Area.
In the Chicago area, more than
30.000 steel and rail workers were
made idle by the 238-mile tie-up.
Two of the Nation’s biggest
steel mills, owned by Carnegie
Illinois, were hardest hit. These
are the plants in South Chicago,
where about 12,000 were laid off,
and in nearby Gary, Ind., where
about 15,000 out of 22,000 were
made idle.
Also forced to the sidelines were
4.000 non-striking employes of the
railroad.
Carnegie-Illinois produces about
28.000 tons of steel at basic plants,
and almost a complete shutdown
was in prospect.
In Louisville, there were 1,200
(See RAILS, Page A-6.)
Surprise Defendant
COLUMBUS, Miss., Aug. 22 (JP).
—The desk sergeant couldn’t be
lieve it when the man came in
to pay off a traffic ticket yester
day. The ticket was for parking
too close to a fire plug. The de
fendant — Assistant Fire Chief
Rowan Dashiell.
Stories Related
To Page I News
Relating to Korea.
Texts of Official Reports on
Fighting in Korea. Page A-3
South Korea Marines Land on
Reds’ Island. Page A-3
U. S. Planes Fly 13,000 Sorties
in Korea. Page A-8
70 B-29s Hammer Targets in
North Korea. Page A-8
Band of 26 Fights to Safety
Through 300 Reds. Page A-18
Relating to Defense.
How Plans for Military Rearming
Shape Up. Page A-12
Way Sought to Draft Doctors
Educated by U. S. Page A-12
Active Duty Calls Go to Marino
Reserves. Pa^e B-l.
Relating to Rail Strike.
Parliament Called in Canada Rail
Strike. ‘fc Page A-i

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