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YANKS LOSE RAIL CENTER Map shows where North Korean
Communists massed their first, third and fourth divisions pos
sibly 30,000 to 45,000 men to drive green U.S. troops out of
"an important" rail center, Choman (tip of big arrow), after a
bloody battle of almost 20 hours. With fall of Choman, there
is no natural defense barrier short of Kum River (sawtooth line)
which loops north around Taejon, U.S. Army headquarters. Small
er arrows on map spot thrusts on Mugung and Chungju, while
black portion shows extent of North Korean advance. INEA Tele
photo.) House-Passed One-Package
Appropriation Bill Given
Senate Committee's O.K.
WASHINGTON, July 10 (API A $46,000,000 boost
in farm funds was approved by the Senate Appropriations Com
mittee before it concluded hearings on a house-passed $34,700,-
000,000 one-package money bill.
The Senate erouD comoleted ac
tion on the big appropriations bill
Saturday and sent it along for a
Senate vote this week. Debate is
scheduled to start Tuesday. The
bill finances virtually all govern
ment agencies for the year end
ing next June 30.
As approved by the Senate com
mittee, the bill contains $1,4.16,745,;
774 to operate the government's
agricultural programs for the 12
month period $60,000,000 more
than was spent last fiscal year,
and a boost over the House-ap-
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
The eyes of the world are fixed
on the valley o the Kum river.
The Kum cuts across Korea, rough
ly from east to west. It is fairly
rugged country, with red clay soil
that stains the river's waters. At
this season of the year, Korea is
rain-swept, cloud-hung and general
ly miserable.
Question: Why do wars seem al
ways to be fought in' the rain and
the mud? I don't know. I suppose
it isn't true. But, somehow, when
we think of war we think inevitably
of foul weather. .
But let's get back to the valley of
the Kum. Two military forces are
assembling there. From the north,
the communists are pouring down
men and guns and tanks. Our field
commander estimates their
strength as this is written at 15
divisions and 150 tanks. Their divi
sions seem to be skeletonized, as
our field command estimates their
strength in men at from 75,000 to
90,000.
From the south, WE are pouring
in men. How many, we don't know.
Such things .ere important military
secrets, for if the enemy knows our
exact strength he will know pre
cisely what measures to take to
defeat us. We all hope we have
men enough to stop the onrushing
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Fourth French Air Crash
In Month Kills 21 Persons
CASABLANCA, French Moroc
co, July 10 (.P Twenty-one
persons were killed in the crash
of a French passenger plane soon
after it took off from Casablanca
airport yesterday.
Nine surviving passengers were
injured, eight of them critically.
A woman and her child living
near the crash scene were burned
severely whan a blazng piece of
wreckage fell on their house.
All those aboard the plane, a
DC-3 on a flight from Paris to
Dakar, were French.
It was the fourth French air
crash in less than a month and
brought to more than 100 the num
ber of dead in those disasters.
The Weather
Fair today, tonight and Tuesday.
Slightly warmer.
Highest temp, for any July . 109
lowest temp, for any July 40
Hightesf temp, yesterday 71
Lowest temp, last 24 hours . SS
Precipation last 24 hours trace
Precipitation from July 1 . trace
Precipitation from Sept. 1 .. 34.15
Deficiency from July 1 17
Sunast today l:S4 p.m.
Sunrise tomorrow J:41 a.m.
proved figure by $16,303,873 in cash
and $30,000,000 in loan authority.
Biggest new cash items include:
$473,000,000 to finance the pro
duction and marketing administra
tion, which operates the crop con
trol ana price-support programs.
$75,000,000 for the agricultural re
search administration.
$65,000,000 for the- Forest" Ser
vice, which administers the vast
federal timber and land holdings
$29,000,000 to the farmers home
administration, which helps ten
ants become farm owners and han
dles disaster and emergency farm
id. ,
$28,000,000 for the extension ser
vice, which has county agents and
other workers out in most farm
areas.
The total also includes $550,350.-
000 in loans, which are handled
by the Farmers Home administra
tion and the rural electrification
administration (REAL
The committee added $15,000,000
to the $145,000,000 House figure for
the farmers home administration
and an equal increase to the REA,
boosting its total to $390,000,000.
REA provides power lines and
facilities to bring electric power
to rural areas. The additional $15,
000,000 was for a program for ex
tending telephone service to farm
ers.
City Cracks Down
On Red Loafers
BIRMINGHAM, Ala., July 10
Birmingham is making it tough
on known Communists with-out
visible means of sunnort.
The chairman of the party in
Alabama, Sam Hall Jr., was ar
rested Saturday on charges of va
grancy and other arrests will fol
low, said Public Safety Commis
sioner E. C. Connor.
He estimated there are about 100
Communists in the Birmingham
area.
Arrests will be confined to those
against whom vagrancy charges
can be pressed, he said. "Unfor
tunately," he added, "I won't be
able to arrest those who have a
visible means of support."
Hall was taken at his home. He
told officers he was southern editor
of the Daily Worker, Communist
party organ.
Police also arrested Paul Thom
as Rose, alias Rosenbloom, 23, on
charges of vagrancy and of chang
ing his name to conceal his iden
tity. He was listed as a native of
Lakeland, N.J.
Both men were later freed on
bond for trial tonight.
Rose was arrested while passing
out circulars protesting U.S. inter
vention in Korea, detective Captain
C. L. Pierce reported. He said
Rose admitted being a member of
the Communist party.
German Refugees Show
Strength Politically
KIEL, Germany. July 10 (.Pi
German refugees from Communist
eastern Europe who showed thorn
selves Sunday to be a strong po'rn
tial political force in west Ger
many, today began an ambitious
program.
In parliamentary voting yester
day they got nearly a quarter of
the vote in the Schleswig-Hols'ein
elections and won 16 of the state
parliament's 69 seats. There were
1.341,754 votes cast.
It was the first time west Ger
many's 10.000.000 refugees had an
opportunity for concerted action.
They showed they could be a co
hesive force.
Established 1873
Svimmer
Harold Ray Of
Vet's Hospital
In Tragedy
Accident Occurs Near
Forks; Party Included
Mrs. Ray and Others
The Umpqua river claimed an
other victim Sunday the sec
ond of the season.
Harold Elbert Ray, 36, of Rose
burg, a hospital attendant at the
Veterans hospital, drowned about
5:30 p.m. just below the forks of
the North and South Umpqua riv
ers on the Melrose side, eight
miles west of town.
Ray, described as a poor swim
mer, sank in eight feet of water,
about 300 feet downstream from
where he had entered.
He had been swimming with
his wife, Kathleen, and other mem
bers of the party. Ray was miss
ed and a search was begun.
two men in a boat nearby, who
had seen Rav onlv a few moments
before, came to give aid. The boat
dnlted directly over the body.
One of the boatmen. Dave Kes-
ner, 904 Mill St.; Roseburg, dived
and recovered the body. The boat
was operated by Boyd Gregory,
420 South street.
W. H. Showalter, 1541 Blake
St., a member of Ray's party as
sisted in administering artificial
respiration, when the body wi
brought to the shore.
The Roseburg fire department
and the state police were summon
ed along with a local physician.
The physician pronounced Ray
dead an hour after he went under
the water.
Ray apparently did not call for
help, nor did' his body rise after
sinking, according to the report.
The body was recovered within
about five minutes from the time
he was last seen.
Ray was born June 11, 1914, in
Nebraska. He had been employed
at the hospital about a year. Fun
eral arrangements and a complete
obituary will be announced by Long
& Orr Mortuary.
Local Draft Board Will
Resume Duty This Week
MSgt. John F. Rose of the local
recruiting offices announced today
that the draft board will be re
activated in Roseburg sometime
this week.
Under the President's new or
ders to invoke the selective ser
vice system, the draft board for
this area' will again be put into
operation. Douglas county was
formerly served by the draft
board at Eugene.
Selective service offices will be
established in the Roseburg ar-
mory sometime this week, with a
Lt. Benson in charge, M-Sgt. Rose
said.
Spokesmen for the army, air
force and navy recruiting station
also reminded prospective draft
ees that they will not be able to
enlist in' any branch of service
after receiving notification of in
duction. Under the present draft law,
men may not voluntarily select
their own branch of service i f
they have been notified to report
to the draft board for selective
service processing.
PLANER SECTION BURNS
Fire Deals $18,000 Loss
To Sullivan & Son Lumber
Mill North Of Roseburg
Fire, breaking out about 9 p.m. Sunday, destroyed the
planer section of the L. E. Sullivan & Son Lumber Co., located
on the west side of Highway 79, a mile and one-half north of
Roseburg.
Sullivan today estimated the loss at approximately $18,000,
which was covered by insurance. Me said the company plans to
rebuild immediately
Cause of the fire was still unde
termined. Sullivan said his men
had been installing some machin
ery in the planer section Sunday,
but that the plant had not been
operating since Saturday.
the names naa too mucn neao
way to save the planer shed, but
the fire was confined to this por
tion. The sawmill and edger near
by were saved. Less than 1000 feet
of lumber was lost.
After the water from the trucks
of the Roseburg fire department
had been exhausted, water was
pumped from the log pond, which
had been freshly filled.
The rural fire department, two
city trucks and the Douglas Forest
Pretective association truck re
sponded to the call.
The planing mill was erected
four years ago ,and had operated
under the name of Sullivan & Son ! 9:05 to the Medical Arts building
Planing Mill since that time. The j to investigate smoke. The smoke
sawmill was added end had been I was found coming from the saw
in operation only the last two j dust burner. There was also a
months. With the sawmill addition, ; grass fire near the Douglas Manu
the naune was changed to the pres- J facturing Co. a mile and a half
ent title. south of town Saturday at 1:25
The eaH was ana of several for I p.m.
ROSEBURC, OREGON
Drowns
Cloudburst Kills
Five In Nebraska;
Millions Damage
(By Th AuocUtsd PreM)
Torrential rainfall measuring as much as 13 inches in seven
hours caused five deaths and millions of dollars property damage
over the weekendyn east central Nebraska and north central and
northwestern Kansas. -
Husband Slays -Wife
Finding Him
With Lady Friend
BREWSTER! N. Y.,i July 10
New ork state police said
Mrs. Andrea Gehr, 30, of New York
city, was shot and killed by her
husband when she tracked him to
a cottage near here this morning.
The husband fled from the scene
in his car and was arrested less
than two hours later at Armonk,
N. Y.
Police said he was accompanied
bv Mrs. Dorlhea Matthews, 30,
who has been locked in a bitter
divorce battle for two years with
her wealthy husband, Mark Mat
thews.
The dead woman's husband, Her
bert Gehr, 39, is a new York pho
tographer. The state police at Brewster said
Mrs. Gehr, with four private de
tectives and a personal friend, had
tracked her busband and Mrs. Mat
thews to the cottage at Birch Hills
in the nearby town of Patterson,
seeking evidence for a divorce.
The witnesses told police later
they approached the cottage and
rattled on the screen door when
GcTir opened fire.
Mrs. Gehr was killed instantly
with a single bullet and two of
those with her were slightly wound
ed. Gehr. when arrested, said he
thought the party were prowlers
in the darkness and opened fire
in self-defense.
The Matthews divorce suits
each against the other on grounds
of adultery reached a climax
several months ago when she led
a midnight raid on his Great Neck
home and photographed Matthews
in night clothes with the children's
governess.
Neither case has been decided.
Slated Anti-American
Demonstration Fizzles
FRANKFURT Ger., July 10
P) A scheduled Communist youth
demonstration against American in
tervention in Korea fizzled out to
day. The "free German youth" had
slated the demonstration in front
of American headquarters here
but only 15 women, five children
and a dog appeared. The little
group was sent away by officers
of some 200 German police who
had ringed the spacious ground.
American military police at three
times their normal strength guard
ed buildings.
the Roseburg fire department over
the weekend. The firemen went to
the scene of a drowning and ad
mistered aid to Harold Elbert Ray.
Saturday at 6:05 p.m. the de
partment was summoned to the S
& S Lumber Co., where a small
house, owned by the company, was
destroyed at a loss estimated at
$1,500. The home was occupied by
Eldon Harvey. Fu-"' hings were
also lost. The place is located about
six miles northeast of town on
Sunshine road.
Other calls were at 3 p.m. Sun
day to the Roy Petty place on the
North Umpqua road. The firemen
found Petty burning an old pig
pen.
A call was made Saturday at
MONDAY, JULY 10, 1950
In Umpqua River
Heaviest damage in Nebraska
was at York, where Beaver creek
flooded about one-fourth of the
town of 6,0000 population. The Red
Cross placed its disaster relief
machinery in operation there and
national guardsmen were mobil
ized to aid in the rescue of 200
persons.
Five persons drowned when their
car was swept off a highway by
flash flood about 14 miles north
of Fullerton. The dead were iden
tified as Ray Roger, 33, of Hast
ings, his wife, 28, their two chil
dren, Anna, 4, and Tommy, 2, and
a niece, Marlene Schumacher, 8, of
Petersburg.
Approximately one-fourth of
Beaver Crossing, a town of 500,
about 20 miles southeast of York
also was flooded.
Minor tornado" damage was re
ported near Grand Island, and at
York, the country club was un
roofed by wind.
Kansas Also Suffers
The heaviest rainfall in Kansas
centered around Abilene where
5.81 inches were reported in three
hours yesterday morning. It caused
the worst flooding there in 25 years.
One-fourth of the town was flood
ed, including some of the business
district. The Union Pacific rail
road east and west of town was
washed out.
Damage to the ripening wheat
crop of northern Kansas was es
timated at upwards of $150,000.
Some reports said 4,000 acres of
grain had been destroyed by the
rain and hail in the northwestern
part of the state, near Goodland.
A house near Marysville, in
northeastern Kansas, was blown
off its foundation.
FEPC Bill Faces
Filibuster Threat
WASHINGTON, July 10 UP)
Senate leaders go through the for
mality today of setting up a test
vote in the Senate Wednesday on a
fair employment practices commis
sion (FEPC) bill.
Senator Lucas of Illinois, the
Democratic leader, was expected
to file a debate-limiting cloture pe
tition to kill off even before it
had a chance to start a southern
filibuster against the measure,
which is part of President Tru
man's civil rights program.
Under the petition, the senate
would vote Wednesday on shutting
off the non-existent debate on a
Lucas motion to take up the bill.
The measure would set up an
FEPC with power to enforce its
orders against racial discrimina
tion in the filling of industrial jobs.
Southern senators remained con
fident Lucas won't be able to com
mand the 64 "yes ! votes needed
to clamp on a debate gag. He got
only 52 on a similar test May 19.
If he can't limit debate, Lucas
has made it clear he will give up
efforts to get the measure passed
this session.
His premonition of failure is so
marked that he hasn't even in
cluded the FEPC measure on the
administration's program for fu
ture legislative action.
Flood Control Money
Slash Partly Restored
WASHINGTON, July io (IB -A
S132.000.000 chunk of the fed
eral flood control and river-harbor
program which the House slashed
away last spring has been restored
by the Senate appropriations com
mittee.
In completing work on the mult!
billion dollar omnibus appropria-
tions bill, the committee Saturday
approved $731,548,000 for flood con
trol and rver and harbor projects
in the present fiscal year, which
started July 1.
This total is $132,401,000 above
the amount which the House voted
but still $66,936,000 under Presi
dent Truman's budget recommen
dations. It is $95,041,810 above ap
propriations last year.
Earthquakes In Colombia
Deal Death, Destruction
BOGOTA. Colombia. July 10 IJPI
At least 123 persons perished in
weekend earthquakes which rock
ed North central Colombia, dos
troying towns and crippling com
munications. Reports from the
stricken area said the death toll
may reache 200.
There was no estimate of the
number injured in the four
quakrs. which struck North San-
tender province late Saturday and
early Sunday, but the ligure was
expected to run high.
160-50
Switchmen
Back To Vfork
On Rock Island
Strikers Bow To Court
Order But Dispute With
Railroad Will Continue
CHICAGO, July 10 The
1,500 switchmen who defied Presi
dent Truman's intervention in their
strike against the Chicago, Rock
Island and Pacific railroad have
bowed to a court order and re
turned to work.
Arthur J. Glover, president of
the AFL Switchmen's union of
North America, told the men late
Saturday night that in view of the
court order "we have no choice
now."
The order with which Glover
quickly complied was a temporary
injunction issued Dy federal Judge
John Knight in Buffalo, N. Y.,
headquarters city for the union.
It came only a few hours after
the army had seized the 8,000
mile line under order of President
Truman,
AU the railroad's operations are
technically under the army super
vision which had failed to budge
the union. Glover had said he would
ignore the military seizure unless
the government seized "the pro
fits of the railroad as well as the
labor of free men."
He also had turned down Presi
dent Truman's plea of last Thurs
day to end the strike on the Rock
Island, but had lifted the walkout
against four other western rail
roads that had been struck at the
same time.
The strike against the four lines
was called off after Mr. Truman
had threatened drastic action.
Dispute Not Ended
-The total of 4,000 men walked
out June 25 in support of their
demands for a 40-hour week at
their present 48 hours pay. la tak
ing the action, they rejected a rec
ommendation by a presidential
fact finding board that they be
granted the 40-hour week but with
a pay increase of only 18 cents an
hour. The union proposal amounts
to a 31 cents an hour boost.
Glover made it clear that his
back to work order was issued
under protest and that it does not
mean the union's dispute with the
railroads is at an end.
At the last meeting on Friday,
the union offered to continue on
the 48-hour week if the carriers
would agree to pay time and one-
half for work on the seventh day
of any week. But the railroads re
fused. A hearing on Whether Judge
Knight's temporary injunction shall
be extended or made permanent
has been set for July 17 in Buffalo.
Glover said he would be at the
hearing.
Bible School Attendance
Record Wins High Honor
PHILADELPHIA. July 10 -tPl
For 3,900 straight Sundays, year
alter year througn three quarters
of a century, Jennie Powers went
to Bible school at the Weslside
town.
This record of devotion, which
friends believe is unsurpassed any
where, won national recognition
yesterday when the gray haired
spinster,- now 78, received a gold
medal from the Sunday school
and congratulations from a host
of well-wishers headed by Presi
dent Truman.
At a special service honoring
Miss Powers, church officials read
letters from the President, Vice
President Barkley, Pennsylvania's
Governor James 11. Dull, several
members of Congress and digni
taries of the Presbyterian church.
2 Motorcycle Racers
Killed, Third Injured
PORTLAND, July 10 (IP)
Two motorcycle racers were ki
ed in weekend accidents on the
Portland Meadows oval. A third
was injured.
Stanley Lattimcr. 28. Valleio.
Calif., was killed yesterday when
he lost control and his machine
rammed into the fence on the first
lap of the last race, a 10-mile
amateur event. The day previous,
Phillip Moore, 22, Milwaukie, was
killed in a practice run.
Hugh McAfee, Vallcjo, was sent
to a hospital with a foot injury
and burns after a Sunday accident.
Keeper of Bloodhounds
Flees, Escapes Capture
NASHVILLE.Tenn. .JulylO UP)
The keeper of the bloodhounds at
the Tennessee stale prison escaped
yesterday, but the bloodhounds
couldn't track him down.
Charles Lenning, about 30, I
trustv serving 12 vears for house-
breaking and larceny, walked away
from his Jon, guards said.
The hounds picked up his trait,
all rich). But it led to a deadend-
i lenning had gotten Into a car. He's
still at large.
Yank Air Force Taking Heavy
Toll Of Enemy's Equipment;
lost' Battalion Slugs Free
TOKYO. Tuesday. July II (API Northern Communist
troops battled to within 20 air miles of Taejon, South Korea's
temporary capital, early today after a "lost" U.S. batallion had
fought its way out of a trap.
Ceneral MacArthur in his 12:02 a.m. (9:02 a.m. EST Mon
day) communique told of the new North Korean advances. Ha
said the stride was mad by the North Korean first division,
which had hemmed in the- unidentified "lost" battalion for two
days before it slugged its way free.
MacArthur's comunique said the Communist first division,
which trapped the "lost" battalion for two days, has advanced
on south from Chonan to Chongan, a tiny village 18 miles bv
roaa louin oi -nonan ana ii miles
Dr. F. W. Field Ends
Life In Jump From
Viaduct In Portland
PORTLAND, July 10 (AP)
A young dentist here from
Roseburg for medical treatment
leaped to his death yesterday
from the Vista avenue viaduct,
the second such suicide jump in
five days.
Dr. Frederick William Field,
37, vaulted the railing of the
130-foot high span just as a po
lice officer, summoned by a
passing motorist, approached.
Oficer Jack Carter said he
was within four feet of held
when the dentist1 suddenly
jumped to the railing .and went
over. Ma died a tew minutes
after being taken to Cood Sam
aritan hospital.
Police said the young dentist
had been here since July 3
For medical treatment. .Police
said a note found in his cloth
ing indicated ha did not expect
to live long. Ha leaves a widow
end two small children.
Last Wednesday a young wo
man. disappointed In not gettinr
a job offered by a traveling
salesman, leaped from the high
way span. i
Dr. Field was born Nov. 28.
1912, at Monmouth, III., and had
practiced dentisty in Roseburg for
the last six years, with offices in
the Medical-Arts building
He was a graduate of Illinois
School of Denistry, was a life
member of Delta Sigma Delta, pro
fessional dental fraternity, and
was a past president of the Ump
qua Dental association. He was al
so a trustee of the First Presby
terian church of Roseburg, a mem
ber of the local Kiwanis club and
belonged to the Roseburg Chamber
of Commerce.
Surviving besides the widow,
Norene K., are two daughters, Di
anna Frances, age seven months,
and Brenda Jean, three years. In
addition, he is survived by nis
father, Judge E. P. Field of Mon
mouth, 111., and several sisters.
The body is being returned to
Roseburg today by the Roseburg
Funeral home and funeral arrange
ments will be announced later.
Governor Saved
In Prison Attack
IRONWOOD, Mich., July iO-OP)
Michigan's Governor G. Mennen
Williams pleads with vigor his case
for better pay for prison guards
they helped save his life.
The 38-year-old governor was vis
iting in the Marquette prison kitch
en Saturday when three desperate
convicts attempted to seize him at
knifepoint as a hostage for their
escape.
His bodyguard, State Police Cpl.
Gcroge Kerr, broke up the near-
riot by shooting a ringleader who
had stabbed him lightly. A guard
and a kitchen steward also were
injured. But the governor escaped
unhurt.
The prisoner who was shot, John
Halstead, is described as in a se
rious condition. The guard, Al
Haukness, suffered two broken
arms, and the steward, Jim Nan-
carrow, was beaten on the head.
Williams visited them both Sunday
and thanked them for their help,
The ringleader of the plot, con
victed murderer Ralph Stearns,
and others involved in it, are now
in solitary confinement. Stearns
was the governor's attacker.
FOUR INJURED
A Portland couple and their two
granddaughters were taken to Sa
cred Heart hospital, Eugene, Sun
day, for treatment of injuries re
ceived in a three-car accident nine
miles north of Drain Sunday morn
ing.
Stale oolice reported the counle
Emma L. Bonabaceand Alex Bon-
abuce. sustained broken bones.
cuts and bruises when a late model
sedan operated by Lewis Pierce of
Myrtle Point struck the Bonabuce
vehicle head-on at the Comstock
overpass. The two children, Rosa
lind and Linda Harmon, suffered
bruises.
Police said Pierce was arrested
by Douglas county Deputy Sheriff
Vern Pouncey on a charge
of operating a motor vehicle in the
left lane of traffic. Pierce received
minor injuries.
A third csr. operated by Elden
O. Pugh, Salem, was sideswiped,
but neither the driver or his wife
and child were injured, police said.
by air northwest of Taejon.
The
Communioue said annthpp
force, probably the enemy third
division, was in contact with Am
erican forces at Chochiwon, 15
miles by air across the country
miles bgy air across the country
northwest of Taejon.
Air Armada Takes Toll
But even as these reverses were
reported, Lt. Gen. George E. Strat
emeyer said in a Tokyo inter
view that combined air, sea and
ground forces of the Allies had
stopped the Communist drive that
had rolled, relentlessly for two
weeks. .
MacArthur said there wan vl.
dence the morale of the North Ko
rean Communists was slipping un
der the heavy pressure applied by
Allied warplanes which yesterday
began around the clock attacks on
them.
Some 46 enemy tanks, trapped on
a highway near Chonan, were
knocked out by the low flying
planes yesterday, front line dis
patches said. -
Napalm, the firebomb, was used
with reported excellent results, the
general's communique said. Na
palm is a secret soap like mixture
that splatters flaming gasoline
when the bomb bursts.
Stratemeyer said his airmen had
destroyed or damaged 41 Commu
nist planes and knocked out 123
Korean tanks in 15 days. Allied
losses he said were 20 combat
planes and five transports. Not in
cluded in lost combat planes was
one Australian warplane.
Nine American airmen have been
killed, five wounded and 12 are
missing, the general said in an in
terview. .
Attrition bombing Is being felt
by the Korean Reds, Stratemeyer
said, adding "vital supplies such
as gasoline and ammunition, -re
known to be short and becoming
snort in many localities."
Given a break in the weather, he
went 'on, an Increased fear will
shortly make itself felt "in no un
mistakable terms."
Seven GIs Found
Bound, Murdered
ADVANCED AMERICAN HEAD
QUARTERS IN KOREA, July 10
UP) The bodies of seven Ameri
can soldiers, their hands tied be
hind them, were found by the road'
side in territory recaptured front
the Communist North Koreans to
day.
Each had been killed by a bullet
in the face.
General MacArthur, United Na
ns Commander in Korea, warned
last week that atrocity perpetra
tors would be punished If caught.
He promised humane treatment to
Red troops captured.
(Hours before the murder of the
Americans was discovered, Tokyo
headquarters reported American
planes had dropped leaflets inform
ing North Korean troops they could
expect decent treatment if cap
tured. The leaflets also said Gener
al MacArthur "will expect similar
treatment for American Nationals
and members of the Armed Forces
of the United States" as well as
of all other persons who might fall
into North Korean hands.)
One-Leqqed Man Saves
Worker From Drowning
HOBOKEN, N. J., July
A one-legged man dived 25 feet
into the narrow space between a
ship and a moving barge last night
to rescue a man from the water.
Vincenzo Marino, 60 - year - old
longshoreman fell into the 24
foot space between a freighter and
a barge he was helping to un
load. The barge was moving slight
ly. San Sansevere , who lost his right
leg when he was four years old
was standing on the deck of the
freighter. He unfastened his arti
ficial limb, dived in, held Marino's
head above the murky Hudson riv
er waters until help came.
Then he put his leg on again and
resumed his job of checking the
freighter cargo. Marino was in
jured slightly.
Three Killed. 32 Hurt
In Bus-Auto Collision
GREENVILLE, III., July 10
(Pi Three persons were killed
and 32 were injured in a collision
yesterday of an automobile and
a Greyhound bus which overturn
ed and scattered all but one of
its 40 passengers in a cornfield.
The bus was split open and its
top sheared off as lt rolled over.
Levity Fact Rant
By L F Reizenstetn
To promote a food shortage
and higher prices, absorb the
war hysteria and start hoarding.