' jJTh Statesmen. Sal to," Orxyacu Tuwday, Autjntt '8, 1S50 Yanks Pound Reds' Naktong Beachhead Br 0. H. P. Kiar ' WITH THE 34th REGIMENT ON THE NAKTONG FRONT, Tuesday, Aug. 8 -V An Amer- can officer predicted today his men would wipe out the com munist beachhead- near the south western corner of the Naktong river defense line by tonight. North Koreans still aline on the American side of the river in this area, six miles southwest of Changnyong, were dug in. They were under steady American ar tillery fire. But in some spots they were pressing elements of the 34th in i an try oi the 24tn division from (This battle is being fought roughly 20 miles north of heavy fighting In the American .drive. along, the southern front) "It's today or never," said CoL Charles E. Beauchamp, command ing the 34th infantry. "We expect to have them cleaned up by to night. , That will mean the end of the Fourth division as an enemy fight ing force. , "About two regiments of the enemy's Fourth division crossed over to our side of the Naktong in the last couple of nights. They have dug in. "We are hitting them with ar tillery and air strikes." Several sun batteries of the 24th division were shelling the xed force at the rate of six rounds minute. Doughboys of the 34th infantry, Beauchamp said, "are fighting magnificently. Marines Feel First Shock of Battle in South Korea Advance v ' R Tern Lambert '"- , WITH THE U. S. MARINES IN SOUTH KOREA, Aug. T-WV rTViavedi-Armv and marine units punched ahead through heavy en- miv barrages and over almost impassable roads today on the . vital Kmith TCnrean front. i x It was a slow, difficult battle, which cost the leathernecks their first casualties of the Korean war. The attack was delayed by a red artillery and mortar -barrage. Americans replied with aircraft fired rockets, artillery, mortars and recoil-less 75s. . - - Enemy fire fell accurately into the fifth combat team's command post, troops areas and some artil- lery batteries. The night before the attack was eerie. Mysterious signal lights flashed' from the seacoast. Flares competed with the moon for night time illumination. Enemy . shells ; whistled into U. S. positions. Am erican artillery crashed out defi ant answers. Life Photographer David Dun can and I heard the first enemy shot while we crouched in a fox hnip on the slope of a hill over lookine the sea. A shell thundered 'into the ground near several Am erican tanks. U. S. guns roared an immediate reply. Throughout the Night Barrages continued spasmodic throughout the nteht. With the dawn, red shellfire In creased, temporarily delaying the American attack plan. Four P-80s, with wing lights blinking, began hunting for the communist guns. Duncan and I had left our fox ' holes and were talking in a dry river, bed with Marine Brig. Gen. Edward Craig, who had just ar . rived by helicopter, when the reds began shelling the riverbed. Sev eral tanks and big guns were em placed there. We dived into gun H positions as the communist shells ' raked the area. One tankman was knocked off his tank by a flying shell frag ment. - - . The North Koreans shortened their range and shells began hit ting the foxhole area we had Just left. Call for Medics - Great spurts of dirt arose, fol lowed by the chilling cry for "corpsman, corpsman," navy med v -' leal men who travel with the ma lines. Two red shells smashed into an army artillery battery area where many marines had gather' ' ed. Again the cry for "corpsman. corpsman." . One man raced across the area to another lying still and limp on ' the ground, raised him and Strug gled toward a building. A second shell rained dirt on them both. Another shell whacked into i hillside." Marines began digging i frantically, their shovels clattering U on the rocky ground like horses hooves on cobblestones. . " We ran heavily up the road to ward the marine command post. jeeps roared down the road, trail ing roiling runnels or aust. A ma rine omcer amvea at tne com mand post and asked for counter battery lire.- .... t ! -we nave just naa some coun- t ter battery fire ourselves,'' an of ficer replied. "A direct hit on battery. Two men killed.. v ' The artillery duel continued throughout the morning. Gull winged marine Corsairs dived with flaming rockets on the North Koreans. Just before the marines pushed off, we met General Craig again. . ; He was talking to wounded, ma j rinesbeing transferred from jeeps - ' to ambulances. Til Be Back" ) One wounded leatherneck assur ed him, "111 be back in a few days." v In mid-afternoon when marines .set out to aid an army battalion. .Lfuncan, am aiair oi tne Balti more Sun, and I accompanied two rifle companies. 4 ,The marines' jackets turned black with sweat. They began dis t carding their equipment. The sun . grew hotter. Several younger marines collap sed from heat prostration. Ambu lance jeeps picked them up. The column marched down a road which army troops had clear ed of communists earlier. Then machine guns opened up onus. IMve inU Rice Paddies The marines slid into the rice paddies, as if swept there by a gi- ant wind and were pinned down. Soon a red-moustached marine, ; brandishing a carbine, reared up right along the road and bellowed "Get up. soddamitl ThevV. ed a hundred rounds and haven't xui anyuung yet Are you ma . rines? Get un and ret soin Soldiers dug in on a hill west of u. uuuica mortars and machine gun fire into the village from ' which the reds were shooting. Un der that umbrella and the verbal lashing, the marines got up and piungea iorward, i - Call Issued for Bean Pickers A call for about 150 bean pick ers went out Monday from 'the Salem office of the state emolu ment service. t WUliam Baillie, manager,' said truqks would load pickers at the office, 710 Ferry street, at 6 o'- clock this morning. He added that those wishing to drive out to yards may obtain information by calling the office, 3-9288. .. ' Beans are in their third picking and are approaching the harvest peak, Baillie said. He expects the demand for harvesters to' increase for the rest of the week. Picking price is 2H cents per pound. ' Marines Check Equipment oil Way to Frbnt Purple Heart To Sell Violas Viola sale cards were placed in Salem business houses Monday as preliminary to the annual viola sale by the Military Order of the Purple heart Street sales of the flowers will begin Friday noon. Mayor Robert L. Elfstrom com mended the Salem chapter for its 5 I- 1 ; II ' - ; . V - S'..z. .Jr J. t" ,r- . ' - -"L2 : " - LaaaMMaaaaaaMaBaBBBBjtHjSbla &W&4IKB&0&ilt&WBHUllBNB&RBi Oregon Men Feel Effect of Mobilization Harriman Talks to MacArthur After Visit to Korea Battlef ront SOUTH KOREA, Aug. 7 first Division Marines check gear at Sooth noresn rail station before bearding train for the forward area and their first taste ex action. (AT wirepnoio 10 ine oiatcsman;. B-29 Wreckage at Fairfield-Suisan Base -n i - ? - i ; ; i . . . . ' k. -. " " r , ' ' . . xy x m - ' " A . t -, A.I ' . - PORTLAND, Aug. 7 Un cle Sam's military arm today was extending its "Korean" reach into Oregon manpower and tighten ing the grip. Here is what happened: . 1 The first navy officer to be called involuntarily for active duty, Lt (jg) A. L. Parks, Port land,' was ordered to report for cargo vessel deck duty. He had Pacific duty in World War II on a navy cargo ship, 2 Processing of enlisted naval reserves had totaled 150 and more are on tap. Some 36 are to report here Friday for exams. 3 The army's Oregon military district moved its processing of some 1614 enlisted inactive re servists into high gear. They are aU to be examined by August 20 and those taken will have 21 days to report for active duty. 4 The air force s new proces sing center was ready to receive its first quota of air-force reserve volunteers 110 officers and men Wednesday. These will come from Washington, Oregon, Idaho and Montana. 5 Oregon selective service was set to boost its army and air force pre-induction examination sched ule to 100 a day as soon as the navy moves its offices back to the building it used during the war, 6 Marine corps reservists of the 105 mm. howitzer battalion of Or egon go on Uncle Sam's payroll tomorrow morning. They will be gin active duty drills prior to de parture for Camp Pendleton, Calif where the 17th Engineer company, Portland, is now assigned. 7 Marine corps reserve Oregon headquarters at Portland's Swan island reported about 1,000 officers and enlisted men of the inacuve reserve are eligible for call under the navy's announcement made at Washington, D.C., today. TOKYO,' Tuesday, Aug. 8-W-, W. Averell Harriman, special as sistant on foreign affairs to Pres ident Truman, held his second lengthy conference today with! General MacArthur. Among problems believed to be under discussion was whether Un ited Nations forces should cross the 38th parallel dividing line between communist north and re publican South Korea - - once the allied offensive gets rolling. A reliable source said Mac- Arthur would tell the special en voy that victory could not be secured without pushing the drive across the 38th parallel into North Korea. t Harriman spent Monday In Kor ea where he took a close-UD look at the fightine. He returned to -m Tr-f liuajru cxiremeiy . impresses - py Grandson Hurt lamed teamwork- Mrs. Norton, Lumber Load Crushes Cars FAIRFIELD-SUISAN BASE, Calif. Aug. 7 Captain Robert 55. Hamui, neia provost marsnmi mspecu what remains of the tail gun section ef the B-Z9 bomber wwen crasnea ana expioaea at rairaera Soisan air force base August 5. It was disclosed the plane carried 500-pound demolition bombs. When it exploded it spewed burning gasoline and wreckage over nearby trailer camp.. (AP Wirephoto to The Statesman), efforts to raise funds for rehabil itation work among wounded vet- erans. "This organization of Am erica's combat wounded veterans, in its work to aid their less for tunate brethren, clearly merits our support in their annual viola sale this Friday and Saturday,' ' Elf strom said. Californians Say: Excels in SERVICE and FObD QUALITY Car & Dining RoomService On 99E, Ml N. of Underpass Ed Howard Buys McArthur Ranch Wiley Weathers has sold the for mer L. A. McArthur ranch of 285 acres near Rlckreall to Ed How ard of Amity who has taken pos session. Weathers, who bought the place several months ago and has just completed a new residence on it, has moved to another farm on Mission Bottom. A. N. Duncan, Salem realtor, handled the deal. Consideration was not stated. MILX, CITY, Aug. 7 A load of lumber tpopled off a truck here today and smashed two parked cars in front of the Mill City Drugstore. The truck had just come down the steep hill in the middle of town this morning. Its breach, a pole connecting the trailer to the truck, broke and the load tipped off. Both cars were smashed flat The truck belonged to the Shields Remine company. No one was injured. In Auto Crash Mrs.' Clara Norton, 61, 1140 Darrell Farmer, 12, of the same ad dress, were taken to Salem Gen eral hospital Monday night after suflermg injuries in . a ' two-car crash at North Summer and Jef ferson streets. Mrs. Norton incurred a severe gash on the head and young Far mer suffered bruises. Tne youth was released after a hospital checkup. Police said Mrs. Norton was driving east on Jefferson street and collided with a car operated by Delmer C Kaban, Puyallup, Wash., who was proceeding north on Summer. The Norton car was knocked up on the curb and the driver and young passenger thrown from the vehicle. Farmer, an Oregon Statesman carrier, called the first am am bulance to the scene. The injured pair were taken to the hospital by City Ambulance service. Kaban was uninjured. Safecracker Still at Large Charles Keith Gepner, 22-year- old safecracker who escaped from a prison annex work detail Sun day night, was still at large Mon day night, state police reported. liepner with tnree outers was sentenced to serve five years in the state penitentiary in May 1949 for the theft of a safe from the Y cafe on the Salem-Dallas high way. The quartet was nabbed in California several weeks after the crime and were tried at Dallas. NOW SHOWING1 Open S-Starts At Dusk Free Pony Rides Joan Crawford David Brian Steve Cochran Damned Don't Cry" Scott Brady Dorothy Hart "UNDERTOW" Off!j ?J TleCHHiCQLOR ; 2nd Big Hit! Roddy McDowall In "KILLER SHARK" IIARIIIO'S VILLA For The Best In Italian and American Dniiizns Salem-Dallas Hlway Ph. 2-3147 Closed Sundays Movies Are Better Than Evert -w aavr i mm m Crcnd Rccpcnlng Of th Remodeled v GhmvoodDallrocn Sat., Acn. 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