(Iowa City, Iowa), 1950-07-09

On the Inside ~ Paril, eloud, toda" with GoY.mora Home Popular southerly winds 15 to 20 miles per hour and rusts , Ph1la Take Lead of 30 miles per hour. Partly eloudy, warm and ·C __.. · humid }londay and Tues I ..... owan day, with OClc:uional 1o· ... Paq. 6 al cal thundershowers. Eat. 1868 - AP Leaaed WIre, AP WIrephoto, UP 1AaMd vilr. - Flv. Centa Iowa City. Iowa. Sunday. July 9. 1950 - Vol. 84. No. 234 NORTH Order Rock Island Hold Governor KOREA Hostage, But Swifc'hmen to Work )8" P ...,Ullt CHICAGO (AP)-A federal judge in Buffalo, N.Y., Saturday Escape Nipped .... -... --_ ... night ordered striking AFL switchmen to end the strike against the Rock Island railroad. The union's president, Arthur J. Glover, MARQUETTE, MICH. (A') - promptly ordered the men back to work. Three hardened convicts tried to Isolated Near Chonan Glover said, "We have no chQice now-I have ordered the use Gov. Mennen Williams DS a , men back to work.n hostage in II daring break from War at a Glance He said the swi tchmen would Marquette state prison Saturday but were foiled by quick action of First Relief start moving trains as soon as Se~ate Group Okays prison otlicials. By UNITED PRESS possible. Reporter Sees TOKYO - Americans driven The justice department an The governor was menaced with from Chonan as both sides begin Efforts Fail, nounced in Washington that Fed Appropriations Bill a butcher knile but escaped in ma ssing men and guns for cx eral Judge John Knight in Buf jury. He was on a brief inspection Death, Misery pected showdown battle. visit to the prison. falo. N.Y .• issued an injunction WASHINGTON (A') - A $34,- AT THE FRONT - Young GI's ordering strikers to resume their 688,000,900 money bill to run the State Police Sgt. George Kerr, [ought heroically and held Cohan Report Says Jobs. government this fiscal year was Williams' bodyguard, suftered two In Aid Station an in their biggest battle at the approved Saturday by the senate minor stab wounds as he leaped TOKYO (SUNDAY) (A') - An "The switchmen aU wlll be war - then withdrew bitterly apprqprlations committee. It was to aid the governor. By TOM LAMBERT when headquarters said relreal American infantry battalion, cut back to work within 48 hours," $1,473,000,000 less than President AN ADVANCED U.S. FIRST a Rock Island official said. Kerr drew his gun and fired at for strategic ~easons. off during the fighting that pre Truman wanted. the convict, Ralph Stearns, a con AID STATION, KOREA (JP) -:: WASHINGTON - MacArlhur ceded the fall of Chonan Satul'3ay He said Rock Island freight Wounds, never pleasant, seem to named commander ot United Na trains already were operating at It goes to the senate for debate victed murderer from Detroit night, is still isolated behind Com expected to start Tuesday; then who held the knife. Stear,ns was pain mo,,- dttOly when a battle tions forces fighting NOl'th Kor munist lines in KOI·ea. SIlvis, Ill., and in .\rkansas and goes poorly than when it goes ean invadel·s - but most of those back to the house for agreement wounded but not seriously. Gen. Douglas MacArthur's com Oklahoma. He said railroad work well. forces will be American, it seems. ers who were not switchmen on changes. The year's operation Governor's Report munique said the first efforts to it finances began July 1. Congress Saturday the pain was deep. AT AN AIRBASE IN JAPA"N relieve the. battalion were unsuc crossed picket lines "without vio Williams gave the following ac U.S. fighters Dnd bombers, wiser lence" to operate the trains. No authOl"ized departments to keep on count of the incident: For some it was made deeper cess lu\' However, the co mmunIque spending until it gets the bill still by the thought of woul'ldcd now in attack cac'lcs, .reign Kor switchmen were working on the The governor ean skies, rip Red tanks, troops, sa id no verifiable information was trains. passed. and his party en fellow-Americans whom they had available. Reds' Gains in Korea been forced to leave behind ....·hen trains. He predicted norlJlal transcon The committee knocked out two '. tered the prison AT THE FRONT -U.S. s ol . t.~r s Meanwhile. an American tank tinent!ll serv.ce witllin 48 hours. controversial cost-cutting amend about 5 p.m. "l'he the Northern Communist horde and infantry column was moving TWO WEEKS OF FIGHTING have .. Iven Korean Communlats near· drove them out. encounter first Red guerrillas - The union had defied army ments which the house had ac group was stand I), one·thlrd of South Korea. Cbonan. 80 miles south of the Red·held "You see some guy dressed like a up to the Chonan [ron t to meet II control which Pre&ident Truman cepted, Bnd defeated a substitute ing at the door Soutb Korean capitol of Seaul, reprl!lebted the deepest penetration d The American troops are l<on farmer with a rake in his hll nci. Korean Red column reported placed over the railroad. The for them which Republicans had of the prison South Korean de.tenaes. (All times ,..vell In tile map are U.S. times). vinced the Reds take no prisoners. You turn your back and he shoots pushing south after capturing walkout started over a demand proposed. kitchen. watch The pain showed in the tears of you," Chonan. According to latest re for the 40-hour week. The house provisions would ing the prisoners an American Ueutenant, who ports, the two had not met and <;ilover, who had withheld back have dropped 10 percent of the at mess, woen sobbed: there were no indications that American armor has come to grips to·work instructions when the employes of a number of agencies, Stearns appro "We fired our last round and army took over late Saturday af slashed travel allowances, rents, ached with the Equity Bill Asks Court wi th the Reds anywhere in then got out. I don't know now Britain Doubts strength. terhoon, said he is issuing in communication costs and other big knife. many we left behind. We left some structions that stl'iking members it~ms. and barred most agencies Two other prisoners, identified of those poor klds-" No New Details return to work immediately under from tilling more than 10 percent as' Jack Hyat and John Halsfad, To Close Highway Inn The pain showed in the voice of There were no additional details orders of the court. of all civilian job vacancies during A-Bomb Use of the isolated battalion. It was followed him. One carried a po A bill in equity was filed Saturday in Johnson county district Pvt. John Easterllng, 19, of Akron. Glover hod said that he would the fiscal year. Senator Joseph tato masher and hit the mess Ohio, a lanky machlnegunner who WASHINGTON IU'I - Observers not identified. Lend the strikers back only O'Ma'honey (D-Wyo) said these chief with it. court asking that Kenneth and Delores Smith be restrained from stayed at his gun alone alter 14 here doubted Saturday that the Previously, part of an American "v.:hen and if" the government w!!re deleted by a wide majority Williahls said his group thought operating the Nibble Nook inn on highway 22 between Riverside hours fighting, to cover the wlth- United States would give serio\,ls bat talion was partially t;apped at seized therallrol\d's profits as of the oommittee. the whole thing was a joke, and and Lone Tree. drawal of his outfit. attehtion to a European proposal OS3n by the Reds but most ot its well as control ot the labor torce that it consider using A-bombS on the · road. made no immediate attelTlPts to personnel managed to reach Am Also named in County Attorney Jack White's bill were Jo Wincing as a doctor gently against North Korea, erican lines later. Thirty-three The injunction had not yet stop the men. Then Stearns stab treated a wound In his leg, Easter- Diplomatic and military sou;ces Labor Calls Off bed at Sgt. Kerr. sep,h J. and Esther Cox, Rock Island, lIl., owners of the property. more returned today, the com been otficlaUy served on Glover ling said with great weariness, said there appear to be more munique said. when he issued his instructions to 'Churchill' Game Shoot to Kill The bill charges Mr. and Mrs., "What could we do? One machine- reasons against than lor resorting retu(n to work. Warden Emory Jacques, stand gun and 50 riflemen against a to atomic war in Korea. Among The communique reported the Smith with operating a public. War Reds were still applying pressure LONDON (A') -.- A plaster bust ing nearby, shouted: nuisance and the Illegal posses-I Sca re Boosls realment. They just kept coming them are: of Winston Churchill was spared out of the hills, that's all." MlIltar), _ North Korea has few with two or th.-ee divisions driving N~~ Bullfighter Ortega "Shoot to kill!" sion of intOXicating liquors. They C y. south from Pyongtaek toward the slings ~nd ~rrows ot outra,ll alBo are charged with po ~ sessing Clutching a cigarette, Easterling it any targets of sufficient size or Lies' Near Death eous laborites Saturday - but it The .bodyguard, who had car Chonan. (Field dispatches indi Gorfd, ried his gun into the prison. instruments for the manufacture ar, Ire Sales, raised on his stretcher and poifi'ed strategic importance to warrant was a near thing.

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