1nd1ca ed by the 1 te s t from Tokyo · »1 tonight. It reds: •com unist tro ps, in lightning strike from th northeast, captured the citie of Pohan and Yongchon today, and rol ed back the entire Uni ed Nations northern front, to new defense lines.• This dispatch sta te s that sixty thousand Red soldiers drove into th e northern front for what the ' 1apatch calla - •one of the wars most serioua threat• ~ the Allies.• It is a crisis, with British troopa making their entrance into the battle - as the Reda aur ge f orwa.rd. The enemy threw a new division into their---} ff\i'INM~~-t-.:Jtc~ lPRl4 e•ltte a i-~ewa ,~a Zo1aa ~QAlg-ili. iae Rad• tMli4lw ~a a., ••• .,.,..ri.Q._'J their fren z i ed a s a ult, dr>ving with inf a ntry nd t nks, a nd sendin g infiltr a tion pa rties around to c ut the hig h ay sout h of the city. They were aided by b a d we a ther, heavy clouds a nd r a instorms, which imoeded a ir p ower - and tonight the word 11 that they succeeded in doing what th e ir p revious wild ass a ults h a ve f a iled to aooomolish - United Nations Forces evacu a ting Poh a ng. The menace of the Bed drive there ooapelled American troop• to withdraw at the other end of the northern front, the western end at T egu. Thre a tened with out-flanking, the u. s. r1rst Cavalry retired to new positions only nine mi s north of th a t im p ortant highway center. Meaning - a g . neral withdrawal all along the northern tropt. Today's dram a ~~c war story c a me from Pohang, now evauuat e d. Unit e d ~ c orr e s o on d ent rtobert ;... ,1 Bennyhoff tell s ho w four Red t a nks m ade a b ol drive of t e1r own re a ch1n the nort he rn section of oh a ng. american t a nks w e re c lled, a n d there was a b a ttle of a rmor 1n the outskirts. The Americans opened fire a t close r a nge, score4 a direct hit on the leading enemy tank, and blew it up. The other three were about to get away - when, just at that moment, two F-80 jet fighters came streakln1 1D under hanging olouda. They zoomed at the Red armor, and let go with rockets. Two Red tanks hit, bocked out. The fourth rumbled on, trying to escape. The r-so jete were running low on fuel and h ad to turn baok. But, aa they did so, two propeller driven mustangs came out of the clouda, and took over - blasting the remalnin& enemy talc, and wrecking · 1t. 8at then Pohaug ~•d ta \a A later dispatch from Correspondent Bennyhoft describes the evacuation of Pohang as -- •orderl1 and voluntar7.• Our forces withdrew to a river line less than half a ile southwest of the cit7. §OVIB;T ,PLANI The news wires have been c rrying olenty of copy, followin t i s morn1n s he adline, •sovi t bomber shot don in Korean war.• cut, actually, t ere's little more known tont ht than wa disclosed by the ~merioan st tement to the u. ·• early today - that a. plane, bearing the insignia of Soviet Ru sia., made a. hostile 9ass at Unit e d N ~ t1ons arships, and opened fire on & patrol of United Nations fighter , planes, and was shot - q(.. ~ ~ ) ~ • . t - ~ . downA ,he body of a crew member was picked up - a lieutenant in the doviet 4 ir Force. In Washington, " okyo and London, the atr1cteat off1o1al silence is being reserved - not a word ■ ore. One deduction 1a ma.de 1n Tokyo - that the Soviet bomber may have been shot down by the British. •••t,air, N tlMY ratn that H Ae:s,enell , ef'1,... • • • " eoa,, . , -&a2 ea, e reports th a t planes with I■ ~oviet ma rkin shad been spotted 1n t h e war a re a , •ut t ere was nothin g to prove t h ey were m nne d by Russians. SOJII% PLAIE - 2 Here's the latest. At the Unit e d Rations, SoYiet Delegate Malik has just &lnounced the whole ~ story aa a fake. Be says the account ot the 1bootin1 down o£ the So•iet boaber is in lalik'e words:- The usual pro•ocation b7 the war mongerer lacArthur and the American Department of State. SOVIET PLANE Thie Com unit line is confir med by the Daily Worker 1n London ton1 ht, which ~tates in his morning edition that the Unit d States has no •proof• that the bom er shot down was real ly a Sovi e t plane. m,,, Here's the future for the draft in November - ~ seventy thousand to be c · lled into service. ror th11 month, the figure is fifty thousand, a nd it's the same for October. Seventy Thousand in Nov mber - and that wlll make a total of more than a hundred and seventy thousand in November - and t a t will make a total of more than a hundred and seventy thousand since the beginning or the Korean ar. The new figure will not change the deferrmente for married men and veterans. ~h a t was indicated by officlala in ash1ngton today. ' he draftees will be drawn largely from the twenty-two year old class - unmarried, not veterans. All will go into the rmy. The Navy and 1r Force have been getting enough recru1t, through enlistments and the c a lling up of the reserves. Gilli The General Electric Strike was•~ called off yesterday, delayed. But it's on today - about fifty / , per cent. Half of the c.1.0. electrical workers 1gnore4 / \ the agreement made by their un•1on leaders tor a truce - because of the needs ot the war 1n Korea. All across the country, workers at G.E. plants were out today, a wildcat strike - and at one place there was violence. M♦IJIII The cl mor of war is lmost drowned out by a new upro ar in ashin ton - Pr ident Truman the tar et for a thun er1ng cannonade In tLe Sen ~te today, a letter ,--~ .......... +◄ ~· ote waa made public. In this e 1stle the President stated that the U. s. arines Corps has a propaganda machine - •a1mo• equal to Stalin's.• hose are the Truman words, and the echo ia ouch! The letter was written to Congressman Gordon McDonough, who suggested that the commander of the leathernecks, Lieutenant General Clifton Cates, should have a place on the ~oint chiefs of staff. The White House reply was - no. The President had in mind, a parently, the b1g notae a couple of years ago, when the battle for un1fioat1on was on, anc 1t was charged th~t the Army wanted to abolish the Marines. Congress and the White House were deluged with denunciations of any notion lessen1n the le a thernecks. Hence the sentence in the Presidential letter, which r ea ds: •They ha ve a M♦IXIIB •. .. 2 pro pa g a nd a m chin th a t 1s al m o s t equal to St a lin's.• The wrath arous d by this 1s almost equalled by the r a ge t h at reets another in the letter. - • ""' • . • t • •t .. • fThe Pres . 1dent g ives bis ide a or what the arine Corps really 1s, p uttin it in these word~: 'The Navy's police force - a nd, as 10~1 as I a m President, that Cops. •rrom the halls of Monte~uma to the shores of ,, 1 Tripoli sun g in a minor key. - The President adds that he ha d no desire to belittle the le a thernecks, but st a t~s: 'When the artne Corps goes 1nto the Army it works with and tor the Army, and that 1s the way 1t should be.• Which obvlou1l7 would apply to the situ a tion of the Marines battling in Korea - under the co m and of General Douglas MacArthur. & Next we note that number of the members of Congress are ex-m a rines, and s ome of them Republic a ns. Imagine their shouts of indi g n a tion. One, to make the p andemonium com p lete - 1s Se na tor Joe cC a rthy of W i s consin. e s erve c with a l e t h erneck air squadr~n in M♦I 1111 .... 3 ~ the Pacific, World War Two. We all know of the strength of the McCarthy lunge and vocabulary, after all that roar of Rd charges the Senator has been making against the tate apartment. So you can imagin~ him today, as an l es-Karine. McCarthy immediately denounced the President as - •tantastically uno tr1ot1c.• While Senator Hiokenlooper of Iowa said the letter was - 1 An 1n1ult to the Marines and to the A~~e~r::1:c:a~n~p~u~b:l:i~~c~•:•.- - - - ~ - - - - ror a final high note, we have the national commandant of the ~arlne Corps League, C1ay Nixon. He wants a public apology from the White House, and 4eman41 that President · ruman make a pilgrimage of penance to the national convention of the Warine Corps League, which meets tomorrow in Washington. · Be calls upon the President to appear before the convention, and make the apology in person. I suppose they'd roll in a piano, and have him play - •rro■ the Halls of Montezuma to the • shores of Triptli. 1 1llHQCRATS At Roche ter, the New York emocrats are gatherin~ !or their St te convention tomorrow - and s■atg• tonight the New York City le ade rs claim enough votes to put across their candid a te, Congressman ~alter Lynch of the Bronx. There has been a lot of talk about nominating ✓ Congressman Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr., to run against Republican ~overnor ~homas • ~ewey - the idea being to have the son of the late r.D.R. follow h1s father's footsteps to the governorship in Albany. But tonight'• dispatch from rlochester states that the name of ~ynch will be put in nomination by Congressman Roosevelt - who mi,y be g iven , a pl a ce somewhere on the ticket. But it looks as if there might be a fight on the floor of the convention, w1th former ostmaster General Jim F· rley opposing the c and id a te ut up by the New York City le ade rs. Today, State Ch a irman Paul F it zp trick, b ack ing Con ressm a n Lynch, said the str tegy w to put u p a n Iri h C · tholic, so as to cheok the ·om uni t 1s ue, .rhich t e e ublic ns are pre s s ing PIHAQIAT I ..... a inst th Democrats. to this Jim Farley, himself an Irish C tholic, replies: •1•ve always opuosed electing . . " a man to office beoau e he is a C thol1c, Jew Or Protestant. I believe he should be elected for hie fitness, regardless of his religious or r 01a1 background. , After which Farley denounced the inf ence exerted by the New York State president of the C.I.O., Louis Hollander, whom he o lled - •An a.i'rogant leader.• He accuses Hollander of t~ying to d Jemoorat1o candidate. I IPIAftJ,♦ YI,♦, T / / hose intric~te complfc a t1ons of inte, tional .I peril are made the more perple•ing by a new factor~ a dTought. The weather brings new trouble to that country / situ ted o peculiarly on the political map - Yu1os/ia. dry spell is ruining the crops in the ad / puppet state that rebelled against the Soviets an4 / / ~~ I ~a.lln, a.nd has a.ntl-Russ1anACommun1sm. Yugoslavia reports the worst drought in living memory. In many places there has been no ra.ln to1 five months, and the crops are only ten per cent of......_ la.st year. In the best grain centers, the harvest will be cut by fifty per cent. All of which is a. grave threat to the whole economy of the Communist country that is tryin to make a o of it - against the Soviets. he T 1 _ .t,-c Govern ent has a • / aat1on - ,.tndependent of .,.1 1..nto trade et 1ndu tri a l ~ ry. They . ave agre e ,, ,, n~ f rm c~o , s ar their JTALX - IARTHQU4g Italy reports an earthquake which lasted for eleven hours today - twenty shocks w e re counted. Houses were destroyed in vill ag es, and two lives were lost when homes coll a 'J sed. .... The quakes were in the mountains, the Apennies, " between F lorence and aome - the e p icenter fifty-three miles north of the Pternal city. That's - .. region of mountain villages, and the famous Italian ~111 towns. Twenty-one report extensive damage - thou h nothing much occurred in those two cities of historic buildings, r1orence &nd Rome. l ♦ PJ04QTJYI In Chio go, the meric a n ~hemical Society 11 holding its annual meeting, and today the proce , dings should have been a ttended by - sh des of the past, ghosts of the alchemists of old - who, in weird laboratories, tried to materialize fantastic dreams. The spectral alchemists should have been headed by the great• of them all - named Theophrastus Bombast Von Bohenhe1m Paracelsus. Quite a mouthful to say 1n a hurry. The chemists at Chicago received a report on a recently discovered element, Curium - one of those radioactive substances produced by the atomic soientlst1. They were told that Curium is so r dioactive that, in the dark, it glows with a spectacular brightness. A bit of Curium could be used as a light for a room - 1t gives out that much ur1111ance. But 1 also gives out enough lethal radiation to make it ~eadly 1n the household. The scientists have to use careful precautions in handling it. But u ium has anoth 0 r pow e r still, and that 1s what would have ·p ealed p articul a rly to the shades ~f the alchem1 ts. In their own experiment J , they s ought strange goals - like the philosophers stone for universal knowledge, the elixir of life for perpetual youth. lao - the universal solvent. hat 1s, some oubstance that woul dissolve any other sub tance. Which provided one of tho1e paradoxes 1n which med1ev~l nhllosophers delighted. If you w , re to discover the univ rsal solvent, what would you keep it in - since it would dissolve anything, 1ncludin any container? Well, here's what the merioan Chemic~ Society was told today about Curium. Its radioactivity 1a so great that it disintegrates anything with which it come1 into contact - the radiation being th a t destructive. Pu, Curium in a bottle, and the glass · disintegr tes. the same goes for porcelain, not to mention m e t a ls. The beat the scientists have found is quartz, anu they keep the new element in uartz t bes. These hare the advantage of lasting a little longer, but the qu rt~ also dtsinte r · t s - ithin a b un red and twenty-four hours. So they h~v to k ep ch n i ~L the tubes every five l&JI, l ♦ PJA4QTIYl ..... 2 the alchemi s ts. In their own experiments, they s ou ht strange goals - like the philosophers stone for universal knowledge, the elixir of life for perpetual youth. Also - the universal solvent. hat 1s, some aubstance that woul dissolve any other sub tance. Which provided one of thoae p&rado~es in which mediev~l philosophers delighted. If you w . re to discover the univ real solvent, what would you keep it 1n - since it would dissolve anything, 1ncludin any container? Well, here's what the mer1oan Chemic~ Society was told today about Curium. Its radioactivity 11 so great that it disintegrates anything with which it come• into contact - the radiation being th t destructive. Pul Curium in a bottle, and the glass · disintegr a tes. •he same goes for porce lain, not to mention m e t a ls. The beet the scientists have found is quartz, anu they keep the new element in quartz t bes. These ha v e the advantage of lasting a little longer, but the qu a rtz also disintegr te s - ith1n a bun red and twenty-four hours. So they have to keep ch ng1,l the tubes every five l&ya, e for tl1e 0 t O 1 C 11 of ic i m i h ty ne a r t e univer ~ 1 ol nt , hie wor ried t .e lo mists of f they succe ~ ded in fin i n it, 1 f., T he o p hr Von