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**39 Dead, 17 Hurt, 142 Held** # *Communist Terrorism Marks Election in Southern Korea* Seoul, Korea, (Monday) May 10 (UP)—Communists spread terrorism and sabotage across American-occupied southern Korea today as Koreans went to the polls. Reports reaching Army headquarters here during the last 36 hours listed 39 dead, 17 wounded and 6 missing. Police arrested [illegible] rioters. Sharp fighting was in progress on Cheju Island, 50 miles south of Korea. Communist bands, striking from the hills, terrorized half of the election officials there into quitting. Ballots could not be distributed in some areas and voting may be impossible. Sabotage disrupted telephone and railroad service. The avowed purpose of the violence was to break up the election. Some eight million persons in southern Korea were registered to vote. Unless frightened away from the polls, they will elect a 200-man assembly to write a constitution to create Korea's first representative government. [The New York Herald-Tribune said all the candidates are followers of a little group of men presently led by Dr. Syngman Rhee. Nearly all of this group have been educated in the United States or Europe and now control South Korea with American aid.] The United Nations is sponsoring and observing the elections, which are limited to American-occupied southern Korea. Russia will not permit balloting in northern Korea, which is occupied by Soviet troops. Communist propaganda broadcast to southern Korea last night cried, "Smash the elections!" [The Associated Press reported that the radio in north Korea told Lieut. Gen. John R. Hodge today, "You had better get out of Korea with your clothes packed." The broadcast advised the American commander to "give up your attempt to carry out a separate election."] General Hodge ordered all American troops to be ready to assemble on 30 minutes notice if necessary. Seoul was placed under curfew. At every corner Korean police, American military police and specially deputized Korean civilians challenged anyone attempting to pass. The deputies carried clubs and axes. Some incidents had a "wild west" touch. At Kyongju, near the southeast coast, armed leftists entered a railroad roundhouse, stole a locomotive drove it out of town, then reversed the direction of the locomotive and leaped out. The engine plunged madly into the switchyard and smashed two other locomotives.