Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 49, Number 17, Decatur, Adams County, 20 January 1951 — Page 1
No. 17.
30,000 KOREAN REDS FACE ANNIHILATION
i-G / Senate Asked To Follow Up House Action Dfmcind UN Condemn Communist China For ?■’ •? IT . . f . -X '*■ Jun. 20. (UP) — Senators |w?re asked today tp follow Tl/e, |ead of the house and demand tßiftdd Nations condemnation of Cdm’hrijol.st China as an aggries' «qr 'C|i | Sen. John L.McClHlarS. D., Atk., said heS|ill press for senate action nex|t wee|c with a reqplutlon asking, the UN‘|o 'brand China as an agO'he house overwhelmingly passed a similar terday. ' \ Hut cftilrman Tom Connally, D., Tex., of powerful senate foreign doubted that the sen4|o wbuld approve the measure. would serve no purpose-.'' A feW"| congressmen feared \ the resQlutiodi might draw the United States h|o a deeper conflict 1 with lied Chida. . VMcClwan said ije also w|il ask the sendee to demand that the UN refuse; c|mmunlst China’s request for niPinbeiship. ° ElheWjMire lri?congress:f/ Manpriirer Congressional op : position |o drafting’. ISf-year-olds softened?* mter the joint chiefs of staff! plMifided that the draft agebe ’ low* red* The military leaders wuiftril they may have lo draft filth* i/s arid veirrans unless Itiyeuro|d ,irH;ip| 4 eii t’ongtrssmen. Iniw • \.i 'eiill were hostile to IhcreusHim the 21 tmiMih P*' l iO'l of "inis || 9? as asked by ,f|ip dt* faiisr deplrimt-itl'. h io-m*).. F.ninp# • »<••»» lloheri A toil llmpl. «uld (1«h lii riilioWir iindoihvr mllildi.y lend’ i. H ..mßir»H just whhll ' UlltopM, I* doltih Io defend tladl hrtuiu M|mutr«« pijtmhes U fui 1 Ihw WeM«Hii ElllOpr Hi ilidciTsP h|lny. Hnvttu^bonds wds-r«. j p<. i‘ <1 V* Rive quick npprovhl Hl legiMlafhnr permitting additional in year oh -savings bonds bought Bjf N5,00(i.00i) Ainetlcnns (luting a||l after World War 11.Merfal nf honor Re.p. Richard 111 Vail, a bill glv-1 trig Holders of tlie'snvdal of hojior • tax-fiee‘fe>o mohthlypensions life. t 400 winnei s of'the, na, lion’s |iid|est award are now livings TJhey |ari|: eligible for pensions of $lO monifly when they reach 65 if< they do ihit collect military retire ment pdy>: | Candy fßars Only Ldbtjn Grocery j Breakin In City A bulbar with; a sweet tooth and a Ossion for breaking windows b&fe into ihe."Smith’s Grocery, od |rhirteertth street, sometime TBi4sday. City police, who, are investigating tlic incident, are’ not confining; thei® hist of suspects to persons Wifch ’chocolate- smudges on : their fas&, hut pafurally are con-1 eentratifiit on a ybuth movement to «atb|O.a, craving for candy. For riut was th'e only? thing sing l>y Mfr And Mrs. Ralphs sh|it ley, proprietors of the store; ifpwi unknown number of randy ; hi4s. while the cash drawer wgagMt uintQUched, ? \ The bhiTlar gained entry to tW build Illg l|v hrdakirig the Whitlow , pane al tl(h south end iu>Hih huilib mg, thtodr iitandlng Mk< milk <••••■ jiilld \ crlwliuH JJmillMli Invc II gallon di|. hpofd uno.timr window bfokcti umth end of the htlihlllkgf pul lift! Pithy WUH imide I lli’l ••?!??''’■ ■' » - ■' f ■ -s Pijobs In , Two CtfuntiM Atkca . ' - Mtldhtßi hill. Jan po -(1’1’1 A crime corntnU* vlpri strict enforcement of laws hi Madison and county and demanded a grthld jury of gaming rtpiditions. i I'he campaign was| organised by civic lemlgrs and ministers. The charged “long continued violation of the law.” The David\ C. (Hancock, .pastor ,g)f the frirsL Presbyterian ' church.i beaded the commission’s committee on resolutions. '■ ■ J '!• ;?r f i ■■■ ■■ - \ 1
DEGATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT ' ! I r ONLY DAILY IN ADAMS COUNTY
Found Slain ® Bn ENDING a two-day search, the body pf Billy Ro'denberg (above) 13-year-old seventh grader of Crete, HI., has been found in a ditch not far from his hopie. Showing? marks Os stran-. the body apparently had been thrown from a moving vehicle by his He \ disappeared returning honie from basketball practice. Search For Hideout Where Youth Killed Authorities Seek Clues To Slaying eicic. iii, .itin go ( ri’> II- I ti< h< il I.xi .s'- Im m Imtimui. pOHMlhly a garigtA of muchlup *lu>p, ttlu-u Pv.uiold ipily llmlrlltlciu wim imlleyed to have It«hu pvid pijaoimr toi Hi hmir, bchiii- pe Wim •I ) .(I I,’ll ■ ■< v 110 \ jiitpcd Ilin «pnf wln i p tbr i|lllel firnpH I itch'd eighth IHjlilf VOUill WH-! held Mini while h» IlVli littVc lijul hl<t ileiifh Would ctUH thiii waul'd I* "i Iti ilit ■ <i > \ ; . IA Roy limttflrr «prr|itl 'lo r Iff’w InvcHtlgntot, i«nl<l the lUili'hko ( ilme laborn|ory found oily dirt on llillyls clothing, suggesting that the boy might hnve been held lt| a • garage or similar building.. I : ? An inquest was scheduled for 3 I p.tn. today , \ ( ide businessmen began taking up a collection for a reward for the capture of BUly's slayer. i -4>oerffler said authorities had/ , been"sfjhable ’to find a reason fori I the crime.\ I Officers the pos- ( sibility that a gani?-<>f older boys might have abducted thC yOungster as he walked honie from school Tuesday afternoon, and killed him wheh they became panicky. Police Were convinced that Billy, whose body\ found in a roadside ditch \on tty 1 outskirts of town! Thursday night. Was killed by| “local people.”' i Kennieth Scholz, 17. told police; that he saw Billy r s s body 'dumped] from a 1946 ,'Ply mouth sedan\near| his honie and heard two men talking before the automobile sped away. i Roadblocks throughout this area I 30 miles south of Chicago failed to turn up theicar. Sheriff Ernest 1 Overbey said srijotz appeared tjxdiave a "pretty* good” ujllbj foy.W'uesday night but | that (here in his j*tl»ry He said that at pre saptwChere was ’nothing to war? ,nint" asking permisaion of the yonlli’s paiints t|o Hive him a lie lest ;. x k The iiicotv that Hill) wi(s slain by n liHUK of nidt r youihs was ha* m nil i|iv blmy of gas siii|lon Kb aciiminr (’biii’lrs Ambihim of irnhr io riii.iißii Hclmlhh, Amicrapn ag|(| five ,m ah yndiha who utupimd m lih »lniiim l*iir’aila\ nlklM iiiHWMi'rfl in hr huldinr. a t ivlnii. nqhtimliig hoy plhOtiri t ' ; Two Sentenced For income Tax Fraud . imikinapot'lN, Jan. M 'UP) • ? fteorgo Allen Poppa, Indianapolis, and Glenn Dale Sklryln. toh. Ind., aentenced to five years Ln prison yesterday in an Income tax fraud. (Judge William E. Steckler sentenced them in an SIB,OOO fraud involving a Bloomington, Ind., businessman as the victim. Poppa and Skirvin claimed the businessmau. Charles E. Murphy, was a party tp the- scheme. s — ' - '\ ' J ru v . ' {•/ .. ■ 11
Many Persons T Buried Alive | In Avalanches At Least 11 Dead In Switzerland And j Austria Snowslides Zjuriich. Switzerland. Jan. 2o y— Alpine avalanches resist-, ing from the heaviest snowfall iln 30 [years sent tons Os snow crashing down mountainsides in Switzerland and Austria today, butying mdny alive and isolating American tobrists at fashionable winter resorts. | At? least 11 persons we<;e reported kil[led. 10, in Switzerland ap'd one in Austria. An undetermined nujmber of persons were missiijg.? Snow still was failing, and hdw avalanches threatened many villages. ' , ' 4>rifis up to 20 feet deep ciit all Alpine railroad lines and roads. Many villages were without electricity. Telephone lin'es were down in most places. Hoires and other buildings wer* deitro.red: Many cattle and rescue dogs Were killed. Ski runs were clpsed and thousands of tourists and Winter sportsmen, including mgny Americans, were stranded. Tourists weie stranded at fashtollable ?St. Moritz and Davds. Hotel managers r said food was running short and an air lift, plight he needed to supply the isidiilel tpWus With food and Other I'.riiis I Neuilly three feet of snow fill i\n Ht Myirltz la’i night ujiil it .kiln whs fulling today. He-» 111 fiullln dug tliruilgli doAp snow i u persoiiM tnipi»rd in hnit|l\ Ings init (dill hidiwvud allvp | Hipid i • omit'. 11 tip hilijl, Ahalrli and Italy wotu fdmmd 41 intiut night funt of Mlmw lull In t||*< |ii»hl"t iihlc Ihiyux urea, . pin) l> iluilld: l>>|\ I lie World Ih It Three Airmen Die [ As Planes Collide Bomber Pilot Sole :[ Survivor Os Crash V ’ j; j . 'Prattville, Ala.. Jan. 20.—(UP)4 j Capt. John AV. Fortner,' of Carmi, | 111., was the sole survivor toddy lof a mid-air collision of his B-$5 bomber and an F-Sl fighter plane. ? Three airmen died in the crashFortner, pilot of the bomber, parachuted to safety. He said \ije ‘‘blocked out or was knocked uhconscious” when the planes collided l(>,sbfkfeet in the ,air yestejr-j ( day but regained consciousness in 1 I time to bail out. j Fortner said he tried th rega|n I control of the bomber before Ije j jumped, but was unable to do sb. • The F-51 pilot also either jumped or was thrown clear of his planie. His parachute opened but the air force said he was' dead when he| hit the ground, abopt one mile the burning plane. The bomber was based at Mafcwell aii' \force Montgomery, Ala\. and the fißhte'r at Craig air I force base, Selma Ala. The acdY | dt nt oct Hi red about 10 miles horsi * of here. I 't he i|ead were identified as 2nd Li. Richard D. iijewer, 22, of barren, \(>| the bomber’s (-o-pil(>(; T/Sgi .Ultarles A Wells, 30, (|f (?|t-velahd, engineer, and Id Am tm k lotrsim, of Ziilba, Kuns.; pilot <if the Welle' widow nuh muu|| s<m 1 esl l»> nt itui April Hl reel, Mont? gomt’iy ' ' ' '■ 1 . •■■ I Plan Cancellation Os r Reciprocity Pacts | Indlnnnpolln, Jan 20 (UP) I (’hnlHunn Narntml U. Hadden of Ahi t Indiana state highway commlMlml said today bla plan to cancel reciprocity truck license agree? tnenta with 30 other states wan tupppntrd by five other Midwest states. Hodden said highway officials from -Michigan, 'lowa, Illinois, ’Ohio, and Missouri agreed with his [views in a tattle against overloaded trucks. h Under terms of the plan, out-of-state trucks would have to bay Indiana license platesV ; ' v ■ . I . .
'■ — , „ Decatur, Indiana; Saturday, January 20, 1951.
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Slaying Os Mosser J] Family Is Related Killed .Five When Children Cried I San Diego. Callfl Jan. 20—(UP*) —Confessed killer \Vllliam E. Cook, who said he massacred the Carl ' Mosser family of five because the I children cried, was en route to Oklahoma today to face kidnmvmurder charge*. < " , The 21 ychr-dld desperado left hr re yesterday In the i-iiHtc»<ly of UH marshal*. Authorities Lfcfmmd io s iv howflrn was being fraunportrd or when'hr would arrive m Oklahoma Oily?' j i ' . ’ Kill spti'lai aa*ml K C, Richard- i son saiii (hark also confessed »h«y- F lit* Hniltie HiClrsnutll llolrnrl II Ih’Wty Up flu- ilesuit ll< l» I 111 y I lie cuifr \r’ / RhhurdM'll Wtthl I lie Mllllrtl killer voliinliirih- ami , without emotion told mi almost iiiilirlievithlr story of ; ti4iluii|illu<: the MMMfli,' fttrcltlg i them io iirlvt him iiiouml.lhc smith wc*\ i.ii i-mi day* um| shaotina them whm? ilw Wife became hysterl ial i (iml the ihii •' children whltjv perrd in ftuir ' Rlchnrdifmj said, Cook told him he stopped the car "at gunpoint.' 1 Ih the hut<> were Carl | Mosser. <lB, his wife .Thelma, 29, and their jhn|e children of Atwood. 111. Cook first ordered them to head toward Oklahoma City, then to . Wichita kialls. Tex. At Wichita Falls, Mosser attempted to escape when \the * killer accompanied the family intc* a grocery to buy food. Cook said <he'got the situation under control with his*gun and they headed toward Albuquerque. Cook dotted occasionally but'kept | a cocked gun in his hand. He fore- ' ed Mosser and his wife to share the driving. < , Near El Paso, Tex., the family made another unsuccessful attempt to escape. From El Paso they moved northeast tb Winthrop, Ark.\ and then back ipward Joplin. On Jan. 2 near Jojplin, Mrs, MosI ser became and the children beggn screaming. Cook tied up air the family blit Mosser. wbo was driving. At the outskirts Joplin, they jjaßsed a police car and the woman bedame hysterical again and thefchildren cried.. v ' i "Mosser stepped the car in a hurry, and Codk began shooting the family, all," Richardson said t’polr told-him ~ Cook drove* to Joplin, and dropped the bodies in an old mine shaft where they wera 'dla<\ove>t<d last , Monday, the ugant said. s ( Thy slayer abandoned the blood ] kt allied car near Tulsa, Okla, and hitchhiked lb Blythe, arriving 1 h boil I .lap t ’Two days lkj.ar.drp- ' my elmriff- ilimmr Waldrlp name lo hl* mnlri rbuiß hl qimelhm him I Crntk kidnaped lilW abandon*d him hi Um desert and look his car 1 and nmmy Then he stopped .\lWwcy, Mailing hi* auto and fore- I ' Ing his nuth apd forcing the snlestmin to mmpmpany him. \ „ While driving toward Yuma. Aril,. Dewey became nervous and 1 drppppd hl* cigaret. Cook shot him ( through the bend when he leaned ' over to pick |F up. Richardson said. The salesman tried to fight back 1 but fell mit of the csar. Cook shot 1 him again ip the hack. then fled ; Into Mexico in the stolen auto. —j. i . —1 Nobn Edition —t— —
Burk Funeral Rites On Sunday Afternoon 'l i- Fu fl er al services for Mrs. Avon RUrk,. known Decatur lady whose death occurred Friday morning. will’ be held Sunday afternoon at 2.'30 o’clock at the Zwick funeral home. The Rev. Samuel Emerick„\pastor of the First Methodlist church, will be in charge; Burial will bd in the Decatur cemetery-. ! Ffidnds may call at the funeral after -2 p. m. today. ■— ■ i Greater Housing Growth In Decatur Growth It Greater Thoh U.S. Average Nt’W Ym'k. Jflii 30 (Hpacluli The Irii ytrnr period ending April i, liifiii, miiw ti idggm' ImiirovtnntMii n hiiimlbH <<mdlitim- tn Dm min Imp it. did in moat P«ti* "f ’b" idi«»d Hiiifcr Tim ovlil-rm t* i < n fhfr iiiellmlmirv r»>poifn or Um bensup bm-enii. based on dim re i-oiH iabi)l.'i'D<in, j I'ha figure* show that tiecatnr expntidpd percent In the period in number of dwelling units, eontpared with the national Incleose of 2lt.f» percent and with the 22.7 percent rise recorded in Un? east north .central states. Housing in IhdianU went ahead percent. . The! census report reveals that there are npw units hi Decatur as against the 1.704 counted Jen years ago. f This increase more than takes care bf the growth of population locally in the decade, which went fpm 5,861 in 1940 to 7.272 in 19?0. . The balance in favor of j itnpro|rod living' conditions Is shown by the fact that the 32.9 percedt increase in dwellings amply provides fcjr a 24.1 percent increase iti population. ■> . * Thej housing situation at the. presetit. tithe in Decatur, taking' ipto account the various changes i|n the past ten years, ils relatively good, the census figures show. Yhe ratio of number of dwellings tb number of people is better than (Turn to Pose Blx> Mrs. G. L. Lawlor Is Taken By Death •‘. \ — Bertie, Jan. 20 — Mrs. Mildred LaWlm*! \ Wife of the Rey. (1 l4iwrence bawlor of (Tyiner, Pa., fprineidy of Berne died at her htmrn >t Ulymer from heart dlaeiiMg she had heen, ill a long time llm{ hiiHbaml wim formerly pastor ■ I the Hellmrilrelhren i-hurch ekai of Tlrhm Dm family living her" (i|»ur y:a<ir(| ami moving aaav In i|H|» llurvlvlha are Dm htialmnd a daiiiihler. two Mims llnrlal wtta ai (’lymkr J ■■ 1 1' \' Postal Receipts At Berni Set Record jMdrni», Jan. 20 — Thg receipt* *rf the Jobftl poat office for the la«t quarter of 19M1' wv»re Nhe highest 1 in history for the quarter according toi Mr*. Rena Zehr. local 1 postmastei‘. The receipts for October. November and -December were 118.085.92 cbm pared to last yegr> $i2,9M.60 for the same quarter I tie previous high. ’The tptal refor 195(1 wdre 142,305.68. The Bern# post offjea became a first bias* office last July l.\ o « ! •Hl
Allied Planes, Tanks And Infantrymen Blasting At Overwhelmed Red Forces ■mwmswwaa \ < is i■ hi . irnwi, rnmrMa-M. !
Army Staff Chief Says Present UN Defence Positions In Korea Strong Washington. Jan. 20 — (UP) — Gen. J. Lawton Collins, army chief of staff said today enemy foTjces in Korea "will be very severely punished” if they | attack! present United Nations defense positions. • ' * "The army has plenty W fight left in it,” Collins told newsmen at! a pentagon briefing. us the enemy Uttack in any strength? they will be very punished.” ' He and Gen. Hoyt S. Vandenberg. air force chief of staff, returned here Thursday from a trip to Tokyo and a three-day inspection tour of the Korean front. Collins said he visited all American troops corps afeas,, some republic of Korea units, the 29th British brigade and the Turkish regimental combat team. i The morale of all \of theiii was very good, he said. I I Then, referring apparently only J 10 American troops, he said: ' "Our troops were In vary good piape Their morale 'was 'lietiei Iho 11 | expected It to l»e CtdliiiH. Hiild North Koreans mid CiilneHe rommuniata during 1110 past week "have shown no dia< poHlilou to pupil aoiiih from their pt’T»WU( inifclllniiH Bomb of Ilia Ham rivet ' forma, Im ndilthl, nreaenlly g)<) hetli'i d\is|lOHi<i| Ju rwhht 1111 UiHitk" limit they Imw h!'» , n h<r s-iHpe lime ' Attend Meeting On Blood Bank Center Mobile Unit Slated In Decatur March 19 Mrs, Ed Bader, volunteer services) chairman, Mrs. Max Schafer, executive secretary and alternate for Mrs. S- W. McMillen, chairman (if the l)eca,tur Red Cross blood program, attesdVd a meeting in Fort Wayne yesterday, from which a committee ;to be known as the coordinating committee of the Fort Wayne regional" blood center, was formed. Eabh of ithe 22 participate • ing chapters is represented on this j committee, which will meet regularly once a month. Mr. McGough, chairman of the Ajl<n county, Ohio, chapter blood program, w’as elected temporary Chairman and Mrs. Elizabeth 'Moore, director of the Fort Wayne center, was elected permanent secretary of the committee. The next meeting of the Committee will be called two days prior to the Opening of the center. t Mobile 'Unit Here March 19 At present it. is hoped to'open the center on February 21 and the first visit of the mobile unit will he to Van Wert February 26, with Decatur scheduled for March Ift. It was stressed that no visit cari be (itmceled the schedule has beeh approved as the schedules will he made for a year In advance. I Tne building mid < i nter are almost cbmpleted at Uli luweused mist, du|e io the general price rise of building materials and labor. Admim i'ouutv chapter's share In th. , <> B | of (tpriiiilna ihe penlti will' he IJI |M i.inl of tht\ I<ll DI X* mitini"imi '• hapiera • erne Him iln- piog.imii. Hit’ • oal rHII he (Tare Te. Pave tint •. [ Jefftrionville Man Killed In Accident Lnwrpn(rbi(rg. Ind, .'Jan 2b (UP) William A.\rook. 63. was mining tri thet Ohio River near here today and rescue worker* skid they would send a diver down after daylight, to search for his body. ' u . > Cook was working below the surface of the river behind a' screen when a bulkhead caved In lasj night. Workers said thle rive.* was about 50 feet deep at the point where the screen was built.
Hoosier Solons Cite Need For longer Session State legislature In Weekend Recess; Problems Are Cited I Indianapolis, Jan. 20 —j(UP) Sixtir-one days every two may have been enough time td pass! lawk when Indiana was young, but lawmakers say they need more time in these complex 'days. I Members of the 87th Indiana general assembly, yecessed for the weekend, had no immediate solution to the problem, as some members recommended one (course and others something entirely different. “liet’k get down to business, we only have '6l days,” has been the repealed plea [of senate president John Watkins and house speaker W. O. Huglies ’ Orie groulp, at least, was working (lesphelthe twoday legislative! The house )vays and meapH A" timimhlee wu» eon diivihm mi on Hie apoi eheckuf the Blate prispii al Mieblaan (!Hy li wgsn i mi invesHgailmi probe of (he liiwinutlmi, merely a vl-ll In ilt’lt'ihilllr Hip needs and I rmiiilrumeiHMs of chief penal lioumw "How Mill We be ekpeiled (0 ('omU down limn for di )iay 4 mid pasiN laws for the for the next two years with ally (learne of imelligem'e?" wm tihi gUMUott put by Rep. Hum lltnihrml. D. Gary ■ ' . . "We need 120 dnysj at least,'' said veteran Rep. Jess C, Andrew, chairman of the powerful ways and means committee.\ Among its problems his group has the , all* time-high state budget, civil defense appropriations and — possibly—a state office building program. Another proposal advanced as a possible solution was for a yearly 61-day sessions Yet another legislator said he believed the regular 61-day session should be split into two sections—3l days to introduce bills, 30 days to go home and talk them over withj the electorate and then 30 days to finish UP- ■ \ "Tliere’lk too much horseplay at (Turn To Fave Mxi h ' AJy County's Share Os Gas Tax Increased First Distribution Total $331086.92 The Adams county highway department was wealthier today by 133,086.92, the county's spare from the state’s distribution of gasoline tux ri’ielpts and npmles oh* tuined from license plates and licenses. [ Thlft first liismfTment lompmes to 18M,385 63 a.s the county's share of the receipts «»r Juirumy Imh The ( received 4 lolul of II no BWlt BH for the four lurio In slullllieilU .|h'"dliir Hi Mutiny Miiilllui Thuniimi I Hit’W win* «l* so reluaaad lite tamilptlon of qiinrierlr payrnenm The flbtttßj . VmMtM WT9.44M.R’? r ( ir.ili« Apill II tr.vni.nl |uM This Itrirpuse in atnouni| over .olher phymeuis; It Was (jll»(l(wml. la because of the funds from il* cense plates and fees. flic ? other* monies collected from the state for the county filghway department's dlktrMuitlvo share were 144,011.61 on July 22. and 1136.053,58 on October 6. a The payment receive I Soday, of course, reflects the? funds accrued! fifotri the last three . months or 1960, although considered as the Initial payment for 1951. '! ” • T J;-
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Other Communist Troops Battling Way Into Wonju i From Three Sides Tokyo, Jan 2<*»—(UP)— Thirty thousand North Koreans were be-f ing blasted by allied planes, tanks and infantrymen southeast of Wonju today. It was the third day of annihilation for the overwhelmed enemfi The Reds had infiltrated UN lilies 20 to 35 miles southeast of Wonju, in an apparent effort tn spring a trap. Front dispatches said the tables had been turned and more than 2.700 Os the Reds were killed Thursday and Friday.. [\ Allied units caught the Communists in isolated groups and began to chop them up before they could assemble for their planned attack from the rear. As the allies tightened their trap on the Reds. 4 other Communist forces battjed their way into Ameri-can-held Wonju three sides. , Elements of three North Korean divisions struck the bomb-flattened central Korean gateway to the Sobaek mountains, from the northwest and 'west and engaged U. 8. tanks add Infantry In (ho ' streets. ' U. H (hitch had reoccupied Wonju only yertirrdtiy without opposition Today, the Reds not only sent forves Into the city but also Bent a flHi[kink vohimn striking boldly I0B» (hr hllluma to the boihUmi.hL Prrioiniably thla wMumn wk* irrlnn to ♦ndrrla lht> city's .(|rfr|i(h’l» rill- flgllklimi rliluiyjl ih.iew il iOlid block uioiiss a eiiiipty ihrliw.iv four inllaH suiithcasf oi Wonju ami 'IIIIIHMIHId U Bllpph ( > 111, I, UN rrmtiil‘ei»mr|il« lUnliMtilo Ih«i Biriip, mid Hi*' fluhi moiiiid /he tomlbliH'k Wil* lepmtrd tti Im mouiitliig In fun Ari\ Nth Htnij- I’oinmunlque tr* ported fighting on an Increasing throughout a trliingle bonntled . by Ukcchou. 20, miles luiuthrftet of \ ? Wonjd, Yongwol. H> miles further east, and Tanyhng. 15 miles sbiitbof Chechen In western Korea, a UN patrol fought Chinese Reds on hill 296 six miles north of Kunyangjang and some 20 miles southeast of Seoul, [then withdrew. ‘ J Sharp patrol clashes Were reported elsewhere along the 140-mile front across Korea. Speculation increased that the Chinese and Ko. \ rean Reds soon w'ill launch an offensive desig’ned td t drive the allies out pf Korea. But Gen. Douglas MacArthur defiantly served notice during a flying visit to Bth army headquarters! in Korea today that his forces ' will not be pushed into the sea by anyone. Chinese by North Korean. "This command intends td maintain a military position in Korea just as long as the statesmen of the United Nations decide we should do so.” he told newsmen. He the Bth army was waiting “Fesblfite and undefeated” for the ([hanctllories of the world to make tip their minds what they want d<»ne about- Red China’s frill-scale intervention id the war. Lawrenceburg Man Missing In River Jeffersonville, Ind., Jan. 2<> / fUPJr Melvin Goodwin lirenille., 28, Jeffarsonvllle, was killed toduv mid two other peraoUH were In jilt ed when I heir eoiiverllhle htl H I iihrnii ?mnl overiiiriioil on Uib i 4 s Pike tuirlhnuei Ilf hern The Injure l ip.w.wtl vtimiie, 3<l, Hollo, s airil Hmlmmti oi>i, Ju Jaffet shtiviu*’ WCATHKR Turning munh colder tonight and Bimdayi cloudy, brittle thle afternoon changing to light enbw or anew flurries north and central portions tonight, Snow flurries east and north portions Sunday. Low ‘ tonight ranging . from 20 northwest to 25 southeast, ] with temperatures remaining — .stationary or falling slightly Sunday. , . A ! h'' V - - '
