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By GENE SYMONDS, United Press Staff Correspondent © SOMEWHERE IN KOREA, July. 14--A dozen: — green slacks and lipstick are saving more

can stop to count,

They're the nurses who were brought to Korea a week after war started and began working around the clock in a forward hos-

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pital within a few miles of the front.

Their commanding officer, who refused to give his name because “this is the girls’ story,” said/in for without the nurses’ help there nurses, two anesthetists and many more [general nurses. from battle| Capt. Margaret Tolletson, of thought th

would be “many, American dead” wounds. :

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she supervises the work and | three operating room

|Gorhaum, Me., said: “I

|war in Europe was my last one. The hospital set up in a former |! told my age during the last war _ Korean schoolhouse, but I think I'll keep it quiet from battle injuries before the wounded NOW ‘on. Ask baby.” are flown to base hospitals in Baby is Lt. Eleanor Chureh, of Japan. The place operates largely Birmingham, Ala, who has been

out of medical chests which can/in the Army three months.

be packed and moved within al

matter of minutes.

reasonable hours.

The nurse in charge is typical

listed men.

The girls look very trim in khaki shirts, green fatigue hats The 12 nurses were hand-picked and green slacks but they live a from hospital units in Japan. For rough field life, wash out of their the moment the situation is calm (field helmets and stand in line for and they are able to maintain show with the officers and en-

La Conte of Worcester, Mass, a put on fresh lipstick “to boost, petite, slender girl with sparkling morale.”

The hospital commander sald

dark eyes and brown curly hair, cnc ~T “You'd be surprised at the good

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Whenever they get a chance,/ of the group. She is Capt. Phyllis however, Capt. La Conte said, they’

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effect these girls have on thei the Korean “battlefront with an ambulance filled with wounde

| wounded boys. They came rig! ht! — - gin without i showed they had lots of nerv could not operate without i them and they're doing a job!

complaining

that saves us the services {many doctors.”

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{ pretty but has prematurely gray (hair, gives the anesthetic in the | operating room. Hers is the first {pretty face the boys see when

| anesthetic.

Capt. Cecilia Kirscheling, {Hibbing, -Minn., is called

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Lt. Mary E. Angelick, of Whit-! who is young and

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| bird” by her fellow nurses, but!

[none of them will explain why.

‘Oregon Paper Calls

For Wartime Controls PORTLAND, Ore,

July 14

Mort, Oregon Journal called editorially” today for re-establish-iment of war-time controls on es-

Korea,

§ sential goods to prevent hoarding land profiteering. | “Americans should not be called : upon to pay twice for the war first for weapons and

men, and next in the high prices dl caused by hoarders and profiiteers,” the Journal said.

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Bridge Blast Proves Skill of Engineers

By CLYDE FARNSWORTH, Scripps-Howard Staft Writer

~WITH U. 8S. FORCES-IN KOREA, July 14—Star |

shells from American howitzers in the hills at the rear were bursting intermittently. They lighted the Korean countryside like a county fairgrounds at the end of a

Fourth of July celebration.

Each burst glazed the surface of the broad Kum River and cast queer shad- |, ~~

ows on the far shore. Each burst, burning white to a slow extinction on its little parachute, showed a straight ribbon of concrete from bank to bank, Sgt. Arnold Hansen, of the combat engineers, looked at his wrist watch and wondered if the star shells were necessary. they were not necessary for the job he'd been doing—indeed he

would have preferred total darkness. - ” ” THE SERGEANT, who is!

from Wisconsin, assumed that

American ~_artillerymen were

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lighting that part of the front for the benefit of the infantry patrols still across the river, He looked at his watch again. If there still were Americans on the opposite shore they would soon have to return without the benefit of the one re inforced concrete bridge. In a few minutes the twist of the handle on a new-fangled tell Sgt. Hansen if he and his squad had done a good job with

I the 1400 pounds of “Compound

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Army medics find a case of Korean cider at a front line position in South Korea and decide to look a. little farther into the

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was unreeled a safe 1500 feet from the end of the bridge. The demolition wire had been unreeled to a point behind a high levee which restrains the Kum in springtime, The concrete bridge below the dike had been built strong to withstand the river at flood when it was deeply covered by rising water, u r = THIS WAS a bridge on the main highway down which the Reds were rolling into South Korea. Ferries and smaller vessels had been collected on the south bank or destroyed. The destruction of the concrete bridge would block or parry the Red armored thrust at the Americans’ new positions. Long before midnight the last

| of the Americans in the with-

drawal seemed to have crossed over, together with the continuous lines of civilian refugees. South Korea soldiers at the bridge shouted for refugees to

hurry and finally called a halt {

| when they fired warning shots | "to keep people off the span. w » = HOURS EARLIER the American combat engineers, with compressor trucks and pneumatic drills and other paraphernalia of demolition, had knocked down the few smaller bridges to the north and ‘put big blasts in the road wherever it appeared possible to obstruct movement of the enemy tanks. The mission of combat engineers is to facilitate the movements of friendly forces and to obstruct the movement of the enemy. Years ago this same outfit had as adjutant a young

MacArthur. In Korea the outfit has suf-

| fered casualties but morale is

| high. Its men have been under fire several times. With road | demolitions at the enemy rear | they have helped trap and de- " stroy Communist tanks.

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Sor 8 Behind Story | In U. S. "500-Ton" Air Raid

TREMAINE, United Press Staff

By FRANK Correspondent TOKYO, July 14—B-29 crews which blasted the North Korean : port of Wonsan with 500 tons of bombs yesterday were living ordinary peace-time lives with their families on the U. 8. West Coast _ only eight days ago. a i Y part of the Ay behind the heaviest air attack yet on North ee: Korea was disclosed today by the Far East Air Force. v

fire or fighter plane opposition |was reported by the B-29s. Howlever, one of the superfortresses was forced to ditch on the way

Two groups. of Superfortresses

training on the American West Coast were involved. The men| literally packed up their organiization there and transferred it {8000 miles away to this theater,

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jsignated the Far East Bomber, {Command under Maj. Gen. Em- | mett (Rosy) O'Donnell, who five {years ago was leading B-29

Altogether, Gen. threw 50 planes—98 per cent of his strength-——against Wonsan yesterday. Converging from two separate istaging areas in the Far East, the ‘two groups rendezvoused at an

{undisclosed point over the ocean|'

[halfway to the target and made

{their bomb runs in V-formations.

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Thick clouds and rain preven{ted visual bombing, so the crews aimed by radar. The results probably won't be determined until reconnaissance photographs can i be obtained. An Air Force communique said the target was Wonsan, a port, {railroad center and highway junc-| {tion on the east

North Korean broadcasts followed the usual Communist line

that the bombs destroyed homes, ! schools and | land killed “peaceful citizens” in-|

“cultural

cluding 20 to 50 doctors, nurses and patients.

It would have been surprising it]

the North Koreans had said any-| thing about the military targets

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bombed. No North Rorean anti-alreraft)

14 of 73 Hurt in Rail

Wreck Recovering PAYNESVILLE, Minn, July 14

(UP)—Fourteen of 73 persons; injured in the collision of a special; passenger train and a Soo line freight train here were reported.

recovering today in a Minneapolis hospital, Fifty-nine others were released yesterday after treatment for|

{minor injuries.

{ing.

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coast of North

home. A fishing vessel 8

the remainder.

ix of the crewmen and planes

{and surface vessels searched ‘for Here the two groups were de-|

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