Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 September 1950 — Page 2

iHipAGE 2... | THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES rl a - ____ MONDAY, SEPT. 18,1050 : CHILDREN PLAY IN BATTLE AREA— ——

‘Burning Tanks, Old Men, Nude Reds Mark Inchon-Seoul Highway

: By JIM LUCAS, Scripps-Howard Staff Writer June the Communists moved. “How much?” Kim Yung Mun knocked it down. We got in our ” jeep and drove on Capt. Kim ran into a thicket People say,” he reported, “that WITH THE MARINES ON THE INCHON-SEOUL: n Not enough to stop us." {He and Mister Chai yelled at the! jn Pug Yung we stopped in|and began to flail the brush. He| three soldiers took off uniforms » | Now “ ” v "HIGHWAY, Sept. 18—The last Red tank blew up as we nr ot tuttr Io Sr out oll ok ARTE ET gs LETS Wit thee North Yakuesfos up cific. Sei 45 fue We ‘topped the hill. It ran off the road and stopped. - caught 'up with column of march-| “Where you headed?’ ‘asked. Capt. Kim grinned. patient roa She Street Sad two Nearby three more were burning-—two on the highway "8 Marines. Their colonel led “Up front. The position the divi-| “Not translatable,” he said. burned briskly. Too oy A Two of Soldiers, One Wounded, Seized .- and the third in a rice paddy. The crew had tried {6 esca the way. I climbed out of our jeep Slon gave me was all right when There was a deafening ex- tographers were being treated for A moment later we found twd One was too badly wounded P€ and fell in step beside him. they picked it, but it's too far piosion just over th hill. sh 1 "irom one of them. “Drawing Sre™ 1. asked back now. My men are moving p J e e next ,shrapne wounds. They had to walk. Blood already had soaked through his civilian whites, A th 5 i Ls “Roger.” ap.” : Li Enen columns of black smoke. stopped to clean their lenses when Capt. Kim went through the uniforms, throwing out North Korean guy with a burp gun : : a ~ a FS ay nemy artillery, somebody, said. {ht es [currency and cigarets. ‘He found d miltasy papers. “Big catch,” )

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Yiian but mt Can | you do , anything with him?"

“We gol better bazookas.” a the we will be one country. There |. had been shattered at the knee

the ranking Korean marine —

122i t t Col. Lee Yung So 4 = sizzling oan hat used to be Marine replied, patting his own. pot uy. ang “Sure he’s liar,” apt. Kim sald. “I show.” _ jo much I want to tell you when,’ 0nel several days ago, . half ~-mile away “We got better bazooka men, ‘Suddenly, a sniper’s bullet: smashed the jeeps windshield and Sle grabied the prisuner's hand and and seemed almost to be kissing Rr gl Capt. Kim, “is a Gangrene had set in. another tank said another. the little Korean joined us in the, ls eT... liMy mother In "Seoul. My wife in lot of stuff.” ® & Suddenly you were aware of the

boy's ‘mother squatted, nearby,

“Shaddup,” interrupted a third. ditch, Col. Lee, a former Jap Sa. Theyre digging foxholes Tell sniper from civilian. you got, "0" BAM: 0 MIF 18 10URE BAMEL Le ' 2 “tears streaming down her face,

“Want to make Harry Truman , hant "tt : around t 8 smell hand,’ Capt. Kim explained. fo : : : : naval lieutenant, didn't budge. He drbund the peach trees in 50 3a... 1)" 01) "ne ‘been handling gun. jPoTeOmIng for myself. third sniper. I spotted something

was smoking. That made nine

for the morning. sore again?” called the little man back. Tear- He says we should hit from the Some v : Timidly she crept toward her son, “Better stand | We were at Ascom City a fully, he complied. Together they flank. Mister Chai very smart Hard spots on shoulder,. been Te allot I onl Xun. Capt. Soarhy 1a) ane Jointed Her husband ordered her back, clear,” a ser- {stone's throw from Kimpo-best went over a map of the area. man. He also very sad man. Says C2I7Y/N8 Bun. This man Har.” os our way through a burn- “A dead Marine,” he said. Frightened, she withdrew, A geant warned. described as Korea's Pentagon.! “He says” the colonel trans- Reds took his two sohs for fight- We climbed to the top of a hillijng village and found Marines! We started back “for Inchon Marine awkwardly -patted her “Them guns are F We built it after the last war lated, “that hig name is Chai Tai ing.” which once housed Seoul's ower~surrounded by yelling Koreans. with the two naked prisoners on shoulder. She gave way to her hot and might . | When our occupation forces Hak. He owned a lumber company, Another sniper bullet plunked seas radio transmitter. From it “These people got something im- the hood of our jeep. We passed 8rief. With the instinct of mothers go off. Burning ‘pulled ‘out the South Koreans in Seoul. He now lives in Pug into the jeep. Col. Lee showed we could see Kimpo. Shells from portant,” a sergeant said. hundreds of North Korean pris- the world over she darted to the tanks start made it their armed forces head- Yung village up there. He says annoyance. First Lt.'Hak Choong American and British cruisers off Capt. Kim listened. His face oners, all naked. sick boy, cradling his head in her shooting at quarters It was their military the Communists started 11 tanks Chin spotted two children on a Inchon were .falling on its out- flushed. For the first time he We stopped at an aid station. rms and kissing his feverish damndest times.” bl tan school, their army's arsenal and out of Kimpo village yesterday. nearby hill. Cursing he leveled on skirts. Capt. Kim pointed: “Foot began to. shout. The villagers:A young Korean appeared carry- cheeks. “What ‘happened to the Russian communications center. A (ter Got two tanks and 400 men in So them with his carbine. Capt. of that hill lies Seoul,” he said. became semihysterical. Ins his small son piggyback. He The dust made your eyes smart,

the details of his brief combat

Itching for a Scra | Marines Reach River Han {13 Milion State Gjprivate AWOL Found Fighting As 1st Lieutenant cv monn en. on

land, Cal said the advisory

By Rooting Out Red Snipers Road Aid Expected No Pushing Crates for Him; a Piece jwere trying to take two hills. Two sent to the rear, so he joined group would recommend that

(Continued From Page One) (at the ruined port of Pohang. . Korean sergeants told me to get another South Korean group. Pvt. Haxton be “punished” by prisoners were eight officers ana , Tnere. United Press Correspon- | Of Chalk and He's Number Two Officer back where I would be safe, but “The outfit I was with was being assigned at once to a US, 32 female nurses. Sent Robt Beany Bo - Haddens Reports | . BY, BOBERY SE NTHOFF, United Press Staff Correspondent 1 told them I didn't come up here ordered ack tonight, so I went Combat outfit - ‘ {2 KOREA, Sept. 18—-A ra rtiice Jorth, on a 0 tend to hold Pohang as long as On U.S. Program 19-year-old American private went AWOL from his job of } pushing a Sate-1came up here to back with (hem. An American Buys Goldfish « as Gift loaded 400 tons of bombs on Com: possible to prevent Americen gtate highway commission crates around in warehouses and was found today fighting in the! He spent the next two days major came up while I was standmunist positions one mile west of | fighter planes from using the ex- chairmman Samuel Hadden esti- front lines as a first lieutenant in the South Korean army. fighting. On the second night, he In by a bridge which had been On Golden Anniversary Waegwah. The bombing, which cellent airstrip four miles south A aiv Officers of the American Military Advisory Group attached to said: blown watching some Koreans "MOUTH. Wis. (UP)— . of the city. mated today Indiana will re © the South Korean Capital Divi ) ) PLY UTH, Wis. ) Tom could be heard and felt in Taegu Iv in fed- apita sion found the GI, with lieutenants An officer came up to me and fixing it. He asked me if I was Pi ouldn’t decid hat t 13 miles away, was observed by about $13 million annually in fed- pars marked in chalk on his bat- said, “Me number one officer. You supervising the job, and I said my Piper couldn't decide what to Cavalry Division. commander, [OOF Convention eral funds for construction and tle helmet and an M-1 Garand Pvt, Haxton told amazed ad- number two officer.” 1 was from Pusan. buy his grandparents, Mr. and Maj. Gen. Hobart Gay, and the h | . repair of highways under the new rifle in his hands. visory officers he hitchhiked to! ‘He took some chalk from his “He looked awful surprised and Mrs. Dan Piper, for their golden word “beautiful” was his. Opens in P iladelphia federal highway aid program. Pvt. Floyd C. Haxton Jr. San the front north of Kyogju on pocket and made some bars on wanted to know how many Ameri- wedding anniversary. The presIt was the second close support PHILADELPHIA, = Sept. 18 turned this! | Bernadino, Cal., said he left the Sept. 12. . my helmet. They told me today cans came up with me and what ent had to be gold, but Tommy saturation raid by Superforts in|; {yp,. _.The 124th annual conven- Mr. Hadden, who " urn oa rear area to come to the front so! “I wanted to fight, so I just the marks meant I was a first outfit I was with.” had only 45 cents. He solved the Korea and it was staged in the! tion of the Independent Order of morning from a Hee ng ort he could do what he came to Ko- took off,” he said. “I finally got lieutenant.” - Pvt. Haxton’s answers to the problem by buying a pair of same general area as the frst Gay poows opens here today dhative Sound) Highway orl rea for fight. to a place where South Koreans The group he was with was question resulted in his revealing goldfish. om. Sire Wels #50. There with about 15.000 delegates at- ficigls at Des Moines, lowa, said P- ” “Sea pes pos_Thay Cavalry a few tending. the state intends to make a numMembers from 21 nations will ber of county roads eligible to

east r ) Ble A EE a rere attend. the five-day meeting, participate in the federal allot-

which Gen. Gay's cavalrymen! which has the general theme of ment. ‘ ; have attacked, retreated and at- ‘Defend America Against Com- This will done, he said, by mak- : tacked again for three weeks. munism.” They will represent the ing the county roads part of the 4 hy greed " ER anklin 4411

United Press Correspondent more than 1.6 million members in state highways secondary road Peter Kalischer said that “for the four groups which comprise system

half a minute the Superforts the international fraternal or-| ‘Rigid Enforcement’ glinted in the sun, then disap- ganization. { i ‘ peared clouds. | At the meeting, Mr. Hadden behind Suddenty a ‘told the various state officials : } .

a le ro + Heavy Snow Blocks le Indians was pledges to

continue the rigid enforcement of

stood string of firecrackers. Red Past the | could be seen in a rolling cloud Air Crash Rescue Party truck laws. of greasy gray smoke that hia ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Sept. A constant critic of overloaded | .

the hillside entirely. {18 (UP)--Heavy snows today trucks, Mr. Hadden explained that wn { * Mr. Kalischer said the usually blocked an eight-man search only by “eternal vigilance” can — grave Gen, Gay slapped his leg party struggling up a frozen the states protect their highways. $ with a swagger stick which for- mountain to the crash of an Mr Hadden also went on record ~ - merly had belonged to Gen. Pat- Air Force C-47. ag recommending continued road = 66 A $ : . Rw ton and said: Five men were aboard the improvements during the Korean 4 ‘ A 0 g you 1 é 11 > ew

- “Lord, I hope they (the Com- craft when it smacked into 4200- war emergency. }

munists) were on there. If they foot Mt, Susitna eight days ago.! “We have.to do as much ax we were, they aren't now.” . The 10th Air Rescue Squadron can with the men and materials From Taegu east to the Japan reported no signs of life about'available’ he said, “or our highSea, South Korean .troops were the wreckage, and all five men ways will completely disintemaking excellent progress except were believed to have perished. grate.” . - em Ap

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