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Fleeing Taejon Reds | Slay 30 Yank POWs, | 300 S. Korean Civilians
Find One American Soldier Buried Alive; | No Effort Made to Cover Bodies of Victims By GENE SYMONDS, United Press Staff Correspondent TAEJON, Korea, Sept. 20-—Three trenches in this shattered city offer evidence today that the North Korean Communists are guilty of some of the foulest atrocity crimes
known to man.
In the trenches are the bodies of between 30 and 40 American prisoners of war and more than 300 South Korean civilians who were brutally murdered before the North Koreans took to their heels. The bodies of the Americans were discovered in an L-| shaped half-filled trench in the courtyard of the Taejon police station.
The South Koreans were murdered and dumped into and
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_ over the edges of two wide trenches about 50 yards long |
in the courtyard of the Taejon prison. No effort was made to cover the bodies of the South Koreans. with soil. |
It is impossible to determine exactly how many civilians are in the jumble of ripped and torn bodies. But I personally | counted more than 150 on the bound to dead soldiers on either edge of the mass graves as side of him, the civilian said.
| The scene in the prison yard is! well as two holes chock full, op, more borrible. of bodies. The prison is surrounded by a! The first word of the atrocity red brick wall and inside are
came shortly after we entered Neatly laid out walks and fattory
Taejon yesterday afternoon. buildings. A South Korean lad, who was| In the rear, where there are missing an eye and appeared to Patches of lettuce, the two
have been brutally beaten, con- trenches for South Korean bodies veyed to us by hand motions that Were dug. some Americans had been mowed| They contain the twisted, tor-| down with machine guns. {tured bodies of old men and young! . ‘% 8 & {boys who obviously were beaten Cy ibrutally, then shot to death with| . FOLLOWING him to the court- tnojr hands tied behind their] yard of the Taejon police head- yo «kg | quarters, we found a trench half-| : ‘Sa oa | filled with bodies. Two American| ALL AROUND the mass graves, survivors of the horrible incident which are filled to overflowing, | were being taken away in an|are other bodies that would not| Army ambulance. {fit into the trenches. “They tied our hands together| Strewn around the bodies are| and shot us,” one of the survivors lengths of blue cloth which were | managed to gasp. {used to tie the prisoners hands. An investigation by the judge The cloth, used to make mattress| advocate inspector brought forth covers, came from the prison| this information: workshops. : A South Korean civilian Com-| Today outside the gates of the munist cleared all the occupantsired: brick prison are dozens of! from a house near the police sta-|women and children who knew or| tion some time ago. suspected what had happened. About 30 Americans—not- al-| Several of the women were cryways the same ones—were held ing for loved ones whom they in town constantly. They were knew had been held inside. | forced to wear ragged overalls, But the gates were closed to| walk barefooted and carry filth them. And if the authorities are! through the streets of Taejon. merciful, they will not be opened.
2 = | { AN OLD MAN who lived in a! “ope | house next to the police station Man, 71, Critically said tat on the morning of Sept. s ¥ 27 he saw the North Korean com: Hurt D2 Story Fi all iw munists force three Americans to) tories SA painting a Da) Jeneel in the trench before a firing, frame at his home Yesterday io) squad. { ye The old man said he moved 13 CHitical condition I= Methodist Quickly away Jiom Phe WINIOW be Hotacnet a: Redington, 71 of cause he couldn’ ar to wal Tne ’ ’ BE LR ut he hear e shots ring out. 1 watched this morning ‘as two injuries when he lost his footing North Korean prisoners started Of a ladder. hat removing bpdies from one of the . trenches. T saw four American Teen-Age Bandits bodies and then turned away. "AAS | One South Korean civilian sata Miss $5000 Loot that he found one American alive DETROIT, Sept. 20 (UP) —| ir the trench in the police sistionPolice sai i I Jou yard. f ™ | His face was sticking out of the Such a big hurry, they probably, soil and his lips were moving, the|Sould, have Daried 33000 in cash civilian sal. _ The youths robbed the Royal WHEN the American was dug York Coffee Co. yesterday and! out, it was discovered that he was escaped with $600.
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(Continued From Page One) ; weren't in condition to enter the ring. It's a damn sight worse: We didn’t know how to use the powder-puff punch we had. “We—well, the record's pretty plain what we did. And you've got to keep pointing to that record—not to the fact that we won. Frankly; T don't think you're the guy to do it. Too good-natured. You know too many of us too well. You like us. . “Take me. I doubt that you'd ever write a story
| that made me out a chump. And if you did you'd put in
80 many on-the-other-hands I'd come to out smelling like a rose. You'd rather give us a pat on the back than take the hide off us. “See what I'm driving at? You've got to keep beating our brains out and harping on our mistakes, and hurting people you-like, and taking for granted the times when we were smart. Because if you don't, as sure as night “follows day, we'll sell ourselves the idea we're supermen. “This goes for all you wrifing guys who pretend to tell the country what's going on. If not, what the hell did you come out here for?” “Okay,” I said. “What are some of the big lessons learned out here that you don't want us to forget?” “In the first place,” he resumed, “I'd say our first big mistake was the assumption that any sane enemy would co-operate by fighting our kind of war. “All that idiotic chatter about secret weapons and what we could do. We were going to fight the fanciest war you ever saw. All they had to do—and we were plain dumb not to have seen it—was to fight the other kind of war. The opposite, unfancy kind. And we were so fancy we couldn’t adjust to it. “We learned, or I hope we learned, how easy it is to neutralize air power. Not overcome it. Neutralize it. Look at what they did—underwater bridges, travel by night, hiding by day, wearing civilian clothes, mixing troops with refugees. Hell, when we found them, they'd keep marching and wave at us. Our fly boys were never sure what they'd spotted. . “a “I don’t say we ought to fight that way. But we've
| got to recognize that there are jokers in this sad world
who do. And they're the ones we may have to go en fighting. Nobody's going to let us sit back in the Pentagon and draw the foul lines and write the rules. ~ “Your job"—he tapped me on the shoulder—‘is to get the rest of the story. It’s there. If you do, you're going to make some guys unhappy. You may not be welcome in places you can go now. If you don't—" “If we don’t, what?” I asked.
‘It reads so much like the fall of Rome, it scares me,” he answered. ¢
Two Hoosiers Are Killed In Fighting on Korea Fronts
(Continued From Page One) | *I got four of them with my {of Christy E. Mosier, Huntington. machine gun the other night. | Cpl {Mrs. Tilda J. Ridge, Muncie.
(Mrs. Minnie L. Roberts, Charles- Sept. 1. [town | | Pfc. Charles E. Smith, son of his parents ahead of the official Mrs. Eva H. Davis, Kokomo. {telegram notifying them their son Pfc. Gene L. Weis, brother of was wounded. Mrs. Betty M. Fodness, South’ He wrote, “the doctor says I'll Bend. be as good as ever in a couple of MARINE CORPS (weeks. I was really lucky.” Pvt. John Murra; Patterson, His next letter, received last ward of Mr-, Stella Mae Landrus, Week by his sister, Mrs. Virginia 416 E. Ninth St. Indianapolis. Carmen, said: Pfc. Donald Ray Courtney, son| “I get out of the hospital toof Arlington Courtney, Cedar Morrow and, ..I get to go back Grove. ito the front lines. Ain't that Pfc. Glen Robert Himes, son of Brand? I'm scared stiff . . .” Henry L. Himes, R.R. 1, Gaston., Pfc. Summers has two brothers, Pfc. .loyd Curtis Miller, son of Benjamin and Daniel, both of InMr. and Mrs. Melvin C. Miller, dianapolis, and both veterans of Hebron. } |Worid War II. INJURED X
Sgt. James C. Bartlet, husband Accidental Shotgun of Mrs. Velma M. Bartlett, New Blast Costs Boy Foot
Lebanon, Pfc. Lewis G. Hurst, son of Mrs. Ap 11-year-old boy whose foot |was amputated ‘after a 16-gauge
Mildred Hurst, Borden. ‘shotgun charge tore through the
MISSING IN ACTION Pfc. Larry Loveless, son of Mrs. arch is in fair condition in St. Mona Loveless, 1124 Beccher ‘8t.| Vincent's Hospital today. Pfc. Cassius E. Johnson, son of| James Pettit, son of Mr. and Mrs. Dorothy M. Johnson, Red Mrs. Herman Pettit, was acciKey. {dentally shot in front of 1344 8. Cpl. Harold L. Kleinfeldt, son Denny St. last night as the shotof Mrs. Elsie Kleinfeldt, Ham- gun was being passed from han" mond. } {to hand among a group of boys. Sgt. 1/¢ Lavon T. MicDaniel, son] Holding"the gun when it disof Loren McDaniel, Elwood. charged was Lowell Cullison, 17, RETURNED TO DUTY of 1902 E. Hanna Ave. He told Pfc. Michael Don Jiosa, son of police he had not noticed another Mrs. Anna Prough, Huntington. ‘boy place a shell in the weapon, ‘owned by James Clark, 15, of
5 n » : Pfc. Burel T. Summers, recent- 1344 S. Denny St., another yout ly wounded in action in Korea, regent, ; y.S a ri youth
inted when dental trouble pre eet him from enlisting with Merchant Complains his neighborhood friends. . } : “He bawled and squalled when of All Day Parkers he couldn't go with the others,” Another traffic problem caused said his mother, Mrs. Hazel S8um- by assignment of police motormers, 1243 Martin St. IY cycles to guard city sanitation But the enlisting officer changed trucks while the. garbage strike his mind and took Burel. continues was revealed today. “Burel enlisted on Jan, 10,|] Roy Helderman, proprietor of 1949,” said his father William C. the River Avenue Food Market, Summers. . . . It was the last day 1142 River Ave. said motorists of rabbit season. I used to take who park all day in front of his him hunting with me, and I guess store. and along the narrow street, I taught him to shoot a little.” which is zoned for 1-hour parking, Pfc. Summers went to Korea were blocking delivery of goods. Temorary relief was promised
two months ago as machine gun-| ner with t ond (Indianhead) by Lt. William Tremp, of the traf-|
Infantry Division. fic department, “Yesterday we were shelled by ——————
artillery all day,” Pfc. Summers MAULED TO DEATH BY BULL wrote in one letter. “The closest] shell hit about seven feet from (UP)—Roger M. Leslie,
NEWTOWN, Conn. Sept. 29 46, a my foxhole and, believe me, I was farm hand, was mauled to death {by a bull yesterday when he tried “I'm not afraid of their men. to lead the animal from a barn.
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Elmer L. Ridge, son of They doubled up like accordions.” He was wounded in the neck { Sgt. 1/c Elza F. Roberts, son of and leg by shell fragments on
A letter, written Sept. 2, reached
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On 38th Parallel | (Continued From Page One) | Asked tion, passed while Russia was boycotting the United Nations, ' called upon all member nations 3 Million-Man
to help repel the Communist at-| ne tack “and to restore international | Pool Is Objective (Continued From Page One)
{peacg.and security in the area.” | Diplomatic rts “here s - " Dated oa Ag. Wh te peau, because of “collateral dependents” | land the U. 8. delegation at United SUch as in-laws. n (Nations are trying to keep the President Truman San arge {issue out of the Security Council the dependency Tules at will. Gen. lagain to circumvent a possible Hershey's testimony ‘was seen as Soviet veto : a sure sign that the rules soon Say : . {will be changed. On such mat-| Says Further Action Needed {org the President is likely to folMr. Truman, under repeated low Gen. Hershey's recommen|questioning on the surprise State dations. . {Department interpretation, said _ Gen. Hershey told the Armed
; Services group the moves he pro-| | 1 {the United Nations resolution was posed will be necessary if the
|very broad but insisted that the country is to maintain an armed {matter could not be buttoned up force of 3 million men—the cur{without further United Nations rent goal of a defense buildup action, against communism, ‘Mr. President,” a reporter. The committee heard Gen. Her(asked, “has this government given shey as part of an investigation |Gen. MacArthur specific authority of needed changes in the draft [to cross the 38th Parallel?” law to enable the Armed Forces
The President said that was a to push their build-up as rapidly {matter he could not discuss.pub- as possible,
|licly at this-time. He saidthe an- > Cow Iswer would be given at the proper 1,536,000 Pool Now . time; that the United Nations’ Gen. Hershey sald ne now has forces had not reached the 38th & pool of only 1536000 eligible Parallel yet. 1-A’s in the draft age group 19 — w———— through 25. About 90,000 are registering each month as they Two Added to Staff pass their 18th birthday. Of Neighborhood House Gen. Hershey said the three Tw b i million pool could be maintained © members have been added indefinitely if his recommendato the staff of Mayer Neighbuc- tions were carried out. hood House, Paul W. Huddlestun.. Gen. Hershey recommended: | chairman of the board, an- ONE: Extension of the length, nounced today. of service to 30 months, to include] | Miss Wilma Ehrlich has ben reach the age of 19 and 24 months named assistant director of the of active duty. (Red Feather Agency. She for- pw. Removing restrictions on jmerly served as a member of the jnquction of veterans. He said Staff of Goddard Neighborhood he now has 2,710,000 veterans (House, New York City. classified under Selective Service. | John Males has been named as la group worker. {World War II. deferments for the support of
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; (Continued From Page One) g keeping them on their heads because of the occasional little showers of broken glass. - a When Gen. MacArthur said, “In humble and devout manifestation of gratitude to Almighty God for bringing this decisive victory to our arms, I ask that all present rise and join me in reciting the Lord's Prayer.” He signaled with his hands for the crowd to stand. There was a rumbling shuffle of many getting to their feet such as you might hear in a great church. Off came the camouflaged helmets, the canvas caps, the snappy blue Air Force hats, the Navy caps.
The man directly in front of me wore two pistols and
had a knife dangling at his back. — : Gen. MacArthur's voice uttered the words which have
' come down the ages, slowly and with great feeling. The crowd went along with him-in a low murmur. At:the con _
clusion, “For thine is the kingdom, the power and the glory, for ever and ever, Amen,” MacArthur's veice be« came strained with emotion. It was, in fact, quite an emotional scene when there
was another pause and Gen. MacArthur motioned for the
men to be seated. On-went the helmets and caps again, as there w another tinkle of glass. . During the. ceremonies no shooting was heard, al. though the enemy is only 10 miles away and a few hours earlier had launched a counter-attack. : . En route back to Kimpo Airfield we passed a building still flying the Red Cross flag. Every window was shat. tered. That's war today.
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| - Gen. Hershey said he believed a | “functional approach” should be FOUR: Assuring that “accept- developed in figuring out physical THREE: Modification of present abality does not get out of hand” and mental standards for drafted Mr. Males is a restrictions on drafting of men | by permitting mental and physi- men. He said this would allow {Butler graduate and a veteran of with dependents “to get rid of cal requirements of the armed|the induction of considerable nume
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