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End Shortly! Commander Declares er (Continued From Page Ome) cok inside the city limits, for 30 minutes conferring on military matters with Gen. Walker. On the other side of the city, fighting still was going on. LR oe : £ i Lt. Gen. George Stra ieyer, commander of the Far| Eastern Air Forces, decorated Gen. MacArthur with a ~ Distinguished Flying Cross for today’s flight and others he has made to Korea. “i When he got back into his plane to return to Tokyo, Gen. MacArthur ‘said: : : : 2 “That was something!” _ At that time, there still was no word as to how the paratroopers were making out—whether they had achieved their initial objectives. i - There were six drops from 90 C-119s and 50 C-47s. || From about 2000 feet, we watched the boys who landed first at Sunshon draw two bursts of enemy Bre~ejther) mortar or artillery. But that was.the only opposition this observer saw. Aim * We left Tokyo's Haneda lei aight Yoquired shout one ] at 12:40 p. m. Thursday and Hew! The paratroopers bailed out of] directly to Kimpo Airfield at Seou.| their planes at 700 feet in a beau-| to meet the transports for the {ir precision jump. They drifted! drop. down on dry, harvested rice fields, | Two squadrons of fighters among neat rows of straw, along worked over the drop areas 45|the picturesque river whose banks, minutes before flying boxcars and gre dotted with tall poplar trees.
other transports came in to fill!" Their jump w ul | p was so well exe the air with muti-colored para cuted that they were close to- |
chutes Igeth d did not scatt 1 : ' Gen. MacArthur and the rest of |%“The nies Boat rn ‘grace- Allies Racing us in his plane watched F-80 jets ¢y))y and spread out on the auand F-51 Mustangs dive in on tymn landscape below. It looked = their targets, pouring rockets, more like a holiday, with nT Manchuria napalm bombs and machine gun fetti scattered around, than like bullets into them. war, death and destruction. : The paratroopers, members of Armed to the Teeth | (Continued From Page One) * the 187th Regiment of the 1lth| gor the boys who jumped, how- northward, either by earlier air Airborne Division, took off from|ever, it was far from a holiday. attacks or in the feeble defense. Kimpo, flew west to the ocean, They were armed to the teeth and wheeled north. and then raced'ready for anything. back east to the jump areas.
Three mothers who lost sons
ping in Pyongyang -after personOne patrol was to move east to ally directing t Unson Ni, about five miles south- janding,
1 issued orders for the east of Sunchon.
S rr [South Koreans to get going at Sruatss Another patrol was to rush to a once and push on as fast as pos-| LS
lake about 10 miles north of Su-/sible to the Russian and Mannan and prevent the enemy from ghurian frontiers. opening a gate in a dam and flooding the countryside, Gen, MacArthur obviously was en Stra tomerer, who “weg/that his pians for the American proud of his air forces and the forces in North Korea were nol job they did. {made known. They expected him
I - Gen. MacArthur was completely | 10 move more troops into North surprised when Gen. Stratemeyer Korea,
but to sée that the Yanks presented him with the Distin- halted perhaps a score of miles guished Flying Cross. {short
Plans Kept Secret |
Arthur in Pyongyang reported!
of the North Korean
Calling the Air Force genetal| frontier, by his nickname, Gen. MacArthur The South Koreans already said: were well on the way to the bor“Strat, my thanks—my deepest der. They smashed through Hongappreciation. But it's the pilots, Won on the east coast, 140 miles and crews that did the trick. [north of the 38th Parallel. There am just the passenger.” |they were only 90 miles south of tn ithe Manchurian border and 215 Microscope Identifies {miles from the Russian frontier. “ele . Maj. Gen. Edward E. Almond, Body of Flier in Lake |wno directed the Allied victory at MICHIGAN CITY, Ind. Oct 20| Seoul, flew to Wonsan to take (UP)—A comparison microscope charge of northeast Korea. The was given the credit today for commander of the U. 8. 10th establishing the identity of the Corps said his job was to rehabili{body of a man washed ashore tate and reorganize the part of from Lake Michigan two weeks Korea under his command. He {ago as Ensign Lee Holt, 22, of said his troops would operate y~ Skokie, Ill north and west of Wonsan as A Navy torpedo bomber crashed circumstances required. {into the lake July 4, killing three Defended by 27,500
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ae 2 during World War II annual convention of Gold Star Mothers .of Indiana. The group was meeting yesterday and today were shots fired five times. Every- cotton gloves, mended and reat Severin Hotel. Left to right: Mrs. Leoma Yarling, Indianapolis, state president; Mrs. Eleanor thing died down and then directly mended in a man’s crude. thick I
Boyd, Long Beach, Cal., national president, and Mrs. Alice Duncan, convention chairman.
2000 Mail Sacks Stacked Up
(Continued From Page One) handling some 500 sacks of mail a day but with its undermanned staff it is unable to clean up the the postmaster
heavy - backlog, said.
He said the manpower situation Gen. Douglas MacArthur, stop- developed when the local office received instructions not the parachute n,int any permanent employees ago and a subsequent order not to convert employees to regular (status. He said he believed pend-
about four weeks temporary
ing legislation was for the order.
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men. Holt was identified by An official spokesman said the matching hair in his head with a’ Communists threw into the fore-
sample brought from his home, doomed defense of Pyongyang about 27,800 men, They com-
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x . % y hg ary Violent Death ClO Convéntion Hears Shocks or Gov. Schricker Rap GOP / (Continued From Page Ome) | Then the Governor explaiged he Ta lighted the opening of the 12th/had two reasons for running Slain Robert Highet |annual convention 2 the state| again In 1948. They ere: olga Salis ¥ {labor organization i# the Knights : “To discharge an - Didn't Have an Enemy Columbus. auditorium. tion to wy party”. Continued From Page One More than 700 delegates gave : wanted to disprove { g ) ithe Governor another ovation/the 1944 election when Homer E. . a date with Phyllis Christy, a whem he-told them “if it wasn’t Capehart defeated me for Senator, dark-haired girl whose picture for CIO support I would not have It was not fair, not right. I'll stood on his dresser, They had been elected Governor in 1940.” never forget how the Republicans : dc : — (deprived thousands of the right su at her house, then they : i pper ” Yl {ramping through the big corn-| to vote in Marion County. drove to Worthington, where Ob riold across the road. At one time in his speech, the {inquired about going halves on, «yt was foggy and dark as a Governor left politics and at‘purchasing a bull with another stack of blatk cats in there,” the tacked the “powerful press and {small Angus herd owner. He sheriff said. “We looked row by financial interests of the coun{drove Phyllis home and was home row until our batteries gave out. try.” He said the same situation ‘in bed before midnight. Then we calléd the city police for existed in the old days, when { Yesterday his grandmother sat more batteries and some of the William Jennings Bryan was \grief-stricken in her rocking chair farmers around there came out to “badgered and bothered” by these {in the little white farmhouse and pelp, We were jus{. ready to same groups. {tried again to recount the nignt- join hands and start longways “I know how many big mare that followed: down the field when my deputy tunes were exacted from | “Robert got out of bed and happened to step back and saw sweatshops of yesterday,” {came in and asked me ina 10W the body.” Governor =aid. “That is why (voice where the flashlight was. § gneriff Franklin felt for a pulse organization has made heard him slip out the door and but the chill of the body told" him powerful strides ahead.” {then I heard him shout: ‘Here, get'it was useless. He called the cor- ge commended the CIO for jout of there, or something like oner and went back into the little yay ino® “great steps” against that. I looked out and saw the white house to tell a grief-stricken .ommunism and other subversive light and heard him running on/grandmother the news she had gjements. ] the gravel. } already guessed. iu “We have no room in America { " , —— Nearby the sheriff found the for those who would sell out Five Shots Fired lonly “clues” —a broken file that birthrights,” he said. “Democracy
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! 4 i} i, that at some later date the city happened. There were bruises on the vic: yo 14 pe aple to have an audi
She paused, as if reliving what tim's face and head, and his 0 40 bog cich conventions followed was too much. But as knuckles were skinned. The best CIO officials said “that Walter big Sheriff Don Franklin nodded guess that the sheriff can make gE & ) P. Reuther, president of the sympathetically and said “Go on,/is that Bob saw a prowler, Pe United Auto Workers and vice Aunt Kate,” the little trembling haps someone trying to steal the nati 1 ! 8 truck parked there. The course president of the national CIO, would address the Saturday morn-
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he might have been shot after he knocked his opponent to the speak at the convention. ground. Bob, who “wasn’t afraid Gov. Schricker refrained from of anything,’ hadn't even both- mentioning any candidates by ered to take his shotgun from: Name, but he concluded his speech over his door when he went out. PY saying: That is all that is known, all Your enemies are seeking to officials have to work with in destroy you. Go out and vote for solving the slaying of the man Your friends.” everybody liked, in a town where He implied that by “friends” he murder is a stranger. meant Democrats.
back, he was trying to say something, trying to make me hear him but I couldn't get what he was saying. Then it kind of got louder and stopped and I called you.” Deputy Sees Body
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