Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 October 1950 — Page 61
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WE RE GOING TO CHOW—CHOP CHOP'—
Is Tell How Reds Murdered 80 ‘Waiting To Eat’
By ROBERT BENNYHOFF, United Press Staff Correspondent The Reds packed the prisoners into three coal cars, jor four of us sitting in the back row fell forward and| “The rest of us started praying to God. After they stopped
U. 8. ARMY HOSPITAL, Japan, Oct. 23—They thought and put 80 men where there should have been only 20. retended we were dead. We just lay still like we were shooting, we were lying on the ground huddled together.
they were going to chow. On the fifth day, the prisoners were moved to some shot.
So the 100 American war prisoners, in groups of 25 t0|poxcars and a burned-out coach. The train chugged into the| 30, followed their Communist captors without protest from tunnel near Sunchon and stopped.
| “Then the guards walked up and down hitting the
“A guy behind me got hit with a burp gun and he men in the back with their rifle butts.” was groaning and moaning. A gook picked him off with | Seven survived from that group.
gue prison train 69 a nearby cleared ares. They sat down and Let M/Sgt. Barney P. Ruffiato, 44, of Lead, S. D., a a rifle. I thought they were going to shoot everybody like | Pfc. Joseph Mistretta, 28; of Brockton, Mass., a tank
waited. Then, without a word, the Communist guards suddenly opened fire with machine-guns and rifles. The guards
Some prisoners died without realizing what had hap-
© pened. Others had time to kneel in prayer before bullets cut ‘They took us ¢ut in groups of about 30 men apiec:. | | ol them down. A few who survived the bullets were clubbed The first group went out and we heard a lot of firing. " too.
re away.
member of the 24th Division's 34th Regiment, tell what that, but they didn’t. Something came up and the guards gunner in the 804th Tank Battalion who was captured July happened next:
laughed as they fired. “Just before dark, they said: “ ‘We're going to chow-—chop chop.’
131 south of Chinju, told this story:
“Every so often, we heard some more shooting, “I played dead. and we knew what it was. I guess those guys in the | other groups thought they were going out to dinner,
“Pretty soon one of the guards came with a rifle butt land slammed it into my leg where I was hit. He bent over for something and when he got up one of the other guards
to death with rifle butts. was automatic weapons and small arms... Pvt. Robert C. Sharpe, of High Point, N. C,, a medical shot him. I guess he thought he was one of the Americans Nearly 80 American prisoners died in the massacre. “I was in the second group. They took us out of the corpsman with the 19th Regiment of the 24th Division, was trying to get away. But at least 21 lived to tell the story. They were flown tunnel up the railroad tracks and we turned right on a in the first group to be led away. “After a while, I picked up my head and took one quick to this hospital yesterday. little road. They told us to sit down and we thought we| “I heard some shots,” he said. “I thought they were look, *but didn’t see anyone. Did you ever see lightning
The 270 American prisoners boarded the prison train were going to eat.
shooting in the air to make us all sit down. But then I saw ‘move? That was me. I just got out of there as fast as I at Pyongyang, North Korean capital, one week ago today. “Then they opened up on us with tommy-guns. Threz a man on the other side of the ravine ‘slump and fall down. could. ”
Independents 1) §. Grabs 10 Alien Reds;
Get Politicians’
Campaign ‘Heat EXpects To Imprison 76 More
Local Issues Getting Emphasis As Korean War Turns to Victory Worker Fights
By NOBLE REED
Both Democratic and Republican cudidates today f or Hi S Life i n began directing their campaign to sway an estimated 70 000) : “independent” voters who never follow party lines in Marion Eo 30-Foot Fall This strategy in the wiiip of the battle of ballots for|
the Nov. 7 election i e Nov. T election is based upon precinct polls taken by, * Clutches at Beams
both parties, showing He ohh later when the Dem-|
election will be won or lost on/ocratic Washington - administra-| In Dropping Through the trend among 25 per cent|tion raised income taxes, hitting] Apartment Project of the 279,000 registered voters the pocketbooks and the dinner Clawing desperately to-break al {fall from the sixth to third floors) both parties, completed last week, Lately, however, as national "n a construction job today, al | showed the straight party ballot- issues leveled off to a more or worker was critically injured as,
| ing will square off about ¢ even ag {less static position, candidates onipe pounced from one steel beam county tickets have been cOmINg y, another in a 30-foot fail.
here. tables of every voter in Marion Precinct polling of voters py| County.
gued although there are many, work,
Democratic candidates for
Individual pocketbooks. ‘Outs’ Attack ‘Ins’
For several weeks, the hopes of Law enforcement has been igyjdenly,”
Republican candidates for county
Korea and conditions on the naDemocrats Optimistic He has followed the same tactics, fall.” On the same basis, Democrats running for any office from justice of the peace to prosecutor and sheriff were counting their votes on the reaction of the people's pulse to the war, taxes and national economics. Democratic professional politi-
Mr. Fairchild has referred to again.
government when victories in|in many years.
Senator Moves Through Central Indiana ROWSVEE, 81. FOSPUeED rere ona In Homestretch of Re-election Drive stretcher. r ; By IRVING LEIBOWITZ, Times Staff Writer aa we ry 8
LOGANSPORT, Oct. 23—Republican Sen. Homer E. Cape- uritical,
Central Indiana today i paign.
reforms. Little else has been &r- tr.-ough the heavy steel la He managed to break his others the voters and taxpayers fall on two floors, workers said, have been talking about, but crashed to a stair landing Urge Court Reform on the third floor.
icnal county judgeships raised the) Mr. Murphy was employed in| omina ~¢ court reform issue, promising to the construction of the new| problems a ain Red pat “eliminate politics” from court Shoreland Towers Apartments] political talk of the man-in-the- administration and improve di- 37th and Meridian Sts. He was, | street. vorce court procedures. {laying concrete flooring strips on | Follow National Trend In this they criticized sharply the sixth floor. when he apparentHence, both party organizationsithe present GOP judges and the ly lost his balance. have been following their national|latter came back fast with de-| Witnesses saw him falling and| leaderships in campaigning on nials that they conducted their grabbing futilely at the the theory that the voters will be courts on a “divorce mill” basis. beams to save himself. influenced most by war and the, Thus, court reforms may be-| Mr. Murphy was laying the threats of war, price and wage come one of the major issues on! flooring in strips as the new type controls, communism and the gen- the local level before the Nov. 7 concrete and steel beams were eral economic’ problems affecting balloting. {elevated by a crane.
one worker said, | | brought out mostly by Frank H.| «pe pitched over. I saw him grab
prosecutor, on the usual strategy he hit with his shoulder. tional level. of the “outs” trying to get “In”! railed to hold but did break his
employed successfully by his op- Horrified onlookers ponent, Prosecutor George 8. i plummeted headlong to a fourth Dailey, Democrat, when the latterifioor beam and again made a defeated Judson Stark, GOP {desperate effort to grab a girder Prosecutor in 1948. as he hurtled by. He missed
| Prosecutor Dailey’s administra-| He crashed into the steel fioor-| tion as a “sorry record.” Mr. ing of a stair frame on the third! clans became noticeably more op-| Dailey has refuted that charge 'floor and was unconscious when timistic about their chances of| with statistics he sdys | reached by other workers. 2 a ning county best record of court convictions e police emergency squad an wins SOmtiol J one 3 | a General Hospital ambulance Korea brought a sigh of relief to; ~ Thus the battle will rage to a rushed to the scene as radio dis-| worried ong ie climax at the voting machines| patchers at police headquarters|
“Th is ulled | two weeks from tomorrow. tried to determine if ladders Joem, thete optim i Was 4 . &" would be needed to rescue the
victim. «Condition Critical
Capehart's Campaign b the vet
- whether he had hit solid flooring.
or wa; caught on a beam at the Hits Corn, Bean Belt [5iairarinto:
Murphy's condition ee Preliminary examinahart’s touring political caravan hit the rolling, lush farmland of | tion revealed a fractured shoulder
The heat was on for Indianapn the home stretch of the election cam land right arm, a fractured right olis traffic violators today. Why You Shauld ‘leg and possible internal injuries.|
his handBetween now and Nov. 7, Sen. Capehart will take his Times Index
shaking, speechmaking political show on a whirlwind tour through
the corn and soybean belly tradi-: Nn & About People veers tionally Republican territory. usements’ . . ener bainosanan art Campbell Enters Births, Deaths, Events...
is hitting friendly cities acapehert towns
hart will speak at a fish fry on at a Democratic rally in the}
the Cass County courthouse lawn'Fowler Hotel, Lafayette. Erskine Johnson sxmeneve t. The Democratic candidate, Who. Dr, Jordan ...v.sesecssss Delphi Tomorrow attended the state CIO conven- Mrs. Manners ...ceceeess
Capehart caravan swings tion here Saturday, conferred: My Day ...scsssasscavss teh Carroll County tomorrow yesterday with party leaders in Obituaries ....ccoeee d | Othman :
making a night stand in Delphi the Claypool Hotel,
‘where Sen. Capehart will talk be-| Mr. Campbell planned. 4 visit Radio-Television fore the Republican women work-| Democratic headquarters in Ft.I Ruark ......ce.oeveessas ers. Later he will attend another Wayne today and leave for Lafa-| Society .......ecvesuiees fish fry on fhe courthouse lawn|/yette this afternoon. ; | Ed _Sovola ee at Monticello. Tomorrow noon Mr. Campbell SPOTts «-...vveeniaen 18, .On Wednesday, the Senator, will address the Kokomo Rotary Teen Problems ......:... will tour Fulton County in the Club in Kokomo. He. will ‘go on Weather Map HAR ae Rinsants Chu at noon. Tn thel Democratic rally at 8 p.m. | Earl Wilson
in an effort to “build up a wg Campaign Finale COMICS ov vnoneebonisinne majority” in his campaign for re. By LEON RUSSELL Crossword «eceerseseissss _ election. Alex Campbell will swing into] Editorials .c.ieseeseenene er with Republican Rep./the last fortnight of his cam-| Food
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That First Haircut
Arrests Staged Across Country
Prisoners to Be Held on Ellis Island Pending Hearings for. Deportation
WASHINGTON, Oct. 23 (UP) — Government agents have arrested 10 top alien Communists in the past 24 hours |and are rounding up 76 others for deportation under the new subversive control law. The Justice Department announced today that the 10 | Reds, some of whom have been i in the United States for more than 40 years, were seized in| a
They can seek release on writs a series of raids in a half-| {of habeas corpus, but in that
dozen cities. One has been | case they would have to show in
i court that the Attorney General auckiin Stpoftation since 2033. | ‘abused his discretion or acted whom warrants have been issued Im 88 SFA or capridions man. were described as propaganda ex- : . pert for ‘international comme/,, %, helt Bom Sanit ine {nism, ey operate roug! > {labor unions, foreign language Ment can deport them to the
| publications, and Communist country of their last residence or front organizations. to any other country that will
take th The Justice Department said +
» The 10 under arrest included all 86 were “very active Com- yw, Russians, one of whom has munists.”
been in this country for 47 years, A spokesman said all of them soo vy i goslavs, a German, a Will be ali] Hest 454 Lue tang Lithuanian, a Korean, a Filipino, York ja Pole, and a Britisher—Harry~ Under the pew subverst b> |Carlisle, who was said to have lol pr piano a on] been running classes in Marxist a Pe Jan eo six pS in Hollywood in 1948. bi The department said some of
{months pending deportation, T the & {release them on conditional ad . 5 already have deportation
role or on bond. (Continued on Page 83—Col. 5)
Eighteen-month-old Michael Muellner n't enjoying his first haircut any more than barber Allies Roll At Will
and township offices rose and fell) posroniid, the GOP candidate £0 | ror a beam on the fifth floor as| Nick Calistro, but those golden foot long curls have to go.
‘Match the Twins
THE BIG contest is coming. It’s the Match the Twins Contest, announced In. yesterday's Sunday Times. Prizes totaling $1000 will be awarded to the contest winners, with the first prize $500. » " = = » ” JFOR 10 successive Sundays, starting. next Sunday, the pictures of 10 twins will be published, until 100 are pub-. lished. They will match up as 50 sets of twins. All you have to do is to match these twins, Some twins will be easy to maich-—and some may prove a little difficult. = n » AFTER ALL the pictures are published, the participants in the contest may submit their entries, Better order your next week's Sunday Times NOW, so you may get in the contest at the start. Oct. + #)—remember, that's the starting date.
RECORD ‘STRONG QUAKE’ oun e p { MEXICO CITY, Oct. 23 (UP) |—A “very strong" earthuake 600 ‘miles from Mexico City was retcorded here at 10:15.29 a. m. tonn 1 Drive (day. The spokesman said the direction of the quake could not
be determined because the initial Hearings Scheduled Rogonlluglin ns
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~ctiory ih Hunt for GI POWs
By EARNEST HOBERECHT, United Press Staff Correspondent $10, 000 to Chest TOKYO, Tuesday, Oct. 24—Alied armies raced unime
P. R. Mallory Co. gift to the peded through North Korea today in an all-out effort to res=
Indianapolis - Community Chest
today totaled $10,000. cue hundreds and perhaps thousands of American war Richard T. James, campaign prisoners held by fleeing Communists. ; chairman, said the gift repre- The United Nations vanguard struck within 50 miles of
sented an increase of $3500 over the company's 1949 contribution. the Manchurian border. The whole force assigned to come Employee groups throughout plete the sweep to the/pyacArthur to hunt outand libsre
the city also are contributing gen- f va 49 rontier was advancin iste American POWs “befor a erously. The 1150 workers of the g at Reds could spirit them across ‘h@
Citizens Gas Utility have achieved Will. Organized resistance had) {Manchurian border.
108 per es Te Ti guia. collapsed. | All" organized North Korean u resistance had d. M than uled for Wednesday at the Clay- On their race north the Allies e had cease ore pool Hotel. were ordered by Gen. Douglas, {Continued en Page 3—Col. 7)
-Police Push In Where Others Four to Trecd
Double. parking. on India s shroets is nol doing anylhi to relieve the: alFeady stag traffic situation. A police car, license AR 416, wormed its way this narrow passag i: SA Meridian St unt before ths photo was snapped. Ne acta waafuban