Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 November 1950 — Page 1

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J | Bie Loa Coffelt Pi Two U. S. Lost Battalions

Big Leslie Coffelt was given a hero's burial in this shrine agreement on a five-year A Reporter Speaks— 0. 4 M A k h ~ of heroes today. contract covering 24,000 dy S 241 Division Battles

61st YEAR—NUMBER 237 rr : SATURDAY, ‘NOVEMBER 4, 1950 : Say , 38 Second.Class Matter at Postoftcs Fe sive: PRICE FIVE CENTS |

By Harvester

Goes to Rest nyt Freed By Marine Drive;

Heroes’ Sh ri ne | Agreement Includes:

oe ~_t» 5.Year Contract ~ a Man He Died to Save Looks On | Covering 24,000 | -3 ; CHICAGO, Nov. 4 (UP)—/ 2 Bareheaded in Silent Grief International Harvester Co.|

By FRANK ELEAZER, United Press Staff Correspondent land. the CIO- United Auto! ARLINGTON NATIONAL CEMETERY, Nov. 4— |workers today announced

President Truman—the man he died to save—looked | workers who have been on strike, Allies Are Fighti ng

on bareheaded with tear-dimmed eyes. |at 10 plants for 11 week : : 3 Di _ | The contract, subject i ratifiThe graveside rites were preceded by moving Episco | ation by the unions 11 striking Third Team i in Koreq, pal services in the red brick chapel from which so many iocals, provides an immediate 10-| other heroes have gone to rest in. this time-mellowed |cent hourly wage increase for all

ne oh Be Tt oud and perc en Not First or Second’ Of Red China S Suffers Heavy Losses ;

The little church was jammed with notables and includes a four-cent hourly “im- ; : : : : Pushes Toward Big Chosin Reservoir; ordinary citizens who bore the proud title of friend of provement” factor and a six-cent We Must Not Over-Estimate Our Victories; Hints Action in UN Enemy Retreats 3'/2 Miles in Savage Clash

Condemnation Through Road Block,

hourly “cost of living” factor, to : os . . . . " . the 40-year-old White House police private. cover living cost increases up to U. S. Political Situation in Orient is Grim’ On Use of Peking By RALPH C. TEATSORTH, United Press Staff Correspondent He gave up his life on Wednesday to protect the July 15. Troops in Korea TOKYO, Sunday, Nov. 5—A U. S. Marine offensive in President from two Puerto Rican assassins. Harvester originally offered 10 Mr. Sparks in transmitting the fellowing dispatch wrote: I Bv BRUCE W. MUNN northeast Korea freed two of four American “lost bate cents an hour wage increase and Here is a plece that sums up my own opinion United Press. staff Correspondent talions” cut off by enemy road blocks and hurled the Chi-

With the President was Mrs. Truman. And in the ... then has approved a pro- as ‘to the broad picture in the three wars I've FLUSHING, N. Y., Nov. 4

nese Communists back 31% miles Saturday.

y t covered.” : 5 place of honor was the dead man's widow, comforted in posal upping the figure by six Jus So Trl oR WAS PY. : ee Nr hour of great sorrow by the conviction that her has. [ents He warned that to cover the subject properly —1ne United States was ex A battalion of the U. S. 24th Division fought its way : 5 2 The UAW walked out Aug. 23 would require a book. pected today to demand tprough a road block below Unsan in northwest Korea. It band died “a hero” doing “God's will.” after their old wage contract ex=| Mr. Sparks, en route to Korea from Europe, [1:04 Nations’ condemna- : ; \ = i covered the wars in Malaya and Judi: Clina. 1 Joi sommmnnnnenmnnnnnnnnins, suffered considerable losses.

Reading the service, which carries.the ancient prom- pired, idling 22,000 UAW mem-|

: r | In this dispatch he steps out of his role as tion of Communist China as ise, “Yet shall he live,” was Dean John W. Suter of the bers in plants at Ft. Wayne, Indi

“reporter and writes his personal feelings. There soon as Gen. Douglas Mac-

A battalion of Marines still

? Back to Pusan? was isolated west of Wonsan

lanapolis and Evansville, Ind.,|

Washington Cathedral. : ‘Springfield and East Springfield, 35% of Sousse many. wi wil Yisagres Hislently Arthur's headquarters ' confirms By FRED SPARKS h lo." Memphis, Tenn. Louisville, w s views. But Mr. Sparks is 2) se ob the intervention of Peking troops ) : on the east coast. BEFORE THE services began, knots of Ole began Ky., and Melrose Park, Iil. server and has had a chance to see at first hand ~~ = SOMEWHERE "IN The Marines attacked toward

what is going on in Europe and Asia. His views o J Suth- a condemnation would Mr. Sparks may add information to the ‘debate now in ‘demand that the Chinese withprogress on American policy. . {draw from battle and retire to

NORTH KOREA, the big Chosin: reservoir after | cracking Communist opposition Nov. 4 (CDN)—If in one of the fiercest battles of

In addition 14,000 other Har-| |vester workers have been laid off | by parts shortages,

gathering at the funeral home and along the route taken by the cortege to the cemetery.

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| : In almost every group was someone who had mown i re Pv FRED SPARKS ‘their own territory behind the = China enters the war z the war. They smashed forward . thie bi entlé policeman y ERM ahah iKorean=-Manchurian border. we'll be back clinging into Su, 16 miles south of the 5 E, gentle poi a f 52d It I Chill You WONSAN, North Korea, Nov. 4 (CDN)—In the past| This demand undoubtedly ts the Pusan beach reservoir and 21 miles north of Z y <. y 3a ¥ i a S - For the city’s police it was a day o i: De : few months I have covered three wars:—British vs, Com- oy bee. Roy top gto and yo a e re Hambhung. rion os ot thes hs rookies knew Leslie Co py os 2 v | munists in Malaya.—French vs. Cémmunists in Indo-China. the American-sponsored plan to ge re sent military mae The Sash ‘Marine onslaught riend. Before the blocks-long cortege left for the twe- At 2 Tonight a ; REN _the Security — America vs. Communists im Korea. — by-pass. Council hy 2 ee > 2 pulverizeda Chinese Com mile drive to the cemetery, policémen massed in front v I have written some 50 dispatches on thi§ racic tric ping (he dernanc before the machine in Korea is Toed block behind two battalioiis : ds 3 not sufficient to with- Zl of the 1st Division’s 7th Regiment

of the funeral home. Mercury Expected to Be and here I want to tell you the personal lessons I have Plan Emergency Action

The Assembly only yesterday stand the pressure of | Just south of Su, and the regiment

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Two near the door tore American flags. As the 1 ! H ; earned: . : : ie | slugged on northward. fe casket was carried out, the flags dipped in salute. 10To 11 Below Normal Milt er plan to Ske Smet: many Chinese divi- 5" Cr len by U. & : Forty motorcycle policemen in pairs formed an es- OW Dagk in Fires oo : thtary * gression. Russia and her four 3 SIONS. er forces In rorheait Eores and 3 3 t blocks lon e's : a tor in The Allied forces fought—or are fighting—the third, not the Cominform partners in the United fCopyrizht. 1930. or Incian. | sta ng of Allied lines Coy cort two Cc : g. on Bt 5 me he at near the register in the! 38 So, 2 ‘Nations voted against the resolu- ois Times) northwest Korea brought the 9 The route led past the President's Blair House home living room. adh aos We must not over-estimate our Korean victory. tion. TORR most optimistic reports since the - "on Pennsylvania Ave. where on a sunny afternoon three oo was. rig t went dOWD -» 1t took a great push by the bulk of our existing land forces to Chinese Red rejection of an As- French Retreat Comuunists hit buck hard, stall- : days ago, Leslie Coffelt fired.the shot that killed one of | put we vounguns arent gong Slee she Worn i: I Yatile gn dient, protes- SEATy SST Ee wo W rll, rn rored Ferents of wp the assassins—but only after he had received wounds je ay a Sither | sional force. Erp (Dontinund on Page 2—Col. 3) In Indo-China to 3 miles. from Which he died four hours later. ' la mighty crisp 26 which will be Poorly supplied Communist| *® Na (the | SAIGON, Indo-China, Nov. 4/, e uncertainty of the situation

| lutionaries have pinned down are sorely trying the French. n : recent days was reflected by 110 or.11 degrees colder than the revo Bont Indo-China.’ ries | (UP)—The French announced the ihe cutting off of the four Ameri- - AT BLAIR HOUSE, White House police oil to {10 on.11 ge |some 20,000 good British troops Indo-China. i) evacoation o a 25-minute, SU Shes ne

rigid attention and saluted as the cortege passed. So. slieck Ha Ae Ji Malaya by employing guerrilla jets re dere ab, even) ‘ loutposts southwest of Hanoi to-] 2000 ile of the thi Cavaley, herever the cort assed a fire | nk of meeting the land forces n trap e Unsan Along the way, whereve coriege p [fall was set this morning at 33. | - Primitive natives—backed by. of the first team—the Red army. | day, indicating that a Communist, ‘sector earlier, and about half of “or police station, uniformed men stood stiffly at salute: Meanwhile, the first snowfall of : drive on the big northern capital "bo "oll 10st. - Among ‘casual watchers on the sidewalks were many in the season swirled on Indianap-| 5 Military Conclusion Usual Pre Election might be developing fromthe, ~~ ‘Hell of-= Fight s - | In a similar action a few miles whose eyes tears welled. - Just three days ago the tem-| The forces blooded in Korea must be kept intact and mobile Peal, - ——t IS southwest of Unsan, a 24th InThe President had echoed the feeling of many when perature set an all- the Novem" as & WATnIng-Ir-being against -rabbit-punching —any-mere-of- oun Charges Are Swapped for TUS. a the intry battalion had "a : “ ber high of 82 chums. 2 y fight,” a division spokesman said, he said Big Leslie was “one of the nicest fellows you ever | Total precipitation :last night, = Training must be stepped up to include anti- guerrilla and anti-| The usual pre-election charges flanks of the old French defense I ey a road block saw. : and this morning was .53 inches. | sniper studies. {and counter charges about one line on the border of Communist on the north bank of the ChongMr. Coffelt’s widow understood his capacity for |The snow melted too fast for its| The French army in Indo-China and the British army in Malaya party or the other planning to China. | chon River five miley south of depth to be recorded in Indian-/must be given material aid. | “steal votes” or keep voters from, All the forts in the northeast Yongbion.

friendship. Not long: before the day he died-in perform. apolis. The ground hadn't had, However, their problem is. We must not give the free the polls at Tuesday's balloting have been lost. Defenses to the, It was along He _Chongchon ance of his duty. he told her nobody is “really bad.” If a time to cool off since the record largely one of manpower and world the impression that we can were hurled back and forth today. northwest were smashed when an; J heat of this week according to the under no condition should they be be all things to all men. If we, Ppayl §. Dunn, president of the isolated French garrison pulled (Continued on » Page 2—Col. §)

Person eins something wrong, he doesn’t really weather bureau. However, - .2 promised American troops. There disperse our own small land Republican - controlled Marion out of the major fortress of Lao‘mean it. : : inches. of snow was recorded at are vast reservoirs of able-bodied forces onto a. score of fronts We County Election Board, accused.kay last Wednesday. So it was no wonder that everybody who ever knew Portland fone or ron 3 jn ane and will, of course, be playing Stalin's the Democratic-controlled County A French headquarters spokes- Times Straw Vote “ ; The previous low this fall was throughqut the British Empire. game. Commissioners of attempting to man said today the positions, him liked Leslie Coffelt. For his widow the promise voiced 37 on Sept. 24 at the Indianapolis sas |keep voters from the polls. by southwest of Hanoi were aband- Finals Tomorrow by Dean Suter held deep comfort. bureau and 34 at the Weir Cook Political . ¢ selecting polling places too small oned under a “strong enemy | 3 Airport, Oct. for more than one voting ma- threat.” ® The hue and cry is wan--2 BUT SHE already had found CORTore: even in her The temperature took a plunge ori We Bist accept the fact that our political situation in the chine. I 5 Ig On Tussle) thelast 3 ‘ : into the 30's before dark last Orient is grim. {I He referred to Tour recincts ‘ v wor _recorded— } time of greatest grief: She-had been “proud of him” might—At 4am. today it was 33. In Malaya and Indochina our French and British allies have in the 16th Ward Tor 7 sald Draft Delinquent | by the voter. : 1 life and was proud of him in death. In Ft. Wayne the temperature the hatred of an overwhelming percentage of the native population. Commissioners provided space ls Engaged in Korea | ® Who will win in Marion She even could say that if someone had to die she moved down to the freezing point Nok Fosamt they Tove FowmunisHE fiove=-but —becaiiee TY Jove jiaige enough for only one Ma-| .yARLESTON, W. Va. Nov. County? 3 last, night. colonialism less. |chine, . y " . 2 was glad not her husband but the President was spared. The snow is expected to change The white man can stay in the of President Syngman Rhee. | “The heavy = registration “int (UP) — Frank W, Helems Jr.,| For an indication ot yols 5 Of her-husband, she said, “he ‘was a fine Christian to rain this afternoon but tem- Orient only by force. The brilliant is common Ba e that these precincts require more than er was listed as “delinquent to- of The Times annus} E , eratures willbe only. slightly! Russians have kept their faces 8 one machine,” he said. al calactiv a - man p & there -are--weak elements in his ; day by a local selective service Straw Vote. Final tabulae gs : Coe : : 2 higher. ~ After a freeze tonight, out of .the picture in Malaya, Seer ert Can't See Complaint Say. 2 TTT TT tions will appear In TH ; President and Mrs. Truman did not join the slow- the weather is to become warmer. *indochina and Korea. They: oss a isa caehL te et Democratic Chairman Paul Mec t's. otter. geld lie bat Sunday Times. % 3 : 3 : 3 ~The clouds are to remain. Sthrough native stooges school Vers Ww Duff -said—he-didn’t—see what hu je. you mother. sai : : moving cortege at Blair House. The Secret Service escort- | Near - freezing temperatures at Moscow's university of revolu-, yeas in. Seoul assure me a slice Republicans. are = _eomplaining been in the Army since 1948 and] —@® The Straw Vote contacts = : 4 ed the Trumans and members of the White House staff nipped violets which had started tionary knowledge. “American aid went on the about since the precincts are D&S been wounded twice in Korea{ ascross-section of local 1 T 10 ‘the cemetery ina different, “faster-moving. pro on. blooming over the state. Grass. The illiterate Malayan or Indo-. block in the black market. heay ily Demoératic, ~~ while. serving. wih the. 24th Dvis| _..voters. lg The day had d .d dark and glo d Tow Lstill- green and.growing on Indi- chinese or Korean -(who doesn’t] Some of our bureaucrats are “If any voters are lost out there Biofes = Fer Polled this year are fo & ; le day na awne ark an g oomy an €W |anapolis lawns ‘curled when the listen to a radio or read a news- again giving President Rhee the they Will be mostly Democrats, i es | tmportant-races-——— U.-8s Pp! 4 LOC AL TEMPERATIL RES Senator, -11th District

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hours before the funeral a downpour left the giant oaks | snow struck. That will make the paper) sees British and French impression that we will pay all he said ; : | man of the house happy. : and American soldiers . _on-the- the bills, I stéod in the city hall] WW alter’ Boetcher, Democratic a.m... 33 10 a.m... 3 and ancient elms of the cemetery dripping. + - spot.’ He does not see any ~Rus- at" Seoul and heard an American minority member ‘of the Election 7 a.m... 33 11 a me. .-36 But as the funeral procession moved t tough the Right on the Button slans, . oF Vell the mayor: crit FORE HRA Er eit AHS on Bitlera 38.12 (NOOR) 36. city to the cemetery the sun came out and: ast a gentle “Tt is hard to convince him that. “How much do you think it will nothing to worry about in these 8 nmi 338 {peo 38

autumn TERT on the trees and Brasky Slopes Jimmie Angelopslous, [what he-does not-see is. there— cost to rebuild this city—Ameri-

Congress, Prosecutor and Sheriff; Look: for final. . . een TESUILE QL. VOtOL A a— Tt ‘tomorrow, in i

v tha t the Russians are really be- can aid of course: ~ (Continued on "Fi age 2—=Col. 8) Humidity at 1: 130 Ams 85% = _ THE SUNDAY TIMES

Times high school foot- ‘hind all these little wars. No mention was made of what

ball rt picked eight | = : Truman, Heavily Guarded, ©eoh hie Wik i ESTE LI de me tr T/Sqt. Bugai Passes Word on Recruiting one more week-en ° go he is batting a rug. | Political Conclusion = | | Leaves for St. Louis Speech ged .840, having scored The Orient, for the moment, must be regarded as a military ¥ : : : : ;

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theater, not a political theater. President to Make One Political Talk : In the past three weeks Our allles, like Mr. Rhee and Chiang Kai-shek, are in gone! Of Congressional Election Drive Tonight he has called the turn |respects a liability—but we are stuck with them for the moment. WASHINGTON, Nov. 4 (UP)—President Truman, under heavy on 31 out of 33 prep (ou Thole Ielstve silles, Like Botan and France, suffer colonialism, - guard, left by plane today for St. Louis where he will make his football games. tic and self. 10 Work ne allies we Should do 50 in a realisonly political spéech of the congressional election campaign tonight. Follow Jimmie and you'll P Mr. Truman took off in the President plane Independence a ; b : d for ih y i E . Aid few hours after he and Mrs. Truman attended the funeral of Pvt. e headed for the goa conomic Ai Leslie Coffelt, the: White House policeman who died while protecting line. 1 believe that the billions poured into the Orient in ECA-like the President from two Puerto His report on last night's” projects have failed to achieve anything that will benefit the United Rican assassins Wednesday. \plane when it is on the ground | prep game is on Page 6. | States. China is but one example. The Secret Service took ex- was doubled from four to eight. Economic ‘ald fails because of corrupt local governments and

traordinary precautions to guard | Mr. Truman was scheduled to Times Index | our own dreamy-eyed bureaucrats who believe (or say they believe) Mr. Truman at the Coffelt serv- arrive at Scott Air Force Base "=. oo 3 (that we an Svernight change the Oriental-economic-way-of-life.

lces at Arlington National Cem- in Illinois at 4:15 (Indianapolis Births, Deaths, Events,

Time). Plans for the President to nit. Movement 7 | etery and on his yt to Mw, bari torr of the gi Movements tose. 2 ‘Economic Aid Conclusion Guard Rings (rave Area page were canceled. Instead, Mr. prigge .......... Fcieeiv 3) Stop all aid except direct relief. Use the funds for the more Dozens of Secret Service agents Truman will drive across the comics ..... Vesssissssss 16 [vital purpose of helping ourselves and our reliable allies maintain |

were stationed throughout the Mississippi River to a Loma fe: CFOSSWOTA. +ssseeasssasss. 8 | sufficfent military forces to assure ourselves—and in turn the native | irtually surround- immediately in a heavily guarde Church News tiaereesas z 5 peoples—their freedom. : cemetery and v ny motorcade. Editorials ‘iessssssissvesad0 | Beware of our American bureaucrats who utge us to spend ed the grave area. : Others on Flight | FOrUM «sssvsis esesssseess10 billions in the Orient when they admit—in private conversations— About two hours after re- Hoosier Profile ...........11 [that such expenditures are futile.) . Truman was accompanied Erskfhe Johnson ..ivieess 9 If America is maneuvered into just as well be alive today, for

to ‘his Blair House resi- | SyTning ; te. funeral the|™ toe flight to. St. Louis by Sec-| Mrs. Manners ........s... 7 |an eternal big spending program, the battle they fought will be lost) Jonse vor National Ale (retary of Tyeagury John ». So Movies ....c.oevesesanesanll (we must be vigilant lest it makeiat home. sident le or Natio ~ der, Democratic Nationa air-' Obituaries ...... tsenvans inevitable continued big govern-| As Europe’ s present jitters and port under heavy escort for the! man William M. Boyle Jr. Dem-| ‘Radio and Television ..... 8 [ment and eventually a one-busi-| ‘South Korea's . initial collapse ort Ey d3seph x Bugsl enter) ex ai bo S/o Arthur +E bom, Fi. We 4 flight to St. Louis. |ocratic Publicity Director Charles! Society .vvissesssversense 3 (ness state, should have taught us: ist, Indianapohs / g ohn Paul Jones, Evansville, an

The nufnbér of men usually as- Van -DeVander and members af: Le JPOPEB. reas ss vsssssrarasns 8 2 When and if that day comes,| Economic aid. without military | he. put his station 200 per cent over its recruiting quota last month, Sq Bugai, signed to guar the presidential the White House staff, . Women's nr orsiierarier 3 Lbs boys w who died in Koren might eppity is mes ingles the Richmond iy area.