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61st YEAR—NUMBER 256

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1950

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By H. D. QUIGG, United Press Staff Correspondent TOKYO, Nov. 23-—Soldiers in battle must develop into killers, hating and ruthless, if they are to win. They must put aside the qualities which make a

human being good.

They must have hard minds and cold wills. To be otherwise in battle is to lose.

But there comes a time,

no matter where he is fight-

ing, when the American soldier's toughness melts away.

That is when he meets a child.

When a man sums up his experiences in Korea, he finds the most warming of them all are the ways of the GI with Korean kids caught in the awfulness of war. He remembers countless instances of GIs sheltering homeless kids, of military units “adopting” black-haired tots whose parents were missing in the war. He remembers the cold Korean rain and the American soldiers carrying in their arms the tiny, huddled forms wrapped in GI raincoats or ponchos. He remembers the fires by the side of the road, each

fire with two or three GIs “thawing out,”

one or two wet

and shivering Korean children.

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TO ME THE ‘WHOLE PLIGHT of children in war is portrayed in one little Korean girl I remember as she stood one night in front of a theater. It was dark. There were long lines of soldiers wait-

ing outside the theater to see Bob Hope in person..

The

soldiers wore coats and sweaters, but the first chill of winter had arrived and they stomped their feet to keep

warm.

To the Table, With Restraint—

Food, Warmth, Prayer—

The Face of Thanksgiving

‘These Things Started

Long Ago When

Man and Conscience Held Communion By HAROLD H. HARTLEY

THE FIELDS are bread crust brown, with a cold that blows “Tight INToURZR. The streets ‘are deserted.

And knees have bent, and heads have bowed as souls breathe

humble thanksgiving.

The pussy willow sky holds back the sun and hides so thinly

the eternity from which all blessings come.

From kitchens come the 1 warm, well-seasoned smells of cooking feasts . . . the golden bird stitched tight in inch-deep | fragrant juices with 'giblets strewn about, and pumpkin pies | cooling on the sill, dusted with | nutmeg, brown, slick, thick, creamy and waiting. = n Ld :

FRIENDS AND relatives are | dropping in, the small fry badly buttoned and sniffing from the cold, trailing the hearty | “Happy Thanksgiving” of hungry parents already whiffing scents seeping from the kitchen. They sit. Some ask awkward questions. Some are silent, thumbing through the picture pages of childhood memories of

..grandma’s back -on the farh.

Then the dinner with sly glances from the. guests at the loading table. And finally ‘the mother, a little worn and warm from a morning in the kitchen, says, “It's ready.’ 88 "

WITH RESTRAINT,

they

[the blessing. He begins, “Dear l.ord, we thank Thee for. this | food. Cr "The youngsters zip into chairs, , They all want drumsticks, but there are only two. And parents tell them how good the | other parts are. And they say, “All right, but nof the neck.” "Quite - often mother doesn't sit down, explains she’s been tasting things all isn't hungry.” and serves, refills the gravy bowl, the potato dish. The smack of f lips and ‘the click ¢ of

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morning, | So she stands |

forks on china, that's her

symphony of satisfaction.

” ” o THEN COMES something she held back as a surprise, thg persimmon pilidding. They groan, wonder where they'll “put it”"—but they take it on. With buttons and belts loosened, they move away from the table in a sleepy shuffle, First one to the couch gets it, out. for a snooze. Others slide sleepy-eyed down deep in easy chairs. But the children hit the open air, head for the yard or barn, go tracking rabbits in the snow. But they're back for the apples and cider at the first tint of dusk. = n = IN THE German settlements of southern Indiana, set the

+ red-checkered table with vine-

gar-tart hasenpfeffer, rabbit cooked with onion, salt, peppercorns added. So home and to bed, to dream and roll. That is the surface of Thanksgiving. Beneath is our thanks

Will. S588. et dhe ainte And thoughts of thanks are’ everywhere man and censclence hold communion—in the heart of the war mother, the DP, the ®6¥ in uniform still alive and far, from home, and the human. flotsam which floats into the breadlines today to share the bounty of the land.

= ” n IT ALL started long ago. you - know, when William Bradford, governor of Plymouth decided: “To hold in the month of November Thanksgiving unto the Lord.” ”

Top Honors, Prizes Await Times' Miss Teen-Ager

Outstanding honors and prizes await the most popular teen- send temperatures skidding to the age girl students in Indianapolis city and parochial high schools 19 degree mark early tomorrow

and Marion County high schools.

“Hundreds of dollars- worth of Philco radio and television sets are going to be given to winnefs ir in The Times search for “Miss ¢o]d air mass will be accompanied

Teen Ager of 1950”. The girls, too, are going to| have the special honor of pre-| senting three Philco television

sets to the soldiers at Camp At-|

terbury as a special Christmas holiday gift. The Times search is sponsored by the Radio Equipment Co., 1010 Central Ave. and the Philco dealers of Marion County. “Miss Teen Ager of 1950” will be the high school girl who receives the most votes on ballots published in The Times. She will receive @ Philco television set! with a 16-inch screen, :

f th age girl. Just glip the GMicial . cresreanioy 300 ER 0 Seo on fi BA Marion County ob the|as many coupons a8 you wish, and| . preg Sparks .vc.evseeses 4° most votes will receive a Philco|drop them is the ballot boxes at Ear| Wilson v...es..o.-. 27

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| school will make up a gala en-

tourage to Camp Atterbury to [Present the television sets to the amp. The presentations result from an appeal of the Red Cross for television ‘sets for the camp. Plans are being made to’ place ‘Miss Teen Ager's” name on an engraved plate to be attached to the television sets at the camp as a It doesn’t cost anything to vote | for your favorite high school teen-

(Clothe-a-Child

_ youngsters who now can look for-

permanent record of her honor.

And they sang, partly because cold weather induces soldiers to sing to drive away the shivers and partly because this was a gala night—the thought of Bob Hope

reminded them of home.

There was much excitement. " As one truck stopped, its

rived with loads of troops. lights disclosed the little girl

ing at the singing, shuffling crowd. She was about 4 and

obviously homeless.

SHE WAS BAREFOOT

were dirty. She was pretty. with dirt, her hair tattered, and torn low at the neck.

Fund Underway

Times Program Lasts Until Christmas Eve

Today marks the start of the

21st annual Times Clothe-A- Child Times’ Li'l Abner comic strip, was spending his “warm CloTRIng entertaining ~war-veterans~in-this ares:

fund to prov ide

for Indianapolis’ needy children,

It is truly a day of Thanksgiv-'or patients at Billings Veterans Hospital, Ft. Harrison. an hour Mr. Capp drew his “Dogpatch”

ing for these . underprivileged

ward to new outfits provided by S an always-generous- Indianapolis. Clothe-A-Child headquarters will open next Monday at 206 W. Maryland 'St., next door to The Times. Until Christmas eve, the huge task of outfitting the city’s neediest youngsters will continue as long as the public provides the funds. . - Last year Clothe-A-Child outfitted a record-breaking number of 2179 children, representing an

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graphed drawings to the patients

1:30..p. -m. to Cold Spring Road

and from 7:30 to 9 p. m., of appearances at service clubs at Camp Atterbury to add the mings” to the festivities of troops Capp luncheon. in the Washington

She stood. in the headlig street, taking everything in.

and not realize her own plight

g Our Humble Thanks,

body said anything for

his pocket.

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way of a 4-year-old, began

on carefully folding the cloth.

That These Who Defend You

She was just young enough to gaze

The soldiers watched he the crowd near enough to see her stopped:

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LITTLE GIRL pulled cloth from a pocket of her dress and elaborately

ht glare in the: cold

Her

1 asphalt was very sober. wonderment

face in A r. “The singing of In my truck,

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filled with persons wearing heavy coats and gloves, noa while, : “I wish she had some shoes A major stepped out of line. girl, bent over, and handed her a package of mints from The presentation was made in silence and it was done with infinite tenderness.

Then an officer said: and stockings.” :

‘He walked to the little

2 4 =» a large square of dirty , in the folding it about the mints.

The package dropped out, but’ she didn’t see it and went

A dozen Gls started out of line, but she saw the mints

Jeeps and trucks ar-.

standing in the street, star-

soldiers. * a wu: to the line. and barelegged. Her legs But her face was smeared

her thin little dress ragged

away,

are lost in all the wars that

Li'l Abner's Creator Spends Allies Closing In

Day Entertaining Veterans

Busy Thanksgiving Schedule of Al Capp Includes Sadie Hawkins Party for City By ART WRIGHT . Making his first visit to Indianapolis, AL Capp, creator of The Thanksgiving g Day

Last night, shortly after his arrival, Mr. Capp won the applause

For nearly characters with lightning

peed. He .presented the auto- - 37 ! . side party crowd and will present His Thanksgiving Day schedule autographed drawings to winners oday was to include a at of Sadie Hawkins contests. Prizes

also will be given to youngsters

Photo, Page

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y 3 SH best de picting in costume the Li'l ¥ Bi8rans Hospital; 4:30 p. m., the Abner comic strip characters. military hospital at Camp Atter- At 10 a. In, tomorrow Mr.. Capp bury where his. audience was to’ : :

will entertain Times’ carriers at » Loew's Theater. At noon he will a round entertain members of the Indianapolis Real Estate Board and their child guests at a special Al

nclude Korean Wat casualties

“trim-

expenditure of $63,795.61. ‘Still who could not get home - for Hotel there were needy children who Thanksgiving. i were . disappointed Christmas A city-wide Sadie Hawkins é ? 3 morning - because: there wasn't party at Brookside Community Drop Dead Ir

enough nioney to take care of all ¢ enter will. highlight Mr.

of them. How many will receive Clothe-A-Child aid this on how wide the public pulls its purse strings. Advance requests indicate that ‘the need will be even greater this Christmas. Contributions are needed now. Checks or money orders—for any amount—may be niade to Times Clothe- A-Child and sent to THe 3 ¥ SARE Marpiand Bl

in TOW wirilchrerroniiledye

gin receiving their clothing. depends upon how tuickly the funds are received from the public. Appointments for individuals or groups ‘to take children to the stores and spend their own money to buy clothing will be made starting Monday.

Cold Wave Coming

SEI PrOb

In With Turkey

LOCAL TEMPERATURES

6 a. m... 35 8 a. m.. 33 [#1 a m.. 34 A cold wave, originating in

|Canada and driving down from | the northwest, will hit Indianapolis sometime this afternoon and

morning. The Weather Bureau said the

- by strong winds which will make

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Times Index

Amusements ........... . 38 Births, Deaths, Events.. 52 ° Henry Butler ......«vs.. 38 COMICS «hv vers rivisnses Bl SOTOBSWOPA viii inne rsvess 20 Faitorials ..eosvievsieis 28 FOTUIN croansesisnnsnans 28 Harold H. Hartley ...... 26 Mrs. Manners ........... 36 Frederick C. Othman.... 28 |

i Radio and Television ....

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Abner chardcters for the Brook-

Capp’s LOS ANGELES, Nov. 23

schedule at 2 p. m. tomorrow. The (UP) — Electrician Samuel special party, sponsored ‘by the Saviz, 49, won a divorce on: . ity Park and Recreation Depart- grounds his wife made his ment, will be open to youngsters favorite potato pancakes and adults free of charge. with avallpaper paste, told Mr. Capp will draw his Li'l him to “drop dead” and

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inthe street before they could get there. up herself and put them safely in the cloth. The major came out again, and this time he had sev-eral-packages-of mints-and-of chewing gum, given-him by She took them gravely

She picked them

, and the major returned

And then the truck which had lighted the scene drove and she was lost in the dark. she was lost finally and forever,

And we knew that just as so many children men make. |

On Red Bastion

Push Within 10 Miles ‘Of Chongijin Base

By RUTHERFORD POATS

United Press Staff Correspondent 7 rean troops rolled up the northeast coast of Korea today to within 10 miles of Chongijin, last major city south of the Soviet frontier. g But elsewhere along the Korean front stretching 250 miles to the northwest coast, little more than patrol activity was reported this Thanksgiving-Day.-The Allied Air Forces were out’ in force again, -however, hammering Communist communications and troops. Eleven B-29 Superfortresses alone dropped 110 tons of 500-pound bombs on railway lines between the Manchurian border and the front, mostly in Northwest Korea. ; On the northeast front, the South Korean Capitol Division sprinted another five miles up the coastal highway to So, 10 miles south of Chongjin and 65 miles below the Soviet Siberian frontier. The South Koreans were. meeting only light resistance from retreating enemy. rear guards: in their drive on Chongjin, once

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GOD BLESS Yo’ ALL!

“OUR BEST THANKSGIVING WISHES FO’ INDIANAPOLIS!

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AN’ FO' OUR FRIENDS EVERYWHAR !!

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2000 Aboard Trains, ? Homeward Bound for Thanksaiving Holiday

Arms, Legs Protrude From Shattered Coaches;

Secretary of Roy W. Howard Escapes Injury NEW YORK, Nov. 23 (UP)—City and railroad offi-

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cials ordered a full investigation today of the Thanksgiving Eve wreck of two Long Island electric commuter trains in which 78 persons were killed and nearly 300 injured. The worst rail wreck —in- New York state history oc — curred at the height of the evening rush hour last night

when an east bound Long, r-"two trains early today, nine Island express “going like the hours after the accident took devil” telescoped into the|Place at 5:26 p. m. (Indianapolis rear end of a stalled local pas-}Hime). senger train. Rescue workers toiled throughBoth were jammed with some Out the night under searchlights 2000 homeward headed passen-/and in near freezing temperatures gers—many standing in theto remove the dead and injured aisles. J and clear the tracks. Ben Foster, secretary of Roy _ Doctors at the scene said “war W. Howard. president of The In- couldn't be worse” as they crawled dianapolis Times, was a passen- among the twisted metal of the ger on the express. He escaped railroad cars to administer more uninjured. phine and plasma to the injured— (Mr. Foster is author of “Fos-|/S0me of whom were pinned jn the Ya ’’ wi ; k for as long as seven hours, ter's Follies” which appear on the wree . editorial page of The Times.) Nearly all the 0 gH Mr. Foster said he saw a priest, trai a OR A _ of the his head thrust into the wreck- boi a train. were Np -l age through a broken window, ples hundred and 1d pere giving last rites en masse to the treated at h ital dying. |SORS were Teale oe : Sspitalsincensed at the wreck which he y i h a t termed “a crime,” called an ena) aid at the Scene ahq sel mediate hearing to determine if. Te. crash occurred six miles criminal negligence caused the ac-|, : Arr at Cle the second major santa “oat re mar aon dn 8 this year on the Long Island rail-| dens, Queens. The last of 78 bodies was re- A local Passenger train be

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‘Scene of Utter Horror

Dead Stare at Workmen

Fighting to Save the Living Rescuers Try Frantically to Trace Faint Cries of Help From Mass of Wreckage

By B: JOHN MORKA, United Press Staff Correspondent

ORF OR irre Sont iT fery AL SCENE. QF. LONG. ISLAND. TRAIN WRECK; -Nov:~28—A-

head poked out of the window staring wide-eyed with blood streams ing down the face. It was one of the dead. 2 That horror-stricken mask stared at still-clawing workmen for four hours. They ripped away the wreckage of two Long Island

railroad trains. to pull out the, dead and more Iimportant—to| She would move her hand trace the faint cries of “help” |toward her head and then she which still .sounded for many would slap it on the steel overe

hours after the crash. It was-a-seene of utter-horror.| The lead car of one train had blazed away under a bath of telescoped into the rear car of hastily erected spotlights quietly

head, fighting obvious pain.

the other. It was what rail-| and businesslike. Suddenly one road men call “a perfect tele- would say, ‘coming.” scope.” : | The crowd of rescue workers

were tense. A stretcher would be rushed to the trainside. “Here it is,” was the next shout. Sturdy arms would reach inte the twisted steel and pull out the body. A doctor would bend over land answer the big question— {dead or alive? ; They carried out the lower half of a man, his shoes and pants gone but ‘his socks strangely om his feet, and untorn. They carried out, five houps after the wreck, a woman whe

Doctors hung precariously from ladders, from the windows| IY of the train ‘and they perched; upon bent girders holding plasma! bottles whose little red tubes fed within the mass of steel where the injured lay pinned. Pinned almost between the two cars was one woman, alive and visible from the trackside. Doctors reached in and swathed her in bandages and stuffed. in a blanket ‘to protect her from the chill wind, There was not a word sn from her, but she was conscious. {Continued on Page 6—Col. . oO)

U. s. sng Chinese Red ‘Deal’

FARNEST HOBRERECHT, United Press Staff C ndent - TOKYO, Nov. 23—An American general is’ negotiating with ( “hinese Conimunists in noFthwest Korea who sent out word they do not want fo fight the United States, a reliable source said today. The informant said the general contacted the Chinese Reds ‘with the approval of Gen. Douglas MacArthur. But there was ne immediate ‘indication of the scope of he negotiations. Speculation ranged from a pos- - sible deal for the release of ations ‘involving Gen. MacAre American prisoners held by the thur's headuarters in Tokyo. “Chinese to perhaps a mass sur He said there might have been render or withdrawal of at least Negotiations on some other level outside Japan, but did not. elaborate. Asked why United Nations forces on the northwest front did not move forward into territory The Chinese _already have re: they obviously could take, he said leased more than 30 wounded there was a reason for the inUnited Nations prisoners. They| activity, but he could not dise escorted the group, including 27] close it. Americans, to within 2000 yards! Col." Echols said he did not of the American lines north of know whether headquarters Yongbyon on the northwest would make known its interprefront yesterday and turned them tation of the Chinese release of loose with the verbal message: | Allied prisoners. “The Chinese do not want to| Many of the Chinese sent to fight the Americans.” | Korea were known to be former They algo. asked —that the Nationalist soldiers who went United Nations halt their air at- over to ‘the Communists. Such tacks. |units might be prone to surrene A reliable source informed the der to the Allies. United Press that an American] general officer soon afterward contacted the Chinese and began, negotiating with them. ‘Some quarters believed that] efforts were being made to work)

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drawal of .the Chinese who marched into Korea a month ago to bolster the beaten Korean Reds. However, Col. M. P. Echols, Gen. MacArthur's spokesman, is-/f sued a statement that such s \ ulation had no basis in act. Fh

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