Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 December 1950 — Page 2
.~ screamed in pain.
tried to surrender,
covered hills.
Chinese bayoneted them,
Fanner Hou To Celebrate Its 52d Year
Wallace O. Lee To Be Made Life Member of Board
3:30 p.m. to 10 p.m. Norman E. Isaacs,
rector, will address meeting at 6:30 p.m.
upon Wallace O. Lee, served on the Flanner Board for more than 25 years, |
life member of the board. Report Real Advances
8. A. Furniss.
of the civic center, Flanner House! officials report “real advances in! three basic necessities for sound community development —health food and housing.” The Herman G. Morgan Health™ Center, operated with the aid of the City Board of Health, emphasized disease prevention.
dren is in its beginning stages. Food Gets Attention Food has
Nursery and the Cannery. . The cannery, occupying a new $70,000 building. taught food pres-| ervation. In addition, 25 disabled! war vetérans received training in| vegetable gardening on a 30-acre|
Flanner House
nursery. | Another self - help affiliate, | Flanner House Homes, Inc. began its work this year, Twenty-one veterans are Delp.) ing each other to build their own| homes. They do part of their! work in the new shop bullding.! The homes are financed by a revolving fund, which later will: be used to build more houses.
_ Thousands Invade
Mile-Square Area By CARL HENN You couldn't see Indianapolis, fos the people yesterday. At least, downtown.
vaded the mile square in one unending flow of humanity. | Sidewalks on Washington St. and in every direction from Mon-| ument Circle almost sagged under the weight of shoppers, busi-| nessmen, oglers, downtown em-| ployees and odd stragglers fight- | Ing their respective ways to sep-| arate destinations. Clerks Rushed Motorists could have. knocked off dozens of pedestrians at every intersection, as frantic traffic po-| licemen well knew. Rushed shop clerks especially the young, inexperienced ones— | occasionally stood dazed, gazing with unbelieving eyes at the! packed masses besieging every counter, After doors swung shut, department store officials added up the totals. This is what they found: ! Most reported business was bet-| ter than the first Saturday of ‘December a year ago. All reported Jarge crowds. And Christmas! ‘shoppers had thronged all de-| partments. One official said: “People were buying everything.” Extra help will be hired next week:
Rubber Cut Won't) Affect Plant Here |
"The 30 per cent cut in elvittan | eoneamption of natural rubber will have little effect at the
Fifty-two. years of service will be celebrated Tuesday by Flanner House, with an open house from A power failure plunged Norfolk, account, started by neighborhood
{Portsmouth and Virginia Beach |
into total darkness for nearly an 'uelson said Bob West and his and former Flanner House ¢i- hour tonight, frightening many musicians will contribute their a dinner! {Christmas shoppers in the erowd- services for the benefit. led down*town areas.
managing editor of the St. Louis Star-Times|
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Mr. Lee will be made an honorary |
Reviewing the past year's work |
plot, which produced food for the!
Thousands upon thousands in-|
Other men of the U. S. 7th Infantry Division said the Chinese threw some wounded soldiers onto highway and ran over them with halftracks, bayoneted others in the face and machine gunned their flag of truce when they -
The 7th Divisiop men made a bloody retreat downthe east side of Chosin Reservoir in northeast Korea to Hagaru at the southern tip. From there, U. S."Marines and Air Force pilots in probably the greatest mercy flight in history few 1000 casualties to rear area - Hospitals,
ONE oF the three survivors with whom 1 talked was Pfc. Benjamin Butler, 19; of ‘Browns, Ill, of the 33d Regiment. He said his group of trucks was attacked about midnight after it ran into a roadblock in the snow
“When some of our guys tried to surrender the : 8 the faces,” he said.
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Power Failure Scares Norfolk
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Special honors will be conferred | who has House
{the trouble, not immediately iden- attended the presentation. i tified, {power plant. Lights went out at have the edge of his damaged {5:20 p.m., but were beginning to'leg “shaped” so that eventually he +Lcome on in some sections of Nor- will be able to wear an artificial Jolk an hour later.
W. Dalby said he had been touch with the police and fire week.
A clinic for handicapped chil raports of anything that sounded
{heard planes flying over the city been increased to $119.34 by conjust as the lights went out and [tributions received from places as {some began telephoning hystert. | 188 away as Nashville and South eal reports of machine gun fire | Other honorary life memsbers| jexplosions and planes to iocal ra-| d are Frank B. Flanner and Dr. dio stations and newspapers.
waved a flag trying to surrender and the Chinese opened up on them with submachine guns.
. “After my ammunition was gone I played dead in a truck. If a man was shot in the leg they would shoot him again and again and kill him. They took most of the men’s: clothes and guns, . . .
“They threw about 10 or more into a truck, some naked, some still alive, threw blankets and gasoline over them and set them afire. This bunch tobk off and then we dragged some of them out of the fire."
a Chinese climbed in and stomped on his face—which ' showed the bruises,
The other survivors with whom I talked were Pfc. Doyle Logan, 19, of Smithers, W. Va., and Pfc. Jackie Brooks, 18, of Richmond, Va., both of the 31st regiment, The soldiers interviewed separately, said the Chinese
thy also bayoneted their own wounded. They said the Chinese attacking in darkness early
“Others truckloads of wounded, Tiddied the trucks with bullets
Gary Lee Schoonover Gets Electric Train;
Legion Post to Sponsor Benefit Dance By ANDY OLOFSON People cam be pretty swell to a 7-vear-old boy. This one lost | his leg playing cowboy and never saw his GI daddy, who was killed in Germany in World War II. Gary Lee Schoonover, 2009 8. Meridian St. grinned happily from his Methodist Hospital bed: yesterday afternoon when his grandfather, Howard Cole, told him of the newest show of sym- ———— - pathy for the unlucky lad. Garfield Post 88 of the Amerjican Legion is sponsoring a benefit dance at the post quarters, 1446°5 Olive St. on Dec. 20. All proceeds will go to Gary's savings
NORFOLK, Va., Dec. 2 (UP)
contributions after the accident. Post Commandem Otto J. Sam- # »
Savings Increased And Gary's grandfather told
Shoppers jammed in the streets pup that the savings account had
"The account was started Tuesay morning when $99.95 collected at a neighborhood grocery store The Virginia Power Co., said ‘was given to him. Mayor Bayt Gary is back in the hospital to
was in its Reeves Ave.
{imb. The surgery was performed Civil Defense Director Calvin! 'FHday and the Jad is expected to in remain in the hospital about a
departments and had heard no Anticipating Trip to Bank
e gunfire or planes. Navy
Hie Sunn said, “however, ies electric train given to him by | Alleys.
received attention planes operate in the area almost ‘the Darko Cleaners Mixed Bowil- | from both the Flanner House Day | continuously.
{ing League.
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linese Stage Indian Dance.
oy CHARLES MOORE, United Press Staft Correspondent . NORTHEAST FRONT, KOREA, Dec. 2—Survivors of ‘&"'Communist ambush said today that fanatical Chinese burned wounded American prisoners alive and danced ~ around the flames “like wild Indians” while the GI's
BUTLER said while he was playing dead in a truck ;
brutality was not reserved for the Americans ‘but that
today surrounded their convoy, which included several
- Gary Schoonover «oa train bing: smiles,
| Marge Crook took up the collec- with his grandfather to open But the gift that brings the tion from the members who bowl account. . biggest gleam In Gary's eye is | Sunday nights at the Pritchard Gary's leg was amputated Oct. | Wolt of Logansport.
F.LADY SUZANNE,
from Thompson anib-mashinaguii, threw in grenades and
Hayanstisd many wounded.
“Then the Chinese poured gasoline over the trucks and
+ ‘oud RE yelling ite » bunch of wid Indias. T sould % see their faces in the light from the flames and they were
all grinning and Jsughing.
set thi aire while living men wore Stoard in heirs Bob:
condition. Others they threw into the road and ran over them with ie heavy halftracks. y A
PFC. BROOKS said he was riding as guard on a “truck loaded with litter patients. “We had fought through three roadblocks,” he said.
“Some trucks made it and night the trucks ahead of us
road. The Chinks started down out of the hills blowing
trumpets and whistles.
“They came right alongside the trucks and we could see them pretty well in the moonlight. “A few were able to get out of the. Grucks; but there were still a lot of them on the trucks.” “I could hear the men on the trucks screaming ‘help
me.” I couldnt do anything. then and there were Chinese truck.
“They would pour gas on a truck and set it afire and
‘Generous Hearts Open To Boy Who Lost Lec Leg
men and ran over several of them with halftracks. “I stayed in the truck until they pitched in a grenade and started to pour gas on it. Just as they set it afire I made a run for it. There were a lot of slugs falling all around me but I had a lot of luck and got away. = “T walked across the ice (of Chosin Reservoir) for about a mile and then made it to Hagaru. “When they first scare you is when they first blow “that bugle. It sounds like music. Then they blow a whistle. That's when it’s time to duck.” A high ranking intelligence officer who talked to the survivors called it “a story the American people ought to know.” : The haggard, dirty and often bloodstained American - troops had battled their way 20 miles from the village of Sinhung-ni to Hagaru through Communist roadblocks and past enemy units who swept them with fire from the ~ snow-covered hills, a 10th Corps spokesman said.
i 1 Victim Gen. Solin: Heussiting Girl's Body Battered Allies In Backyard Grave
Of Accidental Shot Battered Allies Police Search for
Friend Was Showing cen 7 Testor’ Collins, ar Members of Family
| other’ Chief of Staff, was on his way to Him Br s Gun Tokyo today to see what help can| A 12-year-old boy is dead today be given the battered United Na-| MUSKEGON, Mich; Dee. 2 (UP) because bullets replaced snowballs tions forces of Gen. Douglas Mac-— Two men dug a 12-foot deep:
some didn’t. Just after midwere shot up and blocked the
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I was out of ammunition by between me and the nearest
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i {home at 344 8. Edeghill Rd., where hammer blows against the United
® Inati; his mother, Mrs. Ethel Sea- of the war.
in a game between friends. | Arthur. 'hole in the backyard of a relative
{ Donald Seaton, son of Mr. ang Accompanied by a small group ysq,ay and found the body of thet’
Mrs. Fred Seaton, 524 S. Vine St., ol Anny, XN a Ale parce four - year-old niece who was yesterday cretly Yor Tokyo. The departure | believed to be a polio victim, a (afternoon by a gun in the hands was not announced until 14 hours! Police started a search for the of a 10-year-old companion, David later, ichild’s mother, step-father and Jones, who was showing him a The Army said the purpose of fe Joung Se ne have been ithe trip “is to Yetermine what! pump repeater 23 caliber Hifle moan the department v the. Ted Wisniewski and his brotherArmy can best assist Gen. Mac- in-law, Phillip Hammond, foundPolice said the boys had been {Arthur's command.” {the body of their niece, Carol “playing snowballs” when David, sn » {Smith, after digging all aay in the suggested they go see his brother’ S| IT WAS one of urgency. yard of the hastily-a oned
: Smith, 27, and his new gun. They went to the Jones. came after a week of sledge- home Xt Iu 217. ith, 2%. said there
might be more bodies in the David procured his brother's rifle. oe forces in Nore: Korea. - grave. i Army ef was aeAccide Coroner John De Horn cons: The ed Acacnt the left mpauied uy Vice Admiral I. 1. ducted a preliminary autopsy and Low, Deputy: Chief of Naval Op-| said the girl “was suffering from breast and Donald was pro- erations for Logistics, and Maj. malnutrition and possible polio.” nounced dead on arrival at Riley | Gen. Charles P, Cabell, director of! 'He said she was dead before she. Memorial Hospital. A coroner's Air Force Intelligence. iwas buried in the deep backyard report attributed death to an ac-| There was no hint that Gen. grave. cidental shooting. Collins or other members of the Survivors include his father, a high command are dissatisfied ‘deputies continued digging in ‘the railroad man who was in Cincin- With Gen. MacArthur's conduct strange tomb after Carol's {bruised and marked body was ton; "three brothers, Ronald, his! {found curled grotesquely in the-
28 after he was struck by a car | Another event Gary is antici-in an alley while playing cowboy | League Secretary |pating will be the trip to the bank with his neighborhood chums.
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