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° Yanks Re Ready To Quit Korea If Necessary

Troops Now Placed In Proper Position, Gen. Bradley Says

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Pyongyang (1) was abandoned by the Allies as vanguards of the enemy swe former North Korean capital. Retreating troops were heading (broken arrow) for to set up the western anchor of a new east-west defense line. The U. Divisions moved along lines southeast of Pyongyang to protect the easternmost of the to Seoul. Large groups of Reds were moving on Pyong ang from Sukchong Sunchon 25 ey: north of the city. Northeastward U. S. Marines and massed at the south tip of the Chosin Reservoir (3) and prepared to break (broken arrow) the Communist road block and reach Hamnung on the

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A Dream Come True—

More Kids Outfitted

Yearly by Clothe-A-Child Reporter Who Saw Children Suffering Promoted Idea at The Times

By ART WRIGHT

How does a’ thing like The Times Clothe-A-Child get started? | Why does anyone—or a group of people—want to worry, and| . over the plight of kids who don’t have enough |

fret . . . lose sleep . clothes to keep them warm?

Clothe-A-Child started 20 years ago for one unbelievable reason: |

Clothe-A-Child—

Dor Pays Vist Tn Poor Family

Finds Mother, Children

Around Fireless Stove By ART WRIGHT

The real spirit of The Times) {Clothe-A-Child was sealed up in an envelope that came by mail

The hard-shelled, cynical guys known as newspapermen “broke |; 4a

down” and admitted in 1930 that the suffering of helpless, ‘got” them. Here's why

1930, two “cardboard” communities sprang up on the banks of White River. Later they were called “Hooverville” and “Curtisville.” Word got around that here people were living in shacks made of odd pieces of wood and tin and rags. And those people included kids. The Times reportet who went there to do the story of depression first hand had a pathetic story to tell other reporters in The Times office. He'd got around to writing the story for the paper.

“It’s not those shacks that get me, It’s those poor kids. No shoes, no pants, no “dresses; no coats: It’s awful.” Sure he hated to be ‘soft” about this misery ... he had seen a lot of misery. Those who heard his story didn’t want to appear putright “soft” about it either.

17 dimes to a foot.

ittle MILE-O-DIMES In ‘the blustery fall days or 4-Day Estimate

10 Full Lines ...........$1406. These dimes will help furnish the money for Clothe-A-Child to buy warm clothes for Indianapolis’ needy children.

Sixty lines make a mile of.

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But it happened.

everything they could. So some{one wrote a piece about the kids and it was published in “The Times. t | A reader wrote he wanted to help the reporters clothe these unfortunate youngsters. The re-|

In the envelope was a contri-| 'the time is right, can be evacu- charge that Chinese Communists | {bution to the fund . . . also a 41g by sea in landing ships and troops are fighting United Na-

(letter. ° The contributor reported a visit {to one of the city’s poor families. The letter told of this heartbreaking story: “I found several of the children and the mother huddled around la stove that had no fire. Three lof the smaller children were cryling because they were cold. An older girl had no shoes on. “The water pipes in the house

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ithe floor. The husband pays very little support. The mother’s health doesn’t permit her to work. { “I am telling you about this unfortunate family because the

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House Group Votes Rent Control Extension

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(UP) — Senators said today that Gen. Omar N. Bradley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs lof Staff, reported to them that American troops have

now reached a position in Korea from which they can be evacuated if that becomes necessary. | Gen. Bradley met with the Senate Foreign Relations Committee jon the $38 million aid-for-Yugo-slavia bill, but was questioned closely about the Korean crisis, Members who attended said that Gen. Bradley held out the possibility that Chinese Communist pressure may become so ‘heavy that withdrawal of United {Nations forces may be necessary (eventually. | But they added that there, {seemed to be no immediate indi-| cation that a “Dunkirk” type op-| eration was in the offing and] there was still some hope it could! be avoided. Declines Comment | Sen. H. Alexander Smith (R.| IN. J.), who heard Gen. Bradley was questioned about the military situation. He declined comment, other than to say. “I feel somewhat encouraged from the point of view of protect-| ing our boys against possible an-|

‘|nihilation.”

Military sources available to reporters at the Pentagon continued ~es—o|t0 insist that the United Nations| military situation in Karean is

sooner or later-Gen. Douglas ae! Us Arthur's forces will be able to turn and hold against the Chinese. Communists. These sources say the oth {Army's withdrawal has be: |derly and that most of its riot iment, except relatively small | amounts destroyed by the rear! , has been saved. { Wait for Time { United Nations forces encirelod! in northeast Korea, Pentagon officers say, can be extricated. One source said these forces, when!

{put ashore to help bolster any defense line that is thrown across: the peninsula farther down. Military sources say that as; United Nations forces withdraw,! Chinese Communist supply lines get longer, and the time is bound to come when Gen, MacArthur's! men can make a successful stand. |

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‘long enough to evacuate their

{reservoir for the sixth straight

{battle was audible in the city.

Thousands Are This Year Using—

was invading the United States ® rae morning and pushing south! land as far south as Texas.

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On the Fighting Front

By EARNEST HOBERECHT, United Press Staff Correspondent 6—Chinese Communists

TOKYO, Wednesday, Dec.

On the Peace Front

By DONALD J. GONZALES, Unitéd Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Dec. 5 ( UP)—President Truman and

{poured thousands of reinforcements- into northeast Korea British Prime Minister Clement Attlee held their second

The Marines were tiny airstrip at Hagaru, one

fighting desperately to keep open a though g grave,

\'Tuesday and pushed to within 17 miles of the port of Ham- conference today against a gloomy background of mounting ‘hung on the escape route for 15,000 to 20,000 U. S. Marines pessimism over the Korean crisis, ‘and. infantrymen trapped below the Chosin reservoir.

But military sources insisted that the Korean situation, is not hopeless—that sooner or later Gen.

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wounded before making their own supreme effort to escape the trap. To the west, other waves of Chinese occupied burning Pyongyang and began hacking at the escape route of the U, 8, 8th Army between Pyongyang and Seoul. Six Chinese divisions hit the Americans south of the Chosin

day. Trapped there around Hagaru, 37 miles northwest of Hamhung, are the U, 8S. Marine 1st Division and two regiments of the U. 8S. 7th Division. Marine commanders said they doubted if they could hold the Hagaru airstrip through the night,

Reds Blast 3d Division

Other Red forces opened a! {heavy attack at dusk Tuesday against U. 8. 3d Division troops lat a point 17 miles west of Ham-| hung and artillery fire from the!

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Airlift planes from Hamhung | landed supplies and removed | iwounded from the Hagaru air-| {strip up to dusk Tuesday. Later) {reports said the planes avoided | i landing and began to parachute casualties . . . isupplies when darkness fell, : a "= The Marines and infantrymen| were experted to turn and try to| chop their way ou out of the tighten-|

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China Red Charge

UN Steering Group

Here Is : Your War

By CHARLES MOORE, United Press Staff Correspondent ON NORTHEAST FRONT, Korea, Dec. 5—

These are the faces of war in Korea. “A dead GI wearing a mask of bloody ice from the frozen surface of the Chosin Reservoir , . .

by the flames of an ambus of American wounded . . . The face of a wounded trooper waiting his turn for an evacuation plane—dirty and bearded and hol-. low-eyed from a fight that has been going on around

An Air Force pilot laughing almost hysterically at a feeble joke from his co-pilot as his wheels clear the runway in a takeoff from Hagaru. His laughter screens the emotion of a man who has just seen a plane crash in front of him and whose passengers are the frozen bodies of battle

A CRYING Korean baby, carried into an American field hospital after a napalm tank hit . . , A general, standing in front of a map and directing the battle as calmly as a professor of history, while the concussion of exploding Shells jars the walls

And the hard face of an American boy who has taken the worst Chinese can throw at him and says: “Give us enough food and ammunition and we'll hold out until hell freezes over.”

N ‘Douglas MacArthur's bat. tered forces will be able to halt their retreat and make stand against the Chinese Communist hordes sweeping down the bloody peninsula. | Mr. Truman and Mr. Attlee, {who held a 95-minute conference lat the White House yesterday, resumed their talks aboard the

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They were joined for lunchéon on the yacht by 16 British and

{Cabinet members and {sional leaders. The real tAlk was scheduled to follow luncheon and to last all aftesnoon. Then, Mr, Truman planned a 4 p. m, (Indianapolis time) meeting with the American Cabinet. | Grim battlefield reports studied {by Mr. Attlee after yesterday's .2italks increased speculation that he would press this government ito seek a diplomatic settlement

a Chinese soldier lighted and burnifig truckload

{scale war with Red China, | Shortly before he joined the Williamsburg talks, Gen. Omar {N. Bradley, chairman of the (Joint Chiefs of Staff, was ques{tioned by the Senate Foreign Re{lations Committee in private oh the Korean crisis. | Committee members said Gen. ‘Bradley told them that {troops now have ~ =/tion from which they luated it n

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jo oe rn Meo or Committee members and Pent ‘agon officials did not, however, paint as black a picture as Lon-

[Attlee advised his Cabinet the | Allies may be forced into a mass

Ready for Action

oy BRUCE W. MUNN ed Press Staff CN LAKE SUCCESS

|General Assembly today a formal |

‘tions in Korea. The charge was contained in an! |explanatory memorandum sub-| icicle horse snorting zero breath, {mitted to the Assembly's Steering |-

{ Committee to support a six-nation morrow night, will invade the central Indiana area this afternoon

\request. that the question of Pe-|and night. king's open intervention in Korea|

| New Cold Wave on Way; lhe Unica Sats aia i Due to Hit Zero Tomorrow Snow Expected Here This Afternoon; Mercury Will Drop to 15° Tonight

Old Man Winter is galloping back into a canalis astride an Visit to Washington was said to

“!dicted it would continue through

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‘Many, Many

|anticipated tomorrow.

{some areas tomorrow night. A raging

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of any individual news- v5 ; 3 any worse” than the last one. paper in the United States. | Bibs temperatures wi

and east.

{freezing rain as far south as | Kentucky. The weatherman declined to |predict the extent of the snow,

| A low of 15 degrees was ex- 'a8Ing over wide areas through-land hold political pected tonight en climb was Out the country. Strong northerly with the Chinese during a staleWeather| : | Bureau officials said temperatures 40Wn through the plains and the| |would drop to zero and below in Mississippi valley.

Canadian blizzard fof

‘day that all major highways were to War with China. Bureau. Soreoaers still passable. Preparations we

‘ror cloudy skies today and tonight Seige of closed or hazardous r {throughout the area, snow and?

'but said “I don’t believe it will be WAS slower than yesterday.

levacuation. | These nispatches said Mr. Attlee sent a most pessimistic ap{praisal of the Korean military situation and was “shocked” by {Gen, Bradley's review of the war picture. - The British position still is that war with China must be avoided, this source said. But Mr. Attlee’s

‘have brought home the realiza-

The new cold wave, expected to reach zero temperatures by to. tion of how difficult that will be.

An authorative source said the one main hope is that the United

Snow was expected early this afternoon and forecasters pre- Nations forces will be able to

possibly

keep a bridgehead, Meanwhile, a new blizzard was|around the Seoul-Inchon - area,

discussions winds were pushing the arctic air mate. ! Cite American Pride hE I eather was seen tion was whether American pride Nebraska, Missouri, Oklahoma 40d ud, permit evant State police reported early to-/that would almost certainly lead

-But the State. i de, however, for another being ma vi Prime Minister “have “taken "Bo ecisions “at al» >

nd subsequent troubles. Flood conditions in the Ohio! Valley were reported “not too tions about London reports that alarming.” While the Ohio still the two leaders had already Iwas rising, the uptrend in levels!

Ott to Pilot Oakland

Clearing weather had abated a’! flood crisis in California.

«250,000 Reds On Your Tail’

Big News, Mac .

. By CLYDE FARNSWORTH, Scripps-Howard Staff Writer: FLUSHING MEADOW, Dec. 5—Letter to an unknown soldier—somewhere .in Korea: Here's big news, Mac, from the United Nations. Those 250,000 Chinese Reds on your tail—and the - other 750,000 squaring off in Manetutia— ate not aging

- aggressive war, but are—(...uh

Korea, vo

Does that make you feel better?

4 Cuba, Ecuador, France, Norway, Brain usd the United States asked the United Nations General As

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_along this mild line is unlikely until Prime Minister Clement Attlee and President Truman have talked themselves out and the United Nations’s dinner-table peacemakers have got through entertaining the Peking Red delegation.

, The most important word of that agenda item laid

before the Assembly was opener significantly avoided

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Sa a big dittereus betweud aggression sud 1nt noticed.

any charge of aggression.

(you hope) would rather yield to his demands and call it peaceful negotiation. A soft-voiced, non-violent little man, Sir Benegal N. Rau of India, entertained the three leaders of the Peking ‘delegation Sunday night and a “cordial” time was had

by all, “intervention.” This feeble

Nothing on what they had to say, but more talks will follow. The Indians have always favored seating the Chinese : Reds in the United Nations (“so we can talk to them?). The Indians say everybody ought to recognize the Red

government because it controls the China mainland. The

British say the same thing. ~~ Both acknowledge Russian influence over

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Formosa.

Truman.

Wu. Mr. Lie, like the Indians and the British, en stood for seating the government that exercises “power” to speak for the Chinese people. 3

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American officials, including some

in Korea rather than risking full-

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The source said the chief ques.

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