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SCRIPPS- HOWARD 61st YEAR—NUMBER 269
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1950
Entered as Second-Class Matter at Postoffice Indianapolis, Indiana. Issued Daily
By JIM G. LUCAS, Scripps-Howard Staff Writer WITH THE ARMIES AT HAGERU, North Korea, Dec. 6—The kid corporal from New Boston, Tex., wanted to talk.
It wasn't easy because he had been hit in the face with a mortar shell three days ago. What was left wasn't pretty. “Whenever a wounded man froze to
the truck and left him along the road.
trucks were filled with food, ammunition and wounded guys. “Sure it was tough. Everybody in an outfit this size knows everybody else. But we had to do it. That way we made room for some more wounded guys who had been trying to walk it. “I really can't tell you, mister, how many got killed. Most of us, I imagine.” But the kid from New Boston said he was lucky. He is going out. The plane was taking off in a few minutes and he'd fly 22 miles to Konpo. Others would have to walk it. “There’s never been anything like it, mister,” he said. “Them guys who can still walk will try to get down to Kotori tomorrow or the next day. I'm not complaining and they're not either. In the Marines the big brass like Gen. (O. P.) Smith will walk right
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death,” he was saying, “we took him off
We couldn't carry out dead. All the
THERE WAS NO ROOM FOR THE DEAD— ee Every Mile Has Been Hell... . Every Mile A Massacre
along with them and the Commies would rather shoot generals. than. anyone else. “Anything’s better than staying here. But we ain't fooling ourselves. Getting to Kotori will be just as tough as getting here from Yudamni. Those that get out alive will be lucky. Me, I've had mine. “All I've got to worry about is this face that'll scare girls from Dennison to Galveston. Them other guys will be lucky if they ever see a girl again.” The corporal was in one of the two Marine regiments that fought their way out of Yudamni. The last of them got to Hageru last night. It's taken 48 hours for them to travel 17 niiles. Every mile has been hell. Every mile has been massacre. I had talked to the kid's commanding officer a few minutes before. I'd known him around Inchon and at Seoul—a tall, good-looking youngster with a bright future in the corps. No one doubted he'd be a general some day. After the long march from Yudamni, he is now on the verge of a ¢rackup. He couldn't remember dates or names. ‘Three times he broke down and cried. Yudamni is a hamlet along the west bank of the Chosin Reservoir. The 5th and 7th Marine Regiments were sent there on Nov. 27. And they'd been hit by overwhelming Communist forces as soon as they arrived. One company was surrounded for five days by elements of at least three Chinese divisions. A handful of survivors staggered back to Hageru last night. :
Fourth Sought
The largest government . check-stealing operation ever
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Ring Cracked Here U. S. Agents ‘An Editorial
FOr 21 years The Times Clothe-A-Child fund has been
Arr est Three; F eng the needs of the neediest Indianapolis children for warm winter clothing at Christmas-time.
Operation Called Largest to Function in Any U. S. City.
By JOHN WILSON
to function in any city in the United States was cracked today in Indianapolis. It involved theft of $50,000 worth of United States Treasury
checks involving GI’ insurance or income tax refunds.
been arrested and have confessed.
ment. They are described as the “master minds” of the check ring but federal agents indicated more |: arrests may follow.
the men admitted stealing in ex-| cess of $50,000 in government
never exploited . . « « that their identities are never revealed . . . so that they will not be shamed among their playmates by a misfortune which is never any fault of their own.
Countless thousands of kindly men and women have
used this program over all those years, each as much or as little as he felt able as his own part in this most satisfying of all Christmas giving.
City A-Bomb Targets
Outline Plans Yi '55,000 School Children |
By. ANDY OLOFSON | Task group commanders! charged with defending] 55,000 Indianapolis school children in possible atomic
Each giver has known, throughout, that every penny bomb attacks heard the six
given to the fund is spent directly on clothing for needy children. .... that all the considerable expense of operation terday afternoon. and administration is paid by The Times from funds other than their gifts.
probable targets listed i
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“They hit us before we even had time to dig in,’ a sergeant with a bleeding face wound. “That first night we fought from 11 until 6:30 the next morning. We killed a hell of a lot of them, but they kept coming. “We burned everything we couldn't take along,” said a Marine combat correspondent from Decatur, Ill. “That meant we burned our tents, packs and food. We kept our rifles and’ tried to get out with our artillery and tanks. Some slid into ditches and we'd stop to destroy them. “They killed 18-of us first, 200 yards out of Yudamni. God, it was awful. “They were on all sides and as fast as we moved a mile they closed in behind. And that wasn’t the worst of it. They must have been two whole divisions ahead of us trying to keep us from getting out. We had to fight “those in front, get shot at from hoth sides and defend our rear. ri ~ “There was no point in hitting the ditches. The Communists had that figured out and they'd mined them. There were hills on both sides of that little road and they had mortars every inch. “The guys at Hageru sent a helicopter for our wounded but the Gooks got it. “ Damned thing crashburned a hundred yards from me and the pilot Surned with it.
“I saw my best friend get his. He was wounded too bad to jump from the truck, so-when he stood up they shot him in the head. We laid him out in the snow and put another guy on his litter.
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“We were ready to get airborne and the Air Force captain warned the takeoff would be rough.” The kid from New Boston mumbled through blood: : soaked bandages. “Ever ride a sjx-by-six (combat truck) with 8s mashed up fice,” he asked. “I did—48 hours of it with | / good mortars landing everywhere. And they tell me this'll be rough.” We were airborne now “Peg-O-My-Heart,” the good old C-47 which had flown coal to Berlin, gunned her two engines early to miss as many bumps as possible. Sude | denly she rocked from stem to stern. Up in the cockpit Capt. Harry C. Aderholt, Birmingham, Ala. swore. “Gooks just tried to lay a mortar in on us,” he said. “It hit just under the left wing.” Back in the ship the kids were settling down. the mortar hadn’t scared them. “What the hell is another mortar,” derson, N. C., asked bitterly. the last week.” Fifteen minutes later “Peg-O-My-Heart” let down at Yonpo. The kid from New Boston had found another Texan—from Livingston. They were already planning liberty in Dallas and Ft. Worth. Buta big corporal from Ashland, Va., was worried. “What's the matter, Bucky,” he asked one of the guys at his side. He added “the kid ain't spoke once.” “The flight nurse didn't, and I didn't either. “Bucky” would never speak again. He died five Minutes after we left Hageru,
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To Defend Freedom
1. Withdrawal From Korea Up to Gen. MacArthur
2. No Admission in UN For Chinese Red Regime
3. Maintain a Protective Ring Around Formosa
George Farkas, safety and] health director for the public school system; listed the probable
Each has known that the children themselves are targets, in i ax
. « «.that their pictures are never published
Year after year Indianapolis has given generously. Last
year, alone, 2179 children were clothed at a cost of Three Indianapolis men have $63,795.61.
INCE 1930 The Times Clothe-A-Child Tuna has been the recognized and accepted . . .. and the only... . program
lin Indianapolis for the clothing of Reedy children at Postal inspectors said two of Christmas-time.
Now another Indianapolis newspaper, never before in
checks from Indianapolis mai that field, has seen fit to ‘announce a rival Christmas
boxes over a four-month period.
Members of Gang One of the check gangsters was nabbed in Indianapolis, another in Terre Dallas; Tex. They are: 2 Edwin Virgil Altes, 22, of 1132 E. Georgia St. held in Marion County Jail; Archie Paul Harme-
{clothing program for children . . . fand imitates methods originated and long used by The Times . . . Haute and a third in children themselves by publishing photographs of them for their school mates to see and jeer.
. a program that copies
. and which callously exploits the unfortunate
Whatever the motives that inspired such a move, it can
lead only to confusion and duplication of effort, and of
son, 31, of 6417 Carrollton Ave., giving, : and quite probably of children served. To whatever
degree "it might" succeed, “it could only that much ‘divide
Haute; and John Richard Stroup. ang weaken the big job that already is being done.
alias Arnold 8S. Chaplik, 20, of (Continued on Page 3—Col. 2) HOURLY TEMPERATURES
Surely there is distress enough to be met in this
community that no one need try to duplicate. or tear down the work of others. I
6a m..35 10am. 35 Newspaper competition we welcome ., . . . but not at A Neen ™: 13 |the expense of shivering children, never at the risk of 8:30 a. m. 36° 1280 pum. 38 human misery, : 9a m.. 35 ” . = = Humidity at 11:30 a. m. 96% TIMES will continve to conduct Clothe-A-Child as VY it has for 21 years, as the trustee of those who make MILE-O-DIMES this program possible. 5-Day Estimate _ Contributions, of whatever amount or nature, will be S
12 Full Lines ..........$L195.20 used, as they have been used in the past, to biy clothing
More dimes mean more money | with which to bay warm clothes for Indianapolis’ shivering, needy children. Drop YOUR dimes. on the Mile-O-Dimes on W. Washn St. in front of L. 8. Ayres
‘ & Co. and 8. S. Kresge Co. Uni- ~ Jormed city firemen are wer® * or toys, or food, or fuel for needy families, we | fet J's, mie the Indianapolis Star and the Indianapolis News, both of 30k ng. Thar are 37 Sime ich collect funds for that purpose. Son
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new Western Electric plant.
TWO: The Stout Cura area. THREE: The industrial area in the vicinity of Martindale and Roosevelt Ave FOUR: ‘Beech Grove, because tion.
FIVE: The Shadeland Ave. area with the Naval Ordnance and the
of
SIX: Downtown Indianapolis. Plan Practice Drills
ceived their orders and a thorough |
{to Dr. Charles W. Myers, head of | the medical division of the Marion County Civilian Defense area. |
bers in their schools. in the schools are to start soon.
mr, Dr. Chapman said. hasized, Png, something that will shield bos them from the. direct line of the,
the atomic bomb. First 90 Seconds Critical
dren is below ground level. The
, figuring out the area
sent in case of emergency. If basements are not large
, the next dor, ‘flanked by, rooms on both The first 90 seconds after an attack is the critical period, Dr. Chapman said. By that time the deadly effect of the dreaded
been dissipated, leaving only the: fest harmful - particles,
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‘ter Clement Attlee Pledged: “The school defense directors re- today that Great Britain will
{briefing in “Operation Survival” Stick by the United States “in| |Kore by Dr. James E. Chapman, aid fair- weather and foul”
Today these defense directorsiside yours” he told a National were briefing fellow faculty mem-| | Press Club luncheon. States and Great Britain will
89 respective publicibe certain that in fair weather DIOCK the admission of the MaY have to use the bomb at Communist
Practice air raid arills or foul, where -the Stars and/Chinese Communist regime to {Stripes fly in. Korea, the British : Foxholes are just as important, flag will fly beside them, We 1c United Nations, (perhaps more so, in an atomic stand by our duty. We stand by! age as they were in World War our friends.”
enough or there . base- Attlee said. i. He 10 that the forces of the United Na-!
fioor -itions have suffered a serious setih back. This is not a time for criti-AT® evacuated from Korea, sides. cism. We must seek to find how best to help those who are bearing this burden.” .
Gamm tron criticism of Gen. Douglas Mac3 Tays and ney 8 has Arthur expressed in some is agreeable Alpha and Beta official quarters and in the Brit- u
4. Keep Close Co-operation ar Between U. S. and Britain
5. OK Conference With Russ - ~ To Keep World Peace 6. Pledge to Go Back a If Deiven From Korea |
‘Britain Will Stick By U. §.
Attlee Leaves No Doubt of His Position | WASHINGTON, Dec. 6
One:
leaving the decision to him. Two: Both the United,
“Our forces are fighting along-|
“You may!
Three: The United States. will] keep the Seventh Fleet off For-. These were the sentiments he Mosa and do “everything possi-
Mr. Attlee. defended . Britain’ sithe hands of the Reds.
Truman, Attlee Form ising Anti-Red Bloc Out of Trap
| |. Six-Point Program Leaves Door Open | For Peace Talks, but Appeasement Is Out By ANDREW TULLY, Scripps-Howard Staff Writer WASHINGTON, Dec. 6 — Except- for minor details, |(UP)— British Prime Minis- President Truman and Prime Minister Clement Attlee of | Great Britain have reached an agreement by which:
United Nations troops will be withdrawn from Marines and
a only providing Gen. Douglas MacArthur is convinced. smashed out of Chinese-sur-
and jhe cannot form and hold a defense line there—in effect, {will seek together to ease the Ko[rean crisis.
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The important thing, he em- expressed in a prepared text made ble” to keep that Chinese Nation-! is to get the children] {available shortly before he spoke. |alist stronghold from falling into
ition of Communist China, Four: The United States and
* “I am told that there are peo-iterials it needs without having to
directors were advised to begin ple. who believe that is what I outbid us on the open market. checking school basements ‘im- have ‘come here to do,”
he said.
w' as. ment or both in an attempt to! “The times are critical,” Mr. arrive at a formula for world! “It is idle to deny, peace.
Six: If United Nations troops
Great Britain and the ‘States pledge themselves to. re{turn “some day” to Korea snd, Praises MacArthur [once more liberate that coun ry! Mr. Attlee did mot join in the [rom the Communists, As for the atomic bomb, PresiBritish dent Truman's attitude is that he that any decision te se it be made jointly by the!
(Continued on Page 3—Col. 7) [United States and Great Britain.! (Continued on Page 3-—Col. 8)
[Nothing Else to Do—
Wife's Butcher Knife Surgery Saves Husha ;
EVANSVILLE, Ind, Dec. 8 (UP)—A farm wife who saved her husband's life by amputating his leg with a butcher knife Sud 2 today she “didn’t want to do it, but there was nothing else
Doctors said Mrs. Lillian Hartig's quick action after her 42, caught his leg in a corn-picker prevented him
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was in “fair” condition ata hospital and was expected tor recover.
blast, fire and radiation effects of but said “that does not mean| Great Britain will act: together! that we have any intention of in-/' |dulging in what is called appeaseThe best refuge for school chil- ment—a word of ill omen.”
‘politically and economically”| and, specifically the United States hi will help Britain get the raw ina-}
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Five: The United States agrees that no country in the future will “We all know from our own bit-ii confer with either the Chinese dare to commit an aggressive act. to which the children would be ter experience that appeasement Communists or the Soviet govern:| - ° . never pays.”
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Yanks Smash.
15,000 Encircled Gls
Drive for ‘Dunkirk’
By, JARNEST HOBERECHT ted Press Staff Correspondent
TOKYO, Thursday, Dec. T | Fifteen thousand encircled infantrymen
‘rounded ‘Hagaru and ‘drove
‘southward toward a North{But he is trying ‘to avoid an Torah, EA atom: ny) west Korean Dunkirk Wednesday the ground the United States night against an estimated two divisions blocking a moment's notice and could not their escape. ie afford to take the time: necessary. A small British commando unit ito get an official agreement fromiand elements of two U.: 8. 7th In~ | Britain. {fantry Division Regiments joined The agreement, when an-. {the 1st Marine Division in a dash nounced, will emphasize’ that no {for freedom down a now-covered appeasement of communism any- road across a mile-high plateau where is intended. Both nations south of the Chosin Reservoir, Will reiterate their intentions of Their immediate goal is ‘the iresisting aggression; jm. the fu mountain village of Kotor | ; wherever it up; and miles south, where 5000 men of = {of helping free nations, wherever another Marine regiment and they are, whenever they are in/other infantrymen also are surble. rounded.
But the keynote of the agree- . Abindon Mritrip iment will be a pledge by both Mari nations so to prepare themselves ro ended bY 3 . task British abandoned Hagaru Alrstrip late Wednesday and started Up to MacArthur their desperate bid for freedom The withdrawal from Korea, if after flying out 5000 casualties in {necessary, will be at Gen./the past five days. ¢ MacArthur's discretion. It will be, At the same time the U. 8. sth emphasize to him — perhaps al-| Army in the West halted its head. ready has been — that his judg-|long flight just north of the 38th
Te it the general thinks we can stay at Chinese Communist in Korea, we'll stay. moving south from Mr, Attlee balked most stub-|along-side roads, - ; bornly on two items in the agree-| Eighth Army patrols probing ment—the decision to hold For- north found no Communists in 8 mosa if possible and the ban on a| immediate powalt and it | United Nations seat for Red peared that Chinese Red ve may have slowed temporarily. g £
the tractor and helped me get the overalls on him and lost consciousness. Then I picked him up and put him in the wagon—I've never picked him up before and I'm sure 1: could d never do it again.” er Mrs. Hartig stood on the tractor seat and yitled to for 1 Her brother, Raymond, who was working nearby, ran hitched horses to the wagon, and drove them across to a car. dh “I told them to turn on the headlights and | blow because I was afraid we'd have a wreck,” Mrs. LHareig 1 was even more afraid ot. what J. isncnappen if ed She cradled ‘her husband during J tal, where Dr. and
I 8, Wynn 1) Mason completed the X Seti The Hartigs, who lived on pdjolaivg thildtond