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61st YEAR—NUMBER 271 1
No Pay-Price Freeze Poll Shows
Now, Sve Controller
Agency Chief Admits Study Given Controls
"Di Salle Asserts 60-90 Days Needed | To Set Up Machinery WASHINGTON, Dec. 8 (UP) —Price Controller Mich-| ael V. Di Salle said today the, government is net planning any immediate wage-price freeze. Mr. . Di Salle. acknowledged | that wage-price ceilings are being | studied and that orders are now in preparatidn which could be used if necessary. But for the time being he hopes that volun-|
inflation. In any event, he said it would | take his agency at least 60 to| 80 days to set up the nationwide, enforcement machinery that,
wage-price freeze were imposed. No Controls In Sight
Who's Panning Now ?—
‘H. S. T.” Letter Raps Critic of Margaret
Message Written on White House Stationery to Newspaper Writer WASHINGTON, Dec. 8 (UP) —The Washington Daily News said today that Paul Hume, Washington Post music critic who panned Margaret Truman's Tuesday night recital, has received an abusive letter hand-written on White House stationery and signed *H. 85.71” The News said the note referred to Hume's “lousy review’ and added that the critic sounded “like a frustrated old mah who never made a success.” The note’'s author went on to say, according to the News, that if’ he ever meets Hume, the critic will “need a new nose.” » 8 8" " = » MR. HUME confirmed that he had received the note, but said the text published by the News was note quite correct. He added, however, that “it’s too close.” He said he did not know Whether he would publish the correct text. In his review of Miss Truman's recital, Hume said Miss Truman “cannot sing very well” and has “not improved” since she sang here last.
FRIDAY, DECEMBER
8, 1950
Marines Favor A-Bomb Use
‘Might as Well Go All the Way," Says
One of Leathernecks
By JOE QUINN United Press Staff Correspondent
WITH U. S. 1ST MARINE DIVISION, Korea, Dec. 8—A poll among U. S. Marines retreating before hordes of Chinese Communist troops showed today that most believed the atom bomb should be dropped on the Chinese—and the quicker the better, “I'd drop the- bomb all over China and Manchuria,” Pfc. Robert Watson, Smithland, Iowa, said. “Most of the civilians are
damn Communists anyway so we might as well kill them as
= soldiers.”
v ~ - “LOOKS LIKE we have to use it now and when we start we might as well go all the way,’ Pfc. Donald 8, McFarland, Houston; Tex. said. - 1 = u o “USE IT now,” J3gt. J. E. Beauchmant, Tiffin, Iowa, said. “We've already lost too many {lives here.” 2 “IF WE'RE Sole to win any war with China we've got to use it,” Pfc. James Keener, Warren,
“There is no question but that, we are planning for wage-price| ceilings for all eventualities,” he told a news conference. “But at this time I do not see any reason: for imposing such controls.” The former mayor of Toledo, ©O., who took over the price control job two days ago, warned that if manufacturers boost their prices to get set for a freeze he has the authority to rool them back again. Mr. Di Salle, and Economic Btablization Administrator Alan Valentine, who sat in on the news al hinted,
Auto Chiefs Invited Officials of GM, Ford and eight other leading automobile cor panies have been invited to a meeting with Mr. Valentine and Mr. Di Salle here next Wednesday to review the automobile price situation. Mr. Valentine said they would make a thorough study to deter-
~-about 5 per cent for General Motors and from 5 to 7.1 per cent on Ford cars——are justified. Mr. Valentine said his agency is watching steel prices, but he refused to say whether there would be a formal review of the price increases recently an-| nounced by the steel industry. He emphasized that the government also can roll back steel prices if necessary. He added that the law also contains authority for simultaneous wage rollbacks.
GM Ignores Plea To Rescind Hike
DETROIT, Dec. 8 (UP)—General Motors today ignored a request from the government to
““yescind “its Tuesday automobile}:
price increase announcement, boosting price tags from $60 to $80 on its 195. Chevrolets.
Collins Reports To Truman, Attlee
State Chiefs Hold
Last Crisis Talk. BULLETIN WASHINGTON, Dec. 8 (UP) e=President Truman. and Britain’s Clement Attlee today announced their “complete agreement that there can be no thought of appeasement or oo rewarding aggression, whether in the Far East or elsewhere. The two leaders sald, however, that they are ready “to seek an end to the hostilities” in Korea “by means of negotia“Om Tr bn ”
has some ideas he didn’t have
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Johnny Flannagan Is Ready To March Back to War
Local Youth, Whose Minesweeper Was Sunk Off Korea, Wants Some Duty Tour
- By JOHN V, WILSON JOHNNY FLANNAGAN is only 20, That used to be young by some standards. But war has wiped the standards out. And he has spent just 2!; months in the Korean War zone.
oA short time, maybe, but long enough to see the inside of war.
might e such y mifrared in his mind 1s this war scene: General Motors and the Ford A mall ship blasted by 4 = ee oe Motor Co. if the two big auto, foating min man makers refuse to “the wie Jhark-infested bay of . v ; th ) ay| Wonsan, Korea E increase ey announced y a ¥ shelling of. survivors Le PIRATE hak. within
bobbing in the water. Then the beath guns opened’
Johnny knows. ui : : p at the men in the water, Ana=. local. youth is one of the | © ber ar fo 2 wma and exploded. oe of his ore 68, Were “My hand was bleeding and
the first thing I thought of was sharks. I had seen them in the water before,” he said. Soon a rescue craft picked up the survivors. Six of thé crew » of 65 men were missing.
2 = TO HALT the on - rushing After Johnny was transChinese Reds, says Johnny, use | ferred to another vessel, he rethe atom bomb now. Don't let | ceived two letters from his wife, them and their N Korean | Mary Ann. cohorts gain anothér mile. a“ Keep up the good production THEY WERE the best med on the home Tropt' he ‘asks icine they could have given + * | me,” he says softly. Send the GIs everything they He arrived here Nov. 13 for
need to fight with. This is the view of a soft- 2 joyous Teunion With his par
speaking youth only a couple | when he left Korea, victorious of years out of Cathedral High | yniteq Nations forces were
School. He's one of -the first hin - Korean veterans to return here. Bus NE 10 he Mane ors
And to back up his beliefs Johnny is prepared to go back jhe whole eorplexion of the war 0 e “police action.” He : : ‘wants to serve aboard another 1a. bis opinion, the United minesweeper, the same type of craft that was sunk under him. . » » JOHNNY, a fireman, was sitje 2. jhe Rois end of de. I i ———————— ate a m. t 13. . pA . > = Shostakovich Series
Has Moscow Premier MOSCOW, Dec. 8
Johnny's home now, visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. P. J. Flannagan, 830 Udell St. He
before.
A-bomb at the outset. And he believes it should be used now to avert further American bloodshed.
after coming off watch, It was the third day of minesweeping | operations in Wonsan Bay, | North Korea.
Abruptly, the Pirate slipped through the calm water and rammed one of a string of floating mines. Johnny was tossed 20 feet in the air and slammed down on his left side.
One of his buddies was unconscious with head injuries, Johnny carried him across huge rips in the deck to the abandon ship station. Adjusting his life jacket, he ‘and his buddy plunged into the water. The | ~ » ~ -
position, “Glory to Stalin,”
conservatory last night.
BULLETIN
railroad department of Indiana Public Service Commission, suffered a heart attack in his office in the State House shortly | after noon today. There was no immediate report on his condition.
States should have used the .
(UP)—| Dmitri Shostakovich’s new com-|
Frank White, director of the |
Entered as Second-Class Matter at Postoffice
Indianapolis, Indiana. Issued Daily.
20,000 Trapped Nearing Safet
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Snowstorm Rages
Army Cancels Yule Holiday For Trainees
Only Christmas Day And New Year's Will Be Free Time WASHINGTON, Dec. 8 (UP)—The Army today can-! celed its plan to give a Christ-| mas holiday from Dec. 23] through Jan. 1 to all troops! training in continental United |
States.
Training in continental Army, !installations will be suspended only for the observance of Christ-! mas Day and New Year's Day,
0. said. “They have so many the Army said. people we can’t do otherwise.” A spokesman added that com2 8 = manders may grant leaves to “WIPE THE ------ out, I personnel “who can be spared.”
say, and the quicker the better,” (Pte. Irving Kelley Wolverton Jr., Cleveland, 0. said. » “DROP a Bundred of them and put the first one at the Chosin | Reservoir which we just left” Pvt. Leroy Baker (3129 St. Paul |8t.), Indianapolis, Ind., said. { s » . “THERE ARE too many ¥hinks for ‘he Marines to stop them,” Pfc. Gerald Awaikel, - Huntington. Ind. said “The bamb canto any 00d in KoBut I'd sure plaster China| with them. 4s 8 mE “WE'VE helped China so long it's to say,” Corp. Davis L. y, "Adel, Ga., said. “If we've got to do it I am for it. If we had the manpower of the last
Cloudy, Warmer Predicted Here
High of 35
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“Such ‘eave will be governed by appropriate leave regulations,” ‘he said. This does not mean, the spokes-, man said, that military personnel (will not have opportunities to get; home for Christmas, but the trips will have to be made on a 72hour pass or on furlough time iin the case of enlisted personnel and leave time in the case of officers, The new regulation will permit continued - training during the week he! n ys and New Year's Day, the previous Fey have suspended all ti Dee. 23 and Jan. 2.
Yule ada “Out’ for 28th
“Operation Jingle Bells” hit a {flat note today for 17,000 GIs at Camp Atterbury. Sudden reversal of Army plans] canceled Christmas furloughs for
Division, in training at Atterbury. Their reaction was expected to
According to plans announced several weeks ago, about 90 per
Seen Tomorrow LOCAL TEMPERATURES:
6am...18 10a m... 20 Tam... 19 11a m... 23 8am... 19 12 (Noon) 25 9am... 19
Humidity at 11 a. m., 13%.
Hoosiers began digging out toi storm, with promise of a cloudy and warmer Saturday and Sunday. : The storm which piled dangerous drifts in northwestern Indiana,
ing. At left a. 10-inch snowfall in. Chix; cago and on the Lake Michigan | border, where drifts added to traf--fic difficulties in the Ligonier and {Dunes Park districts. For Tonight, 18 The Weather Bureau forecast a
was|jow, of 18 tonight and a high of} given its premiere in the Moscow|35 tomorrow in. Indianapolis. To-|
|day’s high was expected to be 28. | The State Highway Department {reported hazardous driving con-
{ditions throughout Indiana, |
although all roads were open.
{should help driving conditions, the {highway department said. | Twenty-six schools in Law- -f {rence, Perry, Warren and Wayne! {townships remained closed- today. {Icy roads, dangerous for travel,
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moved off to the north this morn-|
Rising temperatures today
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cent of the 28th's soldiers and) {officers were slated. to go home {on furlough. and leave from Dec. {23 to Jan. 1. Pentagon squashed | that today. ; Col. James G. Mackey, chief of |staff, said plans will be resumed
to continue training during the!
holiday week. However, he added, | the Division will start immediate- |
day, after the two-day snow|ly to organize special entertains,
{ment for the period. “We'll still try to give them as| {good a Christmas as possible,” he declared. Maj. Gen. Daniel B, Strickler, commanding officer of the 28th, was en route to Fifth {Army headquarters in Chicago and _ could not be reached for plans arising from the new order.
that many members of the 28th|
be anything but joy and jingles. 1
Aud They Go Back for Moraes
Heartbreak In Airlift of
and Cheers Wounded
< Every Available Plane Pulling Men Out Of Korea; Figures Don't Tell Full Story
By JIM G.
LUCAS, Scripps-Howard Staff Writer
TOKYO, Dec. 8—The airways from Korea to Japan | are one vast, never-ending trahsmission belt for wounded |
men.
urgent messages from Gen.
MacArthur to his com-
{ | 2 3 " . { Even vital courier runs—wnich normally carry less {
manders in the field—have been canceled. Every available
transport plane has been thrown into the effort to
get the wounded out of
ice-locked prisons where some have been almost a week without medical attention. It is as ingasitisheartbreaking. The figures . alone are impressive. From Nov. 27 — the day the Chinese Communists stopped our drive and began their own until Dec, 4, the Far East Air Force com-
My. Lucas bat cargo command moved
15,138 casualties. Some have
{ merely been shifted from one
Korean base to another. Others were moved in“Japan. But the vast majority have heen moved frem Korea to Japan. From ‘Nov. 27 until ng- | yang was evacuated last ' day the Air Force moved 3249 combat casualties out of there, From Nov. 26 until Sinanju was abandoned Nov. 30, it moved 3188 out of there. The majority of those were 8th Army men. "2 = »
FROM DEC. 1 to 4, every
wounded and disabled Marines out of Hagaru—the command post for the trapped 1st Marine Division until it began a heroic | drive for the beach yesterday. Not all were wounded. Many were frost-bite cases. But frostbite can cost a man an arm or a leg. In many cases it will. But figures alone don't tell the story. No one could ever describe what is going on—the pain and suffering of the victims, the sleepless vigil of worn- | out flight nurses and pilots and
|
| crewmen who have forgotten
his country and the people who make it tick. = - ® I FLEW out of Hagaru with a load of wounded Marines less than 24 hours before the encirled 1st Division started fighting its way to the beach. We were so overloaded there were i doubts the plane would leave | the runway. As it left the Chinese Reds lobbed mortars at | us, hoping one would land on the wing and bring the plane | down.
I saw one boy die. I saw the | stunned, tear-stained, bloodsoaked faces of the boys, heard wild chatter, frantic calls for water. I rode another plane a few minutes later that took the same boys to southern Japan. After a 12-hour wait, we flew on to the Navy hospital near Tokyo. at
OVERNIGHT they Wecame a different bunch, Shaved, i faudaged ana sPinted: y old spirits. Now they could com-plain-~and did so volubly— about chow or lack of it. About
5-Mile Column Creeps Over
Mountains
U. S., China Red Jets Locked in Savage Battle
By EARNEST fd Corn” a en TORYS! Saturday, Dec. 9
\—A column of os Sights
ing U. 8. Marines and ine fantrymen trapped for more
‘than a week behind Chinese lines battled to within six
miles of safety
today in the |snow-choked mountains of northe eastern Korea. Air reports said the five-mile= long column was moving slowly
{and jerkily through the moun= {tains behind a tank spearhead {that slugged its way through one {Chinese roadblock after another.
Fighting up from the south was a rescue column of the U. 8. 3d Division. An air report released {by a Navy spokesman said the
[two columns were only six miles tried to answer japast Friday and were closing
the gap steadily, ° | Snowstorm Raging | A raging snowstorm deprived the columns of air cover for awhile Friday but the skies cleared as night - Mae rine Corsairs and Navy planes returned to blast the ambushing Reds with bombs, rockets, flaming jeilien gasoline and machine gun
All fighting in Korea was cons centrated in the al U. 8. 8th Army in the west. In addition to hammering at the escaping Marines and Army men,
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® Leahy will stay. ® No matter how the Irish football fortunes fare, and no matter what tempting offers he receives, Frank Leahy says he'll never leave Notre Dame to coach elsewhere. He tells you why in today's sports section in The Times.
® Today's sports pages also reveal the 1950 football Coach of the Year, chosen
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the Chinese Communists struck toward Hamhung in a twov pronged offensive. The offensive captured two towns along the Americans’ es cape route and other raiding bands of 100 to 500 Reds struck [within 10 miles of the Hamhung escape center in hit-and-run attacks, Jets in Fierce Duel
Meanwhile American and Coms munist jet fighter planes battled 18,000 feet above U. 8. Marines
in northeast Korea. The big ‘dogfight’ between American jets and Russian-built MIG-15s was raging above an overcast sky which has deprived the battered Marines and troops of vital air support which
sieging Chinese. The planes dueled 20 miles north of Hamhung. Never before have Russian jets ventured so far south lover the eastern front. * One Chinese Red column, 5000 strong..captured. north of Hamhung, and pushed on to the south. A communique ¢at the fall of Sinhung “the first con~ firmation of reports that enemy troops had arrived in the area northeast of the Hamhung come
Shell bursts in night fighting {northeast of Hamhung already are | visible in the city. The ‘other enemy column spears headéd by 1000 men drove souths west of Su, on the American es cape highway 19 miles northwest of Hamhung. 2
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In Action, Says UN
LAKE SUCCESS, N. Y., Dec. 8 (UP)~United Nations officials in Korea reported today that some 400,000 Communist troops, almost entirely Chinese, are Gen. MacArthur's United Nations forces. S
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while the war stood still for the
fighting through Red encirclement
yesterday killed 1300 of the be :
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mission for the Unification and