Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 December 1950 — Page 1

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‘We Cannot, We Must Not Accept Such A Beating’

By FRED SPARKS . PORT OF EVACUATION, Northeast Korea, Dec. 13

(CND)—The two awful weeks of retreat have ended. The sea les ahead. So do new battles. 8 the hour for reflection—calling the roll—counting dead—healing the ill—patching the wounded. North Korea is strewn with the broken bodies of Chinese. And when the news reaches their motherland will Gen. Mao Tze-tung's prestige be the same? A man wonders. Sad young men, before they debark, walk from tent to tent hunting missing buddies. Thousands of letter are being written home. “Dear folks: “I-am-alive “I came through . . . Soon it will be a time for investigation, for a review of the military and political errors made and being made. But not yet. Not today. We are still most definitely on the spot. We are still the hunted. It is to the doctors on the white hospital ships that there falls today the most grim decisions the profession can offer. What boy, frozen, black, must lose a leg and arm? ., I spoke to such a doctor this morning. A tired man, gaunt and tearful, he said: “We really know so little about frozen flesh. One fortunate thing is that generally there is no emergency time element about amputation in such cases. “One boy—just 17—has had no feeling, no reaction, below .the ankles in either of his feet for six days. But he's hobbling around. Certainly it seems the tissues are all dead and will never recover. _ “However, he’s not in pain—see him over there playing Sarde God I hate to do it—but I'll | probably have to

‘After All We'v ve Been

Mr. Sparks

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: "It is heartbreaking »fter all we've been through . . . so much blood and death” . . . in a “front line" hospital, Lf. Robert J: Hayoy ‘of “Indianapolis {left} and other naval-medical-officers aid. priest Father Cornelius J. Griffin. [right] gives solace to embattled

a wounded Chinese Red,

Soldiers’ Lefters Home Tell Of Heartbreaks in Battle

Cramped Messages, Written in Despair Of Retreat, Give Picture of War's Horrors By DONNA MIKELS

“It is heartbreaking . .. after all we've been through—

so much blood and death—to Dunkirk it all now.”

From the wounded, disheartened, bone-tired GIs and leathernecks in Korea came such messages as this today

as “letters home” started filtering into Indianapolis.

Tomorrow the flow of terse Defense Department mes-

sages that will tell the rest of the story may start.

But today it was still the mailman who brought the news, crumpled envelopes and cramped messages from men

who bled back across the samé land they bled to win.

They were just ordinary letters to the folks back home.

1 Came Through’.

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1950

‘They'll Kill Us All

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= An Oxcart With Six Dead Marines ]

amputate. It will change his life, ruin it. Unless a miracle occurs, which I doubt.” For the boys themselves, sitting around the pot-bel-lied stoves in tents around Korean houses, it's a time for reflection, trying to piece together the jigsaw puzzle of confusion and horror that was two weeks past . . . “I want to write Pete's mother . . . where was it that he got it? . . . Wasn't it that night on the ice near the reservoir?...” “A fellow gave me a couple of hundred dollars—we had to leave him on the ground. He asked me to send it to his family. Now I can't even remember his name!” Having lived with these troops most of this ordeal, I, too, have my memories . . . of bravery .. . of the shame of defeat. 1 remember: $ A couple of nights ago, with a Marine battalion charged with blasting a road out of the trap, an ingenious lad who fixed up the radio. Outside our mortars and 105’s coughed constant steel at the Chinese infiltration down the nearby slope. We got Armed Forces Radio in Tokyo and the silkenvoiced newscaster told us about some incredible general, retired fortunately, who proclaimed before some stateside dinner, over cigars and coffee, that the U. S. forces could go any place, lick anyone in the world. ; Then, the announcer continued: “United Nations sentiment is to call on China again warning her that the new tension she. has vented has serious international implications.” A few Marines who did not know if they would be alive tomorrow had unprintable comments. I wished I could have been sick. I remember: An oxcart with six dead Marines . . . a dead Marine next to his truck, victim of a sneak ambush, wih his per-

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sonal letters spread around . . . a Chinese prisoner brought in wearing a Marine Corps ¥ing. I remémber: How wonderful we all felt—and many prayed thanks —the morning after 24 hours of steady snow when the sun came out, meaning we'd have air support that day. It was the second day of the long march down the road for survival. The snow the day before had been a white curtain which met a white earth. The night had been ghastly gray and Chinese infiltrators made the most of it. I remember: How the Marines came marching out of the trap joking and bringing Chinese prisoners with them! . . . How I jeeped 10 miles north up one road and could not return for two days; the Chinese had infested the area behind us. I remember: The kid who blew his top and screamed: “They'll kill us all,” and the captain who put strong arms around him. It wasn’t what the captain said, it was the way he said it, too, that quieted the kid who grabbed his rifle and went back on thé line.

I remember: ° The truck driver who went to sleep, his head on the wheel, after working three days and three nights . . the Marine peeling the dead and frozen flesh off another's foot . . . the chaplain whose eyeglasses were simply filthy, who asked suddenly: “My God, is today Sunday?” When I said it was, he said to his aide: “Try to pass the word—TI'll hold services near command post tent in two hours . .."” I remember a lot of such things, as does every man who has lived here these past two weeks , , . I'll forget most of them—I L Hope,

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Tie Up Chicago

Strike Shuts Down Indiana Steel Plant

men staged a wildcat walkout in/

some “trains and forcing shut | down of a major steel plant. The trainmen walked out, effect, against the government since the Army has operated nation’s rallroads since last hed gust. (At Washington the Army said it will “take all steps necessary” to stop the wildcat walkout.) “The workers, members of the] Brotherhood of Railroad Train-| men, avoided an outright strike: which would be illegal, by report-| ing themselves sick. About 2500 workers were affected. On the “Pennsylvania Railroad |alone; 400 trainmen quit work

On Lag in Arms

Wants Nation To Step on Gas

President Truman told congres- for Indianapolis’ needy children. sional leaders today there must be He is James 8. Yuncker. a “sharp step-up” in the nation's| mobilization to build up our Armed Forces.

Truman to Warn Siothe: A CHI Benefactor Adds $1000 Check to Fund

Another Contributor Deducts From Own Pay Through Year to Kick Sum Up $100 service within the |

By ART WRIGHT |

The largests contributor to The Times Clothe-A-Child so far U. 8. Steel Corp. Most of Carne-| WASHINGTON, Dec. 13 (UP)—| this Christmas time added his $1000 personal check to the fund|

Another contributor who is sharing his Christmas with the! clamp a freeze on wages and needy is a 60-year-old worker who contributed $100 he had saved iworking conditions. He alse confirmed that he is| throughout the year. This “Tithe

considering a declaration of national emergency. The President met for two) hours with Democratic and Republican congressional leaders, Secretary of State Dean Acheson and Defense Secretary George C. Marshall. After the meeting the White! House issued a statement which]

But pieced together the letters from the men who lived! said there "appeared to be onan

the tragedy gave a more vivid, heartbreaking picture

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and {died about 600 other employees. Shuts Steel Plant The strike halted trains on the { Elgin, Joliet and Eastern Rail|road, forcing the Carnegie-Illinois Steel Co. plant at South Chicago, Ill, to shut down (for laék of rail

Both firms are subsidiaries of je. -Illinois’ 14,000 workers were led.

i! The trainmen quit work in fear ithat President Truman would

They have waged a long fight for a reduction in their work week from 48 ‘ito 40 hours, coupled with a 31cent hourly pay boost to compensate for the loss of time, Monon Down

The government seized the lines when they struck in support of those demands last summer and Presidential Assistant John R. Steelman has tried since then to settle the dispute.

Winter Bumps Hoosiers Again

Freezing Rain, Snow .Make Roads Slick

LOCAL TEMPERATURES

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Humidity at 11:30 a. m..

By CLIFFORD THURMAN Old" Dr. Wintertime held Hoo-

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CHICAGO, Dec. 13 (UP—Train- | the nation’s biggest rail center | today, disrupting movement of for the third day Wednesday. : | There were intermittent attacks by Chinese Commu. « " nists who have forced their evacuation by sea from North- :

But one thing I will never forget:

We have been bitterly sneak attack.

And we cannot and must not accept such a beating. J For to accept such a beating, such a disgrace isin this most practical world—merely to invite another.

Statesmen may fume and rant and lie In search of the fame they seek But when we weary of liars and lies

Then the puny, it is

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rejected today a western-backed Arab-Asian plan for 8

cease-fire in Korea.

TOKYO, Thursday, Dec.

tions troops poured aboard transports in Hungnam Harbor

Quota in Draft Almost Doubled

160,000 Called For Next 2 Months

WASHINGTON, Dec. 13 (UP) —Acting Chairman Richard B.|

‘Russell “(D. Ga.) of the Senate In Western Korea, all “noneess- iih

Armed Services Committee urged| the nation today to build its

|Armed Forces through universally o South Korean capital's ap-

military “service” rather than: “training. "

Mr. Russell's recommendation followed the Defense Depart-

An additional 2000 extra Hoosiers will ‘be drafted into the Armed Forces in January and February as a result of the increased draft quota announced yesterday by the Defense De-

partment. . . State Selective Service headquarters estimated today that Indiana's quota for each of the two months will be 2250 to 2300 men.

ment’s announcement late yesterday that it has almost doubled draft calls for January and February. The Army had set a 90,000-man goal for the first two months of

|next year, with 40,000 draftees to Railroads affected by the be called in January and 50,000

in February. The new selective service quota is 80,000 men in each of the two months. "Warns Nation Sen. Russell warned that the _ ination must get used to “thinking

in terms of universal military!

gervice rather than universal military training.”

The Defense Department wants! -

to build the nation's Armed Forces through a “training”

officials are known to prefer a “service” plan. % aining”

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|east Korea. © The evacuation of all United Nations troops in the ‘northeist began Monday when 20,000 Marines and Army {troops fought their way out of a 4 (Chinese Communist trap near the 1 {Chosin Reservoir. :] News reports of the withdrawal {were suppressed two days at the {request of Gen, Douglas MacAr- 0] {thur's headquarters. £

‘proaches. Chinese Communists in American uniforms hit the United Na« tions defense line around the Hamhung - Hungnam beachhead Wednesday but were beaten off and chased back by U. 8. 3d Division troops. The enemy attack was the first: since the 10th Corps began its {evacuation of the last Allied foot= hold in northeast Korea Monday.

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