Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 December 1950 — Page 8

¥ } A 5 , - i g . ¢ “ Chinese Are Good Fighters; ‘They og 3 . 4 Have a Lot of Equipment—Ours + + By DONNA MIKELS, Times Staff Writer... "WAKEMAN GENERAL HOSPITAL. Dec. 16—-"When you hear the ‘Star-Spangled Banner’ you don't stand up—you dive for your we . Bn he speaker ‘was a 20-year-old Warsaw, Ind; GI, a youth who seemed to be speaking too softly, too undramatically for the tale of horror he was telling. * Sgt. Shirley Pollock ‘was wounded and captured and his 15 buddies were wounded or slain by Chinese Communists who stood on a hill and played “The Star - Spangled Banner before they formed into a hurtling, screaming death charge. » » ”

HE'S ONE of the several hundred Korean casualties flown half ~ around the world to This Camp Atterbury Hospital. The “White Christmas” they dreamed of will be in the white wards of this Army hospital And behind them are “the guy who fought next to me,” “my buddy who helped me get out,” “the guy .that didn't make it” whose “White Christmas” will be in white cross-marked fields of a bloodstained land. You can't translate the stories “of these boys-—few of them are out of their teens—into pretentious sagas of war and its horrors. It sounds best just as they tell't themselves, ug =" ” #*WE WERE 18 miles this side of the Manchuria Border, 16 men an a patrol” the yeiith from Northern Indiana sald. We walked into this gap, kind of a valley, and the Chinks got in back of us. They started throwing mortars and we were trapped. #One guy who was shot three

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s Shirley Pollock . . . didn't stand for “Star-Spangled Banner." July and lasted until Nov. 13 knocked out by a crude Chinese when a hand grenade exploded in “bamboo grenade.” his pocket, “I figure I was lucky “Those things are long sticks to Jast that long.” he grins. of bamboo, maybe 16 inches long, awn packed with dynamite,” he said. ROBERT McHENRY, of Osh- “They're twice as powerful as any kosh, ‘Wis, is only 18 years old./of the concussion grenades the He was 17 when he enlisted. He! Americans have.” 5

was knocked out by one of his! “It was somewhere past Yong-|

Chinese moved in and captured BY us... They took my clothes, my Guido Schoentrup shoes, my helmet and my rifle} weapon of warfare, onl: to be They took my pistol but they ‘Star - Spangled Banner. Every i emptied it and gave it back: must time they attack they blow a} AL* not have known how to use it. hugle or play something, They A Dry Night—

ll started whistling, blowing! : B Mt gles Re aE ty us, om Sunday Liquor ans ay he North Koreans.| # = ° Re rn The des throat if “WHEN 1 heard that first note, Slow New Year Parties

they find you wounded. The'I knew this was it.” : A : . Looks Like a Stay-at-Home Evening

Chinese'll. shoot you, then carry| go4 pollock said doctors Haan fe woul Where Your OUT*ithought he might be able to go Unless Police Turn Their Backs on Laws CHICAGO, Dec. 16 (UP)-Tt looks like a stay-at-home New!

fit ean find you. home to visit his parents, Mr, and od Sant ham inl after Mrs. Harry Pollock, over Christ00 wy stuff, vy even ‘a Jw ’ ; ; ' took an old blanket and wrapped mas, Year's Eve all over the nation this year, unless the authorities turn’ it “around me and put. a rock Dotted through the wards of their backs on local Sunday liquor bans. under my head. this rambling ‘hospital you find “They didn't harm any of the Other Korean casualties, wounded but they beat some of! One of the oldest is 25-year-old falls on a Sunday. ; the others with their own rifles. Guido Schoentrup, son of Mr, and In most places where local laws Out of the 16 we lost 10 men, Mrs. Bernard ‘T. Schoentrup, 5030 prohibit the sale of hard liquor on Saw little hope of reveling after killed or wounded, Southeastern Ave., the “old man” Sunday, celebrators were planning the state liquor control board “The night we were attacked of the group. Guido, with six home parties, Private clubs which Warned it would tolerate no‘she-

faced captured American equip-| ment and Russia's most modern

hit me above the eye. Little while later I couldn't see out of thei eye and they loaded me on al

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moaning over an expected slump in business because New Year's Eve

the Chinese stood up on the other years of Army life behind him, are immune from the law also hanigans with the strict Sunday side of the hill and played the went into the Korean struggle in

were expected to get a heavy bam ret {PIAY. { A lot depended on the police. Some states which ban liquor on Sunday permit bars to open at midnight and serve drinks anyiwhere from 1 to 4 a. m. Monday. | In these areas night spots made plans to offer late dinners and entertainment until midnight, then throw open the bar for several hours of drinking. “It should be quite a stampede

Kansas Drum Tight Kansas, which is so drum tight | that a bottle can't even be opened in public, expected a heavy run of private parties and club affairs. Package liquor sales are permitted, but not on Sunday. | The hopes of Texas night clubs | brightened after authorities said! they would “try .to be human.”

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In the nation's capital drinks can be served from midnight until 2 a.m, but several big spots. sald ‘they would not open at all, The {two hours weten’'t worth it, they {said.

Nebraska allows the sale of beer on Sunday.” Omaha night spots were confident that business would be good. “There are a lot of beer drinkers in Omaha,” one owner said.

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th asked me if he ought to own company's mortars on Sept.|dong-po with the 38th Infantry | tes. : 1951 model. Hy to make it out. I was the .g 28 near Suwan, He and four Regiment that Jim was injured. those bamboy grenades Inte he sen: ventadinn i : : jeader. I told him to go ahead and other GIs who had been without!“I don’t know where the ront| ES ue Te ang! fou ®T'in_ the air academy plan and has| onl $299.95 try. We didn’t have anything to § food all day were running to get was,” he says, “all I know is that|'ounded were in. {taken no action beyond its pre- my y rations. The mortar fell short. it was where the fighting was | “Tt blew us right out , . . we; oo survey he reported. tax included “7% think it was the second day 4 A Robert was injured, the other, s = = {never had ta jake a ep An i r———— . I ‘caught mine, about Nov. 22, or AE four were killed. “I WAS going through a roadjother truck pic us up and five pg. I ey and then the ri a ato Jim Bloom, 19, Rockford, Ill, block and a chunk of shrapnel hours later I was on a c-a7/Fire Destroys Home

{him about his wound. {buddy smashed my foot,’

{That's why I'm here.”

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Night spots “in Pennsylvania Their weapons, even the Russian services for soldiers

else again. They're good fighters mornings and afternoons in the Indianapolis Service Men's Center Hawn pom pm vm om wn Vn Ram va Sa Fa Sa Fa Uo Ho Va Fas ua Ya pain wy | ‘ : :

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when that happens,” one owner would permit them at least to said. : dance from midnight until 2 a. m. _ Other states don’t permit bars Ohio night spots expected to be to open until T a. m: "Monday gry, “8 morning, forcing night spots to Qregon petits drinkers to flout the law if they want to serve take their bottles to bars and drinks, clubs for their own use: -

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Senate, Washington sources said the postponement was almost |# ifure to be approved, which would suspend action indefinitely. : No Comment Made Arthur Wooden, secretary of] Madison Chamber of Commerce, said Gen, Spaatz and his board {made no comment after their'inspection of the site, which has a . -jone-mile frontage on the Ohio ‘River. : : :

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Cpl. Charles Fisher, 19, ‘Alton,! : ! “An expectant mother, her husTil, grins everyiime a “My Asks band, and their four children, ' he said. 28¢d 3 to 10, were forced to flee

(in freezing temperatures last! "om night when fire ‘destroyed their; THEN HE explained that the home at 2420 Sangster Ave. i Reds bombed his tank, knocking Thomas Bostick and his family both he and his buddy out. His |ost all their possessions, includ-| buddy landed on top of Cpl! ing Christmas gifts stored in the Fisher's foot. “" Hotise. “I didn't pay any attention for Indianapolis firemen responded; awhile and then gangrene set in. to an alarm and arrived as the walls collapsed. They worked Like other fellows who fought! two hours to prevent flames from

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