Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 December 1950 — Page 18

i er we 3s. : 3 4 - a Lg Si GH Pid i i i g 4 ; oa ; : 3 ll 2 . : Si : ; 1 EB 2PAGE 18 ________ i THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES _ MONDAY, DEC. 25; 1950, Texas Army Hospital Mends Broken Bodies. | : So Fon “ a ; : 3 Air Evacuation Planes Bring War Derelicts |, SG TIoCRaby” will never Sound the same again to Sgt. Max = Direct Battlefield. 'A Chinese Red bugler tooted the jazzy notes to signal an all- : By Sita San Antonio from ard Staff digad Sue attack on the Second Division sector held by Sgt. A a 2 OW Pp n. £ E! . . *, “SAN ANTONIO, Dec. 25—They came back. The lame and the] ' Bedlam exploded. The sergeant saw a Chinese wading a shallow] Accompany Procession fo Manger Site ’ g 5 : river with a hand upraised like ; By GEORGE BITAR, United Press Staft Correspondent Blind, the armless and the legless . . . and yes, even the faceless A ; the rifie at another Chinese ad-| : 350 These are the derelicts of war, the survivors of battle in Korea, he Was ready to throw a grenade.|y,noing toward his position. 3 BETHLEHEM, Dec. 25 (UP)—More than 10,000 pilgrims gath- . a Nichols took a bead and fired and ered today in ancient Bethlehem to celebrate the birth of the Prince . Are the soldiers who were hit hard but not mortally. Then came another bugle! of Peace in a manger 1950 years ago. 4. Today almost every other bed at Brooke Army Hospital boidsithe Red stumped into oblivion. sound, but this one sounded| The pilgrims were joined by 20,000 refugees from the Palestine 5 NA a. casualty. Air evaculation planes bring them direct to San! But the rifie blast gave away sweetly to Sgt. " 0 war, who have been scattered through Bethlehem’s municipal area nio from overseas. | the sergeant’s position and he Previous night attacks, he had the fighting ended. | FMaj. Gen, Arthur R. Gaines, Most of the wounded don’t mind|was greeted with an enemy ma-| So co Out that the first t Among the pilgrims to the-— Set hospital commander who had 35 talking about the roaring cannon). DuEst. call was a signal to attack. of Jesus Christ were a : . A ba years service in the Army Medi-land the crack of machine guns inj" EUR Durst. A bullet pierced second one apparently mean from the United States. S. er been int cal Corps, personally greets each/that land on the other side of thes AT a8¢ went on through his/the objective had been taken. included U. S. Senators ; victims alr shipment of the wounded.'world. It seems to relieve the! = °: at ig to shoot his gun/third bugle call was the F. Green (D. R.L) and|_ _ : ed in | Some of them reach the hospital tension. release those pent-up again b Setused to work.dig in defensive position. Homer Ferguson (R. Mich.), who children within six days after they are hit emotions. : good left hand he threw meant the attack was over. arrived here from Beirut on a S OMOITOW vite 18 battle. | Morale is high because every G w of the refugee problem in " tions, I “Extra doctors and nurses, both! -n at Brooke Army Hospital roans ere Fata Mideast. : She Was Off ial d éivilian and Army, have been . .. ers himself the luckiest guy! The ones who groaned got ol ; More than 600 of the pilgrims cic chest of rushed here to care for the splin-| , Kk | gro got an extra slug—just for good measure. entered from Israel by special |. Publish fered bones in the many ortho-'n the world, The uniichy ofed; A North Korean stood with rifle atop a slight ground rise. Hel ee eniasion of King Abaullan off In Publishing Firm which 1 Pedic wards, the damaged nerves 3S" 1ft on the war-seore * aimed carefully ints the head of any prisoner who made a sound Hashemite Kingdom of Jor- Mop Maude F. Wood, vies pres- i organ. aralyzed libs in the neuro-| : i Cd nt of s Publishing Co. } ph Yoh the shattered! In the big orthopedic wards the| The 30 living skeletons, once prize speciments of the greatest San, who BO ne ape on be at of ele Crown ne 0s Will ! rents of Mouths and severed ears and ripple of laughter mocks this army in the world, had been huddied in a tiny wad and told to sit were 150 from the diplomatic and|leum following services at 1:30 of the ¢ Plinded eyes in the other special- grim business of treating the down. for chow. They did as they! consular corps and the United |p. m. tomorrow in Shirley Bros.’ ~The *4zed sections. wounded. A man who can’t tell a were told. {was throbbing. his arm hurt ter- Nations staff in Jerusalem. Irving Hill Chapel. > used ta Psychiatrists work patiently joke or take a joke is a lonely] Then came that rain of death ribly. The principal ceremony was Mrs. Wood, who was 75, di Jalysls, with the casualties whose nervous soul. {from a Russian burp gun. For! Finally, it seemed like hours celebrated late last night by Al-|Friday in her home, 5314 E. 9th peril) systems were twisted and warped! Even the paraplegics, those five minutes the gunman fired later, all was There were al bert Gori, Latin patriarch of Je- St. She had been an official in brain. 3 from the endless night attacks with spine injuries who are para- and reloaded and fired again. no more groans. No more shots, ¥ 4. i rusalem, who led a traditional|the publishing. company since its " which by fanatical Reds. {lyzed from the waist downward, Then the rifleman took over to Max began his crawl for freedom. A Sk rocEBii along the 5% mile|Incorporation more than 30 years bri There were seasoned soldiers of decorate wheel chairs with at- snuff out the life of those who He managed to reach a haystack. | "The Professor.” a nine-foot bust d . . almost blocks pros from Jerusalem to. the 380. Her husband, Perry, is pres- It is $7 and old soldiers of 30. Kids tachments like they used to deck moaned and pleaded for mercy. Five of his fellow prisoners mir-| ' A dane m snow, aime : ident of the firm and her som, : who were 80 eager to join theout old jalopies back in high| Max Reid, 18, of Winnsboro aculously followed him. They the entrance to the architecture building at the University of Illi. Church fin the Nativity > oh the Ashton, manager. dren a Army that they lied about their school. Tex., bit his lip to keep from were the survivors. The other 24 nois, Urbana. The three co-ed snow artists are: Barbara Stinson of Site of Be manger | uw c e{ASTION, Tanager ball. 0. Mia. cerebral age and siipped in at the age of, Wheel chair races down corri- screaming. Pain wracked his were dead. Gary, Ind.; Carmen Mowry and Avis Raasch, both of Urbana. A detachment of Jordan cay-| Wood lived here 41 years. She was in devel 15. Veterans of World War II dors are one way to keep up the|body. The kid beside him had| When finally liberated on Oct. aly rode ahead and an honor|® member of the Central Chris fections who re-enlisted after they had competitive spirit. For Brooke gasped aloud and was murdered 18, Max was shivering in tennis H B Stork b . a escorted the group as it|tian Church, Woman's Departs | soured on civilian life. Profes-Hospital not only patches up bro-(by the rifleman. Max kept still. shoes and GI pants. He was nak- e seals { , but Not P olice gua od into Ea rg am. ment Club and Meridian WCTU, ; sional soldiers whose only profes- ken bodies. It also mends broken He tried to hold his breath andjed from the waist up and weighed pL ia Hoy m. Sunday, Indianapolis| She taught a Sunday school class At ti : sion is carrying a rifle or stuffing souls. a soy tkeep from breathing. His hip 75 pounds. Folly . Ys POLIS! tor many years. : pas. a cannon, . Here are some of their stories: | AMI: Other survivors include two : . = Th e P erf ect Tar get Fe King a aa x a | daughters, Mrs. Florence E. Wole eh Fate Was on His Side | “I guess I was the most perfect target in Korea.” special message to the Christian cot and Miss Virginia Bae Wood: The e “WHICH eye is it?" asked 19-year-old Rayburn Kramer of. William. Oxford, = of | Mission h Tex. was:putting the final worla 5h ving christians his a rT he Sa st ouches on his new states-side mustache. § . y {4 ’ ollows: Presman. Tex Red the 10Tt. oe “We were putting out flares in front of our lines. I was in a He expressed the hope that gaughier and two great grand- ONE: porter pic e ye. demolition outfit. We had trip wires out front and had it fixed so peate Would be established) B= : : to_the ; “No, you're wrong—it's the right” and Rayburn laughed aloud. any advancing enemy would set off a light flare by tripping the throughout the world in 1951. Ab- Mrs, H. I. Martin TWO: He had lost vision in the right eye, but it looked no different from wires. You know what happened? io . dullah also cabled greetings to, ws Mabel C. Martin, born in the con the left. Closer inspection of his face revealed tiny cheek scars—| “A South Korean with us ac-| Oxford thinks he was lucky to Pope Plus XIL Martinsburg, W. Va. and an mal out scars that told a harrowing story, . cidently tripped one bf the wires get hit only one time, in the leg. I Indianapolis resident 29 years, THRI of a brush with death. {he could be in bétter positien to we had just set out. The flare/He managed to crawl back to his Rites to Be Tomorrow [will be buried in Washington ployme: Rayburn Kramer left his farmisee out and maneuver the tank. went off. And there I stood. Talk|lines, after the flare went out and . "| Park following services at 10:30 FOU] home shortly after his 17th birth-| Suddenly a big shell—possibly about the spotlight. 1 was in it./lapsed into unconsciousness from For Andrew Wick a. m. tomorrow in Jordan Fu- ships : day. : {from a mortar—struck the tank And théy let me have it.” {loss of blood. | Andrew Wick, retired coal com-neral Home. care, h A tank driver with the Second and glanced off to the ground. — pany employée, will be buried in| Mrs. Martin, who was 52, died employr _ Division, he escaped injury when/pate was on Kramer's side. Had - Gl B k A Sutherland Park Cemetery fol-/Friday in her home, 829 N, sled. his first tank was shot up atthe shell exploded on contact aAITISon S$ prea r my lowing services at 10 a. m. to-| Bancroft St. She was a member FIVE point-blank range. {with the tank, he never could) T® #8 R | * f morrow in Moore & Kirk Colonial of East Tenth Street Methodist iii But this was only a reprieve. have told his story. But it ex-|___ 2 . egu ation for Chapel. Church and Queen Esther Chap- Soncer United Nations had more tanks. |ploded on contact with the ground | K | Mr. Wick, who was 87, died ter, OES. physica Kramer was escorting a supply and he received shell fragments eS in 0 d orea New yweds Saturday in the home of a sister,| Surviving are her husband, SIX: train to forward units. He was (in the. face and the right eye, Mrs. Sophia Drake, 5002 Guilford | H, I.; a son, Harrison C., Detroit; fuseare “unbuttoned,” with the hatch! “I guess I'm just lucky” he i P | By Scripps-Howard Newspapers Ave. Born in Germany, he came/two sisters, Mrs. Clarence Sy- bral pa open and his head protruding soisays. . Retired Po iceman, SEOUL, Korea, Dec. 25—No to Indianapolis 60 years ago. |mons, Baltimore, Md. and Mrs, a ‘ . 4 matter what happens Dee. 25, a 5 ; : y Surviving is another sister, Howard Patton Jr., Winchester, ’ Paral zed Waist Down War | Veteran Ppe Barney Goldman of Wilmette, lll, mops his brow and beams Mrs. Margaret Lippus, Cleve Va, and two grandchildren. Hons J y ’ young South Korean interpreter . . FICE Thomas J. Harrison, retired’ = = on his new daughter after racing the stork and six police cars in a |land, O. Er t A wheel chair “hot rod” breezed around the corner in the main|city patrolman and Army veteran|"*™ Lee ever after is going 70-mile-per-hour chase to a Chicago hospital. Goldman, finall IRRIGATION COSTS ganiza hospital building. of World War I, died yesterday|to believe in Santa Claus. A . : . es) Y INOT CROWDED It cost some $1 million to opere SaTTY. | o8p g curbed by the cops, explained his haste and got a police escort : tional 09 in Cold Spring Road Veterans/whole bunch of Santa Clauses— . i 3 It is estimated that Alaska has|ate 5000 internal combustion enCpl. Fred M. Morgan, 22, of the First Cavalry Division, was at| : to the hospital. Later he got ‘a ticket for speeding and reckless about 6 persons f h d i the controls. He sounded a big horn attached to the right handle of ministration Hospital. He wasiin GI uniforms. drivin abou . Be ons for each square Sines used in Pumping irrigation It 1s . the. wheel chair. And if that didn’t clear the congested traffic, he|"", . Lee has settled down to mar- 9- . . 0 . water on Nebraska land last year. ery tripped a bell tied to the left chair handle. . Mr. Harrison, who lived with a ! n gon, Don, at 4500 Crittenden Ave, [Tied life here with his North tion ca “Out of my way,” grinnd Mor-| ‘ » ’ “ a or loss . H Hn vo fter|® S0IPEr's bullet in the spine. He was a member of the Indianapo-{Korean bride of a few weeks— lal gan. He was still young afier|.; pe paralyzed from the walst|lis Police Department 20 years. but if it hadn't been for a small Be four and one-half years in the down for the rest of his life. He retired four years ago. {segment of the American Army, the De Army. | The old Army hospital axiom-—| Another son, Harvey, is a pa- Lee would be here alone and his has suc “The fish are biting and they the greater the injury, the lesstrolman and a third son, Delbert,(wife somewhere in North Korea How got-a pole ready for me.” he sald {the complaint—holds true forils a member of the Fire Depart-|at the mercy of the Chinese Com- : “IFred. Good looking, always smil- ment, munists. pro Fred was going to his home ining and joking, he defies sym-| Mr. Harrison, native of Hamil-| When U. 8. troops retreated In 1048 Biloxi, Miss. {pathy. He is more interested in/ton County, was an Indianapolis/from Pyongyang, the captain of emy of «Cpl. Morgan, on patrol, caught fishing. resident 32 years. Not long after the outfit to which Lee was at- Dr. 1 ——————— ss | joining the force, he was injured tached got permission for Lee to 1 3 critically when the emergency|take his wife to her home, south out th squad car crashed against a wall [0f the city.’ There they had to dealing at 21st and Illinois Sts. while Part, regulations forbade him nostic | heading for the scene of a minor [taking his wife with him on the cases | ) @ holdup. | retreat. habilits : Confined to bed several months, The leave-taking was pitiful. | | Mr. Harrison later was assigned] Tne newlyweds clung to each {to the Municipal Airport beat/Other. wordless but weeping, for 'where he served until his retire-|{five tragic minutes, while the | | ment. GIs tried not to look and strugHe was a member of the North|8led to keep their own eyes dry.

Park Masonic e. Police Post Finally, Lee tore himself from of the ao and Fra. Dis bride's embrace and leaped| ternal Order of Police, into dhe dee P phat Was to take Services will be held at 2 p. m. |, Pac o hs outst. at <P M-| Nobody slept much that night|

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tomorrow in Flanner & Buchanan | mortuary. Burial will be fj o-ineliing the sap ain. He ‘was { Crownland Cemetery, Noblesville. Next m ne up his mind. | . Surviving are his wife, Nora; jeep ? ornig, saking off in a {the three sons; a daughter, Mrs. captain drove b ® \convay, the {Mary Jane Riley, Indianapolis; a p ove back to Mrs. Lee's

f home. He returned just as the) sister, Mrs. Clara Lehr, Nobles- J { ville, and eight grandchildren. SORYOY ‘Was starting to roll.

! With him was the bride. ‘Mrs. Mary Franklin stl { Mrs. Mary Ellan Franklin, ror-| William H. Romey

{mer Indianapolis resident seven . . . {years, will be buried in Washing-| Dies ny Richmond {ton Park following services at| 10:30 a. m. Wednesday in G. H.| picHMOND, Dee. 25 William (Herrman Funeral Home. | Henry Romey, head of the Romey| 1s. Franklin, born in Orange, Furniture Co. 45 years, will be |

County, died Saturday in Mon-!

roe County Hospital. She was 70,| Puried in Earlham Cemetery fol-

{She was a member of the First| \OWIDg services here at 2 p.m. to-| Nazarene Church here and at| MOTTOW. | Bloomington, i Mr, Romey, a native of Liver-| | Surviving are two daughters, POL O. and Richmond resident | | Mrs. Ruth Freese, Lansing, Mich,,| ince 1905, died Saturday at Reid | = and Mrs. June Johnson, Boyne Memorial Hospital. He was 72. City, Mich.; six sons, Floyd, Kan- He founded the furniture com- |

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kakee, Ill; Lyle and Murl, both Pany in 1905. Charter member and president] ington, and ‘Dale, Muskegon,| Of the Rotary Club, Mr. Romer Mich. and Kenneth Walton, In- Was former president of the Re-|

and a great-grandchild. {was a member of the First Engi . {lish Lutheran Church, the Knights Mrs. Frieda Harris | Templar, Elks and Eagle Lodges. Mrs. Frieda Opal Harris, life. Fle Was county chairman of the long * resident of Indianapolis,|U- S. Defense Bond Sales Com-| dled yesterday in her home, 2746 Mittee. fia | Station St. She was 57. Surviving are his wife, two | Mrs. Harris was a member of Sons. William and James, both of the Hillside Christian Church, . (Richmond; two brothers, Fred, | Burial will be in Crown gi Richmond, and Elmer, Bluffton, following services at 2 p. m. to-| O- and two sisters, Mrs. Elizabeth

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‘Miss Agnes P. Cochran | Miss Agnes. P. Cochran, native} lof Madison and Indianapolis re~dent 50 vears. will be buried in Crown Hill following services at 10 a. m. tomorrow .in Flanner & | Buchanan mortuary, | Miss Cochran, who was 72. died {Saturday in her home, 1535 Pleasant St. She was a member of the Presbyterian Church. Surviving are a sister, Mrs, Helen Demarest, Beverly Hills, Cal., and three nephews,

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