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No Man's Land—
61st YEAR—NUMBER 290
Patrol Tries For Prisoners
In Cold
7 Men Go Outi
Hell
for Information
About a Strangely Quiet Enemy
By JIM G. LUCAS, Scripps-Howard Staff Writer ON THE 38TH PARALLEL, Dec. 27—It was 11:10
p. m. and we were almost lines.
There were seven of us.
two miles beyond our own
Hinson, a sergeant, Maller
and Padilla, both corporals; Fleck, Shertzer and Wodarski, all privates, and me. .
We were a listening post, but most of all we wanted
prisoners. We wanted to intercept enemy patrols probing our lines. : For 17 days the enemy across the parallel had been strangely quiet. There were reports of - possible massing troops. But no one knew for sure. Day after day we had waited for him to strike. And day after day he had done nothing. Waiting for an attack that doesn’t materi-
Mr. Lucas
alize becomes nerve wracking. Everyone expected it Christ-
mas Eve. The conviction the enemy would hit while we were celebrating became almost an obsession. No one had gone to bed but there was no party. Every man kept his rifle handy. Not a can of heer was opened. But there had been no attack. The boys who manned the Christmas Eve outpost tangled briefly with a squad of North Koreans. But the Reds scooted . across the valley and got away. So tonight we were still looking for. some sign of the enemy's plans. We weren't the only ones out. At least three more listening posts—tense, cold, vaguely frightened men— were out in this silent no man’s land. %
= . “THAD driven to L. Company at 6 p. m. Already it was dark. Inside a dirty mud hut serving as a command post, officers and men were warming their hands over an oil burner. There were introductions but it was impossible to mak» out faces in the flickering light. The captain dug out a box of crumbly fudge—a Christmas box from home—and passed it - around. We stepped outside. A lieutenant, six months out of West Point and a month's combat veteran, gave us our orders. “You're not looking for trouble,” he said. “Try to avoid it. What you want is information. If possible take prisoners. We want to know what they're doing and thinking. If you
Hit-Run Driver Under $3000 Bond |
John Culp, 29, of 2805 Boulevard Pl, today was bound over to the grand jury on a charge of] failing to stop after a fatal traf-| fic accident Saturday night at) 13th and N. West Sts. ’ Judge Joseph M. Howard fixed bond at $3000. Police said Culp admitted yes-| terday that he drove the vehicle!
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which killed Edward Green, 40,
of 713 W. 13th St. “ Culp told officers he had been drinking, and became frightened after striking Mr. Green. He drove. his car from the scene and later reported it stolen. The arrest was made by Sgt. John Jones and Patrolman Earl Moon, a traffic division team assigned to fatality investigations.
TRUMAN TO MEET PRESS WASHINGTON, Dec. 27 (UP)— President Truman will hold “a news conference at 3 p.m. (Indianapolis’ Time) tomorrow.
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must shoot, shoot low to get them in the legs. ; “If you run onto a patrol smaller or no bigger than yours, let them come close. If possible let them go through you, Order them to surrender first. If they're Koreans there's a chance they will give up. If Chinks, you'll have to fight. = » » “IF YOU run onto a patrol too big to handle, lay low. If they see you, split up so that some of you can get back. Report every 30 minutes. If surrounded and you can't talk,
scratch the mike's face. We'll |
know what that means.” Silently, in single file we started out. Occasionally some one slipped on the ice and picked himself up cursing softly. When we started I had been the second man in line. Now I was bringing up the rear. Every breath hurt after a couple of miles. Now we were at the front lines.. Ahead lay the no man's land. Across the valley sat the Reds—Chinese and Korean. We
halted, Padilla, the radioman, |
contacted the rear. “We're going down,” he said. We picked our way down the icy slope, sliding, grasping at rocks and bushes. In a rice paddy below we picked our way over a narrow trail. Lieutenant Warner dropped back. - ” = “TRY TO memorize this route,” he said, “You may have to come out alone. only way in or out. There are
~ booby traps, trip flares and land
mines on either gide. ~ We reached a narrow pass a mile beyond our lines. Ahead lay a deserted village. Sergeant Hinson posted his men. I stopped with Fleck and Shertzer. We crouched in snow in a shallow ditch concealed by a clump of brush, It was 7 o'clock. We strained for some glimpse of the enemy. There was a full moon and the snow-covered valley was as bright as day. Our eyes began to play tricks. I concentrated on a clump of bushes ahead. Panic clutched my throat as I thought I saw them marching toward us. I looked away and back at them.
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Schoolchildren To Get Free Milk
Board OK's Federal Lunch Program
By JOHN V. WILSON Free milk lunches were on the way to 2859 needy Indianapolis public school children today. : . Participation in the federally supported school milk lunch program was authorized
{by the School Board last night.
Dr. Herman L. Shibler, superintendent of schools; said, “We'll get the program rolling today.” City schools will receive approximately $5600 from federal funds for the remaining six months of the school year, Dr. Shibler revealed. The program will be continued next year. Action Follows Survey The free milk program was adopted following a survey instituted by Dr. Shibler to determine its need in the grade school system. The urgent need for the program was called to Dr. Shibler’s attention by The Times early this
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300,000 Reds Set for Lunge
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McCarthy's
HOUSTON, Tex., Dec.
Next 2 Weeks
By EARNEST HOBERECHT
United Press Staff Correspondent i TOKYO, Thursday, Dec. 28! —Chinese and Korean Communist patrols made a series]
cobbler’s son.
an oil millionaire 20 years ago and was later forgiven
of probing attacks along an by her father, but friends weren't sure what the outcome
85-mile front in Korea|y,ug be in the case of Mr. McWednesday and sent spear-|Carthy’'s 17-year-old daughter, heads stabbing within 27 miles Glenalee. lof Seoul, Glenalee was reported married Some enemy patrols gained ati to George Pointikes, 18-year-old least seven miles into South Ko- Rice Institute football player who rea. They struck out from an was her “high school sweetheart.” attack force of 300,000 Reds| Mr. McCarthy whose fortune massed in two formations, one has. been reckoned at $200 mil‘within 35 miles of Seoul and an-jjon, had no comment, but friends other in the east. said he was “deadly furious” and
A full-scale offensive against ‘when he's that way, you had.
|Seoul was expected within 10 days petter watch out.” or two weeks. ; ‘Madly in Love’
Gen. Douglas MacArthur's ‘headquarters announced that Whether Glenalee was still liv{these front line forces wereing at home was not disclosed, backed up by well over one mil- hut it was reported she spent lion Communist reserves. {Christmas Day with the Pointikes Main Threat {family in their home behind AnThe U. S. 8th Army, which of- gelo Pointikes' shoe repair shop. ficially absorbed the 105,000-man| The elder Pointikes refused U. 8. 10th Corps Wednesday, 8 comment on the marriage, but [braced along a 140-mile coast-to- cautioned newsmen: “DOB. be jooast defensive line to meet the, everything you hear.” | The Communist patrol actions! Mrs. McCarthy, reported by crackled all along an 85-mile friends to be still “madly in love” lstretch of this front from Kae- with her husband despite early lsong in the west to within 25 squabbles in the family circle, {miles of the east coast. was not answering the telephone. | The main threat loomed north) garvants said she was resting of Seoul, where 200,000 Chiness ,5 for the wedding of an older {and North Koreans continued 10 gaughter tonight. : build up ‘striking a a ia the ancient Sh opsolian invasion route to the Korean capital. Seoul itself was ary stripped Day said the 43-year-old oil mag{for battle. Its inhabitants were Nate appeared “stunned and at a streaming south by the tens of 1088 for words. thousands. |. Young Pontikes first denied he Less than 40 per cent of the was married to Mr. McCarthy's city's 1,250,000 inhabitants re- daughter. However, he weakened {mained by this morning. Some when told that Justice of Peace 150,000 left in the past two days Nash Oliver of Waco, Tex. had alone. “ lconfirmed that he performed the Yntied roying oy! marnieg ceremony on Dec. 2, n ess War Correspond- : : ent Gene Symonds Pris en . Ask Her Daddy Seoul that the approaches to the] “Ask her father,” the youth bridges south across the Han said. River were covered with a solid, Mr, McCarthy's riches include mass of bundle-laden refugees. {vast oil holdings, refineries, a Seoul is a dying city,” Mr. chemical company and the swank Symonds said. * |new Shamrock Hotel at Houston. The business section was virtu- A sports enthusiast, he has tried
ally abandoned. Side streets were to bring professional football to deserted. The railway station Houston.
1 2 Ready to rao up the front. However: he.pastessed Jictie but line forces in the coming Red as- > Berce ambition When le sloped sault are potential Communist | "th Faun Lae 1S reserves of well over 1 million | 1930: He way 53 and his hride of troops, a special communique | 18 was the daughter of multe from Gen. MacArthur's head. millionaire oilman W. E. Lee.
quarters reported. Mr. Lee also was furious with
munist strength: In Korea,
‘too. Manchuria or en
Korea—444,406 troops, compris-§15 a month apartment {ing 277,173 Chinese and 167,233 swore to become as rich as the North Koreans, Lees. Three years later he had Against these forces the United |made his strike in oil and ordered Nations have arrayed an esti-|the $700,000 mansion built. vs 250 0 meh, including ae He sent all his children to pubfrom the Korean northeast coast He Scmoola: 1 of five Me to Pusan in the so 3lenalee, second o v - 530 In the southeast coast. | thy children, had been sched: : TH uled to serve as maid of honor Husband Awaits Wife today at the wedding of her older Who Shot Him in 1948 sister, Mary Margaret, and Harry RED WING, Minn, Dec. 27 Richard Jr., Texas A&M College (UP) — Emil Hanson said today Student. ‘ the was looking forward to a
happy 1951 with his wife Gladys, Dw who shot him in 1948. vs/2-Room Cottag
Mrs. Hanson was sentenced to Destroyed by Fire
a term of up to five years for shooting her husband during a| Fire destroyed a two-room cotquarrel in September, 1948. She tage at 4947 W. Morris St. this was paroled after serving one morning.
year and 11 months. Mr. Hanson
"You Had Better Watch Out'—
As Daughter Elopes Texas Oil Millionaire ‘Deadly Furious’ As Girl Weds Immigrant Cobbler’s Son
Friends who called at the $700,1000 McCarthy mansion Christmas
Included in the loss were alllstitution must do so.”
testified for her at the trial. He sald that since the quarrel, he and his wife remained on the “best of terms.” :
WOOLED LAMBS HIT PEAK ~ CHICAGO, Dec. 27 (UP) -— Wooled lambs sold for $32.50 per hundred pounds, equalling the all-
the personal belongings of th¥ tenants, Mr. and Mrs. Birch Adams. ; The cottage, one of three owned by Mr. and Mrs. Garrett McBurney, was the second one destroyed by fire in the past month. Cause of the blaze or the
time high of $32.25 at the Chicago stockyards yesterday.
amount of loss was not de-
termined immediately.
High School Skaters
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27 (UP)—Multi-millionaire!
h Withi Glenn McCarthy, who was a poor boy himself when he mar-| Push Within ried a rich man’s daughter, was reported “deadly furious” | [today over the elopement of his daughter with an immigrant
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In a scathing indictment of]
Eviction Plan
Impossible to Move Within 60 Days, Air Force Told
By IRVING LEIBOWITZ
Bitter Temperatures | Knife Into South -
By United tress The worst cold wave of the
'season gripped the nation today from the Rocky Mountains to the Atlantic Coast. Temperatures plunged far below zero.
was impossible to support plans to evict 2200 people from Tyndall Towne within The coldest temperature re-
60 days. ported was 36 below zero at Lone An urgent, secret appeal Rock, Wis, It was 34 below at
Mayor Rejects 29 Dead in Nation;
Tyndall Towne ‘Deep Freeze’ Spreads From Rockies to Coast
Most Roads
Clear in State LOCAL TEMPERATURES
12m. .....10 Tam... 8 1a m...10 8am..." 2a m...10 9 a m.. 11 3a m...10 10 a. m.., 14 4a m...10 11 a. m.. 18 5a m... 9 12 (Noon) 13 6am 8
Humidity at 11:30 a. m. 52%
By CLIFFORD THURMAN The Weatherman climbed
from top-ranking Indiana Air Sparta, Wis. 31 below at Rochest- 3t0p the Federal building to-
activation of Stout Field and py ousting of 475 families living in the area.
The appeal, warning of possi-
tributed to the cold, including,
ible enemy air attack in Central. eight men-—two each in Connecti-|
Indiana, was presented to the cut, Michigan and Ohio and one Mayor as: os each in Wisconsin and New York] “The life of the city is at stake. — who suffered heart attacks The chaice is clear—either we While shoveling snow. house the Tyndall Towne families] A Michigan man suffered a or we protect the city andifatal heart attack while putting county.” 'chains on his car and a Vermont, Top National Guard officers re- man dropped dead after pushing portedly asked the Mayor to sup- his snowbound truck. In Ohio, port the reactivation of Stout|two children fell through an fey {Field as a ‘gesture of good faith” pond and drowned. |to the Air Force. The officers said | ithe Air Force wants assurance) i the people want Stout Field. | Six deaths were attributed to y ; {the weather in New England as| Used for Defense {the temperature dropped to zero! One theory, advanced by some; Boston suburbs. Air Guard officers, is that the Afr New York and Chicago had Force is considering using Indi-| thei idest’ weather of the stan] ana pilots of the Air Guard to heir coldest we | defend Indiana. This is one of S00. | their chief selling points in their| An official reading of 9.2 below
fight to activate Stout Field. zero was recorded at Chicago's, Bayt sald:
Zero in Boston
Midway Airport and it was 10
Indiana has merit. I think we 27 in 1872. could work out the plan in eight 19 Below at Airport | months or a year. But I can't] | go along with any plan to move The temperature varied widely
'the people out within 60 days.” 'in the Chicago area, which was! The De said he had con- struggling to dig out from under)
It was 3 above in the but O'Hare Field on the city's Cites Time Element ‘northwest edge reported an un
“At this time, it appears wiser official 19 below zero. to me not to disrupt the lives of] The weather bureau
posal and came to the conclusion that:
Towne. 1 will go along with any] the next 24 hours.
{plan to give Andianapolis Sir PIO, Rain Drenches Seattle tection but I must have time. . And I must find some place to In Salt Lake City, enduring its put the people.” 17th straight day of fog, The appeal brought to light one wintry chill froze the mist into a | aspect of Civil Defense that has four-inch-thick sheath of ice that | previously been overlooked by the \general public. An Air Guard of- and disrupted service. [ficer said. Seattle was being drenched by, “Central Indiana has no fighter its greatest rainfall in history.
!Juvenile Court “Gestapo-like” command, ready to take to the The city broke the old annual | methods, a special judge today! air to defend the area in the event rainfall record of 45.78 inches on
|freed the teen-age figure in the
{Jerry Owen case. | Special Judge Jessie Levy sus-|
It gave these estimates of Com- his daughter and Mr. McCarthy, itained a writ of habeas corpus Director Charles Broderick, who More rain was forecas : [brought by the 17-year-old girl'sihas been informed that Indian- day. but colder weather staved especially in Legend has it that Mr. Mc- attorney. The writ charged she apolis would be a “choice” turget off flood threats along the Sno- areas but the majority of Hoosier route 1.350,406 troops. Already in Carthy moved his bride into and was a victim of “spite” arrest for bombers, said he had no qualmie, =nd by Juvenile Court because she re- knowledge of any fighter squad- Snohomish River, {fused to give self-incriminating ron in the vicinity available to Northwest.
levidence. . |. “It is high time that these |activities ‘be investigated by the {Bar Association, and a general {housecleaning is in order,” At{torney Joseph 'Mazelin, counsel {for the girl, said after her disimissal. | In making her ruling, Judge Levy said: | “The Constitution gives every person the right not to give in|eriminating evidence in a crimi{nal action. . . . It is one of the laws that makes this country the wonderful country of liberty that lit is in counter-distinction to the {Gestapo-like methods of Russia. | “At a time when we are fight-
ing for that liberty, I feel that we|™ent office will start receiving # = ou
the Air National Guard moves Sunday and since then the rain-| out.” fall for this year had climbed to)
Marion County Civil Defense 45.88 inches. ;
Nooksack,
|defend Marion County. : | The cold wave knifed far to the | Air Force officers said several'South. It was 15 above at Ama- | months ago that in the event of rillo, Tex. Firemen who fought a {enemy air attack, Indiana would tank car fire at Ranger, Tex, {be defended by fighter planes were coated with ice.
\trom Selfridge Field, Mich,
Most Severe in History Highways were slippery and {dangerous throughout much of: (Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Pennsyl-| ivania and New York. Many minor | ‘auto accidents were reported in| : |New York City and icy sidewalks, That was the invitation to Hoo- (caused many sprains and frac-| sier taxpayers today from Ralph/tutes among pedestrians. tan a-| W. Cripe, U.S. collector of ‘in. A %-year-olc Lew, “ore ‘anc ternal Yevenue here /lady was given the stiffest fine The Internal Revenue Depart- (Continued en Page 2—Col. 1)
A-hem, Do Tax Paying Early, Too
| “Come early and avoid the
{ Mayor vit a “The plan to hase a Hoosier above in New York, nearing the hbo | fighter squadron here to protect record of 6 above set for Deoj, The off this. ROD
coated power and telephone wires at
| National Guard officers asked er, Minn., 35 below at Decorah, day and sent up “smoke” sig{the Mayor to indorse federal Iowa, and 29 below at Freeport, nals with his frigid breath.
Polar bears in Hoosierland
At least 29 deaths were at- were warned to get out their
snowsuits. Those frosty, round circles he sent up meant zero to 5 below in central Indiana. He signaled that Indianapolis may expect some-
Snafu— : ST. LOUIS, Dee. 27 (UP)— Chilled patrons of a tavern here were ready to claim misrepresentation today. They sat shivering. in hats and gloves last night when the heating plant failed at the South Seas Bar and Grill.
thing like 5 degrees above zero tonight but it may drop to close to zero in outlying districts. Last night in downtown Indianapolis the mercury dipped to 7 above and at Weir Cook Munieipal Airport and in the outskirts it was 3 above at the lowest ebb. Warmer Tomorrow
night with continued cold
Slightly warmer temperatures with partly cloudy skies were predicted for tomorrow. Predictions indicated a possible high of 26 de-
sidered “all angles” of the pro- a nine-inch Christmas snowfall, | Bees somarrow loop!
he forecast for the entire state called for 5 below zero or lowe in the north and 15 to 20 in the
"| south.
Low marks last night included
Couldis pelow at Terre Haute; 11 above 475 families living at Tyndall Promise only slight relief within|, poangville: 3 above at Cinein-
nati; zero at South Bend; 7 below at Ft. Wayne, and 9 below at Chicago. g Snow still blanketed the northern areas with 11 inches recorded in the Gary-Hammond-Chicago vicinity. There was seven inches Ft. Wayne accompanied by seven below zero temperatures, - Over in Findlay, O., just across the Indiana-Ohio state line, the mercury plunged to 14 degrees below zero. Most Roads Clear Highway conditions remained
t for to- hazardous in the extreme north,
the northwestern
Skagit and highways were reported clear by in the Pacific State police. Strong winds yester- : - day and most of the dry snow away.
last night had swept -Some drifting was reported,
‘however, and a few of the major highways spots. Secondary roads remained
had dangerous, icy
covered with ice in the most part.
Hot Stuff LONDON, Dec. 27 (UP) -—Bridesmaid Doris Long solved the problem of how to stand still without goosepimples at a Christmas wedding in unheated St. Augustine's Church. Uns der her wide skirt she attached two hot water bottles.
\who are sworn to uphold the Con-(t3X Payments from thousands of,
Point by Point
by-point analysis, pointing out where, in her opinion, Juvenile Court officials had deviated from the Constitution in their dealings with the girl. ig “Regardless of any d€als that were made (the two immunities that were granted to the girl) this girl still had her Constitutional rights, . . . The Constitution re-
protects them by the same cloak of liberties that protect adults,” Judge Levy said. Judge Levy referred to the 'se-
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cret hearing” out of which the girl's arrest order grew, and pointed out that by their
{Hoosiers Tuesday. Deadline tor Brrrrr—
ipayment is Mar. 31.
gards a juvenile as a person and.
Mr. Cripe warned taxpayers » Stop Beefing, Hoosiers; %
Judge Levy then gave a point-|notify his office promptly if they
hange their address after filing 1 a el org aes res posit UP Here It % Really Cold HY i
ble refunds. : Sh refunds : Mercury Dives to —31° in Rochester, Minn.;
Times Index Policemen Don Fur Caps to Face Elements
About Peoples. creresves 1] ROCHESTER, Minn, Dec, 27 (UP)—The thermometer read | Births Deaths, "Eve ” iB as 10 degrees belo® zero, making this one of the coldest towns in : ’ 5 nation today, and the cop on the corner smiled wryly—and Bowlin Sasgeranecr 15 : “One thing about. it,” Patrolman Ray Wagoner said, Hen a 13 won't be any thieves operating—they'd be frozen witn the ry censnenanne 13 | — m caps which they pulled down 6
Comics Crosswo Officer Wagoner, hopping fro B SIDSIWOR]. «x131siatenene 16 lone foot to another, was one of their ears. Their overcoats
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This community's 30,000 citi-
the few moving things on the|fur collars to keep their ‘Policemen, rail
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zens have great respect for such others who have to go o weather and kept inside whenever may look a little different . possible. J mr dress, rne: Mrs. Manners srs nsasuen 17 The schools were all closed fo the ou wr
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Radio and Television ..-+ 13 | which could frost an ear in only couple A askaaean 11 - [8 few. minutes, cheated them ou ’