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Believe Slayer Watched Police Hunt Clues |
Several Questioned
In Death of Driver By TOM HICKS The coolest slayer in local WisIy—a young man who walked umly away from his victim's wody and then returned to the cene while state, county and city authorities were investigating the crime—was sought by law enJorcement officials last night in the lover’s lane murder of a former lumberjack. Authorities said the footprints indicate that Michael Mattes, 29, of 1850 Livingston Ave. ran after his slayer, Suddenly the slayer turned and fired on him from a distance of about 30 yards. | Then, after calmly going) through his victim's pockets, he walked east across a cornfield near lonely Guion Rd. in the vicinity of W. 38th S8t., where Mr. Mattes had parked his ear with his 17-year-old fiancee, Nada Alexander, 2011 W. New York St, Returns to Scene After leaving the cornfield, the! slayer turned north through a woods, where authorities lost his footprints, i They believe that he went! about a mile north of the slaying! gcene and then returned, mingled with the crowd and watched the! coroner, the state police, sheriff's deputies ‘and city detectives in-! vestigate the crime. “He's the coolest killer I've ever seen,” said Lt. Thornton L Biddle of the sheriff's office. Detective James O. Hiner of the State Police and Detective Capt. William Parrish of the sheriff's office agreed. The second set of the killer's footprints indicated that he walked up to the body from the western gqdge of the field in the opposite direction from which he had escaped. Capt. Parrish said he may have even rubbed shoulders with the investigating authorities.
Wore Sport Shoes
Footprints indicated that thes slayer wore a rubber sport shoe and did not run a single step after murdering Mattes. The officers were unable to find the bullet which killed the former jumberjack. It left the victim's body and may have gone as far as, 200 yards, authorities said. They! added ‘that it will probably never, be found. Apparently the slayer used a high-powered 22-pistol or rifle; Authorities were checking all persons known to have robbed victims in automobiles. They said that about three months ago a couple parked near the place where Mr. Mattes was killed saw a young man dressed in Army fatigue clothes and carrying a, rifle. i Several persons were ques. tioned last night, but no arrests were made. Mr, Mattes had left his Sancee| in the car after she discovered! that her purse was missing, |
Man Electrocuted While Changing Bulb
A man was electrocuted last! night while changing a light bulb in the extension cord he was using while helping a neighbor install a new bathtub. Melvin Radcliff, 39, of 2046 N.| Tacoma Ave. was pronounced) dead by Dr.~Robert Whorley, who |
. rushed to the scene in a General | * Hospital ambulance, and Deputy |
Coroner Robert Rohn. { The body was wedged between | the floor and the ground and] police had to saw out a floor) board to release it. The accident happened in the; home of Mr. and Mrs. Carl Wil-| liams at 2042 N. Tacoma Ave.| The bulb in the extension cord | had burned out. Mrs. Wililams handed Mr. Radcliff a new bulb. As he was changing the bulb, he | suddenly said “Oh!” and collapsed.
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HEAVY DAMAGE—Two cars were struck al noon yesterday in the 700 block N, West St. by | Ground rescue parties from motorist Eldridge Williams, 17, of 815 W. 25th St.. who had no driver's license. Suffering minor head Robests Field, Monrovia, reached
injuries, Miss Lucille Proctor, 57, of 2124 Pennsylvania St., is resting in fair condition in Methodist
Hospital.
Reds in Bad Way With UN Stronger
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| brigade) launched a general of-
during that period they were in | fensive from the Pusan beach-
danger of being pushed into the sea. Their toehold on the Korean peninsula had become dangerously small in each instance. But both times the Red invaders were forced back beyond the 38th Parallel. The record at the end of the first year's struggle reveals that we've taken part, not in a police action such as was the original intention, but in a real war, regardless of what it officlally is called, Twelve months ago, as events have shown, ‘we were even weaker than we ihought. When the North Koreans crossed the parallel in an effort to conquer their southern neighbors, President Truman | acted speedily. He »lunged us into the struggle as a demon stration to the Communists that aggression anywhere would not be tolerated. | The trouble was — the Air Force, which at Cirst we in- | tended to use almost exc.us- | jvely, was unable to stop the Communists. As the 3outh Koreans retreated in disorder and it became necessary for us to throw in ground troops, it was evident that we had too few men who were rrained and equipped for action.
” » o JUST AS IN World War 1I, we togk an initial pea‘'ing. the North Koreans overwhelmed | us. They infiltrated our lines, disguis their soldiers as re- | Seas, They swooped down | upon ‘us from seemingly im- | passible mountains—at night, | Da the help of only token forces by a few other United | Nations members, our pitifully | small army kept giving ground After one month of the war, the South Korean forces were shattered and U. 8. troops on hand still numbered only about 3500. We'd fought what Gen. | Douglas MacArthur ca‘led “one | of the most skillful and heroic holding and rearguard actions in history.” But the fact was that we'd been pushed perilously close to the southern tip of | the peninsula. More men, more tanks, heavfer guns were needed. By the first week in August,
| we'd managed to put parts of | ! five infantry divisions on the |
scene totaling about 60,000
i men. With roughly 50,000 poor- | ly equipped South Korean sol
diers standing with us, we were beginning to get on more equal terms with the enemy, whose | 100,000 excellent troops or- |
| ganized in 10 well-equipped di- |
visions, and at least an equal | number of reserves. Before the war was three | months old, the enemy's attacks not only had been halted, but consistently repulsed. Then occurred the famed Inchon land- | ing, the well-planned flanking atack at sea which permitted our forces to strike the North Koreans’ most vulnerable spot. With the 1st Marines, the 7th U. 8S. Infantry Division and South Korean units sweeping inland in that area, Gen. Walton Walker's 8th Army (con- | sisting of four divisions, five ROK divisions and a British
head in the south. = ” 5 SEOUL, the battered South
Korean capital, was back in our
{ hands within a matter of days.
Then, while our troops mopped
up that area, ROKs crossed the i By late October, |
38th Parallel. it was obvious that the North Koreans were all but licked. Our forces continued to push northward toward churian frontier, and enemy troops were being captured by the tens of thousands. Then, as November across the' scarred peninsula,
crept |
the jubilant race of the ROKs |
toward the Yalu River suddenly halted. had ended for victory for our
The war—one war— |
side, as Gen. MacArthur later |
was to tell Congress. But suddenly something new was added.
Chinese Communists: entered the battle. Supported by tanks, artillery and mortars, they launched strong counterattacks throughout the northwestern region of Korea. The optimistic United Nations forces now began to realize that the whole face of the war had changed. Dreams of getting back home by Christ mas were forgoten. The Chinese Rete pressed forward in almost unbelievable strength. __ Despite the impressive air-
sea-ground power Gen. Mac-
Arthur had built up. the over- | whelming size of the Red forces |
was too much. From the moment of their entry into the war until today, the Chinese
Communists ‘consistently have |
paid dearly in lives. But somehow death seems to have meant liftle to them. As long as there were reserves to shove into their places the Red troops have fought hard— and died by droves. » ” -
SO WE BEGAN to retreat again. Seoul was lost for a sec ond time. It was destined to change hands again before long.
the - Man. | Meanwhile, the United Nations
forces and the ROKs were pushed below the 38th Parallel. Unlike the first retreat, however, this time the withdrawal was in good order. By the first of this year, the U.S. had approximataely 140.-
000 troops in Korea, the ROKs |
100,000, other United Nations a total of 20,000. ' Opposed tu these forces were an estimated 300,000 — possibly more — Chinese Reds. But things were vastly different now. We were punishing the Commies severely, day in and day out, Long before Gen. MarArthur was recalled to the U.S. in April, our forces had reached the point where, were they permitted to cross the Manchurian border to bomb the enemy's supplies, we could have put the Chinese out of business, Lacking that authority, there
was bound to be considerable | bitter fighting ahead, thanks to’!
the Red leaders’ decision to keep pouring in replacements.
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June 23-—All 40 persons aboard perished when a Pan American World Airways Constellation
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|the scene near the village of} |Sanogehte, about 45 miles away. ~The airliner crashed into a hill tentatively identified by rescuers las Mount Foria. | French officials at search headquarters here sald no other de[tails were available. Thirteen of the 40 victims were Americans—eight crew members and five of the 31 passengers, | Earlier, search planes had indi{cated they spotted “signs of life” around the wreckage. Food and medical supplies were parachuted. However, Pan American and Civil Aeronautics Authority offi-| cials flying over the scene said “the plane disintegrated and there could have been no .survi-
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