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U.S. and Turkish
Troops Withdraw
Before Red Drive
SEOUL, 0?) —U.S. and Turkish
troops pulled off outposts Vegas
and Elko Friday night as the big
Chinese drive rose in fury along
the ancient invasion road to Seoul,
30 miles to the south.
A front line dispatch said Allied
artillery at once loosed a furious
bombardment on the two scarred
heights. Chinese guns replied and
the artillery duel raged beneath a
full moon.
The Chinese Communists, strik
ing with 8,500 men in the West
while mounting a 6,500-man drive
in the center, thus had seized
three outpost hills east of the
truce town of Panmunjom.
The weary Americans and
Turks pulled back on orders after
more than 24 hours of bloody
fighting, often with bayonet.
AP correspondent Forrest Ed
wards reported a five-mile front
along the row of hills guarding
the road to Seoul was wone big
cloud of dust, smoke and explod
ing shells.”
Marine tanks stood on the main
line positions and poured hun
dreds of high velocity shells into
the ranks of the oncoming Reds.
Waves of fighter-bombers hurled
bombs and flaming jellied gaso
line on the attackers.
Marine Tank Gunner
Describes Fighting
For Outpost Vegas
WESTERN FRONT, Korea, tfl
—“It was just like a big slaugh
ter,” the weary tank gunner said
grimly. “Every time we would hit
the top of Vegas part of a body
would go flying somewhere, a
piece this way and a piece that
way.”
Marine Sgt. William J. Costello
of Chicago' was resting briefly
after firing high velocity shells
into Red troops swarming up the
slopes of outpost Vegas in western
Korea. .
The Marine tanks were perched
on the main Allied line, firing
down on Vegas, defended by bay
onet-wielding Turks.
“The Chinese were walking
with their rifles slung over their
shoulders,” Costello said. “Thru
my scope I could see them plain
ly. They were wearing new
clothes and acted like they were
going to a picnic. If you hit them
they would not stop. They kept
coming across the open to Vegas.
“We were firing 20 yards above
the Turks keeping the Chinese off
the top of Vegas. They were hit
ting Vegas from both sides, back
and front. I watched the Turks
pull a bayonet charge up Vegas
right after we threw three Willie
Peters (white phosphorous shells)
into a bunker. About eight Turks
-ran up there and bayoneted ev
erybody in sight and got back
down again.
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y., UP)—
Casualties in Korea have reached
a total of 2,303,542 for both sides,
a survey of official and estimated
figures showed today.
The Korean war will be three
years old next June 25 unless
truce talks halt the fighting.
South Koreans Denounce
Latest Truce Proposal
Appeasement and Sellout
SEOUL, ItP) — Bristling with
charges of Allied appeasement
and sellout in Korea, the South
Korean government Thursday
spelled out its opposition to the
latest Allied truce proposal in a
note to the United Nations Com
mand.
Maj. Gen. Choi Duk Shin,
South Korean truce delegate, left
Seoul to deliver the message to
Lt. Gen. William K. Harrison,
senior Allied negotiator, at Mun
san.
South Korea’s foreign minister,
Pyun Yung Tai, threatened to re
sign if his government approved
the still-secret Allied proposal for
breaking the prisoner of war
deadlock submitted to the Reds
Monday.
While never revealed officially,
South Korean sources this week
disclosed most features of the
plan.
Referring to two Red satellites
— Poland and Czechoslovakia —
nominated for a five-nation com
mission to handle prisoners who
refuse to go home, Pyun said:
“Our country will fight troops
from such countries.”
Four Bandits Lead Police
In Hot Chase Thru Bronx
NEW YORK, UP) — A siren
screaming, bullet-singing column
of police vehicles raced zig-zag
through three miles of Bronx
streets yesterday to capture a
quartet of bandits.
One of them was killed with a
bullet through the head as nine
police cars and a motorcycle cop
chased down the bandits’ careen
ing get-away car.
The bandits returned a fusillade
themselves during the chase, some
of the bullets crashing through
the windshield of a police car.
Police said the roaring pursuit
began after the bandits held up
Solomon Salberg, 53, owner of a
Bronx diner, as he was driving
back from a bank with money to
cash patrons’ paychecks. They
took $5,000.
Salberg hailed a passing police
cruiser, which sped after the flee
ing robbers, at the same time
radioing for other police to join in
the chase.
Negro Baptist Pastor
Held on Assault Charge
ANCHORAGE, UP) — The Rev.
Charles Kennedy, pastor of the
Greater Friendship Baptist
Church (Negro), was held in the
Federal jail Friday in lieu of
$5,000 bond on a charge of assault
with a dangerous weapon.
Wounded, but not critically,
was Moatie Lee Lilliams, 31, a
civilian employe at Elmendorf Air
Force base. She was shot through
the jaw by a .38 caliber bullet
Wednesday night.
In U. S. Commissioner’s court
the pastor said Miss Williams
picked the gun up from the seat
of his car and it discharged when
he attempted to wrest it from
her.
Two other occupants of the car
testified an argument preceded
the tussle over the gun.
No Significance
In “New Look”
For East Germany
WASHINGTON, UP — Top Am
erican officials saw no sign Fri
day Russia will withdraw its
300,000 troops from Germany
soon as a followup to putting a
civilian commissar in charge of
East German policy.
They tended to discount the
importance of Russia’s action,
viewing it mainly as a belated ef
fort to catch up on something the
West did nearly four years ago.
American diplomats responsible
for German policy interpreted
Russia’s administrative shuffle
Thursday as mere imitation of the
Western move in 1949. All avail
able evidence, they said, indicates
Moscow intends to keep its occu
pation army in East Germany for
some time despite the “new look”
on the control apparatus.
These officials saw no- particu
lar significance in the news that
Vladimir Semyenov would be the
Russian civilian boss in East Ger
many with the title of “Supreme
Commissar.” In the past Semyen
ov has served in Germany as pol
itical -adviser to Gen. Vassily I.
Chuikov, who now will be re
sponsible only for military stra
tegy — at least according to the
Berlin announcement.
Rumors have been current for
more than a year that Russia
might pull its troops out of Ger
many and sign a peace treaty with
the Communist - dominated East
German regime.
The Russian move in East Ger
many could be a prelude to such
a far-reaching policy maneuver,
but American diplomats have
been operating on the theory that
Russia would not attempt this
until a powerful East German
army was trained and equipped.
Moscow is believed only half way
through this task. .
Good Weather Predicted
For 37th Indianapolis
Speedway Classic
INDIANAPOLIS, (An—'The fab
ulous good weather luck of the
Indianapolis 500-mile speedway is
expected to hold again tomorrow
for the 37th death-defying edition
of America’s premier auto race.
The forecast for the 200-lap
grind around the brick and as
phalt horseshoe, scheduled to
start at ill a.m., is cloudy and
humid with the temperatures in
the high 80’s.
Should thundershowers strike
sooner than anticipated, the event
will be put off until Monday at
the same time. But in all the
years since the race began in 1911
there’s been only one postpone
ment — "1915 — and two curtail
ments—in 1926 at 400 miles and
in 1950 at 345 — because of bad
weather.
Business houses have an
nounced the observance of Dec
oration Day by closing all day
Saturday. Federal and terri
torial offices including the Post
Office will also be closed.
Rosenberg Sentenced To
Death For Fourth Time,
During Week of June 15
NEW YORK, Of) — Condemned
atom spies Julius and Ethel Ro
senberg were sentenced Friday to
die in the Sing Sing prison elec
tric chair the week of June 15.
This was the fourth time that
Federal Judge Irving R. Kaufman
had set the execution date amid
a’ maze of legal defense maneu
vers which are still continuing.
The Rosenbergs were accused
of conspiracy to pass atom bomb
secrets to Soviet Russia.
The couple originally was
scheduled to die the week of last
Jan. 12.
Rosenberg, 34, a graduate of
City College of New York and an
electrical engineer, and his wife,
36, were arrested on July 15, 1950,
and convicted on March 29, 1951.
They have two sons.
Judge Kaufman, in originally
sentencing them to death, called
their crime “worse than murder”
because it could possibly iead to
the deaths of many innocent per
sons if an aggressor used the
atomic weapon against the United
States.
Eisenhower and Taft
Avoid Party-Splitting
Break In Relations
WASHINGTON, UP) — President
Eisenhower and Sen. Taft today
avoided any party-splitting break
in their relations despite some
fundamental differences over U.S.
policies in Korea and the Far
East.
The White House took the in
itiative only a few hours after
Eisenhower had said at a news
conference that “No,” he did not
agree with Taft’s assertion that
the U.S. “might as well forget the
United Nations as far as the Kor
ean war is concerned.”
Eisenhower aides called Taft’s
office to inquire about the health
of the Senate Republican leader.
They intimated the President
planned to address a note of cheer
to Taft, hospitalized in Cincinnati
with an undiagnosed hip pain.
Taft was publicly silent about
the President’s disavowal of the
Ohioan’s proposal that the U. S.
withdraw “from all further peace
negotiations in Korea” if present
truce talks fail.
Robert A. Taft, Jr., the Sen
ator’s son, noted in a telephone
interview from Cincinnati that
Taft had said in his Tuesday night
speech he was giving only his
personal views on the Far East
ern situation and had said these
views were not intended “as any
criticism of what is being done or
not done.”
DC-6B Sets Distance Flight
Record, California to Paris
PARIS, Iff) — A four-engined
DC-6B commercial airliner today
completed the first non-stop flight
from California to' Paris, a dis
tance of 5,700 miles.
The plane, bought from Doug
las by the French airline, Trans
port Aeriens Intercontinentaux,
thus broke the record of 3,900
miles for non-stop commercial air
liner flight.
Manned by a French crew, the
liner had no' passengers.
Reds Reject Latest
Still-Secret Allied
Korea Truce Plan
MUNSAN, UP — The Commun
ists rejected outright at least one
major reported concession of a
new Allied truce plan submitted
in secret sessions Monday at Pan
munjom, it was disclosed Friday.
The plan had been called a
“now-or-never” offer by many
sources and the Reds had been
expected to answer it at next
Monday’s meeting, first after a
week-long recess.
The Communists turned down
on the spot an Allied proposal
that ultimate disposition of any
Red prisoners v^io refuse to go
home be left to the United Na
tions.
The Allies had insisted pre
viously that these prisoners be
freed if they still balk after a
limited, post-armistice period of
Red “explanations.”
However, excerpts of Monday’s
meeting quoted North Korean
Gen. Nam II as saying the Reds
won’t accept either proposal. He
made it clear the Communists
don’t like the new plan or the
old one.
Hawaii Delegate Spurns
“Commonwealth Status”
WASHINGTON, UP) — Delegate
Farrington of Hawaii said today
that “to extend commonwealth
status to Hawaii as proposed by
Sen. Malone (R-Nev) would be
colonialism pure and simple.”
Farrington added in a state
ment that it. would be a backward
step and a “rank and cynical be
trayal of promises that would
damage the prestige of this coun
try throughout the Pacific and in
many other parts of the world.”
“It is a phony proposition,” he
declared, “and we of Hawaii want
nothing of it.”
Anthony Dimond
Dies In Anchorage
Anthony Dimond, judge of the
U.S. District Court at Anchorage,
died last night at Anchorage, ac
cording to information received
this morning.
Judge Dimond was born in New
York in 1881 ahd started his car
eer as a school teacher, later turn
ing to mining. He had practiced
law in the territory since 1913.
His colorful career, which has
paralleled the growth of the terri
tory, started as U.S. Commission
er at Chisana in 1913 and then as
U.S. Attorney at Valdez in 1917.
He was a member of the terri
torial legislature for four sessions
in the Senate as well as being
mayor of Valdez from 1925 to
1932.
Dimond was outstanding for his
work as Delegate to Congress,
where he served from the 73rd to
the 78th session, during a period
of Alaska’s greatest development
and was noted for his tireless ef
forts for the good of all Alaska.
He has been judge of the Third
Division since 1945.
Dimond was a Catholic, a mem
ber of the Pioneers of Alaska and
the Elks. He is survived by his
three children.