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Evening star., 1951-05-18
By jones M. Common
Sun Paper War Correspondent

ON THE CENTRAL FRONT,
Korea, May 18.-The radio mes
sage warned: Chinese 5 miles
ahead in strength and coming
south"
The company commander passed
the word down to the fox holes. 1t
was then o'clock Wednesday aft
ernoon, and the message had
been sent by a patrol which, as
signed to comb an area (censored)
ahead of the defense line, had
been turned back by enemy fire.
At that time soldiers were off
watch-resting. taking baths or
eating hot food at roadside
kitchen at the bottom of the 2,2O0-
foot ridge line where the company
was dug in. Everybody was Or
dered to get into battle positions
Immediately.
At 6 o'clock the Chinese hit.
I'VE were ready for them" said
one rif1eman in the company.
Haggard and Edgy.
Tired, haggard, edgy. Pfc. Ches-
ter D. Smith. 10, of Parkersburg
w. Va, told the story of his per-
sonal ordeal as he waited yester-
day beside road for an ammuni-
ton truck.
Il don't know how many it was, -
he said, "but it was more than ]
have ever seen before, and they
hit us with artillery and mortars
and burp guns and machine guns
and everything else.
1T was just runners-they come
running through the mine fields
without weapons to set them off
Suicide troops they were, 1 guess
You could see them blow them
selves UP.
when they tripped flares you
could see more Chinese behinc
them strung out all over the hill
From the way they sent them
they must have known our mines
were there. We'd had contact with
one of their patrols the day before
in that area, so they must have
known.
Attack i'm Waves.
"Then there was the bugle!
and the whistles and their armed
troops came along behind them
It seemed like waves would at
ltack every Is or 20 minutes. The!
Evening star., 1951-05-18
GI Tells How His Company
Stopped Foes Bonzoi Thrusts

would hit, wait little while and
then another bunch would come.
1T looked like 800 or 900 men
would come at the company-on
all sides of the line, from all
directions.
1--WE laid mortar and machine
gun and rifle fire-everything we
had-on them. Our mortar was
really in there, too-right in a
teacup.
Boy, our artillery was just
right. Going right over our heads
and splat right into the middle
of them. Seemed like you coulda
reached out of your foxhole and
grabbed the shells going over,
they were so close over our heads.
Every time they banzaied we'd
stop them, and we held them off
for four or five hours before we
began to run out of ammunition.
We had more down at the bot
tom of the hill but we didn't
have time to dig in-just to fall
to the ground-and they were
shooting down at us.
Ammo Running Out.
1--WE were holding them, but our
ammo was running out again-by
then we must have been shooting
steady for six or eight hours.
Somebody got us some more am
munition from somewhere and we
made another stand.
Finally the ammo got so low
that the only thing we could do
was banzai 'em with bayonets. 1t
got wilder and wilder. They'd
banzai us and throw us back and
we'd banzai them and get it
stopped-over and over-I forgot
how many times.
Every time we kept losing a
little more ground, but we were
keeping them from breaking
through. 1t went on like that all
night and then when it got day
light air came in and hit them
and we got some help to stop
them.
"A small-scale counterattack by
a fresh unit stopped the Chinese
and the company was able to
|reorganize. bring up a new supply
of ammunition and prepare new
defensive positions.
II guess We'll get it again to-
night" Pfc. Smith said and
wearily shook his head, ''bugles
and banzaies."
Evening star., 1951-05-18
The Weather Here and Over the Nation

near the coast tonight. Low 50-55
degrees. Tomorrow cloudy, cooler
in southwest portion.
Wind: Northeast. 20 miles per
hour, at 11:45 am.
Five-Day Forecast for Washington
And Vicinity May 1928
Temperatures average near
normal. Rather cool Saturday
with rising temperatures Sunday
and Monday. Cooler Tuesday or
Evening star., 1951-05-18

District of Columbia-Cloudy
rather windy and cool this after
noon and tonight. High near so
degrees, low near so degrees. To-
morrow mostly cloudy and con-
tinued cool.
Maryland-Cloudy. some rain
likely along Eastern Shore tonight.
Low near SO degrees, Tomorrow
mostly cloudy and continued cool.
Virginia-Cloudy, some rain
Evening star., 1951-05-18

lone Of the numbers. He meant to
write Liberty 5-6700"-the phone
|of the Defense Department.
There's no Liberty 6-6700 in the
telephone company's listings. But
when you dial Ii. 6-6700 the call
automatically goes to the Cham
bers' funeral home at SIT Eleventh
street Sc. The number there is
listed now as Atlantic 6700, but
soon it will be Lincoln $1,000 and
the dial machinery is already set
up for the change.
Miss E<len Mendes, secretary
at the funeral home. said the
phone calls started early this
morning and have been coming
in steadily.
1--WE just tell them about the
error and tell them the Air Force
number is Liberty 5-6700," she
said.
Repeat: The Air Force number
lis Liberty 5-6700.
Evening star., 1951-05-18
Courts Order Forbids
Ferry Workers 10 Strike
BY the Asseciaied Press

NORFOLK, May ia court
order has been issued forbidding
Virginia Ferry Corp. employees to
strike until provisions of the Vir-
ginia public utilities labor law
are met.
The injunction was issued yes
terday by Judge j. Hume Taylor
against the United Marine Divi-
sion Of the AFL international
Longshoremen's Union. The COM
pany and the union are negoti-
ating for wage increases subject to
the certif1cation of the union as a
bargaining agent. The judge ruled
that the ferry company is a public
utility within the meaning of the
State labor law.
About 40 employees of the COM
pany left their jobs for three hours
on April 81, causing a traffic tieun
Evening star., 1951-05-18

year to employees in the lowest
brackets to $500 year for en-
ployes earning annual salaries of
$11 900 to $4,000.
Some union leaders charge the
very officials who drew up the
proposal made it especially liberal
for the upper brackets, since they
themselves would benefit under it.
They charge that the planners are
really concerned only with. them
selves and their top colleagues,
leaving the crumbs for the rest
OF the Governments employees"
One union official summed it
up this way:
We're going to leave it up to
the Senate Civil Service Commit
tee. Who needs a larger pay
raiSe-an employe with a family
who is struggling along on $4,000
or $4,000 year, or an official who
is making $1,000 to $4,000 a
year? We're confident the COM
mittee will see it our way"
|. Meanwhile, Postmaster General
Donaldson yesterday urged Con-
gress to give postal workers a pay
raise, although he didn't specify
AN exact amount, beyond saying
that the four lowest grades should
be eliminated to provide an en-
trance salary of at least $500 a
year.
CENSUS BUREAU-Census Bu-
reau employees at Suitland, Md,
are petitioning for an investiga-
ton OF the w. M. & A. bus fare
increases, declaring the new fares
are exhorbitant. Census Bureau
officials also have requested an in
vestigation.
COMMERCE - The Commerce
Department needs typists, stem
ographers, laborers, messengers,
offset press and photostat opera
tors, power collator assistants, sta
tistical craftsmen and varitypists.
Apply to Room 1903, Commerce
Department Building, Fourteenth
street and Constitution avenue
NV.
X \ Il y
STATE - The State Depart
ment'S employment Office will be
open every Saturday from 9 am.
to $50 pm. to interview appli-
cants for jobs. Among the job
openings are those for stenogra-
pliers, clerk-typists and messen-
Evening star., 1951-05-18
Tax Study Protected

A study of Fairfax Countys
tax structure is to be conducted
by the Federation Of Citizens
Associations.
The group agreed to make the
inquiry one of its major projects
for the year but left details to
new officers to be elected next
month. President Guy M. Bayes
said he hopes a solution will be
found to tax controversy which
centers around increased school
needs. Rural residents complain
their taxes have been raised to
meet school needs in urban areas
Evening star., 1951-05-18
Caught in Own Cycle

Fairfax County School Board
members are beginning to won
der about a vicious economic
cycle. They rent two basement
rooms in an apartment at
Baileys Crossroads.
Yesterday, they read a letter
from the apartment owners
saying that because of a larger
school budget and higher tax
bills, rentals will be raised
from $45 to $50 a room.
Evening star., 1951-05-18
BY the Asseeioted Press

Western Union employees in De-
troit voted to go back to work at
noon (EST) today, following the
lead of workers in several other
major cities who earlier returned
to their jobs under labor union
orders.
About 900 workers in the San
Francisco-Oakland area still were
to vote today on obeying the back
Ito-work orders issued by Adolph
Brungs. president of the Western
Union Division. AFL Commercial
ITelegraphers' Union.
Philadelphia Meeting Today.
In Philadelphia a local vice
president said his unit had not
received Mr.. Brungs orders. and
declared about 800 Western Union
workers there would not return
unless the company permanently
cancels its training program for
supervisory personnel. A meeting
was called for today.
But in Cincinnati, Boston and
Buffalo Western Union operations
were back to normal. The work
stoppages began Wednesday in
Philadelphia and Cincinnati and
spread rapidly to the other cities
Iaffecting about 5000 workers. The
dispute involved a week-old man.
Iagement program of training
Supervisory employees excluded
from the union to operate trans
mission equipment.
The company yesterday agreed
temporarily to cancel the pro-
gram.
Company Calls 1t Illegal.
Western Union officials termed
the walkout illegal. and denied
violating the company's contract
with the CTU. The company said
ut would postpone its supervisory
training program Ito avoid any
further interference with i'm
portant defense traffic and the
messages of the public"
Labor union officials insisted
their contract bars excluded"
supervisory employees from per-
forming duties covered by the con-
tract.
Mr.. Brungs charged that man
agement started the training pro-
gram Sin anticipation of a possible
national strike on or about July l."
The union head said about
$4,000 Western Union employees
had voted 10-to-1 to strike unless
the company agrees to negotiate a
union demand for a fiat Is cents
an hour wage boost.
Mr.. Brungs said Western Union
employees now receive an average
lof about $1.27 hourly under the
present contract which expires
July l.
Evening star., 1951-05-18
Trade Board Leaders
Accused by Leeman Of
Blocking Home Rule

Herbret P. Leeman. president
of the Federation of Citizens As
sociations, today declared the
leaders of the Washington Board
of Trade are working against the
majority of District citizens by
blocking home-rule legislation.
In a statement issued today Mr..
Leeman said the 5000 members of
the Board of Trade represent
only l per cent of Washington
while the many church, citizen
and women's organizations seek
ing home rule have a total of sew
teral hundred thousand members. .
The Senate District Committee
last month failed by a tie vote to
report the Kefauver-Taft home
rule bill favorably to the Senate.
Thorntown w. Owen, president
of the Board of Trade, "boasted
that the boards opposition to the
bill was principal reason for
failure of the bill to be voted out
by that committee" Mr.. Leeman
said. The Board of Trade has
been in favor of national repre-
isentation but opposed many parts
of the current home rule bill.
Says Majority Backs Bill.
MI. Leeman declared:
The experienced statesmen on
the Senate committee voted for
the new bill but it was temporarily
blocked by new and inexperienced
Senators. The Kefauver Taft
home rule bill will very probably
receive favorable consideration be-
cause the great majority of the
people of Washington want self
government and by the Board of
Trade, of the Board of Trade and
for the Board of Trade"
The Federation leader said that
the major District organizations
supporting home rule have COM
blned membership of more than
433.000 residents. Organizations
opposed to home rule have a men,
bership of only 10000, he added
Testimony Cited.
Board of Trade officials made
no comment as such on Mr.. Lee
mans statement but cited two Sec
tions from testimony given in
February during Senate commit
tee hearings on the home rule bill.
One section was testimony of
E. F. Colladay, general council of
the board, in which he pointed out
that a Star poll of IS citizens as
Sociations-members of the feder-
Iatlon-in May, 1850, revealed that
II associations had voted approval
OF the Kefauver bill, % had taken
no position and Is voted to oppose
its passage.
The other was an excerpt from
the testimony of Clifford H. New
ell, a former president of the fed
Grafton. Mr.. Newell said he
thought there were about a. 900
residents who are members in
good standing OF the various
neighborhood associations. He also
pointed out the fact that 25 as
Evening star., 1951-05-18
Heated Fight Shaping
Over UNIT Issue al
Women's S Convention
BY the Asseeioted Pres.

HOUSTON, Tex, May ia
heated fight over the controversial
universal military training issue
shaped up today at the annual
convention of the General Fed
Grafton of Women's Clubs.
A vote on a resolution indorSing
the program was expected during
the day.
That issue has provoked the
most heated discussion in the six
day convention.
The main sessions will end to-
night with addresses by Mrs. Perle
Mesta, American Minister to Lux
embourg, and Erwin D. Canham,
editor Of the Christian Science
Monitor.
A Western breakfast, with cow
boys and band ends the con-
vention tomorrow for the 1000
from all 48 States.
Sent Back for Rephrasing.
The resolution indorsing uni
versal military training and serv-
ice for young men beginning at
the age of 18 came before the con-
ton Wednesday. Many women
objected to the wording of the
resolution, some of the idea itself.
It was sent back to the Resolutions
Committee for rephrasing and
presentation again today.
The controversy extended to the
legislation workshop yesterday
morning. Opponents had hand
bills mimeographed charging that
the UNIT bill now pending in
Congress gives the President near
ly complete control of the popu-
lation of colleges and that a well
fare state would be brought about
by the establishment of the pro-
posed national security training
corps.
Convention delegates yesterday
collected a free will offering of
$416.03 for Korean relief. The
money was to be carried home by
Korean Foreign Minister Y. T.
Pyun, a convention speaker yes
terday.
Mr.. Pyun said yesterday in an
interview that his people fear that
Gen. MacArthur's proposals might
bring Russia into the war.
Might Provoke Russia.
They all agree as to the efficacy
of these" he said, but what the
people fear is that these tactics
might provoke the Soviet Union
into war"
He said that what the Korean
people don't want is a stalemate-
"a standing source of loss" he
termed it.
If this undecisive war drags on
for years in a stalemate. we'll, you
will find that we are vanishing
people," he said.
"The people of Korea are not
bitter about this devastation that
has come to their country. They
are dazed.
Koreans know that they are
not fortunate enough to choose
between life and death. They
know they must choose between
two different forms of death-the
death of a free man or the death
of a slave.
And it is worth it to die a
free man"
Evening star., 1951-05-18


CANDIDATES-The Society for
Personnel Administration. COM
posed of the Governments per-
sonnet officials, has started bal
loting for its new officers. It's a
mail vote, and the deadline for
voting is June Is.
Those nominated are: President,
William T. Mcdonald. Navy De.
partment; T. Roy Reid, Agricul-
ture Department.; David T. STAN
ley. Defense Department. Vice
president. Jerry c. Doster. Federal
Civil Defense Administration; z.
r. Draheim. Agriculture Depart
ment: Harold H. LEIGH, Civil Serv-
ice Commission. Secretary-treas-
urer, Elizabeth T. Gardiner, Gen.
sus Bureau; Esther c. Lawton,
Treasury Department; Birdie Lou
Arnold, Veterans Administration.
Field chapter officer, William E.
Becker, Securities and Exchange
Commission; Edwin Deckard, Vet
Grams administration; Edward
McCrensky, Navy Department.:
Executive Committee regularl
Helen F. Harrington, Air Force
Department; William P. Lehman,
Budget Bureau; Fordyce w.
Luikart, Civil Service Commits
Tillie w. Pollock, Eco
nomic Sterilization Agency: E.
Charles Wood, Office of Price
Sterilization. Executive Commit
tee Gunior), Laura E. Duncan.
Department.; Susan
Elliott. Navy Department; Donald
H. Grubb, Treasury Department;
Rhea G. Kahn, Civil Service Com
and Philip H. Whitbeck.
Navy Department.
(Be sure to read the Federal
Spotlight column sir days a
week in The Star and hear the
Spotlight radio broadcast at
6::15 pm. every Saturday ouer
Station WMAL.)
Evening star., 1951-05-18
Playwright O'NeiII
And Wife ReconciIed
BY the Associated Press

NEW YORK. May 18.-Play-
wright Eugene O'Neil and his
wife have reconciled their differ
ences, Attorney Winfield Aron-
berg said last night.
Mrs. O'Neill left their 100000
Marblehead home last February /
and later sought separate support.
The attorney said, They have
withdrawn all legal actions and
will live together again"
The 62-year-old dramatist and
the former Carlotta Monterey, his
third wife, were married in 1929.
Evening star., 1951-05-18


situation is compared to private
industry, where virtually all work.
ers get time-and-a- half, it isn't
hard to see why the Government s
military installations, as well as
some other units, have a hard
time keeping skilled civilian work.
ers. the committee has been told
The defense agencies aren't
advocating true time-and-a half
overtime payments for everybody
What they propose is that en-
ployes earning less than $1,000 a
year get time -and-a- half and that
those earning over 5000 be guar
anteed at least straight overtime
pay for extra hours.
PAY-The various Government
employe unions are planning a
singing rebuttal Wednesday to
the Administrators 6.97 per cent
Federal pay raise proposal when
they appear before the Senate
Civil Service Committee.
Many Of the unions will urge
that lower -salaried employees re-
ceive the greatest percentage in
crease. since these workers are
the ones hardest hit by increased
living costs. The committee will
be told that the rank-and- file
Federal employe deserves at least
"a II per cent boost to match his
purchasing power back in 1899.
Also, a few of the employe
groups are resentful at the Civil
Service Commissions top officials
who drew up the 6.97 per cent
pay increase plan, which would
give raises ranging from $l65 a
Evening star., 1951-05-18
Milwaukee Will Get
Beer From Germany
lat 6Oc to zoe q Bottle
BY the Associafed Press

CHICAGO. May 18.-Milwau
kee. famous for it's beer, is going
to get some beer from Germany
but it will cost more than the
home brands.
The freighter. Geheimrat Sar-
tori which docked in Chicago yes
terday after a 28-day trip from
Bremen. Germany. has $40 cases
of German beer consigned to Mil
Waukee. The 258-foot diesel craft
is scheduled to leave for the Wis
consin brewery city tonight.
The foreign brew will sell for
about 60 to 10 cents a bottle in
Milwaukee, said spokesman for
the Hamburg Chicago Line, own
ers of the freighter.
Evening star., 1951-05-18
Madison PTA Meetino

Installation of officers and a
May Day festival will feature a
meeting Of the James Madison
School Parent-Teacher Associa-
ton at 7 pm. Monday at the
school, 1929 North Stafford street,
Arlington.
Evening star., 1951-05-18

a We ar g e t
time = and = a =
h If overtime
payment for eX-
ira hours. En-
ployes earning
more get con-
siderably ] es S
overtime p ay.
with employees
in the middle
anu Top DIdCk-
e is receiving
less than even
straight pay for
overtime work.
Evening star., 1951-05-18
The Federal Spotlight
The Federal Spotlight
Defense Agencies Ask Overtime
Pay Raises to Hold Personnel
By goseph Younn

The defense agencies Congress to increase Govern
en employees overtime rates same time It boosts
their salaries. ~ ~ ~
Top admals and generals have the Senate Civil
service they have been losing personnel
Evening star., 1951-05-18

Wednesday. Washington area
normals for period are II high
and 81 low. Showers likely Tues
day or Wednesday totaling fourth
to half inch.
River Report,
fFrom U. S. Engineerso
Potomac River cloudy at Harpers Ferry
lHarpers Ferry ~' ~
Evening star., 1951-05-18

gers. Apply to Room 113. 1874
New York avenue NV.
Evening star., 1951-05-18

ernment's low overtime rate.
At present, only Federal en-
ployes earning less than $4,000
Evening star., 1951-05-18
after sunset.
Precipitation.

Monthly precipitation in inches in the
Capital current month to datel:
Evening star., 1951-04-15
By Burton Hawkins
stov Stoff CORRESPONDENT

PITTSBURGH, April 1.-two
of the Pirates promising young
pitchers, soon expected to be
pitching tents for Uncle Sam. are
to face the Mats in the final fex-
hibition game for both teams here
tomorrow if soggy Forbes Field
drains sufficiently to permit it.
Rain, cold and the lake-like
condition of the playing field kept
the clubs idle today. For the
Pittsburgh players particularly. it
was an unwelcome vacation, They
have been inactive five straight
days.
If they play tomorrow, the
Pirates will toss pair of 19-year-
olds at the Mats in Paul Petit,
100000 bonus baby who thus far
hasn't justified the expenditure.
and Bill Koski. a 6-foot-5 right
handler who won and lost 2 last
season with Mayfield, KY, after
being graduated from high school
at Modesto. Calf.
Petit, left-handed native of
kLomita, Calf, took his Army phys
ical here yesterday and is await
ing the outcome of that examina-
ton. Koski is carrying la
draft card and anticipates an early
invitation to report for a physical
exam
Petit won two games and lost
seven with New Orleans last sea-
son. his first year in organized
baseball after signing a highly
publicized contract with Pitts
burgh which even took care of his
honeymoon expenses.
Manager Bucky Harris will
counter with Sid Hudson and
Sandy Consuegra. Hudson has
been inactive since April ! with a
lame back.
Regardless of tomorrow's game,
the Pirates and Mats will end their
exhibition states with moderately
successful records. Pittsburgh has
Ia 17-14 mark, while the Mats have
won II. lost l3.