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Evening star., 1951-03-04
.Subzero Cold Hits
West
BY The Associated Press

Subzero cold bore down on parts
of the midcontinent yesterday
an area still crippled by two big
blizzards in a week.
The twin storms, worst Of the
winter in the Upper Midwest area,
buried parts of a six-State area
under a paralyzing blanket of
snow. Gale-force winds and ice
storms added to the hardship.
Drifts ranging up to eight feet
deep halted or snarled highway
travel in parts of the Dakotas,
Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan
and Iowa.
Snow fell as far east as New
York State and New England.
At least II deaths were at
tributed to the weather. six in
Iowa and five in Minnesota. They
included deaths from overexer-
ton, fires and traffic mishaps.
Very warm weather prevailed
in the Gulf States. spreading as
far north as Chicago and Indian
apolis. indianapolis had a morn
ing temperature of IS and Chi
cago So before the edge of the
new cold surge came in.
Charleston. S. c.. had a reading
Of 30; Augusta. Ga. Sc; Atlanta
81, and Nashville. Tenn. 80.
Fair and rather cold weather
prevailed over the Far West.
Evening star., 1951-03-04
Pepper Brings $l4.80

A pound of pepper taken from
South Africa to Australia by a
Rotary Club member was auc-
toned in Melbourne for .$14.8O
cash.
Evening star., 1951-03-04
Red Cross BIoodmobiIe
10 Be in Anacostia

The Red Cross Bloodmobile will
circulate through the area east of
the Anacostia River for eight days
beginning tomorrow to receive do
nations Of blood.
The dates. locations, and hours
when the bloodmobile will receive
donations from volunteer donors
are as follows:
Tomorrow. the Ryland Methodist
Snurcn. Branch avenue and 9 street from
Tuesday. the Patterson School. South
Capltol ana Darlington streets from II
Wednesday. the Stanton School, Nay.
ior road and Alabama avenue from 10
THURSDAY, the Congress- HEIGHTS Meth.
odist Church, Fifth Street and Alabama
avenue from - pm.
=, Friday, the. Anacostia Methods,
Church; onan Fourteenth and U streets from
Monday. March 1o the sousa School
Ihirty-fourth street and Ely place from
10 am. to PM
Tuesday, March 12. the Turner school
II pm. '''l
"Wednesday, March IA. the Birney
school; Nichols avenue and Sumner road
Evening star., 1951-03-04
THE SUNDAY STAR, Washington, D. C.
MARCH 1851
Mrs. John 5. Service
To Return From India;
Diplomat S Post Filled
BY the Associated Press

The State Department has or
dered Mrs. John S. Service to re-
turn to Washington from New
Delhi where she has been awaiting
her husbands return to foreign
duty after his loyalty investigation
is completed.
Mr.. Services name figured in
Senator McCarthy's attacks on he
State Department a year ago. Ie
was en- route to take Fo"e.gn
Service assignment in India when
he was called back here March 16,
by Deputy Undersecretary Of
State John E. Peurifoy. now AM
bassador to Greece.
Mr.. Service waited many weeks
in Washington while the State
Departments loyalty board sought
new information on his wartime
record as an American diplomat
in China. Then his hearing lasted
several weeks. Toward the end Of
last year the State Department
loyalty board gave him a clean
bill Of health. His case now is
before the Presidents Loyalty
Board for review.
Meanwhile. Mr.. Peurifoy's sue
cessor in State Department ad-
ministration work, Deputy Under
secretary Carlisle Humelsing, had
decided the Indian post could wait
no longer and filled it with an
ether appointment. 1t was then
expected Mr.. Service would take
a post in South Africa but that
vacancy too has now been filled.
Mr.. Service now is employed on
on-confdential work in the State
Departments fiscal office. If the
review group upholds the State
Department boards decision, he
will be given new foreign assign
ment.
Evening star., 1951-03-04
Reports of Chinese Red Terror
Indicate Serious Resistance

from Mukden to Tientsin-a dis
tance of more than 400 miles.
through the dead of winter on
the first leg of his escape.
Other private sources tell Of
shootings outside Shanghai, al
though within earshot of the city
everything seems peaceful.
Hankow in Central China and
Chungking in the West have pro-
duced similar reports OF mass
|jailings, disappearances and exc
cutions.
Besides Hong Kong, the nearby
Portuguese colony Of Macao pro-
duces similar stories from refu-
gees who have sneaked by night
out Of Red China when they
learned their names were ION the
list"
Some arrivals in Hong Kong
say public restlessness first gave
way to worry, and now has be-
come stark terror.
Landowners Resist.
AS such Communist programs
as land redistribution are pushed,
conditions worsen. Landowners,
big and little. are reported resist
ing the redistribution despite ter
rible personal peril.
Roundups. concentration camps
and executions result. but not
until many Communists them
selves have been killed.
The independent Hong Kong
Chinese paper Wah Kiu Vat Pc,
which says it has secret corre-
spondents in SWatow and Canton.
reported today that about 10000
persons had been executed in the
SWatow region. It quoted Canton
Communist authorities as calling
the victims obstinate reactionary
elements"
The paper said Swatow was in
the grip of terror. heightened by
Red discovery yesterday OF a ring
that was printing forged exit per-
mits for refugees.
One arrival in Hong Kong from
Swatow said the Reds had aban-
doned any pretense of trials for
serious charges. A traffic violator
may get a trial. he said, but any
one accused of a political crime
does not.
Evening star., 1951-03-04

ers. Then we heard the tank
.50-caliber machine gun firing.
1--WE were almost nuts.
eve crawled down a path on
our hands and knees. waving our
hands and trying to scream at
the tank driver.
"'Have you got any room?' we
yelled.
THE driver waved and yelled
Hurry up
They picked US up and put
us inside. 1t. was crowded, but
now glad we were to be there
Our tank took us to an aid sta
ton and they brought us down
here in all ambulance.
We're waiting now for the
morning plane to Japan. but" he
repeated the words with which
he had begun: This is Paradise
right here"
Evening star., 1951-03-04

Bifocal lenses for eye glasses
were invented by Benjamin Frank
lin in 1874.
Evening star., 1951-03-04
College Youth Disappears
After Fleeing During Prank
BY the Assoeiotsd Press

SHREVEPORT, La, Mar. s.
An 18-year-old Chelsea. Mass.
college student disappeared Thurs
day night after fleeing into a
rugged. wooded area. the victim
Of a college prank.
The story was disclosed today
by j. w. French. public relations
director of Northwestern State
College at Natchitoches, where the
student. Allen Kaplan, was a
freshman.
Mr.. French said young Kaplan
accompanied six other boys to
Grand Ecore Bluff on the out
skirts Of Natchitoches, to meet a
fictitious blind date.
When the boys approached the
buff. another youth posing as IAN
irate husband" met them swing
ing q f1ashlight and brandishing
o shotgun.
Mr.. French said the "husband1'
fred q shot in the air and the
Kaplan youth bolted into the
woods.
Police combed the woods yes
terday and today but found no
trace Of Kaplan. They theorized
he might have fallen over a 100
foot bluff into the Red River or
that he fled because of the prank.
Evening star., 1951-03-04

Friday Of last week. The casualty
estimate usually lags one day.
The United States Sd Division
sent patrols into the southeastern
outskirts of Seoul yesterday on
probes across the Han River.
Communist shell-fire still vol
leyed across the Han. indicating
plenty of fight remained in the
Red garrison In the battered
South Korean capital. Allied ar
tillery replied with a heavy bonn
bardment from south of the Han.
Three British warships hit
Songwha on the Western Korean
coast, "a miles north Of the 38th
Parallel.
South Korean Commands also
were disclosed to have made hit
run raids February % on the west
coast town of Haeju, just north
Of the Parallel.
Evening star., 1951-03-04

them later to keep the Americans
from recapturing them"
Marine T/Sergt. James c.
Jones said he saw one Chinese
body on its back, arms and hands
raised stiffly to the sky.
Next to him-I don't know
where it came from-there was an
American hymn book"
The wind rustled the hymnal's
leaves.
On the open page was the title,
20 Master. Let Me Walk with
Thee"
The fury Of the Chinese mid
February offensive burned itself
out in less than a week of fruit
less effort to smash through the
central front, from February II
through February II the Chinese
lost 1850 dead or wounded by
9th Army estimate.
Heavy Fighting Near Pangnim.
Heavy fighting also ragged yes
| terday on the Far Eastern end
of the United Nations line. in
the wilderness five miles north
west of Pangnim.
There. United States 7th Divi-
sion troops pulled a classic one
two punch against some 5000
Reds of the North Korean Sd
Corps. -
After the action, q 7th Divi-
sion field officer declared fatty:
"The North Korean 18th Divi-
sion no longer exists as fighter
force. It is now a weak. dis
organized group. incapable of put
ting up a real fight"
The Inflated 18th was caught
coming and going" Associated
Press war correspondent Tom
Stone reported from that front.
The Reds charged through a
deadly barrage of 5000 rounds of
artillery shells. Many fell but
about 500 reached the top of Hill
980-numbered by it's height in
meters (more than 5000 feet
There they were met by a bat
talon of United States infantry
men with fixed bayonets who
charged down the slope.
AS the bayonets found their
marks, the surviving Reds broke
in disorder and fled to the north,
field dispatches said.
At the same time. other troops
OF Maj. Gen. Claude B. Feren-
baugh's 7th Division advanced up
to 1000 yards (more than two
miles and seized key positions, 3
miles south of Changdong-a
North Korean assembly area.
Changdong is IL miles north of
Pangnim, eastern terminus of the
active U. N. line.
1908 New Red Casualties.
The 9th Army reported 2,093
new casualties inflicted on the
Reds in ground action alone on
Evening star., 1951-03-04


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by Chinese Reds last
ngandca Of
o the dead shandsw
Wnphot
Evening star., 1951-03-04
Make Own Price Charts,
Retailers Are Instructed

A requirement for pricing
charts in the new retail price
control order apparently has some
Washington businessmen stumped
Retailers have been lombard
ing the local price Office with re-
quests for copies of the charts" !"
according to Norman Kuhne, pub
lice information officer.
But for one. the Government
is dispensing with forms. This
time. Mr.. Kuhne is telling the
merchants they have to make the
charts themselves. There are
samples in the regulations. he
said.
Evening star., 1951-03-04
Air Force 10 Resume
Far East Rotation
Program by May
By John A. Giles

The Air Force said last night
that it plans an increase soon
in the f1ow Of men to the Far
East in order to resume bring
ing back airmen to the United
States by May.
The Far East Air Force rota-
tenn was suspended shortly after
the start of the Korean war last
June as the Air Force moved
additional units into the theater.
Present plans call for return dur
ing May of personnel originally
scheduled for rotation in July,
1850.
Although the objective of the
plan is an eventual return to the
rotation system, the rate at which
the rotation backlog can be re-
duced is dependent entirely on
world developments and U. S. A.
F.-wide requirements" an an
nouncement stated.
The replacements will maintain
the present combat strength Of
the Far East Air Force.
The Marine Corps already has
started a small scale" rotation
plan, but said that because of
the limited number Of trained re-
placements available. ut is not
expected to be completed for some
time to come"
Some 1000 Marines from Korea
landed on the West Coast last
week, having been replaced by a
similar number trained by the
I'd Marine Division at Camp Le-
jeune. N. c.
The Navy also has begun rota-
ton of some units from Korea.
The heavy cruiser Rochester, vet
eran Of every sea action against
North Korean and Chinese Com
munist forces. recently arrived at
Long Beach. Calf, after nine
months in Far Eastern waters.
The Army said that 1t has con
sidered and studied a replace
ment program for the past sew
eral months" but decided as late
rs two weeks ago that it could
not be inaugurated for some
time to come" because there are
not sufficient trained men to in
sure the continued strength of
American forces.
Because of the military situa-
tion and the needs of Gen. Mac
Arthur's command. the Army said,
sit is not possible to fix a specific
time at which any program of
nature can be started.
Such a plan," it added, when
and If practicable, would be high
" desirable. not only to relieve
battle-weary men but also to
utilize their experience in train
ing new troops"
Very few individual soldiers
have been returned.
The Air Force already has
brought back some combat-expe-
rienced crew personnel in speciality
fields to provide training estab-
lishments and newly activated
units with such experience.
A normal Air Force tour of
duty in Japan is 80 months: it va
ries throughout the rest of the
Far East. The Far East Air Force
will rotate personnel. exclusive of
combat crews, in order of length
Of current foreign service tours.
Combat crews are and will con-
tinue to be handled as q separate
project.
Evening star., 1951-03-04
-Koreu
Continued From First Page.)

respondent John Randolph re.
ported early today. The Marine.
killed 800 Chinese. wounSed Ave
more and captured 10 in Satur.
days fighting.
Find Remains of Convoy.
The route of the Marine ad.
vance was along a grisly stretch
of road where an American con.
voy had been ambushed ane
wiped out by Chinese on or about
Feb. ill.,
Correspondent Randolph. witt
the Marines. said the Chinese hae
not bothered to bury the dead. but
evidently had taken time to binc
and shoot some wounded. For 9
mile and a quarter nearly 4(
American trucks and several fielc
guns were scattered along the
road. Beside the vehicles and un.
der them were burned and decom.
posed bodies-many of then
United States I'd Division troops
some South Koreans and at Least
112 Red Chinese.
Still shaken at the sight, q
tough front-line Marine Officer
described the burned-out remain.
of the convoy caught in tht
ambush.
"It hit them without warning
Some Of the GIs were dead ir
their trucks, cut down by the frs
shots" the officer said.
Guns Found Beside Bodies.
Some Of the others had grabbed
up machine guns to fire from the
hip without tripods. We found
the guns by the bodies. None o1
them had been mounted.
"It must have been all over ir
a matter Of minutes"
The convoy was ambushed when
American elements of the I'd Divi-
sion were trapped north Of Hoeng-
song after the 9th (Republic Of
Korea) Division fell to pieces
February IL under the Chinese
central front offensive that was
stopped a week later.
To the Marines moving up the
road from Hoengsong today, the
sight of the smashed convoy came
as a sickening surprise.
There were bodies scattered
everywhere-in the trucks, under
them and on both sides of the
road" said 1t. w. r. Abel, one
of the first officers on the scene
"The trucks were not bunched
together, but were strung out one
by one. with many yards between
them.
Howitzers Terribly Wrecked.
II can't understand what hap.
pened to the field guns. There
were five or six 155-mm. howit-
zers. They were terribly wrecked
Some of their tubes had been
exploded and their muzzles were
cracked and spread out wide.
don't know whether the American
gunners managed to destroy their
guns before they were killed OF
whether the Chinese destroyed
Evening star., 1951-03-04
BY the Assoeiatsd Pres.


HONG KONG. March 3.-The
good earth of China is getting a
Red bath of blood as the Com
munist regime attempts to stamp
out widespread resistance with fir
ing squads.
The Chinese Nationalist. in an
official statement by their De-
fense Ministry on Formosa to-
night, asserted that million per-
sons on the mainland already have
been killed. with Is million as the
total marked for Red death.
This might be written of as at
least partly propaganda. the Ma
tionalists being quick to seize
upon and enlarge every evidence
of Communist troubles.
However, reports pouring into
this British colony on the fringe
Of China from many sources tell
Of the terror in almost every Sec
ton of the vast Red territory.
. Credible news Of the great purge
Is pieced together from under
ground independent news reports,
from stories Of refugees. from the
guerrilla grapevine. and from hits
in the Reds own propaganda.
The true extent can only be
estimated, but it evidently is wide
|spread-much wider than the re-
gions Of Swatow and South China
from which the greatest numbers
Of reports have come.
The Nationalist defense minis
try tonight reiterated plans to re-
turn to the mainland at some
future time and asserted the Reds
were prepared to abandon South
China when this happened.
Campaign Is China Wide.
The Nationalist threats might
account for severity Of the Red
campaign in the south coastal re-
gion facing Formosa, but refugees
from many parts of China tell
similar tales of bloodshed.
Arrivals from faraway Man
churia. within echo Of the Korean
war, say jails and special prison
camps are jammed and execution
teams are constantly busy.
One refugee reported there were
more than 10000 political 'pris-
oners in one Manchurian camp
alone. This person said he walked
Evening star., 1951-03-04
Coudert Would Give
Congress Power to
Vote Out President
BY the Associated Press

Representative Coudert, Re-
public, of New York yesterday
proposed changing the Constitu-
tion to allow Congress to vote
the President out of Office.
Mr.. Coudert said he will intro
duce a constitutional amendment
this week. 1t would be patterned
after the system in Britain, en-
abling the legislative body to
overturn the executive leadership
by vote of mo confidence"
Under the proposal, Congress
by two-thirds vote could COM
pei a President either to resign
Immediately or to call a national
election for President, Vice Pres
ident and the entire Congress.
The proposed change would
not apply to President Truman
but to his successors.
Evening star., 1951-03-04
Interview
Continued From First Pag

| IOIltIllueQ FTUm F1ISI FdSe.J
fantry fighting the Chinks of
from the rear.
IT got hit in the leg about
neon and they put me in a jeep
trailer. The idea was to fight
south so that some one could gel
through to us before we were
surrounded on all sides.
"A helicopter came in to get
the wounded but it couldn't take
them out because the Chink fire
was too heavy
Efforts Unsuccessful.
The corporal said that night the
artillery fired in a circle. Re-
manning infantrymen tried to takV
| a hill to clear a path but were
thrown back. All next day the
little convoy was pinned under
constant rife and machine gun
fire.
When darkness came, the con-
voy tried to move south again,
without lights.
Here the black bearded private
picked up the tale:
1T was about 8 pm. the second
day. We were through the pass
and thought we were over the
worst.
That's when all He'll busted
loose"
The Marines who recaptured
the area today found that the
Chinese had laid an ambush from
a dixie on one side of the road
and a wall on the other.
THE Chinks hit the driver in
the front machine and that
stopped the column" the private
continued. Everybody got rat
tied. I did. too.
They were shooting from all
sides. AS soon as somebody fell,
the Chinks would grab his
weapon.
Gets Behind Truck.
"It was all at close quarters.
I was behind a jeep. saw a
larger truck and ran over. I
thought it offered better protec-
ton.
There were lots of my buddies
there. Some were dead. Some
body hollered. There's one and
I fired. But it was only tree.
Somebody yelled. Let's get out
OF here. I turned around and the
world seemed to explode at my
feet. Blood gushed everywhere.
knew had had 1t then and there.
I got under the jeep."
THE corporal was riding in a
jeep trailer when the convoy ran
into the ambush.
They hit us from both sides Of
the road with rifles and machine
guns. There was no warning.
Somebody yelled at us wounded,
Get out. you guys, and fight for
your lives.
II crawied out and saw the
driver was dead. My leg buckled
under me and I fell fiat. couldn't t
do anything. It was dark and I
didn't have g. weapon. I crawled
up on a truck-load of our wounded.
There was shooting all around.
When it died down, some
Chinks climbed up on the truck
and started to punch us with their
rife muZzles. They were American
MI rifles.
1--WE yelled, Wounded but they
threw us out on the road.
One Chink came up, put his
MI against my head and pulled
the trigger.
Pretends He's Dead.
"The bullet creased my skull
I could feel it going through my
hair. The muzzle blast nearly tore
my eardrum out. I Topped over
and pretended I was dead. The
Chink thought was, and went
away"
Both men lay in wreckage of
the convoy, hearing the Chinese
drive away all the vehicles that
could run.
The private, too, was almost
murdered.
THE Chinks put pistol to my
head as I lay under the jeep. I
felt the blast and something went
right down past my cheek" he
said. I threw myself into a gully
and prayed. I don't know whether
God answered my prayers or
whatever, but after a while they
went away and I crawled about
Evening star., 1951-03-04

500 feet to a Korean mud hut
Several hours later the corporal
joined him there-directed to the
hut by a merciful Chinese soldier
who saw that he was wounded.
They were Joined later by q
third CT.
II don't know his name" the
corporal said. "He was a head
quarters man. He had a gut
wound and wanted water all the
time. He was always crawling out
of the hut to get water. We knew
he was going to die. He lasted
four days.
CT Becomes DeliriouS.
Toward the end he was green
and yelling out. He was talking
to his pal. He'd say, Hey. Bronc,
hey. Bill. pass me the water We
went to sleep. Next morning he
was dead.
Some Chinese took his body
outside. The first day some one
took his field jacket. The next
day they got his pants. The next
day they took his boots. And the
next day some Chink took his
underwear. I thought they'd take
his body away then, for he was
naked. but they left it there. It
was there to the end.
THE first day we were in the
hut South Korean kid, about 10.
helped take care of us. He was
making us some powdered coffee
that we had from some old c.
rations when the Chinese came in.
They saw We were wounded and
left us alone. but they shot the
Korean through the head with a
carbine."
Thus began Is days in the nut
with no heat, in temperatures we'll
below freezing. Usually it was
zero each night.
The two mems wounded legs
soon were frost bitten. Their only
food was filthy. cooked rice that
Chinese soldiers scraped from the
ground around their camp fires
and traded for the Americans
clothing.
Il suppose we were lucky. They
could have just taken our clothes
if they wanted them," the corporal
said.
Some Chinese Friendly.
He said the Chinese passed back
and forth on their way to the
fighting line. Some. mostly Off
GERS, seemed friendly and spoke
English.
One Chink officer came and
talked to u.s." the corporal said.
"He said :fe liked American food
and American ways better than
any other kind in the world. He
let me roll a cigarette with Chi
nese tobacco and lit 1t for me with
q stick from a fire. Then he said,
Just like home. eh?'"
The Chinese enlisted men were
more brutal. They often threat
ened the wounded with their guns.
But in the main they just seemed
Indifferent.
Il spent a lot of time dream
ing" said the young corporal. I
dreamed Of being in big soft bed
with lots of covers, and of being
home with my grandmother, eat
ing steak. potatoes and apple pie.
Il prayed a lot, too-really
prayed.
when the American artillery
setarted to come down near us I
prayed it would miss the hut. It
did, but it hit all around us. I
think the prayers helped.
Dreams Comes True.
IT dreamed how we might be
rescued. I always thought a tank
would come down the road and it
turned out just that way.
when I first heard the engine,
I thought it was an airplane.
Then I turned and said, Is that
a tank outsider
I'VE looked out and saw a
Wrecker man carrying away
burned-out trucks down on the
road, making path for the 9TH