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Evening star., 1952-10-26

ing Dixie" and a Republican one
playing Yankee Doodle" They would
share the same platform, tell their
best stories. sing duets and play
Jenny, Blow the Fire Strong" "Sour
Wood Mountain" and Chicken in the
Dough Tray" They would insult each
other publicly, and later, in the
privacy of their hotel room, shout
with laughter at what had gone on.
Bob won. Both celebrated all night.
The old techniques apparently do
not change. This summer, Represen-
tative Albert M. Gore stumped Ten
nesSee with fiddle under his chin.
His virtuosity with bow and strings is
given credit for part of his victory
over Senator Kenneth Mcclellan.
Bob Reynolds of North Carolina got
to the United States Senate. unseat-
Evening star., 1952-10-26
By John B. Spore


Associate Editor. Combat Forces Journal
ter of 1951-and brought American
soldiers out of the lines to train the
ragged Koreans.
Burden on Officers
AS much as possible of the burden
was put on Korea officers. They at
tended night classes where they were
taught what they were to teach their
men the next day. The training was
basic: Drill and rifle craftsmanship.
Men were taught to fire the bazooka,
mortar and machine guns. Squads
and platoons were formed on United
States tables of organization. and
these small units engaged in squad
and platoon tactics. Then came
exercises involving battalions and
Evening star., 1952-10-26

ernor because the people of Kentucky
liked the way he sang Sonny Boy"
His opponent in one senatorial con-
test, Alben Barkley, now Vice Presi-
dent, denied that his own croaking
rendition of Wagon Wheels" was a
campaign effort.
Jim Folsom used a hillbilly band to
gain the governorship of Alabama.
AS the band played Big Jim would
remove his shoes and walk up and
down the platform with bucket
and mop, symbolic promise of a
Cleanup" program.
Jimmie Davis, song writer, author
of You Are My Sunshine" and other
favorites. campaigned for the gov
ernorship of Louisiana with noun
tain music. He explained it this
way: "Ah wanted to get out and do
Evening star., 1952-10-26

larger units. During this time the
divisions were completely re-equipped
with United States supplies and
weapons.
Under this kind of direction and
guidance the individual Korean SOL
dier became confident, aggressive and
reliable. Outstanding Korean SOL
diers were sent to officer candidate
schools for South Koreans. Still
with a few notable exceptions-the
officer shortage remained a problem.
A military unit, whether a platoon
of 40 men, a battalion of 800 or
division of $4,000 is no better than
its leadership, and Korean leader
ship-through no fault of its own
was discouragingly inept.
In an effort to solve it, selected Of
ficers of all ranks were sent to the
Evening star., 1952-10-26

landings and the drive across the
38th Parallel in the fall of 1850.
Our latter-day Won Steubens in
Korea, beginning with the handful
of Army officers assigned to the
Korean Military Advisory Group, ran
into the stony fact that the Koreans
had no military tradition to sustain
them. Nor did they have military
leaders who understood the art and
responsibilities of command. Korea's
years under Japanese rule wiped out
whatever warrior class the country
ever had.
Individually. the South Koreans
are brave and willing. So, starting
from that point, the American Won
Steubens established training areas
behind the lines+this was after the
lines were stabilized in the late win
Evening star., 1952-10-26
Retroining Of 'ROKs' Is Tough but Rewording Task

During a visit to one of the rear
areas in Korea where South Korean
divisions are retrained and re-
equipped, an American officer OBJ
served that Won Steuben must have
encountered something like this at
Valley Forge when he showed up to
whip the ragged. dispirited Conti-
nentals into shape.
The missing factor in the analogy
is the absence of George Washing
ton. It is precisely this lack Of ma
tive, competent, high commandership
that has made the building of mod
ern, effective South Korean army so
very difficult.
Until Gen. Eisenhower proposed re-
Gently that the South Koreans "be
prepared to defend their own lines"
most Americans had not given a Sec
ond thought to American efforts to
create q new South Korean army.
Gen. Van Fleet had mentioned it a
few times in statements to corre-
spondentS and the Pentagon had re-
vealed the program without going
into detail.
Gen. Eisenhower undoubtedly re-
members that it took year to train
an American division for combat in
World War II and that even then
untried divisions needed period of
breaking in before they could be fully
depended upon. But his statement
had one salutary effect: It loosened
bA kIA,1rht $n IA
attention of the people some Of the
facts about how the 9th Army in
Korea and the service schools here
in the States built new army from
the diSpirited ROK remnants whose
major failing was tendency to "bug
out" in disorder and panic at the
slightest pressure from the enemy.
Scont Political Value
The Republicans may be able to
play politics with what has not yet
been done. But what has been done
since June, 1850, in creating a South
Korean Army cannot be q very effec-
tive campaign argument for them.
What wasn't done between 1945 and
June, 1850, possibly could be G. o. P.
political ammunition-except that
experience since then suggests that
the job would have been too big even
If 1t had been given more than a
perfunctory try. The Communist
dictatorship Of North Korea tried fol
years to build o powerful army, yet
this Red force almost ceased to exist
after It's defeat following the 1nchor
Evening star., 1952-10-26
Tennessee FiddIers

Tennessee FiddIers
There were the fabulous fiddle-play-
ing Taylor brothers of Tennessee
Bob. the Democrat, who served as
Governor three terms and then as
United States Senator, and ALI, the
Republican. who served three terms
in Congress and one term as Gov
ernor. The brothers once ran against
each other for the governorship and
had great fun doing it. They stumped
the State together. When the boys
two-horse buggy would enter one of
the larger towns, they would be met
by two bands, a Democratic one play
Evening star., 1952-10-26

a little o-ratin'. but the people yelled
me down, hollerin' for music, and so
we give 'em forty minutes of singin'
and five minutes of talkin'."
Evening star., 1952-05-24
italian Campaign Closes,
Voting Begins Tomorrow
BY the Assoeiatsd Press

ROME, May 24.-One of Italy's
bitterest municipal election cam
paigns in years ended today with
no known dead, but plenty ot
broken heads. The voting for city
officials takes place tomorrow in
Rome, Naples and about 2,40O
other Italian cities and towns.
Most of the violence was con-
centrated in the hot-tempered
South, where there were knifings
stonings, fist fights and scores OF
arrests. But there was also action
elsewhere as campaigning wound
up last night.
In Rome's ancient Colosseum
Fascism roared into the open with
an unScheduled speech by Rodolfc
Graziani - Mussolini's favorite
general-before a crowd of 100000
cheering followers.
At the same time Premier Alcide
De Gasperi told large audience
in Rome's Piazza del Popolo that
If his Christian Democrat Party
fails to win, democracy in Italy
will be doomed.
Pietro Nenni, head Of Italy's
Moscow-born peace partisans,
promised a leftist crowd IF we
win we guarantee Internationally
"a policy Of moderation toward the
church"
Under italian law last midnight
was the deadline for any more po-
litical meetings or speeches.
Evening star., 1952-05-24
BY the Assoeioted Press

GALENA, III, May 24.-Maj,
Gen. Ulysses S. Grant III paid
Ia surprise visit today to the home
of his grandfather and set a few
things in order.
Gen. Grant III, for many years
chairman of the National Capital
Park and Planning Commission
here, is vice president of George
Washington University.
The home Of the Civil War gen.
|eral and one-time President, now
la State memorial, has been toured
by thousands Of visitors. Among
Evening star., 1952-05-24
Huge Cactus Falls
On Playing Child,
Kills Her Instantly
BY the Associated Press

TUCSON. Ariz., May pa
giant cactus, % feet high and
weighing more than a ton, fell on
IA 5-year-old child last night, ap-
Iparently killing her instantly.
The huge plant thundered down
on Cindy Lauther, daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. Garnat Lauther, while
she was playing near her home in
the Tucson Mountains, sheriff's
deputies said.
Cindy, her brother Tommy. 9.
and two friends we're playing near
the thorny, statuesque desert
growth.
Suddenly it sagged and then
came hurtling down among the
children.
Tommy ran to his home a quar-.
ter of mile away to get assist
ance, but frantic efforts of the
parents to summon neighbors were
blocked by woman who refused
to give up the telephone party
line.
The father and other children
were unable to bulge the cactus or
remove Cindy's body. The plant
lay across her waist.
Finally help arrived and six
men with timbers were required
to lift the plant.
Evening star., 1952-05-24
French Cabinet Lists
Conditions of Siqninq

PARIS, May "a (P. - The
French cabinet instructed Foreign
Minister Robert Schuman today to
refuse to sign the West German
|peace contract and the European
army treaty unless. certain French
conditions are met.
The conditions were not out
lined but unofficial reports here
and in Bonn said French demands
included:
/. Strengthened guarantees
against West Germany pulling
out of the six-nation European
Defense Community.
2. A revision of the proposed
financial settlement in the peace
contract. This settlement divides
up the Germans 10 billion mark
($2, ,427 100000 annual contribu-
tion between her own rearmament
needs and the support of Western
divisions in Germany.
3. A promise that Frances spe-
cial problems outside Europe
such as the costly fight in Indo.
china-be given immediate con.
sideration by Britain and the
United States. .
Evening star., 1952-05-24
Allied Air Loss !
For Week One
OF War Worst
Comes as U. N. Pilots
Strike Greatest Blow
At Red ArsenuIs
By the Associated Press

SEOUL, Korea. May 24.-The
Allies struck the greatest air blow
of the Korean war. at the Reds
Thursday and yesterday against a
SOLDERING picture of increasing
plane losses.
The 5th Air Force tally showed
the week ended yesterday was one
of the worst-if not the worst
air week for the Allies since the
war started % months ago. On
the credit side. the Air Force said
U. N. pilots destroyed 460 buildings
and damaged 1853 in their continu-
Gus two-day attack which par
alyzed Red industries near the
North Korean capital of Pyong-
yang.
The weekly plane loss count
gave the Communists IL kills and
United States airmen four.
MICS Grab 5-4 Edge.
For the first time in the war.
Communist MICS grabbed a 5-to-4
edge in aerial dogfights. The 5th
Air Force announced the loss Of
three F-86 Sabrejets and two F-84
Thunderjets in the air against
only four confirmed MIG kills.
It was a sharp reversal from the
usual top-heavy Allied score.
The other seven U. N. losses
were mostly to Red anti-aircraft
fire. Il
The figures didn't take into ac-
count Naval plane losses. Rescue
flights indicated there were at
least two-bringing the loss total
to at least IA. Airmen said it all
appeared to point to growing Com
munist skill and power on the air
and ground.
Every United States combat unit
of the 5th Air Force and attached
Royal Australian. South African.
South Korean and shorebased
Marine planes rained explosives
and jellied gasoline on the huge
supply concentration near Kiyang.
southwest of Pyongyang. Pilots
flying the last of nearly 800 sorties
said little more than walls were
standing.
4 Rows of Warehouses Blasted.
| A Red hand grenade arsenal, q
power station, warehouses, ma
chine shops and surface works OF
a coal mine, as we'll as rows of
warehouses were blasted out of
existence. the Air Force reported.
Bog light bombers and Marine
planes attacked enemy trucks last
night. with 80 vehicles and five
buildings reported destroyed. B-29
Superforts struck at the Kwaksan
rail bridge near Sinuiju on the
Yalu River for the second straight
night. dropping 80 tons of bombs
: on the spans.
For the week the Air Force and
. Marines also claimed 396 rail cuts,
five bridges destroyed and two
damaged. one locomotive dam
+ aged, 871 trucks destroyed or dam
aged, % boxcars destroyed and So
! damaged, two ammunition dumps
: and part of third blown up. 173
: gun positions knocked out and
270' Red troops killed or wounded
On the ground the Reds nearly
doubled their artillery and morta,
bombardment yesterday. but ac-
: ton still was at a near standstill
Evening star., 1952-05-24

Bullock cannot explain within
"a reasonable time"-he indicated
this would be less than a week
Trial Board charges would be
drawn against him.
The inspector told his chief he
was unable to explain at present
but that he and his attorney,
Charles E. Ford, had hired an &C
countant to try to find out where
the money came from.
Inspector Bullock's answers of
IT don't know" and II can't re-
member" brought sharp criticism
from Senate crime probers when
they questioned him about his
finances. But Chairman Nicely
told the inspector if he could find
an explanation later, the COM
mittee would listen.
The Senators finished their two
day session with Inspector Bull
lock and his wife, Mrs. Helen Hill
Bullock. at 1890 am. Thursday.
The testimony was made public
at 3 pm. that day. .'.
Inspector Called In.
At noon yesterday a transcript
arrived at Maj. Murray's desk
under a standing order the Dis
trict government has for all of
the testimony. At 3 pm. the in
Spector was called in to explain,
and an hour and 10 minutes later
he was suspended.
The 55-year-old portly, gray
haired inspector has been on the
force 81 years. He has asked for
retirement, but action on his re-
quest has been held up pending
final outcome of the crime COM
mittee'S Investigation.
Evening star., 1952-05-24
Stormy Weather S Ahead
For WASHINGTON Area

Stormy weather's ahead fol
Washington.
Scattered showers or thunder.
storms are to move into the ares
sometime tonight, the Weather
Bureau predicted, and will con-
tinue into the first part Of mex
week.
The forecast calls for cloudy
and warm today with high o1
80 degrees. a low tonight Of 81
and a rainy. warm Sunday with
an 80-degree temperature.
Evening star., 1952-05-24
Soviets Close Three Roads
In Menocing Germany

FRANKFURT. Germany. May
"a up. - Russia closed three
roads between East and West
Germany today and ordered two
more closed tomorrow in a men,
acing drive against the Bonn Re-
Ipublic's alliance with the West.
Backing up Communist threats
that signing the Bonn peace con-
tract Monday could kill chances
of German reunification, the
Soviet orders left only five out OF
10 interzonal road crossings un-
disturbed.
Max Reimann, West German
Communist chairman, called fol
millions of workers in the RUIN
and elsewhere to stage mass
strikes against the peace contract
Evening star., 1952-05-24
Wide Area in Nevada
Feels Slight { Earthquake
By the Associated Press

LAS VEGAS, New. May 24.-A
slight earthquake which appar.
emily did no damage was fell
throughout wide area of Nevads
last night.
In this gambling town some
residents, thought at first it wa:
another atomic explosion at the
nearby Nevada proving ground.
Boulder City, 80 miles south ol
here, where it was strong enough
to rattle dishes and some resident!
went into the streets from theil
homes.
Evening star., 1952-05-24
Third BIoodyKoje Riot
Barred After 6 Weeks;
Reds Haul Down Flags
POW. Spokesman Tells
Bootner Of Willingness
To Obey His Orders
BY The Associoted Press

KOJE ISLAND, Korea, May "a.
News of a third bloody riot by
Red prisoners of war on violence
torn Koje Island came to light
today.
South Korean sources said four
Korean guards and three North
Korean Communist prisoners were
killed and 81 Reds wounded in the
uprising April 10.
Associated Press Correspondent
William Jorden obtained the story
from South Korean witnesses al
most a week ago but Army censors
in Tokyo withheld it until today.
A United States 9th Army
spokesman said the Army had
announced nothing on the riot
because the 9th Army investiga-
ton of the incident has not been
completed"
Investigation Predicted.
Senator Monroney. Democrat, of
Oklahoma, indicated in Washing
ton a Senate subcommittee may
investigate censorship delay of Mr.
Jorden's dispatch. -.
Mr.. Monroney, a former news
paperman, is a member of the
special Senate investigating sub
COMMITTEE checking into the avail
ability of news under Government
regulations. r..
Ninety Communist prisoners anC
one United States. soldier were
killed in earlier Koje riots-Feb.
Iruary 18 and March Is.
Reds Haul Down Flags.
Red POWs today hauled dowr
II of the II North Korean ane
Chinese Communist flags they hat
flown defiantly over their com
pounds for months. This appar'
emily was the result of short
meeting yesterday between thu
new camp commander, Brig. Gen
Hayden L. Boatner,. and a Rec
spokesman. The Red expressed
willingness to obey orders.
Two companies Of British com
monwealth troops were due to lane
today to bolster the United Ma
tions command garrison on thi'
tension ridden island.
The South Korean witnesse!
told Mr.. Jorden a United State!
Army captain and six South Ko'
rean guards we're wounded in the
April 10 uprising. The American
lis Capt. Jack j. MCGUIRE. of Attica
N. Y. wounded in the arm ant
thigh.
The informants said most o.
the fighting took place within
sight of the camp commander
then Brig. Gen. Francis T. Dodd
Gen. Dodd was seized by POW
May z and released 78 hours later
Excited Guard Fires.
The trouble April 10 begaY
near the gate of Compound 95
the Korean sources said. An ex.
Cited guard outside the gate free
a shot that wounded a Com
munist prisoner.
The witnesses said Capt. Nc.
! Guire and two United States sol.
} diers, all unarmed. went into the
dispensray at the gate to bring
out the wounded man.
Milling Red POWs drove the
), Americans out.
y Gen. Dodd arrived almost i'm
Imediately, the sources said, anc
, ordered 100 unarmed South Ko-
rean soldiers to 60 in the COM
pound, restore order and bring
out the wounded POW.
The prisoners drove out the
guards with clubs and stones.
The Reds, shouting insults
rushed the gate in an apparent
effort to break out.
Guards near the entrance opened
: fire with a .30-caliber machine
Igun mounted on a jeep. Most o1
the casualties occurred then, the
witnesses said.
Evening star., 1952-05-24
French Give Four LeaS2rs
In Tunis Complete Freedom
BY the Assoeiated Press

TUNIS, Tunisia, May 24.-For-
mer Premier Mohammed Chenik
and three other cabinet ministers,
whom the French had deposed and
packed off to Southern Tunisia,
were allowed complete freedom
last night. Earlier this month
they had been released provision
ally.
The Nationalist leaders were ar
rested in late March on charges
of working against French author
tiles, actual rulers of this restive
North African country.
Evening star., 1952-05-24
Final Bay Bridge
Span Is Placed

BRIDGE COMPLETION RUSHED
Four cir views Of the pIoeins Of the
lost steel spon Of the Chesapeake Boy
Bridge illustrate q story by Stor Stoff
Correspondent George Kennedy. He
tells how the work is being spuned by
q penoIty Of $500 o doy to be paid
by the builders for every doy completion
is Delayed. Pose A-24.
Evening star., 1952-05-24
Gen. Grant Reverses Portraits
|OfFumi|y Heroes at Memorial

mementoeS are portraits of Grant
family heroes.
Gen. Grant, II, president Of the
National Council of Historic Sights
and Buildings in Washington,
came upon two portraits and gave
Galena historians a start.
One was identified as Maj. Gen.
Frederick Dent Grant, the present
generals father, and Jessee Root
Grant, an uncle.
Not so. he said. The pictures.
hung many years ago. were all
right. But the identifications were
reversed.
The portraits quickly were given
the proper identification.
Evening star., 1952-05-24

said any other police who have bis
bank deposits had better explain
or quit the force.
The order ,suspending the in.
spector was issued at 4:1O pm. A
day earlier, secret testimony re.
leased by the Senate District
Crime Committee disclosed ht
could give no source Or SIS, ,066 ir
cash deposits made by him and
his wife in a 30-month period in
1916, 1947 and 1948.
This was the second time In
spector Bullock has been su-
He was taken off duty
last october when a grand jury
him on gambling con-
Spiracy charges in connection
with the Charles E. Nelson syn
dicate.
Was Back on Job a Week.
His reinstatement came in Jan
uary when he was acquitted on
a directed verdict. But he went or
annual leave, and had been back
on the job only about week
when he was suspended yester-
day. O..
Maj. Murray said if Inspector
Evening star., 1952-05-24
Picture on Pose AZ


conscious from the bus. Police
said Miss Reed apparently suf-
fered head injuries. All of the
injured were taken to Arlington
Hospital.
Eleven other passengers were
slightly shaken up when the bus
ran up on small embankment
and fell over on its left side.
They were able to continue
their trip in another bus sent from
Washington, police said.
Others requiring hospital treat
ment were:
Others at Hospital.
The Rev. George J. Cannon, 81
of 1881 Jenifer street NV, pos
sible head injuries.
Grace B. Poff, 66, of 5408 First
place NV, possible fractured ribs
Doreath Brumbrey. 81, colored
of 1886 w street, head injuries.
Police said the driver of the bus
Sydney Lee Fields, Is, of Fairfax
|suered leg cuts. Mr.. Fields re.
fused hospital treatment. pending
completion of his report.
Mr.. Fields told police the steer.
ing column on the bus gave way
The bus was en- route from Wash.
ington to Catlett. Va.
Kicked Out Windshield.
The driver was believed to hav,
cut his leg in kicking out cracket
glass in the windshield to enabl.
the passengers to escape.
The passengers climbed to tn,
shoulder of the highway through
the windshield frames. Miss Reef
was carried out by members O
the Fairfax Rescue Squad.
Fourteen-year-old Rita Geris O.
I21 N street NV. and her sistel
Joan, II. said they heard the bu.
driver call to the passengers. "Holt
on, everybody-we're going Il
Ihit!"
Tumbled Into Aisle.
The sisters, who were en- rout,
to visit their grandmother a
Bristow, Va. said that they botl
tumbled into the aisle of the bui
a moment later. with Rita landing
on top.
The girls were not hurt.
Mrs. Fleeta Spinks, 20. of 1871
King street, Alexandria. said sh'
was sitting on a front seat nea
the driver when she noticed tina
he was wrestling with the steering
wheel.
The driver then called a warn
ing and slowed the bus as it raj
off the pavement, Mrs. Sphinx
said.
Evening star., 1952-05-24
Ridgwoy Testifies He Ordered
Koje Demands Be Ignored
Directed Use Of Force, but Whether CoIson
Received Word in Time Is Not Clear

I was not in possession of all
the facts.
a.. My instructions that there
would be no answer came too late.
. All the essential damage
which may have occurred from
those negotiations took place up
to that time.
One of the demands was that
the U. N. forces conduct no more
"forcible screening" of the prison.
erS.
Removal of Reds Considered.
The U. N. command has denied
that forcible screening ever took
place and Gen. Ridgway testified
that obviously. Colson, and no
other person there, had any au-
thority to agree to any such
demand"
At another point. Gen. Ridg-
way disclosed that the. U. N. COM
mand could not ascertain the real
leaders of the prisoners inside the
compounds. He also told of kill
ings within the stockades by
fanatical Communists.
Removal of the die-hard Reds
to other islands had been con-
Sidered, he said.
II even considered sending them
back to the United States" he
said.
Gen. Mark Clark, who succeeded
Gen. Ridgway as Far East COM
mander, repudiated the Colson
concessions. Gen. Ridgway SAID
If he had been there he woulo
take similar action Instantly"
Inquiry Kept Open.
Senators said they intended te
keep the Koje investigation oper
after hearing Mr.. Pace and Gen
j. Lawton Collins, Army Chief o1
Staff, in closed session yesterday
The Army fatty refused to 60 into
any details other than the action.
disclosed to the Senate committee
Other actions taken were:
/. Brig. Gen. Paul F.. Yount
Icommandant of the 18th Logistica
Command at Pusan and the prison
commands superior. was repri.
manded because he concurred ir
part of the Colson agreement.
2. Gen. Clark was ordered tt
insure against lawlessness anC
disorder on Koje."