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Evening star., 1952-07-25
French RepuIse Red
Attack on T-Bone in
18th Month Of War
ey the Assoe;o,.d Pr,ss

SEOUL, Korea, July 25.-French
infantrymen today hurled back
Ia 5O0-man Chinese Communist
drive on T-Bone Hill, opening the
26th month Of the Korean war.
French defenders of the west
ern front hill inflicted heavy losses
during two hours of predawn
hand-to-hand combat.
Three Red companies advanced
at 2 am. against the hill west
Of Chorwon, an old iron triangle
anchor city.
Artillery bursts punctuated
hand-to-hand fighting as the 500
Communists were caught in cross
fire of French positions at the
bottom end of T-Bone.
Reds Forced to withdraw.
A frontline Allied officer esti-
mated 56 Chinese were killed and
$50 wounded. The cut-up Red
forces withdrew at 4 am.
The French battalion is at
tached to the United States I'd
Infantry Division, which has
fought the Chinese since July II
for possession of nearby old Badly
Hill.
Earlier today, the United States
9th Army permitted Identification
of the I'd Division as the unit as
signed to hold the series of hills
overlooking the main battle front.
The United States 45th Division
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legal holiday will be known as
Constitution Day.
The new constitution-the lat
est advance in the United States
step-by-step program OF greater
self-rule for the 100-mile-long
island-was accepted in a referen-
dunn Of the people, approved by
the American Congress and signed
by President Truman.
It leaves the way open for
Puerto Rico to become a State in
the American union later il its
people desire.
The constitution abolished the
power of the United States Con-
gress to repeal laws passed by the
islands legislature and took away
from the United States President
the power to appoint such local
officials as auditors and Supreme
Court justices.
Evening star., 1952-07-25
By the Assoeiofed Prass

MUNSAN, Korea. July 25.-Tht
three-week news blackout wa.
lifted from the Korean armistict
talks today. showing the deadlock
over prisoner exchange-final is.
sue blocking a truce-still un-
broken.
Despite a United Nations Offer
Ito return an additional $4,000 cap.
tives to the Communists. 18 Off
the-record meetings since July 4
proved completely fruitless," SAID
Maj. Gen. William K. Harrison
Ijr.
I'VE are no nearer a solution
Of the problem today than we were
on July f." the general said. but
added:
"As long as we continue negoti-
Iations there is always hope; when
the enemy proposed this morning
that we go back into open sessions
I agreed heartily"
Ensuing proceedings will be
made public daily as formerly
The next session is set for 10 pm.
Friday (EDT.
Won't Modify Stand.
The United Nations command
said it refused to back down or
its decision not to return forcibly
any prisoner to the Communists
Only $4,000 of 10000 Allied -helc
prisoners want to be repatriated
Gen. Harrison said. This is ar
increase of $4,000 over the figure
submitted to the Reds earlier, be.
fore screening of prisoners wa.
completed.
The Allies said the Communist.
Evening star., 1952-07-25

slain with nine bullets. The men
said they checked their kills with
q powerful telescope.
Sergt. Boitnoot, whose wife lives
at Comfort, N. c., is q Marine
Corps distinguished rifle shot. The
release said he won a Silver Medal
IN Marine Corps matches in 1949.
10 bronze medal in Southeastern
matches in 1850 and placed Sec
ond in the Wirgman trophy match
In 1948 at Quantico, Va.
Evening star., 1952-07-25

4.193 rounds, almost double that
OF the previous day.
Thursday, Communist targets on
the Haeju peninsula area immedi-
ately behind Red positions on the
western front were attacked by
night-hying B-26s and Marine
fighter bombers. The fighter
bombers flew in close support
strikes for Allied infantrymen and
the B-26s bombed supply and oil
storage dumps at Chaeryong and
near Sinchon. both near the West
Coast.
Evening star., 1952-07-25
MARINE Is Decoy for Morksmon Whose Shots Kill Reds

Chicago, a medal-winning marks
man. and Pfc. Henry A. Friday Of
Nekoosa, Wis. were stationed on
an outpost far forward of the
Marine divisions main line Of de-
fense.
They devised this deadly game: !:
Pfc. Friday, acting as q decoy,
would expose himself until q
Chinese sniper opened fire. Sergt.
Boitnoot, armed with q rifle
! mounted with q sniper-scope
Evening star., 1952-07-25

would fire just once and exclaim
scratch one" enemy.
The sergeant said "the whole
idea started one day when Friday
made the mistake Of standing up
in the trench. A sniper fired at
him and I fired back. I killed
him"
Pfc. Friday volunteered for
decoy duty. In two days they set
q remarkable If highly unofficial
record" Of nine Chinese snipers
Evening star., 1952-07-25

last month wrested the heights
from the Communists in some OF
the heaviest fighting Of the war
this year.
The Chinese regained the crest
OF Old Baldy Tuesday.
Overcast Slows Planes.
Overcast skies reduced Allied
air activity to fighter bomber
strikes on the front this morning.
Ground action Thursday was
light, except that Communist ar
tillery and mortar shelling totaled
Evening star., 1952-07-25
Dy The Assoeioied Press

WITH UNITED STATES 1st
MARINE DIVISION, Korea, July
25.-A sharp-shooting sergeant
using a fellow Marine as a decoy
claims a perfect but highly un-
official record - nine Chinese
snipers killed with nine bullets.
But the company commander
put stop to the bizarre tactics.
The Marines today released the
story:
Sergt. John E. Boitnoot Of
Evening star., 1952-07-25
SOS Hooker SOUGHT

Radio experts of Belgium, Hol-
land and England have united In
a move to trap a hoaxer whose
false SOS calls have caused fruit
less searches over wide ocean
areas.
Evening star., 1952-12-06
Dorothy Thompson:
New Team Inspires Confidence
Gen. Eisenhower Exhibited Rare Capacity for Quick,
Yet Deliberate, Decision in His Cabinet Choices

clined to caution. He has some
times appeared to hold CONTRA
dictory or ambiguous opinions.
Whatever this indicates is not
recklessness.
I doubt whether he possesses
that sensitivity to currents that
often guides men more truly
than logic alone. He knows a
lot, but senses, I suspect. too
little. There is always a streak
of the artist in the greatest
statesmen. He appears as rather
rigid. inclined to draw lines
sometimes artificial ones-be-
yond which one may not step,
as is compatible with his CAL
whist, Presbyterian background.
His request to have his 10y
atty investigated represented, I
thought. that aspect of his ma
ture. and was not altogether fe-
licitous. The American people,
1 think, want officials whose 10y
atty can be taken for granted,
as Mr.. Dulles can. However, I
hear. the FBI has already sent
out its questioners to probe into
his references.
I always wonder who inveSti-
gates those queried. Initial FBI
Investigations consist in inter-
rogating friends. acquaintance,
or critics of persons under con-
sideration, thus assembling re-
ports which are not made under
subpoena, and may be neither
knoWledgeable. reliable, nor dis
interested. 1t is these which
Senator Mccarthy and others
would like to lay their hands
on, a proceeding which would
let loose a saturnalia of rumor,
mistrust. alarm, hatred. con-
fusion and close every door to
future FBI interrogators. For
who would answer candidly if
he knew that his testimony
might turn up to be enlarged or
distorted in Congress and the
press?
However. this will not happen
Evening star., 1952-12-06
Constantine Brown:

Dwight Eisenhower. the first
professional soldier to assume
the responsibilities of the Presi-
dent of the United States at a
time when the country is en-
gagged in a shooting war, is re-
turning from his inspection OF
the Korean battlefield reported
ly with some definite opinions of
what should be done to end that
police action" successfully.
The briefings he has received
from Gen. Mark Clark. the su-
preme commander. and officers
in the field have supplemented
the views he has had from read
ing their reports while he was
in the United States.
OF equal Importance were
Eisenhower's personal contacts
with commissioned officers and
the GIS whom he visited at COM
mand posts.
Reports that he has found
among those men who bear the
brunt of the fighting an over
whelming sentiment to push
ahead and take the offensive
correspond to those received dur
ing the last 10 months that the
men in the field in Korea are
disgusted with the dilly-dally-
ing of the phony armistice talks.
OF course, Gen. Eisenhower's
future decisions will have to
take political considerations into
account to some degree.
Although the United States
and South Korea provided more
than 80 per cent of the forces,
we are fighting under the inter-
national flag of the United Ma
tions. Since September, 1850,
our military strategy has been
Subordinated to the particular
political interests of our allies.
This unorthodox manner Of
fighting a war has limited the
scope of our military operations.
The planning of the Joint Chiefs
of Staff has been entirely sub
ordinated to the political eX-
Evening star., 1952-12-06
Fletcher KnebeI:
Potomac Fever

from his threeday visit to Korea The secret
kep-t about million people talking of nothing
else for week.
Macarthur he's solution for the Korean
It's hard for Gen. Mac to get hearing in Washington the
warhs always tnkering around with the idea of winning it.
While harm befe Ike his Korean trip the Secret
will maintain its special guard back in the Statehe still
has to face Taft.
Adai Stevenson ocs President Truman in hoping the country
will the Eisenhower administration chance The Demo-
forgotten the campagn-theyre watching
the Republicans fight their Chicago convention again.
committee publishers up immoral
congressman
it's ctionook the Record
Sinclair Weeks Republican finance chief the So million
national spending unreasc
much these days just the ssueet alone financing the
candidates main job of lodging them.
Lodge the FBI check his before
United States delegate the United
work for the Eisenhower adminsaton-and
find out he'd voted the straight Republican ticket.
Evening star., 1952-12-06

pediency not only of our Gov
ernment but also to that Of our
allies. This has resulted in a
half-hearted military campaign.
Moreover, while Korea was
designated by the Pentagon as
number one priority insofar as
military equipment was con-
cerned. much of the still-limited
output of arms and ammunition
from our factories was being
sent to Western Europe, the
Middle East and other parts of
the world where there was and
still is a potential danger of a
Soviet onslaught.
Because Of these global con-
siderations even today, our
forces in Korea must use their
ammunition sparingly. There
are some "quiet sectors" on the
Korean battleline where the GIs
are ordered not to answer in
coming Red artillery fire be-
cause their ammunition must be
reserved only for emergencies
such as an actual full-Scale at
tack by the enemy.
The Air Force is supposed to
do all the silencing of the en-
emy's guns in the so-called
inactive sectors. The Korean
theater Of war has top prioritieS
but apparently. because of Euro
pean requirements, Gen. Eisen-
hover is said to have discovered
that the fighting men in Korea
have nowhere near the vast
quantities of supplies his own
forces in the last war had when
they were thrown into action in
Africa or on the European con-
tinent. There were even then
occasional shortages in the ad-
vanced lines, but there was
plenty in the rear and more
than plenty available in Amer
lea ready for shipment across
the Atlantic.
Gen. Eisenhower declared be-
fore leaving Korea that there Is
no ready panacea for the war.
Evening star., 1952-12-06
Dorothy Thompson:

Americans who voted for Gen.
Eisenhower anticipated leader
ship. which includes the ca
pacity for quick though deliber-
ate decision. Within a month
he has picked his full cabinet
an admirable order of priority
before going to Korea-and this
inspires confidence. Yet he took
plenty of time and thought to
pick those who will constitute
his team; anticipating victory,
he was ready when it came.
The speedy selection gives the
appointees time to settle their
personal affairs and prepare
themselves in some degree for
their new tasks. This, in itself.
is an innovation. After a similar
Overturn III 1882. President
elect Roosevelt waited until the
eve of his inauguration-then in
3larch-to announce his cab
met.
Since Gen. Eisenhower is
known to be a staff man"
every one has a vital interest in
his cabinet.
The new cabinet and its as
sociated agency appointees rep
resent, on the whole, and as
was awaited, high level of or
ganizing and administrative
ability and character, with
rather less than usual consid-
Grafton for narrow politics.
There is hardly a hack" ap-
pointment on the list.
John Foster Dulles is the only
Republican already fitted. by
knowledge. experience, and in
ternational connections. to slip
easily into the office of Secre-
tary of State. If he is not
Ideal" no one can mention any
one who is. On the asset side.
he is highly intelligent, excep-
tionally informed, a first-rate
lawyer, and an able and me-
ticulous negotiator. On the
liability side. he is temperament
tally cold, and perhaps overin-
Evening star., 1952-12-06
Lowell MeHett::

Assuming that Taft and his
group in the Senate cool off in
due time and that EisenhoWer's
nominee for the labor post in
his cabinet is confirmed, what
will Martin Durkin find life like
as a member of an enemy" ad-
ministration? Judging by the
general attitude of the National
Association of Manufacturers.
as expressed by most of the
speakers during the annual
meeting this week. he may not
find it so bad. The NAM ap-
pears to have been sobered by
the great election victory in
which it shared. All in all its
outlook appears to be relatively
liberal and its demands on the
incoming Government rather
conservative. Since. thanks to
Congress, the drift in the past
few years has been fairly in line
with its own thinking it seems
little disposed to seek any ex-
plosive changes, or any great
acceleration of the drift. May
be later. but not now, judging
by the speeches. o.
Only once or twice was that
pet phrase of the campaign.
creeping socialism" heard dur
ing the convention-the biggest,
by the way, in the MANS history.
The businessmen, not unaware
of the degree to which they have
been creeping back into control
of the Government, seemed sud-
denly to have lost much of their
fear of their favorite hobgoblin.
How tragic it would be-" said
one, IF the next administra-
ton were to be as partial to
business as the present one has
been to labor"
OF course that doesn't mean
that there will be a cessation of
the pressure for the relaxation
Of controls and regulations and
Evening star., 1952-12-06
Roth is Team Wins
National Bridge Open
By the Associoted Press


MIAMI BEACH, Fla, Dec. g.
Maintaining a lead which they
held for two sessions, Alvin Roth
of Washington, D. c., and Mrs.
Henry Kemp and Tobias Stone of
New York, and Harry Harkavy Of
Miami Beach won the National
Contract Bridge Open Team
championship in the American
Contract Bridge League tourna-
ment here.
They scored in So matches out
of possible 81.
In second place were jeff Click
of Miami. Edward Cohen of Mi
ami Beach, and Arthur S. Gold
smith, E. I. Schwartz and Aaron
Frank. all of Cleveland, with Sc
matches.
Third place went to the world
team champions. John R. Craw-
ford of Philadelphia and George
Rapee. Sam Stayman, B. Jay
Becker and Howard Schenken.
With Theodore Lightner of New
York they will defend their title
against the Swedish team which
won the European championship
in Dublin last September. The
Crawford team won IS matches.
Evening star., 1952-12-06
Barron Sentenced
In Death Of Wife
BY the Kssoeioted Press

CLAYTON, Ga, Dec. 6.-David
I. (Red) Barron, former Georgia
Tech football star. yesterday was
sentenced to from three to five
years for involuntary man.
slaughter in the death of his wife.
A Rabun County Superior Court
jury Thursday night reduced the
charge of murder. on which the
52-year-old Barron was being
tried, and convicted him on the
lesser count.
The bruised body of his wife,
Helen. AZ, was found September
6 at the Barron boys camp the
couple operated near Clayton.
In an unsworn statement to
the jury Thursday, Barron denied
he had anything to do with his
wife's death. .....
Defense counsel filed a motion
for a new trial and Judge E.
Frankum, who sentenced Barron,
set a hearing on the motion for
Evening star., 1952-12-06

for an end to Government
competition with business" in
such matters as the develop
ment of natural resources, for
instance. But it could mean
disposition to support some Of
the present restraints on pri-
vate greed.
Several Of the speakers, using
the new slogan, Trade. Not
Aid" defended the reciprocal
trade agreements and urged
their extension, although al
ways with proper consideration
for the interests of any industry
directly affected. One even
looked forward to the day, not
immediate, when it may be pos
Sible to remove all tariffs.
AS for labor policy. the sub
ject of direct interest to Dur
kin, the NAM members of the
Eisenhower cabinet can make
the journeyman plumber quite
comfortable if their approach is
that of the convention speaker
who said:
Lets hope none Of us thinks
we can now return to some of
the autocratic or paternalistic
methods of dealing with en-
ployes practiced IN the past.
We have learned q lot about
good employer employe rela-
tions in recent years. and we
dare not step backward"
On the other hand, Marty, as
Durkin is known in labor and
social welfare circles, probably
will turn a fishy eye on any
cabinet colleague who proposes.
in the language of a couple of
NAM speakers, Ito protect
union members against the
power of unions" He may not
say. right there in the White
House, what the new president
of the CIO, Walter Reuther.
said to the delegates who had
just elected him, i.e., If the fat
men who sit on the plush
Evening star., 1952-12-06
Politics SnQr| Action in Korea
Gen. Eisenhower Is Returning With Definite Opinions
On Ending War; but He Must Consider Allies Wishes

There is, however. q distinct
feeling among military men and
some diplomats that he Is now
reaching the conclusion that
the solution must be found in
a major military operation.
The slaughter of the recent
Indian armistice proposal at the
United Nations-entirely favor
able to Peiping-by Soviet For
eign Minister Andrei Vishinsky
has demonstrated once more
that the Kremlin wants to con-
tinue the bloodshed in the Far
East indefinitely or until the
United States shouts "kamerad."
And Gen. Eisenhower is not the
man to do so.
The possibility of an all-out
offensive to reel the enemy back
beyond the Yalu River has been
studied carefully since last Sep
tember. Gems. Clark and Van
Fleet and an overwhelming
number of field officers and G1s
strongly favor such an action
and are said to feel confident
that victory can be obtained
with relatively limited sacri-
fees in blood. Such an offen-
sive will require a number OF
additional divisions as immedi-
ately available reserves and a
substantial increase of air units.
1t also will require a substan-
tial stepping up of the arms in
dustry, which has been tagging
dangerously since last summer.
It is unlikely that Gen. Eli
senhower's decisions will be
known until some time late
next spring. He needs time to
convince some of our more
timid allies that the era of even
indirect appeasement must
come to an end If we are to
have a fair chance to avoid a
full-scale third world war. We
also shall need time to gather
the needed men and hardware
for a successful decision in
Korea.
Evening star., 1952-12-06
Poland Quits UNESC0,
Calls Il Tool Of u. s.
And Threat 10 Peace
BY the Associated Press

LONDON, Dec. 6.-Warsaw ra-
dio announced today that Com
munist-led Poland has quit the
United Nations Educational, Scien-
tif1c and Cultural Organization
with bitter denunciation of the
agency as a tool of United
States aggressive policy"
In Paris, UNESCO officials con-
firmed that Poland has resigned
from the 68-nation group. They
said the Polish Embassy in France
Informed the UNESCO secretariat
of the decision in a letter yes
terday. A spokesman said the
agency's general committee met
to discuss the matter and he in
dicated a statement probably
would be issued later today.
Poland, along with two other
Russian satellite states-Hungary
and Czechoslovakia-did not at
tend the current meeting Of UN-
ESCO that opened in Paris Nov.
IL.
Note Announces Withdrawal.
The Warsaw broadcast said the
Polish charge d'affaires in Paris
handed a note to the UNESCO Sec
retariat yesterday announcing the
withdrawal.
The broadcast quoted the note
as charging that the agency has
become a refuge of everything
that is the denial of culture and
science and has become the
domain of Fascist barbarianism.
The note further described
UNESCO as a threat to peace
and culture" the radio declared,
and it upheld only Communists
as defenders of the cultural
achievements of nations of the
world against the danger of being
flooded with American rubbish in
the form of films, radio, ETC., with
their gangsterism cult of force
and apotheoSis of war"
One particular complaint sin
gled out in the note was that
"UNESCO has done nothing to
prevent the revival of Nazism in
Western Germany" It declared
that cooperation with the Bonn
government of Western Germany
was nothing else but direct help
to maintain the division of Ger
many and turn Germany into a
tool OF American Imperialism"
Latest in Series of Disputes.
The Polish resignation is the
latest in a series Of quarrels that
have disrupted the current
UNESCO session. Mexico's Jaime
Torres Bodet resigned as director
general November % in protest
against the assembly's failure to
vote all the money he asked for
spending in the next two years.
Two leading members of the Ex-
ecutive Board also quit with him.
Those designations followed a
series of Walkouts prompted by
the vote November 10 to admit
Spain, whose government is
termed a Fascist dictatorship by
some member nations. Spain is
barred from membership in the
United Nations itself.
Poland was one of the original
members of UNESCO and Coop
Grated with the organization in
restoration of libraries and schools
destroyed during the war in Po-
land.
Evening star., 1952-12-06

with Herbert Brownell as At
torney General. He is one of
the best appointments on the
list, and can be trusted to build
up a Department of Justice
which will make justice, first of
all, its own standard: will be
vigilant about real subversives,
but icy cold toward dema-
gogues. and, I hope. toward gos-
sip columnists. some of whom
have been riding their pet hates
or enthusiasms with the aid of
leaks from inside this critical
department.
To return to the Secretary Of
State-Mr. Dulles first task is
not in the field of foreign nego-
tiations. It is to restore the
morale of the State Department
and Foreign Service, which un-
der attacks from Congress. jeers
from the public, interference by
other departments and agencies.
interdepartmental logrolling and
White House decisions made in
complete disregard of reports
and recommendations from Of
ficials in the field. is in a dis
couraged condition approaching
complete paralysis.
If Mr.. Dulles isn't exactly an
encouraging personality, Gen.
Eisenhower is. The secret of
his success with men is his ca
pacity to trust others, to
heighten their self-eSteem-
combined with a good nose for
what is trustworthy.
Correction.
The statement of Gov. Ste
venson regarding his tempera-
mental fitness for the job as
candidate was quoted in my
article of November 81 as hav-
ing been made at the time of
his acceptance. This is an error.
He so expressed himself in a
meeting of the Illinois delega-
ton, as reported in Time.
July %.
Evening star., 1952-12-06
Cabinet Role May Be Congenio|
Judging by PosEection Attitude of MAN, Secretary Dun
Need Not Find Relationship With Colleagues Too Difficult

cushions of the Union League
Clubs think they can divide us,
they are wrong" or something
like that. But he will surely
register labor's view that pro-
tecting union members is Ia
boris own job.
When the novelty wears off
The chances are that neither Mr..
Durkin nor his new associates
are likely to find their re-
lationship difficult to maintain.
But the Labor Secretary's re-
lationship to Congress, a much
more important matter. may
be another story, and not
only because Senator Taft still
considers his appointment in
credible.