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I Mongolian Cavalry Accustomed To Rigors of Warfare in Korea (Spencer" Davis, who here writes of the Mongolian cavalry now re ported in Korea, knows the Mongolians. He met them while covering North China and Manchuria in 1945-46 when Manchuria was switching from .Japanese toRusslan to Chinese nationalist and finally to Chinese communist control He now is on the Associated Press cable desk at San Francisco.) By Spencer Davis SAN FRANCISCO, Dec 13-P)-Two divisions of tough Mon golian cavalrymen, identified by General Mac Arthur's headquarters as among the Chinese communist vanguard in Korea, are fighting in their own element. Accustomed to the bleak plains and howling winds of the Mon golian plateau, they were raised to the life of a nomad and a fighter. -mey were operating over ground stained red by illustrious ancestors. The great Mongol con queror Genghis Khan subdued Korea in 1218 and a half century later his grandson Kublai Khan, at the head of another army, did it again. As recently as August, 1945 shaggy little Mongolian ponies ! galloped again through Manchuria into Korea, carrying their stocky, high cheekboned masters to battle with the Japanese. Fierce Tribesmen Mongolian banner-men most of them fierce Buryat tribesmen then were attached to - Russia's Second Ukrainian army. It was , the" Soviet armored force sent ' from Stalingrad and eastern Eu rope to crush the Japanese Kwan tung army and occupy Manchuria and Korea down to the 38th par allel. The fighting lasted little more than one week in 1945 the last week of World War II. ' The Mongols terrorized Chinese civilians in Manchuria. They were dreaded more than even the Sov iet "long-noses" as the Chinese called the. Russian troops. Avoid Contact Then, as now, long lines of civ ilian refugees poured out of the cities, towns and villages to avoid contact with the long-robed, high " booted Mongol cavalrymen. And with the refugees came . tales of the no-quarter ferocity in . battle accompanied by whooping battle screams. . The sack of Mukden In Septem ber. 1945 following its capture by the red army was attributed by Chinese civilians largely to these wiry, cold-blooded little men. The Mongolians wore durable sheepskin-nned winter uniforms Their tightlitung civet skin -or ; beaver skull caps pulled down over ears and nose, gave them " and even wilder aspect. They were crack shots, even when riding at full gallop. r For centuries fighting has been a way of life to these sons cf the great Khans. -,v In recent times the Mongols have fiercely resented the mass migration of Chinese from south of the great wall fn to territory they considered their own. Lana Turner Suffering From Case of Shopping HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 13-yP-La- na Turner .went to bed Tuesday, suiiering irom - an overdose oi Christmas shopping. Her studio and her physician, Dr. Authority on Men to Take Look at Britons SOUTHAMPTON, England, Dec. 13 (P)-Red-haired Lisa Lengyel, who teaches American men the uses of "male magnetism" in han dling their women, is here for a 30-day look at Britain's reserved menfolk. Miss Lengyel impressed on newsmen the necessity for getting these basic facts straight about the male British or U.S.: "The perfect man would strike a woman as being a threat, a promise, and a mystery. I would sum him up as a well-mannered caveman." "Men- do not need to be hand some to attract women but they must have charm and personality, tney must be interesting conversa tionalists and they must have a certain amount of practical ideal ism. She said her perfect man "would have the character of an Eng lishman, the polish of a French man and the business training of an American. Visbinsky Says Truman Usins C7 A-Bomb Threat NEW YORK, Dec. 13-(P-Rus- sia's Andrei Vishinsky accused President Truman Tuesday of threatening the world with the atom bomb. He said the president intends to continue the threats un til all control of atomic energy is put into the hands of "American monopolists. The Soviet foreign minister re ferred briefly to Mr. Truman's statement that use of the atom bomb in Korea was always under consideration. Vishinsky was re plying to an eight-power resolu tion designed to study means of lumping a study of atomic energy control with the problem of re ducing world armaments. The resolution was introduced directly onto the floor of the U.N. assembly to carry out President Truman's suggestion for such a move. U. S. Delegate John Sherman Cooper ridiculed Vishinsky's char ges, asserted his alternatives were specious, and invited the boviet union to end its boycott of the U. N.'s atomic commission. Ti Strrtwmca. Solera. Or TLxmdar Dtxwnbae It US3--31 Cooperative Stars Chosen HOLLYWOOD, Dec. lM-Wil-lowy Loretta Young got out in front of Marie Wilson Tuesday, by a narrow margin in the annual Vote for the most cooperative mo tion picture actress. The Hollywood Women's Press club, which polls its members, al so named Alan Ladd over John Derek as the most cooperative ac tor. Each will receive the club's golden apples at a party Decem ber 19. The club's choices for most un cooperative actor and actress Robert Mitchum and Olivia De- havilland, over Lana Turner and Jane Wyman (tied) and Gordon Mac Rae. They won't get any awards. John B- McDonald, said the strain of shopping had aggravated an old back injury. The doctor order ed three days rest. Polio Cases at 23-Year Hish NEW YORK, Dec. 13-(;P)-There were more polio cases reported in the United States during the week ended December 2 than there have been in the comparable week for 23 years, the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis said Tues day. The foundation said there were 598 new cases, the highest figure for the 48th week of any year since 1927, when weekly reports on polio incidence were started by. the U. S. public health service. ' The foundation said the report ing of 31,989 cases of polio since Jan. 1 had made this year "un questionably the second severest polio year in the nation's history." Only last year was worse, the foundation said, with 41,442 cases in the same period. Stomach Pump Gets Evidence LOS ANGELES, Dec. 13-P)- The California district court of appeals Tuesday upheld the con viction of a narcotics possessor al though the evidence was pumped from his stomach. Anthony Rochin appealed his conviction last yea? on a charge of possessing narcotics. The ar resting officers said he swallowed several heroin tablets which were recovered via a stomach pump. Rochin s counsel held this was il legal invasion of property. 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