26 Capital Journal, Salem, Ore., Thursday. Octoher fi. 1949
FIGHTING SEEN BY CORRESPONDENT
'Cold War' Is Shooting War
On Line Cutting Korea
(Editor's Note The following dispatch i from the front linei
of the cold war Korea where there is actual fighting with
communists Instead of diplomatic maneuvering. The writer
Is vice president and general foreign manager of the United
Press, now on a tour of the Far East).
By JOSEPH L. JONES
Paekch-on, Along the 38th Parallel, Korea, Oct. 5 U.R) Some
500 yards across the valley, communist troops of North Korea are
yelling at us, but not shooting.
They are in a blockhouse atop a little tun, ana we are in me
front trenches of the Korean republican troops. Between us is
scattering of houses and truck
a train tour of a children's town on the outskirts of Belgrade,
Yugoslavia, administered by the youngsters themselves.
BESIDES HOLDING THINGS TOGETHER
Humble Button Gets Play
As Collectors Get Together
Watklns Glen, N.Y. (U.RI There used to be a game children
played with buttons, but nowadays grownups are collecting 'em.
Take for example Mrs. Charles Quirk of Watkins Glen. She's
got the button bug. She inherited it, by marriage. And now,
besides a husband, Mrs. Quirk has buttons hundreds of them.
For the person who thinks a
button is Just something to hold
a coat together, Mrs. Quirk's en
thusiasm Is a trifle hard to ex
plain. But ever since she In
herited the button collection of
her late mother-in-law, she has
found plenty of other button
collectors to share her enthus
iasm. Every now and then Mrs
Quirk and her fellow button
collectors meet for a convention
to compare buttons. They have
a state and national organiza
tion, and periodicals and books
are published for the pleasure
and edification of the button
bugs.
According to Mrs. Quirk, a
button collectors' convention at
Rochester recently revealed that
the most valuable button in her
collection is a large disc called
"The Children's Circus."
A circus scene showing a
child performing on a trapeze.
Is finely etched into the metal
of the button. In the background
Is a gallery of cherubic faces,
done In fine detail.
Among the storybook buttons.
In Mrs. Quick s collection are
many depicting fables, myths.
Biblical tales, historic events
and famous people. One repre
sents the Old Testament story
of Eliezer at the well.
"The Sentinel at Caracow," a
button dating from about 1880,
shows the figure of a trumpeter
standing on a parapet. It sym
bolizes a story which goes some
thing like this:
During the Tartar invasion of
Poland, a trumpeter was playing
a melody when he was shot in
the throat by a Tartar arrow.
From that day on the melody
was played in exactly the same
way, ending upon the same note
that marked the death of the
Polish warrior.
Another button appears to
have been the forerunner of
modern advertising featuring
an Imaginary character known
"Peter Pain." On the button
is a dwarf hard at work with a
chisel on the face of an unfor
tunate victim. The button, which
quite commonly owned by
collectors, is known as the "Imp
of Pain."
The avid button collector,
Mrs. Quirk said, is not easily
kidded by modern copies of old
buttons.
"The common everyday plas
tics are called 'goofies' by the
collectors," she said.
And a collector would rather
lose his favorite button than
commit the error of mistaking
black glass for true jet.
"J e t," according to Mrs.
Quirk, "is easy to identify. We
know that jet Is a vegetable
matter. We scrape a little from
the back of a button and, if it
burns, we know It's jet."
Helen Douglas to
Run for Senate
Los Angeles, Oct. 6 'P) Hel
en Gahagan Douglas, ex-actress
turned congresswoman, an
nounced today that she will be
a candidate for U.S. senator
next year.
Before leaving by plane for
Washington, she issued a state
ment saying in part:
"This decision is mine and
mine alone. I make it without
obligation to any special inter
est." The seat is now occupied by
Sheridan Downey, democrat,
who has not announced wheth
er he will run for reelection.
Mrs. Douglas, wife of Actor
Melvyn Douglas, also is a demo
crat.
The witch hazel is not a hazel
tree at all, but a shrub, and the
word "witch" is a corruption of
"wych" and so called because
its leaves looked like those of
wych elms.
garden patches.
It is a national holiday, which
may be why nobody is working
in that pleasant no-man s lano.
"Soldiers of South Korea," the
distant voice Is shouting, "why
do you show Americans your
trenches? Why do you serve
that traitor, Syngman Rhee
(president of Southern Korea)?
Your commanding officer was
run back to Seoul.
"Why do you consort with
the Americans? You ought to
work for the common people
Come over and join us."
The speaker was polite, if
leather lunged. He addressed
the Southern Korean troops as
"gentlemen." He did not even
call us visitors "imperialist
American bastards" as does the
official broadcasting station at
Pyongyang, the Northern capi
tal.
The little non-commissioned
officer at my side and turned
away.
"They read that from script,"
he said.
A minute later, one of the men
near us raised his rifle and
banged away at the Northern
emplacement on the skyline.
Everybody ducked, and there
was a spatter of fire from both
sides before the Indian sum
mer quiet returned.
In jabbing at the Americans,
the communist speaker over
looked another civilian in the
party the foreign minister of
Southern Korea, Col. Ben Limb
who spent many years In Amer
ican exile while Japan ruled
Korea. Others in the party were
Jack James of the United Pres:
and Willie Dewing, public in
formation officer for the Korean
government.
It all seemed rather unwar
like. But down the road we
passed an ambulance with three
dead. And 12 hours earlier, ac
cording to National police, 75
were killed and 25 seriously
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wounded in the clash between
guerrillas and police at Posan,
in the far south.
There are two kinds of fight
ing going on in Korea sport
ing attacks along the 38th par
allel and the far more serious
stabbing raids of guerrillas in
side South Korea itself.
There may be 20,000 troops
facing each other across the
parallel, which by decision of
the great powers cuts Korea In
two for 170 miles from the Yel
low sea on the west to the Sea
of Japan.
Here on the eastern end, In
an active sector, the command
ant estimated that 200 commu
nists hold a front of 6,000 yards
But there are upward of 25,
000 guerrillas within the Kor
ean republic itself. They are not
all active at the same time. They
maKe raids like the one at Po
san, killing police, burning
houses and shooting up towns.
Then police raid communist
centers in the hills.
The dead, according to nffi.
cial estimates, have averaged
about 25 a day for the last three
months. During May and June,
the fighting was much hotter.
Colonel Limb believes that the
present job of the regular com
munist troops is to keep the
republican army busy in the
north while the guerrillas upset
me tuumry internally.
unquestionably, it Is having
Vision Meteor
In Daylight
Eugene, Oct. 8 (At A bril
liant fireball blazed through
Oregon skies on a sunny after
noon last week and was widely
observed in northern Oregon
and southern Washington, Dr. J.
Hugh Pruett, University of Ore
gon astronomer, reported here
today.
The daylight meteor, one of
the few ever reported in the
some effect. There is an 11 p.m.
curfew in Seoul, the capital,
and the most usual estimate of
political prisoners, including
guerrillas and accused subver-
northwest, was observed at 2:30
p.m., last Saturday, Dr. Pruett
said.
The university astronomer has
requested hunters, stockmen and
others who saw the fireball to
provide him with information as
to its height, direction, color
and speed. Dr. Pruett, director
for the American Meteor soci
ety in five western states, plans
to chart its course.
First reports about the meteor
were received from hunters
east of Mt. Hood.
South of Bend, the fireball
was observed by Mrs. Clarence
Foster, who was hunting in the
former Camp Abbot area. She
said the object was as large as
the planet Venus, and dropped
toward the earth.
Had the fireball flashed
through the Oregon sky at night
It would have lighted up much
of the northwest, ooservers believe.
More Slowly, Mr. Quickly
New York W John Quickly, 35, appeared yesterday be
fore Magistrate Eugene R. Canudo to answer a charge of driv
ing too quickly.
"You should drive more slowly, Mr. Quickly," the judge
remarked after the defendant pleaded guilty.
The judge quickly fined Quickly (5, which Quickly paid,
leaving the court hastily.
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