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16 Capital Journal, Salm, Oregon, Saturday, Oct 21, 1950
Tank-led U. S. Task Force
l?aces to Free G.I. Prisoners
150 01s Believed
Held by Reds
In Rail Tunnel
By ROBERT BENNYHOFF
PvongvanK. North Korea, Oct,
21 U.R) A tank-led U.S. task
force raced north from Pyong
vans today in an attempt to res
cue 150 American war prisoners
believed held by the commun
lata in a railroad tunnel 40 miles
north of here.
The prisoners may be from a
group of 250 or more Americans
whom the North Koreans march
ed out of Pyongyang toward the
Manchurian border last Satur
day.
At least 20 American war pris-
oners who escaped from the
communists said the 250-odd
prisoners were all who were left
out of 378 who began a "aeatn
march" from Seoul. Eighty-one
others died on the way to Py
ongyang from beatings, shoot
ings, malnutrition, dysentery and
exposure, they said.
One of the prisoners said a
North Korean colonel had told
him that Ma). Gen. William F.
Dean, missing commander of the
U.S. 24th division, died in com
munist captivity while being
marched from Taejon to Seoul.
The prisoner, 2nd Lt. Douglas
W. Blulock, 27, of Savannah,
Ga., and Hcflin, Ala., said he had
met an American lieutenant In a
prison camp who told him that
he, Dean and several other Ame
ricans had hidden In the 'moun
tains near Taejon for 15 days
after that city fell last July.
The lieutenant said the party
separated, however, and he ne
ver saw Dean again, Blalock re
ported. Later, a North Korean colonel
told Blalock that Dean had been
captured and had died shortly
before reaching Seoul. He said
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Survivor Army Lt. Alex
ander Makaroumis, 27, of
Lowell, Mass., was one of only
three survivors of 280 Amer
ican prisoners of war on a
North Korean death march
from Seoul to the North Ko
rean capital of Yyongyang.
(AP Wlrephoto)
the colonel refused to give any
details.
Dean last was seen in Taejon
with a bazooka team. He had just
boasted to a command post that
he had "got myself a tank."
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Blalock was one of five Ame
ricans who escaped from a prison
train north of Pyongyang Friday
and hid in a cornfield until he
heard an American tank column
from the 1st cavalry division
rumbling up a nearby highway
this morning.
It was the 1st cavalry division
which sent an armored task
force racing north today on a
tip that 150 prisoners were
aboard a communist train stalled
in a tunnel 40 miles north of
Pyongyang.
Fellow prisoners who escaped
from the train said the North
Koreans told them they would
be taken to Manjopin on the
Manchurian border nearly 150
miles north of Pyongyang.
War Takes Time Out for 15
Minutes to Aid Fallen Pilot
By TOM LAMBERT
Pyongyang, Korea., Oct. 21 Wl The U. S. advance on Pyong
yang once came to a halt for 15 minutes to help one lone
American in distress.
Tanks, guns and troops had been rolling up the road toward
the Hod North Korean capital through an autumn countryside
vivid with color. '
Now and then the tanks fired
in angry roars. Machine guns
chattered their annoyance at tar
gets nearer the road.
Ahead U. S airplanes bored
through the air. Towers of smoke
rose from towns and villages
where their bombs and Jellied
gasoline fell.
Dotted trails of smoke puffed
from their strafing guns. And
then the stutter of the explosions
from the 50-calibcr cartridges
came down the wind.
The riflemen In the advancing
column paid little attention to
the warplanes.
Then four F-5U came thun
dering over the column from a
swift run on a nearby target.
The men in the column saw
one plane waver and Jerk up.
The plexiglass canopy fell off
and flashed end over end in the
sunlight.
The fighter plane tipped up
on Its left wing. It faltered
and began Its straight and
seemingly certain dive to de
struction. At about SOS feet the pilot
lialrd out. Ills body hurtled
for a moment like a bomb.
Jeeps, tanks and trucks squeal
ed and groaned to a halt. There
was furious profanity aimed
cither at the enemy gun that may
have got him or at the mechani
cal failure. They knew not
which.
"Well, Goddamnit, let'a go." a
medical sergeant shouted. Med
ics carrying a litter ran into the
field.
The three other F-51s flew
over their fallen comrade in
tight, whining circles. They
wagged their wings, guiding the
medics through the rice field.
The advance on Pyongyang
was forgotten.
Swearing Infantrymen Jumped
from the trucks and started into
the field. A tank lurched down
from the road after them.
There was a village out there,
and the enemy could be lurking.
And infantrymen love pilots for
battering and softening the en
emy if men can be said to love
those they never see face to face.
The medics found the pilot be
neath the great white blossom of
the opened parachute.
There was a blue bruise on
his forehead. A thin streak of
blood, like a red pencil mark
ran from his mouth.
A medic felt his pulse. "He's
still alive," he said.
The medics picked up the pi
lot carefully. They carried the
litter oft across the field and over
a muddy stream.
Good, the riflemen said, he's
still alive. Then tank, medics,
riflemen and the injured pilot
went back to the road.
They put the pilot in a Jeep
ambulance and it went back
down the road to the rear. The
column moved on again toward
Pyongyang.
It was a gqod 15 minutes spent,
the riflemen thought, even
thought it was 15 minutes lost in
the rare with South Koreans to
Pyongyang.
An hour later the ambulance
Jeep came back. The riflemen
in the column looked at the
medic.
"The pilot died," the medic
said.
The riflemen cursed and went
on up the road to Pyongyang.
Red General Dies
Moscow. Oct. 21 (41 The
death of Soviet Col. Gen. Gav
rill Zashikhin, 52, was reported
today. Zashikhin served in the
Russian army from 1918 when
he enlisted. During World War
II, he commanded large army
units at Leningrad.
They said the train had only
covered about 40 miles because
of chaotic conditions along the
railway.
U.S. fighter planes destroyed a
railroad bridge and sections of
the track north of the tunnel in
an attempt to prevent its fur
ther progress.
During the five days they
spent on the train, the prisoners
said they had been given rice
only twice. Their only nourish
ment the rest of the time was a
hardtack type of cracker given
them by guards.
Escaped prisoners were being
flown from Pyongyang to Kim
po airfield outside Seoul as fast
as they could be brought to the
airfield here.
First to go were:
Pvt. Harold A. Warren, Brint,
Ala.
Pvt. Hussel Morris, Charlottes
ville, Va.
Pvt. Raymond Hamilton, route
4, Branson, Mich.
Pfc. Joseph Cerino, Jr., Ban
gor, Pa.
Capt. William D. Locke, of
Enfield, N.C.
First Lt. Alexander G. Naka-
rounis, of Lowell, Mass.
First Lt. James B. Smith, of
Columbus, O.
Sgt. 1st Class Robert L. Mor
ris, of Chester, Pa.
Sgt. 1st Class William H.
Jones, of Flint, Mich.
Pvt. st Class Edward G. Hal-
comb, of Hamilton, O.
Sgt. Pakeshi Kumagai, of Ho
nolulu, Hawaii.
Corp. Jack C. Arakawa, of
Honolulu, Hawaii.
Holcomb told this story:
"A week ago today the origin
al group of American prisoners
housed in a red brick school in
the northeast section of Pyong
yang were lined up in columns
of four after darkness and were
told they were being taken to
the Manchurian border.
"There were five of us Mor
ris, Jones, Arakawa, Smith and
myself who had been trying to
escape for some time and we de
cided we might not get another
chance.
When the North Koreans
started to march us up a dark
alley, we five dropped out of
line and squeezed up against the
wall in the shadows, flattening
ourselves as much as we could.
'The column went by with
most of the guards at the rear,
and they never saw us.
"Later, Corp. Arakawa, who
looks like a Korean, pretended
he was our guard and marched
us through the city hollering
Bali, ball, meaning hurry. The
gooks did not pay any attention
to us. We had trouble, though,
when we passed a North Korean
police box.
We ran down a side street
into an alley when the police
fired two shots at us. We found
a vacant house and broke open
the door and stayed inside the
next several days.
We had a few pieces of bed
ding, three slices of bread and
three apples, which we had eat
en by the second day. We found
a 15-pound sack of flour mixed
with seeds and water and lived
on that. We didn't dare go out
side because we were in the mid
dle of some sort of community.
On the fifth day we heard a
lot of people shouting banzai
but had no indication that the
city had fallen. We looked
through door cracks and saw
ROK flags flying and wondered
what was going on.
"Finally we called in a young
Korean who told us in Japanese
the city had fallen.
"Later we decided to go out
and South Korean soldiers came
over and shook hands and took
us to their commanding officer."
The Americans said the march
from Seoul to Pyongyang took
20 days.
"If one prisoner fell down,
another would pick him up and
carry him," Morris said. "If
both fell, the guards beat or shot
them. Eighty-one died either
from shootings or beatings or
exposure during the march."
Cutting Escape Route American paratroopers, viewed from
General MacArthur's plane, drop into North Korean territory
85 miles south of the Manchurian border to cut off escape
routes of Red soldiers fleeing Pyongyang. NEA-Acme Radio
Tclcphoto by Ernest Hoberecht. (Acme Telephoto)
'Sure, We're Stared'
Paratroopers Like School Kids
By JOSEPH QUIN'N
Kimno Airfield. Korea, Oct 21 U.B The daring young American
Daratrooocrs who took off for North Korea yesterday looked more
like a bunch of high school kids on the way to a Sunday picnic
than the tough fighters who are helping bring the Korean war
to a close.
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Henry L. Stimson, Cabinet
Officer Four Times, Passes
Tnld Snrini Harbor. N. Y.. Oct. 21 WV-Henry L. Stimson, the
first American to hold cabinet office under four presidents, died
yesterday of a sudden heart attack. He was 83 years old.
Stimson was secretary of war under Presidents William Howard
Taft. Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry Truman, and was Herbert
Hoover's only secretary of state.
As they trooped aboard the
"flying boxcars" that carried
them north to the big jump,
many were wearing bright-col
ored caps. Almost every man
had a red feather stuck some
where in his jump harness. '
Ground crewmen and supply
soldiers at the field laughed with
the intrepid sky troopers as they
swarmed up steep ladders into
the big planes.
But as the first planes of the
huge air armada trundled down
the field, the men left behind
stood motionless, praying silent
ly that each heavily loaded
transport would get off the run
way safely.
Privately, the paratroopers
were ready to admit they were
scared, but they were confident
that they could take anything
the Communists could dish out
and still throw their Sunday
punch,
"Sure, we're scared stiff," said
Pfc. Lawrence E. Kunst of
Grand Rapids, Mich. "But each
of us knows exactly what he is
supposed to do. This afternoon
we are going to end the Korean
war."
All of one platoon were de
termined to keep an eye on their
youngest member, Pfc. Philly
Hogan, a 19-year-old aid man
from Philadelphia, and make
sure he made out all right.
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MacArthur In Red Capital General Douglas MacArthur
(right) is greeted by Gen. Walton H. Walker at Pyongyang
after watching American paratroopers drop into North Korean
territory 85 miles south of the Manchurian border. More than
4000 U. S. troops parachuted to block fleeting Red Soldiers.
NEA-Acme Radio-Telephoto by Ernest Hoberecht. (Acme
Telephoto)
Three months ago Stimson
fell and broke his hip, but was
making a good recovery and
getting about with wheelchair
and crutches. Yesterday after
noon he and Mrs. Stimson set
out on a drive around the es
tate. He was stricken in the car,
was taken home immediately,
and died a few minutes later.
Stimson was the first leading
statesman in any western coun
try to demand a tough crack
down on the aggressors of the
1930s. His policy failed at the
time, but as America's secretary
of war from Pearl Harbor to
Hiroshima, he directed the army
and air force that helped re
deem it.
While Stimson's four years as
secretary of state, 1929 to 1933,
were distinguished, military
men and historians have rank
ed him with Lincoln's Edwin
M. Stanton as one of the two
greatest secretaries of war in
American history.
His association with the war
department was unique.
He was given the office in
1911 by President Taft. At that
time the American army had
only 75,000 men and had just
taken over the German general
staff system that had been
adopted by every big army in
the world.
He left the post in 1913 and
did not take it up again until
1840 27 years later when
Franklin D. Roosevelt called
him back to duty on the eve of
World War II at the age of 73.
A life-long republican, Stim
son was asked to serve in a move
to gain bi-partisan support
the war emergency. As a result
of his acceptance, he was read
out of the republican party.
When he left the office for
the last time in September, 1945,
he had directed the mobilization
and use of an 8,000,000-man ar
my that fought in every part of
tne world and had won praise
from defeated German generals
for its combat efficiency.
Tall, austere and described as
i New England conscience on
legs," Stimson was a Wall Street
lawyer whose private practice
was continually interrupted by
public duty.
He took office first at the age
of 40 when President Theodore
Roosevelt appointed him U. S.
attorney for the southern dis
trict of New York. Although a
natural conservative, Stimson
swung behind "TR's" trust-
busting campaign and smashed
several combinations between
tne railroads and the sugar
trust netting the government
millions in fines and back cus
toms duties.
Select Club Officers
Macleay At the meeting of
the community club, held at the
school house last week, officers
for the coming year were elect
ed. They included president,
Harry Martin, Jr.; vice presi
dent, Sam Miller; secretary, Mrs.
Harry Martin, Jr.; treasurer,
William Bettleyoun; sergeant-at-
arms, James Hudec; song leader,
W. F. Cole; musician, Mrs. Elsie
Carpenter. Sunshine committee,
Mrs. Wilbur Miller and Mrs.
Sam Miller.
Henry L. Stimson
Clinic Dated
For Youngsters
An Immunization clinic for in
fants and pre-school childn i
will be held at the St. Paul Am
erican Legion building, Monday,
October 23 from 1 to S p.m.
Protection against whooping
sough, diphtheria, tetanus and
smallpox will be offered to in
fanta over six months of age.
There is no charge for this serv
ice which will be given by the
Marion county health depart
ment, and volunteer workers. No
appointments are necessary.
Clinics of this nature are Held
on the fourth Monday of each
month. Dr. W. J. Stone, county
health officer, will be at the No
vember 27 clinic when examina
tions and conferences will be of
fered. Those interested in ap
pointment are urged to contact
volunteer chairmen which in
clude Mrs. Carl Smith at St.
Paul, Mrs. Burnell Olson at Ray
Bell, Mrs. John Kaufman at Four
Corners, Mrs. Robert Coleman at
Mahoney and Mrs. Donald Cole
man at Fairfield.
Club Prepares
For Shrine Event
Elmer J. Church, president of
the Salem Shrine club, Saturday
announced the chairmen of com
mittees to prepare for a western
Oregon Shrine ceremonial, slat
ed for Salem on November 18.
It is expected that more than
1000 members of the Shrine
will participate in the ceremo
nial, the first to be held in Sa
lem in many years.
The committee chairmen nam
ed are:
Tom TomI imon, chairman
membership com m i 1 1 e e ; Ted
Medford, chairman parade com
mittee; Russell Beutler, chair
man provost guard committee;
Robert Stutzman, chairman dec
oration committee; Fred Birch,
chairman housing committee; Al
Loucks, John Graybill, Claude
Post and Dick Meyer, chairmen
hospitality and greeters commit
tee; Ray Linton, chairman lunch
eon , and banquet committee;
Harris Lietz, chairman transpor
tation committee; William
Braun, chairman stage commit
tee; Rollin Lewis, chairman de
gree committee; Manche Gadwa
chairman public address com
mittee, Robert White, chairman
parking committee, and Jake
Fuhrer, chairman finance com
mittee.
The Philadelphia Athletics
this season have five men who
were with other big league
teams last fall Bob Dillinger,
Ed Klieman, Joe Tipton, Billy
Hitchcock and Paul Lehner.
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