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12 Capital Journal, Salem, Oregon, Thursday, Dec. 21, 1950 . i- t ht ...... . , r'' -cfcrT - fo- -iv:,v jp I Hungnam Defenders Blast Enemy American artillerymen fire their 105mm howitzer from a position within the defense arc around Hungnam on the northeastern Korea front. War ships from seven countries were adding their firepower as United Nations defenders held off persisting Red attacks on the Allied shoreline strip. (AP Wirephoto) Korean Minister Asks World To Think Over Conflict Cause By H. D. QUIGG Seoul, Dec. 21 U. New snow lies like a soothing poultice over this raw-nerved city. Bicycle bells still tinkle at dusk in the streets and tiny newspaper boys sing a song of morning papers to sell. Twilight came on as we sat at the parsonage. The young Korean minister sat . Qolri cross - legged on small pillow on the floor and rocked from side to side. We waited for him to speak. And as sounds came througn the paper win dows of bells chiming dimly and Icily and dusky news vendors chanting their wares you could imagine they were sleighbells and Christ mas carollcrs. The young minister's eyes were closed. He frowned and his mouth was drawn taut. He was thinking ot a Christmas message although he had been forced to abandon his church and disband his congregation. My Korean friend, George Suh, and I had gone looking for a pastor of a church in Seoul. There was none to be found although we visited several churches. All had either been taken by communists when they Invaded Seoul or were In hid ing or had fled south. When we came to this parson age they said there was a pas tor stopping there for the night. He had come from the north and was leaving for the south tomorrow. We went In and sat with him on the warm floor Koreans have practiced rad iant healing for hundreds of years and George acted ai In terpreter. The young minister had walked with his wife and three children 30 miles down through snow to Seoul from his church In Changtan. He said he was 85 years old. A minister for seven years and a pastor of a Methodist church In Changtan for two years. I asked the church's name and George listened to the Korean name and said: "Literally. It's the 'In Front of Changtan Rail road Station Church'." On Christmas Eve the pastor said the 40 persons In his con gregation always exchanged gifts and young men and women sang carols. On Christmas Day there was a special service about the birth of Christ. He smiled as he talked about it. His face re sembled that of movie actor Ronald Coleman with a neat black mustache and regular fea tures. He had hidden out when the communists first Invaded. Many of his follow pastors had been seized. Now with the new threat he was moving bis family to safety. He said he was afraid this war would spread all over the world. "If you could hold your Christ mas service this year what would you say?" The minister replied In a soft voice: "I would like to tell them that Jesus Christ came to us to bless us with peace. As it is, I pray that peace will be restored. I would say: 'We face a sorrowful time which forced us to leave our church twice. Otherwise we would have been persecuted. Some of us left our families. Almost all of us are destitute. Quite a few of the ciders of this congregation have been ab ducted by the communists. " 'And so it is very difficult lo preserve our church. For the individual person, for religious bodies, for our country itself this is our biggest disaster. We cannot get through this ordeal without sincere confession be fore God'." I asked if there was anything he would like to say to the peo ple of the world on Christmas Eve. That was when he rocked in thought. He took his 2-year- old baby on his lap and the child lav over on his arm and was asleep before he spoke. Then he said: "I think it is necessary for people of the world to think over the reasons and circumstances why there should be conflict in Korea. I hope that people will meet this Christmas with the re alization of heavenly power which governs the globe, with out believing in power and auth ority for any one nation on earth." "As for Korea, a small and weak nation, I think somehow it has not been abandoned by God. And for that I am happy in the midst of a gloomy situa tion." What made him think Korea had not been abandoned: "Because," he said, "I know that the big powers in the world are sacrificing lives and ma terial in helping Korea." Corvallis General Directs Beachhead Artillery in Korea By JACK BL'RBY Hungnam Beachhead, Korea, Dec. 21 U.B Compressed into an area less than five miles across, Americans in this perimeter are fighting the noisiest and dirtiest battle of the Korean war. Dust from demolition blasts and from piles of abandoned coal Hungnam used to be an industrial center fills the air and makes the men look like coal miners. And artillery thundering day and night from ships and shore tears the nerves to shreds. The barrage is "worse than Iwo Jima," a marine officer said. It pounds the hills and plains around Hungnam without stop and probably has been the main reason the Chinese and North Koreans have not swarmed into the heart of the beachnead. "We're sweating a little," said a captain sitting before a chart in a Korean mud hut at the edge of the perimeter. Capt. Corbin Davis of Plats mouth, Neb., pointed to a ridge line and said that was where the Americans came closest to real trouble. The communists got a machinegun on the ridge the night before last and had a clean sweep of the American nerve center. "They were loaded for bear," Davis said. "I saw one we killed carrying a whole satchel full of grenades. , The Americans counter-at tacked and retook the ridge aft er an hour's fight, and the en emy hasn't made any headway against the ridge since. In the center of the beach head the Americans are sweat ing out the enemy's next move, living in a swarm of lite both civilian and military and the blackest grime they've seen in Korea. A giant smokestack in the path of artillery shells was blown early yesterday, covering the entire town with thick gray dust for 10 minutes. "Measles" are saving hun dreds, perhaps thousands, of American lives. That's the name we've given to the Red circles drawn on the artillery control chart. Each circle fixes a possi ble danger point already "zero ed in" by accurate fire. If anything moves there, the infantry has only to call out the "measles number" and death is on its way for enemy troops who attack or even form up for an attack. The artillery is under the command of Brig. Gen. Roland Snug, of Corvallis, Ore., who believes he and his men have only one reason for existence WT CONNIE , THERE'S BJ MOTHER, THAT'S AV Y NOTHING NICER VOUW JG0O0 SUGGESTION- JCOUID HAVE FOB THAT M I THAT'S WHAT I WILL J EXTRA-SPECIAL DINNER HAVE - y.'. k WITH OReSSING A flSzf BUT Y0U MU5T I V lfe-j E3V!t BS SURE IT'3AV yPftT'' ? rf SAa' CHICKEN AND YOU CAN itrtnw urvn ii 3 6CIN.G THE FINEST IP YOU BUY IT AT HOFFMW MARKET GIFT SUGGESTIONS SLACKS Gabardines, 100 All Wool, Irrldescents, Sharkskins $139o$1895 Open Evening Till Until Christmas , S tt N CLOTHIERS Oood Looking Clothes Are Not Expensive" Hfrh Marfrt. Mrr. 4M STATE AT. We Wish You All a Very MERRY CHRISTMAS and a HAPPY and PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR HOFFMAN'S MEAT MARKET ITS NOT TOO LATE TO ORDER YOUR HOLIDAY POULTRY DUCKS (Local) Roasting Chickens DRESSED AND DRAWN FRESHLY DRESSED AND DRAWN 69c L, 59c , TURKEYS GEESE (Local) ALL FRESHLY DRESSED GRADE "A" "f 59c 49c Jyc HENS lb. TOMS V b. SWIFT'S PREMIUM, ARMOUR'S STAR, MINCEMEAT Tht Beit W Con Buy 27c 62c " V LB- Tenderized of course Half or Wholo today helping out the infantry in the front lines. At night, ' Shug's artillery is in its glory. It isn't possible to keep dozens of planes wheeling over the beachhead atter dark, so dazzling white star shells and parachute flares burst over no man's land and swing to earth, flooding the dark corners and cliffs in enemy territory with an unreal light. Recently, when a major attack was expected, Shrug's artillery working with naval gunfire splattered 1,100 shells around the front lines. The enemy did not get through that night. Major's Commission Woodburn Major Edwin A. Nelson, son of Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Nelson of Woodburn, was recently appointed to the temporary grade of major in the army of the United States at Bremerhaven, Germany. He arrived in the European theater in October, 1949, and is serving as executive and mess officer of the 7749th dependents' staging area at Bremerhaven. He has been in the army 21 years and served as an enlisted man before being commissioned a 2nd lieu tenant in 1942. During the la,te war he served at the prisoner of war camp in Kansas and with the military police battalion in Minnesota. At the end of the war in 1946 he was sent for duty in Korea. 2 !IJII,l.i.H,!Hii)Ul.Uj,g THE REALLY SMART THINS-TO SERVE IS Petri Uinej PETRI WINE CO, SAN FRANCISCO, CALIF. Mid-Cenfury Prayer For Peace Urged Nashville, Tenn., Dec. 21 W The Methodist church's gen eral board of evangelism Wed nesday called on churches throughout the country to unite in a "mid-century prayer for peace" on December 31. 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