12 Capital Journal, Salem, Oregon, Thursday, Dec. 21, 1950
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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
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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
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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
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