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Rifleman X's Deed
Gl Braves Red Fire to Escape
Tokyo U.R) The army newspa
per, Pacific Stars and Stripes,
told the story today of "Rifle
man X."
Rifleman X was captured Sun
day, during an Allied patrol be
hind enemy lines. Monday he
escaped and made his way back
to U.N. lines. He is now recover
ing from a compound fracture of
the elbow and four bullet
wounds in his knee.
The story began when a U.N.
patrol was attacked by Chinese
communists behind the Red
lines. Rifleman X and another
U. N. soldier were captured and
Timber Impales
Lebanon Man
Lebanon A 41-vear-old trim
mer at the Nylund sawmill was
critically injured Saturday when
a jagged section of 2x6 buckled
back out of the edger, catching
the worker, Harry Stauffer in
the groin and passing entirely
through the lower portion of his
body and left leg. He was near
death from loss of blood when
he reached the Lebanon hos
pital. Two physicians worked over
the man for several hours dur
ing which time he received five
pints of blood plasma and whole
blood. Later in the night, two
additional pints were given.
His condition Tuesday was im
proved, but he is still on the
critical list.
The injured man lives in Leb
anon at 471 street.
Tule Lake Land
Lease Held Up
Washington VP) Rep. Engle
(D-Calif.) has requested a con
ference with Secretary of the
Interior Chapman on the Tulana
Farms lease of 2,300 acres in the
Tule Lake area of California.
l- The renewal, recommended by
he Reclamation Bureau's field
office in the Klamath project, is
before Chapman awaiting a de
cision. Engle's secretary told a re
porter the congressman asked
Chapman not to act until Engle
had a chance to present protests
from veterans and others who
are urging that the land be leas
ed in small farms.
The land is a swamp area, sub
ject to periodic flooding, and
has not been considered desir
able for homesteading.
Curiosity Supposedly standing at attention, two North
Korean military police let curiosity get the best of them as
they turn to watch a United Nations helicopter arrive at the
Panmunjom, Korea, peace camp. (U. S. Navy photo), (Tele
photo) '
Difficult to See What Reds
Hope to Gain by Truce Stalling
By PHIL NEWSOM
(United Press Foreign News Editor)
It is difficult to see just what, 1. Rush supplies and arms to
the communists hope to gain
by their stalling tactics in the
armistice talks in Korea.
The theory most frequently
advanced is that they did not
enter the armistice talks in good
faith in the first place, and in
tended to use them only as a
breathing spell in which to build
up their military forces for a
final, victorious smash against
the UN forces aligned against
them in the fighting line.
But among the correspondents
sweating out the day-by-day
talks at Panmunjom the feeling
is growing that the allies have
much to gam and little to .lose
in a protracted fight for an ef
fective armistice.
The correspondents feel that
the present "twilight" war is
giving the allies time to:
Council of Churches
Elects McKinney
The Saiem 'Council of
Churches Tuesday night select
ed W. W. McKinney, attorney,
to head the organization. He
succeeds Dr. Victor Hugo
Sword.
W. H. Taylor was named vice
president; Mrs. Robert Gregg,
secretary; Beryl Holt, treasurer;
Mrs. L. H. Randle president of
the Salem Council of Church
Women and Lawrence Monk,
president of the Salem Christian
Youth Council, representative
vice presidents.
IT'S
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Four Comers
Four Corners Listen, learn
and look; the 4-H club are still
on the move. .The officers of
the Rickey Rustlers, Darrel
Stafek, president, David Larsen,
vice president and news report
er, accompanied by Mrs. M
Swearingen, leader, and Mr. and
Mrs. R. Stafek, assistant lead
ers, attended the Marion County
Work Shop 4-H club meeting
at Keizer school Saturday aft
ernoon. Proper ways of con
ducting meetings were discussed.
Awards were given to out
standing members. David Lar
sen of the Rickey Rustlers won
the award for rabbits, a Cali
fornia doe.
The student council officers
elected last week at Lincoln
school are: president, Gary Jor-
genson; vice president, Cathy
bnook; secretary, Leon Char
tier; treasurer Fay Futrell.
Nelson Italiano, hard-running
halfback, set eight new Florida
State university individual foot
ball records this past season.
Indo-China to beef up those
French associated states against
possible Red Chinese thrust,
either before or after the Korean
conflict is settled.
2. Complete preparations for
the defense of Formosa
3. Build up the South Korean
army which must take over the
defense of the Republic of Ko
rea when the United Nations
army goes home.
f ...
Meanwhile, of course, the
United Nations is tieing up near
ly 1,000,000 communist fight
ing men in North Korea and
along the Manchurian border, at
comparatively small cost.
And, if the communists are
using this time to buld up their
offensive forces in Korea, so are
the allies building up their
strength.
The concentration of allied
tanks and guns wedged into the
line across Korea's narrow 120
mile waist is probably the great
est in all' history. Allied gunners
have zeroed in every foot of the
terrain over which any attacking
army must come.
There isn't only one allied
line across Korea. There are sev-
eral each as bristling as the
one before it. ,
Even the communists must re
coil at the thought of the enor
mous price they would pay for
any all-out attack on those lines
which each day grow stronger.
There still is the danger that
the communists in a desperate
bid for victory may elect to
spread the war, invading Indo
China, Burma or Thailand.
The Western powers already
have warned that any such bid
would bring an immediate emer
gency session of the United Na
tions to consider counter-action
The Western Powers also have
promised retaliation should the
communists agree to an-armistice
in Korea and then break it. Any
sucn retaliation certainly would
involve the bombing of Chinese
cities and more hardship for the
Chinese people.
Thus the question: What do
the communists hope to gain by
stalling at Panmunjom?
Sage Brusher
Doesn't Savvy
Rabbit Raising
By Ron Gemmell
Didn't know, until I saw It
in the newspapers, that there
could be such a thing as a
Rabbit Breeders' association.
Reason why it confused this
writer is that, being an old
east Oregonian, I can remem
ber only too well how they
used to conduct those rabbit
killing drives that, along with
disease, just about wiped out
those long-earred sage brush
lopers.
Was a time when farmer
folk in that area would make
a regular picnic out of circling
an area, driving the jacks into
a corral and clubbing them to
death.
Of course, so I've been ad
vised, the kind of rabbits the
Marion and Polk Rabbit
Breeders' association is inter
ested in are somewhat differ
ent animals from those big
denizens of the dessert that
we used to feed to the chick-
Billy Graham Fills
Washington Armory
Washington VP) Billy
Graham's plea to "give in to
Christ" brought forth 236 per
sons as converts Tuesday night,
the- most at one time in the
evangelist's 2'4 -week-old capital
crusade.
Every seat in the National
Guard armory, which has an
8,000 legal capacity, was filled.
Some 200 persons stepped for
ward at the young preacher's
call for professions of faith, A
score or more followed when he
said:
"I'm giving just 30 seconds
more to those people with one
foot in the Kingdom of God
Whoever you are, you must give
in to Christ tonight.
Graham's topic was "Judg
ment" and he used the story of
Noah and The Ark as an illustra
tion. He said Noah repeatedly
warned sinners to repent. They
listened too late, he said, after
"the judgment of the Lord fell
upon them" in the form of the
great flood.
The revival is to continue
through Feb. 10.
Florida Has 'Cold Spell'
Miami, Fla. VP) The temper
ature dropped to 44 degrees in
Miami Wednesday to make this
the coldest January 30 since the
weather bureau began keeping
records 41 years ago.
The previous low was 47 In
1940.
taken to a Chinese communist
interrogation point.
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'An officer asked me what
my regiment's plans were," the
rifleman said. "I told him to ask
my battalion commander. I'm
only a Pfc." The Chinese officer
hit him in the face.
After more questioning, the
U. N. soldiers were put in
prisoner of war cage. The rifle
man proposed escape.
'My buddy said he didn't
think he could make it because
he had sprained his ankle the
night before," the rifleman said.
So he-decided to go alone.
...
When a Chinese guard brought
them bowls of rice in the morn
ing, Rifleman X grabbed one
smashed it into the communist's
face and darted from the cage.
Other guards opened fire on
him. Two bullets shattered his
elbow, Four more hit his knee
But he didn't stop.
The rifleman had watched the
sun rise that mornine and had
fixed his course before making
his escape attempt. His figuring
was correct.
He made a crutch from a tree
branch and hours later reached
the river his patrol had cror
the night before, when he wad
ed in, Red soldiers saw him and
began shooting.
I heard the shots and I could
see the water kicking up splash
es near me. Somebody at an out
post or somewhere saw me and
called for fire back at them," he
said.
Later Monday night he had
reached a company position and
was rushed to a hospital to un
dergo surgery. Tuesday after
noon his division's commanding
general visited him and placed
a Silver Star and a Purple
Heart on his cot.
The Silver Star, the general
said, was an "interim" award,
The Distinguished Service Cross
will follow.
Plane Bums on
Test Flight
Spokane (JP) An Air Force
B-36 bomber undergoing a check
with manufacturer's representa
tives aboard burned near the
runway at Fairchild Air Force
Base Tuesday night.
None of the 12 persons aboard
were injured.
Air Force officers said the
huge plane skidded into deep
snow at the side of the runway.
Flames broke out on one wing
and spread quickly.
A board of officers named by
the Air Force immediately start
ed an investigation of the accident;
Representatives of Consolidat-
ed-Vultee Corp. were aboard the
plane checking personnel on
flying procedures, officers said-
Marker of Salem to
Head Heart Campaign
Portland Appointment of
Leroy J. Marker, president of
the Salem Life Underwriters'
Capital Journal, Salem, Ore., Wednesdayan. 30, 19547
association, as chairman of the
Oregon Heart association 1052
fund-raising campaign in Mar
ion, Linn and Benton counties.
during the month of February,
is announced by H. G. (Bud)
Horn, state campaign manager.
The program in the three
counties will be sponsored,
Horn said, by the Salem asso
ciation. The state-wide activ
ity is sponsored by the Life
Underwriters' Association of
Oregon.
Oregon's quota of the $8 mil
lion national goal, is $60,000.
Seventy-five per cent of the
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money collected In Oregon will
be allocated, according to Horn,
for the purchase of new heart
study and treatment equipment
for the University of Oregon
medical school.
Reappraisals Urged
McMinnville VP) Reappraisal
of all property in Oregon, with
the aim of reducing cattle ranch
ers' taxes, was proposed here
Monday at the annual meeting of
the Western Oregon Livestock
association.
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