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THURSDAY. NOVEMBER 8. 1962 Boxer Rebellion Hero Was Company Bugle Boy; Presented Medal of Honor BY MYRAM BORDERS I niaxinc their purge of foreign- the bugler always is up front lead bringing with them ropes I one a retired Air Force Colo- W. II - Douglas MacArthur. A native of Vinton, Iowa, Titus was the son of a black smith who took the family to Oklahoma in the 1889 land rush. Following the death of his mother, young Titus set tled down with an aunt and uncle, a Kansas marshall turned preacher. "My uncle bought me a cor onet because he wanted music at the church meetings ... so I learned to play." "If my uncle hadn't been a wandering preacher who needed some music, I suppose I never would have been in China when they needed someone to climb a wall," Ti tus said mistily. Hollywood ilipu -111 try,ers. I sir!" Titus was a bugle boy wilh Those words spoken in the ; Company E of the U.S. 14th heat of battle more than a half i Infantry during the "Boxer century ago helped win a war j Rebellion." for one of the first intcrnation-: On the morning of Aug. 14. al police forces. (1900, two companies worked The unsung hero was a i iheir way under heavy fire in with the company commander. I was skinny in those days and just happened to be a good climber so I said 'I'll try, sir". "The old man eyed me and said 'Well if you think you can do it go ahead and try'." to pull up weapons and ammu nition. By late afternoon Company E firmly was encamped within the walled city. Victory in Peking was assured. Titus' actions won him the Medal of Honor and an ap pointment to West Point. He served in the occupation forc es following World War I and eventually was promoted to Lieutenant Colonel. Titus retired in 1930 to a comfortable, book-lined home near Hollywood. He isn't as "skinny" as when he climbed the wall around the Forbidden City. But he is trim, alert and well read. He has two sons - nel, the other a Silver Star winner in World War II ac tion. Titus was 20 when he offer ed to scamper up the enemy held fortress 62 years ago. It was President Teddy Roose velt who presented him with the Medal of Honor while he still was a plebe at West Point. Titus said the president growled: "Don't let this give you the big head." After the ceremony a wide eyed second classman congrat ulated Titus with "Mister, that's something!" That 2nd classman received the same medal for service during W. Titus threw off his gear and GLASSES ON CREDIT! Green Stampt COLUMBIAN OPTICAL CO. Mcdford Shopping Center scrawny private who "just ; sweltering midsummer heat to i weapons and started clawing happened to be a good climb ine oase oi a ju-iooi wall sur-! his way rounding Peking. wall. up the adobe-loke er" - Calvin Titus. i This is the way it happened: The United States and six j foreign countries sent troops ' to China at the turn of the The men crouched behind "The top of the wall was about 15 or 20 feet wide and had a few mat-like houses on it," he said. "Fortunately the Chinese were concentrating their fire from the other side of the wall." bastion. Titus recently recalled: Col. Aaron S. Daggett, ; century when the "open door i tough professional who had policy was abruptly halted. fought in the Civil War, look Chinese militia bands - dub-1 ,.d up and asked my CO if he bed "Boxers" - laid siege to thoucht we could eel uo there. Titus gave the all clear sign the capital city of Peking, cli- "I was standing nearby . . . and other men followed his MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD. OREGON j : Iff' I Ml Wy;4 ' l .ft. rf- .v ., t 1 Jl V H' " I Lfe vt V : Fir Nit-! ir lSf: TRICKLING FILTER-A core is "packaged" by two workmen in the unit ot a new pilot trickling tilter designed by B. F. Goodrich for handling industrial and municipal waste at Marietta, Ohio. The company says the Koroseal vinyl per forms the same function as broken rock filter beds. The towers are available in one, two or three sections for testing and occupy less than two square yards of land area. (UPI) Today & Tomorrow By Walter Lippmann (cl New York Herald Tribune Syndicate THE GREAT SHAKE-UP We appear to have come to one of those moments in his tory when the state of things. which tor good or evil, was fair ly steady, is suddenly shaken up. No one can now see better than dimly what will be the new shape nf things. But ff - 40-. A l.lppmann we can, though very tentative ly, see some of the implica tions and side effects of the two obvious major crises we are now living through the one in this hemisphere around Cuba and the other in Asia around the invasion of India. AS for Cuba, though the full agreement about verifi cation of the removal of the strategic weapons is still to be worked out, there is no doubt that the United States has the upper hand in this part of the world. For if Castro attempts to frustrate the implementation of the Kennedy-Khrushchev agreement, he will lay himself open to heavy penalties from a tightened blockade. The Soviet Union cannot now pro tect him in his recalcitrance. It will not protect him because its own interest is to write off the Cuban military venture as fairly as possible. It is dis mantling its own missiles and it does not have the naval power to challenge, even if it wanted to risk war for Castro, the blockade of, let us say. oil shipments. Castro has been deprived of the military protection of the Soviet Union, and if he is to replace it with some guaran tee besides the promise of the United States not to invane him, his best course is to in vite the Organization of Amer ican States to make Cuba a neutralized island which will concentrate its attention on Its own internal development. VHAT is happening in Cuba is having far reaching ef fects not only in Latin Amer ica but, almost certainly, in Africa and the Middle East and Asia. Cuba itself is not very interesting to Africans and Arabs and Asians. But dv conjunction with the Chinese invasion of India, the effects of the Cuban affair are com pounded. Both in Cuba and in India the Soviet Union lias had to water down or write off the promises of support which it had made. India's foreign policy under Nehru has. as lie himself has confessed, been based on an illusion. But what was the il lusion? Not that the Chinese were too kind to hurt India: Red China has been nibbling at the Indian frontier for five years The Indian illusion was that the Soviet Uninn was the paramount power in the Com munist orbit and that it would and could prevent China from committing a serious acgres aion against India It is not. I think, an exag geration to say that these par allel and coinciding crises in the Americas and in Asia have reduced dramatically the va- lue of the Soviet guarantee to a distant country. This will have great rever berations in the underdevelop ed and unaligned and newly liberated nations. They will I no longer have India as their leader and their spokesman and their example, for India will no longer be unaligned. NOT being myself a Krem linologist, I do not know what will be the effect of the two great crises on the inter nal situation of the Soviet Un ion. But if we suppose that in the crunch the vital interests of the Soviet Union will be put ahead of the Communist ideology, then, so it now ap pears, the Soviet Union may be entering upon an internal conflict of enormous propor tions. The Soviet Union finds it self contained and blocked in both directions. In the West, towards Europe and the Americas, the nuclear balance of power is against her, and her two attempts to close the gap by resuming testing and by planting first-strike mis siles, in Cuba have failed. In the East, Red China is consolidating control of the Tibetan plateau which threat ens Soviet Siberia. By the blow at India, Red China has dethroned the Soviet Union in India and shown that neutral ism in Asia will not be tolcr-1 aled. 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