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At DhIIiu uii Saturday General
Elsenhower dunged 111 a hurd-hil-Hug
speech Hint lit I ho OOP aluln
onnventlnii lit Mineral Wells several
week ago Tall buckors STOl.H
Texas' 3a Rcpuollraii iiiilluliiil con
vcntlnn delegate votes " brasonly
as calllo rustlers."
Ilia charun brouuht quick came
buck (rum Tuft forces, whu assert
ril Immediiilclv III newspaper ad
ertlsoniouts thnt "the klliionhow.
rr nuiniiurn in aorenmliw 'we
wus robbed' boeatiNe they know
tlirv litivn lant Ihn IIkIH."
Those are rouuli words. What
their cllccl will be, I don't know,
lor I am regretfully eunvlnccd that
In tliene dayii nobody any lunxcr
believes politician and Uie men
who wrote Ihoso advertisements
are very pollllcnl politician. It In
hard to escape the conclusion thnt
thev are planning to una POLITI
CAL power to new tin the Cltkiiuo
convention lor Ihrlr ciindlcliiln.
II seems likely thnt they HOPE
to tine In C'lilonuo the nmne ineth
ml thnt wera used at Mlnenil
Weill. Ill Texas.
Jun what arc those method?
There are charges and rounter
r"'iiiues an to what happened there
id how mid whv. I'erMinullv. I'm
icllncd to rely on an oblccllvc and
unprcludlccd account of the Min
eral ilVelln nllulr written bv Itosvoe
Druijiiiiniid. chief of the Waslilim
Ion new bureau nl the Chrlfitlun
Science Monitor. In hln summing
up. lie clle.i thin significant inci
dent ;
"J. I. Thome, ehnirmnn of the
Brazos county (Texan) Republican
committee, wearing a Tnlt builon,
Ruve thin reahon to the cnnvenUon
when he (Unregarded the Klsen
hower voten:
" 'I didn't rccognlrc nnv o( the
peoule who voted lor Ktnenhower
In Hie roiiniv mretlni;. no I THREW
TIIKM OUT ' "
11 wni llilmtn like thai thut Ike
wn referring to wlicn he charged
on Balurdnv thai Tall bikT
Utile the Texai dcleitntlon lo the
Chicago convention "a brenculy aa
entile ruMlera."
Thla Bratoa cnunlv Incident cer
tainly looks pretty braaen to me.
I have ureal renpect tor Benntor
Tall. I reliwe to believe thnt II he
rind been prenenl IN PERSON at
Mineral Wells lie would hnvo anc
llnned any nurh high-handed meth
od. Ilia nenne of fairness, which
ha been displayed repeatedly
throughout hln political career,
would have rebelled at nuch taction.
Ilul It In fundamental In law Urn I
a principal la responsible lor tho
acta of his aitentn. 80 Senator Tall
tan nm escape responsibility lor
the thing llml are dono bv hln
backer throtiKhotil the country.
Illtinllv. what huppeneri at Min
eral Well was thla: The Tall men
controlled the political machinery
at the male convention there and
uied ihelr control of the machinery
to nee lo It that Tall delegates
were chosen and Elsenhower dele
eaten were thrown out
(If Texas alone were concerned.
' suppose we could shrug It off.
f"i in a Southern stale. It In
'Olrd to vulo Democratic, and
V?.tik a miracle It will. Besides.
Saturation control of the Rrpub
n party machinery In the South
Jin alwava been a scandal and It
will reinnln a scandal until Uie
lime arrlven when the South comes
back POLITICALLY Into the Unit
ed Blatrs and accepts again the
two-party avntem.
Rut It ta obvious that the Tuft
organisation controls the NATION
AL machinery of the Republican
party, and evidence la mountliift
that It plans to use this control to
the fullent extent at Chicago to In
Mire the nomination of Us candi
date. Biirrlnn spectacular Interven
tion by Senator Tafl himself In be
half of fair and open methods at
Ihe convention, it Is hard to es
cape the conclusion that that Is
exactly what Is going to hnppen.
Will It Huoceed?
Thnt Is another question one
that can be answered only bv the
convention Itself. We must remem
ber that a very large number ol
Ihe delegates will be averoge
American cltlsens who will resent
klesm-roller methods. Also there
will be plenty of conviction there
Hint General Elnenhower 18 THE
CANDIDATE WHO CAN CER
TAINLY BE ELECTED IF NOM
INATED. All politicians share the desire
to be on the winning side. Bleam
rnllerlng a candidate through to
Ihe nomination will provide the op
position wllh most effective am
v'liltlon. Nobody at Chicago In ao
,.. to want to hand tho election
to the Democrats.
School Vote
Set Today
Voters of the Klnmnlh Union
High School district today arc bnl
lotlng to select a school board
member for a tlve-vear tern).
The polls are open until 8 p.m.
slandnrd time (0 p.m. dnvllght) at
the KUH8 main building.
The position Is being more warm
ly contested than Is usual for school
board elections.
Candidates are Nelson Reed, In
cumbent, who Is finishing his see
on?, five-year torm on the board,
and L. Ernest Taylor, who for sev
eral years has been office man
ager and treasurer at Palmcrton
Lumber Company.
Weather
FORKCART Klamath Falls and
vicinity and Northern California:
Shnwera tonight, cloudy tomorrow.
Low tonight 44, high tomorrow 70,
High yesterday
68
l.ow last niglil
Preelp since Oct. 1 ....
Same period last year
Normal far period ..., ..
... 40
. 15.8.1
. 14.84
.11,83
(Additional Weather on Page 4.)
RACK HOME
A Chlloquln soldier, Cpl. Lestor
F. Wlsecnrvor, was aboard the
transport Oct). R. L. Howze which
arrived at Seattle Sunday with 2,851
Army rotation personnel from the
J'ar East. The ship waa the 100th
mllllirv transport to arrive ilnce
Reattf; started Its "welcome home"
greetings.
Heavy Rain
Hits Klamath
Basin Area
By MAI.COM rt'l.r.Y Jit.
Good old ruin burbled down all
111:1 nm Ihe Klamath Bnsln lnnt
11 1 Kill and thin morning, with .68
of an Inch meanured at tho Copco
Link htver Powerhouse between J
p.m. ycslerduy and 8 a m. today
(I'HTl.
front bitten polntoen. net bnck bv
past week's fronts, were probably
ihe most needv recipients ol the
I iiiul:, unr 'I he ruliiliill In lur.l what
In wanted to gel the spuds buck
Into growing shape again.
However, the lour ol ever-due
fronts nllll pernh'ts. rnpeclallv fnl
louinii storm such as the prenenl
one.
'Ihe rnlnfnll pimlird this year
total preclplliillon inliice lnl Oct.
II to III.Dl Inchrn. nn nuiiliini M M
Inches hint venr at Ihln lime and
a not 11 in I ol 1 1 .83 lor the nnmo
period.
1 I'OWDIl OI'TAfli:
i A wide power milage was not ill
Irectlv ciiuned bv Ihe niorm. Copco
jofliclnls reported. Borne llkkerliigs
ieiirlv thin morning were reported.
I but a cotter-kev nllnnlng out ol a
pin carrying a Ofi.rKKi volt tninsmls
I slot) line dropped II on a rj.ooo-voll
line enrrvtnu domenllc power for
llnl rilmt lull
Tlie henvv overload generally
blew Iti'ics nnd arrestorn till along
the line. District Mgr. Hum Hllchey
kiiIiI 'Hie accident occurred near
thr Ti xrin Kiiit'oii. mid Uln::):f(l out
the Pacific Terrace area, the South
Hiihurbiiii area and Mills Addition.
The eirnu.'l. OTI end .MHIe Hill
were aho alfecied. he naid Flick
ers hero and Ihere through Ihe
mnrnnut were caused by the origi
nal accident.
I-'ltOKTS
P'rontn which come wllh clearing
klcs alter a slonn somelhlng like
Ihe one which hit Inst night were
the cau-ic ol a setback In many
crops curlier this mouth.
'Hie counlv agent's olllce reports
Hint curly nlunted spuds suffered
more ihnn lnte - planted. And. ac
cording to County Agent C. A. Hen
derson, bv tar the greater apud
crop was planted late ifiln sennon.
Alsike clover. Henderson naid.
suffered severely, from all Indies'
no.
lions, and there may have been
lonn of up to HI per tenl, 11)0 ea:
ret of nlsika blooms usually cont
that much ol the season's yield
reed.
Man Held On
Murder Charge
YREKA. Calif. 11 Sheriff A
Cottar said Monday 11 Jealous hus
band signed a statement admitting
he shot truck driver five times
"point blank" after forcing his car
off Uie road in an 86-nille-sn hour
chose.
Jeffreyllawklns. 42. Dunsmulr
railroad engineer, and his wife.
Mildred, 37. were held tor question
ing as a result of the death late
I oniuiuiiv vi vijup uuiunii, JO, 01
Dunsmulr.
Cottar said Mrs. Hawkins was a
passenger In Jordan's car dining
Ihe 23-mlle pursuit down Highway
7.
The sheriff quoted Hawkins as
saying he had chased Jordan, fired
Ti bullets nl his car, and shot Jor
dan five times when he caught
him, out of Jealousy.
Mrs. Hawkins said she had left
Klnrmith Falls during, the dsy with
a lady friend, then accepted Jor
dan's offer of a ride tho rent of
the way from the spot north of
Weed.
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A FUND IS BEING MADE up fo defray expenses of 14-month-old
Charlene Radsplnner, shown here with her mother, Mrs.
Hugh Radsplnner, who It to 90 to San Francisco this week
for treatment and possibly en operation. The child wat born
' with an internal deformity which hat grown Into cirrhosis of
the liver. Four more women agreed thit weekend to become
neighborhood collectors for the fund which wat started by the
Eaglet Lodge. They art Mrs. Fred Herring, 2441 Eberlein; Mrs.
Juanita Myers, 3028 Boardman; Mn. Lilit Michlet, 1520 Wiard,
' and Mri. R. H. Thornton, 2684 Radcliffe.
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Pates
FINAL POSE of this year'i Roundup queen candidates !s shown
in tho top picture. Soon afterwards, tho new queen, Marianna
Hellekion was crowned. The girls ebovo arc (I to r) Janet
DierdorH, Pat Nicholson, Aurolia Pa'terson, Merianna Hellek
ion, Sharon Finchum, Anne Curry, Barbara Joan Anderson,
Carol Hamilton and the 1951 queen, Mergy Erown. In the
lower picture, Queen Margy crowns her successor, Queen
Marianna.
Langell Valley Girl
New Roundup teen
Rr WALLACE MYERS
If you're a close friend, you cm
call this year's Roundup quern
"Punkln" but she'll be known for
mally as "Queen Marianna."
For me seeona straight year, a
tangell Valley girl will reign over
Ihe Roundup. The new queen, a
striking brunette. Is Mnrlnnim lid
leknon, 17-year-old daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. John Hellekson.
Saturday night at the Queen's
ball In Uie Aunory, hundreds shout
ed approval as last year's Queen
Margy Brown, Bonanza, crowned
her successor.
For the first time In Roundup
history, the queen has seven prin
cesses. Rules call lor only six but
at the Fairgrounds horsemanship
trials, Judges raled two girls even
and Roundup directors decided
there would be no ejimlnutlon.
GOOD CHANCE
Identity of the new queen was
not known until a few minutes be
fore her coronation Saturday night.
But Roundup observers had rated
Marianna as a top contender after
she turned in a fine riding per
formance rn the Queen Trials for
horsmanshlp.
I.AMAIII
itoyally
Hie queen, as usual, was r.elcct
ed on the buMi i of 60 per cent lor
horsemanship und 40 per cent for
poise nnd pcrhoiinllty.
Mnritinua hu;, a ipntkluig per
:8'onalltV lo po with licr qucensnip.
At Bonanza High School lu-sl year
he was yell lender and one of the
most popular girls in school. Her
schoolmates fondly dubbed her
with tho nickname "Punkin. '
The queen and her seven prin
cesses add up lo a "Plcnilid Round
up Royally Courl. All Ihe girls are
expert horsewomen and all are ut
trsclivc in udduiun lo being t,d
sports. Throughout the hectic
events lending up to the final selec
tion there wasn't a hint ol Jealousy.
As tomonc remarked backstage at
the Queen's Ball, "this year, we
have eight queens but only one
crown."
GIFTS
r'oiiowing Marianna s coronation
by Queen Margy, ihe new queen
received the trndlllonnl armload of
roses from Elmer Balslgcr, Queen
Trials chairman.
The roses were a gift from the
Klamath Flower Shop and there
were many other valuable gills:
Ihe big silver tray trophy and S100
in cash from the Roundup Associa
tion: a uliunor.d-studdcd wrisl
watch from Ricky's; a tailored
suede riding skin mid ve.a irom
Bill and Sally McOonron's West
Style Shop: a broended shut from
the Town Shop: nnd a saddle blan
ket from the Klamath Saddle Club.
The seven princesses received
trophies from the Roundup Associa
tion and rcllcx cameras in leather
cases from Klnmnth Merchant As
sociation members. Tho cameras
were presented by Curiin's lor
Drus camera depaitnicnt. Under
wood Camero Shop, Paiiesn Drug
Store, Oregon Woolen Store. Poole's
Sporting Goods Slore. Harwtn's and
Fercbee's Studio. Tlie cnies came
from Penncy's nnd Sears'.
The queen and each princess also
received tho usual while hat and
gay shift from the Roundup Assoc
iation, Accoynionts
To Meet Here
The sixth Annual Slate Conven
tion of the Oregon Association of
Public Accountants is slated lor
Klnmnth Falls starting Wednesday.
Willi more than 100 accountants ex
pected to rcirlsler at the Wlllard
Hotel Headquarters.
Bill Owsirv. Klamath Falls, is
ehnirmnn of the nffnlr, assisted bv
J. Haul Mnulicws and I'lCdi'rlcK
Lawton. both local accountants.
Robert A. Brewer. Medlord Is
president, J. Earl Wctmorc, Os
wego, is vice president. Hiury O.
Newton, Portland, is executive sec
retary, Virginia P. Rogers of Port
land Is secretnrv, nnd treasurer
Is Clayton W. Lewis, Medford
Owsley Is a mcmbe
ihe
bonrd of novernors of the OAPA.
Rculstrntlon, Is scheduled to be
gin Wednesday at 1 p.m. In the
Wlllnrd. with 11 board of governors
meeting to follow nt 2 p.m. The
board's dinner Is slated for 7 p.m.
Hint evening with nil members In
vited.
Phil Hitchcock. Klnmnth Fnlls,
will give the invocation nt the open
ing of Thursday's sessions, and
Mnvor Robort A. Thompson Is to
present I ho welcoming address.
Election of officers Is set for Fiidny
afternoon, and boating excursions
are slnted for Upper Klnmnth I,nkc
Satnrdny, as well as visits 10 Urii-
ler Lake and Uie Lava beds.
FALLS, OltKUON, MONDAY, JUNE 23, lO.'.Z
at I lie Queen's
t.ji,-4 c.n.-mt.tt
Murray Denies
Truman Deal
GARY. Ind. W CIO Sleelwor-
ker Boss Philip Murray said SMV
day Uial President Truman as-:
surcd him lasi December you .
need have no fear" of a Tnft-Hart-'
ley injunction if the union would j
postpone its scheduled Jan. 1 :
strike. i
And he cnllcd Inland steel Presi
dent Clarence Rnndall a liar for
saying that Murray nnd Truman I
had made a deal. i
Murray addressed an audience
of 7.500 at a sieelworkcrs rally in I
this community of 130.000. About ',
27.000 pel sons In Gary and ad-;
joining East Chicago cam their '
livelihood in the steel mills. 1
Steclworkers have been on strike
three weeks since the U. S. Su
preme court ruled government sei
zure of the Industry illegal. Presi
dent Truman has not started Taft-
Hartley Lnw Injunction proceed
ings to stop it. A pending resolu
tion urged him to do so has passed
one house of Congress.
Before an overflow audience In
cluding steclworkers, politicians,
mayors 01 the two hard-hit steel
towns nnd.Lt. Gov. John Watkins
ol Indiana, the president of the
Sieelworkcrs Union:
1. Accused major steel producers
of "a conspiracy" to prolong the
steel strike.
2. Criticized Gen. Dwlght D. El
senhower for voicing opinions on
the steel strike when "he could
hardly know the facts." Murray
In particular objected to this re
mark he attributed to Uie candi
date for the Republican presiden
tial nomination, "why don't they
use the Taft-Hartley Law?"
3. Attacked the industry's reluc
tance to give the union's 60,000
striking members a union shop.
4. Said It would be "unjust to
evneet lh steplwni'lcer tn undero-o
an 80-day strike injunction under
the Taft-Hartley Law since they
iibvo already delayed tne original
strike 53 days on the request of
tne president,
5. Did not sny what the union's
posttion would be K the Taft-Hartley
Law were Invoked. But he
remarked, "Tho Taft-Hartley Law
docs not mnnufneture steel,"
FIRE CALL
Cllv fire equipment was cnlled
to the Derby Cnfe on Main at 12:32
n m Mnnrlnv nrpfl.cn nrniinri A
burlier had blazed up. Another call
Sunday night was to 2245 union to
take enro of - a downed electric
wire.
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Hall
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Sports Bulletin
FIGHT POSTPONED
NEW YORK (JP) The
Joey Maxim-Ray "Sugar"
Robinson fight was post
poned Monday until Wed
nesday night because of
rain and cold. It rained
here all morning and there
was little prospect that it
would let up enough for
the scheduled 7 p.m. PDT
bout when the Interna
tional Boxing Club an
nounced the setback.
State Police
Car Wrecked
I A State Pelice car was badly
I wrecked early Monday morning
when lt was hit by a truck on US
97. three miles south of Crescent.
Olflcer Fay Holley. stationed at
Gilchrist, reported he had stopped
his 1950 Chevrolet coupe alongside
the rond to investigate another auto
accident. A 1941 DeSoto had been
rolled over and was on its side in
the ditch.
Holley said he heard a truck com
ing from the south and ran down
the road, waving his asms to sig
nal the driver to slow down.
The truck driver, Donald W.
Jones Snrinirfleld. slammed on his
brakes and tney locked, veering Uie
rlo onto the west side of the lllch-
wav where It crashed Into the
state coupe. ..
The impact dragged and knocked
the couue back 11110 the side of
another 1941 DeSoto, owned by Otis
Lee Porter of Dexter, who had
stopped to look at the first acci
dent. !
Hollcv said when he saw the
truck couldn't stop, he ran for the
Jnckpines. The 1951 OMG truck
trailer skidded 173 feet before hit
ting the state ooupe, knocked the
car 33 feet and proceeded on up the
highway another 90 feet before ston
ing. . ,; .' i . 1
The driver of the first 1941 De
Soto, Charles Lee Montgomery- 01
San Francisco, was shaken up but
not seriously hurt. He said he was
going north and lost control 01 tne
car. 1 . t . - -. , -
No. 28U
Delegate
Battles Rip
Republicans
By The Associated Press
A front-running Democrat called
It a "bar-room slunlest." '
A leading Republican warned
that too much bickering can lose
the election for the party.
But the GOP battle for delegates
roared on as noisily as ever Mon
day. . It even left physical violence in
Its wake In one ouilying sector.
Fighting broke out In Puerto
Rico Sunday as Republicans chose
two rival three-member delegations
to the national convention in Chi
cago. The delegations are uncommitted
but one reportedly favors Sen. Rob
ert A. Taft and the other Gen.
Dwlght D. Elsenhower for the pres
idential nomination.
POLICE ' -
' Police quelled the Island distur
bance, but the question of which
delegation will be rested is Jut
one more to be fought out in Chl
trago Uke the question of Texas'
hotly disputed delegation among
others.
And time Is running out.
Election of Republican delegates
ends Monday with the choosing of
10 in Illinois to complete the state's
slate of 60.
Taft was expected to widen his
lead there. Of the 50 already
chosen, he was 49 to Elsenhower's
one.
Democrats name 22 delegates
Monday in Indiana, 48 others In
various states later in (he week
for their convention opening July
21.
There's no such time-lag for the
Republicans. Their convention
starts two weeks from Monday
with a terrific row over contested
delegates shaping up beforehand.
TAFT FORCES
' Taft forces struck back in news
paper ads at Eisenhower's Dallas
Texas, charge that the Ohtoan's
backers stole Texas' convention
votes as brazenly as cattle rustlers.
"The Eisenhower managers are
screaming 'we wui robbed' -because
they know. they bare lost the
ngni, tne iati advertisement saia.
It added that the exclusion of
Eisenhower backers from delegate
picking sessions was justified be
cause the general's people actually
were Democrats.
Elsenhower, before flying from
Texas back to Denver, made a
new effort to puncture the Taft
camp's claim that he is a Truman
candidate.
IKE DENIES
He denied at a news conference
that the President ever offered to
back him for the 1S52 Democratic
presidential nomination.
Sen. Styles Bridges of New
Hampshire, his party's leader in
the Senate, sounded a note of
warning: Republicans can lose this
year, he said. "If we enter the
campaign bickering or divided."
Bridges, who hasnt declared for
either Taft or Eisenhower, expressed
his views in a letter to convention
delegates.
It was Sen. Estes Kefauver of
Tennessee, leading In the delegate
count for the Democratic presiden
tial nomination, who called the
GOP strife a bar-room slugfest.
; "Such accusations between two
leading Republican candidates be
' smirch American honor," Kefauver
I told a fund-ralsingdinner in Chi
! cago Sunday night.
"I have no doubt, he added
"that it -will be exploited by So
viet propagandists."
An Associated Press poll sought
to establish which candidate would
get California's 70-delegate support
as a second choice to Gov. Earl
Warren.
All declined to state a preference
except for one who said he's for
Eisenhower ana another who said
he would back Taft.
Soil District
Meeting Set
CHILOQUIN New state conser
vation committee regulations de
mand a good showing at Thursday
night's hearing at the city hall here
on the proposed Inclusion of almost
2,000,000 acres of Northern Klam
ath County lands Into the Poe Val
ley Soil Conservation District.
The hearing is to determine the
actual boundaries and to decUe the
feasibility of holding an election
for the district's approval.
A mere majority vote among any
number of eligible ballots cast
would approve the Inclusion.
Robert Baum, new executive sec
retary of the state conservation
committee, and past Secy. Howard
Cushmsn are to be on hand for
the hearing, slated for 8 pan. In
the City Hall here.
The conservation district Is sim
ilar to an Irigatlon or drainage
district, excepting that it does not
have the power to tax. The SCD
makes available to farmers within
its area technicians and equipment
through the district board of super
visors. - .
The board acts as an Individual
In gaining cooperation among other
government agencies. The new pro
posed Poe valley district includes
mucn 01 tne luamam inoian Reser
vation, and a conservation force Is
being set up there to handle prob
lems within those boundaries.
The present -Poe Valley district
includes about 200.000 acres,., the
local bud office reports. , , ,
Telephone lilt
Raid Called
Biggest Of
Korean War
By STAN CARTER
SEOUL. Korea Wl Five hun.
dred Air Force, Navy and Marine
pianes Knocaeo out live major
Communist hydro-electrlo plants
and blacked out much of North
Korea and parts of Manchuria in
the biggest air raid of the Korean .
war Monday.
Pilots said ther saw more than
200 Red MIO Jets parked on -Manchurlan
base within sight of
one target, but all stayed on the
ground. Every Allied plane re
turned safely, the Air Force laid. '
Lt. Gen. Glenn O. Barcus, U.S.
Fifth Air Force commander, said
the Joint air strike demonstrated
"our mastery of the skies over
North Korea."
Full significance of the bombing
was not clear Immediately, but it
was recalled the power plants were
spared when It seemed there was
hope for solution of the deadlocked
armistice talks. . . ..
Japanese news editors In Tokyo
recalled, also, that the Allies spared
the Yalu plants when the - war
seemd near a successful con
clusion In early November, 1950
although remnant North Korean
communists bitterly defended tne
areas adjacent to them.
However, the bombings along
with strong Allied thrusts on the
battlefront could represent the
military pressure which U.N. truce
negotiators have said Is needed to
persuade the Communists to ne
gotiate at Panmunjom. .
The world's fourth largest hydro
electric plant at Euiho. about 30
miles up the Yalu river from the
Communist MIG base at Antung,
was knocked out of service.
The Yalu separates Korea from
Manchuria. All targets were In Ko
rea. . .
OTHER PLANES T"
Other planes smashed two gen
erating stations at the Chosln res
ervoir, where American Marines
and the Seventh Division fought
their bitter battle against the first
waves of Chinese Communist v,
troops In December. 1950. -
The other two plants knocked
out were on the Songchon River,
approximately 18 miles north of
Hamhung in Eastern Korea.
Air Force and Marine olanes
from dozens of Korean bases
teamed with Navy craft from the
i,uu ion carriers Boxer, rninp
pines ' Sea, Princeton and ' Bon-
homme Richard.
Pilots said smoke from the burn
ing Suiho plants blackened the
skies over North Korea and Man
churia. "We shorted about 10 million
volts today." said Lt. William
Taylor, of Florence. Ala. "I'm sure
itvu make the;lolks in. rnv noma. .,..
town mtppy. Up until mid-afternoon
my town had the fifth largest
power plant iWoLson Dam) in. the
world. This afternoon I have helped
change its status to the fourth '
largest."
AA FIRE
Fliers said the Communist anti
aircraft fire was heavy over Suiho.
but there was no aerial opposition.
Two MIGs were spotted taking
off from the Antung base, but they
landed again seconds later.
The five plants destroyed sup
plied power to Mukden and other
industrial areas In Manchuria and
to virtually all of North Korea.
The great Suiho protect was com
pleted by the Japanese In 1941 at
a cost of nearly 8100,000.000.' The
dam was not damaged in the at
tack. It is nearly 3.000 feet long
and rises 350 feet above the Yalu.
Power stations below the dam.
which was destroyed, had a ca
pacity of 600.000 kilowatts, about
100,000 more than giant Bonneville
dam in the Pacific Northwest.
One combat commander said 4 we
had a beautiful target, a beautiful
day and we clobbered them."
The big air strike followed by
one day raids by powerful Allied
columns of 1.000 to possibly more
than 3.000 men Into Chinese lines
in Western Korea.
The attacks topped amr TJ.N. 1
foray into Red territory since last
fall. ., s. .,, .,. ,.v
RAIDING FORCE - V
The biggest raiding force, prob
ably a full regiment, knifed through 1
Red positions northwest of Chor
won. killing or wounding more than
1.000 Communists, the Eighth Army
said.
Total Red casualties for the day
were 627 killed and 529 wounded,
the Army said.
The tank-led column quickly over- ,
ran advance Communist positions '
and destroyed fortifications. ,
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