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Ml rui III Jl In flu By FRANK JI5NK1NH Weather note'. DAHN THAT WHITE CROW: I hop nobody shoots my mors el 'cm, From Tchrnm "Iran'a foreign mlnlntor ' haa ilnnlra rumors o( it DEAL between Ittlksla Blttt linn," B-r-r-r-r-rl That sounds bud. In theso tlsys, wo ve come lo Inter pret statements by politicians BY CONTItAllIrSIJ. When they nay out thing, they're pretty turn to mean something elto. Deiir Ike: When you become President, don'i let 'em sell you any of these leed the poople-only-what we want . the . Mople lo know terhnlnuea. If national safety per Hill, OIVB IT TO UH BTRA10HT. That's tlit way to hold our con fidence, , I'm tir that will be your pur pone, because you're an honest man and a wise lender, and ynu know that ONLY THE THUTH can make u' iree. llut the pres aurea that will be brought on you to doctor up UNPLEASANT FACTS to mako 'em aound good Will be trrrlllo. Don't fall for II. ' lie youraelf. And Ike, If I were you, I'd either abolish or choline radically the Willie House pre conference kyatem. Recent Chief Executive have uaed tlielr Weekly prca con frrciicoa mainly to show how quick they are on the trigger with amort ar.d sophisticated repartee and badinage. 'Hie reaull hat been to confuse and MUDDY the newa In- ri of clarifying It. That'a bad. hi auro you'll be wlao If you vie Jour press conferencea to give the reporter an accurate back ground of the newa aa it shapes Up from week lo week. If they ak honeat queallona, give them honest answers. In that way, you will gain their conhdenc. Once ytk gaui their confidence, they'll Trk WITH you inatcad of AOAIN8T you. After all, these Washington re porter are among the ablest men In our nation. They have lo be In order lo get where they are. If they TRUST you, they can be of Immense assistance to your ad ministration. Treat them right and they'll treat you right. The way to treat them right la to give them the newa STRAIGHT. That' all they ask. From Washington! A new rola in congress may be building for Independent Senator Wayne Moras of Oregon. Demo, tratte fie n a lor Hubert Humphrey of Minnesota (who ln ULTRA New Dealer) aays ha thmkg Moras should be welcomed Into Demo eratio caucuses II be wants to corns. Humphrey edda that Morse's de sertion of Elsenhower and the Hepubllcsn party was an act of real courage and he ssys the Ore gon senator ehould be rewarded by Important Democratic com mittee assignments It he will ac cept them. Puraulng his war to the knlls and the knlfa to the hilt tactics, Humphrey says Demo cratic senators who ahunnrd the national Democrallo ttcket ahould GET IT (from the Democrats m the aenale) right where ths chick en got the ax. The dlapatch sdda! "Whether the Republicans will tske action against Morse la un certain. He CCULD be deprived of hla present choice committee as algnmenle." If I were dealing with Morse, I'd give him the absent treatment. I'd Ignore Mm, and concentrate on making the new Republican administration the beat the coun try has had In a century. If Ike snd hla admlntstrslton FAIL, Moras and his kind will be wT BTU FF. But If President Eluenhower and the new Republi can congress Ignore poisonous p.ir Jiaanahlp and go Intelligently and Sill ' T'nrerelv ana -sui;ur,iruu,i about giving the country the kind of government the country wanla and NF-F.DB the Morses and the Humphreys snd the real of their tribe will fade awsy Into oblivion. This la no time for partisan re prlssls. It's the time of times lo fo sbout OIV1NO THE PEOPLE 1 HH I HE. I IUI r,u run TUESDAY OP LAST WEEK. Sen. Urges U.N. Cleanup NEW YORK 11 Ben. Pat Mc Cnrrsn (D.-Nov.l, calling a tern porsrv halt to Internal security sub committee hearings, ssys the United Nations should "clesn Its own house of Communism and sub versive activities." Severs! American cltlrens em ployed at the U. N. have been questioned by the subcommittee about possible Communist ties dur ing four weeks of Intermittent hear- '"SlcCnrran, chairman of the Sen ate Judiciary Committee of which His internal security subcommittee 1, a part, spoke to newsmen Wednesday after an 80-mlnute sub committee executive aession. . "The U. N, was not set Up ' a propaganda agency for any Ideology," MeCarran said, adding; "The t. N. brings Its people from abroad with diplomatic Im munity, hence Ihers Is no way for screening them, If, as and when thev come here and engage In subversive activities against the United States, It Is time that was stopped." MiCnrrsn, said there probably would be no more hearings until i. er the now Congress convenes : vsnr, he ald some of ths 4 )!l...iommlttee's members, Inciuci V himself, "Probably will be re- Gov. McKay Out of State; No One Knows Who's Boss BALKM ll Who's the governor of Oregon now that Governor Douglas MnKay Is nut of the stale Nobody around here seems to know fur sure. The line of succession to the gov ernor Is Somite President Paul Pat terson, Hlllaboro;, House Speaker John i", Mtenlhunimcr, Hulom; Sec retary of Stain Earl T, Newbry, and the State Treasurer Walter J. penraon, In thsl order. Tho slnto Couslltullon says terms of legislators end on election dsy. Ho, says Don Dill, Nawbry's pub licity man, that eliminates Patter- son and steelhammer, and makes Ncwory soling governor. Uul Dave O llura, chief of the Humphries Says Demos Like Morse WASHINGTON Wl Sen. Hum phrey (D-Mlnni ssld today Demo cratic senators should welcome Hen. Wayne Morse of Oregon Into their party cuueus If he wauls to come, Morse, turning against President elect Dwlght D, Elaenlwwar during Hie presidential campaign, quit the Itrpubllcen party to support Oov. Aillul R, Stevenson of Illinois, ihe Dcinocratlo nominee, and declared himself an Indeneudent. - Whether Hepubllcsn senstors win iexe reprisals against Morse In the new Senate convening Jan. 3, possibly depriving him of his pres ent choice committee assignments, Is uncertain. ' Morse now holds plsces on the Armed Service and Labor Committees. "NEW DUAL" Humphrey, a lesder of the "New Deal-Fair Deal" wing of th Demo cratic psrty, lold a reporter the Democrsts should throw open the door to Morae, , On Ihe other hsnd, Humphrey said (hat Democratic senators who "turn their backs on the nsllonal parly ticket also ought to receive their reward" In less preferentlsl treatment. The mstler of reprisals against Democrats who "supported the opposition" should be considered In connection with committee as signments, Humphrey said, at the caucua of Democrallo senators early next year, lO.NtTHH In a aeparate Interview, Ben. Hunt tD-Wvoi. said anvone who used the Democratic party to get nominated arm men support the Republicans "doesn't belong la th Democrsllo caucus." Neither Hunt nor ; Humphrey cauea any nsme. Senator-elect Price Dsnlel of Texss, a Democrat who had Re publican endorsement, csmpalgned openly for Elsenhower. Sen. Harry P. Byrd. Virginia Democratic lead er, slopped short or urging Elsen hower's election but he disavowed th Stevenson-Sparkman ticket. . In Nevada Sen. Pal MeCarran. another veteran Democrat, worked for Ihe re-election of Republican Sen. George Malone and also ex changed barbed remarks with Stevenson. 3-Way Pill On Market LOS ANOELES ( There's a new sleeping pill on the msrket that knocks you out, keeps you out for eight hours, and then wakea you up. The Dill with the built-in alarm clock feature has three Isyera of different drugs. The first layer Is nembutal, which Induces sleep; the second, butabarbltnl sodium, which maintain u, ana ine core is dexe drlne, which rings the bell in your brain aftrr eight hours. Til pills are on dlsnlsv at the Cslllornls Academy of General rrocure convention. They must be obtained by prescription. 1SM'-H"J ii- ' ll ,1 ijs 5 i 0 Cv , , lit. kuM Ui.Cu9.tS KOKEAN TRUCI British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden tell Unltd Nation! Gnral Aiiambly mmbri of hit plan for tattling th deadlocked prtioner of wr litu r K protretid Korttf psc aflotiliBt, f der'i pUi it counter-propoial to' th adamant Ruiiitn itend tkn by Soviet foreign Minister Andrl Viihimlty, I'Btnle ' Elections Division, says s iim opinion py lurrner Attorney General I. H, Van Winkle holds that the terms of the Senate presi dent snd speaker of the House con tinue past election. Ho, O'llara says, thst makes Pat terson the acting govomor. The governor's office wants lo know who the temporary boss Is. So It asked Attorney ' General Oeorgn Neuner. He replied with an oft-hand opinion that It's Now bry, but added he'd have to look It up. The people voted In last week's general election to continue terms of legislators so they will cover the two months from election day to the opening of the new Legislature. Thst will prevent future foul-ups, but It won t take care of the pres ent confusion becsuse It doesn't be come part of the Constitution until the official vote Is announced some three weeks from now. Gov. McKay la In LcwMon, Idaho, for a meeting of the Colum bia Basin inter-Agency Committee. He'll be home In a couple of days, and then we'll know for sure who' the governor. Chest Drive Moves Ahead Wllh'only a liny percentage of the payroll deduction In and Com munity Chest coffers boasting W2, 000, Campaign Chairman Elton Smith - announced yesterday that thtS'yesr's csmpslgn appears well In advance of last year's at this point. . Though the Chest's gosl Is simi lar to Isst vesr'a 116.000 and hasn't yet quite attained the half way -mark, smith noted that it has been going along aa fast as the avallabl campaign manpower has let It. Only 13, 100 hss come In from employe contributions through pay roll deductions, and It Is almost certain the major portion of dona tions from those sources Is yet to com. The 132,000 already marked up la both from pledge and actual cash. Also. Smith said, very little of the county's expected contributions have been turned In as yet. He ssid to dale only 11,176 have come In from outside the city and Im mediate vicinity. An effort to get contributions from payroll deductions In as fast aa possible is under way now, the campaign boss sold. Meantime, however, because of the worker shorlsge there are many Individ uals who have not yet been con tacted lor contributions to the fund which assists more than two dosrn sgtncie light her in Klamath County. Pastor Still Unreported The Rev. Fred Neumann, Pastor of the Free Methodist Church here, wss atlll unreported at press time todsy after being overdue since Saturday from a hunting trip. Yesterday, It was reported from North Powder, near Baker, thst the minister and a North Powder man, Sam Meyers, had gone on en elk hunting trip along Dutch Creek In Union County. Another North Powder man, Lawrence Jones, was sent Into the hunting area yesterdsy to find Neumsnn snd tell htm to contact hi wife here. The minister left here a week sgo Mondsy to drive to North Powder for his hunting expedition. He told Mrs, Neumsnn he would return here Seturdey. When he had not been heard from by Tuesday. Mrs. Neumann notified Slate Police. Yes terdsy, she sought the aid of the Herald and News. The Associated Press wss In turn requested by the Hersld and News to check on Neumann at North Powder. That request culminated In the messen ger being aent Into the forest to seek Neumsnn. Price Pi- -rv,5J Pages iV ? tf asf PV ism M(Bti$ BSSTumsdaf 11 Feared Dead After Plane Crash BHELTON, Wash. Wl A night mission by a Navy four-englned Privateer through rainy skies ended In disaster on an Olympic Peninsula hillside Wednesday night, with a flaming crash prob ably killing sll 11 men aboard. Through the night, flares were dropped and spotlights stabbed downward as searching planes at tempted to locate the wreckage end guide ground parties Into likely areas. A dairy farmer liv ing In the Bkokomish Valley area, Don Ragan, reported early In the evening having seen a large plane flying low and a "big flash when aha hit." HEARD The Sand Point Naval Air (Sta tion at beattle said the P4Y-2 Privateer, attached to Patrol Squadron 713, took off at :11 p.m. PUT. At 6 23 p.m. it was heard calling the Shelton radio range. It last message. About that time s We-tern Air Lines pilot also radioed aeelng a fiery explosion In the vicinity of Lake Weal, some 15 miles north west of Shelton. Ragan, the dairy farmer, aald the plane's gss tank apparently exploded. "I don't see bow anyone coii Id have lived." he added. He estlmsted the distance as "at least a mile and a half sway." SPUTTERING ' Eleven year old Pat Dugger, son of Mr. and Mra. C. R. Dugger, who lives nesr the end of the Skokomlsh Vslley road, also re ported hearing a "sputtering plane." overhead and seeing flames ''leaping into the air." Three ground parties. Including 8 te Pauolroen. hurriedly assem bled In the area, using a railway speeder on an old rsllrosd logging line and working on foot under the handicap of darkness. An elaborate ground-air com munications system, involving wsikle - talkies, stale natrol bead- quarters at Olympla, Navy Instal lations at Seattle and the Kitsap county airport, and McCbord Field, relayed messages back and forth between the ground parties snd the searching planes over head. Enrollment Up in Schools If school enrollment la any In dication, the population of Klamath Falls msy be up somewhat over what It was a year ago at this time. Figures released yesterdsy by City School Superintendent Arnold Oralapp show 3401 pupils are en rolled In elementary schools at present as compared with 33 year ago. These figures Include Fremont Junior High School. At KUHS there are 11 more stu dents ut present than a year ago 1311 to 1366 making a total of more students In Klamath Falls schools now than a year ago. Mills School, as usual, with 689 students, still remains the largest grade school in the city with Roo sevelt fsr behind In second with 360. Other school enrollments Include Conger with 207, Fslrview with 313. Fremont with 180, Pelican with 331, and Riverside with 119. The first graders In the cltv out number all other classes with 31S pupils as compared with Isst year s first grade total of 343. There are 337 second graders this year. 311 last; 281 third graders this year, 335 last; 340 fourth graders this year, 316 last; 293 fifth graders this yesr. 210 last; 266 sixth grad ers, 211 last; 267 seventh graders, 212 last. The Junior high has an enroll ment of 252 this year, and last year had 240 students. The KUHS freshman class with 408 students is the largest class In the school, as It is almost traditionally. There are 354 sophomores, 261 Jun iors and 354 seniors. Last year there were 390 freshmen, 312 sopho mores, 306 Juniors and 258 seniors. Perfect Whist Hand Reported FAKENHAM, England Ml A perfect whist hand a complete suit to all four players was dealt at a local whist drive last night by baker Edward Parker. Slide rule experts calculoted the odds against this were 2,335,191,. 406,895,366,368,301,560,000 to one. CAGE CLINIC The Oregon Schools Activities As sociation holds It annual basket ball clinic tonight, 7:30, In room 300, Klamath Union High School. A. Odcn Hawes will conduct the clinic, 1 w. ii . KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 195. r-rcs .19- zs? I rn 1 r - -C . j ! ! - '-. BATTLE RAGES Map locates familiar hill belt! grounds on central Korean front where South Korean infantrymen managed to recspture three strategic heights on Sniper Ridge nd Tri angle hill, Despit bloody ataulis as th hill battles went into th 29th dey of almoit" continuous fighting, th United Nations troops were unable to dislodge Chinas Communists from Th Yoke (shaded area I, maz of tunnels and caves at th northern and of Sniper which hss been the key to firm con trol of th important ridge. ' Judge Blows Top Over Noise; Suspends Work of Post Of fice SALT LAKE CITY l U. 8, District Judge Willis W. Hitler started . ooeiiMn horse abatement campaign yesterday to hall s rscs n In I federal building mall room which he said sounded "like a bowl ing alley." To enforce his desire for quiet, the Judge had Postmaster David R. Trevlthlck and 25 postal employes bsiled Into court. To Trevlthlck he gsve a lecture. Superior Francis Newman go. a S100 fine, suspended, and 24 other workers were cited for contempt. Handling ot mau was held up for an hour. All concerned promised to oo their best to be quiet, but Post master Trevlthlck Indicated he bad some misgivings. Said he: "My sworn obligation under the law to move the mails as ex peditiously as possible with the facilities st my disposal. The con- Youths Toss Red in Swamp BERLIN Ifl The West Berlin newsDsrjer Nscht DcDesche told a story Thursdsy of a highly un- populsr Communist onicisi wno was thrown Into a swamp twice hi one day. Now he's to have the last word In a Soviet Zone court. In a dispatch from Halle, the newspaper ssld four youths threw the Red Into a deep swamp and left him to drown. Two workmen came by. nulled him out. recog nised him, and threw him back. Three of the six Involved fled to West Berlin. The other three are to be tried on charges of at tempted murder, the Paper aald. Bridges Soys No Tax Cut CLEVELAND U" Sen. Bridges (R.-N.H.), ranking minority mem ber of the Senate Appropriations Committee, says tax reductions are not likely before 1954. In an Interview Wednesdsy night, he ssld the new Republican Congress should be able to balance the budget next year, but tax cuts will not come until the following year. SHOOTING HOURS '" NOVEMBER 14 Open 6:25 a.m. Close 3:47 p.m. ft-', i NORTHS 0, dlUon which sll this Is sbout hss existed for 20 years and Is pert of the basic structure 01 the Duiiotng- A civil trial was in progress be fore Judge Ritter when the noise "like a bowling alley" came from a mall processing room directly beneath the courtroom. He directed the bailiff and deputy U. S. mar shals to Investigate and put a stop to the racket. "The noise seemed to tnt worse. Judge Ritter recalled later when questioning iesier e. reierson, clerk in charge of the mall han dling room which was glutted with an accumulation of mail from Tuesday's Armistice Day holiday. Mall nanaiers ana supervisors were hailed into court from the work floor a lew at a time until the processing of msil and the noise bed ceasea. Peterson then explained the noise came mostly from mechanically operated doors on two frleght ele vators ana irom iioor irucas wiw metal casters used to move the heavy mail bags about. Two mall handlers, followed by sutiervlsor Newman and an offi cer walked into court. Each ot the handlers dropped a bulky package to the floor. Interrupting a witness. Newman incurred his suspended fine when he accepted responsi bility for th package dropping. explaining the packages contained slam pea envelopes lor wnicn ne personally was responsible. Ihe ludge described Uie noise as Intolerable" and "distracting to everyone In the courtroom," then said: 'Of course the u. a. court cannot suspend operation of the post office ..and, we cannot suspend opera tion of the court. That Is why I have a proposal to make to see If the post office cannot be run with less noise. "Some of the noise sounds to me like a careless, reckless, slamming. oanging 01 packages. Grandma Is At it Again LOS ANOELES UH Grandma has struck again. 8he got $1,212 In a Wilshlre Boulevard holdup Oct. 17. and yes terday she held up the Union Bsnk and Trust Company on South Hill Street, getting st,ooo. The grav haired woman of about 60 handed June North, 23-year-old teller, a note reading: "Act nat ural. There are three guns On you. Give me all your money and give me three minutes to get away.,- Weather FORECAST Klamath Falls and vicinity and Northern California: Snow sometimes mixed with rain Thursday. Snow tonight. Partial clearing with few snow flurries to morrow. High both daya 40, low tonight 28, High temps yesterday ....., 4S Low last night - S4 Precln yesterday ..- .13 Since Oct. 1 .27 Normal for period 1.74 Same period last year . 3.10 COMMUNITY CHEST More than 700 Camp Fire Cirls end 1 00 odulf leaders benefit from support of your Klamath County Community Chest. Telephone til 11 No. 2011 No Policy Statements In Planning AUOUSTA, Oa., (IP) President elect Dwlght D. Elsenhower re portedly will steer clear of any policy commitments to President iniman when they confer at ine White House. Elsenhower associates who asked not to be named said his role at the conference will be mainly that of a listener, although they em phasized that he agrees with the President that the session will amount to a demonstration of American unity. The White House announced yes terday that the Eisenhower-Truman meeting has been set for 2 p.m. (EST) Tuesday. in proposing the meeting last week, the President said it would beln achieve an orderly transition from the old administration to the new. He mentioned a need for dis cussion of world problems. fcisennower replied that he shared Truman's hope "that we may present to the world an Amer ican unity in basic issues.' NOT BINDING Over the week-end. the Presi dent-elect's headquarters put out a statement which said In effect that any pre-inauguration confer ences with Truman administration officials would in no way bind the President-elect as to Republican policy. The statement was Intended to make it clear, the general's associ ates said, that anv poller decisions before inauguration day Jan. 20 would be the responsibility of the out-golnir administration. Eisenhower reportedly feels strongly that it would be a mistake I for him to deal in any other wav at Tuesday's meeung m either the International or the domestic fields. - Eisenhower, meanwhile, la seeking- a cross section of Republican leaders views on the Korean War situation in advance of his trip w ine war zone, PCRPOSE That is one of the major purposes of a series of conferences the gen eral wiu noia, s u. r ling viui a ses sion at his vacation retreat her tomorrow with Gov. Thomas E. Dewey or New York. GOP congressional leaders will be amonir those on Eisenhower's caiung list wnen he returns to his New York headquarters next week. Aides said the President-elect wants to talk over the Korean problem with Dewey, and possibly some Congress members, before he confers with Truman. Dewev. who sirill arrlv 7ner-k hv plane about noon tomorrow, visited the Korean battlefrom. in 1951. Elsenhower u'.edged durlncr the campaign that if elected he would go to Korea in an effort to find some way to an honorable peace. Among- those the general nlans to see In New York before de parting are Sen. Robert A. Taft of Ohio, chairman of the Senate GOP policy committee, and Sen. Alexander Wiley of Wisconsin, who is slated to become chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Com mittee when the Republicans take over control of Congress In Janu ary. House leaders also will be consulted. Elsenhower plans to end his va cation Sunday or Monday. TRASH FIRE City firemen were called at 4:55 this morning to douse a threaten ing trash file in the 200 block on Market Street. . !gX O A ; l .... oW . .ii M in-.na.i. m hi ii i ,, .riW Lii.. HAIRCUT, EISENHOWER' STYLE Th Republican .lection victory afforded Unci Vincnt Hamriclc, 83, e lumberman of Clay, W. Va n axcute to get a hair trim for th first time in eight yean. Hamriclc vowed in 1944 not to visit a barber until a Republican again occupied th Whit Hout. H it thown just before th snipping began, framed by e hug poster of Mi beloved preiident-aUct, Dwtght Eisenhower, Fight Flares In Central Front Area By WILLIAM O. BARNARD SEOUL W Screaming Chinese Infantrymen early Friday threw the Allies from Pinpoint Hill on Sniper Ridge In a furious night battle at close quarters. Element of two Chines Red battalions, possibly 1,000 men, overran the Central Front height for the 14th time In a month of battle, field dispatches said. They struck behind heavy artillery fire. South Korean defenders oncer more were pushed south to tower heights on shell-torn Sniper Ridge. Heavy figming suit wss in pro gress there. HIT HILL , Ap war Correspondent John Randolph, on the Central Front, said the Reds hit Allied positions on Pinpoint Hill with 600 to 750 men at 11:10 p.m. Five hours earlier Allied artil lery routed sbout 760 Reds advanc ing on Sniper from the east. Finpoin. is ine Allies' norinern most stronghold on Sniper, United Nations officers said the Thursday night attack obviously was a Communist attempt to drive South Korean Infantrymen from Pinpoint for the 14th time In the 31-day battle for ths Kumhwa nages. Republic of Korea (ROK) Infan trymen had spent the day mopping up Red remnants alter recapturing the hill early Wednesday. rsiuu But they failed to dislodge Chi- nese entrenched on the Yoke, a maze ot tunnels and caves from which the Communists struck hi Thursday night's attack. First indications of the coming attack came at dusk. Two platoons of so to 80 men were spotted mov ing on the Yoke, An hour snd a half later Allied artillery battalions Joined In a hail of high explosives on a Chines battalion a mile and half north. west of fin point. The Reds fled. But at 11:06 Red artillery, opened up. Five minutes later the Chinese infantry assault hit Pinpoint. Earlier In the day XT. 8. war planes poured flaming- jellied gaso line, bombs and machinegun fire on entrenched Reds in th Sniper Kioge- iTiangie mil area. Elsewhere along the 155-mlI front: Allied mortar and tank (Ir chopped up three small Red Infan try probes against Allied positions at Jackson Heights, south of Iron horse Mountains on th Central Front, PATROLS Elsewhere along the 155-mile battleline. action today waa eon fined to patrol skirmishes. AP war correspondent John Ran. dolph. on the Central Front, re ported no further Chinese attacks on Pinpoint. But Chinese Communists were still dug in the Yoke, a msze of tunnels and caves at the northern end of Sniper that has been the key to firm control of that ridge. It was from those caverns that the Reds spewed reinforcements Tuesday, when they drove the South Koreans off Pinpoint. Wed nesday's ROK charge, successful In regaining Pinpoint for the 14th time in the 31-day battle for the Kumhwa Ridges, failed to dislodge the Communists from the Yoke, CASUALTIES Washington's weekly casualty report reflected the cost of the recent heavy hill fighting. The Defense Department reported 1.311 U. S. battle casualties for the week ended Isst Friday. It was the lanrest weekly list ot the year. (The list Included 266 killed, bringing the war's total of killed In action to 19.712. It brought the total of all casualties dead, missing, and wounded to 125, 687). North Korean Communists at tackine U.N. positions on the East- em Front last night found them selves blocked oy torrid streams of flaming nspalm. An Allied ataft officer said the Eighth Army troops probably had the drums ot napalm on their defense lines and deton ated them when the enemy ap proached. 1 The weather was the best today In three days, but a cloud cover still shielded most of North Korea from really effective air attacks. Propellor driven Mustangs i bombed a Red troop concentration I area northeast of Suan. V i- v '. V iV
