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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
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, , 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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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