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Newspaper Page TextCOTTON - ONE—-INCH MIDDLING .. 43!4 Vol, CXIX, No. 276. _ Associé!qd Press Servi Hundreds Are willed, Many Hurt In Volcanic Eruption General Election Athenians will go to the polls wednesday in the City General Flection to elect a Mayor, five members of City Council and vote on five proposed amendments to the City Charter, Since nomination in the City Democratic Primary has always been tantamount to election in the General Election, the vote in the Jatter has usually been very light. TTowever, this year with the five proposed amendments to be voted on, it is expected that a much Jarger number of Athenians will go to the polls, which open in each of the five wards at 9 a. m. and close at 4 p. m. City officials nominated in the Democratic Primary were Mayor Jack R. Wells without opposition; First Ward Councilman Luther Bond; Second Ward Councilman Owen M. Roberts, jr., without op position; Third Ward Councilman Walter N. Danner, without oppo sition; Curtis L. Lovern, nomi nated Councilman from the Fourth Ward; John P. Bondurant, nomi nated Councilman from the Fifth Ward. T. M. Philpot was renomi natetd without opposition to the Municipal Civil Service Commis sion from the Second Ward, and Comer Owens was nominated to the same Commission- from the Fifth Ward. e Polling Places Location of the polling places in cach of the wards and the officials who will econduct the election fol low: First Ward — Downtown Fire Station—Miss Alma Hughes, Mrs. E. S. Kirk, Mrs. E. L. Wood. Second Ward—City Hall—Mrs. William J. Russell, Mrs. W. D. Faulkner, Mrs. Howard Johnson. Third Ward—YMCA on Lump-~ kin Street—Mrs. E. W. Carroll, Mrs. B. C. Lumpkin, Mrs. Pope Hill, R. 8. Crane: Fourth Ward — Prinee Avenue Fire Station—J. M. Storey, G. M. Honea, Mrs. Golden Michael. Fifth Ward—Cody David Drug Store—Mrs. Alvie Hill, Mrs, W. G. Moody, Mrs. Curtis Doster. DC-3 CRASHES DERBY, Colo., Dec. 4—(AP)—A United Air Lines DC-3 training plane crashed on the federal reser vation of the Rocky Mountain ar senal today, killing all three men aboard. They were a pilot-captain and two student pilots receiving train ing. The plane had taken off from Siapleton Municipal Airfield at Denver about 8:30 a. m., EST. and crashed an hour later. This was only 20 hours after a B-29 bomber from Lowry Air Force base plunged into an exclu sive Denver residential area, kill in< eight airmen. United Air Lines identified the victims as J. D. Kocher, the in structor; Lawrence G. Wilson, 28, of Boulder, C 010.,, and Wayne C. Moen, El Cerrito, Calif. . Proposed Amendment Discussed By Pound One of the Charter amendments which will be voted on by the citizens of Athens in the General flection tomorrow provides for the creation of the position of City Tax Assessor and of a Board of Tax Appeals to replace the pres ent three-man Board of Tax As sescors, There follows a statement by Councilman Merritt B. Pound of the.reasons why it is believed that this amendment should be ap proved by the voters: “There has come to b. an in creasing realization that assess ment of property for taxation pur noses is a technical job, requiring she services of trained persons. The idea that a board of inexp 'ri enced personnel could perform chis technical task has been rejected bv most progressive cities in the Urited States. _ “But the expert should be sub jec’ to citizen control and this is achieved by setting over the pro fessional assessor a citizen Board of Tax Appeals. Any person who is dissatisfied with an action of the Assessor - may appeal to this Board “The proposed amendment would set up such a system in Athens. The present three-man Board of Tax Assessors has re cognized that it cannot do an ef fective job of assessing property, since the members are busy men who can devote only part of their time to the job. Accordingly, they have had the City employ a Tax Evaluator. Assures Efficiency “The amendment would assure the people of Athens that a pro fessionally competent person would be retained permanetly to per 'orm assessing duties, &at at some future time the task would not be "hrust back upon the Board, which has demonstrated its inability to pe‘f%?gm c!'tzhe function eﬁegtlvely. € charge may de tha e Mww:ﬁﬁws i necessarily hiré a really oo st ent professional assessor fe Whe ATHENS BANNER-HERALD BY FRANK L. WHITE MANILA, Dec. 4.—(AP) —Hibok Hibok voleano on Camiguin Island erupted to day in an atomic like explos ion and an unverified report said “several hundred” per sons were killed. A Weather Bureau seis mologist on the island said “several hundred” persons were buried under the rain of red hot ashes or caught in streams of glowing lava. He said rescue workers began digging into the outer fringes of the ash and lava area tonight. Heat and noxious fumes hampered their work. Aid Urged A Philippines Red Cross repre sentative messaged Manila head quarters that. 26 bodies had been brought to the city hall at Mam-~ bajao, principai city of Camiguin. Thirty persons were treated for severe burns in an emergency hos pital in the town. The weather bureau and the Red Cross worker both asked government authori ties to rush all possible help to care for injured and evacuated residents. The seismologist said the over all situation at the wvolcano ap parently had improved but added he had “no confidence” that the eruption was subsiding. The official, whose name was not available, said smeking ash covered about four square miles in the vicinity of the 5,620f00t peak. He said the ash was “dan gerous” and rescue workers could do no more than search around the fringes. The Red Cross worker, a Miss Bonifacia, told headquarters in a telegram: “Areas affected still dangerous. Many victims as yet unrecovered from danger zone, More victims still coming in.” All Philippines naval vessels south of Manila were ordered to speed to Camiguin to aid in eva cuation. The island has 45,000 population. It is in the Mindanao Sea just north of the big island of Mindanao. Philippines Air Force planes will fly to the area Wednesday with scares of Red Cross workers so aid in the evactation and to help care for the injured. No Warning Hibok Hibok, quiescent since a mild eruption in July, shot a flame-filled tower of smoke and ash into the air at 7:15 a. m to day (6:15 p. m. Monday, EST). It gave no warning. The weather bureau seismolo gist on the three-mile long island said the blast was “atomic like.” The captain of a ship passing several miles away in the Minda nao Sea compared the cloud rising from the crater to that of an atomic bomb explosion, The flame-shot cloud could be seen 40 miles. Gov. Paciencio Ysalina of East ern Misamis province on the north coast of. Mindanao went to the little island to take charge of eva cuation. e Ysalina said the eruption was worse than the big blasts of 1948 and 1950. A blast on Sept. 15, 1950, killed 66 persons. In the September, 1948, eruption, 30,000 island residents were evacuated but only five deaths were record ed. job. This is true but the amend ‘ment does afford the opportunity ‘to secure a really competent as isessor. It seems probable that the ‘Mayor and Council would take ‘advantage of this opportunity. “The amendment gives to the taxpayers as far better appeal pro cedure than that which exists un der present Charter provisions. As it stands now, the dissatisfied tax~ lpayer can appeal to a committee ;made up of the Mayor and two | Councilmen. These busy men can ‘not give the time that should be given to these appeals. | “Under the amendment, there iwould be a three-member Board of Tax Appeals with the sole job of hearing these appeals. This Board could become quite fami liar with assessment matters and would probably give a much fuller and fairer hearing to the taxpay ers’ appeals. “Under the present system, there is no separation between the Tax Evalutor and the Board of Assessors. The Evaluator is an instrument of the Board, doing its job for it. The proposed amend ment would separate the two and probably would result in a more critical review of the work of the Assessor by the Board. «“The objection has been raised that the amendment would require tax returns to be made to the Tax Assessor rather than to the Clerk of Council, as at present. A care ful reading of the amendment shows no grounds for this object ion. There is nothing in the amend ment to prevent the Mayor and Council from directing that ﬂ\g returns to the Tax Assessor shall be made through the Clerk as at present. Provides Safeguards “The amendment provides ela borate saftegaurds for persons who are adversely affected by actions t,th;;l‘ax ;Asgs:g much bqtft;: %Cﬁ&tﬁmvis?gﬁs. %:’Eases” (Continued On Page Two) | University's Ind Fall Production To Open Tonight A stage hit since 1914, and later an Academy award winner as a movie, George Bernard Shaw’s famous comedy “Pygmalion” will make another bid for box-office distinction when it opens tonight at the University Theatre for a three day run, Shaw takes the title for his play from the Latin poet, Ovid, who told how a sculptor named Pyg malion created a statue so beauti ful that, at his request, Aphrodite ‘granted life to the stature and Pygmalion married her. Working on the basis of what is known in the theatre business as a “switch= eroo,” Shaw develops his own var iations on the story, and even a nodding acquaintance with the great satirist will prepare one for the fine ironies and comic inver sions which emerge during the course of Henry Higgins’ attempts to change Eliza Doolittle from a common flower girl to a duchess. Appearing in the cast are Gay Dangerfield and Michael Sinclair, English exchange students from London, England, who are Junior- Artists-in-Residence this year at the University. Miss Dangerfield plays the role of the flower girl, Eliza Doolittle, and Mr. Sinclair protrays her father Mr. Doolittle. Also starring is Gus Mann, who plays the part of the phonetics ex pert, Henry Higgins. He will be remembered for his fine perform=- ance last year in “Born Yester day.” Other leading roles are taken by Eston Perkins, Maria Priles, Peggy Jeter, Virginia Woodall, Lily Pittard and Stan Lippmann. ‘The designers and technicians have all contributed handsomely ‘to Pygmalion with the result that the sets are some of the most in genious to be used in a University Theatre production for several seasons. The production has been staged by James W. Andrews, assistant professor of drama and a graduate of the Yale School of Drama in New Haven. Curtain time for December 4th, sth and 6th is at 8:30 p. m. 1,200 Atfend ‘M’ Night Program Although an attendance goal of 1,000 had been set, there were 1,200 delegates registered for the “M” Night Program held by the Sarepta Association at First Bap tist Church last night, and many more were present who did not register. Thirty-two of the sixty-three churches in the Association were represented with Prince Avenue Baptist Church winning the at tendance banner with 259 mem bers present., Vesta Church in Oglethorpe county won the per centage atiendance banner with 39 present. Rev. Jesse Knight, pastor of the Winterville Baptist Church, was elected director of the Training Union, succeeding Bryant M, Smith of Athens. Burl Womack, director of Training Union at Prince Avenue Baptist Church, was named assistant director of the Sarepta Training Union. The program, which lasted for an hour-and-a-half, was consid ered one of the most successful ever held by the Association. ATHENS AND VICINITY Clearing and mild tempera tures this afternocon. Fair and slightly cooler tonight. Wed nesday partly cloudy and mild. Low tonight 46; high tomorrow 66. Sun sets today 5:23 and rises tomorrow 7:24. GEORGIA — Clearing wea ther and mild this afternoon, preceded by showers in extreme east in early afternoon, fair and slightly cooler tonight, Wednes day fair and mild. EXTENDED FORECAST GEORGIA — Temperatures will average sie so eight de grees above mnormal through Sunday with small day to day changes, precipitation average one half to three fourths inch occurring about Thursday and Sunday. TEMPERATURE Higheet v, v viiiiiv oD RAWIRE: . s s B MORD Viciviinires srviere 88 Mopinal . e e WY RAINFALL Inches last 24 hours .. ... .96 Total since December 1 ... .96 Excess since December 1 .. .36 Average December xainfall, . #&9 Total since January 1 .. . .37.08 Deficit since January 1 ... 8.67 SERVING ATHENS AND NORTHEAST GEORCIA OVER A CENTURY, ATHENS, GA., TUESDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1951. Defense Efforfs Said Endangered ByF.E. P. Order WASHINGTON, Dec. 4 — (AP) —Senator Fulbright (D-Ark) said today if a new fair employment g‘ractices order issued by Pr:sident ruman is enforced “in a political way” it may interfere with de fense production. And Senator Gillette (D-Iowa) predicted the President’s action “will lead to a whale of a controversy” in Congress. Mr. Truman signed at Key West, Fla., yesterday an order provid ing for a committee to encourage compliance with a standard clause in government contracts aimed at preventing discrimination against negroes and other minority groups in the hiring of workers by govern ment contractors. No enforcement procedure was provided in the order. Phileo Nash, White House staff member dealing with Civil Rights and minorecy affairs, said there had been “some complaints.” con tractors weren’t enforcing the clause. . o Fulbright, an opponent of the administration’s Civil Right pro gram told a reporter he hasn't heard of any such complaints. . Possibilities “If the committee goes about its work in a fair and equitable way, this order may not cause too much trouble,” the Arkansas Sena tor observed. “But if they are just trying to build up a furore for the next election and the order is en forced in a political way it may interfere with defense production.” Mr. Truman didn’t call the new committee a fair employment prac tices commission (FEPC), but a committee on government con tract compliance. Opponents of an FEPC such as. operated in World War II have contended that the mixing of racial groups in some labor forces in the south would breed strikes and other strife. Mr. Truman apparently left a way out of any such situation by giving defense mobilizer Charles E. Wilson a voto power over re commendations of the committee. The President said the group, to be named later, “will be expected to examine and study the complia nce procedures now in use and to recommend to the department and agency heads changes that will strengthen them.” “Recommendations of the com=~ mittee are subject to review, under certain conditions, by the director of defense mobilization, so that crimination in empldyment will at all times aid in increasing defense production”, the President added. Anti-Fight Effort | In an apparent effort to avoid a fight over the issue in Congress, it was announced that appoint ments of the cimmittee will not be 1 subject to senate ratification, ‘1 Members are to be paid, by the day, but the agencies with which they are working. Thus Congress cannot immediately shut off funds for their pay. | Congress already has provided in an independent offices appro=- priations bill that Mr. Truman may not spend any of a $1,000,000 em ergency fund made available to him to carry out functions for which the lawmakers have been asked and have refused to ap (Continuea On Page Two) Bg o s ol : e Nz ’A,c///"'t ; ==~ I R - G |||\ oL ee 12°H . W ‘ if a fool and his money are soon parted, how did they get together . in the first place? ONEA | Santa And The Magic Mirror Once upon a time there was a little girl named Belinda. She had no mother. But she did have a father and her father was Santa Claus. Of course he wasn't the really truly Santa Claus who lives at the North Pole. No. Poppy (Belin da called her father “Poppy”) was a make-believe Santa. You see many make believe Santas around town these days: in the stores, on street corners, at school parties. Now, Poppy was Santa Claus at a great department store in a great city. It was a job he had for six weeks every year and it was the only job he had. The rest of the time he stayed home and kept house for his little girl, Belinda. Naturally, when a man works only six weeks a year his family doesn’t have a whole lot of money to live on. But Belinda and Poppy managed fine and Belinda thought she was the luckiest girl in the whole*world. I guess she was, too. You'd have to travel pretty far to find something nicer than being the child of a Santa Claus! ~ Then one year, when Belinda was eight years old, something happened. o £ - One morning, & littie while be fore Christmas, Poppy and Be linda started out for the guat store where Poppy worked. They had plenty of time and it was a bright cheerful morning so they walked instead of taking a bus as they usually did. alk T It was @& lovely walk. 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The tents house men of an obser- Red Negotiators Insist On Four Truce Supervision Limitations o R O SO R R SRR . g 3 L TS g o s, T ees - R ef‘ o e i ”;/a..g e. 8 e i o%*/ b e o e % "“’» g "”;:y 2 ; % T e R e ST e Genae oh 0 S . R ey Blha i B f%;”g ‘m.w«.,,‘.,:;-"i‘)"‘. e | G S G e b ; Saa L | 5 e ‘ . R £ g =i ?“X”w;g | e T FOURTH JET ACE ; Major Richard D. Creighton | of Baton Rouge, La., is shown | at an air base in Japan where | he was presented a new helmet | : { after becoming America’s fourth | jet ace in Korea. The white i helmet has five red, white and | blue stars painted on it signify ing the number of planes Creighton has shot down. He has flown 85 missions over North Korea.— (AP Wirephoto.) Rotary To Honor Bulldog Combine Members of the Bulldog foot ball squad, coaches, managers and other athletic personnel of the University will be guests at the regular weekly Rotary luncheon in Georgian Hotel tomorrow at 1 o’clock. Roy Harris, member of the (Continued On Page Two) candles in the windows or tiny Christmas trees or bright colored balls, The streets were decorated with fir and holly. The people they passed had happy faces. “Oh, Poppy!” K said Belinda, “Christmas is the loveliest time! lEiveryone is happy and good and nd.” Poppy agreed that Christmas was certainly the grandest time in the year. They walked on, Belinda helding Poppy’s hand and Poppy carrying under his arm his red, fur-trimmed Santa suit wrap :ped in a brown paper bag. Presently they came to an enor mous stone house. It was five sto ries high and had mrarble steps leading to the front door. It was a rich and handsome house. But Belinda stopped right in front of it and cried, “What a sad house!” “How s 0?” asked Poppy. “Why, there’s not a wreath any where! And the shutters are iclos’ed so even the sun can’t get n!’ “Well,” said Poppy, “this is the house of Jeremiah Lump. .He is the richest man in the whole city so I don’t expect they are too sad in there.” Well, they walked on and when they reached the store it was al ready open and gay Christmas shoppers and bright eyed children were crowding in the doors. “I'! have a busy day,” said Poppy, smiling at the children. He kissed Belinda. “Be a good girl and% San Jaus, will come to your he ust‘.”tg R il Belinda laughed. How she loved By ROBERT B. TUCKMAN MUNSAN, Korea, Dec. 4—(AP) Communist negotiators insisted to day on four limitations to super vision of a truce in Korea. The Allies objected to all four. The Reds may have other re strictions the Allies don’t like. But these four came out in response to lengthy questioning by United Nations delegates in a newly cre ated subcommittee: 1. The Reds would be free to build air fields during an armis tice, So would the U. N, com mand. But the Allies have plenty and the Reds haven't a single usa-~ ble field in Korea. 2. Neutral inspection would be limited strictly to ports of entry. The Allies want inspection teams free to go anywhere in Korea. 3. A ban on troop rotation. That would mean an end to American veterans coming home after a year of service, 4. No interference with on in spection of any reconstruction in Korea. Communist newsmen at Panmunjom said much construc-§ tion work in North Korea is un derground and the Reds don’t want the Allies to know where itl is. New Group The new subcommitiee — two men from each side—was created today in an effort to beat a Dec. 27 deadline. A previous subcom=- mittee drew a cease-fire line across the front to become effective if an armistice is signed by Dec. 27. That first subcommittee took more than three months. Vice Adm. C. Turner Joy, head of the five-man U, N. command negotiating team, tried to get more speed into negotiations. He pro posed another subcommittee be created to start work on a clause for exchanging prisoners. North Korean Lt. Gen. Nam Il said he would give an answer. But he didn't say when, There is one other point neces sary for an armistice.- That is recommendations to belligerent governments on the ultimate with (Continued On Page Two) this joke between them! As she started back home she thought of the decorations she was making for their Christmas tree at homie, She was skipping along dreaming of the tree when presently she found herself once again in front of the stone house. 4 l This time there was a little boy sitting on the bottonr step of the great marble stairs. He was dressed in a patched, poorly fit ting coat and his eyes were large and sad. ; Belinda said, “Are you Mr, Lump’s little boy?” The boy nodded. “I am Thomas Lump.” His voice was small and lifeless. Belinda looked up at the cold, shuttered house. “Why don’t you have some decorations on your house?” she asked. “What for?” “Why — for Christmas, of course!” Thomas Lump shrugged his thin shoulders. “We don’t have Christmas at our house,” he said quietly. : Belinda gazed at him in aston ishment, “You mean Santa Claus never conyes to your house?” “Never,” whispered Thomas Lump. Two large tears were forming in the corners of his eyes. Belinda rushed to him and threw her arms around his shoulders. She thought wildly of someway to cheer this poor rich boy who ',had 1'::(:ver had a Christtmas. !{"i'nal- Jdy. she blurted, ‘Dan't. ery,.T! oyt cﬁ Mhtﬁx’f st ~ (Next: The Mean Mr. Lump.) ——————————— —————————. -~ Read D=3y by 35,000 People In Athens Trade Asea * w * Town Meeting Set Tonight Tonight at 8 o'clock in the Superior Court Room eof the County Courthouse a Town Meeting of tax payers of Clarke County will be held to discuss the advisability of consolidating the county offices of Tax Re ceiver and Tax Colleetor. X % X V.M. 1. Studens Stage Uprising LEXINGTON, VA, Deec. 4 — (AP) — A sweeping investigation was underway teday into a noisy and destructive uprising by stu dents at Virginia Military Institute. Before the Sunday night-Mon day morning affair was over, the historie “West Point of the South” saw windows and lights shattered, furniture burned, property des troyed and some rooms flooded with water. The Cadets — wearied by the 40 minutes of “protesting” — went to classes early yesterday with only about two hours sleep after a five mile, three-hour hike to “cool them off” and discipline them. There was some disagreement among VMI officials as to what provoked the sudden protest. But there was little disagreement that the affair got out of hand for more than half an hour. Damage Estimates Some Cadets termed the damage heavy. A VMI spckesman said, however, that it was “not exten sive.” s He said the Cadets will bear the cost of repairs. The spokesman said there had been some recent ‘“resentment by Cadets” to a “general tightening up” of VMI regulations. he added: “The disorder presumably was in protest of this tightening us. it is presumed that it was precipitat ed in protest over enforcement of a regulation concerning the time Cadets were required to return to barracks on the night of a dance held the preceding weekend.” But Cadets themselves said the uprising came as the result of the (Continued On Page Two) Fortson Held In Langford Death Joy Sims Fortson, 35, is being held in Clarke eounty jail today on an involuntary manslauﬁhter war= rant for the death of Earl C. Lang~- ford, 42, whose body lay undis covered for 11 days. Sheriff H. T. Huff announced today that he arrested Mr. Fort son, of Route 1, Hull, Sunday shortly after Mr. Langford’s body was found near Oconee Hill Cem~ etery. No bond has been set in the case. The slaying, according to Sheriff Huff, took place during a drink ing party on November 19. Mr. Fortson told Sheriff Huff that he knocked Langford down fwice af ter the older man struck him, Mr. Fortson stated that the next thing he remembered was walking up the next day at his father’s home in Madison county where he lives. The verdict of a coroner’s gury read “Langford met J4.lu!t'h irom blows at the b of Joy Fortsen”. and’ recémmm ‘ ﬁlt‘i&'m son be held for grand jury action. & HOME EDITION UN Troops Hit BY JOHN RANM SEOUL, Korea, Dee. 4.— (AP) — British and Ameri can Marines ripped threugh Red defenses 130 miles be hind the front in the meost powerful hit-and-rum eem mando rald of the Kerean war, the Allies ammounced today. The Anglo-Ameriean force stormed ashore on the east coast Sunday night undey cover of heavy naval gun fire. The troops shet up Communist communicatiens and transport midway be tween the Soviet frontier and the front. The announcemseat was with held until, 'ﬁruummbi{f the raid ers had withdrawn, U, N. Naval headquarters listed two British Commandos as wounded, No. U. S. Marine casuzlties were repowted. The surprise assaulf om the beaches near Tanchon, 17¢ miles north of the 38th parallel, broke through heavy Red machinegun fire and carried the raiders astride Communist coastal transpert lines, The surprise Allied raid came two days after the Reds captured the island of Taehwa, far up on Red Korea's west coast bhetween the mouths of the Yalu and Chongchon rivers, The Allies had not ugorhd OC= cupation of the island. But the U. S. Eighth Army Tuesday said 1,000 Chinese stormed ashore fromy canoes, sampans and motorboats, Evacuations Britisk:‘ lsn& Canadian u\‘v:ahipo evacuat to 400 guer rillas on the island. ﬁc ¥ N command did not mentiom twe other islands near Tashwa which the Reds said they recaptured. The Re¢ amphibious action ap pareatly led to Friday's big air battle and explained the mysteri ous appearance of a flight of Rus~ sian type bombers, Eight twine engine TU-2 bombers were sho# down by U. 8. Sabre !}m before they could reach the fslands. Four Red planes, apparentiy jets, swept over Seoul in daylight Monday in their deepest pemetra tion. No bombs were dropped. But three Red planes, perhaps from the same fﬁxht, did bomb the frozen western front., ¥, §. Third Division treops were driven to cover. The Allied conmnand @id “«et mention damr or casuplties. Bitter cold became the worsk enemy of ianfant or heth sides of the 146-m§§e front lines. Temperatures dropped to zewe in the eastern mountains, There was so little fighting the U. 8. Bighth Army communique reported ac tions by n%uads. It told of attacks by three Red squads Tuesday at three points. Twelve U. 8. Sabre ’;qt‘ Tuesday sent 40 Russian type MIG-1§ jets rncingx back to the safety es their Manchurian bases in a lot&'mm chase in the ninth consecutive day of &t wargre in northwest Korea. ne MIG was damaged in & 30- minute dog ﬂ?xt betwesn 32 Sa bres and 60 MIGs. With four other Red jets dammged Monday this brought the announced nine dey score to 27 MIGs shet down, ene probably destroyed and 28 damm aged, againet six U. N. tﬁ shot down. The mumber of jets damaged is not announced. Air Actions . Allied iﬁlots concentrating on Red supply lines reported they ripped up rail lines im 267 places Monday. FEAR said its planes made 200 rail cuts. Carrier based planes weré credited with the other 67. 5 One flight of carrier planes icaught Red troops on the east ' coast south of Wonsan sitting laround 100 camp fires. Pilots strafed and bombed until the area was “well covered.” Rocket ships fired 8,000 reckets on Wonsan in the 201st censseu~ tive day of bombardment in the east port city. The battleship Wisconsin, get ting into Korean action fer the first time, included a Red tank in targets destroyed by her l@-inch guns, Back of the U. N. lines Sewth Korean troops hunted 4,000 ex (Continued om Page Twe.) s i S AN 4 2u T A ~ /5 4 ) b og 1¢ i (] Pldkageaasy R Y 7; (L AL/ !.i " SR il 4 " [' %

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