Breckenridge American (Breckenridge, Tex.), Vol. 30, No. 203, Ed. 1 Friday, July 28, 1950 Page: 3 of 4
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By ROBERT BENNYHOFF I
Press Staff Correspondent
^SOMEWHERE IN KOREA, July
®* —Corp. Frank W. Coffman
~ Chicago, an American GI try-
run a Korean railroad, said
ain't railroading. It's niur-!
Wtt. This ain't a railroad. It's a
madhouse.''
Coffman, a member of the 1st
Cwtlry Division, is rapidly grow-
j®« gray because of the pwculian-
of Korean railroadmen who
■Mm to be under thi- impression
■ are operating a Toonerville
trolley line.
■ ^ 'ast war Europe,
I aid lots of railroading, but it
~never like this," Coffman said.
"These Koreans have their own
way of doing things and you can't
change their minds about any-
thing."
First Lt. Charles X. Wolsans of
Salt Lake City, L'tah. is another
army railroader who is trying to
brink order out of chaos on a Ko-
rean railroad.
"For two weeks when we first
got here we discovered the guy
who yplied the loudest got his
train out first," Wolsans said.
"And we still have one big prob-
lem even now—to get the right
train to the right place at the
right time."
__ Capt. A. W. Smith of Atlanta.
Ga., said Korean engineers want
to stop at every point along the
ruad. "to take 4 nap or visit with
frieiyis."
"We finally solved tha problem
by putting GI's in the cars and the
Korean engineers decided they
could do without a few stops here
and there," Smith said.
Sgt. Earnest Henton of Fresno,
Calif., said "The Korean engineers
all want to go south. They don't
want to go north."
Capt. Dayton Caple of East
Moline, III., said the "situation is
now so confused the Koreans can't
make heads nor tails out of it."
"The only solution is to get a
regular American railroad batta-
lion to run the Korean railroad,"
Caple added.
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OLYMPIA. Wash. <U. —Wash-
ington's state patrol believes in'
radio messages that are short and j
to the point. After an attempted
rubbery of a cafe, a patrolman re-
ported via short wave: "Waitress i
creamed. Man scrammed."
(By UNITED PRESS)
Draft—Army calls for 80,000
more draftees in September and
October, bringing to 100,000 the
number ordered up to date.
Enlistments— President Truman
signs legislation extending all en-
listments another year.
Air Force—Plans to expand
from 48 to 58 groups in next year
and to tfi) groups by Jan 1, 1951.
Also plans to add 136,000 men to
bring its strength to «84,000.
GI Allowances—Defense depart-
ment asks congress to provide en-
listed men monthly dependency
allowances of $75 for wives ana
125 additional for each child.
Mothball Fleet—Maritime ad-
ministration orders 3o more vic-
tory ships put into service, bring-
ing to H5 the number of cargo ves-
sels taken out of mothballs.
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By PAUL F. ELLIS
United Press Science Editor
NEW YORK, July 2T. <r.E>_
Scientists the world over are
"ganging up' on cancer and the
day of victory over that enemy of
all mankind is being brought clos-
er.
Such was the feeling among
some 800 medical men and re-
search experts who met in an in-
ternational conference in Paris
last week. Of those attending, a-
bout 270 were from the United
States.
Most significant reports at the
meeting, perhaps, were the scien-
tists believe must be cleared up if
cancer ever is to be controlled.
Throughout the session and par-
ticularly among the European doe-
tors there was a strong feeliag
that foreign substances in the
body, such as a virus or a fungus,
probably have a part in the cause
of abnormal cancerous growth.
One scientist reported his studies
show that a virus lies dormant in
the body, perhaps for years, and is
sprung into activity by other fac-
tors, such as aging or perhaps
some sort of irritants.
The old fungus theory was re-
vived and new evidence was offer-
ed that a rare type of fungus has
been found in every type of hu-
man cancer.
Numerous new methods of treat-
ing cancer with chemicals or drugs
were reported. Temporary remiss-
ions—or shrinkages of tumors—
were reported to have been achiev-
ed, but life was not saved
The scientists generally exchan-
ged their information freely. Now
they are en route to their homes
and the mass of information
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Guessing Cause
By BRUCE W. MUNN
United Press Staff Correspondent
LAKE SUCCESS, N. Y., July
28. —Diplomats speculated to-
day that Russia's decision to end
its boycott of the United Nations
may be for any of five reasons, in-
cluding possible new plans for ag-
gression by. the Kremlin.
Chief Soviet Delegate Jacob A.
Malik informed Secretary-General
Trygve Lie late yesterday that he
would assume the council presi-
dency in his regular turn next
month and called a meeting for
next Tuesday. Re said the agenda
"wilt be commvunieated later."
Diplomats speculated that the
Russians may have returned for
any owe of these five reasons:
1. They may be planning new
aggression against Iran, west Ger-
many or Yugoslavia and want to
be on hand to veto any UN mili-
tary sanctions.
2. They may agree to mediation
of the Korean war.
3. They may denounce American
intervention in Korea and hope to
obstruct the UN's efforts to drive
back the Red Koreans.
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ted. The Soviet Cnion sent two
medical men who listened to the
discussions but did not offer re-
ports of any Bussian gains in the
battle against cancer.
The next International confer-
ence on cancer is scheduled for Rio
Janeiro, Brazil, in 1953. By that
time, many of the scientists be-
lieve some real "break through*"
in the war on cancer will have
been achieved—if a war between
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ON THE KOREAN WAR
FRONT, July 28. This is
how the Americans do it with the
howitzers.
About 50 feet outside a school-
room where American soldiers and
correspondents are sitting, a squat
155-millimeter howitzer is blowing
the last of a greasy blue smoke
ring into the air.
Some 12 miles away on the
road from Yongdong an observer
in a spotter plane is speaking to
the soldiers in the schoolroom by
radio.
"Deflection 5ft to the right—rran-
ge short 1(H)," the spotter says.
"On the way," Capt. Kenneth R.
"Doc" Eckert of Parkville, Mo_,
says quietly to the plane's pilot
via radio telephone.
Eckert then transmits his infor-
mation to his plotter, Corp. Bobert
E. Corcoran, 19, of Maynard,
Mass.
Corcoran in turn does some sim-
ple business with a slide rule and
calls the result into another tele-
phone.
"We 've got some enemy troops
and artillery we think are hiding
in a tunnel," Eckert explains, "and
we are trying to bounce a couple
at the entrance."
There is a shattering roar. Bits
of timber fall off the schoolhouse
roof. A pane of glass is shattered.
A gurgling whistle trails off into
silence. A moment later the room
shakes. This time the deflection
and range are correct.
The observer calls for six rounds
of high explosives with delayed
fuses.
Two guns of the the battery roar
almost simultaneously and more
bits of woodwork fall.
Outside, the air is sharp with
the smell of gunpowder.
Six sweating G. I cannoneers
have been firing without letup for
three hours.
"I'm getting deaf and that's no
lie," the No. I gunner, Pfc. Ora
Kelly of Vevay, Ind., says.
"You should have been here
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munist China on die council.
5. They may be ready to accept
their diplomatic defeat over Ko-
rea as gracefully as possible.
The unexpected notification that
Rasnia would break its 29-week-
old boycott of the UN was tele-
phoned to Lie's office personally
by Malik, in an excited voice. It
was believed the decision had been
taken personally by Premier Josef
Stalin.
Lights burned at the Park Ave-
nue headquarters of the Soviet
delegation in New York until
nealty midnight—the first time
the Russians have kept such late
office hours since they began their
boyedtt of the UN.
Arae Sunde, of Norway, presi-
dent of the council for July, an-
nounced thnt today's meeting, call-
ed ostensibly to discuss last week's
report of Gen. Douglas Ma*;Arth-
ur's unified UN command in Ko-
rea, would go on aa scheduled (at
10:30 a. m. EDT). The council had
been expected to take steps to
overcome the procedural difficul-
ties that would have occurred if
Malik had stayed away during his
scheduled term as president under
the monthly alphabetical rotation
bJf stem.
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yesterday—we had a regular tur-
key shoot," gunner Anthony War-
ren of Ohio stays.
"We chased some gooks off the
road hack into town and then out
the other side," Warren said. "It
was beautiful."
NOTICE TO BIDDERS
Sealed proposals will be received
by the Board of Managers of the
Stephens County Hospital of
B^echenridge, Texas, until 2:00
o'clock P. M. Central Standard
Time, on the 8th day of August,
1950, then to be opened and read
aloud at a meeting to be held at
2 P. M. on August 8th, 1950, at
the Courthouse in Breckenridge,
Texas. The proposals are for the
furnishing of equipment and ap-
purtenances required for the Ste-
phens County Hospital.
Copies of the Specifications and
other documents may be seen and
examined at the office of the
Co«nty Judge of Stephens County,
Breckenridge, Tefcas, in compliance
with provisions of Public Law 725,
79th Congress.
the owner reserves the right
to reject any or all bids and to
waive formalities.
Board of Managers.'
Stephens - County- Hospital
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