The Abilene Reporter-News (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 71, No. 184, Ed. 2 Monday, December 24, 1951 Page: 10 of 48
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General Dean Saved Last Bullet
>IXin braders send IUF-A Abilene, Texas, Monday Evening, Dec. 24, 1951
For Self, Was Captured by Ruse
PANMUNJOM, Korea, Dec. 24.
(n—Maj. Gen William F Dean,
long-missing commander of the
U. S 24th Division, told s Com-
munist correspondent be saved his
last bullet to kill himself rather
than he captured — but that the
Beds caught him through a ruse.
The correspondent. Wilfred Bur-
ehett, 40, of the Paris newspaper ‘
Ce Soir. said he interviewed Dean
three days ago in a prison eamp
near Pyongyang, Korean Red cap-
ltol.
Pictures of Dean, given AP Cor-
respondent Robert B. Turkman by
Burchett, were identified positive-
ly by Mrs. Dean at her Berkeley,
Calif., home Radioed .to the
United States the pictures were
moved on the A P wirephoto net-
work.
’That’s my husband, all right,”
said Mrs Dean, crying happily
"There’s no doubt about it. It’s just
wonderful to see him. Anyone who
ever loses faith must remember
this situation about General Dean.
“What he came through allows
what human endurance can
stand.”
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Dean, a Congressional Medal of
Honor winner, was listed as mis-
sing for 17 months before his
name sppeared on the Communist
war prisoner list.
Burchett gave thla account of
his interview with Dean:
Dean was fighting alongside his
men at Taejon, July 20. 1950, when
Russian-equipped North Korean
tank columns were sweeping into
South Korea.
The husky general, then 51, bat-
tled his way out of a road block
in flaming Taejon, after ordering
his men not to surrender. He
helped carry wounded men to
safety.
Then, Burchett said, Dean wan-
dered for a month in the hills—
without food for 20 days. Injured
and sick, he lost 60 pounds. Dean
was surrounded six times, but
each time eluded the Reds *
During those agonizing daya. he
saved and carefully polished his
last 12 bullets. Burchett quoted
him:
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"I was absolutely determined
never to become a prisoner of
war. I was determined to kill 11
North Koreans. The 12th bullet
was for me.”
But near Chinan, some 30 miles
of Taejon, Dean was sheltered and
fed by two Koreans. They be-
trayed him when North Korean
soldiers closed in. Dean drew his
gun, but one of his "friends”
grabbed bis arm before he could
shoot.
SHOULDER BROKEN
Dean’s left shoulder had been
broken in a fall while he wan try-
ing to elude the Reds He suf-
fered from dysentery or an acute
stomach ailment and finally ma-
laria.
Burchett said Dean regained his
health last September and now
weighed about 180 pounds. The cor-
respondent said he and Dean talked
for three hours in a two-room cely
lar in which the general la Im-
prisoned
Burchett alleged that Allied
planes attacked the camp during
the Interview
He said Dean asked about Mrs,
Dean end his son and daughter
In Berkeley and told Burchett that
his thoughts were of home on Aug.
25 — marking one year of his
capture and also his 25th wedding
anniversary.
In Berkeley, Mrs. Dean con-
firmed the date of their wedding
anniversary. Another corroborating
detail was that Burchett said Dean
recalled that his daughter, in her
last letter to him In June, 1950,
joshed him about getting a "Ger-
man goiter" — family nickname
for a potbelly.
Mrs. Dean said Burchett’s quo-
tations sounded like her husband.
WASHINGTON, Dee. 24 V—The
Internal Revenue Bureau, beset by
scandal in the midst of collecting
more than 60 Milton dollars this
year, has received $4 from an un-
expected source.
The sixth grade of the C. Russell
Wilkerson School in El Monte,
Calif., sent the $4 which it won in
a Parent-Teacher Association Mem-
bership drive.
In a ecrawled letter with 33
pencilled signatures, the students
wrote:
"We voted to give the money to
the Department of Internal Re-
venue to help the boys’ in Korea.
It is not much money, but we hope
that it will be of some use to them "
Revenue Commissioner John B
Dunlap, replying to the students’
letter, said he found difficulty
"finding the proper words to ex-
press to you the appreciation I
feel for your very thoughtful and
patriotic letter " he added:
"I can not advise you just what
use will be made of the money to
the extent of indicating whether it
will be used to help pay for a tank,
a plane or for some other form of
armament to be used at the front.
“I can tell you, however, that
in my opinion America’s * best
guarantee of freedom lies not in its
weapons but in the minds and
hearts of its fine young people such
as yourselves."
"Serenely Full"
(The epicure would say)
“Fate cannot harm me—I have
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The New Zealand Victory arrived
at San Francisco Bay Sunday with
the bodies of 304 Americans who
fell in the fighting in Korea.
From the Oakland Army Base,
bodies of men destined for points
east of the Mississippi River will
be sent home with military escorts.
Bodies of men from cities west
of the Mississippi will be held at
the port mortuary pending instruc-
tions from their next of kin.
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Twas the night before Christmas
and all through the house
Not a present was showing, not
even a blouse.
No stocking was hung: it might
look like a hint .
For favors or gifts. If it got into
print.
The government worker who
lived in the place
Would have to explain till blue
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If neighbors dropped in for a
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And found packages, gifts and
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They’d munch on a cake or dig
into the candy.
And most upon leaving, would
never think twice
About what they had seen, ex-
cept it was nice
That friends and relations were
To express some goodwill with
thia Christmastime, stuff.
But one neighbor who left, out
of many who came,.
Might tell someone else, “Why,
I think it’s a shame,
“The presents he got Just what
did he do
“To get all thla freer I sure
wish that ! knew.
“I’d call up his boss and I’d
tell him. I’d say
ernment pay.’"
So this government worker, who
puts on no airs.
Preferred to keep Santa Claus
safely upstairs.
The toys for the children were
under the bed;
The new hat for his wife was
out in the abed.
He’d take it up late. It would
be a surprise.
And, besides, it would frustrate
the gossipy guys.
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The Abilene Reporter-News (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 71, No. 184, Ed. 2 Monday, December 24, 1951, newspaper, December 24, 1951; Abilene, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1648763/m1/10/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Abilene Public Library.