The Key West Citizen Newspaper, October 3, 1952, Page 8

Pose 8 ‘THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Friday, October 3, 1952 HAL BOYLE SAYS By HAL BOYLE NEW YORK The war in Ko- rea has become /a political issue here at home. But it is still a life-and-death matter to the American soldiers over there fighting in what some feel is a forgotten laboratory of battle. The politics of it all inter- ests them less than the grim sta- tistics of survival, What is it like — their day-to-day existence on ‘a so-called static front” in the bare-boned terrible hills? Mauldin gives one of the din in Korea,” a series of a’ brief-vignettes of what is coming to be known as “World War Two- | And-A-Half.” Mauldin writes through the eyes @f Joe, the younger of his famous doughboy team of the doe graduates from high sche after five years under the GI Bi "gnd immediately gets a job as a war correspondent. He tells about what he found in Korea in letters home to his old buddy, Willie. “It’s worse now becaus ~ on a dirty patrol and never ws if they're going to sign a truce five minutes after he starts out, so he's maybe wasting his time,” Joe writes. Somewhat fo his surprise he finds the chow is better in this war— two hot meals a day even in the front lines—and morale is higher in the infantry than in the rear areas because the rotation system will enable the forward fighter to go home in nine months instead of i. There is very little griping, and @ sergeant explains it to Joe this way: “No matter what kind of a job you are doing in these mountains, you can find somebody a lot worse Joe is also startled when a group of Navy pilots return to their car- rier “to see the sun bouncing off so many bald heads. “A pretty big chunk of this war fs being fought by guys who carry Pockets full of pictures of their wives and kids while they bounce on the deck in an airplane shot full of holes. “] don’t think very many of them like it, but they seem pretty good natured about it, . . .most of them say pretty much the same thing— that they’ er fight a war here 's in their own back "s book is a fine eyewit- ness primer for the home folks in PEARL 170 pages. I only wish that his own pulpit and legislature in Ameri as a tribute to the frustrated s diers who fought and still fight there. This is it: “The combat man in Korea | fights under the dreariest con tions and against the worst kind o! odds. He looks forward to few of the little compensations American soldiers could expect in previous wars. He fights a battle in which his best friends get killed and if an account of the action appears at in his home town paper, it ap- pears on page 17 under a Lux ad. “There won't be a victory parade for his return because he'll come home quietly and alone, on rota- tion, and there's no victory in the old-fashioned sense, anyway, be- ind of war. grinding, lonely, bitched-up war, but he goes on fighting in it, not happy, but in good spirit, not in a frenzy of hatred against an enemy which as pitiful as it is vicious, but eff ciently and with purpose. “In the minds of many people the phrase ‘professional soldier’ has a stigma very much like ‘pro- fessional politician.’ It implies cyn- ical and mercenary motives. Yet soldiering is as necessary and legi- timate a profession, in a world i makes war, as are pol tics in a world which still needs nal army for what may be the first time in our his- have reason to be grateful for it in the years ahead.” Two Fires Quelled Tn Rain Thursday Firefighters were called out twice at the height of yesterday's torr- ential rainfall to fight small blazes. Shortly after noon, firemen from the Number Three station rushed to the home of Robert B. Russell at 1231 South Street after lightning had started a small fire in an elec- tric stove. Damage was slight. One and Three stations answered an alarm from the Thompson Dock where a blaz had started in a pile of excelsior in a storehouse. The fire was extinguished before extensive damage resulted. 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War Roundup By ROBERT B. TUCKERMAN SEOUL, Korea (®—Maj. Fred- erick C. Blesse, the top U. S. jet ace in Korea, bailed out of F86 Sabre jet today after shooting down a Russian-built MIG15 over North Korea. | _ He was rescued from the Yellow Sea a few minutes later and re- turned safely to his base. Blesse bagged one of three MIGs | downed today and ran his total to 10 kills, one probable and three damaged. Blesse’s plane ran out of gas en route to his home base. He was icked up by Lt. Harry D. Seigler of Tampa, Fla., pilot of an am- phibian plane, In addition to the three MIGs destroyed today, the.U. S. Air {Force reported four Red planes damaged. On the ground, Chinese Reds | stormed through the searing heat lof Allied flame throwers and seized four hills in bloody hand to | hand fighting last night and today. U.N. infantrymen recaptured one of the positions this afternoon. The entire Western Front erupt- ed in fierce fighting last night as the Reds hurled more than 1,000 trodps against Allied positions. U. S, Eighth Army headquarters said the Reds captured two ad- vance positions south of the truce conference town of Panmunjom and a third hill north of Korangpo. A frontline officer said the Chinese seized another hill in the Panmun- jom sector. On the Central Front, South Ko- rean infantrymen recaptured Wire | Hill after days of bitter fighting. The height, east of the Pukhan Riv- er, was captured by Chinese Reds Monday. Eleven B29 Superforts from Ja- pan and Okinawa last night dumped 100 tons of bombs on the Red supply center at Pongchong. The previously untouched target on the important west coast rail ine is one of about 70 where civi- | ians have been forewarned. HOLLYWOOD, NOTES By BOB THOMAS HOLLYWOOD —“Here I am carving out an entirely new career in middle age. And all because my wife gave me a guitar for | Christmas.” Preston Foster talking. The same guy who has been playing heroes and heavies in movies for two de- cades. He now confesses to bein on the “shady side of my 40s” (okay, so he's 50), and he’s doing a great business as a live per- former, “Four years ago, my wife gave me a guitar for Christmas,” he explained. “I had fun learning to play it and would sing along to ac- company myself. I always thought | my wife (actress Sheila Darcy) had a good voice when she sang in the car, so I got her to sing with me. “We started collecting folk songs by listening to the records of Burl Ives, Susan Reed, Leadbelly and others. We sang them at parties and people seemed to like it. Then I made a picture for Bob Lippert | called ‘I Shot Jesse James’ and was going to San Francisco for the premiere. “I didn't want to do the usual spiel of ‘I hope you enjoy the picture as much as we enjoyed some folk songs. An agent hap-| pened to catch our act and offered | to book us around the country.” It all started as a lark, but has turned into a highly profitable en- terprise for the Fosters. They have just returned from playing | such dates as the Wisconsin State | Fair and the Portland, Ore., Auto Show. “We play anything from con- certs to night clubs,” the actor remarked. “Sometimes the audi- ences amaze us. We played a date in Atkinson, Neb., where the popu- lation is listed at 1 500. There were Foster thanks his movie reputa- tion for the amazing draw. “Even when you stop at a gas station out in the middle of nowhere, ve find people know you from pictures,” he remarked. “And it’s surprising what they remember. 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