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The Los Angeles Times from Los Angeles, California • 23

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RETREAT OF MARINES SHOWN IN KTTV FILM LogSttgffcsCimcs2 Tuesday. dec 23 HOLIDAY STORE HOURS: MONDAY THROUGH THURSDAY, 9:30 to 9:00 First Pictures of Bloody Withdrawal in Korea Exhibited in East Over New York Station New York Kew NEW YORK, Dec. 18 The first films of the bloody retreat of the U.S. Marines from the Changjin reservoir in Korea a 50-mile battle to the sea in sub-zero weather against 83,000 Chinese Reds were shown tonight by tele Pauley Protest Made on Sale of 19 life-size Mf fJ built-in FM 3L A 'o with Ur Vte) Jiff "HANOVER" I 1 I i -r One of Dumont's new Big Picture Scries, it's vision Station WFIX. Called by experts most dramatic pictures to come out of the Korean war so the scenes were filmed by Cameraman Charles Di Sora for Los Angeles TV Station KTTV, which has a reciprocal film agreement with WPIX.

Released under the title "Gethsemane 195Q," the film sequences also picture on-the-spot film-sound interviews with several marine heroes, including Gen. Oliver W. Smith, commander of the 1st Marine Division. Haggard after his troops fought an all-night fight to scale a 4000-foot pass on the route to the sea, Smith grimly declared: "It was an outstanding job. We had to fight our way all the way up and part of the way down.

Things to ease up a bit We have damaged those people considerably." Backdrop of Shooting As the general, speaks, the sound equipment records a back drop of machine-gun fire, cannon and the scream of jet planes at tacking hill installations nearDy. There are many other scenes shown in the 420-foot film saga-long lines of marine wounded nwaitinsf aerial evacuation, long er lines of leathernecks waiting for medical treatment for painful frosthite or minor wounds the arrival of Christmas par cels parachuted from rescue planes a terse description of a Chinese ambush' of American wounded by the one remaining survivor, a lieutenant. Not Defeated And the forceful assertion of a marine colonel: "We have not been defeated and there are a lot of Chinese who are going to wish they had never seen the UJS. marines in this part of the country. Marine Pfc Joe Macchiarole, 20, tells how he is "not exactly urmiTided'' because the shell that carried away his helmet and part of a skull cap "only sent my head spinning." Joe talks while his wounded, year-old brother Tony occupied a stretch er close by.

KTTV Korea Retreat Film Showing Today Charles' Di Soria's dramatic films of the Korean retreat, 'Gethsemane 1950," were first shown over Television Station KTTV here last Sunday. By popular demand, the film will be reshown by KTTV at 6:30 p.m. today. Di Soria, staff cameraman for The Times-KTTV Newsreel, has been filming the Korean war since early August. He is now en route to Los Angeles for.

a leave. Bill Parks of the newsreel staff edited the film and wrote the narration. superiority is based on electronic design that looks toward the future, with better parts and assemblies, -X i 1 cabinetry of lasting beauty. And the exciting Life-Size telepictures, brilliant, sharp, steady, must i Don Lee Stock By a Times Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON'. Dec IS The risht of the Federal Communi cations Commission to ratify the proposed sale of controlling in-; tprest in the Don Lee Network! has been challenged by Edwin Faulev.

prominent los An geles industrialist, it was learned hprp toriav. Pauley, who headed a syndi-i cate that made a rejected ma for the Lee radio holdings, has told the FCC that Federal laws will be violated if control of- the Lee properties is transferred to the General Tire Rubber Co. of Akron. Sys'tem The General Tire group made a revised bid. compliance with commission rules, for the Lee System stock.

The Pauley group challenged the commission order reauiring competi-i tive bids for radio broadcasting; properties. Sale of Lea stocK to tne ak-s rnn svndicate would cive Gener al Tire control of the Mutual Broadcasting System, according, to the Pauley protest. This i would result from the fact that the Yankee Network fa chain of stations in New England) owns 10 of MBS and the Lee organization has an equal share. The Akron concern controls the Yankee Network. The MBS bylaws specify that no individual can hold more than 25 of the stock.

The Pauley group said the proposed sale would violate other regulations and laws. Television Channels In a long petition to the FCC, the oilman's attorney noted that television channels cannot be! transferred from one person to another, that the Lee system, ovpr was fina llv authorized to mm use Channel 2 in the Los Angeles VL area and that 'the commission never has passed on the Lee ap-j plication for a television channel in San Francisco. The protest pointed out that thp Gpneral Tire offer approved' by California courts would lead to paying- in rent nearly tnree: mp thp valnp of the building in which the Don Lee system is housed. The structure cost oniy $2,100,000 but the proposal be-fnrp the FCC for approval calls for payment of $5,200,000 in Pauley lawyers poimea ouu i The Pauley group, which uses the name of Television California, protested that there are i many other irregularities con-; nected with the proposed sale; to General Tire. All of these! should be heard by the commis-; sion, the protest said.

with Hershey today on recom-: menuations resulting trom inese studies. No objections to the proposals were raised. Hershey said at the close of the meeting that he believes the whole issue should be brought hp fore Cdneress before any changes are made in the present regulations. They defer students until the end of the college year for which they are enrolled. Committee reports discussed today That students be given classi fication tests to measure their intelligence or abilities.

For their freshman year they would have to make a satisfactory score, determined by the Selec tive Service director, to De ae- ferred. To keen a student in college beyond his freshman year college officiate would have to certify that he is a competent student. GORDON GRAY BAWLED OUT FOR GOOD DEED CHAPEL HILL, N.C, Dec. 15 (jp) The man brought the bundle of newspapers in-the soda shop and pitched it onto the counter, accidentally knocking other papers to the floor. "What's the matter with you?" stormed a clerk.

"I'm sorry, I'll pick them up," the man replied. Later the scarlet-faced clerk learned that the man Gordon Gray, former Secretary of the Army and new president of the University of North Carolina here. The regular carrier was sick. Gray's son had promised to pinch hit. but became ill himself.

So the university president became carrier for the day. be seen to be believed! Traditional mahogany cabinet with FM, and plug-in for record player. Radio mni TUvUion Fifth Flor STU DENT DRAFT SYSTEM HINGES ON COLLEGE TEST is -r Include Federal excite us. InvilUnon md wucsnry cstra, may be included in credit term. VI lj All your 33Vt Long-Playing records on COLUMBIA ATTACHMENTS Automatic Model Here is splendid reproduction through your radio or television set, for albums and single records, with as Ion? as four hours of continuous music from one load of 12" records.

17.95 Manual Model Neat and compact, it also plays all sizes of 33 VS rpm records when attached to your present radio or television set; small enough to be put WASHINGTON, Dec. 18 UP) An advisory group set up by Draft Director Hershey today recommended a system of deferring students according to their intelligence and abilities. Six committees have been at work almost two years studying the problem of how to keep the Army supplied with draftees and at tne same time maintain a reservoir of talent in college training to take over positions in scientific research and other vital fields. More than 200 leaders of scientific, educational, news and other activities attended a conference Richards Plans Blow at Bias DETROIT. Dec.

IS V-Radio Station Owner G. A. Richards plans to establish advisory councils for his three stations to guard against bias in news broadcasts, his attorney saia today- Atty. Hugh Fulton made the statement at a Federal Communications Commission hearing. At stake in the hearing are the licenses of Richards' three stations WJR in Detroit.

KMPC in Los Angeles and WGAR in Cleveland. The FCC has charged that Richards instructed newscasters to slant the news in accordance with his own beliefs. The hearing, which began last March, is expected to end this week. Fulton said the advisory councils will include five to seven men for each station. They will revipw podv over a period of turie and will not censor each- script, he said.

Fulton also said Richards is withdrawing a petition filed April IS. 1949, asking for a trusteeship to operate his three Cm beside pur instrument 12.95 iMtit m4 FhM.9r.pl1s or in a drawer. fifth fr I fill il wmmv SEVENTH, CXANO AND HOPS MUTUAL O33J.

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