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10 THE KANSAS CITY TIMES. THURSDAY. DECEMBER 27. 3051. mu mo simp Campaign in Korea in the Last Four and a Half Months Staged by Allies.

PREVENTS A NEW DRIVE Success of Army, Navy, Marine and Air Force Teamwork Is Revealed by Tokyo. Tokyo, Dec. 27. (Thursday). Far East air forcesi today said relentless Allied aerial attacks of the last four and one-half months had prevented the Communists from massing for a new offensive.

Lieut. Gen. O. P. Wevland, Far East air forces said in a special communique that the aerial bombardment had shattered the Reds' rail- system in North Korea.

He also said the campaign, known as had probably destroyed or dam-j aged 40.000 trucks which the Reds pressed into service to take some of the load from their battered rail network. On With the Campaign. Wevland said the air campaign would continue the tactical situation or cease-fire agreements dictate a change. The operation was mapped by the army, navy, air force and marines and approved by General Matthew B. Ridgway, supreme United Nations commander.

The navy concentrated on the east coast rail system. The 5th air orce was assigned the western rail system running south to the front from Pyongyang. the North Korean capital. B-29 Superforts of the FEAF bomber command concentrated on -key rail bridges, railwayi yards and airfields. The marines struck both at transport targets) and in close support of ground' forces.

Wevland said the success of the operation forced the Communists to increase anti-aircraft guns along Red supply routes. These, he added, took considerable of fighter bombers. A HOLIDAY VISIT TRAGIC FARMER SLAIN BY BROTHER ONi LEAVE FROM HOSPITAL. Nevada Hospital Patient Throws Coffee in Face of Tom Crawford. Mansfield.

Then RHIs Him With Shotgun. Mansfield, Dec. Tom Crawford, 36-year-old farmer, was killed today by a brother, home on holiday leave from state hospital No. 3 at Nevada. Frank Grable, coroner, said members of the family named the brother, Ralph Crawford, 45, as the slayer.

The shooting took place at the of the father, Benton Crawford, about ten miles northwest of here. Members of the family, the coroner said, related that Ralph Crawford tosseo a cup of hot coffee in his face at breakfast: table, then went and returned with a shotgun. One charge struck Tom Crawford in the left side of the; chest. Then, the coroner said, the slayer broke the stock of weapon on his head. Dr.

Paul Barone, medical supervisor at the Nevada hospital, HAIL RECREATION the, little personal needs of those FUN CENTER HAS APPROVAL OFiwho refuge at TRAILER CITY RESIDENTS. Trailer City from the destruction of the flood, McCaffrey be- 4.4 Of that organized Make. Proposal by the lion progiam is their most Soropiimist ciuh One With pressing need. Real Promise. Although families still are moving in.

and the task of ma.in- 800 trailers is one Nine hundred boys and girt. Mnished MrCaffrev are a lot of children -especially; said Trailer cjty has in trailers in the winter to a period of relative I And a long cold walk the hill from Trailer City to the Argentine Parish house and a long walk back. Nursery Also Is Needed. Now that the novelty of trailer HAPPY THAT THEIR SON soon may be freed. Mr.

and Mrs. King Leo Elam look at a picture of Sergt. James A. Elam of Kingsland, one of the four United States airmen interned in Hungary. the said Mrs.

Elam when informed yesterday that the sergeant soon may be released. Elam was radio operator aboard the plane which landed in iron-curtain territory. The United States has agreed to pay the $120,000 in fines imposed on the airmen. With the Elams is another son, Sidney Elam, 12 Yet the nearest indoonlife has worn off. The crowded recreation facility now are beginning tft to the estimated children liv-'make themselves felt.

The chil- ing at Trailer City. So the need someplace to go or- thusiasric response of where they can play to the special Trailer City more abandon than in their reation center fund comes as no own compact homes. There is surprise to anyone. also need for a day nursery for Bovs and girls and their par- working mothers, ents talked excitedly yesterday Several outdoor playgrounds afternoon about the community are being planned for next sum- building promised by the Sorop- mer by the trailer trustees and timist club fund-raising drive, jthe city recreation commission. must be real nice indoor quarters for the a mother of three schooll ious recreation activities are said.

needed now. wish I could give some Carl Marquez, a special poiice- monev another woman man assigned to the Trailer City remarked. I can afford patrol, described the proposed to community building as the one i Although the drive began only thing which would do most to said Ralph Crawford was WOumS 4 SOI.IHK«.ichristma* eve when fire week' and 8,1,1 has 8 atmosphere of nor. a Christmas parole December ihe nlare to go toward the goal of ap- mal living. A FROZEN LAKE AND A CHEERY FIRE are the ingredients used by these three Wyandotte high school studeYits to mix an evening of fun and wintry beauty on the ice- covered Big Eleven lake in Kansas City, Kansas.

Warming themselves by the huge campfire are Anna Lee and Helen Munjak. twin daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Michael Munjak, 319 Tauromee avenue, and Boh Brenner, son of Mr. and Mrs.

H. H. Brenner of 3013 North Twenty-first street. Hundreds of skaters dotted the lake last night. The surface was cleared of its snow covering by park employees.

Stops at the fire were frequent in the nippy temperature (Kansas City Star the place Twenty-four elderly patients. to go toward tne goal ot approximately $5.000. both the chilv need an organized of thpm bedfast" were dren and adults at Trailer program tokeepup their are making plans for extensive'morale until they can get back use of the building. into the normal pattern of They talk about the recreation Marquez said, center as if it were actually un- 10. He said Crawford was ad-) Victim in Korea is A.

A milled to the hospital in Sep-j qua of Kansas City, tern her 1947 Members of the familv said CPL Trinqual, they had hidden all firearms in 22, has been wounded in action erne Starmer, chief of detec- the house, but had not hidden in Korea, his parents, Mr. said at-year- the shotgun, because they be- August A. Trinqual, coing of rhe home I der 'construction nd nearing, FIRE DESTROYS A HOUSE. Pamh" fVawforH 4701 EaSl street, he had some trunks, and completion, instead of being only fort to esrane after thl nolitied- He wrote iof using malches to search a bright vision at this time. They ing He hid thp shotcun behind rbem recently that he wasjthrough ihem.

Starmer said the have the same faith as club a dresser in a bedroom Mem- wounded December 6 when bits related rhai he dropped one women sponsoring the project hers of the family tied him up from an exploding hand grenadeimatch in a trunk and that some that such a great need will noi rion at Englewood road and highland called the stale highway thrown into his machine-gun papers caught fire, but he beat be denied. way ciav County, was patrol. The slayer was taken to nest became lodged in his the flames. To Fill a Great Need. srroved by fire yesterday after- the county seat at Hartville.

Corporal Trinqual a 11 ndi The man was released after, The building would provide an noon. North Kansas City fire- Ruift 111 Clay County. A frame home under Most Missouri Highways Are Thawed Out. similar mis- Jefferson City, Dec. Some state highways were still covered with solid ice today, but most roads are thawed out.

the State Highway department reported. Most dangerous driving conditions were in the Jefferson City division, Warren, Carroll, recent spectacular build- Schuyler, Randolph, up of MIG jet and Linn counties, and most of tivity can be taken as a direct the Hannibal division, reflection of the degree to which Here is the report by divis- the enemy is being hurt by jGns: operation he added. St. Joseph Few scattered spots of ice in towns and protected areas. 1 ice in Schuyler.

Randolph, Macon and Linn counties. Remainder of division had scattered bad spots. Hannibal Knox and Clark counties normal. Remainder cov- fighter of ours they nave snot ered -w-jtj-, tce The buildup, however, made daylight attacks by Superforts more costly." and the seflights now are made by night. these attacks have prevented the Communists from putting into operation new jet airfields at Namsi.

Taechon and Saam- cham. some ninety miles fcouth of the Yalu river, boundary be- some to.ooo Troops tween Korea and Manchuria. Moving to Burma, Wevland said the Red build-up was unable to deny us use of the north of the Chongchon Cole, who heads a sion to Thailand. is the Red broadcast continued, transportation of the first batch of Northeast and Central highiquestionmg. Poli ce said they pjay area for children ofmen were called but were schools.

He joined the armvjwere certain he had no criminal various ages, space for square- able to save the building. A CRASH SURVIVOR RAINS. His Wife and Another Couple thirteen months ago and hasjintent. Killed in Collision. by the end of KEEP ROI NR ON TURNPIKE.

Western F.x tension of Sn per high way Is Opened. Ml SSI NR RARY IS FOUND. lyoss Ratio of 6 to 1. The air force commander maintained that we have de- stroved six MIGs for every Kansas roads" in La- last favette. Raw Johnson.

Pettis and Pitichnroh Saline counties have scattered to heavy spots of Ice. Others near normal, except Carroll Countv, which is covered with solid ice. Jefferson roads covered with ice except Camden and Maries counties. ice in Warren Cotinty; bad spots in St. Charles Countv: others normal.

dancing, community singing, va-. Bill Cliff, fireman, said been in Korea since May. Police and fire department of- rj. shows and otlier rP0- kerosene heater being used by Cnrin.fi.iH oo.o Other Ml souri casualitiesjficials said that just two weeks! activities, a meeting, workmen in the house apparent- Spi ingiield. Dec.

listed by the Defense depart- ago the operator of the home was 70000 of hanriit rhianc iRai Wilbani R. Mathis, 45. of ment: to remove heavy screens sheki tioons will be completed ok sole survivor of a KiUei lfrom the windows and wooden Christmas day highway Sergt. Roy c. Desoain.

son of Mr. gates at the head of each stair dent fatal to his wife and an- Mrs- Alfred R. Despair. Rush- "vvav They said these precau vlDe wounded and re- Other couple, was reporten turned to dutv). itions prevented loss of life, somewhat improved today.

Pfc. Raloh M. Ozbun. son of Authorities at thp Rnrpp hnc. Powell.

Csvssville. Aurnonues at tne Kutge nos-, sergt. William E. Tomlinson, pital here said Mathis suffered son of Mr. and Mrs.

William E. sheriff Learns Robert Pittsburgh. Dee. 6 1 AP 1 Mo- multiple fractures and Pryor, In AMIene. tor traffic had a clear run from He is CpI.

Bobbl. ofl received ves.erdav lv improved, but still a cnti- Mrs. vernadeen Lane Navior Word was received yesieioay the outskirts of Philadelphia to condition Wotmiid bv Ellsworth Edwards. Wyan- those who most appreciates the. ihe Ohio border today.

The west- wife. Mrs. Edith Pic Vernon L. Butts, son of Mr. dotte County sheriff, that a 1- proposed recreation ern extension of the 327-mile May Mathis, 37, and Mrs.

Laura Kansas City, Kansas, Pennsylvania turnpike was Burks. 49. of Fordland, i Keith Finney, sheibina. baby had been located in Abi- opened. died almost instantly yesier- injured.

lene. Kas. John Doe warrants mi whon thoir mot liosri- T.oiin L. of; for five Dersons named as ab- The new 57-mile stretch of su- meT, cats neaa: Mrs. Eva g.

Cravne. Lamar. per highway formally twelve southeasi of Missing in Action. doctors had been issued in Springfield on U. S.

60. Mrs. cpi Harold L. Durbin, son of Mr Wyandotte County. month, extends from thf husband.

Otto. 57. died Mrs. a Durbin. Catron.

The baby, Robert Pryor, interchange near ai a hospital here four hours! iv tti son of Robert Pryor, 641 State place for youth groups, and lv exploded. The house was many other functions of a 2.000- about 75 per cent completed, and person settlement. was being constructed by a real With a population larger than estate development company, many incorporated cities in Kan-; sas. Trailer City has no com-; munitv building. The nearest! thing to that necessity is the lil- tle trailer office of William McCaffrey, manager.

McCaffrey himself is one of center. or to Wear from 52.50 J. B. SIMPSON, INC. AVE.

Monroeville to a point near Pet- ershurg, Ten miles more of) the extension, from Irwin to the Pittsburgh interchange, a opened August 7. MATCHES IN ATTIC SEARCH SHREVEPORT and Return 19.95 Holiday Death Foil Climbs to a Record 789. TO CIRCUIT CLERK POST. i Siniih Names Fstel Hardy Shelby County. Jefferson City, Dec.

I Estel T. Hardy of Sheibina. San Francisco, D.ec. 26.I.AP» "as appointed by Gov. Forrest The Peiping radio today al- today as circuit clet'k of river, which flows about forty leged the U.

miles north of Pyongyang. SouthjWas ferrying 70.000 Chinese Na Area Group Fleets H. Meiner? of Leavenworth. Palmyra, Dec. Funeral services will he held here tomorrow afternoon for the Rev.

C. M. Gray, 87, who died Monday in Columbia, where he had been living with relatives. The Methodist minister once served as president of Marvin college in Fredericktown, an institution no longer in operation. Seventh fleet Hardy, who previously had of ihe river 'we still rontro the air.

cieiK. leptaten M. Landrum the waY 10 North Burma of Shelbyville. who re- TO HOSPITAL COUNCIL HELM, carry out large-scale disturb- signed. Both are Democrats.

ances against our The Chinese Communist broad- PARLEY AT BOEING TODAY. cast, heard here by the Associ-j Wichita, Dec. Re- Hpnry Meiners, administra- ateri Press, gave no source and sumption of discussions be- tor of Cushing Memorial hns- was without confirmation. The tween management of the Boe- nital Leavenworth, fleet was assigned at ing Airplane curt0H of the outbreak of thp Korean war it a division and officials of the was plcctprt prcsinem of the heUvppn NationaJjs1 Associa1ion ol Kansas City Area Hospital coun- Formosa and the Red mainland. Machinists, A.

F. is sched- cil at a meeting at the Josep The Red broadcast said it is uleri for tomorrow afternoon at hospital. learned that two U. S. generals Boeing plant No.

2. Other officers: met with the Nationalists at Sister Francis Claire, administrator Taipeh, Formosa. November 13 of St. Marvs hospital first vice- tranc Dr. Bervl I.

Burns, com- ann to provide trans- missioner of hospitals, second vice- port at ion for Nationalists sol- oresident; Gilbert O. Lindgren, ad- dfrom Formosa To Burma minister of Trinitv Lutheran hos- pital. secretary; Sister It named them as Maj. Gen. assistant administrator of the St William C.

Chase, head of the Joseph hospital, treasurer, and Miss it Milirarv in uw Edith Wingett R. Miiirary mission to or- of rhe Memorial hosDital. Lexington, mosa. and Brig. Gen.

John T. and C. Steacv Pickell. business' manager of municipal hospitals here. trustees.

ROOK Ell IN HIT-RIN CASE. City. Kansas. Pnlirp Arrest Leonard Martin, 4t. Leonard C.

Martin, 41, of 3107 Newton street. Johnson County, was hooked last night at Kansas City. Kansas, police headquarters on charges of careless driving and leaving the scene of an accident, in connection with a hit-run injury suffered Monday night by Norman Charles. Negro. 18.

of 1031 Summit street, Kansas City, Kansas. Charles, suffering a head injury. was admitted to the University of Kansas Medical Center, unconscious. His condition was said last night to be good. The accident occurred in the 1100 block on Southwest boulevard.

A witness provided police with a license number and Jess Boring, a patrolman, reached Martin last, night by telephone. He surrendered at the city hall. Martin told police he was not driving his car at the time of the accident. He said it had been stolen for a while that night and he lated had been telephoned anonymously that he could find the vehicle at Seventh street and Kansas avenue. He said he had reported it stolen to Kansas City.

police headquarters. Records there showed the report to have been marie twenty minutes after the accident. Martin W'as released on a $300 bond for court appearance January 2 AN ARED MINISTER DIES. The Dev. O.

M. Gray Once President of Marvin College. i By the Associated Press, The accidental death toll dim bed to a record of 789 over the 4-dav Christmas holiday, hut the traffic fatalities total below expectalions. The violent death toll during the holiday from 6 Friday afternoon to midnight Tuesday compared with a previous record total of 761 for the 4-day Christmas holiday of 1936. The traffic total of 335.

however. was well below a prediction of 600 made by the National Safety council. It also was lower than the 535 traffic fatalities counted during the 4-day record period of 1936. Heavy snow which hampered driving in the Mid-West was believed to have been partly responsible for the lower than expected traffic toll. avenue, was reported in good Former Rest Home Patient Says; condition.

Members of He Halted Fire, Hmveter, family said he w'as in Sacra- St. Joseph Mo Dec API mento. attending Police said today a former 1 ot relative- and had tient at the Idle Hour rest home instructed Abilene authorities not to press charges in a belief had admiited using matches in other relatives of the baby iooking through an old trunk on had taken over his care. ansas ity Plus Federal Tax hriftrip Chair Car ClfY TICKET OMICI 114 W. YEAR END Furniture Sale save up to 70Vr in greatest Year End Furniture Sale: 4 big floors of bargains in living room, bedroom, dining room and breakfast room sutes and odd pieces; space does not permit listing all items; below are a few typical examples of the hundreds of Bargains.

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