Gladewater Daily Mirror (Gladewater, Tex.), Vol. 4, No. 134, Ed. 1 Wednesday, December 24, 1952 Page: 1 of 25
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VOL. IV, NO. 134
United Press—(U.P.)
GLADEWATER, TEXAS, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 24. 1952
Station KSIJ—1430 On Your Dial
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OUTNUMBERED TROOPS CRUSH RED ATTACK
Figlitliig Perricone Brothers
Wait For Christmas Leave
REFUSE TO CELEBRATE HOLIDAY
PITTSBURG, Calif., Dec. 24 (U P'
n —The fighting Perricone brothers
I of Beaumont only quadruplets ever
■■ drafted Into the Army, waited at
nearby Camp Stoneman with 2,852
other Korean war veterans
Wednesday for clearance to no.
home for Christmas.
Anthony, Bernard, Carl and
Donald, Beaumont's 23-year-old
“A, B, C, D” quads, docked at San
Francisco from the Far Kast with
Phillips Home
Wins Garden Club
Christmas Award
Winners in the Christmas light-
ing contest, sponsored by the
Gladewater Garden club, were art.
nounced Tuesday afternoon by
Mrs. Clvde Mainer, club president.
The Jack Phillips home on Live
Oak street was awarded first
prise; the Fred Spencer home on
Live Oak. second prize: and the
David Moore and John Ward
homes tied for third prize.
The Phillips home it a scene qf
holiday beauty. Holly, with bright
red berries, entwined in the door
entrance and outlining the den
window. Is brightly lit by many
vart-colored Christmas lights Hid-
ing across the window on a snowy
background is Santa Claus with
his reindeer. In the comer window
is the traditional Christmas tree,
in all its beauty and simplicity.
Special attention was given to
the Christmas window at the Carl
Bruce home; the doors at the Orvn
Ward and Dana Williams home;
the window at the Sammy Price
home. Honorable mention went to
the L. B Paynes, the Jack Hear
rolls, and the Douglas Rcehs.
Judges, who were from Kilgore
and Tyler, considered only non-
profest'lonal decorating as possible
winners
JOINS BAYLOR TEAM
WACO, Dcr 24 (U R>—Oliis He. k,
professional at Ridgewood Coun-
try club and n former Fort Worth
pro, will coach the Baylor Uni-
versity golf team next season.
Bock said he planned to begin
practice matches for Bear links-
men in January
T. W.
I a troopship full of GIs Tuesday.
C'amp Stoneman officers were
I hurrying to get the troops process-
| ed and on their way home in a rcc-
S ord 24 hours.
Officials said they were doing
I everything possible to get the Per-
] ricones and their buddies dis-
charged and homeward bound,
j "We'll do it even if we have to
put them all on planes," one of-
I fleer said.
May Fly Home
It was expected the Pcrricones
would be able to fly to San An-
tonio later Wednesday.
I The quadruplets, who served
with the 73rd Tank Battalion of
! the 7th Division, *aid their civilian
plans called for buying a cattle
! ranch together on the GI bill.
"Down Beaumont w a y, of
course,” Carl drawled. "We’re go-
j ing to run it together."
Carl said there were still some
i problems to Ire ironed out on the
deal but “when we get back to
Texas we’ll all sit down and
j decide what to do.”
A Family Affair
One thing was certain, Carl said,
i “It’ll be a family affair.”
Everything the Perricone broth-
er* have done ao far has been a
“family affair.” They were drafted
together Jan. 8, 1851. and when
Carl was assigned to the tank unit
going overseas, his three brothers
1 vop .teered to accompany him.
..icy spent about eight months
! out of the states although normal-
ly the Army doesn’t allow two
fhombers of the same family in a
I combat unit. The rule was waived
in the quads' case at their request.
“We wanted lo stay together,"
Donald said. "So every time they
tried to separate us we raised
heck."
Anthony and Bernard drove M-
4fi Patton tanks while Carl and
Donald were gunners. Only Carl
and Bernard served in the same
tank team
The quads returned from Korea
iinseratched, but Anthony and Carl
had their tanks blown out from
under them by mines.
Bernard said he "had the hell
scared out of me by shots that
came as close as they could with-
t out being hits " But Donald admit-
ted he was lucky and had no close
calls.
The Pcrricones had only two
things not in common. Carl was a
! staff sergeant and the others were
corporals. Donald is the only mar-
ried -one. He has a seven-week-old
j daughter, Dona Annette, whom he
I has never seen.
Only Slow Beat Of Shellfire
Breaks Silence On War Front
Chinese Reds Try To Make
Good Boast To Be In Seoul
WESTERN FRONT, Korea, Dec. j
24 (U.P>—Only the slow beat oi j
shellfire broke the silence of the
night before Christmas.
A fragment of moon glanced off)
the dots of snow clinging to shell-.
holes II etched the ragged profile j
of enemy hills 2,000 yards away.
This was I Company—the men |
who (ought the battle of Bunker ,
Hill and The Hook. Wednesday
night they refused to celcbrat.1,
even with what little they had.
But they all remembered.
"Feelings'1" one man said. "I got
no feelings This just isn't Christ- j
mas."
Decorate Christmas Tree
Even so, the company decorated :
a Christmas tree with ornaments i
sent from the United States. It
stood in a shrapnel-ripped tent
which serves as a mess hall.
Sgt. John Hately, 27, of Char- j
lotte, N. C, told how the men had
come to walk by this glittering
symbol of Christmas as if they
could not see It. -
“Just one day ago," he said, "one
of the guys was walking from his
platoon to the command post
across that rice paddy there. .*
round came in and got him.
"They took him to the mess tent
here. We got a doc from the bat-
talion. But the guy was ripped to
pieces. Heed led next to the Christ- j
mas tree. He never said a word."
Put Up Stockings
The tree stands about 4 feet tall, j
just inside the tent (lap Wind
from shrapnel holes in the tent
twist the ornaments. Under the
tree I Company has put Christmas !
stockings.
But many of the men already
have opened their presents. Capt. j
Murray V Harlan, of Kmgstone, j
N ('.. said he opened Ins presents
ns soon as he got them "so 1j
would have everything and every- j
thing would be thanked for "
"1 guess 1 am superstitious."
The company still 'remembers!
the last man to die on the long i
nights of guard duty watching the
enemy.
"UVe heard him whistling,
'There's No Tomorrow'.” said Ken-1
nard Hart of Lawler, Iowa, “and j
out of nowhere the shell lands on i
his head."
They also remembered the lieu-
tenant who was wounded only a
few hours after opening six pack-
ages from home. A large and rapt
group of his men surrounded him
us no unwrapped parcels of cook-
ies, sweets and other delicacies.
"Take what you want of this
chow.” he told the sergeant before
The Spirit of Christmas
By CLARENCE HAWKES
The Blind Poet of Hadley. Mass.
Written for United Press'
There’s a spirit in this season,
There’s a sense of Christmas time
Which transcends our human reason
And outruns the poet’s rhyme;
It’s a sense of truth and duty,
And a thought of brotherhood
Which would fill The earth with beauty,
If we saw it as we should.-
Once again we all arc youthful
As we gather round the tree,
And our hearts grow glad and truthful
'Neath the Christmas mystery;
It is well that we be lowly,
With the blessings on us filled.
Thus will Christmas claim us wholly
As it did the Bethlehem child.
If this Christmas brings not healing.
For the wounds oT all mankind.
Brings rvot kinder, better feeling.
Then the race is surely blind;
Blind to Bethlehem's sweet story
And the wise men from afar,
Blind to all the heavenly glory
Shining in the Bethlehem star.
he was evacuated. “But leave me
the rest, will you?”
Elsewhere in this company, only
a few traces of Christmas could be
seen, each prompted by contacts
with the outside world, rather than
by the men themselves.
An evergreen wreath was nailed
to a shelf along a deep trench line,
j its green branches wound around
j barbed wire. Through the center
! of the wreath hung a miniature
Christmas tree. Hand grenades
were stacked behind it on the
shelf.
Another Tree Sprouts
Another Christmas tree sprouted
i from the top of a nearby bunker,
| decorated with tinfoil from C-
! rations. Cpl. James P. Allan of
Port Arthur, Tex., explained his
j buddy had just gotten a Christmas
[ card from hi6 mother.
"He was sitting there looking at
| it," Allan said. “All of a sudden
j he jumped up and said, ‘I know
what i'm going to do.’ Next thing
I knew there was this Christmas
tree."
Tonight* the men who were not
standing guard- in the trenches
gathered in bunkers to hear Christ-
| mas carol* on the radio. But
• there were only a few radios and
I more than 200 men.
The others sat and talked about
| tilings back home. They remem-
bered aloud to each othei what
. they had done at Christmas time
! in other years.
JUMPS IN WATER
GALVESTON, Dec. 24 (U RV— A
30-year-old woman climbed onto a |
rail around a beachfront fishing i
pier Tuesday, yelled “well, here1
goes." and plunged into the icy
water. Police and ambulance crews
rescued her a few seconds later I
and rushed her to John Scaly Psy-!
chopathie hospital.
The end of the year has
threatened to arrive right away,
and I want to thank all of our
advertisers, subscribers and other
supporters for their business and
interest during 1932.
The Daily Mirror is a unique
paper in as much as its chid in-
terest is to build a prosperous
Gladcw liter.
Todays publication will carry
the greetings of many friends.
When these greetings were writ-
ten, they were not made no care-
lessly; they were carefully thought
through and enrry a real message
of interest and appreciation that
comes from the heart of the in-
dividual.
Gladewittcr is made up of the
finest people In the world and
they arc the reason wc can't live
away from our home town.
I've watched families move
away then return. It isn’t for one
particular reason or another, but
the combination of nil the things
that have found root In the hearts
and minds of our people; in fact.
It la because of the PEOPLE of
Gladewnter.
So Merry Christmas and n good,
good New Year.
Can’t refrain from adding this
little advice I picked up some-
where; “If Uncle Stun and others
will omit sending all statements,
I’ll be much better off come Jan-
uary 1."
My employees will huve a holi-
day tomorrow. There will not be
a paper until Friday.
Crewmen Will Not
Get Usual Leave
NEW YORK. Dec. 24 (U.R)—’The
French luxury liner Libcrtc steams
past the Statue of Liberty Wednes-
day into a port that no longer ex-
tends a wholesale welcome lo peo-
ple from across the sea.
More than a fourth of the Lib-
erte's 974 crew members won’t be
able to get off the ship for their
usual New York shore leave.
The French liner, scheduled for
docking at a Hudson River pier
was the first foreign vessel to ar-
rive in New York since the contro-
versial McC’arrnn-WnltcY immigra-
tion law became effective at mid-
night.
At seaport, international airports
and border crossing points around
the nation, U. S. Immigration
Service officers began a tight cur-
tailment of entry privileges under
the new law, which was attacked
bitterly by both presidential candi-
dates In the recent election.
At New York's IdWewild interna-
tional airport immigration authori-
ties were standing by to put alien
crew members of foreign planes
through a screening that could
force some of them to spend their
American layover In detention on
Ellis Island.
The now law made no major
change in requirements for for-
eigners coming to the United States
as tourists or temporary visitors.
Under the old laws they had to de-
clare they were not subversive and
were not entering the country to
commit illegal acts.
The McCiirran-Walter act was
passed over President Truman’s
veto last June by a Congress anx-
ious to revise outdated immigra-
tion and naturalization laws and
at the same time make the coun-
try safer from Communist spies
and other aliens of undesirable
character.
vetopment, a Mirror staff member took this shot, in the hope that It will show readers a little of the lake progress.
SEOUL, Dec. 24 (U.R)—UN troops
outnumbered 10 to one, Wednes-
day crushed with staggering losses
the first attempt by Chinese Reds
to make good the Communist boast
to be “in Seoul by Christmas."
The Reds aimed their first maj-
or attempt to punch a hole in the
United Nations defenses guarding
the historic invasion gateway to
Seoul at T-Bone Hill, on the west
central front.
An estimated 1.000 fanatic Chi-
nese were hurled into the assault.
Allied machine guns, artillery
and rifles chewed Communist at-
tackers to bits as they surged up
the icy slopes of T-Bone Hill
screaming, “Kill, Kill, Kill.”
Front line reports said the first
wave of 200 Chinese was virtually
“killed off."
Wavas of Radi Mowed Down
Suceeding waves of Reds were
similarly mowed down in savage
hand-to-hand fighting which rock-
ed the UN positions for four hours,
and by heavy and “particularly ef-
fective" United Nations artillery
support
An oiticer of the defending UN
division reported that the attack
was repulsed with "very heavy
Red losses."
The Christmas Eve attack ex-
ploded suddenly and mushroomed
rapidly into the heaviest Red as-
sault since Dec. 11, when Chinese
forces captured Little Nori Hill in
the same sector of the front. Unit-
ed Nations infantrymen snatched
back the Red prize two days later.
United Nations officers prompt-
ly interpreted Thursday's savage
assault as the opening move in
Communist efforts to fulfill their
way into the battered South Ko-
rean capital by Christmas.
Boast Mada Rapaatadly
%
The Red boast has been made
repeatedly during the past several
days in radio broadcasts and in
leaflets showered over the lines
from Communist planes.
The Communist thrust was
unique in that the Chinese rushed
forward in the familiar “human
sea" attacks without the usual in-
tensive Communist artillery and
Johnny Aldridge
To Spend Holidays
Back In Hospital
Little Johnny Aldridge’s Christ-
mas dreams were shattered this
week.
Johnny, who returned to his
home three weeks ago after spend-
ing a year in Dallas hospitals, is
back there today. He developed
a cold, and then pneumonia. He
was admitted to a local hospital
Sunday.
Dr. Charles Bloom, the attend-
ing physician, called Johnny’t doc-
tor tn Dallas and he quickly ad-
vised that the little polio victim
be brought to Dallas at once.
His mother, Mrs. Truman Ald-
ridge, accompanied him in an Ev-
erett-Stone ambulance. His daddy
will join them later.
Johnny had all his hopes bank-
ed on spending Christmas Day at
the home of his parents. Mr. and
Mrs. M. P. Aldridge. But now.
those dreams are shattered, and
Johnny will spend the long-await-
ed day in an iron lung.
Services Held For
A. A. Slagle, 66
Funeral services for A. A. Slagle,
66. were to be held at three
o’clock today from the Rains and
Talley Funeral chapel in Long-
view. Mr. Slagle died at 8 p.nl.
Monday night at his home. 104
Jeter St. He had been a resident
of Gladewater for the past It
years.
He is survived by his wife, Mrs.
Oaynell Slagle; two sons, A. D. of
Augusta, Ga., and C. M. of Okla-
homa City, Oklu.; one daughter,
Mrs. A. J Fisch, Guthrie, Okla.;
one brother, 1 L. Slagle, Cooks-
ville, Tenn.; and four sisters, all
of Oklahoma; six grand children
and one great grand child.
Following service*, shipment will
be to Okmulgee, Okla , where in-
terment will be held under the
direction of Rains and Tatley Fu-
neral hotue tn Longview.
mortar preparation. Apparently
the Reds had hoped to overwhelm
the numerically inferior UN forces
through a sudden, surprise attack.
The attempt was a disastrous
flop for the Reds.
Gen. Mark Clark’s communique,
announcing the Red defeat, said
the Communists attacked at eight
other points along the frozen front.
Three additional, smaller assaults
were made on western front posi-
tions and four were directed at
UN positions along the central sec-
tor. One probing action developed
on the central front. All were
blunted and turned back.
In the air UN bombers and
fighter-bombers continued their
battering attacks on Red troop
concentrations and supply bases.
Former Democrat
Gets Appointment
From Eisenhower
NEW YORK, Dec. 24 (IMP—Pres-
ident-elect Eisenhower Wednes-
day named True D. Morse, a for-
mer Democrat who helped work
out the farm plank in the 1983 Re-
publican platform, as his under-
secretary of agriculture.
Morse lists himself as a Demo-
crat in the 1952-83 “Who’s Who.”
But in St. Louis, where he heads
the Doane Agricultural Service,
Inc., he was described as “a for-
mer Democrat who has voted Re-
publican for the last 20 years.”
During the Republican presi-
dential campaign of Gov. Thomae
E. Dewey, Morse headed a group
of farm leaders working to get out
the vote for Dewey. A farm boy,
| he was invited to help with the
' GOP farm plank this year and
worked on the plant prior to the
! Republican convention.
A spokesman for Morse said that
1 has been his only activity in poli-
tics. He voted for Eisenhower, the
spokesman said.
The Doane Agricultural Service,
of whicn he is president, manages
farm properties and issues a twice-
monthly Doane Agricultural Di-
gest which reports on trends for
farmers, Morse is the originator,
and editor since 1938, of the Di-
gest.
James C. Hagerty, Eisenhower’s
press secretary, said Morse was
“an Eisenhower supporter” during
the campaign. However, in EL
Louis it was said Morse did net
campaign for Eisenhower.
When asked Morse’s polities
Hagerty pointed out that “Whofe
Who" lists him as a Democrat,
As No. 1 man under the secre-
tary of agriculture, Morse will re-
ceive a yearly salary of $17,Mt,
He is an active member id
leader in the Disciples of Clgfot
Church in St. Louis and is a for-
mer president of the St. T *****
Christian Missionary Society. .
Eisenhower appointed Morse gg
the recommendation of secretalEF
designate of agriculture Ezra TMt
Benson, Salt Lake City, who is OM
of the 12 apostles of the Chunk
of Jesus Christ of Latter Day
Saints.
Democrats named to high pant
tions in the new administrating
are Martin P. Durkin, secretary g(
labor; Oveta Clup Hobby, fedMgll
security administrator; and Rgh»
ert B. Anderson, secretary of the
Navy.
It was the appointment of Dgg-
kin, who supported and voted for
Democratic presidential candiggle
Adlai E. Stevenson, that drew the
fire of Sen. Robert A. Taft The
Ohio Republican who is expecOeg
to be Senate majority leader in the
new Congress said the Durkin 0^
pointment was “incredible” and oh
affront to union members who hag
voted Republican.
Morse will succeed C. J. McCgft
mick, present under secretary g|
agriculture.
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