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University Daily Kansan
Tuesday, Dec. 16, 1952
84 Reds Killed in Pongam Rioting
Pongam Island, Korea—(U.P.)-The commander of this prison island told today how more than 4,000 fanatic Communists "hypnotized" themselves into staging a riot that ended only when UN guards fired point blank to save their own lives.
Lt. Col. George D. Miller said he ordered his 300 American and South Korean guards to fire to prevent the prisoners from breaking free and wiping out the UN detachment.
The uprising, which took place Sunday afternoon cost the lives of 84 prisoners and caused injuries to 118 others. Four guards were injured.
in the uprising.
Pongam island holds a total of 9,000 Communist civilian internees of whom more than 4,000 took part
Col. Miller said the Communists stood straight up and made no attempt to dodge bullets fired from light machine guns, shotguns, carbines and rifles at less than 30 yards. Some tried to fight hand-to-hand with the UN guards.
"They were standing four ranks deep with their arms linked," Col. Miller said. "They were singing and swaying back and forth."
"After our first volley, the wounded were held upright and kept on singing. The ones that were down were pulled up by the arms."
He said the prisoners were so "hypnotized" by their own singing that one wounded man still was trying to sing as he was carried to
a hospital at Koje island, 10 miles away.
Col. Miller said when his men tried to remove the dead and wounded after the battle, the prisoners "lay on the ground with locked arms."
"Our men had to force them apart. It took two men to get one separated from another and dragged out.
"It is impossible to convey the frenzy they had worked themselves into," he said. "I looked at them and could see their eyes were glazed, they were so wrought up."
He said the prisoners made a "tremendous" noise singing prohibited Communist songs, cheering, chanting slogans and shouting "Manzai."
Children Sought In Quarry Bottom
Naperville, Ill.-(U.P.)-Forty volunteers prepared to pull on hip boots today and wade through the muddy, junk-littered bottom of an abandoned quarry in an extraordinary search for two young playmates who vanished nine days ago.
By noon the staggering task of pumping an estimated 80 million gallons of water from the spring-fed quarry will be completed. Already portions of the uneven bottom were in sight.
The waders will brave below-freezing temperatures to form a human chain and systematically explore the muck at the bottom of the pit.
Meanwhile, pumping began at another, smaller quarry nearby on the chance that Jean Petersen, 6, and her "little boyfriend," Edward Rosenselt, 3, drowned in its icy waters Dec. 7.
The scope of the search was amazing as it entered its second week. Hundreds of volunteers have dedicated themselves to the proposition that it is worth a million dollars to find the missing children dead or alive.
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Chemistry Club to Give Liquid Air Showing
A demonstration of the properties of liquid air will be the feature attraction at the chemistry club meeting which will be held at 8:30 p.m. Thursday in 305 Bailey.
Dr. Gilbert Haight, assistant professor of chemistry, will present a liquid air demonstration for the layman and not of a purely technical nature.
According to Dr. Haight, the liquid air, which must be brought in especially for the demonstration, affords rather spectacular results when it is combined with other materials.
Windsor to Skip Coronation
Paris—(U.P.)—The Duke of Windsor announced that neither he nor his American-born Duchess will attend the coronation of his niece, Queen Elizabeth II next June. The Duke will spend Christmas in the United States in self-imposed exile.
Crash Makes Honey Flow
Eighty-nine Kansas high school seniors took a three-hour examination at the Military Science building Saturday in hopes of receiving about 30 four-year NROTC scholarships. Each is valued at $7,000.
Louisville —(U,P)— It was the sweetest accident this side of Guy Lombardo. The truck that hit a telephone pole near here had 100 pounds of honey aboard—before the crash.
89 Seniors Seek $7,000 Stipends
Those receiving the scholarships will be paid $50 a month for four years. They will receive all expenses for three summer cruises. University fees, books and uniforms for the winners will be furnished by the Navy.
Those making the best test scores will be interviewed by a state selection committee and receive rigorous physical exams in Kansas City next month. Winners may apply for admission to any of the 52 colleges and universities having NROTC units.
Final Staging of Lab Play
The final performance of "The Second Shepherds' Play," 14th century English miracle play, will be presented at 8 p.m. today in the Little Theater in Green hall.
Tom Shay, instructor of speech,
directed this third annual Christmas production of the Laboratory theater. No admission is charged.
Seoul, Korea —(U,P)— American Sabrejets shot down four communist MIG-15 jet fighters, probably destroyed one, and damaged another today in 13 savage aerial dogfights over Northwestern Korea.
Dogfights Rage Over Korea. Bombers Harry Supply Lines
Twenty-seven Sabres tangled with 32 MIGs during the day in duels ranging from 45,000 feet to the 800-foot level.
Jet aces Col. Royal N. Baker of McKinney, Texas, and Capt. Leonard Lilly of Manchester, N.H., shot their sixth MIGs today.
fighter-bombers, unmolested by the MIGs, struck at rail lines and supplies west of Haeju and east of Pyongyang in North Korea. Other planes struck at Red positions along the battleline.
Ground fighting slowed to monotonous probing attacks along the frozen 155-mile battlefront. Heaviest fighting was concentrated in the Sniper ridge sector where South
Charles Wins Sluggish Fight
Boston—(U.R.)—Ezzard Charles will have to look a lot better than he did last night to back up a promoter's bid for a heavyweight title fight here in June.
The ex-champ from Cincinnati scored a seventh round knockout at Boston garden over ponderous Frank Buford of Oakland, Calif., as 5,095 fans booed at the sluggish performance.
"I'm better than I looked tonight," Charles said afterwards. He weighed 187 pounds to Buford's 202.
"Buford was hard to fight because he was trying for one wild punch. It took a couple of right hands on the head to open him up."
Matchmaker Sam Silverman of the Callahan Athletic club here has offered the winner of the return bout between heavyweight king Rocky Marciano and defeated champion Jersey Joe Walcott a $400,000 guarantee to fight Charles at Braves field in June.
Koreans repulsed Red attacks.
The Sabres damaged two MIGs yesterday in six dogfights with nearly 200 Red jets. Eight other damage claims were made by Sabrejet pilots, but they awaited confirmation by gun camera film.
It was the first time in five days the MIGs had ventured into North Korea from Manchuria. It was the greatest show of strength by the Red Air Force in weeks.
B-29 Superfortresses pounded troops and supply areas near Pyongyang, capital of North Korea, and Sinanju to the north, in a continuation of round-the-clock bombing of Red troop and supply targets in North Korea.
Light B-26 bombers swarmed over roads in North Korea, shooting up 95 Red trucks moving southward with supplies for Communist troops on the front lines.
60 Well Drillers At Meeting Here
A group of down-to-earth Kansans held a two-day session at the University Friday and Saturday when the Kansas water well driggers' association held its fifth annual convention.
Sponsored by the Kansas Geological Survey and the department of geology, the convention brought approximately 60 Kansas water well drillers, suppliers of drilling equipment, and government representatives to the University for the meetings which were held in Lindley hall.
Dr. W. H. Schoewe, associate professor of geology, delivered a speech entitled "This is Kansas." Other speeches were delivered by B. F. Latta, State Board of Health, and by C. K. Bayne of the Geological survey.
Among the exhibits on display was an unusual one-half scale working model of a cable tool drilling rig. The model, which cost over $3,000 to build, was manufactured by the Bucyrus-Erie company of South Milwaukee, Wis.
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