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Show EMERY COUNTY PROGRESS, CASTLE DALE, UTAH WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSI- S- Of fitted into lamps. Church instruments include a chalice made of bones. m Korea foreign-relation- O The chandelier (right) is an inspiration of horror and causes more visitors to retreat than any- thing else. Strings of skulls form shadows on the ceiling. And when the candles in this grotesque chandelier are lit, the skulls give an uncanny impression that they are participating in the ceremony. One account reports this display was conceived and arranged by a blind monk. body. That was the Chinese dress money, and other early Chinese coins were shaped like the article they would purchase. ot Pan American hostess Marcella Yocelova (left) looks at this intricate shield belonging to the house of Count Schwarzenberg whose family has taken care of the church for generations. How and why the bones were put into the church varies with the storyteller. Built in 1280 when a traveler brought earth from Jerusalem for its altar, the church and its yard became a very popular cemetery. Everyone wanted to be buried in its hallowed ground. The 10,000 bones came from the bodies in the cemetery. Skulls stare from the niches on the sides where they have been International Forces in Area Dress Money new you wanted to buy dress in the China of about 200 B. C., you were out of luck if you fished in your purse and could not find a coin shaped like the human If nmnl O first a row of gleaming human skulls lining the top of the altar beneath the figure of Christ. Draft in Effect The recently enacted draft law has been put into effect. President Truman ordered an expansion of the fighting forces in view of the Korea situation through enlistment or the draft. Immediately after the President's order, spokesmen for the army, navy and air force said they would la Util eeleanas. they ara thee a be happy to get all their required are (EDITOB'S NOTEi Whea bpIbUbs ttala at aawa Weatera Nawapapar Lalaaa aaalyata aal aal aaaaaaarily aawapapar.l enlistments manpower through Whether or not if alone possible. UNITED NATIONS: UN Flog enlistments will fill the armed forces needs will be determined Fights Aggression within the next two weeks. There are momenta In the march Just how much the armed forces of current events that make hiswill be expanded has been kept seof In the political many eyes tory. cret. Presumably it could run as observers such a moment ocas 547,482 men, bringing the high curred recently when Secretary services to 2,005,882. General of the United Nations, ' There is also the possibility that Trygve Lie, picked up the three by five-foreserves will be called up, although blue and white UN flag and handed it to Warren R. Austin, spokesmen for the services said none will be ordered to duty at chief U. S. delegate to the UN, and asked him to send it to General present without their consent. A spokesman for the Pentagon Douglas MacArthur. The bine and white flag of said the enactment of the draft The Security Council had just the United Nations has been law was necessary to meet the authorized the UN flag be flown sent to Korea to be flown by situation in Korea, and constialongside national standards in opthe Communist tutes a first step to build up to full troops battling Korean Red the erations against . Invaders from North Korea. operating strength the units of the invaders. Gen. Douglas MacArthur has army, navy and air force to be been named commander in And as he handed the flag to Ausused in the Korean operation, to chief of the United Nations tin, he said: provide further maintenance and forces. support therefor, and to replace the is when job Bring it back units to be moved to Korea. done." KOREA: Just how tar the United States On these words hinge the hopes will go in building up its forces deof the free world. Observers saw The Tide Flows pends entirely upon developments in them a belief that the United Military observers, still watchNations effort in Korea will be ing the Soviet Union for any signs in the Far East and other danger points, military observers report successful and at last a world or- of open participation in the Kv ganization has been formed that war, were of the opinion the will endure and protect the minori- has begun to flow against the ties for generations to come. gressors. Observers were particularly ImDuring the first two weeks of the brriKe o.iu crusn pressed because it climaxed firm conflict South Korean and AmeriTwo items of railroad news were and positive action by the commun- can under orders of in the public mind, one bad and troops, acting ity of nations to secure world the United Nations, took a beating. one good. peace. ' But as the battle went into the The A F L switchmens union Up to this point the United Na- third week, American arms guns, to end its strike against agreed tions had: and soldiers tanks planes and U.S. tour midwest and western railroads. (1) Demanded the withdrawal of stemmed tiie rush of the Commu- The fifth continued its walkout, but Communist invaders from South nist armies. returned to wark after President Korea. At a point some 50 to 60 miles Truman ordered the army to take (2) Quickly endorsed the United south of Seoul, capital of South over. States action of sending aid to Korea which fell into the hands of The switchmen made no bones South Korea and called upon all the invaders a few days after the about why they were calling off members of the United Nations to sneak attack, American and Com- the strike. As they put it, we are render assistance to carry out the munist troops met. calling it off because of the threat At first American troops were of direct government action. police action against the Communists. forced to withdraw before Red Truman had scored again. The General MacAr- tanks. And at the moment when it day before he had told his weekly (3) Appointed thur commander of international seemed the invaders might break press conference at Washington forces in Korea. through again, U.S. big guns and that the union had better halt the The historic flag which Lie hand- tanks, plus fresh foot soldiers strike or else. Evidently the union ed to Ambassador Austin was the poured into the area. The attack didnt like that or else. one that flew over the headquarters was stopped and many observers On the bad side, two high speed of Dr. Ralph Bunche during his believe the counter attack will Santa Fe railway streamliners, income the of as stream supplies successful mediation of the Arab-Israe- li streaking eastward side by side, war. It is the visible symbol crease. one traveling at 90 miles an hour of the first military sanctions ever A big factor in the blunted Comand the other seventy, bumped levied against an aggressor by a munist attack was the U. S., Brit- midsections in a freakish accident. world organization. ish and Australian air forces. Nine dead and 75 injured were Fighters and bombers carried out carried from the twisted metal continuous attacks upon tanks, cars in the Illinois collision. THAT SMELL: roads, and bridges. They ripped Not The Russians with JUMPING JACK: open Communist positions low flying rocket and machine gun Four towns in Illinois and three attack. The big bombers blasted Sets Chute Record in Iowa provided the nation with a away at supply lines and communSgt. John Jack) chuckle, but it was not funny at ication centers. Their blows were Sweitch set out (Jumping to break the worlds the time at least to residents of felt by the invaders and will spear- record parachute leaps in a single those towns. head the inevitable counter attack. day, which he did with 107 drops. MoA foul smell crept through American divisions If he proved anything else it was Meanwhile, line, East Moline, Selvis and Rock within the United States were be- the fact the human body will take Island, 111., and then spread across ing readied to move to the Far a lot of punishment and that some the border into Muscatine, Betten- East. General MacArthur had, at people seem to get pleasure out of dorf and Davenport, Iowa. the beginning of the conflict, four risking their necks. Some residents went into hyster- divisions in Japan. He has already The sergeant, with the aid of his ics, one man insisted to Selvis po- drawn upon them and troops with- buddies of the 82nd Airborne Divilice that the Russians are flying in the country will replace those sion, made 107 drops in 10 hours, over and gassing us, citizens were from Japan plus reinforcements an average of one every six minutes. He twisted his ankle and forced from their beds and from for the battle area. taverns, police switchboards were sprained his knee on the 51st jump and slowed down long enough to jammed with calls and firemen kept TRUTH CAMPAIGN: on a have his leg taped. After each basis. Scores of Moline residents jumped into Counteract Propaganda jump, a jeep and a pickup truck met him. The jeep rushed him their cars and drove in their night Communist propaganFor clothes to high ground and fresher da hasyears been spread around the back to the Piper Cub plane which took him aloft again, while the air. world, but no one seems to know When the excitement died down just how much of the story of de- truck took his chutes to the hangar investigation disclosed the odor re- mocracy has reached the enslaved where his six buddies were kept sulted from a leak in a tank of ental-ar- peoples of the world. Now the state busy repacking them. The sergeants only complaint being hauled through the area department has announced plans on a truck headed west. Entalarm for "a great campaign of truth to during the endurance test was he would be all right if he could sur is an ordorant used to inject a counter Moscow's broadsides of smell into natural gas, normally propaganda against the United vive the jeep rides. odorless, to permit detection of States and other democratic naleaks. It is not injurious but can tions. cause nausea. Secretary of State Acheson told about the plan in testimony before REORGANIZATION: s a senate subcomGeneral Eisenhower also mittee. New Plan Killed testified before the committee, dePresident Trumans plan to cre- claring, Truth could almost be (truth-bomate a new department of health, classified as our in this warfare. education and security has been General Marshall, who also testikilled by the house. It was, incisaid he is firmly convinced fied, the first time this session dentally, the house has rejected a reorgani- that we must confine ourselves to zation plan. The senate has killed the truth and that we must meet the Soviet procedure in what is six. called their conquest of the minds The house adopted. 249 to 71, a of people. resolution of disapproval of the Acheson told the senators the measure. It was killed apparently Communist campaign of vilification by opponents who argued it would jeopardizes the security of the be a step toward socialized mediUnited States and is a threat to the cine. security of the free world. Democrats who supported the U. S. Infantry and artillery The cynical aggression of comrushed into Korea in an effort plan, however, denied it had any munism in Korea, and the falseto stem the Communist adbearing on socialized medicine. hoods that have preceded and acvance. Later reports indicated They said only congress could companied it, make inescapably biing this about by passing neces- clear the importance of the camgood results from Increasing sary legislation. supplies of big guns and troops. paign of truth, he said. Flag Ordered Flown In Korea; Gen.rJacArthur Named Commander 10,-00- This eerie scene (right) startles and stops the tourist in his track. On entering the church he sees MANPOWER: UN Sedfae, a sleepy little town about 60 miles from Prague, Czechoslovakia, holds one of the strangest, and eeriest relics in the world a church whose interior is 0 decorated with the bones of is The church (right) people. visited by tourists from all over the world, but one visit usually suffices for a lifetime. Even the villagers who have lived with it most of their lives use it but once a year during the Easter season as a grim reminder that life is transient and death is certain. The rest of the time it is shown to visitors as a curiosity of the district by an old caretaker who carefully dusts the skulls every two months. O O 1 RETAIL PRICES: Up Another Notch The Korean situation was not the only worry of Americans during the past week or so. Living costs went up another notch with the prices of meat and bread being increased in retail stores. Cocoa, coffee, sugar, hides and tm continued upward, cotton soared to $15 a bale, and cattle went to the h.ghest price level in a year. It is all blamed oh the Korean war, but ather factors entered in. Economy Economically the nation seemed in much better condition as the COLOMBIA: Quake Toll 270 Five successive earthquakes in Colombia, some 200 miles northeast of Bogota, is reported to have killed 270 persons, injured some 500, and left 40.000 homeless. Ten towns in north central Colombia were reported destroyed with property damage estimated at ap- labor department reported signs pointing to employment this year, exceeding the 1948 peak of 61,600.000. Secretary Tobin said much of the nonagricultural employment gain stemmed from seasonal activi- proximately $20,700,000. 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