European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 24, 1950, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and St types october 1950 80 prisoners burned alive by Korea red by Bill Shinn 23 korean political both men and were set on lire i burning gasoline by retreating communists at 50 air Miles Southeast of the com Mander of the South korean army maj Gen Chung Inkwon told this correspondent he had never seen such an unspeakable he visited Oksan during a front line inspection of the ii Rok atrocity is not an unusual thing As far As communists Are but burning living people with gasoline is More than sin and Chung declared he said the korean communists jailed the men and women in a warehouse near the Oksan police station and set it on fire with families of the victims were cry ing with agonized faces and Hurt ing Chung maj James Mili tary adviser to the South korean army con firmed the to the life Means Best years of my life9 Seoul marked by Flea Mart 23 economic life revues today around its open air Flea Market where you can buy anything from i gasoline lanterns 1o Many former american residents returning to the ravaged South korean capital have gone to the Flea Market to buy Back clothing and household possessions looted from their Homes under the communist Robert of Ohio found Many of his old Victrola rec ords and is searching for some of the suits he left behind at his Home in the embassy compound when the communists came South he was a representative to South Korea for the economic cooperation administration before the invasion Kinney my wife were Here in sure she could spot lots of her dresses the Flea displayed on tables hundreds of merchants daily lug their wares on their Back to spread them on rows of rickety wooden tables crowded together on a smelly Hillside not far from souls burned out the Flea Market always was a popular shopping District for for Eigners in prewar and with most convention n a 1 Shons bombed or burned the Hillside Mart has expanded to Many times its former Seoul residents report that under parents Greet smiling Bobby Mullen on his return others worse 199 says Westover air Force 23 dont cry about there Are other Fellows a lot worse this was Bobby Mullens greeting to the Mother hed written please dont worry about after hed lest his legs in an explosion at the plucky 19yearold army private first class from Boston the communists the did not Prosper at Flea Market looted american property taken from Post exchanges and Bra went underground be cause things american were not popular with the embraced his Mother for the firsts time in 27 months while his father stood smiling through Bobby was a boy who never wanted his mom and dad to worry and feel and so concealed his boyhood Hurt when he was 17 he begged them to let him join the army and see some of the last and Michael Mullen got this letter from their who was in route Home on a transport from Korea dear a and in on my Way but in bringing some bad i Hope you dont take this so hard As some people i went to Korea and got wounded in both they had to be i Only remember the explosion at in relieved to get away from it Mam and and there will be something to look Forward when i see you people the Only thing in worried about is you i dont want you to be worrying and going around with tears in your the Best years of my life Are still ahead of there was another line please excuse the handwriting As i am a bit shaky at your Loving child killed by playmate 23 a seven Earold Carol Lee Leonard died from gunshot wounds inflicted by her Fivey Earold state police said the Case is clearly one of accidental shooting and indicated that they would prefer no charges against Joseph Driver chalks up 134 Miles on one gallon in 47 car oct 23 greenshields drove his 1947 Studebaker Miles on one gallon of gasoline to win the annual mileage Marathon Here for the fifth greenshields mileage today was considerably below his Mark of last year when he coaxed the same Auto Miles on the same amount of second place in the class a entries went to a team driving a 1924 Berry and Scmuette got Miles on the Berry and driving the same four Cylinder car last got 14mile course greenshields said he thought a new Cylinder in his car was responsible for the drop in performance from last the mileage Marathon is held army sets accounting change 23 the army has announced the accounting division now of its finance located at the army finance Center in will be the army did nol say what caused this but the finance Center at Louis has been the subject of at least six investigations in recent acknowledging last May that in erroneous payments and overpayment of servicemen allotments had been the army said at that time that the overpayment resulted from the philosophy of War time and the assistant army Secretary Karl Bendetsen stated then that 000 of the erroneous payments and overpayment had been paid had been legally waived in hardship cases and had been referred to the general accounting office for that breakdown left and Bendetsen said he expected that to be in its the said its finance department is establishing accounting divisions in the six army area Headquarters in this country and in the military District of Over a 14mile course Over Small town country roads and it is sponsored by the Shell Oil and the participants Are usually lubrication engineers employed at the Shell laboratories entrants in the class a contest Are permitted to make some mechanical adjustments in their family As in creasing the compression ratio from to eliminating engine inflating tires to 110 pounds and buffing tires until Only a narrow tread contacts the youth admits setting blazes 23 series of fires damaged or destroyed almost a dozen downtown buildings and a youth from boys confessed he set them to conceal a re haired Don told police administrator Leslie Sawyer that he set the first fire in a record shop to cover a theft and liked the excitement so much that he set several his fiery spree Cost an estimated in doomed officer tells events leading to trial by 23 Leon an american infantry officer condemned to death on charges of misconduct in Battle in told his version of the incident and declared thought i was doing the right thing i still think the 3yearold officer was convicted of misbehaving himself before the enemy by refusing to Advance with his com which had been ordered Forward by col the regimental to engage with North korean whith forces the said command was then Gilbert was arrested july his court martial death penalty was reviewed by maj Gen William cd of the 25th who upheld it the papers Are now in the judge advocate generals office in Washington for another review before submission to presi Dent old combat officer Gilbert was a combat officer in world War he he in order to make a career in the he is married and has two a and a his wife is expecting a third quiet optimistic about the final decision in his during an interview in the empty office of an army stockade on the outskirts of he made these three Points did not refuse to obey the i was trying to explain Why it  be carried there were 12 men in my command i considered it my duty As an officer to show Why the order meant certain am not a Coward and i was not afraid at the i would walk Back to combat now if they would let says trial incomplete think the trial was not com i do not say it was unfair but there were Points that were not brought out which were in there were two Lieuten ants with me in the same action one was killed later and so could not the other was wounded and evacuated and has Given but that is not the same As having him present to testify and answer none of the 12 enlisted men were although i under is they wanted to come to the Gilbert related the following account of events on the night of july 30 the whole regiment was with somewhere around Sangjun 44 Miles Northwest of my was a was assigned to cover the withdrawal of the la Rifle Range the what we called the North coming Down a draw Between the our Jot was to delay the to Kos while the regiment broke Contact and pulled they were in close Rifle Gilbert was Given a terrain feature told to take his 30 or 40 men Forward they went up the found the Ridge took Gilbert said he organized a patrol firs two a company clerk and a radio led it two Miles for Ward to a High Point where they looked for the retiring regiment and for the they saw but heard a firefight somewhere behind on returning toward the command Gilbert i saw what was some koreans were on the opposite Side of the Ridge and simply spraying the they must Morin k have seen us Cross it and were shooting at anybody on that ride Gilbert located a missing platoon As his patrol withdrew toward the command the platoon set up a Roadblock but was quickly am bushed and forced to scatter into a Rice As far As i could we were no More use up there on that said our Job was to pin Down anything coming Down the Road while the regiment pulled Back the koreans had infiltrated our i position and set up that ambush on the so there was no use our staying up there any Gilbert and his men circled to the South and East and came to a dry River where they found some other troops and a lieutenant the colonel ordered me to go Back up there on the Hill to that place where we had set up the command he didst ask about the he just told me to take the men Back there the Back but i had just come Down that Way and i knew you go i said the Road was covered and so 4was the base of the but the colonel just said again for me to take the men and the Back Way up to that i then a major came along and get you heard what the colonel i in afraid nobody can get through the jokes and i get up to that and he so you Are afraid to go is that i no in not i what i meant was that you cant get i i just came through one ambush and the jokes have infiltrated that whole the major now get no More or he started to say something else i guess we were All tired and i dont remember exactly then whether it was the major or the colonel but somebody saw to put me under arrest and the marched me to the senator questions legality of Gilbert sentence 23 because Congress has not officially declared War on North William Jenner has questioned a court martial death sentence for it Leon Gilbert in a asked army authorities to give the most careful consideration and review of the said Gilbert was court mar titled and ordered executed Tot failure to obey orders in an undeclared the american sense of Justice must not be violated in this the statement certainly the same consideration should be Given this officer As is being shown convicted Judith Alger Hiss and others who Are walking the streets Fol lowing their army pilots pick truck for Flattop Landing oct 23 Sill army lieutenants today held the dubious distinction of being probably the Only fliers Ever to land a plane on a moving its will Castleane Richard Bywaters were shooting prac Tice Landing with their Light Liaison plane on a normally deserted Road in the Wichita mountains wild life Refuge yesterday and didst see the flatbed none of the trucks three occupants was Hurt As propeller pierced the steel plated cab in several