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Nome, Alaska, Wednesday, September 6, 1950
NO GENERAL WAR EXPECTED IN 1950
While there is no time-table, the military experts con
sider August the month in which to start wars. Septem
ber will do, but it is not considered as good a time for
starting a fight as the previous month. After September,
the weather is apt to be bad and prove discouraging to
certain manoeuvers.
The experts, with these dates in mind, report no signs
of mobilization in Russia or in the satellite states. Con
sequently, .they lean to the opinion that a general war
is not coming in 1950. Whether it comes next year or
not, they do not know but those on the Allied side, at
least think that Stalin missed his big chance this year.
The United States, as a result of the Korean campaign
finds itself pushed around by an army that is hardly
considered in tabulating the armaments of the world.
Nevertheless, the stunning surprise to the people of this
country has awakened them to the necessity of arming
adequately for possible eventualities. As a result, this
nation will build an army. It will have a navy and an
air force, with big bombers to equal or excel any other.
So, unless the Russians get their big push underway,
the next two years will probably find the free nations of
the world organized to successfully resist aggression.
It might be noted that Mr. Winston Churchill, a gentle
man who has had some experience with war, thinks that
the atomic bomb, possessed by the United .States, is the
real deterrent to Russian aggression. Until the Soviet
gets a considerable s upply, the British war leader
thinks the democracies will have time to prepare them
selves, if they act wisely and in unison.
BLAMES THE “ELECTION JITTERS”
So far, the (Cogress has not taken steps to provide an
excess profits tax, as recommended by the President,
who admits that the levy is “very controversial.”
President Truman assumes that eventually there
will be an excess profits tax, but in a ipress conference,
makes the point that the legislators will have time to
work it out after the elections are over and when they
haven’t got the election jitters.
The “election j'itters” is one of the serious ailments
that affects democratic countries. Legislators, passing
upon proposed laws, just before they go to the polls,
are very careful not to get themselves out on a limh.
They tend to postpone controversial issue until after
the voting is over, /
COMPROMISE IS IMPOSSIBLE
“Any real compromise between Communism and
Christianity is out of the question,” declares the Rev.
Dr. W. A. Visser’s Hooft, General-Secretary of the
World Council of Churches.
The truth of this assertion is not to be found in the
economic policies of Communism, repugnant as they
may be to Americans who adhere to their own system
of private capitalism.
Christianity preserves and expands the individual
personality of man, while Communism subordinates hu
man personality to the functions of the State.
The hoarders of a month ago look rather silly now,
but they always looked disgusting. ... It may cost
money but every community can make improvements
for the benefit of the public. . . . What has become of
the old-fashioned man who put honor above prof its—has
he gone out of business? . . . Newspapers would perform
a greater public service if they forgot to seek the favors
of men holding office. ... If the nation cannot be rea
sonably assured of peace, it should be reasonably as
sured of winning the next war. . . . When the Army re
jects men because they are not intelligent enough to
fight, it should put them in labor battalions unless they
are too weak td work.
Korean Situation
At A Glance ...
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away, or south toward the main
Allied base at Pusan, 45 airmiles
away but on a winding main road.
The Reds already had stabbed
12Vfe miles into the defense perim
eter in their Monday drive, but
American and South Korean lines
in the sector were reported hold
ing thereafter.
The drive already has cut the|
Pohang-Taegu highway in force.
Element sof the South Korean
capitol division were forced to
withdraw south of Kigye, which
is nine miles inland from almost
encircled Pohang. The North Ko
rean 5th, 12th, and 15th Divisions,
supported by auxiliary units and
armor, have been pouring into the
eastern assault against battle
weary elements of the 8th, 3rd
and Capitol Divisions of the South
Koreans, -bulwarked by elements
of the U. S. 24th Division.
I The rain virtually grounded the
! powerful air support which has
done so much in the past to slow
Red drives. Relatively few planes
I got into the air.
The 25th Division has stopped
i one of the heaviest Red attacks,
! inflicting an estimated 13,000 cas
ualties on the communists in that
sector alone.
On the Naktong River front, U.
S. Marines and the 2nd Infantry
Division hit “No-Nabe Ridge,” 32
miles south of Taegu. They drove
ahead two miles on the southern
curve of the Naktong west of re
captured Yongsang, but the Reds
still blocked an important road
near the ridge.
Still farther north, in the area
above Taegu, U. S. First Cavalry
Division troops drove up muddy
bills, against heavy fire, and bat
tled into Kasan, a walled village
12 miles north of Taegu. But they
were forced to abandon this posi
tion after a tough battle.
A South Korean spokesman said
units of the small but hard-hit
ting South Korean navy sank 20
communist transport vessels off
Penang on the east coast Monday.
The size of the vessels and what
they carried was not stated. Al
lied spokesmen said, however, the
i communists have been getting
! more supplies on the east coast
I sector than are evident elsewhere.
Wednesday, September 6, 1950
U. S. troops counterattacked to
dnv on the critical northern front
i . .....
and drove communist guerrillas!
out of Yongchon, key highway
junction whose loss would place
Taegu, main U. N. forward base,
and the entire United Nations
beachhead in grave peril.
The town changed hands during
fierce fighting on that sector, but
Eighth Army headquarters said!
it now was in American hands, j
The town is on the main road to
Taegu, provisional South Korean
capital 20 miles to the west.
American airmen roared back
into action in clearing weather J
and knocked 17 Russian-built j
tanks outs of action on the north
ern front. The North Koreans i
have committed a massive force of
84 tanks—more than they have'
used in any drive—to the battle j
in the north in which they appear
to be making a desperate gamble
to clinch the war.
Allied resistance to the Red gen
eral offensive stiffened with the |
reappearance of the planes on the I
battle fronts.
While doughboys battled in:
Yongchon, other Allied troops bat
tered northward from Kyongju,
another key highway junction 18
miles southwest of bombed and
burning Red-held Pohang, east
coast port. Kyongju, reported safe
for the Allies now, is astride the
direct east coastal road to Pusan'
last-ditch U. N. supply base. |
The Red drive along the north
ern perimeter of the 120-mile bat
tle-front is powered by tanks
which prisoners wefcr quoted as
| saying came down from the “far
s north.” it is the biggest mass of
North Korean armor yet to ap
pear. The armor is split up into
two brigades, one operating in the
big coastal drive and the other
menacing Taegu from the north.
After Pohang fell to the coastal
drive in heavy street fighting, the
communists poured thruogh the
gap in Allied lines for their drive
on Kyongju but they were stalled.
Meanwhile, the U. S. air strip six
miles south of Pohang remained
in Allied hands.
On the western sector of the
northern front British troops were
in action side by side with the
j Americans. They took over the
j left flank of the U. S. First Cav
alry Division eight miles south
west of Taegu and were attacked
right off by Red machine gunners.
The British beat off a Red patrol
which had pinned down one com
pany.
U. S. First Cavalry doughboys
withdrew from a walled citadel
atop a 3,00-foot hill 12 miles north
of Taegu, but headquarters said
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was to consolidate positions. The
American beat back two attacks
down the “bowling alley” corridor m
north of Taegu.
On the extreme southern front,
three Red battalions, evidently
bent on a suicide mission, were
stopped in an attempt to infiltrate
U. S. 25th Division lines.
All around the 120-mile U. N.
beachhead perimeter, airmen gave
ground troops close support, con
centrating the bulk of it on the ^
critical northern front.
'Bombers and fighters also at
tacked troop concentrations and
other military targets behind the
Red lines. B-29 Superforts dumped
390 tons of bombs on North Ko
rean supply lines.
The closed ranks of the com
munist world supporting the 4
North Koreans got a jolt last
night with the announcement in
Belgrade that Yugoslavia de
nounces the North Koreans as ag
gressors. Yugoslav communists—
ousted by the cominform for fail
ing to bow to the Kremlin’s com
mands—consider themselves more
communist than those in Moscow*
Yugoslavia’s foreign < minister
Edvard Kardelj, in a statement in
the official newspaper Boba, indi
cated Yugoslavia would avoid any
direct intervention in the Korean
war but he said “those who are to
be blamed for the war in Korea *
must know that such a war will
jeopardize world peace.
Yugoslavia’s delegate in the U.
N. security council voted against
I its call for U. N. members to fur
nish military aid to South Korea,
but abstained in other actions on
the issue.
The security council goes into
session again today with a Soviet
veto—its 44th—expected to stop
an American resolution urging all
nations to avoid helping the North
Korean aggressors.
Soviet delegate Jakob A. Malik
delivered a 45-minute harangue.
in the council yesterday after the
United States notified the coun
cil a plane with Red Russian
markings and bearing a Soviet
lieutenant was shot down Monday
in an attack on U. N. fleet units
off Korea. But Malik’s tone was
.
[ comparatively mild, seeming 1 y
cautoius, while he awaited word
from Moscow.
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Will Draft Medical ?
[Specialists
| WASHINGTON, (JP) — The bill
to draft physicians, dentists and
other medical specialists now
; awaits President Truman’s signa
ture. Congress completed action
on its Friday.
The measure requires the medi
cal men to register for the draft if
they are under 51 years of age. If
drafted, they would be liable for .
21 months service. *
If they are in the reserves, or
join them now, they will not be
drafted. Members of the reserves,
however, can be called to active
duty at any time.
Tf they volunteer for duty with
the armed services, the medical
men will be entitled to $100-a
month extra pay—a bonus set up
by Congress two years ago to in
terest them in military service. If
they are drafted, however, they
do not receive the extra $100 pay.
The bill is designed to enroll
5,600 doctors • and 3,000 dentists
who received training at govern
ment expense during World War
■II and who saw little or no active /
service. If the armed forces find / j
they cannot get enough men in {
thi; category, they will then draft '
men who were trained at the gov^
ernment expense and had lo?ss
than 21 months of active service.
Other categories follow after that.