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Entered as second class matter October 14, 1943, at the postoffice
et Nome, Alaska, under the Act of March 3, 1879.
Nome, Alaska, Friday, July 21,1950
FEDERAL POLICE FOR WEST GERMANY
We do not know whether it is connected with events
in the Far East, or not, but John J. McCloy, U. S. High
Commissioner to Germany, has advised the Germans
that occupation authorities are willing to reconsider
their request for a federal police force.
Just before the Communist attack on the South Ko
rean Republic, the Western Allied High Commissioners
rejected the Bonn request, saying that local police units
could be united to meet an emergency. The Bonn gov
ernment wanted to organize a federal police force.
It appears that the West German regime is somewhat
afraid of an attack from East Germany, just like that in
Korea. It wanted to organize 25,000 federal police as an
offset to the estimated 50,000 East German Peoples’ Po
lice.
INVITING HEATHEN TO RULE
If all the professing Christians in the Western na
tions adopt the teachings of pacifist clergyment and de
cide that war is contrary to Christian teaching, they
will invite those who believe in other religions to take
charge of the earth.
To follow the advice of the fanatical pacifists, Chris
tians would refuse to bear arms in defense of their
country. Obviously, in such circumstances, the armies
of any non-Christian country would easily conquer the,
so-called Christian nations.
We have no objection to any individual, who thinks
that his Christianity requires him to be a pacifist, fol- i
lowing the dictates of his conscience. Nevertheless, if
he lives in a modern state, he must be prepared to per-'
form his duties as a citizen or suffer the consequences.
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MUNICIPAL MANIA FOR SIZE
Preliminary census figures indicate that Los Angeles,!
California, has passed Detroit, Michigan, and is now en- j
titled to be known as the fourth largest city of the na-;
~ tion. The other three are New York, Chicago, and Phil
adelphia.
We presume that the city boosters of Los Angeles will
throw their hats into the air and load the breeze with;
their hurrahs. Just what may be worthwhile in having ■
the most citizens of an area or in collecting a largerI
group of people than somewhere else, escapes our no-!
tice.
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Korean Situation
At A Glance —
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Ground forced knocked out 11 en
emy tanks in the area in 24 hours.
The whole Taejon valley area
was alive with fire as Red artil
lery boomed and Allied planes
mercilessly pasted the enemy.
Taejon, from which the South Ko
rea provisional government has
fled, has been virtually written
off for several days.
It was the first communist at
tack in force on the bloody Kum
River front since the invaders
won their foothold on the south
bank.
In the central sector Allied
fighter bombers hit two Red tanks
in a column between Tangyang
and Hamchang which has been
pushing in the direction of Kum
chon astride American supply
lines to Taejon.
The First Cavalry and the 25th
Infantry—the latter already has
tasted battle—swung into position
for expected Red pushes down the
eastern side of the Korean penin
sula.
Behind the fronts Allied carrier
and land based planes caught the
North Korean air force in the
open and destroyed at * least 50
planes in two days, the Far East
air forces reported.
Gen. MacArthur triumphantly
announced that the first phase of
the battle for South Korea is over
and the U. S. will have something
to say about'the tide of battle
from now on.
“We are now in Korea in force
and with God’s help we are there
to stay until the constitutional au
thority of the Republic (of Korea)
is fully restored,” MacArthur said.
The United Nations commander
said the hold on South Korea now
represents a firm base and “we
are there to stay.”
Meanwhile, on the battlefront,
there were reports of bad morale
among the attacking North Kore
ans. Captives taken from the 15th
North Korean Division, which was
built up with conscripts around a
nucleus of China Civil War veter
ans, said they were thrown into
the war with almost no training at
all.
American casualties in the face
of overwhelming numerical odds
were relatively light, Gen. Mac
Arthur reported and he said
American strength “will continu
ally increase while that of the
enemy will relatively decrease.”
The President put squarely up
to the Soviet Union the decision
whether the Korean war will ex
pand into World War III. Diplo
matic observers said the next
move now is up to Moscow.
The Soviet Union repeated to
day that American and British de
mands for withdrawal of the
North Koreans to the 38th paral
lel should be discussed by the
United Nations security council,
presumably with Communist Chi
na as a member. This is Russia’s
price for negotiating a peaceful
settlement in Korea. The rock
bottom American condition for
negotiations is the withdrawal
first of the North Koreans.
Western Europe hailed Presi
dent Truman’s mobilization call as
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an historic move in the fight
against communist aggression,
and many in Europe expressed as
tonishment at the broad sweep of
the President’s program. The
communist press apparently still
awaiting direction from Moscow,
as it does in most major issues,
commented cautiously.
Friday, July 21, 1950
Harassed by a hail of sniper
and enemy artillery fire, Ameri
can troops dug into new South
Korean defense positions today
and braced for expected new com
munist thrusts from at least three
directions.
The battered 24th Division, its
commanding Major General Dean,
among the missing, took up hill
positions several miles east of
flaming Taejon, captured by the
Communists in a heavy tank and
infantry drive. The GI’s hoped to
hold these new positions until
American strength builds up be
hind them for a counteroffensive.
The communists stopped at Tae
jon, failing to follow through with
an expected renewed attack
against the new American posi
tions but U. S. forces warily
watched for new flanking and en
velopment movements.
Enemy snipers lined the road of
the American retreat and kept up
harassing fire while enemy tank
guns opened up and machinegun
fire sprayed over the withdraw
ing defenders. American artillery
was trained on the hills where
bands of Red guerrillas were re
ported trying to infiltrate.
Front dispatches said the Reds
posed potent threats from the
north, northeast and southwest.
The dispatches said die Reds
could drive down from Shongju,
20 miles north of Taejon in an at
' tempt to cut the main line railway
behind the U. S. front east of
Taejon. Other Red columns could
move down narrow secondary
roads across the mountains from
Tangyang, 55 miles north of
Chongju, threatening the railhead
at Kumchon in the new American
defense zone. Southwest of Tae
jon the Reds were threatening an
other flaking and envelopment
move.
Communist tanks and troops
had stormed into the flaming key
rail junction at Taejon after a bit
; ter two-day battle which cost the
Reds dearly. One front report,
not confirmed, said four Ameri
can-made tanks, possibly lend
lease material given Russia in
World War II, had been used by
the communists in the Taejon
drive.
On the east coast American and
British cruisers shelled and knock
ed out the communist communi
cations center at Yongdok, 25
miles north of the beachhead held
by Americans of the mechanized
Is: cavalry division. Headquarters
has not reported on the progress
of the 1st Cavalry or the U. S. 25th
which landed this week, but
Yongdok may be a 1st Cavalry
objective.
Gen. MacArthur said the loss of
Taejon would be a psychological
blow to the South Korean people,
whose government fled the city
several days ago, but the with
drawal has “no special signifi
cance” from the military view
point. The higher country to the
southeast is much better suited
to a delaying action.
Enemy infiltration has been a
serious problem to the Americans,
but Gen. MacArthur said the
problem has been reduced to
“manageable proportions” and
soon may be unimportant. How
this was to be done was kept se
cret. but Lt. Gen. Walton H. Wal
ker, Eighth Army commander,
was reported pleased with prog
ress in this respect.
Bad weather hampered Allied
air action, but more than 100 indi
vidual flights were flown and two
Russian-built Yak fighters were
downed yesterday. B-29’s roared
over North Korea again, dropping
160 tons of bombs on five major
airfields and bridges. Yak fight
ers were driven off.
Reconnaissance pictures showed
Anti-Trust Suit ,
Defendants Ask
Change Of Venue
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to transfer the anti-trust suit
against the Seattle liquor firm of
K. nad L. distributors from the
Third Federal District Court here
to the West District of Washing
ton, Northern Division.
Speaking in behalf of the firm’s
officials, Irving and Stanley Le
vine, Robertson said it would be
unjust and unfair expense to trav
el to Alaska to establish their
innocence.
The defendants were among six 4
firms and 12 individuals charged
in one anti-trust indictment.
Also filed were seven motions
by attorney Ed Arnell in behalf of
the Healy River Coal Corp., Evan
Jones Coal Co., Usibelli Coal
Mine, Inc., A. E. Lathrop, Fair
banks publisher; Harry J. Hill and
Emil Usibelli.
The motion for a change of
venue was accompanied by affi
davits by Norman Brown, a news
paper editor; H. I. O’Neill and
Mabel Osbum.
Brown’s affidavit declared the
anti-trust proceedings were “wide- ^
ly publicized by newspapers and
radio,” and suggested “classes of
people in this area, confronted
with personal financial problems,
will consider the case in the light
of price effects on daily living.”
Brown alleged hearing a grand
juror express a personal view
that those indicted would be con
victed. O’Neill added that jurors .
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may be motivated by personal de
sires to reduce costs.
| Arnell said he had been inform
ed that one member of the grand
jury was unqualified as he previ
ously had been convicted of a fel
ony. He sought a disclosure of the
grand jury vote, declaring that
concurrence of only 12 jurors
would be a basis to disqualify the
alleged felon’s vote.
Legal observers said that sub
stantiation of this charge might
alter the entire anti-trust proceed
ings here.
the B-29’s in their Sunday raid
paralyzed rail traffic in Seoul.
Rcdl movements to the southern
battle lines from Seoul will be
prevented for some time, a com
munique said.
American carrier-based pilots
have reported indications of ra
dar-controlled anti-aircraft fire in
North Korea. The carrier planes
have been carrying out wide
sprea raids on strategic targets.
♦ Moscow’s press prominently
displayed Presid e n t Truman’s
message to Congress. The press ^
printed a Tass dispatch saying the
President repeated his “well
known declarations which give
evidence of the fact that the •
United States government, not
limiting itself to aggression in Ko
rea, is undertaking measures of
war in the Philippines, Formosa
and Indo-China.” The President,
it said, “does not hesitate to make
threats.”
Great Britain has announced to
Moscow she stands behind the U.
S. insistence that any negotiations
looking to a halt in Korean hos
tilities must be preceded by a
withdrawal of the North Koreans
to the 38th parallel. This answer
was delivered in Moscow toaSov- ^
iet proposal that communist China
be admitted to the United Nations,
replacing the Nationalists, as an
essential to the opening of Ko- ▼
rean peace negotiations:
60% of the workers in British
ordnance factories are women.