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Nome, Alaska, Wednesday, August 23, 1550
EUROPE PREPARING FOR TOURIST TRADE
Alaska isn’t the only place preparing for an all-out
program to share in the tourist trade for 1951.
Britain is offering Americans two months in England,
without ration books and duty free on 400 cigarettes.
Railroad tickets for travel in Britain can be purchased
in the U. S. at 25% off.
The French expect three million visitors, including
300,000 Americans and no longer require a visa. In West,
Germany the government has permitted the opening of
gambling casinos at prewar resorts of Baden-Baden,
Weisbaden and Homburg. For the first time since 1934
revival of the Passion Play at Oberammergau, as well
as the Mozart festival at Wurzburg and the Bach festi
val in Gottingen.
No visas are now required in the Netherlands. South
American countries are also busy increasing accommo
dations in Venezuela and Brazil. Fifty thousand are
booked for Austrian vacations from Britain and the
Irish are advertising an extensive tour by motor coach.
Italy has 50,000 booked for next year.
U. S. DEMOCRACY FACES FIGHT FOR SURVIVAL
(By Edward H. -Sims)
In the schoolhouses all over the country, and to the
young and idealistic, the wise ones say: “As disgusting
as are the machinations of Congress, they are prefer
able to the totalitarian forms of government,” and:
“even though some of the lawmakers abuse their au
thority, they are elected represntatives of the people,
and the people can always turn them out on their up
pers.”
As the United States moves toward what looks sus
piciously like World War III, it is well to look into our
weak points. One of them no doubt is that democracies
are slow-moving, bunglesome machines. For instance,
it took the Senate committee, charged with reporting
out an economic controls bill, a full month to agree on
one. By that time prices could have hit the ceiling, but
they didn’t, and we will all live.
All of us remember that the draft, prior to World War
II, passed by only one vote in tne House. Had we not
had that small start toward preparedness, that last war
would have taken us longer to complete. But that is the
handicap one runs with in a race between totalitarian
and democratic forms of government. In a dictatorship,
there would be less to worry about—in this particular
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Korean Situation
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into a hard defensive war for the
Korean Reds.
Reports reaching Hong Kong
said the buildup of U. N. strength
in Korea caused the Red leaders
to lose heart.
Such an attitude even has been
hinted in the wording of the Red
communiques from Pyongyang.
Where before they had spoken of
| victorious advances, now they are
bemoaning “violent resistance.”
Today the Red radio announced
that Allied bombings had killed
or wounded 11,582 civilians and
destroyed 11 important industrial
plants.
Against this changing back
ground, the security council was
called to meet again for what ap
peared certain to be its ninth no
progress session on Kprea contin
uation of the blockade on proced
ure by Russia's Jakob A. Malik,
president for August, was expect
ed.
If the United Nations decides to
push its police action in Korea be
yond the 38th parallel which di
vides Nortl> and South Korea,
more funds than the $10,500,000,
000 asked by President Truman
may be needed. Secretary of De-!
fense Johnson has estimated that’
the fighting might end about Feb-1
ruary if the police action stops at
the 38th parallel. High command
! planning has been based on stop
ping the action there.
One result of the Korean war:
will be to give the United States a
total of 17 army divisions, a fleet
including 23 carriers of various
types in operation and an air,
force of 69 groups. This was the
outline which emerged in testi
mony by defense officials on the
President's request for funds to
prosecute the Korean war in the
name of the U. N.
Navy officials said the program
for navy expansion envisions in
creasing combatant ships from 243
under the present budget to 282, |
and bringing the total number ofi
operating ships to 911. The total
number of planes for navy and
marine squadrons will rise from
6,233 to 7,335.
The Tuesday afternoon war
summary of the U. N. commander,
Gen. MacArthur, said land based
Allied planes smashed again at
the hinterland held by the Reds.
Destroying eight tanks, six build
ings, three boxcars, two trucks,
four big gun positions and an ar
mored car. Other equipment was
' damaged B-26 bombers struck |
Monday night at Red airfields.
B-29’s hit Chongjin, North Ko
rea, with 700 tons of bombs.
A British Sunderland flying
| boat squadron patrolled the south
western Korea coast to thwart sea
movement of supplies to the Reds
whose land lines have been chew
i
ed to bits by iar attacks.
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Wednesday, August 23, 1950
American planes, big guns and
i doughboys have slowed down
! communist flanking attacks on
Taegu, but the North Koreans
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massed five divisions—50,000 or
more men—on a front eight to 12
miles north of the advance United
Nations base today. An American
officer said t|ie next 48 hours
could bring the decision in the
battle for Taegu.
Planes and artillery poured
deadly fire into a 100-yard-wide j
no-man’s land after the Reds push- j
ed a wedge into U. N. defenses |
north of Taegu. Enemy dead piled \
up before counterattacking U. S.
and South Korean troops who bat
tled to prevent a breakthrough
which would allow communists to
descend upon their prime target,
the Taegu road and rail junctions.
The communists added their i
Second and 15th Divisions to the
1st, 3rd and 13th on the front
north of Taegu andl poised a bri
gade of at least 14 tanks, while
Americans and South Koreans!
braced for what might soon be the i
all-out North Korean general of- j
fensive. It may be started with a.
heavy lunge at the American right!
flank against the U. S. 27th In
fantry Regiment.
The Reds, who lost 11 tanks in
‘four days in the sector, jabbed
and probed at several places along,
the right flank after a regimental
attack was halted Tuesday by air
and artillery fire. I
“This is a critical phase,” said
Col. John Michaelis, commanding
the 27th “Wolfhound” Regiment.
“If we stop them we will break
the back of this drive.”
An Allied air, artillery and tank
attack early Wednesday had
pushed the forward communists
back, but one Red spearhead was
within eight miles of Taegu,1
threatening U. S. supply lines.
The Reds held higher ground and
poured heavy fire into the attack-,
ing positions with mortar, ma
chinegun and small arms fire. Al
lied pilots raked these enemy
forces.
On the southern front along the
coastal approach to Pusan, main
U. N. supply base, the 25th U. S.
Infantry Division has beaten back
two light Red assaults, but the
threat west of Masan, 27 air miles
from Pusan, still was menacing.
This is the shortest route for the
Reds to Pusan.
The front just west of Taegu re
mained quiet and there was little
activity on the central front sector
along the Naktong River.
Two North Korean officers now
prisoners of war have given indi
cations that morale among the
North Korean forces is bad. A 27
year-old lieutenant colonel who
commanded a Red artillery regi
ment, walked into South Korean
lines and surrendered, saying that
“I don’t want to see all of Korea
run the way the communists now
run it.” He said most of his regi
ment would like to surrender “but
they are too closely watched by
secret political agents in the
army.” A captured captain freely
admitted the North Koreans start
ed the war and that his outfit had
a Russian adviser. Both officers
had served - in the communist
Manchurian army.
The lieutenant colonel willingly
pinpointed position of his 22 ar
tillery pieces hidden in an apple
I
| field. The dictator would simply decree universal mili
i tary training, the moment the country’s spies sensed
j danger developing, and the nation itself would be more
nearly prepared for international crises.
In the United States we don’t do things that way. We
are finding out today just what an advantage our pro
cesses give a ruthless enemy. Unless we move quickly
our great processes of government may be only a mem:
ory in ten or twenty or thirty years. For we are con
fronted with a mortal battle, and if we lose it, we lose
| everything we have lived for since 1775.
orchard, and fighter planes hit
the position with jellied gasoline
bombs. Another prisoner said he
had fought for three days without
food or water because of supply
difficulties.
These supply difficulties are be
ing aggravated daily for the Reds
by U. S. air attacks. Already man
power and oxen are being used by
the Reds to move food and am
munition.
Again today Allied planes lash
ed at Red targets. B-29’s hit at
three northern east coast cities—
Chong jin, 60 miles from Siberia,
Songjin and Hamhung. The Su
perforts also blasted rail yards at
Pyongyang, the northern capital.
At Wednesday American aid Aus
tralian fighters took off to sup
support Allied troops at the front.
Naval patrols continued on the
east and west coasts. Warships
bombarded east coast ports. Two
Russian-built Yak fighter planes
attacked the British destroyer
Comus Tuesday, but the ship was
reported undamaged. Two Yaks
hit at South Korean naval units in
the Yellow Sea Wednesday.
In the Security Council, anti
communist delegates studied Rus
sia’s latest blasts for hints of a
new war threat. Soviet delegate
Jakob A. Malik told the council
at Lake Success, N. Y., yesterday
that “continuation of military op
erations in Korea would lead not
to a localization of the conflict . . .
but would inevitably lead to a
broadening of the conflict, fraught
with serious consequences.”
In that ninth session of the
council since Malik assumed its
presidency for the month, there
was no progress on the Korean
question, but the U. S. and British
representatives lashed Russia with
strong words.
In Washington, state depart
ment counsellor George F. Ken
nan, who is stepping aside after
several years as a top foreign pol
icy maker, said he believes the
United States must maintain a
large military establishment for
many years to come, but he hopes
the U. S. people will not come to
accept the idea of war with Rus
sia as inevitable.
In the matter of costs for Korea,
Secretary of Defense Johnson
and other military leaders have
cautioned Congress they may
have to come back for more
money on top of the $10,500,000,
000 President Truman asked for
the Korean war.
Baseball Scores
By The Associated Press)
TUESDAY GAMES
National League
Philadelphia 4, New York 0.
Brooklyn 3. Pittsburgh 2.
St. Loui$ 9, Boston 2.
♦ Only games scheduled)
American League
Detroit 7, St. Louis 1.
(Only game scheduled)
(No Pacific Coast games sched
uled).
TUESDAY GAMES
National League
New York 6, Chicago 5.
Brooklyn 10, Pittsburgh 8.
Boston 5, St. Louis 1.
Philadelphia 4, Cincinnati 3.
American League
New York 13, Detroit 6.
Cleveland 5, Washington 1.
Boston 9, St. Louis 5.
Chicago at Philadelphia, rain.
Pacific Coast League
Hollywood 4, San Francisco 3.
San Diego 5. Sacramento 4.
Los Angeles 4, Oakland 2.
Seattle at Portland, rain.
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