B-29 Shot Down
Near Seoul
WASHINGTON, (A5) — The air
force said yesterday it had receiv
ed a report that a B-29 suporfort
ress has been shot down by enemy
fighters near Seoul, the first re
ported B-29 loss to enemy action.
An air force briefing officer at
the Pentagon said the report came
from the pilot of a U.S.A.F. F-80
fighter who had been in radio
contact with the B-29.
Dispatches from Tokyo told of
a strike by B-29 superfortresses
plastering a key North Korean
military target with 500 tons of
bombs. Tokyo reporter, however,
that all of the planes and crew
members returned safely from
that raid without meeting opposi
tion.
The air force gave no indica
tion as to when or how the B-29
reported lost was downed.
The report said the superfort
ress was attacked by an unknown
number of enemy fighters and
the B-29 crew bailed out.
A superfortress normally car
ries a crew of 11 on 12 men.
Some days ago a B-29 was
“ditched” off Kyushu after engine
trouble.
The report on the shot-down
B-29 made no reference to what
happened to the crew after they
In Case Of War
City Must Look
Out For Itself
ANCHORAGE, (IP) — “In case
of disaster, Anchorage will have
to stay on its own feet,” Mayor Z.
J. Loussac told city councilmen
Wednesday night.
Loussac said military leaders
have indicated that in event of an
attack—they will be so busy de
fending the Territory that An
chorage will have to take care of
itself.
The Mayor, urging immediate
action toward drafting an emer
gency program, read a letter from
Col. J. D. Alexander, civilian de
| fense chief for Alaska, warning
i that “communities in Alaska may
| be subjected to enemy attack
j from the air without warning.”
“In view of Alaska’s strategic
! situation, immediate and positive
! action is needed,” Alexander said,
I but urged that this “should in no
way cause undue excitement and
should be conducted with a mini
mum interference with everyday
life.”
parachuted out.
Seoul, the capital of South Ko
rea, is now in the hands of the
North Korean communist invad
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B-29’s Drop 500
Tons Of Bombs
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On North Korea
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tion on the daylight raid.
It took exactly eight days to de
liver this new punch—from the
date overseas orders were first de
%
livered and most of their equip
ment moved 8,000 miles and pre
pared for an air blow that meant
a round trip of more than 1,500
miles.
Air officers said this proved the
speed with which*Strategic bomb
ing assignments could be carried
out throughout the world.
One of the aircraft commanders,
Lt. James T. Patrick of Carnation,
Wash., said it differently: “This
will make Uncle Joe sit up and
take notice.”
I was in Patrick’s plane on an
assignment representing the com
bined Allied press. But a few
miles after grunting our plane—
and its 20,000 pounds of bombs—
off the ground, we had to turn
back with a faulty motor.
The remainder of the sleek
bombers made a perfect overwa
ter rendezvous and released their
bombs at 11:02 a.m. Japan day
light time Thursday (2:02 p.m.
Wednesday, Nome time) through
mist so thick that radar was used
to sight the target.
Maj. Gen. Emmett (Rosy) O’
Donnell directed this first mission
of his new command, the Far East
Bomber Command (provisional).
The 43-year-old two-star general,
once a West Point football coach,
led the first World War II B-29
raid on Japan.
About 60 per cent of the men in
his new command are combat
tested, veterans of thunderous
pattern bombing misions from
Germany to Japan. They were
geared for battle with alert con
fident eagerness.
“I wish they had forgotten my
name this time,” said Staff Sgt.
William M. Kofmehl, Spokane,
Wash., tail gunner on our abortive
flight and veteran of the Euro
pean air war. “But mebbe it’s bet
ter to get it over with now instead
of getting pushed around all the
time like we’ve been doing.”
They know they have the
planes and the experience to mas
ter this kind of war—and they
know, too, what it was like for
the infantrymen on the ground on
the ground, most of them untest
ed before two weeks ago, to be
outnumbered and outgunned.
“I sure hope our bombs help,”
Tech. Sgt. Robert Asher told Flint
O. Dupre, a former Dallas news
paperman.
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Gas Explosion
Kills One; Damages
Several Buildings
SEATTLE, (^P) — A violent un
derground gas explosion killed
one person, injured more than a
dozen others and damaged sever
al buildings in a south side busi
ness area today.
The blast occurred at 5:35 a.m.
in the basement under the Seaport
Tavern and the New Washington
Cafe, at First Avenue South and
Washington Street.
It ripped through the first floor
of the three-story building, and
one wall section fell into the
street.
Windows were shattered in
buildings seevral blocks away.
Sixty feet of sidewalk was ripped j
out, and glass and debris littered
the street.
The known victim was Neil J.
Boles, 33 of Kent, Wash. His body
was found lying in a second-story
window of the Del Mar Hotel,
across the street from the Seaport
hTavern.
Fire department investigators
said illuminating gas apparently
exploded, from an unexplained
cause. Firemen extingu i s h e d
flames that shot 220 feet above the
sidewalk just after the blast.
Several persons in the Del Mar
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mornings until July 28th.
Mrs. Pearse Walsh, chairman
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this time.
Hotel and others, walking on the
street, were cut by flying glass.
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had the explosion occurred two
hours later when streets were
crowded.
The explosion started a fire in
the Buttnick Manufacturing com
pany, work-clothing manufacturer
o nthe second and third stories of
the building. The company’s quar
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