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Nome, Alaska, Wednesday, July 26, 1950_
NEED RECORDS KEPT OF CEMETERY BURIALS
Our cemetery has been cleared of rubbish and scrub
willow, headstones have been straightened. New head
stones have been placed on many graves and the Nome
cemetery now has the appearance of a respectable place
for our dead.
Now what are we going to do? Go no as before with
out any definite program for further use of the grave
yard, with people being buried and their kindred and
friends being unable to find their resting places, and
in a few years have the place back in the same deplor
able condition?
This is the time for the Nome City Council to take
action and lay out the proper ordinances to care for the
cemetery, and keep a proper record of all burials so that
no more graves will be added to the 450 which now have
no identity.
USE THE T-BOMB
(Christian Science Monitor)
Already suggestions are put forward that the United
States should use atomic bombs in Korea. So far the
proposal is making little headway, even when qualified
with the statement that it should only be done if the
North Koreans refused to withdraw after due warning.
This mention of a warning suggests a kind of bombing
which should encounter few objections.
Why not use the T-bomb? This was described the
other day by General Eisenhower when he said: ;
“The truth can almost be classified as our T- '
bomb in this war. It can be won by truth.
He was speaking, of course, of the whole “war of
ideas,” and General Sarnoff has just suggested that;
America should really carry the air-waves battle to the
Soviet with a $200,000,000 ring of radio stations. He
points out that Russia is now sending into the world;
832 hours of program, against America’s 192 hours. I
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RELIGIOUS ISSUE IN ELECTIONS
It is almost impossible for the average American to;
pass judgment on the election returns in foreign coun
tries. This is particularly noticeable in connection with
the voting in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia,
where the great industrial enterprises of the Ruhr Val
ley are located.
Somewhat strange to Americans is the fact that the
campaigns involved the adoption of a constitution and
JET WARFARE
Korean Situation
At A Glance —
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tacking Reds. First Cavalry ele
ments on the flanks had been cut
off from tiem to timq by road
blocks set up ih their rear by Red
infiltrations.
On the north flank of the with
drawing First Cavalry troops, un
its of the 25th Division caught 600
North Koreans in flanking fire
and beat them off with heavy
casualties. The Reds returned to
the attack with 800 men, but the
Americans, using artillery, infan
try and supporting planes, again
routed the column, which retired
in the area northeast ofYongdong.
Defense department officials in
Washington acknowledged that
the U. S. might be pushed back to
the southeast corner of Korea,
where the outnumbered U. S.
troops would find it less difficult
to hold against the swarms of
Reds. The communists already
have swept over two thirds of
South Korea.
American nad Australian planes
taking advantage of good weather,
roared out in support of the
ground troops, smashing 21 tanks
and an armored car in Monday’s
operations. B-29’s operating be
hind the lines ripped 15 bridges
and light bombers raked enemy
supply lines. Other planes ranged
southwest to the Kwangju area.
The Fifth Air Force was step
ping up night operations to smash
at communists moving armor un
der cover of darkness. Because of
their night marches, the commun
ists have bee nable to maintain
steady pressure on the central
front.
In Washington, the House of
representatives mapped out a
swift schedule toward boosting
the size of the U. S. armed forces.
The House may vote next week on
President Truman’s request for
$10,500,000,000 extra for the bat
tle against communism in Korea
and elsewhere. Administration
forces pushed ahead with the task
of obtaining broad emergency con
trol over business, industry and
consumer credits.
In the works is the addition of
200,000 me nto the armed forces
total in the fiscal year, to bring
the total in the services to more
than 2,000^000. The funds also, in
the President’s words, will help
the U. S. prepare to “deter further
acts of aggression.”
Representatives of the 12 alli
ance nations met in secret session
in London, prodded by events in
Korea, to study ways of cutting
a four-year rearmament schedule
to two years. The delegates, form
ing the permanent civilian high
command of the pact, are expected
to head the first report from its
military commander-in-chief for
Korea, U. S. Gen. Douglas Mac
Arthur. Informed sources said
the report contained no further
recommendations for the U. N.,
but concerned an accounting of
the war thus far.
London, monitoring the Moscow
radio reported that the Chinese
communist government has or
dered a drastic campaign against
spies, saboteurs and traitors, indi-,
eating the Chinese Reds were hav-1
ing trouble with counter-revolu- j
tionary forces. Any caught in such j
activities were threatened with
death.
French Premier Rene Pleven
told members of the French na
tional assembly European factor-1
ies should be used to produce de-1
fense equipment for Atlantic Al-!
liance nations.
The Main rail line between Na- j
mur and Brussels was dynamited j
in two places today in an area |
where the opposition to the re-j
turn of King Leopold to Belgium’s
throne has been the' strongest.
Telephone lines were cut.
In Buenos Aires President Juan
| D .Peron’s Congressional leaders
have turned thumbs down on a j
proposed bill to outlaw commun
| ism in Argentina. It will not be
considered by committee or de
! bated in the Chamber of Deputies, j
the leaders said.
Taipei, Formoca: The threat-1
ened Chinese communist invasion
of Quemoy Island off the China \
coast opposite Formosa ended for;
the time being today. Red junks
which had been approaching the
i-land did not strike, the defense
ministry of the Nationalist gov
ernment on Formosa announced.
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Wednesday, July 26, 1950
U. S. troops and carrier-based
planes battered the spearhead of
a communist drive along the j
south tip of Korea today. Other
carrier planes smashed at the
Reds in the central sector in blows
aimed at plowing down an ad
vancing Red threat to Pusan, Ko
rea’s plain port and big U. S. sup
ply base.
The United Nations foothold on
Korea narrowed to an arc enclos
ing the defenders in an area of
less than a third of South Korea’s
territory. At one point in the
southwest the communists were
only 70 miles from Pusan. Then
American troops and planes
struck, and uncomfirmed reports
said the Americans recaptured the |
port of Hadong, taken by the Reds j
yesterday.
Britain, Australia and New Zea
land, rallying to the United Na
tions’ appeal to stop the Korean j
aggression, all promised to send
in ground forces to fight beside
the Americans and South Kore
ans. The British Admiralty will
put Britain’s Far Eastern fleet on
a “full scale war footing” at once.!
Turkey promised 4,500 fully arm- j
ed troops. Little Thailand, beset
with her own troubles, previously
offered 4,000.
Secretary of State Achesan said I
the United States is pleased by |
the response, and added the devel
opments would be of the greatest;
political consequence as well as j
being militarily significant.
The British promised “effective
land reinforcements” of infantry,
armor, artillery and engineers,
along with administrative backing
to maintain it.
While the American troops *
fought bitterly to delay the com
munists drive until U. S. strength
is built lip, President Truman in
was fought out on a religious issue, whether parents
should have the right to decide what schools of the lo
cality sponsored by the state should be administered by
the church.
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“TRUE VOTE”—At least 66,000,000 persons should j
vote in next November’s electipns if there is to be a
“true sampling” of public opinion, according to the Na
tional Democratic Committee. The committee based its
figures on Census Bureau estimates that there will be
97,230,000 potential voters on November 1.
formed the nation he is ready to
call for complete economic mobil
ization if necessary.
The U. S. carrier-based planes
striking in the sout hand west sec
tors of Korea showed “excellent
results,” a Fifth Air Force spokes
man announced. The planes were
thrown in to help gain time for
two U. S. infantry divisions to get
into fighting position for the ex
pected Red attack eastward. The
Reds, meanwhile, were gathering
their strength for a running fight
down the road from captured
Yongdok, a rocky defile between
towering mountains now clogged
with the equipment of U. S. forces
withdrawing from the biggest
ground action of the war.
Gen. MacArthur’s latest sum
mary said American and South
Korean troops held stubbornly to
their new defense positions de
spite continued pressure all along
the front. It said the U. S. First
Cavalry Division repulsed several
stabs in the Yongdok sector and
inflicted heavy casualties on the
tank-led infantrymen who at
tacked.
With the American beachhead
on South Korea shrinking rapidly
a spokesman at Gen. MacArthur’s
headquarters declared that the
battle lines in the central sector
had stabilized considerably and he
expressed confidence that the
“beachhead can be held.” But the
rosy optimism of a week ago was
not in evidence.
The Reds, flushed with the vic
tory at Yongdok yesterday in
which they drove out the U. S. 1st
Cavalry Division, made only
small scale attacks east of the city
today, but it was certain they
would jump off soon against
Kumchon.
Kumchon, vital communications
center for troops of the U. S. First
Cavalry and 25th Division, is only
20 air miles east of Yongdok—
30 by winding mountain roads, but
a front dispatch said the tank-led
Red assault had pushed the Amer
icans farther back than they had
planned to withdraw and it look
ed like defense plans for the sec
tor would have to be revised com
pletely.
The undercutting communist
sickle in the south had driven to a
point? 15 miles southwest of Kum
chon, but even today a U. S. head
quarters spokesman in Tokyo hacT^
said the swift Red Fourth Division
push through the southwest sec
tor was “unimportant” and prob
ably diversionary.
There was action at one other
point in the southwest sector. A
U. S. Eighth Army spokesman
said South Korean marines and
constabulary ret o o k Namwon,
railroad junction 60 miles south
of Taejon and a jumping off point
for one of the Red prongs driving
toward U. S. communication*^
lines.
In the air, Allied fighters and
bombers kept up their steady
ores pressure against Red supply
lines while battering at enemy
front positions. Under sunny skies
yesterday B-29 superforts bomb
ed 20 more bridges and rail yards 7
at Wonku 50 miles southeast of
Seoul. U. S. and Australian fight
er planes, roving the battle area,
knocked out six tanks and much
other equipment. The enemy con
tinued to move at night to avoid
these air strikes.
Moscow distributed a dispatch
from Korea saying more than
1,500 Americans had been killed
and more than 200 captured in Qe
battle for Yongdok. The Korean
communist radio at Pyongyang,
meanwhile, urged Koreans an#
communists in Japan to attac*
and destroy American military
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