Casualties List U. S.
Worst Fortnight
f TOKYO, (/P)—General MacAr
thur's headquarters said today
American casualties in the worst
fortnight of retreat in Korea to
taled 11,964 killed, wounded and
missing. It said other United Na
tions forces from abroad suffered
1,011 casualties in that period.
The total of 12,975 did rtpt in
clude republic of Korea losses.
Headquarters said field com
manders reported Chinese Red
losses at a ratio of 10 to 1—a total
of more than 120,000.
The period was dated Nov. 27 to
Dec. 12, but the total also inclu
ded relatively small losses suffer
ed during “U.N. probing attacks
beginning Nov. 24.”
The defense department an
nounced Nov. 30 in Washington
that American casualties in Korea
since the war began had readied
a total of 31,028, saying this rep
resented all whose next of kin
had been notified through Nov.
24. This indicated that American
casualties through Dec. 12 were in
excess of 42,000
The Washington list showed 5,
307 dead, 21,114 wounded and 4,
611 missing. The new MacArthur
headquarters summary today did
not break down its casualty fig
ures to show how many were kill
ed, wounded or missing.
Hardest hit was the U.S. army
Second Infantry division which
suffered 4,131 casualties during
what IMacArthur called the *Te
portorial ‘disaster’ period.” The
Second Division played a major
role in blunting the Chinese Red
counteroffensive on the northwest
front.
WASHINGTON, OP)— The de
fense department raised its total
Strike Threatened
On Pan American
NEW YORK, (^P)—Threat of a
strike by 4,500 mechanics and
ground service employees hung
over the network of Pan-Ameri
can World Airways.
A union official said demon
strations would occur at “various
stations” of the air system which
operates flights into 71 countries
in six continents.
The official, James F. Horst, di
rector of the air lines division of
the CIO Transport Workers union,
declined to say when a strike
wcrnld take effect.
He announced the “possibility
of a strike to enforce our de
mands” when wage negotiations
broke off this week.
Negotiations ceased, Horst said,
after a ten-day period of bargain
ing at the company’s Long Island
City offices.
The union seeks a pay boost of
eight cents an hour above tihe
present scales of $1.16 to $2.08
an hour.
A company spokesman said the
present union contract runs to
Nov. 1, 1951, and has no wage re
opening provision.
of announced Korean battle cas
ualties -to 36.421 today. This was a
rise of 2,543 since its last report a
wee ago.
Of these, 5,518 were listed as
killed in action, 25,587 wounded
and 5,316 missing. Of the wound
ed, 662 later died, bringing total
deaths to 6,180.
The department announces only
casualties whose next of kin has
received notification. Today’s re
port covers notifications through
midnight of Dec. 15.
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West Germans
Want More Than
Offered Them
BRUSSELS, Belgium West Ger
mans made it -clear to the Big
Three yesterday that they want
more than they have been offer
ed, in return for taking part in an
international military organiza
tion to protect the Western World.
The Atlantic Council decision
will go before the West German
government soon, and the Ger
mans likely will drive a sharp
bargain.
Bonn dispatches said the three
Allied high commissioners for
Germany probably would meet
with Konrad Adenauer, the West
German Republic’s chancellor
(premier), to inform him of the
results of the conference which
placed Gen. Dwight D. Eisen
hower at the head of a projected
international army of 1.000.000, to
include German units.
Members of Adenauer’s own
dominant party, the Christian
Democrats, predicted negotiations
over Germany’s role in the west
ern army would Ibe long drawn
out. A press statement issued by
the party said it would be some
time before the federal govern
ment would be able to take a def
inite stand.
•Here in Brussels where the 12
* ,
member nations o fthe Atlantic
Pact reached their histone deci
sions this week, it was reported
that the Germans might be offer
ed representation on Gen. Eisen
hower’s staff, but would not be al
lowed a foreign ministry or a de
fense ministry of their own—at
least not for the time being.
The Atlantic Pact nations are
the United States, Canada, Bri
tain, France, Belgium, The Neth
erlands, Luxembourg, Denmark,
Italy, ‘Portugal, Iceland and Nor
way.
Stalin Gets “Nice”
Presents On His
71st Birthday
(By The Associated Press)
Thursday was Joseph Stalin’s
birthday—he’s 7il—and while his
controlled press at home once
again hailed him in extravagant
prose, communists in the ring of
states around Russia pulled out all
the stops attempting to outdo each
other in praising him.
In Moscow, East Berlin, Prague,
Sofia, Bucharest, Budapest and
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Warsaw, the communist press cho
rused praise of the man in the |
Kremlin in phrases like these:
“Greatest scientist of our time.”
“Leader of the world peace
camp.”
“Defender of the worker.”
“Great genius Stalin.”
Leingrad’s city Soviet announc
ed a decision to rename Interna
tional Prospect and its continua
tiin, the Moscow Tighway. From
now on, it’s J. V. Stalin Prospect.
But Stalin had one gift from
Western Berlin to mull over. An
organization called “The Fighting
Troup Against Inhumanity” wrote
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that they wanted to remind him
of the German prisoners of war
still in the Soviet Union.
They sent him a wreath made
of barbed wire.
Mr. and Mrs. Mel Braund are
making their home in Anchorage
where Mel is in the building busi
ness.
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