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Nome, Alaska, Monday, July 24, 1950
COSTS GOVERNMENT MONEY
The Welfare Commissioner of the City of New York
reports that public assistance in April was provided to
351,961 persons, roughly figuring about one out of
twenty-one people, or about five per cent of the city’s
population by the 1940 census.
This relief job cost $13,291,343, or about $37.76 a per
son. The continued rise in public assistance rolls is at
tributed to chronic unemployment problems, with the
warning that the expenditure will increase unless jobs
can be found foi‘ those on the relief rolls.
The payment of unemployment compensation and
the use of public money for the relief of individuals
have increased by leaps and bounds in the last genera
tion. Such expenditures explain, in part, why the cost
of government has increased in the United States.
EMPLOYMENT UP—Employment for the months
between January and March rose in three-quarters of
the nation’s major production ‘centers and in two-thirds
of the areas where unemployment had been heaviest,
according to Robert C. Goodwin, director of the Bureau
of Employment Security. Mr. Goodwin said that total
civilian employment at the seasonal mid-year peak
would probabyl rise to at least 60,000,000, but he warn
ed that this post-war goal on jobs, first attained in 1947,
was no longer adequate in the face of a labor force that
is steadily growing.
I
CONSUMER INCOME—The Commerce Department
reports that consumer incomes, the mainspring of retail
sales, rose in March to a $212,000,000,000-a-year level.
This was a $2,400,000,000 rise from the February annu
al rate and a $1,800,000,000 gain over the level of
March, 1949.
EMPLOYMENT—Industrial and commercial em
ployment increased by 636,000 between mid-February
and mid-March, to a total of 42,323,000 in March, about
600,000 less than in March, 1949.
ENGINEERS—The nation faces a serious shortage of
engineers, starting in 1954, unless more college students
train for the profession, according to the Office of Edu
cation, which points out that there probably will be
fewer engineering graduates in 1952 than were actually
placed in jobs in 1949.
THE OLD REFRAIN
Korean Situation
At A Glance - - -
(Continued from Page One)
safety. Front line dispatches said
more than 200 Americans have
struggled back since Taejon’s fall.
Monday, July 24, 1950
Troops of the two fresh U. S.
divisions in South Korea halted
twin communist tank-led assaults
against two American positions in
the central sector today, but in the
southwest sector the Reds wheel
ed into position for a drive behind
U. S. lines, possibly aimed at
shearing off the southern end of
the peninsula.
The Reds attacked east of Taejon
Sunday along a mountain road
leading to Yongdong. Their tanks
began the attack without infantry j
support, and between 10 and 20 j
were knocked out. The Reds then *
kicked off again with tanks and
infantry.
The U. S. First Cavalry (infan
try) division blunted the drive
and then hurled a savage coun
terattack. A 75-minutes battle at
close quarters followed, with the
Americans getting support from
fighter planes and artillery. The
communists broke and yielded
more ground than their attack had
gained in the beginning.
Just to the north, eight North
Korean tanks spearheaded an at
tack by 700 Red troops against,
positions held by the U. S. 25th
Division. Bazooka-men and planes
knocked out five of the tanks and
halted two others,
i On the southwest sector the
Reds took Kwangju, almost at the
tip of the peninsula, and nullified
for American use the ports of
Yosu and Mokopo, to the south.
This placed the Reds in position to
launch a drive eastward in the di
rection of Pusan, main American
supply port 120 air miles distant.
The communists had moved down
in the southwest sector against ‘
comparatively little resistance, |
and ther advance could develop
into a dangerous flanking tnoVe-'
ment against the Pusan-Ttejon
rail line.
Gen. MacArthur reported in a
communique that the enemy was
building up ‘considerable strength’ \
on the southwestern, western and
central fronts. North Korean
pressure was increasing on the
central front in the Kuhang sector j
along the corridor leading to the
U. S. beachhead at Pohang on the
east coast. Tewtny-five miles to;
the north of this beachhead area,'
naval guns again blasted the ruins j
of Yongdok, which was retaken by i
the Reds Saturday after having
fallen to South Korean and U. S.
forces only the day before. The
Reds lost “up to 6,000 men” at
Yongdok. a South Korean spokes
man said.
A U. S. defense department
spokesman in Washington estim
ated the North Koreans have lost
up to 18,000 in casualties thus far.
With clearing weather the U. S.
air arm roared into battle and
into damaging strategic attacks
behind the lines. The Fifth Air
Force moved its advance base
from southern Japan to Korea,
where two fields already are in
! operation.
B-29 Superforts from Japan
struck at Communist transport
lines. They dropped 80 tons of
bombs on bridges and roads lead
I ing to the Taejon front. Fighters
and light bombers flew 248 indi
vidual flights against Red posi
tions. U. S. planes are also drop
ping propaganda leaflets behind
i the lines.
A front dispatch reported Maj.
Gen. William F. Dean, 50, the red
haired fighting commander of the
battered 24th infantry division,
escaped from burning Taejon
Thursday night after leading his
men in a bitter street battle. The
general apparently stayed behind
in the mountains, in what is now
enemy territory, to round up
American stragglers. Hopes were
expressed that he would safely
make his way back to American
lines.
Washington advices said pros
pects for new diplomatic negotia
tions looking to an end to the Ko
rean war now appeared to hinge
on the outcome of the U. S. effort
to stabilise the front in South Ko
rea. Russia's real ihlentions in Ko
rea would be brought out of the
Red advance bogged down. U. S.
officials say. Moscow would then
have to choose whether to help
the satellite communists or teach
a decision on negotiation.
The U. S. shows no inclination
to take a whole series of these lit
tle communist wars of aggression
lying down. Congress members
now are calling upon top military
leaders for an appraisal of the na
tion’s fighting readiness, and are
pushing emergency meas ures
which would hasten the “war
footing.” i
A down-to-brass tacks attitude |
also was evident among the 12 At- '
lantic pact nations, who get down'
to work tomorrow in London on;
a program aimed at shoring up
their defenses against the com-;
In the light of Ko-i
nations were told |
there is an urgent need for quick
action.
Moscow was stressing military
power, too. The Russians observ-!
ed navy day yesterday with calls
for a strengthened Soviet fleet to
counter “war preparations by
American and English imperial
ists.”
$n Bar-le-Duc. France, France’s
President, Vincent Auriol, in his
first statement on the Korean
war, has called for organization of
an international army to oppose
aggression.
A Chinese Nationalist defense i
ministry spokesman at Taipei,
Formosa said a number of junks
were approaching Quemoy Island
under cover of a Chinese com-1
munist artillery barrage. It may
be the long-expected invasion at
tempt against Quemoy, an island
used bv the Nationalists as a
blockade base against the Red's.
The East German communists
arranged a huge “international
peace demonstration” for tonight
in the Lustgarten Square of the
Russian sector. It tops off a five
day convention of the German
communists.
Cominform outcast Yugoslavia
charged Bulgaria with scrapping
border agreements made in the
Bulgarian peace treaty, and rela
tions between the two countries
hit a new low in the shaky Bal
kans.
LEOPOLD ASKS BELGIANS
TO STOP STRUGGLE
BRUSSELS, Belgium <£>)—King
Leopol III came home from exile
Saturday and immediately called
t>n all Belgians to avoid further
bitter struggle. The nation has
been slipt down the middle by his
insistence upon returning to the
throne he left 10 years ago after
surrendering to the Nazis.
Less than five hours after Leo
pold landed on Belgian soil, the
two main opposition parties—the
Socialists and the Liberals — de
manded that he abdicate. But in
his radio address to the nation a
short time later, the king gave no
indication as to whether he in
tends to quit in favor of his son,
Prince Baudouin, who came home
with him.
Baseball Scores
(By The Associated Press)
Friday Games
National League
Chicago 4, Boston 3. (13 innings)*
Brooklyn 7, Cincinnati 1.
Philadelphia 4, Pittsburgh 1.
New York/5, St. Louis 4. (11 inn.)
American League
New York 14, Detroit 5.
Boston 7, St. Louis 4.
Washington 3, Cleveland 2.
Philadelphia 7, Chicago 6. <10 inn.>
Pacific Coast League
Sacramento 3, Los Angeles 1.
Hollywood 4, Seattle 3.
Portland 9, Oakland 8.
San Diego 13, San Francisco 5.
Saturday Games
American League
New York, 10, Detroit 4.
Chicago 6, Philadelphia 1.
Boston 11, St. Louis 2.
Cleveland T, Washington 3.
Detroit
Cleveland
Boston
Washington
Chicago
St. Louis
Philadelphia
W. L. Pet.
55 31 .640
53 36 .596
50 39 .562
40 45 .471
37 52 .416
30 57 .345
30 58 .341
National League
Boston 8-7, St. Louis 5-11.
Brookyln 12, Pittsburgh 3.
Philadelphia 2-1, Cincinnati 0-6.
New York 7, Chicago 0.
Philadelphia
Boston
St. Louis
Brooklyn
Chicago
New York
Cincinnati
Pittsburgh
W. L. Pet.
49 37 .570
47 36 .566
48 37 .565
45 36 .556
39 42 .481
39 46 .459
37 48 .435
31 53 .369
Pacific Coast League
Seattle 6, Hollywood 5 <11 inn.)
Oakland 9, Portland 2.
San Francisco 6, San Diego 3.
Los Angeles 6, Sacramento 3
(10 innings)
W. L. Pet.
Oakland 70 44 .614
Hollywood 68 48 .586
San Diego 60 58 .508
Seattle 57 58 .496
San Francisco 56 60 .483
Portland 53 59 .473
Los Angeles 53 63 .457
Sacramento 45 72 .385
Sunday Games
National League
Philadelphia 12-7, Cincinnati 4-4.
St. Louis 8„ Boston 4.
Brooklyn 1, Pittsburgh 1.
New York 5-3, Chicago 3-0.
American League
Detroit 1, New York 5.
Cleveland 6, Washington 2.
Boston 6, St. Louis 2.
Philadelphia 2-5, Chicago 1-4.
Pacific Coast League
Seattle 4-4, Hollywood 3-3. *
Oakland 4-4, Portland 2-2.
San Francisco 5-9, Los Angeles 2-1
GOP TO FIGHT BACK AT
DEMOCRATIC CHARGES
WASHINGTON, {JP)—Republi- •
cans are loading up for at least
one more shot in the fiery row
over the communist-in-govern
ment charges of Senator McCar
thy (R.-Wis.)
For two days the Senate has
been caught up in a furious con
troversy over a Democratic re
port branding McCarthy’s charges
“a fraud and a hoax.”
While it looked as though the
wrangling was generally petering
out Saturday, Senator Ferguson i
(R.-Mich.) said he will speak on
the subject today, adding that he
had dug up some material that he
was unwilling to disclose in ad
vance.
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