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Nome, Alaska, Monday, October 2, 1950
FRUITS OF FOLLY '
(By Dr. Allred P. Haake)
One litttle mistake may not be serious. But, even a
little mistake, uncorrected and repeated, con grow into
mountainous folly, with consequences undreamed of
when the string of mistakes was begun.
Who would have though, twenty years ago, that the
failure of Secretary of State Stimson to win the support
of England and the subsequent taking over of Manchur
ia by Japan in violation of international agreement,
world start a train of events leading to the second
world war, the destruction of several nations and now
to the beginnings of a third world war, with Russia and
America finally locked in a struggle to the death for one
or the other
Yet that is precisely what happened the day we pull
ed in our horns and let Japan have her way with Man
churia.
Mussolini needed room lor expansion. He hesitated,
but when he saw how easi'v JaDan got away with her
aggression in Manchuria he piucked uo enough courage
to go ahead. He could still have been stopped, but
France refused to stand with England, just as England
had previously refused to stand with the United States,
and Mussolini had his war. He took over Ethiopia.
Hitler bluffed Chamberlain at Munich. He say Musso
lini win out in his bluff, and himself went ahead with
Czechoslovakia and Poland, made his deal with Russia,
and the second world war was really on. Russia took her
half of helpless Poland, all but ruined Finland, then
Germany turned on Russia, and the Bear became the
pet of America. The communistic movement became re
spectable and even Christian in the eyes of Russia-fond
Americans.
We let Russia have Berlin, although our boys got
there first. We gave Russia a free ticket to the Balkan
and Baltic states. In the infamous deal at Yalta we turn
ed faithless on China and gave Russia the nod to work
her will in that country. The American people were not
told, of course, and a number of years had to elapse be
fore the truth became known.
So, thanks to a somnambulant Department of State,
we have been kept busy with a costly struggle with Rus
sian-inspired and equipped North Koreans—while Rus
sia prepares to have her Nazi-trained German Com
munists in East Germany take over the rest of Germany.
Then,—other “diversions” to keep the United States
busy, piling up her national debt and grinding her way
"MA, HE S GETTING BOLDER !”
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Korean Situation
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headquarters summary said the
town “died” under the attack.
Uijongbu was infested with
Reds retreating toward the 38th
parallel, 18 miles farther north.
American Marine armored col
umns, after an artillery barrage,
pushed off from Seoul toward Ui
jongbu. The route leads to Chro
won, across the Red border and
48 miles north of Seoul.
It is in the Chorwon area that
a South Korean army spokesman
estimated 100,000 communi s t s
have gathered. However, he said
most of them are believed to be
poorly and lightly armed con
scripts rounded up hastily.
The British cruiser Ceylon
landed a party on the island of
Taechong. within 10 miles of the
parallel off the west coast. A U. S.
navy summary said the raiders
found no Reds. They had fled.
In Seoul, the capital’s more than
1,000,000 residents awoke Satur
day to the din of artillery on the
northeast—the barrage preceding
the Marine kickoff toward para
llel 38.
1 nc cuy—omciany restored as
the Republic’s seat of government
by General MacArthur Friday—
strove to clean up its battle-rub
bled streets and resume .normal
pu rsuits.
No public utilities were func
tioning—most of the power and
water systems were damaged or
destroyed. Water was dipped from
wells.
Syngman Rhee, 75-year-old
Princeton-educated President, ap
peared philosophical about the
devastation in the 500-year-old
! city.
Lives were saved and people
weer made free,” he commented,
i “We can and we will rebuild.”
Arsonists set Seoul’s capitol
| afire Friday, shortly after MacAr
thur and Rhee had left the scene
of the brief and solemn liberation
ceremony. Security officers had
removed a bomb from the build
ing before MacArthur and Rhee
arrived there.
In the Seoul vicinity, 300 Reds
were reported killed and 226 cap
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tured Friday.
The only fighting south of Seoul
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HARRY X.ONGLEY BURIED
SATURDAY AFTERNOON
Harry Longley was buried
from the Federated Church last
Saturday afternoon under the aus
pices of the Pioneers of Alaska,
with Rev. Paul Carlson officiat- i
ing. j
Special music for the services
was rendered by Juanita Fager
strom and Cpl. Hillbilly Whitten
ton, accompanied with zither mu
sic.
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| was in the mopping up of relative
ly small groups of Reds trapped
in the southwest and west. In six |
days up until Friday, an estim
ated 19,125 communists were kill-1
i ed or wounded, a MacArthur
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spokesman announced.
He said 15,517 were captured
since the war began June 25.
The Red toll was rising steadily
as the Allied steel traps tightened
from Seoul to the sout hcoast.
i United Nations naval ships join
: ed in shelling scattered coastal
1 points.
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Monday, October 2, 1950
South Korean Third Division!
drives 30 miles beyond the 38th
parallel into North Korea. South'
Korean Capital Division troops
swing westward after capture of
YangYang, seven miles north of
the parallel on the east coast. Reds
' are reported readying to stand at
Wonsan, 70 miles up east coast
and directly across from Pyong
, yang, their capital.
U. S. Marines push slowly north
of Seoul to points 18 miles north
of South Korean capital, rubbing
out pockets of enemy resistance.
: U. S. Seventh Division troops cap
ture Inchon, east of Suwon, as
Americans moup up elsewhere,
taking record bag o*f prisoners.
B-29’s hit Pyongyang, North Ko
rean capital, once again. Allied
i planes scatter millions of leaflets j
| bearing MacArthur’s ultimatum*!
to North Korea to surrender or j
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face total death.
i Communist China’s premier ini
Peiping, Chou En-Lai, says China!
! will not “supinely tolerate seeing
1 her neighbors being savagely in
' vaded by imperialists.”
At Lake Success India is re-,
ported taking grave view o*f the
communist Chinese statement as
delegates study an eight-nation
plan to unify- Korea and erase the
38th parallel.
to economic depression, while Russia husbands her
strength against that great day when she can pounce on
a war-torn and weary America for the final blow. That
seems to be the schedule.
We must stick together now and win, no matter what
the cost. But, we can highly resolve that from this point
on we shall depend more on well-informed American
brains and less on power politics. Let’s bury Pendergast
and all he stood for.
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FLYING THE WOUNDED HOME
The Army reports that the men wounded in Korea,
who are being returned to this country for hospitaliza-.
tion, “are coming back in better shape than in World;
War II. \
The Air Force reports that in August 1,378 patients
were flown from Japan and Korea to this country.
These included battle casualties as well as other injured
and ill! persons. C-97’s that are being used for transport
carry fifty patients and attendant nurses and, because
of greater flying range, take a shorter route over the Pa
cific. On the average, the big planes take thirty-seven1
hours to reach the west coast.
. The airplane has become a mighty weapon of warfare!
but in this instance, at least, it serves the cause of hu ;
manity. It would be impossible to imagine the reaction
of soldiers a generation ago to the suggestion that, in thei
future, men wounded in battle would be carried1
through the air for thousands of miles for hospitaliza-1
tion.
NEWS IN BRIEF
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“collector’s item,” the Marine
Corps League will have no part in
the transaction.
Maurice J. Fagan, league com
mandant, Friday night disavowed
participation in any such scheme”
on behalf of the League and dis
closed he told the President he
was “surprised and shocked” at
the plan.
A price tag of $2,500 has been
pinned on the letter.
CINCINNATI, (JP)—A group of
greater Cincinnati mothers—with
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sons who are soldiers missing in
action in Korea—have urged that
United Nations forces go beyond
the 38th parallel in that country.
One of the mothers, Mrs. Laura
Broo'ks, Oakley, knows her son to
be a prisoner. She recently identi
fied her boy, Second Lt. Arthur
H. Brooks, 21, in a picture of
American prisoners being moved
from Seoul.
WASHINGTON, (JP)—A broad
ened draft law to raise and main
tain a 3,000,000-man armed force
“for years to come — perhaps a
generation” is in prospect before
the end of the year.
Chairman Vinson <D.-Ga.> of
the House armed services commit
tee made the forecast and said
Saturday he expects Congress to
revise the present law when it re- 1
turns in November.
His committee already is hold
ing hearings on suggested chang
es.
TAIPEI, Formosa, </P)—This na
tionalist Chinese capital was de
pressed Saturday by the United
Nations security council’s decision
to invite a Red China spokesman
to present communist charges of
U. S. aggression in Formosa.
The council hearings were
scheduled to be held in New York
Nov. 15.
It was taken for granted here
that one result of the hearing
would be a decision to send a U.
N. commission to Formosa to
probe the Red charges.
JUNEAU, (JP) — The Territorial
employment ser^ce is looking for
859 nurses to fill vacancies in va
rious Alaska Native Service hos
pitals in Alaska. *
BUFFALO, N. Y. (/P)—Selective
Service afficials ignored the mes
sage scribbled on an envelope con
taining a filled-in draft question- •
naire.
It read. “Do not open until
Christmas.”
JUNEAU (TP)—The highway de
partment announced Satur day
that beginning Nov. 1, bids will
be advertised in four sections for
reconstruction of 58 miles of the
Seward-Anchorage highway,
starting at Seward.
Juneau, (/P)—The U. S. Coast
and Geodetic Survey vessel Sur
veyor, arrived Saturday after
summer survey of ocean currem
in the Aleutians. The ship v.
spend a week here, then procc
to Seattle.
JUNEAU (JPh-Governor Gruu
ing said Saturday he’s “not going
to’ debate anybody—this is the
first I’ve heard of it.”
A reporter had asked him for
comment on a recent challenge by
Albert White, Juneau Republican
boss, for a debate on “corruption,
malfeasance and misfeasance.”
The governor also said Alaska
defenses were improving and “the
people need have no concern at
the present rate of strengthening.”
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