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B^OL. LXXVIII., NO. 11,831
JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, JUNE 9, 1951
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Battered Reds Retreat From One Stronghold
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SABOTAGE
SUSPECTED
IN CRASHES
Eight F-84 Jet Fighters Go
Down-Three Pilots Kill
ed-Other Accidents
By Associated Press
Evidence of the possibility .of
sabotage in the nation's greatest
mass of air crashes — that of eight
F-84 jet fighters yesterday — was
sought today by FBI and Air Force
investigators.
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The jets were all members of one
flight. They fell in Richmond, Ind.,
area within 25 miles of each other.
Three of the pilots Were killed.
In all, nine Air Force and Navy
pilots died in the crashes through
out the U. S. yesterday.
Six other airmen lost their lives
*n three separate crashes yesterday.
Some residents in the Richmond
area, seeing the broken planes tum
bling out of the sky, thought there
was an enemy bombing raid.
The one-man jet fighters —which
were flying between 500 and 600
miles an hour when they crashed—
cost ab-.ut $275,000 each.
Two of the five pilots whose
planes crashed suffered injuries.
Two others rode their planes to
crash landings, escaping uninjured.
The fifth pilot parachuted safely
from his falling Thunderjet.
I There was no official explanation
of the mishaps. The eight ill-fated
jets were among 34 in the second
flight of a 71-plane group en route
to Selfridge Field. Mich. They crash
ed about 10 minutes after taking
off from the*Wright-Patterson Field
at Dayton, O.
MISS MCMULLEN ON
10-DAY ASSIGNMENT
TO FAIRBANKS OFFICE
Suzanne McMullen, clerk in the
office of the Territorial Veterans
Commission, is leaving Sunday for
Fairbanks on a 10-day assignment
from the Juneau office, it was an
nounced today by Floyd Guertin,
commisisoner.
Miss McMullen will fill in for one
of the Fairbanks employees who is
leaving on vacation. She will fly
to Fairbanks Sunday via Pan Am
erican plane. She is the daughter of
Mrs. Rose McMullen, secretary to
U. S. District Attorney, Patrick J.
Gilmore, Jr.
WASHINGTON, D. C. VISITOR
Sidney S. Kennedy of Washing
ton, D. C. is registered at the Bar
anof Hotel.
The Washington
Merry-Go-Round
By DREW PEARSON
(Copyright. 1151. by Bell Syndicate, Inc..
l^ASHINGTON — Col. Robert
McCormick, potent publisher of the
Chicago Tribune, is working on
some secret strategy which he hop.
es will throw the presidency of the
United States into his lap in 1952.
On the surface McCormick gives
all signs of backing his good friend
Sen. Bob Taft. Actually, however,
McCormick favors his able, up-and
coming protege. Sen. Everett Dirk
sen, the recently elected solon from
Pekin, 111.
McCormick’s strategy in this sit
uation is quite simple. At the Chic
ago convention in '52, he will work
ior a deadlock between the two
leading candidates—probably Taft
and Eisenhower. Once he’s man
euvered the convention into a stale
mate, he will pass out word that
the only way to break the deadlock
is to nominate Senator Dirksen.
If this deadlock does develop,
Dirksen might have a chance of
securing the nomination. He’s a
well known and well-liked figure in
top Republican circles. And since
the convention will be in Chicago,
there’s bound to be a lot of Dirk
sen support in the ever-vocal gall
eries.
Note — The irony is that Dirk
’ sen by himself would make a good
president; Dirksen bogged down
by Chicago Tribune policies would
not.
China Lobby
When Sen. Wayne Morse of Ore
(Contlnued on Page Four)
SEATTLE FIRMS WIN
JOINT BID, HAINES
PORT FACILITIES
SEATTLE, June 9 —I*— Bids far
below the government estimates
were reported today for two major
Alaska construction projects.
The Alaska district engineer's sub
office said a four-firm contractor's
group had a bid 34 per cent below
the government estimate yesterday
for a port facilities job at Haines.
Valle-Sommers, Seattle, submitted
a bid 17 per cent below the govern
ment estimate for three airmen’s
dormitories at Elmendorf Air Base.
The Valle-Somners bid was $8,
406,021. The government estimate
was $10,133,516.
Patti-MacDonald, Anchorage, also
was below the estimate with a $9,
939.439 bid. Other bids were: S.
Birch and Sons-J. C. Boespflug,
Seattle, $10,200,000; Morrison -
Knudsen, Seattle, $10,295,000.
The low Haines project bid was
by Scheumann-Johnson - Manson -
Osberg Co., Seattle, $1,690,000. The
government estimate for the bulk
head wharf substructure was $2,
561,769.
Three other bids also were below
the estimate. They were: Lytle
Green, $2,213,917; Morrison-Knud
sen, $2,350,465; Haddock Engineer
Associates, $2,423,800.
William A. Smith Co. and Brown
and Root, of Anchorage, bid $3,077,
000 jointly. J. H. Pomeroy Co. bid
$2,783,000 on an alternative pro
’posal.
TWO STUDENTS TRY
RAISING RED FLAG
AT U. OffALASKA
I
FAIRBANKS, Alaska, June 9—1*
Dr. Terris Moore, president of the
University of Alaska, has confirmed
reports that two university students
lowered the American flag and tried
to raise the Red flag during com
mencement exercises May 21 at
which Governor Warren of Cali
fornia spoke.
One of the students, identified
during a chase afterward, was later
expelled. His identity was not dis
closed. The identity of the other
student still is not knowm.
Dr. Moore said the faculty had
been forewarned that certain stu
dents would try to “ball up” the
exercises. Members of the Univers
ity's Reserve Officers Training
Corps were stationed on the cam
pus to watch for any demonstrations
or “overt acts.”
An ROTC guard saw an attempt
to raise the Red flag and chased
two offenders. Both escaped but one
was recognized in the pursuit.
Dr. Moore said the two were part
of a small number of radical or
prank-playing students that “can
be found on any university campus."
Meanwhile radio station KFAR
here reported another act of van
dalism during the commencement
exercises.
Manager A1 Bramstedt said some
one deliberately cut the radio trans
mission line prior to the Warren
speech, preventing the California
governor’s talk from being broad
cast.
"LUCKY" LUCIANO
IN TROUBLE, ITALY
ROME, June 9 —UR— Italian po
lice accused Charles “Lucky” Lu
ciano, reputed czar of the U. S. un
derworld, of currency smuggling to
day.
Officials said the exiled vice lord,
who was released from prison in the
United States and deported to Italy
in 1946, fell into a police dragnet
fishing for a narcotics gang.
Police said, however, they had not
established any definite connection
between Luciano and the gang. They
did, however, discover that he had
smuggled $57,000 and an American
automobile into Italy, a police an
nouncement said.
Luciano must pay five times the
amount of the currency and the
value of the automobile as a fine.
If he does not pay this fine, police
said, he will be arrested.
NEW PILOT IIERE
Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Dawson are .
living at the Gastineeau Hotel. J
Dawson is a new pilot for Alaska i
Coastal Airlines.
INVESTIGATION
"CHINA LOBBY"
IS NOW ORDERED
WASHINGTON, June 9 — —
President Truman has ordered all
government agencies to cooperate
with any congressional inquiry into
a reported Nationalist “China lob
ly,” Secretary of State Acheson said
today.
Acheson made the announcement
to the' Senate Armed Services and
Foreign Relations committee after
declaring the State Department has
assembled considerable "hearsay in
formation” which, if correct, indi
cates that some of the China group’s
activities “are not in accordance
with the law.”
The two Senate committees are
investigating Far Eastern policy and
the dismissal of MacArthur.
The cabinet officer reported to
the inquiry group after Senator
McMahon had asked him to take
up the China lobby supporting
Chiang Kai-Shek’s Nationalists with
President Truman.
ESKIMOS CELEBRATE
BIG WHALE CATCH;
INFLATION CAUGHT
FAIRBANKS, Alaska, June 9 —
if)—Prosperity and plenty have come
to Alaska’s Arctic Eskimos. They
are celebrating an unprecedented
catch of 11 whales.
They caught seven at Point Bar
row, the northernmost tip of the
continent, and four near Kotzebue,
northeast of Bering Sralt.
They have caught inflation, too.
At present inflated prices, whale
meat, muk tuk among us Eskimos,
is biinfeiJ/B'a dohar a poilrid'in Es
kimo villages where defense proj
ects and oil exploration work has
provided the natives with plenty of
cash.
At those rates, a whale is esti
mated worth about $10,000.
Wien Alaska Airline and others
will fly the native delicacy to vil
lages all over the Arctic for sale
to eager Eskimos.
The Eskimo village at Point
Hope has scheduled a “npbikatuk"
to celebrate the bonanza. That’s a
whing-ding whale feast.
JAPANESE PEACE
TREATY BOGS DOWN
LONDON, June 9 —(#1— Special
presidential envoy John Foster
Dulles confirmed today that west
ern power talks on a Japanese peace
treaty have bogged down.
Dulles declined to comment on the
differences that have arisen but in
formed diplomatic sources reported
yesterday they involved a French
suggestion that the Western Allies
defer making a final peace treaty
with Japan.
Dulles has been discussing the
proposed treaty settlement with
British officials. Presumably while
in Paris he will attempt to talk the
French out of their new idea. He is
then scheduled to return to London
to round off his discussions with the
British.
UNION OIL MAN HERE
R. S. Bond, Union Oil Co. repre
sentative from Seattle, is at the
Baranof hotel.
FROM WASHINGTON
H. A. Morris of Washington, D. C.
is stopping at the Baranof hotel.
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• WEATHER REPORT •
• Temperature for 24-Hour Period •
• ending 6:20 o'clock this morning •
• In Juneau — Maximum, •
• 52; minimum, 46. •
• At Airport — Maximum, •
• 55; minimum, 45. •
• •
• FORECAST •
• Mostly cloudy with rain •
• showers tonight and Sunday. •
• Low temperature tonight •
• near 46, high Sunday near •
• 56. •
• PRECIPITATION •
• (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a m. today •
• City of Juneau — .95 inches; •
• Since June 1 — 1.28 inches; •
• Since July 1 — 73.47 inches. •
• At Airport — .48 inches; •
• Since June 1 — .74 inches; •
• Since July 1 — 42.15 inches. •
• ••••••••••
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SEARCH ON
FOR MISSING
DIPLOMATS
Pair Know Top Brifish-Am
erican Secrets-May Be
Behind Iron Curtain
LONDON, June 9 —(0!— The hunt
for two missing top-drawer British
diplomats widened suddenly from
France to Italy today after the For
eign Office disclosed a telegram to
a relative of one of them was sent
from Rome.
A British embassy official in
Rome said that even though the
message did come from the Italian
city it was not conclusive evidence
the missing men had been there.
Nevertheless, some French police of
ficials, after a thorough combing
of Paris, expressed belief the men
are not in Paris and may have gone
to Italy.
Know Secrets
Both diplomats — Quy Burgess, a
former British embassy official in
Washington; and Donald D. Mac
Lean, head of the Foreign Office
American section — know high-level
British-American secrets. Fear has
been expressed in London and in
Washington that they may have
ducked behind the Iron Curtain.
The Incident put a new strain on
British-American relations.
A Foreign Office spokesman said
there would be a statement on the
disappearance in the House of Com
mons on Monday, probably by For
eign Secretary Herbert Morrison.
The Foreign Office said the Rome
■aseswSpt was u> Burgess mother,'
Mrs. J. R. Bassett, and related that
Burgess, 40, and a bachelor, was
going on a “long Mediterranean
holiday.” It was sent Thursday.
Missing Since May
Two other messages, to MacLean’s
wife and mother, were sent from
Paris Wednesday. The later two
were reported sent by a mysterious
third person . . . the men have been
missing since May 25, MacLean’s
38th birthday.
Yesterday the Foreign Office im
plied all three messages came from!
France. It took the view that the
telegrams were authentic, although
the originals were not in the hand
writing of Burgess or MacLean.
May Have Split
The latest news gave rise to a
theory that the two may have split
up, although they left England to
gether. Rome police said they had
been unable to find any trace of
Burgess there. They said they were
trying to determine whether the
Burgess telegram actually was sent
by him or by someone else.
Thousands of detectives and in
telligence agents were engaged in
the hunt for Burgess and MacLean.
It bid fair to be the biggest man
hunt in European history.
Grand Jury Indicts
Representative trom
Truman's Distrid
KANSAS CITY, June 9 —tfl—
Leonard Irving, Democratic repre- j
sentative in Congress from Presi
dent Truman's home district, was
named today in two Federal grand
jury indictments charging use of
labor union funds in the 1948 elec
tion campaign.
Irving, president and business
manager of the International Hod|
Carriers, Building and Construction
Union, AFL, Local No. 264, was
named alone in one of the indict
ments.
Named with him in the second
indictments were the union and Roy
E. Livingston, financial secretary
and treasurer of the local.
The indictments, each containing
12 counts, were returned to Federal
Judge Albert L. Rooves after the
jury had heard Stanley Cole, Chi
cago, who was Representative Irv
ing’s campaign manager in the 1948
election.
Court officials said the maximum
penalties possible under the two
indictments would be a fine of $1,000
a year in prison on each of the 24
counts.
FROM KETCHIKAN
Clyde W. Henley of Ketchikan
Is registered at the Baranof Hotel.
JUNEAU JUMPS
GUN TO DONATE
; BLOOD FOR KOREA
—
Juneau even Jumped the gun this
laiorning, eager to give blood for the
Armed Forces in Korea.
The King County Blood Bank
team, which arrived on the Aleu
tian. found three unscheduled
donors waiting at the Elks hall be
fore the doors were opened at 9 a.m.
They were Mr. and Mrs. Vance
Blackwell and Ted Theobald.
Blackwell is with the Juneau office
of the Bureau of Public Roads and
Theobald, who lives in Anchorage,
said he would not be in Anchorage
to donate blood and wanted to do
nate here.
Mrs. Keith Wildes, who was sched
uled to give the first pint of blood
in Juneau, was on hand promptly
at 9. She represented the Pioneers
of Alaska, which organization is
active, and has been active, in pro
moting the Juneau blood bank.
Dr. T. D. Patel, who is assistant
to Dr. J. Czajkowski, head of the
King County team, said that the
quarters at Elks hall, which were
equipped for blood giving by St.
Anne’s hospital, were the finest he
had seen so far. Many times in their
work in King County and else
where, he said, rooms are dark, with
straight wooden chairs and uncom
fortable cots. At Elks hall there are
eight hospital beds and eight neat
cots, leather upholstered chairs and
cloth-covered tables at which coffee,
t cookies and cake are being served.
' The beds are continually in use.
j Forty pints are being taken an hour,
as was planned. Out of the first
forty only one appointee failed to
ghow up.
i It is anticipated they will con
tinue to show up in such numbers
ijfctil 9 pm., when the last pint is
taken.
In Anchorage, such interest has
been shown that, Instead of stay
ing with the Aleutian for the trip
to the westward, an Army plane is
being sent to Juneau to fly the King
County Blood Team to Anchorage
tomorrow so they can start work
there Monday instead of Tuesday.
The quota of 1,000 pints for Anch
orage has already over 1,500 regis
trants.
confessiohY
REPUDIATED AS
RUBBISH, VOGELER
WASHINGTON, June 9, — IF) —
Robert A. Vogler has repudiated
as rubbish the “confession” of sa
botage and spying against Hungary
he said he made during 17 months
in a Communist prison.
The American business man
freed April 28 when the State De
partment complied with Hungarian
government demands, detailed for
the first time his prison ordeal to
the National Press Club.
"There comes a time when a per
son is faced with the utter futility
of not complying with their de
mands,” Vogeler said of his cap
tors. “He believes that he is aban
doned, that he will be killed in any
case, that an alleged confession
will appear anyway—so he signs the
rubbish placed before him."
Vogeler, discharged from the
Bethesda Naval Hospital on June
1 after nearly a month of treat
ment, gave a chronological account
of the prison ordeal which began
with his arrest Nov. 18, 1949 by
Communist police. He was an as
sistant vice president of the Inter
national Telephone & Telegraph]
Co. Thrust into the secret police
prison at Budapest, he said his
lirst 78 hours were passed under
repeated grilling and without sleep.
Then he collapsed.
FISHING VESSfL DISABLED
The Canadian fishing vessel Bes
sie Mac lost a propellor 20 miles
off Cape St. Ellas, according to in
formation received here at CG head
quarters at S a.m. today. The
vessel was bound from Prince Ru
pert to fishing grounds. The Cana
dian fishing vessel Capella I is
standing by the disabled boat and
CG cutter Sedge Is en route from
Seward to assist.
FROM SAN FRANCISCO
Mabel A. Greeir of San Francis
co is registered at the Baranof Ho
tel. She is with the Blood Bank
party.
BRANDS LIE
HE WANTED
MERGE CHINA
Gen. MacArfhur, Secretary
Acheson Clash Relative
to Eastern Policies
WASHINGTON. June 9 — UP —
Gen. Douglas MacArthur and Secre
tary of State Acheson clashed at
long range today over Far Eastern
policies.
MacArthur, ousted Pacific com
mander, denounced as a "prevari
cation” any intimation he favored
in December 1945 a move for a coal
ition of Communists and National
ists in China.
Acheson, testifying before senators
for the eighth day on policies in
connection with MacArthur’s dis
missal, challenged a contention by
MacArthur's aide that Washington
wanted U. S. troops withdrawn from
Korea last winter “and made a
scapegoat for some political ad
vantage.”
MacArthur said in a telegram
from New York to Senator Know
land that U. S. efforts to “force"
the Nationalist government in China
“into a political alliance with the
Communists” was “one of the great
est blunders in American diplomatic
history, for which the free world is
now paying in blood and disaster.”
Defends Coalition
Acheson has defended the 1945
46 efforts df Secretary of Defense
Marshall to bring about a coalition
government in China. Acheson gave
the committee a Dec. 7,1948 message
signed by MacArthur, Adm. Ray
mond Spruance and Lt. Gen. Albert
C. Wedemeyer urging U. S. aid for
China as a basis for negotiation "to
bring together and effect a com
promise between the major oppos
ing groups in order to promote a
unified China.”
Knowland wired MacArthur that
this "Implies that you favored a
coalition government between Chi-,
nese Communists and Republic of
China.”
Sharply Worded Reply
In a sharply worded reply, Mac
Arthur said “any inference drawn
from anything I have ever said or
done that I sponsored a compromise
which would favor the forces of
Communism at the expense of the
forces of freedom and would effect
a political coalition of such dia
metrically opposed and irreconcil
able forces is a prevarication withi
out color of factual support.”
The exchange between Knowland
and MacArthur was not gone into
Immediately when the hearing re
sumed today, but on another mat
ter Acheson said that a statement
by Major Gen. Courtney Whitney,
MacArthur’s aide, on May 11, was
not based on facts.
Evacuation Issue
Senator Sparkman noted that
Whitney had said that until last
January 13 — the day President
Truman sent a letter to MacAr
thur — "MacArthur believed Wash
ington officials wanted our forces
evacuated from Korea and made
a scapegoat for some political ad
vantage.”
Sparkman said Whitney called
the January 13 message “the gov
ernment’s first clear statement to
MacArthur to hold in Korea.”
“Do you know of any facts that
would warrant any such statement
as that?” 8parkman asked Acheson.
“No, sir; there are no facts to my
knowledge, and I would go a con
siderable way in saying that no
such facts exist,” the secretary of
state replied.
“Nobody here you know of wanted
Korea evacuated and the 8th Army
made a scapegoat?” Sparkman
pressed.
“Not in the slightest degree what
ever,” Acheson replied.
SAM TARRANT HERE
Sam Tarrant of PAF from Bell
ingham, Wash., is stopping at the
Baranof Hotel.
YUKON VISITOR
J. P. Branson from Mayo, Y. T.
is a Juneau visitor. He is stopping
at the Baranof Hotel.
EARL BRIGHT HERE
Earl W. Bright of the Pish and
Wiidlite Service returned yesterday
from a business trip to Seattle and
is stopping at the Gastineau Hotel.
NEA Tour
Parly Is
InJuneau
Visiting members of the National
Editorial Association are taking
over in Juneau today.
Over 180 members of the NEA, in
cluding wives, reached Juneau this
morning on time at 7 o’clock, aboard
the Aleutian and were greeted by
Juneauites making a general wel
coming committee.
Among those to greet the visitors
and go aboard were Henry Green.
Mrs. Helen Monsen. James Beard,
Joe McLean, Jessie McCrary, Wes
Overby, Bill Ellis, Governor and
Mrs. Gruening, Joe Alexander, Don
Morrison and Malcolm Greany.
Retiring NEA President J. Clif
ford Kaynor of Ellensburg, Wash,
and Don Eck, general manager of
the NEA, both well known to Al
askans because of previous trips,
are among the moving spirits of the
visitors who are enjoying their tour
immensely. They and many other
editors visited the offices of the
Daily Alaska gmpire.
At 11 o’clock the tour party mem
bers boarded busses and cabs for
the Mendenhall Glacier and the
Auk Bay recreation area where the
Juneau Chamber of Commerce
served lunch.
The party is due to return to
Juneau at 2 p.m. to visit the Terri
torial Museum and local shops.
The Aleutian is scheduled to sail
westward this evening at 6 o'clock.
The steamer does not call south
bound.
Yesterday the NEA party visited
Wrangell and Petersburg and were
shown true Alaskan courtesy.
possTbTe
MARITIME
STRIKE, N.Y.
NEW YORK, June 9 —MV- Some
steamship companies here are re
ported concerned over a possible
strike next Friday when contracts
with three CIO maritime unions ex
pire.
No progress was reported yester
day when the National Maritime
Union met with representatives of
40 Atlantic and Oulf Coast ship
owners under the auspices of the
Federal Mediation and Conciliation
Service.
m
The other two CIO groups — the
Marine Engineers Beneficial Asso
ciation and the American Radio
Association — have similar meet
ings scheduled for • Monday and
Tuesday respectively.
Joseph Curran, NMU president,
said yesterday that if negotiations
continue "with the present do-noth
ing attitude of the owners, there is
a strong possibility that the pres
ent contract will expire without a
new one being signed.”
The union is seeking a 25 per cent
wage increase and has asked the
Wage Stabilization Board for the
rise, which breaks the current ceil
ing. The employers offer 3.63 per
cent.
Current wage scales were not
available.
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Ship Movements
Aleutian from Seattle with NEA
i tour party aboard in port and
scheduled to sail westbound at (|
tonight.
Princess Louise from Vancouver
scheduled to arrive at 3 this after
noon and sails for Skagway at 11
p.m. returning southbound Tues
day.
Denali from Seattle scheduled to
arrive late Monday or Tuesday
morning.
Princess Kathleen scheduled to
sail from Vancouver 8 tonight.
Chilcotiri scheduled to sail from
Vancouver 11:45 tonight.
Alaska scheduled to sail from
Seattle Wednesday.
Baranof scheduled to arrive from
westward at 3 p.m. Sunday, south
bound.
REDS FALL
BACK, IRON
TRIANGLE
Two Ridges Captured by
Allies Against Decreas
ing Red Opposition
By OLEN CLEMENTS
TOKYO, June 9 —— Battered
Chinese Reds today began retreat
ing from their main Korean strong
hold —the Korean-Kumhwa-Pyong
gang “Iron Triangle," field reports
said.
A pooled dispatch from the West
ern front said the Reds were fall
ing back toward Kumsong. 17 miles
due east of Pyonggang and about
28 miles north of the 38th Parallel.
Censorship obscured exact Allied
positions. But the report said 8th
U. S. Army forces captured two
ridges against decreasing Red op
position. One Allied gain of more
than a mile was reported.
Pyonggang Is the northern tip of
the triangle, the building area
where the Reds grouped forces for
abortive offenses against the UN.
Chorwon and Kumhwa are the
triangle’s southern anchors. Both
were directly threatened by the Al
lies.
The front line report quoted Al
lied officers as saying the Reds
probably were abandoning Chor
won to the Allies poised in the hills
just south of the town.
Lose for Reds
i It Chorwon falls, the Commun
ists would lose a vital east-west
road and control of the long Pyong
gang valley. Allied artillery and
tanks could make the valley un
tenable for the Reds, and drive them
as far back as Wonsan, about 83
air miles north of 38.
The advancing Allies found one
pile of 278 dead Chinese soldiers.
Some of them were wearing pieces
of American uniforms and equip
ment.
The pooled dispatch said the Reds
were defending the triangle with
delaying forces and road crates used
as tank traps.
snipers nnocaea uui
One UN tank patrol, out In front
of the 8th Army line, knocked dut
a group of snipers while bulldozer*
filled in the craters.
The Fifth Air Force was called
in late in the day and blasted a
group of 200 withdrawing Reds rni
the Sanyang-Kumsong road, aaet
of Kurnhwa.
Allied warplanes also attacked
other groups of retreating Red^
bound northward. W»
High Level Talks
As the battle for the prized tri
angle heightened in fury, high lew#
talks were held in Tokyo behind
closely-guarded doors. U. 8. Defense
Secretary George C. Marshall had
two conferences with Gen. Matthew
B. Rldgway, supreme Allied com
mander.
Some South Koreans feared Mar
shall brought orders of a ceasefire
armistice on the 38th Parallel.*
In Pusan, the Republic of Korea
legislature asked Its foreign and de
fense ministers for an opinio^ oh
the Marshall Visit.
Cease-Fire: Danger Signal
Pyun Yung Tai, foreign minister,
said any cease-fire order on the 38th
would be “a danger signal to the
free world."
He warned that such an order
might give the Reds time to start
a massive new offensive, or fchift
the battleground to whatever the
ater they chose.
President Syngman Rhee said
Koreans would “do something in
desperation" if the UN should “make
any decision contrary to our na
tional security."
Just inspection Trip
In Tokyo, however, there was a
general feeling that Marshall was
merely on an Inspection tour to see
how the new Allied high command
was getting along.
The drive against Kumhwa was
made by troops northeast of Chipo.
Light Communist resistance was re
ported by 8th Army headquarters.
Farther east, some advances were
made around the eastern tip of
•he Hwachon Reservoir and north
of Inje. Communist artillery and
mortar fire burst sporadically be
hind several sectors of the line dur
ing the day.
(Continued on Rage Rive)