THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE
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VOL. LXXVI., NO. 11,675
JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1950
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Dunkerque Style Pull-out Maybe Korean War
POPULATION
OF ALASKA
IS 128,643
WASHINGTON, Dec. 5 — (fll —
’ Final population figures for Alaska
and Hawaii from the 1950 census
were announced today.
They were: Alaska 128,643 and
Hawaii 499,794. That was the count
as of last April 1, to which the 1950
census was tied.
The Census Bureau provided this
additional data:
Alaska recorded a population
gain of 56,119 or 77.4 percent over
the 1940 census. Its population had
grown 22.3 percent between 1930
and 1940.
Hawaii gained 76,464 or 18.1 per
cent from 1940 to 1350, compared
with a 14.9 percent gain from 1930
to 1940.
Alaska’s 1940-1950 population in
crease was described by the bureau
as the “greatest growth rate for
any decade since the 1890-1900 gold
rush.”
Over Six Inches of
Snowfalls,Anchorage
ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Dec. 5—1/P!
—This city got its first seasonal
taste of snow Sunday—weeks after
■. many stateside cities were snow
bound by blizzards.
Over six inches of snow fell
during the day.
17 INCHES NOW
ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Dec. 5—1®
—Snow mounted to a 17-inch depth
today in Anchorage. It started fall
ing Sunday — several weeks after
many parts of the states had their
first snow.
The snow brought some delays
in airplane schedules and some
traffic tieups. The weather re
mained comparatively mild, without
wind.
HOLTZINGER DIES
ON TRAIL, TENAKEE
William Holtzinger, 62, of Ten
akee, was found dead on the trail
, near there, November 30, after he
had been visiting friends. His re
mains were brought to Juneau and
, are at the Carter Mortuary, pend
ing word from two sisters in Min
neapolis. He was born in 1888 in
Winona, Wis. He is known to have
been in Nome with the U.S. Mining,
Smelting, and Refining Co. in 1947.
He specified in his will that he
wished to be buried in Juneau.
MARRIAGE LICENSE
Arvid Oberg, logger, of Juneau
and Myrna Gertrude Savage of
) Douglas have applied for a mar
riage license in the office of the
U. S. Commissioner.
The Washington
• Merry-Go-Round
Copyright. 1960, by Bell Syndicate, lne.1
By DREW PEARSON
^J^ASHINGTON—It was partly a
fluke that led to the Attlee-Tru
man conversation—one of the most
important conferences since Pots
dam. Regardless of the accidental
inception, however, diplomats agree
the ■ conversation has long been
$■ needed to bring greater synchron
ization of traditional British-Am
erican friendship.
% The fluke was the President’s
off-the-cuff statement that we were
considering dropping the atomic
bomb and the inference that Gen
eral MacArthur had been given a
free hand as to when we should
drop it.
This statement, made at a morn
ing White House press conference,
K hit the British House of Commons
late in the afternoon and left Brit
ish labor leaders gasping. They
♦ have had increasing misgivings'
about MacArthur, and were fully
aware of the manner in which he
had maneuvered around State De
partment proposals to keep UN
armies away from the Chinese
dams and the Manchurian border.
British labor leaders did not then
i know that the President had made
his atom-bomb statement in reply
to oral newspaper queries and that
i it was not a carefully considered
statement. Finally, they did not
” (Continued on Page Four)
RFC LOANS KAISER
MILLIONS TO GET IN
WAR PRODUCTION
WASHINGTON, Dec. 5 — <;« —
Another $25,000,00 Reconstruction
Finance Corporation loan was
granted today to Kaiser-Frazer Co.
Henry J. Kaiser immediately an
nounced plans for defense produc
tion, including proposed reactiva
tion of a wartime Vancouver, Wash.,
shipyard and expansion of a Spo
kane aluminum plant.
The loan was made to permit the
company to maintain automobile
output and get into defense work.
At the same time Henry J. Kaiser
announced the firm would open a
plant to make military products in
the San Francisco-Oakland area.
He outlined other defense pro
jects, among them the Spokane ex
pansion and the Vancouver ship
yard reopening. The latter is de
pendent upon acceptance of plan
ned ship conversion bids.
Among his other announced
plans:
The Kaiser-managed Permanente
Cement Company will speed com
pletion of a million-barrel expan
sion in its northern California
plant. It has opened “cement fa
cilities and low-cost bulk steam
ship transportation” in Alaska to
held build up Alaska “against the
danger of enemy polar invasion.”
POSSIBLE TO
EVACUATE UN
TROOPS NOW
WASHINGTON, Dec. 5 — Uf) —
Gen. Omar N. Bradley was reported
to have told Senators today that
withdrawals by United Nations
troops now have made it possible
to evacuate them if a defense line
can not be held in Korea.
Bradley, the nation's top mili
tary officer, testified on the world
military situation at a closed-door
meeting of the Senate Foreign Re
lations Committee.
Some of those who heard him
said the Chairman of the Joint
Chiefs of Staff gave the Senators a
much more optimistic picture of
the situation in Korea than they
had received at previous briefings.
Senator Taft (R-Ohio) urged
meanwhile that President Truman
give the country “more informa
tion” about the grave world situa
tion.
RETURN TO SITKA
AFTER JUNEAU VISIT
Mrs. Paul Morgan and her little
daughter Connie Rae left Monday
on the Alaska Coastal Airlines plane
for their home in Sitka after a
three weeks’ visit with Mrs. Mor
gan’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. George
Jorgenson in Juneau. Mrs. Morgan
is the former Millie Rie Jorgenson.
She spent an enjoyable visit here
with her parents and sisters and re
newing old friendships.
IN JUNEAU FOR WINTER
Robert Novatney is a recent ar
rival from Ketchikan to spend the
winter months in Juneau. He has
been at his mining property at
Helm Bay, near Ketchikan, the
past summer and closed operations
last month until next spring.
Fairbanks Woman
Narrowly Escaped
Death, Chute Jump
FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Dec. 5—4JT>
! —Joan Harrison’s first parachute
i jump mighty nigh came near being
: her last earthly act.
The 24-year-old jumped from
| 3,000 feet and her parachute failed
| to open until she was only 150
feet from the ground.
Joan landed in a snowbank ^nd
received a broken ankle.
Miss Harrison, who said she "al
ways wanted to see what it felt
I like” to jump from a plane, made
' her leap from a private plane
piloted by Thomas Olsen. She had
been instructed by Robert Sinclair,
an exhibition jumper.
SYDNEY, Australia — A 100
degree heat wave scorched Victoria
state in southeast Australia for
the third straight day today.
Six Nations
Demand Show
Down on Korea
LAKE SUCCESS, Dec. 5—(AV—Six
countries, including the Big Three
Western Powers, called upon the
United Nations Assembly today to
act immediately to stop Communist
China's intervention in Korea.
The demand was contained in a
formal memorandum filed with U.N.
Secretary-General Trygve Lie by
the United States, Britain, France,
Ecuador, Cuba and Norway. It fol
lowed yesterday’s request that the
Chinese intervention be put before
the 60-nation Assembly for debate.
Brief, Mild
The new document was both brief
and mildly worded. It was submit
ted to conform to Assembly rules
which require an explanatory
memorandum to accompany any re
quest for taking up new business.
The memorandum made these
main points:
1. Chinese Communist troops are
fighting against U.N. forces in
Korea.
2. An attempt was made in the
Security Council to get them to
withdraw but Russia vetoed the pro
posal. ,
It then added:
Intervention
“Under these circumstances, the
delegations of Cuba, France, Ecua
dor. Norway, United Kingdom and
the United States believe that the
Assembly should now consider im
mediately, as an important and
urgent question, the intervention of
the central people’s government of
the people’s Republic of China in
Korea, with a view to making ap
propriate recommendations.”
The mildness of the tone was un
derstood to be in keeping with
the go-slow policy which has been
put into effect during the Wash
ington talks of British Prime Min
ister Attlee and President Truman.
There still was no definite word as
to how strong the sponsoring powers
v. ould go in a resolution which they
are considering.
Behind-the-Scenes
Meanwhile, behind - the - scenes
conferences continued here. Brit
ain’s Sir Gladwyn Jebb arranged
for a private luncheon with Gen
eral Wu Hsiu-Chuan today. This
followed a dinner given by Lie at
his home last night for Wu and
several other delegates, including
Jebb and Sir Senegal N. Raw of
India. If any positive results were
achieved at the Lie dinner, they
were not yet apparent this morning.
CANVASSING BOARD
WIND UP OFFICIAL
BALLOT COUNT MON.
The Territorial Canvassing Board
believed it would be able to com
plete the official count of the Oc
tober general election ballots when
it met yesterday but found five pre
cincts from the Fourth Division still
missing and that the Valdez vote
from the Third Division had not
yet arrived.
However, the votes from 11 pre
cincts from the Fourth Division
counted Monday, have made no ma
terial difference in the standing of
the candidates, Lew Williams, Act
ing Chairman of the Board said
today. Candidate for the fifth seat
in the Alaska Legislature House
of Representatives Wilbur (R) is
leading the Democratic Candidate
Jones by 5 votes. The official count
to date for Wilbur is 1829 and for
Jones 1829. These two are the
only seats in which the vote is so
close.
Williams said Valdez votes cast
I total about 149. It is not believed
] this number will affect the stand
; ings of the candidates for either
1 the Senate or the House in the
Third Division.
Williams said the Canvassing
Board will meet again next Monday,
December 11 to wind up the canvass
of the four Alaska divisions. De
cember 10 at 4 p.m. is the deadline
when the Board may receive ballots
from the precincts for the official
count, according to the Territorial
Election Laws.
SKAGWAY VISITORS
John Winstock and R. W. Peero
of Skagway are at the Baranof
Hotel.
AL GHEZZI HERE
A1 Ghezzi of Seattle, formerly of
j Fairbanks, is at the Baranof Hotel.
(OLD WAVE
PREVAILS,
MIDWEST
(By the Associated Press)
A cold wave pushed across the
frozen prairies of the midwest to
day.
Temperatures dropped below the
zero mark as it advanced.
The Weather Bureau in Chicago,
in a special bulletin, said the mass
of “extremely cold arctic air” was
fanning out across the north cen
tral states.
It predicted temperatures of 10
to 20 below zero in Minnesota, zero
to five above for Chicago and ten
to 15 above for the Ohio river valley
by tomorrow morning.
"Even lower readings are ex
pected Thursday morning east of
the Mississippi river,” the forecaster
I said.
The Rocky Mountain region and
j the Dakotas already felt the sting
I of earlap weather. Butte and Glas
' gow, Mont., had 25 below today. It
was 17 below at Cutbank, Mont.,
and 14 below at Sheridan, Wyo.
The advance of the season’s cold
est weather checked the melting of
snow and curbed threats of floods.
120 DISEMBARK FROM
BARANOF; SAILS AT 5
Twenty passengers disembarked
from the Baranof this forenoon.
Scheduled time of sailing for the
Westward is 5 p.m. this afternoon.
Master of the ship is Capt. C. Nil
sen.
Disembarking from Seattle were: j
Mr. and Mrs. George Matson, Mr.
and Mrs. Ernest Phillips, Mr. anif
Mrs. Thomas Priest and son: Paul
Sutton, Mr. and Mrs. L. D. Wil
liams.
Prom Ketchikan: Barney Kane,
| Helge Pedersen.
From Wrangell: E. J. Kelly, S.
A. Vincent, Mr. and Mrs. William
Willard.
From Petersburg: Fred Haltner,
Sigurd Klabo, Mr. and Mrs. Os
bjorn Odegaard.
GET AUTOS OFF
STREETS TONIGHT;
SNOW CLEARANCE
The Street Department warns
autoists to quit parking on certain
streets tonight.
Beginning at 10 o’clock tonight
the Street Department staff will
start snow removal and there
should be no parking of autos be
low Fourth Street on Main, Seward,
Franklin and South Franklin.
At noon today there was about
4 Vi inches of the snow, and more
is expected during the next 12
hours.
ROTARIANS DECIDE
TO STAGE ANNUAL
VARIETY SHOW 1951
Dr. W. J. Altenburg, 'regional di
rector of the National Foundation
for Infantile Praalysis, spoke at
a regular meeting of the Juneau
Rotary Club this noon at the Bar- j
anof Hotel. He emphasized the |
progress that was going forward ,
in research to help conquer the
polio virus and the amount of
work that was being done by the
National Foundation and the 2,
894 chapters. Altenburg was intro
duced by Dr. C. Earl Albrecht, Al
aska Commissioner of Health.
President Ellis Reynolds announc
ed the sponsorship of an Indian
Dance December 16 in the HigY
School gym at 8 p.m. The purpose j
is to help the Alaska Native Bro
therhood pay off its library pledge.!
The annual Christmas Kids party
was announced for Tuesday noon,!
December 19 at the Baranof with j
j Carson Lawrence chairman of the
■ committee. The party is for young- !
sters up to 12 years.
Dr. Albrecht and Dr. I. J. Mont
gomry were named co-chairmen to
stage the Second Annual Variety!
Show early in 1951. Last year's
success stimulated requests for a
repeat this year.
Guests were Gordon Smith. In- [
ternational Representative of LionS 1
Club from Seattle, Jack Johnson
of Sitka and Bud Schultz. J
STASSEN DELAYED
AN ANCHORAGE ON
HIS WORLD FLIGHT
ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Dec. 5—(if)
—A faulty radio forced Harold E.
Stassen's plane to turn back here
shortly after he had taken off yes
terday for Tokyo.
Stassen, University of Pennsyl
vania president, conferred with lo
cal Republican leaders while he
waited three hours for the plane's
radio to be repaired.
He expressed keen interest in Al
askan affairs, but had no com
ment on difficulties encountered
by the Alaska statehood bill in
the Senate.
He also said he would have no
statement on his round-the-world
trip until after it was completed.
TALKS WITH MACARTHUR
TOKYO, Dec. 5—(fl—Harold E.
Stassen conferred with General
MacArthur two hours today. The
University of Pennsylvania Presi
dent is on a world tour.
NOVEMBER WAS
COLD, DRY MONTH
IS WEATHER DATA
According to information released
by the local airport office of the
United States Weather Bureau of
fice the month of November was
cold and dry. With the exception of
five days during the first half of
the month, the remaining days were
below the normal temperature.
This resulted in the lowest monthly
mean temperature on record at the
Juneau airport since the station was
established in July, 1943. The lowest
previous record was in 1945 when
24.1 degrees was recorded. The
absolute lowest temperature for this
November lacked three degrees of
being as low as the lowest record of
minus three degrees in 1948.
The average amount of cloudiness
was the lowest on record at the air
port while there was more sunshine
than was ever recorded in any No
vember since 1943.
Extremely gusty northeasterly
winds on the 14th to the 16th, al
though not severe at the airport
caused some damage in the Juneau
Douglas areas. Detailed data for the
airport and the city appears below.
Airport Data
Highest temperature: 56 in 1949,
this November 51; lowest tempera
ture: -3 in 1948, this'November, 0;
mean maximum temperature; av
erage 37.1, this November 28.5; mean
minimum temperature: average 27.5,
this November 16.1; mean monthly
temperature: normal 32.0, this No
vember 22.3; total precipitation:
normal 8.32 inches, this November
2.13 inches. Maximum wind: E 39
in 1943, this November SE 28; total
snowfall: average 11.1 inches, this
November 16.7 inches; average
cloudiness: average 83 percent, this
November 65 percent; percentage
of possible sunshine: average 21 per
cent. this November 41 percent.
City Data
Highest temperature 48 on the
2nd and 4th; lowest temperate: 12
on the 17th; mean maximum tem
perature: 30.3; mean minimum
temperature: 22.1; mean monthly
temperature: 26.2; total precipita
tion: 4.21 inches.
MRS. WINTHERS, SR. BACK
Mrs. John Winthers, Sr., return
ed Sunday from Seattle where she
has been visiting with relatives
the past three months.
• •••••••••*'
• WEATHER REPORT •
• Temperatures for 24-Hour Period •
• ending 6:20 o’clock this morning •
• In Juneau—Maximum, 25; •
• minimum, 15. •
• At Airport—Maximum, 19; •
• minimum, -2. •
• •
• FORECAST •
• (Juneau and Vicinity) *
• Rain occasionally mixed with •
• snow tonight. Low tempera- •
• ture near 30. Warmer with •
• rain Wednesday. High tern- •
• perature about 36 degrees. •
• Southeasterly winds 15 to 20 •
• miles per hour throughout. •
• •
• precipitation •
• (Past 34 hours ending 7:30 a m today •
• City of Juneau—0.08 inches; •
• since July 1—33.32 inches. •
• At Airport — 0.19 inches; •
• since Dec. 1 — 0.20 inches; •
• since July 1—23.32 inches. •
• ••••••••••
TAFT SEEKS
INFO FROM
PRESIDENT
Wants Truman to Give
Country Facts Abouf
Inter. Situation
By JACK BELL
WASHINGTON. Dec. 5 — liffl —
, Senator Taft (R-Ohio) called on
President Truman today to give the
country "more information” about
the grave International situation.
Taft proposed that the President
report directly to the people after
! he concludes current talks with
| Prime Minister Attlee of Great
j Britain.
The Ohio Senator’s suggestion
j came after an hour-long meeting of
i the Senate Republican policy com
! mittee, which he heads. The com
! mittee discussed the developments
in Korea and their relations to
world affairs generally.
Complaining, as he has before,
that Republicans had not been
asked for their advice, Taft told a
news conference: “I want to make it
clear that Republican leaders in
Congress are not being consulted
before decisions are made.”
A Democratic Senator, Hoey of
North Carolina, came up yesterday
with a demand that American
troops be withdrawn from Korea.
Hoey said in a statement that "the
supreme consideration now is to
get our soldiers out of Korea and
prevent a general slaughter.”
“We have tried bluffing in Korea
and it did not work and it probably
would not work by the precipitate
use of the atomic bomb,” Hoey de
clared.
—
CHARLES MILLER
DIES IN SEATTLE;
BURIAL, JUNEAU
SEATTLE, Dec. 5— t—Charles
1 Miller, 65, prominent Juneau and
i Fairbanks, Alaska, businessman,
j died Sunday in Virginia Mason
l hospital after a month's illness.
Born in Yugoslavia, he had lived
! in the United States 45 years, most
! of that time in Alaska. His home
I was in Fairbanks.
He was a member of the Moose,
' Elks and Eagles lodges in JuneaU,
and of the Pioneers of Alaska.
Surviving is a son, Alex Miller
of Fairbanks, and three daughters,
Mrs. Albert Vacurra of Fairbanks,
Mrs. J. Bradford, Fairbanks and
Miss Nellie Miller of Seattle.
Funeral services will be at 7 p.m.
Thursday in the Bonney-Watson
Chapel. Burial will be at Juneau.
Charles Miller, resident of Ju
neau for many years, at one time
had a taxi service but prior to
moving to Fairbanks was proprietor
of a well established night spot. He
was married here and raised his
family. His home on Gastineau Ave
was always open and many enjoy
able affairs were held there.
MORLANDER ENROUTE TO
BETHEL FROM VACATION
George A. Morlander, administra
tive assistant for the Alaska Native
Service schools, store and reindeer
herd at Bethel, is here enroute to
Bethel from a vacation near pel
lingham, Wash. He expects to leave
by the end of the week.
FROM ANCHORAGE
R. R. Taylor and M. S. Stuart
of Anchorage are registered at the
Baranof Hotel.
STOCK QUOTATIONS
NEW YORK. Dec. 5 — Closing
quotation of Alaska Juneau mine
stock today is 2%, American Can
95, American Tel. and Tel. 150%,
Anaconda 35%, Douglas Aircraft
85%, General Electric 47, General
Motors 45 %. Goodyear 00, Kenne
cott 68%. Libby McNeill and Libby;
8%, Northern Pacific 27%, Stand- I
ard Oil of California 27%, Twen- j
tieth Century Fox 19%, U.S. Steel'
39, Pound $2.80%, Canadian Ex
change 95.37%.
Sales today were 1,940,000 shares.
Averages today are as follows: in
dustrials 225.44, rails 68.82, utilities
39.33. 1
•
Crisis Talks
Taking Place
In Washington
Truman, Attlee, Bradley
Review Serious Sit
uation in Korea
WASHINGTON. Dec. 5 — UPI —
President Truman said today United
Nations forces in Korea are fighting
“against tremendous odds.” But he
declared that no matter what hap
pens there the fight for freedom
will go on.
His somber-toned report came
amid growing talk in Congress and
elsewhere that the U.N. military
situation has begun to appear al
most hopeless and may force a
Dunkerque - type withdrawal by
sea.
Mr. Truman took time out from
a busy, almost-contlnual round of
conferences with American military
diplomatic advisers, and with Prime
Minister Attlee of Britain, to address
the White House Conference of
Children and youth.
Situation Precarious
His prepared speech stressed (1)
the precarious situation in Korea
and the "grave risk” of a general
war and (2) the nature of the pre
sent crisis as only part of the long
range struggle "to uphold the values
of peace and Justice and freedom.”
Beyond stressing the tremendous
odds the U.N. forces face, Mr.
Truman made no assessment of the
Korean situation.
And against the talk of a possible
evacuation of the troops there, some
of the best Informed officials are
saying it is still too early to pre
dict what will actually happen or
that the U.N. forces will have to
get out of Korea entirely.
situation Reviewed
Mr. Truman and Prime Minister
Attlee reviewed the situation yes
terday with Gen. Omar Bradley,
chairman of the Joint Chiefs of
Staff, in the first of their crisis
talks. Bradley is reported to have
told them that evacuation plans are
ready if they have to be used.
In his address to the conference
on children and youth, the Presi
dent said that the intervention of
Chinese Communists in Korea had
greatly changed the situation con
fronting this nation. Then, in a
sentence interpreted by some offi
cials as his first move to prepare
the country for bad news — news
of a military disaster in Korea —
the President added:
Tremendous Struggle
“No matter how the Immediate
situation may develop, we must re
member that the fighting in Ko
rea is but one part of the tremen
dous struggle of our time — the
struggle between freedom and Com
munist imperialism.”
Mr. Truman and Attlee reached
no agreement in their opening talk
yesterday but diplomatic informants
reported they were moving toward
an agreement that Western Europe
is the place to offset Communist
victories in the Far East.
As far as the present military
situation is concerned, it is under
stood that the President and Prime
Minister dealt with three alterna
tives and found themselves facing
a choice between complete and par
tial defeat in their initial analysis.
Korean Line Hopeless
The idea of establishing and hold
ing a line across the Korean penin
sula appears almost if not entirely
hopeless.
There was still some belief on the
part of American leaders, however,
that it might be possible again as
it was earlier this year to maintain
a foothold on Korea. This would be
Justified if there was reason to ex
pect a new buildup of U.N. forces
capable of dealing with the Chinese
Communist masses and so far there
is no evidence such a buildup is
planned.
The other possibility which looms
bigger with each days news of new
Chinese Communist successes on
the battlefield is a complete mili
tary defeat for the U.N. forces.
STEAMER MOVEMENTS
Baranof from Seattle in port and
scheduled to sail westward at 5 p.m.
today.
Princess Louise from Vancouver
scheduled to arrive at 9 tonight
and sails for Skagway at 11:30.
Denali scheduled to sail from Se
attle Friday.
SITUATION
IS SKETCHY
FROM FRONT
Eighth Army May Throw
Up Defense Line-Five
Divisions Isolated
(By the Associated Press)
President Truman and Prime
Minister Attlee were reported today
to have agreed that. United Na
tions forces would return to Korea
in the event a military disaster
forces a withdrawal now.
A British Informant in London
said the two leaders in their Wash
ington talks reached a decision not ,
to write off Korea, but to avoid
open war with Communist China if
possible.
Their policy, it was said, calls for
making every attempt to stabilize
a defense line which United Na
tions forces could hold against Red
Chinese pressure — and then to
negotiate a settlement with the
Peiping authorities.
Bombing Ruled Out
The British Informant said the
two leaders are agreed that bomb
ing of Manchurian bases must be
ruled out for fear of bringing Russia
into the war. There was no official
confirmation in Washington on
these reports.
The U.S. Eighth Army continued
its headlong retreat towards South
Korea and the 10th Corps appeared
to be in a more dangerous position
in the northeast.
The odds were said to be mount
ing so heavily against the 10th
Corps that perhaps only another •
Dunkerque style pull-out could save
it.
Reds Back in Pyongyang
The vanguard of a 1,000.000-man
strong Chinese Communist army
entered Pyongyang, refugees re
ported. The Allies had pulled out
and were far to the south as the
Communists swarmed around
Pyongyang, the first Red capital
to fall and be restored to the Com
munist world.
There was no indication where
the Eighth Army would attempt to
throw up a new defense line. For
strategic reasons military informa
tion was sketchy. The fast-retreat
ing army was exposed to flanking
movements from the lightly de
fended center of the Korean penin
sula.
A correspondent, Leif Erickson,
said at Eighth Army headquarters
that the army might go all the way
to Seoul and throw up a perimeter
around Seoul-Inchon, scene of the
Allies greatest victory in the Ko
rean campaign.
Five Divisions Isolated
But it was in the northeast ice
box of Korea, where five divisions
of the 10th Corps were all but iso
lated, that the gravest danger lay.
AP War Correspondent Stan
Swinton said: "It is a grim situa
tion." He said the U.S. Marines and
Seventh Infantry Division must
fight their way through a mountain
road from the Chang jin reservoir to
the escape port of Hungnam or be
evacuated by air.
Odds Against Airlift
"There is only one make-shift
airstrip. Perhaps two divisions
could be airlifted from it but the
odds are against it,” Swinton wrote.
Red Chinese are still pouring
into Korea from Manchuria. One
30-mile long convoy was sighted
moving toward the Changjin re
servoir, probably aiming to seal the
fate of the holed in Marines and
Doughboys.
Other large Chinese units speared
towards Hungnam and the great
east coast port of Wonsan, the two
main escape hatches for the 10th
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