THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE
“ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME?'
VOL. LXXV., NO. 11,556
JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, JULY 17, 1950
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PRICE TEN CENTS
Americans Are Forced From Taejon Airfield
"NO TAXES WITHOUT
REPRESENTATION" IS
OUTMODED^ MAXIM
Query Into Alaska Income
Tax Choked by Legel
Precedents
The challenge put forth last
month by Deputy Auditor Neil
Moore that Alaskans shouldn’t be
required to pay income taxes to the
federal government because they've
no voice in that government, has
been partially choked by a deluge
of excerpts from law cases quoted' by
the legislative reference service
from the American Law Section in
Washington, D.C,
The bulk of this mass of evidence,
dug up at instance of Delegate E,
L. Bartlett, with whom Moore cor
responded on the subject, flies in
the face of the old maxim “no tax
ation without repressentation.”
In fact, the Supreme Court itself
declared, in 1922, when the District
of Columbia was challenged on the
requirement that its residents pay
taxes when they had no voice about
where the money was going:
“There is no constitutional pro
vision which so limits the power of
Congress that taxes can be imposed
only upon those who have political
representation.”
Moore based his contention tnat
income taxes should be declared
void in the Territory because of no
vote in Congress and brought up the
case of Puerto Rico, an unorganized
territory, whose residents pay no
taxes.
Only solution to this, declared
Bartlett, is to “disorganize" or “un
incorporate” Alaska—but he said
flatly that before any efforts of
that nature came up, the people
here better look for another dele
gate. J
Incorporation of a Territory
makes it an integral part of the
United States, according to what
the lawmakers figure, whereas
Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands
simply “belong” to the nation.
But then again, there’s the case
of Alaska vs Troy, heard in the
early 20’s, in which the Supreme
Court held that Alaska was ex
cluded from the “states” as such
But here they weren’t referring to
taxation, but to foreign shipping en
tering northern ports.
Maxim Only Slogan
Now, with the weight of evidence
against him from other cases, Moore
bases his contention on this case
that income taxes are an outlaw
statute here.
Moore found that the so-called
“tried and true” maxim over whiC*
our forefathers fought a revolution
—no taxation without representa
tion—has been kicked around by
the courts more than somewhat.
Actually, this maxim is merely a
(Continued on Page Six;
The Washington
Merry-Go-Round
Bv DREW PEARSON
ICopyrlght, IBM. dt b«U Syndicate. Inc.)
J^VSHINGTON—Food Bins Full—
The present emergency finds Am
erica’s food bins brimming fuii
t hough food would probably have
to be rationed again in case ol
total war. Fats and oils would be
first on the ration list, because
they are needed for manufacturing
munitions.
However, the Agriculture Depart
ment has one pound of butfer in
cold storage for every person in
the United States. Sugar would
also be rationed, though the ship
ping lanes to Cuba and Hawaii
would be easier to keep open tlgin
in World War IX. Meat would
gradually come under rationing,
though live-stock production is
now at an all-time high. The corn
and wheat bins are also full.
$$ For Airlines
With the exception of one man,
the entire Civil Aeronautics Board
is really burnt up at the Way Pres
ident Truman handed new air
routes to Pan American Airways in
reversing the CAB and merging
Pan American with American Over
seas Airlines.
Chairman Joe O'Connell was so
sore that he resigned. The others
are sore because Truman’s reversal
makes a political football of one
of the most important agencies in
government.
The latest favoritism to Pan Am,
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Units of Fame
Division Now
On Way, Korea
—
Buses Speed Through Ta
i coma Streets to Docks
No sayingGoodbyes
—
TACOMA, Wash., July 17—UP1—
| Units of the famed Second Infantry
Divison are on their way.
Laden with full combat equip
ment, troops have boarded trans
ports for the Far Eastern Theater.
The soldiers—some veterans of
World War II and some beardless
teenagers—were stripped cf all
identifying marks and Indian head
patches, the trade mark of the divi
sion.
Buses were pressed into service to
transport troops to the docks. The
busses sped through the street while
civilians stopped and stared.
There were no wives or sweet
hearts around to say goodbye—war
time security was back.
WAR REPORTS
TELL GALLANTRY
OF U.S. FIGHTING
(By Associated Press)
Here’s how one American officer
says his men behaved under enemy
fire . . .
His outfit was helping slow the
Red advance on the Kum river de
fense line.
They fought gallantly In an effort
to stem overwhelming Red artillery
and ground attacks.
Said the Colonel:
“I saw them hold tignt and keep
on shooting when <he Red artillery
was coming at them. Let me tell you
they put up a good fight. I’ll bet
they are up there now still fighting.”
The Colonel put up a good fight,
too. They didn’t take him out until
he stopped an enemy bullet.
A late dispatch from A.P. Cor
respondent Tom Lambert gives a
vivid description of the air war
being fought in Korea.
It tells how American pilots
blasted North Koreans transport
today from Seoul to the break
through area south of the Kum
river.
Our pilots flew round-the-clock
missions, attacking with rockets
and machinegun fire.
Some roared in so low they al
most scraped trees and hillsides.
They ripped trucks crawling south
ward along highways. They opened
fire on big Red tanks, hiding along
dirt banks.
The U.S. jet pilots had one com
plaint: they couldn’t find enough
targets.
GENERAL BOOTH OF
SALVATON ARMY ;S
DEAD IN NEW YORK
HARSDALE, N.Y., July 12——
General Evangeline Booth, 84
year-old retired head of the world
wide Salvation Army and daughter
of the organization’s founder, died
today.
JUNEAU LUMBER CO.
ELECTS NEW OFFICERS
At a meeting of the board of
directors of the Juneau Lumber
Co. Inc., held in the offices of
Faulkner, Banfield and Boochever.
New officers elected were Allen
Shattuck, President; R. J. Som
mers, Vice President; Sim J. Mac
Kinnon. Secreary-Treasurer, Mill
ard Mill and Keith Wildes, Direc
tors.
The Board decided to raise $75,
000 additional capital and is len'J
iis financial aid to this campaign.
B. C. Canoles was appointed Gen
eral Manager, J. R. Murphy As
sistant Manager and Robert Booch
ever Assistant Secretary.
President William Green of the
American Federation of Labor says
U. S. unions are ready to accept
mobilization of labor. Green calls
for “all-out preparedness” in light
of the Korean war.
t
KILL BILL TO
REVAMP PRES.
ELECTIONS
House Leader Says Meas
ure Could Lead to Loss
of 2-Party System
WASHINGTON, July 17 — lAPt —
The House today killed a proposal
to abolish the electoral college and
to revamp the machinery by which
the nation has named its Presidents
for 150 years.
The resolution got only 134 favor
able votes on a roll call to 210
against—not even a majority. It
would have needed a two-thirds
vote for adoption.
The House gave it 96 votes less
than that.
It turned down a Senate-passed
resolution that would have sub
mitted to the states a constitutional
amendment doing away with the
electoral college system and substi
tuting one based on proportionate
division of the popular vote.
House Republican Leader Martin
of Massachusetts assailed the pro
posal as “a political Pandora’s boy.”
Instead of simplifying the election
system, Martin contended the
change would encourage splinter
jarties. give the Deep South the bal
ance of power in Presidential elec
tions, and “could lead to the loss ot
our two-party system of govern
ment.”
ANOTHER REPORTER
BANNED FROM WAR
FRONT; TWO RETURN
TOKYO, July 17—I*—Marguerite
Higgins, foreign correspondent for
he New York Herald Tribi'he, said
tonight she had been ordered out
jf Korea and told to return to
Tokyo “under escort.”
Miss Higgins said in a telephone
interview from an advanced Amer
ican base that she had been given
to reason for her expulsion.
Two other correspondents barrec
from Korea Saturday were given
3eneral MacArthur’s personal per
mission to return. They are Torn
Lambert of Associated Press and
Peter Kalischer of United Press.
Lambert flew in a Jet plane over
the Korean battlefront today.
Miss Higgins only woman cor
respondent on the Korean wai
front, was among the first report
rs to go there when the fighting
rtarted. She made several trip;
to forward positions.
She said the message to leave
Korea came from headquarters ol
Lt. Gen. Walton H. Walker, com
mander of ground forces in Korea.
It told her to proceed to Tarfgu
and then to Tokyo “under escort.’
U. S. GOVERNMENT
PAYS $1 FOR $5.28
FROM TERRITORY
CHICAGO, July 17—i/f)—A report
issued by the Western Tax Council,
Inc., today said the Federal govern
ment collects on the average of
$7.46 in taxes from taxpayers in
each state for every dollar returned
by the government to that state.
The report said Washington and
Alaska each paid $5.2B in taxes for
every dollar returned by the gov
ernment.
Russia has told the United
States that the Soviets will have
no more to say on the subject of
Japanese prisoners of war. The
United States and Britan have
said that there are more than 300,
000 Japanese prisoners still un
accounted for by Russia—five years
after the end of the second world
war.
The Japanese attorney general's
office has suspended publication
for 180 more Communist periodicals.
The suspensions followed early
morning raids on Red party centers
in many parts of Japan.
Federal workers who are drafted
into the armed services or who
volunteer will get their jobs back
when they get out. This is pro
vided they serve no longer than
they have to.
HISTORIAN SEES
KOREA AS FEINT IN
RUSS EXPANSION
Is the Korean “incident” only
that, or is it like a boil on the
body that is a symptom of a greater
disease?
The simile was put by Dr. Ken
neth O. Bjork. professor of history
and chairman of the social sciences
at St. Olaf College, Northfield,
Minn., in his talk this noon to the
Lions Club, in the Baranof Gold
Room. •
Dr. Bjork believes that military
uncertainty as to the extent of com
mitments for Korea is based on a
very real understanding of the en
tire situation.
“Military leaders," he said, “are
not sure that the Korean ‘incident’
is more than a feint, with Russia
ready to throw her weight around
in other places such as Germany,
Turkey, the Balkans, India and the
Straits. The Russians obviously
hope to expand in other places.
“Russia,” he went on, “has never
stopped the consistent process of
expansion that began in the 17th
Century. It was very important in
European diplomacy in" the 19th
Century. It was interrupted by the
1917 revolution and we were lulled
to sleep thinking Stalin was trying
to make socialism work in Russia
alone.
“Now it is very serious—the old,
old thing in a different form. The
places are the same. Persia may be
called Iran, but the oil there is just
as desirable.
“To a large extent,” he said, “the
United States and the United Na
tions have inherited the British pol
icy of containment. We hope to
contain the Russians, to block them
from moving in on that rich oil.”
Dr. Bjork pointed out that, now
Russian expansionism is backed up
by the ideology of Lenin and Stalin
to fit the tradition.
"Behind the logic, or lack of It,
of Marx is expansionism,” he said.
“All of Stalin’s speeches for the
last 20 years show that a showdown
between Russia and the United
States—the last bulwark of capi
talism—is implied, suggested or even
taken for granted.
"On the brighter side is the fact
that, with all their talk, the Rus
sians are quick to stop when they
are met by stronger force and
greater technology.”
The speaker urged the need for a
mature approach to the serious sit
uation, “and the united spirit shown
in other crisis ” especially as the
United States is not prepared by
centuries of experience as was
Great Britain.
He mentioned having given a
comparable summary of conditions
in 1934 to another Lions Club, and
pointed out that, 16 years ago, the
world was generally indifferent to
the dangers of Hitlarism. However
today there is great interest and
awareness of conditions throughout
the world.
Dr. Bjork was introduced by Dr.
Joseph O. Rude, who had invited
him to speak today.
A1 Ransome, program chairman,
was in charge of the club’s presen
tation of a handsome red leather
suitcase to Salvation Army Capt.
Henry Lorenzen in appreciation of
his services to the club and the
community. Lorenzen’s luncheon
guests were his wife and their three
daughters—Julia, Martha and Ma
rie. The two boys have preceded the
rest of the family, to attend a music
camp outside.
Other guests were Tom Howell,
assistant postmaster of Seward and
president of the Seward Lions Club,
and Paul Irwin, a member of the
same club.
Reports were given by Bob Faulk
ner for the Fourth of July float
committee, and Bob Scott on the
Mitchell Cain shows last week.
PRICE OF WORSTED
GOODS INCREASED
NEW YORK, July 17—CTi—Ameri
can Woolen Co., today announced
a price increase ranging from 12'.•
to 17'i cents a yard on all its wor
sted goods for men and women's
clothing.
The increase is on goods ordered
for delivery in November and later.
It was the second advance posted
by American in the past two
months. The last boost on worsteds
also was from 121 a to 17'i cents
a yard.
The company is the world’s larg
est manufacturer of woolen ajid
worsted fabrics.
TRUMAN TO
GIVE MESSAGE,
KOREAN WAR
Congress Gets Report on
Wednesday-Radio Talk
Made Last Night
WASHINGTON, July 17 — —
President Truman will send a mes
sage on the Korean war to Con
fess Wednesday and report to the
nation on it that night by radio.
The White House said neither
the message nor the report to the
occple has been completed yet. .
But the message to the law
makers will carry recommendations
or legislative action to back up
cur efforts to throw the Red in
vaders out of Korea.
The message will be sent to the
awmakers at 11 a.m. (EST) Wed
nesday. The radio report over
four major networks and television,
will be at 9:30 p.m. (EST)
As for the message to Congress,
Presidential Secretary Charles G.
Ross told reporters:
"It will be quite a comprehen
sive one, giving background of the
situation, explaining all steps that
have been taken by this gove.'fi
ment and containing legislative
recommendations."
Earlier Democratic leaders had
met with Mr. Truman and discus
sed the message.
None would say what Mr. Tru
man planned to say. But House
speaker Rayburn later today re
ported that "in my best judgment”
food rationing wTould not be made
i part of contemplated government
controls.
Government officials have pre
dicted that the message will call
for controls over steel, curbs on
consumer credit, and possibly a tax
.ncrease.
NOW IT'S COFFEE
PRICE THAT'S UP
NEW YORK, July 17—(<TI—Coffee
prices were increased four to five
cents a pound today by the Great
Atlantic and Pacific Tea Co. on its
bag-packed brands.
The new prices are 74 cents a
pound for Eight O’clock brand, 75
for Red Circle and 77 for Bokar.
Trade circles expected other chain
stores to announce similar ad
vances.
VISITORS STAY OVER
FOR BIRTHDAY PARTY
FOR JUDGE HELLENTHAL
After Judge and Mrs. Simon Hel
lenthal have a family dinner at
home this evening with their
houseguests, a group of close friends
will Join them for a dessert party,
the dessert featuring a birthday
cake.
I Mrs. Jack Hellenthal, the Judge’s
sister-in-law, and Miss Gertrude
Hellenthal delayed their departure
in order to be here for the celebra
tion on the eve of Judge Hellen
thal’s birthday.
They will board the Princess
Louise tomorrow morning after a
month’s stay in the Territory, part
of that time spent in the north.
Their home is in Kelseyville, Calif.
The former Alaskans, members
of a prominent family, have been
honored at numerous parties dur
ing their stay. Among the recent
ones were the dinner Saturday for
which Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Mullen en
tertained and the cocktail party Fri
day given by Mr. and Mrs. G. E.
Cleveland, which also honored Mr.
Cleveland’s mother, Mrs. Ardelle
Cleveland.
Other large parties were given by
Mrs. Robert Simpson, Mr. and Mrs.
! Charles G. Burdick.
Mrs. H. L. Faulkner and Mrs. R.
! j. Sommers entertained together
with a luncheon honoring the vis
i iting Hellenthals, and the Vander
Leests were among their other
hosts.
Another guest will arrive this
week—Mrs. Simon Hellenthal’s sis
ter, Mrs. L. A. Moore, whose home
is in Minneapolis. She is coming
from Phoenix, Ariz., where she
spent the winter. Her son, Dinty
| Moore, just 17 years old, has been
here for a week, staying with the
Hellenthals in their home on Cal
I houn Avenue.
SECOND DRAFT CALL
FOR VETS, FAMILY
MEN, NOW COOKING
WASHINGTON, July 17 — Iffl —
Maj. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey. Sel
ective Service chief, is reported to
be looking for a second draft call
next month.
He also was quoted today as
anticipating a need for more sweep
ing draft regulations affecting vet
erans, husbands and fathers.
Most veterans and men with de
pendents were exempt from the
first draft call for 20.000 men to
build up the Army in the Korean
crisis.
Hershey’s views on possible fu
ture. draft moves were given to a
reporter by Lt. Col. Irving W. Hart,
Selective Service information chief,
in response to queries. Hershey
himself was reported unavailable.
Hart said Hershey has told ak*ss
several times that he sees no rea
son to believe that there will not
be a second draft call next month.
"The general also has said sev
eral times that a more sweepihg
draft law may be needed," Hart
said.
The Army has said that it has
“no present plan" for another draft
call, but has emphasized that con
ditions are subject to quick change.
BPW VISITORS
MAKE SURVEY OF
TONGASS FOREST
Two members of the Business and
Professional Women’s Club who
have been attending the National
Federation’s biennial convention in
San Francisco will arrive in Juneau
tonight, it was announced at the
BPW noon meeting today by Presi
dent Kate Smith.
! The visitors will be Mrs. Julia
: Cole Fauber, National Program Co
J ordination chairman, BPW, and
1 Jessie Arndt, who writes for the
' Christian Science Monitor.
Their special interest on their
j present trip is the use and con
. servation of the natural resources
j of the Tongass National Forest,
i with timber their chief concern in
| the survey they are making.
Plans include a trip through the
! territory. They will arrive here
j aboard the Forester and with them
! on the trip from Ketchikan, where
! they boarded the motorship. will be
1 C. M. Archbold, division supervisor
\ of the Forest Service.
They will leave for Anchorage on
j Pacific Northern Wednesday.
! STEAMER MOVEMENTS
; Aleutian from Seattle scheduled
i to arrive at 8:30 tomorrow morning
and sails westward at 2 p.m.
Princess Kathleen from Van
! couver scheduled to arrive tomor
i row afternoon.
! Prince George scheduled to sail
] from Vancouver Tuesday, July 18
Princess Norah scheduled to sail
from Vancouver Wednesday, July 19.
Alaska scheduled to sail from
Seattle, Thursday, July 20.
Chilcotin scheduled to sail from
Vancouver Thursday.
Baranof scheduled to sail from
; Seattle Saturday.
Princess Louise scheduled to ar
rive at 8 a.m. tomorrow, sailing
south one hour later at 9 a.m.
WEATHER REPORT
In Juneau—Maximum, 56;
minimum, 51.
At Airport—Maximum, 56;
minimum, 52.
FORECAST
(Juneau and Vicinity)
Cloudy with rain showers
and little temperature
change tonight and Tuesday.
Lowest temperature tonight
about 52. Highest Tuesday
near 60.
PRECIPITATION
(Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a m. today
City of Juneau—1.62 inches;
since July 1—2.90 inches.
At Airport — 0.99 inches;
since July 1—1.63 inches.
The London Daily Telegraph said
today the Cunard Steamship Com
pany has been warned one of Its
queen liners “might be required”
to carry American troops to Korea.
The company denied the report as
“completely without foundation.”
STATEHOOD BILL
HAS SMALL CHANCE
WITH KOREAN WAR
WASHINGTON, July 17 — (/W —
The outlook for pending "western"
bills in Congress Is not good unless
it decides to continue regular busi
ness indefinitely due to the Korean
situation.
If it takes a summer recess, as
has b^en proposed, or stays ir,
session under agreement that nc
controversial measures will be con
sidered without absent member;
having a chance to get back for t'.ie
debate and vote, there is lL-*.;
liklihood there will be any action
on western bills not passed befori
the rest period starts.
Among the pending measures art
the Alaska and Hawaii statehooc.
bills, amendments to the reclama
tion act; and mine aid legislation
Present prospects are that the
Senate can complete action on the
general appropriations bill by the
end of this week.
But Congress still can’t quit until
in agreement has been reached
with the House on the Senate
changes In the bill.
That means Congress will wurk
regularly for at least a week.
It is expected that an effort will
be made in the Senate to bring Up
the statehood bills during the last
week of July. But discussion there
last Friday indicated there will
be opposition to anything but de
fense measures.
600 BOMBS DROPPED
ON WONSAN BY U. S.
IS MOSCOW REPORT
MOSCOW, July 17 — UPi — The
| Communist party newspaper Pravda
said today that American planes
raiding the North Korean city of
Wonsan last Thursday killed many
persons and hit a hospital flying
he Red Cross flag. The Pravda
correspondent said 600 bombs wJre
dropped.
The dispatch said Wonsan’s
streets are piled high with rubble
and rescue workers still are digging
bodies out of the debris.
During Thursday's raid—biggest
of the Korean war to date—nearly
50 U. S. superforts plastered the
key coast port of Wonsan with
iome 500 tons of bombs in a pre
cision strike, the Far East Ail
Force announced.
SALMON CANNING
SEASON IS STARTED;
PETERSBURG PACKS
PETERSBURG, Alaska, July 17—
M—The salmon canning season got
underway here Saturday with 1,500
half pound cases of sockeyes
packed.
The fish ranged from five to
ieven pounds. They were caught
n the Yakutat and l/tlkine River
districts.
Following a record halibut season,
many fishermen are converting
their boats to purse seining to
supply the three local canneries
which can pack 8.000 cases daily
when in full operation.
Gold Rush Pioneer
Passes Away, Seattle
TACOMA, Wash., July 17 — Uf> —
Funeral services for Edwin E. Wil
kinson, 81, an Alaska gold rush
pioneer, -were held here Sunday.
He died Friday.
He was foreman of the Fair
banks district of the Alaska Qoad
Commission for 25 years.
Wilkinson moved from Alaska in
1941.
He was a member of the Alaska
Yukon Pioneers.
STOCK QUOTATIONS
NEW YORK. July 17 — Closing
quotation of Alaskd Juneau mine
stock today is 2%, American Can
91%. Anaconda 30‘4, Curtiss
Wright 9, International Harvester
25%, Kennecott 57%. New York
Central 12%, Northern Pacific 15‘4
U S. Steel 32%, Pound $2.80%.
Sales today were 1,520,000 shares
Averages today are as follows: in
dustrials 197.63. rails 54.81, utlities
37.93.
REDS BATTER
NEW CAPITAL;
ODDS 10 T01
Stalin Demands Red Chi
na's Admittance to U. N.
as Step to Ending War
(By the Associated Press)
Communist troops with thun
derous artillery support poured into
the approaches to tottering Taejon
today, paying a heavy price in
blood as they threw outnumbered
American defenders back to new
defense positions.
To the east, Americans and South
Koreans jolted the Communists
moving down on American supply
lines, blasting two Red columns
Into confusion by air and unlooked
for artillery fire. Oen. MacArthur's
communique said Communist forces
were reported in retreat after a de
feat by South Koreans near Klo
mandang on the east coast.
On fhe central sector the Ameri
cans abandoned Taejon airfield,
three miles north of Taejon,
whence the South Korean govern
ment had fled. The city was almost
deserted and a deathly quiet was
broken only by the rumble of battle
in the distance. Most of its normal
population of 100,000 had gone.
Gen. MacArthur's communique
reported the Communists massing
heavy concentrations of men and
armor directly north of the Kum
river battle sector.
It to 1 Odds
There were reports of tanks lead
ing possibly 40,000 Communists Into
the various Taejon approaches
against Americans outnumbered 10
to 1..
To the west of 'laejon Communist
forces stabbed southward In a
flanking movement. The U.S. com
munique said this forced orderly
withdrawals from the sector.
Red guerrillas were active. Quer
rilla forces not only were reported
at the outskirts of Taejon, but stab
bing 1,500 strong between Yonyang
and Yongchon In the eastern sec
tor in a move which could imperil
the Taegu-Taejon supply road used
by the Americans.
In Washington Congressional
leaders announced President Tru
man would send to Congress Wed
nesday a report on the war and
what legislative steps he deems
necessary.
Yanks to Hold "Somewhere”
A Pentagon briefing officer said
American forces in Korea would
hold somewhere south of the Kum
river "and get built up for our of
fensive.” He did not predict where
the stand would be made.
The UB. 24th Division on the
main battlefroht is facing the Reds’
First, Third and Fourth Divisions,
and possibly the Sixth, Korean vet
erans of the China Civil War.
The drive, for Which the Reds
grabbed a toehold with a tin)
bridgehead across the Kum rivet
Saturday, pushed the Americans
back six miles, a Tokyo communi
que acknowledged. The Reds probed
south in the area of Nonsan. 20
miles southwest of Taejon, in a
flanking move which looked like
another envelopment maneuver.
Fifty-five miles northeast of Tae
jon, a Red column got a pasting
Sunday night from the South Ko
rean 21st Regiment, unexpectedly
supported by a unit of US. artillery.
B-W« Busy Again
Fifty B-29 Superfortresses struck
deep into enemy territory, dumping
400 tons of bombs on railyards at
Seoul, 90 miles north of the main
battle area, and plastering the
Shungju area supply lines in the
central sector.
Russia’s Prime Minister Stalin
was reported by New Delhi dis
patches to have told Prime Min
I ister Nehru of India the Soviet
Union holds the admission of Com
munist China to the United Nations
Security Council an essential step
toward ending the Korean war.
Stalin, replying to Nehru’s media
tion offer, is said to have agreed
the Korean war could be settled,
but the China Communists must
first replace the Nationalists in the
] U.N.
Authoritative sources in Washing
ton say the US. would not veto a
Red China application if the Com
munists received the seven council
I votes necessary for admission. But
; the US. demands the withdrawal of
the North Korean Communists to
the 38th parallel, their jumpoff in
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