THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE
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VOL. LXXV., NO. 11,583___JUNEAU. ALASKA,-THURSDAY, AUGUST 17. 1950_MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS
RED DRIVE DATTERS CLOSE TO TAEGU
5 AMERICANS
SURVIVE RED
MASSACRE
Thirly-two Prisoners Slain
-One North Korean
Identified
By HAL BOYLE
WITH U. S'. FIRST CAVALRY,
Korea, Aug. 17 — UFl — Thirty-two
American prisoners with hands tied
behind their backs were shot dead
today by Red Koreans on a hill
west of Waegwan just before a
U. S. patrol reached the spot.
The Red^ tried to kill 37 prison
ers in all. But five lived to tell
the story. They said the Commii
nists also massacred the wounded
as they lay moaning on the ground.
This was in the area that was
bombed yesterday by 98 B-29’s in
the heaviest air raid of the wa'r.
Killing of prisoners in this fashion
is typical retaliation for such an
assault.
The execution of the prisoners
was on hill 303, which was cap
tured by the Reds this morning.
Their bodies were found on a
ridge recaptured by the Fifth Cav
alry this afternoon. The American
prisoners were killed only two
hours before troopers re-took the
ridge.
The Americans seized the ridge
at 6:30 p.m. (12:30 a.m. Juneau
time.) The hill had been foug'-it
over for three days.
The 37 Americans were mowed
down by bursts of gunfire.
Three North Korean prisoners
were taken after a sharp fire fight
nearby. One of them was positively
Identified by an American survivor
—Cpl. James Melvin Rudd of &lil
yersville, Ky.—as a member of the
squad of killers.
This prisoner denied he had
taken any part in the action.
Regimental officers said he would
be sent back with recommendation
that he be tried as a war criminal.
On the way back from the front
we met the prisoner and Corporal
Rudd on their trip back for joint
questioning. With Rudd was an
other survivor—Corporal Roy L.
Day, Jr., El Paso, Tex.
Day looked at the two North
Korean prisoners in the back of the
truck and said:
"If you ask me, I think they
should be shot just as they shot
our men, rather than be given a
trial. Or else we ought to string
them up right now.”
LOGISTICS OF KOREAN
WAR ARE REVEAiED IN
U. S. NAVY STATEMENT
WASHINGTON, Aug. 17——'The
Navy reported today that it has de
livered 40,000 men, 500,000 tons of
military cargo and 2,000,000 barrels
of petroleum to the Far East since
the outbreak of the Korean war.
These figures on the transport job
done for the United Nations Forces
in Korea were given at a Pentagon
briefing session for reporters.
Spokesmen said 85 percent of the
men and supplies moved across the
Pacific have been carried by the
Military Sea Transport Service.
The remainder has been carried
by combat ships and by the air lift
operated by the Air Force.
The Navy said the air lift has
ferried 2,000 men and 200 tons of
top priority cargo.
• •
• WEATHER REPORT •
• •
• In Juneau—Maximum, 66; •
• minimum, 47. •
• At Airport—Maximum, 74; •
• minimum, 40. •
• FORECAST •
• (Juneau and Vicinity) •
• Continued fair with some •
• cloudiness this afternoon and •
• tonight and Friday. Little •
• change in temperature with •
• highest this afternoon near •
• 70 and lowest tonight 50 de- •
• grees. •
• •
• PRECIPITATION •
• (Past 24 hours endlnc 7:30 a.m. today •
• City of Juneau — None; •
• since August 1—1.14 inches; •
• since July 1—11.07-inches. •
• At Airport — None; •
• since August 1—0.85 inches; •
• since July 1—7.80 inches. •
FIFTY-TWO ARE NAMED
BENEFICIARIES IN WILL
OF AUSTIN E. LATHROP
TRUMAN DENOUNCES
WHERRY STATEMENT
AGAINST ACHESON
WASHINGTON, Aug. 17 — —
President Truman denounced today
as “contemptible” and “beneath
comment” a statement by Republi
can Senate Leader Wherry that the
blood of American dead in Korea is
on the shoulders of Secretary of
State Acheson.
Mr. Truman gave reporters at
his news conference permission to
quote directly these words in his
sharp denunciation of the Nebraska
Senator.
The President declared it was “a
contemptible statement and beneath
comment.”
Wherry laid the responsibility for
the shedding of American blood in
Korea on Acheson in a Senate
speech yesterday.
The Senate said Acheson had fol
lowed a policy of equipping the
South Koreans with' only police
arms instead of the more powerful
military weapons intended under aid
programs approved by Congress.
Wherry’s speech was only one of
several from Republicans criticiz
ing administration policy in the I
Far Pacific.
Today, Senator Wiley (R-Wis)
called for an all-out effort to keep
the Chinese Communists out of the
Korean fighting.
NEW ORDINANCES TO
BE READY BY COUNCIL
Two new' city ordinances will
be read for the third and final
time by the Juneau City Council
when it holds its regular meeting
tomorrow at 8 p.m. in the City Hall.
One of the new ordinances calls
for an increase in the city card
table license fee. The fee has been
$20 for any number of tables up
to four and $5 for each table over
four. The new ordinance sets the
license fee at $35 per table.
Under the provisions of the other
new ordinance, collection of city
automobile taxes will be made at
the beginning of each year when
the car is licensed. At present,
automobile tax bills are sent out
in October.
A study of existing defense or
dinances will probably be made at
the council meeting, according to
Mayor Waino Hendrickson.
WAR REVIEW
(By the Associated Press)
Taegu—North Koreans, undeter
red by B-29 blasting, reported 15
miles north of South Korean provi
sional capital, in surprise power push
by three divisions.
Changnyong bridgehead — Ma
rines, rushed up from southern
front, capture part of ‘'Slaughter
house Hill” in bloody battle; 24th
Division also attacks.
Air war — Headquarters has not
yet evaluated results of big B-29
bombing of North Korean power
house area west of Naktong, but
Reds snap back with some ground
attacks.
Southern front—U.S. 25th Divi
sion digs in behind barbed wire and
mines in 20-mile pullback on Chinju
front after departure of Marines.
Northern front—enemy may be
swinging main effort to northeast
where South Koreans hold line;
South Koreans evacuated by sea
north of Pohang and south, of
Yongdok.
With U.S. First Cavalry—32 more
American prisoners with hands tied
found shot dead by Red Koreans.
Hong Kong — British destroyer
duels with Chinese Communist is
land batteries.
POWER BARGE REFLOATED
An Alaska Housing Authority
power-barge, aground in shoal water
in Hooper Bay for more than a week,
was refloated late yesterday with
the help of empty oil drums and
a high tide, according to word reach
ing here from the Coast Guard cut
ter Clover which aided in refloat
ing the craft.
Hooper Bay is on the Bering Sea
150 miles southwest of St. Michael.
FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Aug. 17—
</f>—Fifty-two relatives, employees,
business associates and hospital and
educational organizations were
named residuary beneficiaries today
of the estate of Captain Austin E.
Lathrop, pioneer Alaska business
man killed in an accident at his
coal mien at Suntrana July 26.
The petition for probate of the
will, filed at Fairbanks today, said
simply that the estate was valued
“in excess of $500,000." Outside
sources have estimated, however,
that the estate might run from $3,
000,000 to $4,000,000.
In addition to the beneficiaries,
which included the Providence Hos
pital at Anchorage, St. Joseph’s
Hospital at Fairbanks, and the
University of Alaska, cash bequests
were left to more than 100 em
ployees, friends and churches.
The will provided that Captain
Lathrop’s vast interest, built up in
the 61 years since he came to the
Pacific northwest and Alaska,
should continue to operate under a
trusteeship known as "the Lathrop
Trust” for a period of five years
after the residue of the estate is
distributed to the trustees by the
executors.
These interests include the Lath
rop Co. of Anchorage, Fairbanks
and Cordova, which directed motion
picture and other interests; the
Tanana Publishing Co. of Fairbanks,
which publishes the Fairbanks News
Miner; the Midnight Sun Broad
casting Co. of Fairbanks, which op
erates station KFAR at Fairbanks
and KENI at Anchorage, the Healy
River Coal Corporation of Sun
trana, the Cordova Commercial
Company of Cordova and the First
Bank of Cordova.
On termination of the trust, the
residue of the estate will be dis
tributed to the residuary beneficiar
ies.
Lathrop, who started with nothing
to become one of Alaska’s richest
men, left two types of bequests—
stock in the Lathrop Co. and cash
bequests. There was no estimate of
che value of the individual shares
3f the Lathrop Co. stock which was
willed to the 52 residuary bene
ficiaries, which include the two
hospitals and the University of
Alaska. The bequests varied from
five shares to 200 shares.
Scholarship Fund
The University of Alaska was
willed 100 shares of stock, with the
reqiiest that the board of regents
set up a fund to be known as, the
"Lathrop Scholarship Fund.” The
principal is to be kept intact and
the income to be used to provide
free scholarships to residents of
the Territory.
Among the larger bequests in
stock were 200 shares* to Mr. and
Mrs. Austin G. Cooley, of New York,
a nephew; 175 shares to Zoe Cooley
Green, Kent, Wash., a niece; 150
shares to Mrs. Cleo Boyce, Seattle, a
stepdaughter; 150 shares to Mr. and
Mrs. Frank Eugene Richards,
Klamath Falls, Ore., a nephew, and
150 shares each to Miss Miriam
Dickey, secretary of the Lathrop
Co. and for many years Lathrop’s
personal secretary, Sydney C. Ray
nor, Anchorage and Harry J. Hill,
Anchorage.
Twenty shares were willed each to
St. Joseph’s Hospital of Fairbanks
and the Providence Hospital of An
chorage, operated by the Sisters of
Charity of the House of Providence.
Among the cash bequests were
$5,000 to be divided among the or
ganized churches, religious organi
zations and congregations in Fair
banks, and $5,000 to organized
churches, religious organizations
and congregations in Anchorage.
Lathrop also bequeathed $1,000
each to the Roman Catholic Church,
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STOCK QUOTATIONS
NEW YORK, Aug. 17 — Closing
quotation of Alaska Juneau mine
stock today is 2%, American Can
9314, Anaconda 33%, Curtiss
Wright 1014, International Harves
ter 3014, Kennecott 62%, New York
Central 1414, Northern Pacific 17%,
U.S. Steel 3714, Pound $2.?0!4, Ca
nadian exchange 90.8714.
Sales today were 2,170,000 shares.
Averages today were: industrials
217.76, rails 63.18, utilities 39.70.
BOMB-CUTTED PASTORALE _ a shepherd
matches his flock amid the grass-grown ruins of the old city of
Frankfurt, Germany. The Frankfurt Cathedral is in background.
MAN LOST, BOATS
DRIVE ASHORE IN
SAVAGE B.C. STORM
VICTORIA, B.C., Aug. 17——
Reports received today from remote
Vancouver Island points indicated j
that one man drowned and several
fishing boats were driven aground
in a savage gale striking at the is
land’s west coast.
The R.C.M.P. detachment at Port
Alice, on the northerly west coast,
reported that James Watt, a Na
naimo fisherman, was lost in t!'#c
storm, which struck late Monday or
early Tuesday.
The grounded vessels, possibly
nine, apparently were caught off
Sea Otter Cove, only a short dis
tance from Cape Scott on the ex
treme tip of Vancouver Island.
The fish boats were heading for
the Canadian Fishing Co., camp at
the Cove when the storm struck.
There were unsubstantiated re
ports that a “tidal wave” also hit
the ships. A heavy earthquake was
recorded during the general period
of the storm.
MRS. CURRY, SUBJECT
OF SEARCH, DIDN'T KNOW
SHE WAS MISSED HERE
Mrs. Betty Curry, 27, and her two
young children returned to Juneau
from Skagway yesterday. They had
been the subject of a search by po
lice, deputy marshals, and highway
patrolmen here early in June.
“I didn’t realize I caused any
worry around here,” she said today.
"The first I heard about it was in
Whitehorse. They asked me, ’Are
you the one they’re looking for’?”
She said she left Juneau on the
Aleutian June 27.
"I went aboard to visit and de
cided to stay,” she recalled. “I got
in a stateroom and the stewards
helped me out—brought me and the
children sandwiches, enough to keep
us alive.”
The U.S. Marshall’s office he.V
said Monday that her story was nob
logical because police had been
waiting for Mrs. Curry when the
ship docked at Seattle.
Mrs. Curry said there were po
licemen standing at the end of the
wharf in Seattle, “but I didn’t know
they were looking for me.”
She hitch-hiked across the border
and through Canada to the Alaska
Highway. She reached Whitehorse
July 14, “and we were all feeling
fine. We’d stopped at farmhouses
on the way, and I worked in restaur
ants for our meals,” she said.
In Whitehorse she ^nd the child
ren were detained by immigration
authorities for three weeks before
being sent on to Skagway.
Mrs. Curry said today the Red
; Cross is trying to arrange to have
| returned to her mother’s home in
Chicago, 111., with her two children,
| Richard Allan, 7, and Diana Lynn,
3. She said she was divorced from
her husband a number of years ago.
DAUGHTER FOR BLACKS
Mr. and Mrs. Donald Black ol
i Douglas became the parents of a
I daughter early this morning at St.
Ann's Hospital. The child, born at
2:46 a.m., weighed five pounds 1?
| ounces.
AIRLINE FILES NEW
COMPLAINT AGAINST
FAIRBANKS PAPER
FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Aug. 17—1 /PI
—Golden North Airways has filed
an amended complaint in its $50,000
libel suit against the Tanana Pub
lishing Co., publisher of the Daily
News-Miner.
District Judge Harry E. Pratt dis
missed the suit earlier this month
of technical grounds. Yesterday’s
amended complaint was njade after
the airways complied with the tech
nicalities.
The complaint is aimed at an
editorial printed in the News-Miner
dealing with operation of non
scheduled air carriers in Alaska.
The News-Miner says the editorial
first appeared in the Daily Alaska
Empire at Juneau and later was re
printed in Fairbanks.
MRS. BOYD DIES
HERE YESTERDAY;
SICK FOR MONTH
Memorial services will be held this
evening at 8 p.m. in the Charles
W. Carter Mortuary for Mrs. Jo
sephine Boyd, who died yesterday
afternoon in St. Ann's Hospital
after a month’s serious illness.
Reverend Willis R. Booth will con
duct the services. The family re
quests that instead of sending
flowers, friends send their gifts to
the PTA Scholarship Fund. Checks
may be sent to Mrs. Stan Grum
mett, Box 1013, Juneau.
Mrs. Boyd has been an active
civic worker; she was treasurer of
the Girl Scout Council for seven
years, past president of the Mar
tha Society of the Presbyterian
Church, and a member of the
World Service Circle. She was also
past president of the Juneau Gar
den Club and Past Worthy Matron
of Acacia Chapter, Order of East
ern Star.
Mrs. Boyd was born in Michigan
in 1877; she moved with her fam
ily to North Dakota at an early
age. After she and Alexander
Boyd were married in 1898, they
became residents of Steilacoom,
Washington. Mrs. Boyd made sev
eral trips to Alaska, and settled in
Juneau in 1941 at the home of her
daughter and son-in-law, Mr. and
Mrs. Glenn Oakes.
Interment will be held next
Thursday in Mountain View Mem
orial Park, Tacoma, beside the re
mains of Mr. Boyd, who died in
1936. Mrs. Oakes will accompany
her mother's body south tomorrow.
Besides Mr. and Mrs. Oakes, sur
vivors include: her grandchildren,
Patricia, a sophomore at Washing
ton State College, and Gordon, a
Juneau High School student; a
sister and a brother in the States;
a son, Robert Boyd, of Mantaska
Lake; and numerous nieces ahd
nephews.
MAX BOWMAN HERE
Max M. Bowman of Skagway is
in town, registered at the Juneau
Hotel.
HERE FROM FCNTER
Mrs. N. B. Sorrels and daughter,
Charlotte, are here from Funter
Bay, stopping at the Juneau Hotel.
I
SCHWAMM SAYS (AA
APPROVED PALMER
LAND TRANSACTION
PALMER AIRPORT
CHARGES TERMED
'SMEAR; BY GOV.
Alaska officials who carried
through the Palmer airport trarts
action deserve praise for their act
ivities but find themselves victims
of slander, Gov. Ernest Gruelling
sa d this morning in answering
charges by Senator Hugh Butler
that federal funds were obtained
"dishonestly.”
"It is no secret," he said, “that
this is an election year, and some
people are so blinded by partisan
consideration that they are less
concerned with the truth than with
an opportunity to smear."
Butler charged on the Senate
floor that a "washout transaction"
was put through to gain federal
funds. He made no charge before
the Senate investigating committee.
The governor’s complete state
ment follows:
"Senator Butler has apparently
accepted unquestionably the mis-1
representations which have been
made to him concerning the airport
by individuals who appear to' be
activated solely by political motives!
"The transaction concerning the
airport was approved by the CiVil
Aeronautics Administration after
being carefully studied by its at
torneys, and was approved by all
five members of the Alaska Aero
nautics and Communications Com
mission.
"These include, besides myseir,
Sheldon Simmons, for the First
Division; Neil Foster, the Second
Division; Jack Carr, the Third Div
ision, add Frank Barr, the Fourth
Division. Mr. Barr is the author
ol the Aeronautics Act passed by j
the 1949 legislature which permits
the Territory to take advantage of!
federal matching funds, and to go j
ahead with construction of numer
ous airfields.
"This transaction represented a
wholly legitimate method of making
the best possible use of both federal
and territorial funds. Officials who
carried it through deserve praise
rather than the slander current i
which was brought up since an!
effort has been made to make the j
thing a political issue.”
SOCIAL SECURITY
INCREASE BILL TO
WHITE HOUSE NOW
WASHINGTON, Aug. 17 — (A>1 —
Tlie Senate today approved and j
sent to the White House a bill
bringing 10,000,000 additional per
sons under social security coverage
and boosting benefits for 3,000,000
retired workers,
Approval was by voice vote.
The compromise measure, worked
out in a Senate-Hou^e conference
was adopted by the House yester
day, 374 to 1.
ELDERLY MAN, LOST
TEN DAYS IN WOODS,
FOUND IN GODD HEALTH
COLVILLE, Wash., Aug. 17—WV—
Alive and in apparent good health,
65-year-old Gunnar Peterson was
found yesterday by his daughter
after wandering for 10 days in a
wooded area of northern Stevens
county.
The elderly man was found by his
daughter and her husband, Mr. and
Mrs. W. A. Graves of Tacoma, a
few hours after they went into the
woods in search of him.
Mrs. Graves said her father ap
peared in good health. She said he
had lived on berries and had taken
refuge in abandoned shacks during
the nights. He coul<j account for
only eight of the 10 days he had
been missing.
He became lost 10 days ago while
I picking huckleberries.
FROM CLEVELAND
Mrs. Paul Erskine of Cleveland.
Ohio, is staying at the Baranof
1 Hotel.
ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Aug. 17—
itf)—Four points raised in Congress
yesterday by Sen. Butler (R-Neb.)
in connection with the Palmer Air
port transaction were answered to
day by George S. (Tony) Schwamm.
Schwamin, director of the Terri
torial Aeronautical Commission, de
nied there was an scheme or "sub
terfuge” in connection with Palmer
airport land negotiations.
Saying he was speaking for At
torney Stanley McCutcheon, now In
Seattle, Schwamm said the $5,628.42
paid him constituted legitimate at
torney’s fees for work on seven air
ports at remote locations, including
travel. He said McCutcheon actually
received $1,500 for the Palmer tran
saction.
He termed Butler’s implication of
personal profit through McCutch
eon’s banking connections as ''horse
feathers.”
Schwamm noted that -an investi
gation sought by Territorial Rep.
Marcus Jensen had no jurisdiction
at Juneau, and pointed out Jensen
did not extend the "smear" to An
chorage, where the U.S. Attorney
does have jurisdiction to hold an
investigation.
The airport program director de
clared Butler was in error in quot
ing a price of $43 per acre by refer
ring to documents purportedly show
ing Schwamm quoted $1,000 per
acre by a Miss Hill late last April,
and $500 for the first six acres, plus
an additional constantly accelerat
ing price of $250 per acre by Harold
Thuma in August, 1949.
Schwamm produced letters from
Jack E. Mize of the Matantiska Val
ley Bank; M. D. Snodgrass, major
landholder, and James Hurley, man
ager of the Alaska Rural Rehabili
tation Corp., all of which, he said,
listed estimates at above the price
paid, ranging from $160,000 to $171,
000 for the entire area.
“It was a good, clean businesslike
deal and there is nothing to hide,”
Schwamm said. "We made shortcuts
but did nothing off-color, and as
a result will be able to dedicate the
Palmer airport on Sept. 2.”
Signature Permission
Regardling a Butler charge that
McCutcheon signed a voucher tor
Roland Snodgrass, Secretary of the
Palmer Airport Association,
Schwamm said McCutcheon ob
tained permission by long distance
telephone and a documented trans
cript, properly witnessed, will prove
the act was only one to get the
papers in time to secure funds.
• Everything was done with federal
approval and supervision, and the
McCutcheon bill is even now being
further.,Itemised to please the pub
lic,” Schwamm said. “I repeat it’s
political ‘digger-uppers' who are
fighting the work. The airport is
now 90 percent complete, and the
CAA is pleased with our progress.”
Meanwhile it was disclosed that
Walter Plett, CAA Administrator
lot the eighth region, not only ap
proved the airport program step by
step in his official capacity, but spe
dfically approved the land transac
-ion at Palmer in a letter to
3chwamm and Governor Gruening
July 18. 1950.
"Such an arrangement is clearly
permlssable under the Federal Air
port Act as long as the municipality
assumes the existing obligations of
.he Territory," Plett’s letter stated.
This disclosure was aimed at Sen.
Butler’s “Point Four” charge of
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STEAMER MOVEMENTS
Princess Louise scheduled to ar
rive from Skagway at 8 a.m., Friday,
sailing for Vancouver at 9 a.m.
Princess Kathleen scheduled to
arrive from Vancouver Saturday. .
Alaska scheduled to sail from
Seattle today, and due here Sunday.
Prince George scheduled to leave
Vancouver tomorrow and will ar
rive Monday.
Aleutian cjue here Sunday from
Seward.
Baranc4 scheduled to sail from
Seattle Saturday and due here
Tuesday.
Princess Norah scheduled to sail
from Vancouver Saturday and due
here Tuesday.
Freighter Chena scheduled to sail
from Seattle Aug. 24.
Three Enemy
Divisions Hit
South Koreans
'Saturation'' B-29 Raid
Either Sidestepped or
They Snap Back
(By Associated Press)
Between 25,000 and 30,000 North
Koreans—three divisions—drove to
| within 15 miles of Taegu, South
| Korean provisional capital, with a
| surprise show of power today, front
j line dispatches reported.
The enemy either had sidestepped
! the massive B-29 '"saturation" raid
j on his 25 mile concentration area
i west of the Naktong River Wed
i nesday, or had snapped back from
jit.
The center of the attack was be
tween Waegwan and Kunwi, north
east of the bombed area, and
poured through two South Korean
divisions holding mountain passes.
The Red push bet an as the Am
ericans attempted a surprise of
their own—a renewed offensive ag
ainst the bulging Changnyong
bridgehead southwest of Taegu with
the aid of Marines drawn up from
tlie southern front.
The Devil Dogs, beginning their
attack at dawn, stormed and held
part of "slaughterhouse hill,” 26
m.les southwest of Taegu. It was
their bloodiest battle of the war.
The Marines, with U. S. 24th
Infantry Division on their right
flank, charged to the steep rocky
crest with the support of heavy
j artillery, tanks and rocket-firing
I planes In a bid for ground com
I manning a good part of the ant
j and seven mile bridgehead held by
12,000 Communists.
Worst Threat
But the new Red thrust from the
north replaced the Changnyong
bridgehead as the "most serious”
threat to the United Nations in
Korea, Eighth Army headquarters
said.
No river barrier stood in the way
of the three divisions bearing dorfti.
However, there was a high ridge
of mountains.
The North Koreans snapped back,
from the terrific pounding they
received from 98 superfortresses
Wednesday when their 25-square
mile concentration area west of
Waegwan was hit with more than
850 tons of bombs.
The Reds lashed out and cap
tui ed a hill two mile? northeast
of Wkegwan Jn the early morning,
but U. S. First Cavalry Division
troopers fought halfway back up
the, ridge, about 14 miles north
.west of Taegu, emergency • capital
of South Korea.
Thirty-two more American pris
oners, presumably from 'the U. S.
First Cavalry Division, were found
shot dead by Red Koreans in the
Waegwan front. Their hands had
been tied behind their backs.
U. 8. Eighth Army headquarters
in Korea said the Communists
were massing anew to the north
and northeast of the bombed area
and might be shifting their main
thrust to between Waegwan and
Kunwi, where they would medt
South Korean divisions. Kunwi is
25 miles north of Taegu.
. Allies Lose 27 Miles
Swinging the Marines into tho
renewed offensive against the
Changnyong bridgehead involved a
27-mile tailback from hard-won
territory east of Chinju on the
south coast. The U. S. 25th In
fantry Division, left to hold that
sector, set up shop behind a deep
new defense line of barbed wfre
and mines and awaited a men
acing Red concentration.
On the east coast the allies also
shortened their line. The bat
tered South Korean Third Division
was evacuated by U. S. landing
| craft from below Yongdok. The
! division had been fighting an al
most isolated battle 'since the Reds
i staged a surprise push behind it
I and captured Pohang, 63 miles
j north of Pusan.
The British destroyer Concord
l and Chinese Communist shore bat
| teries fought a 30-minute duel on
the approaches to Hong Kong,
j This was disclosed to have been
; the second such exchange of fire
j in the tense Far East. The British
j frigate Whitesand Bay shot at
| Communist gun emplacements in
j (Continued on Page Two)