THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE
“ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME* **
VOL. LXXV., NO. 11,568
JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, JULY 31, 1950
MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
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U. S. Reinforcements Reaching Korea
Famed Global
Explorer on
Way to Juneau
SEATTLE, July 31—1*1—Famed :
global explorer Lowell Thomas left !
here today for Juneau, Alaska.
He said he would meet with
Bernt Balchen, Polar explorer and ,
commander of Arctic Rescue
Squadron 10, but declined to dis
cuss the purpose of his expedition.
“We are off on another junket,’’
Thomas said, “but I can’t say ex
actly where we are going or what
we have in mind.
"We do know we aren’t using
yaks this time,” he added.
He was refering to his near
fatal injury on a recent expedition
to Tibet. His cameraman, John
Roberts, is accompanying him to
Alaska.
10TH RESCUE SKI
PLANE HERE FOR
C-54 SEARCH, JIRP
A second objective was added to
the mission of the 10th Rescue
Squadron aircraft which arrived
yesterday for scheduled trips to
the Juneau Ic Cap. The ski-wheel
twin-engined airplane has joined
in the search for the missing C-54,
bqlieved down about 90 miles from
here.
The C-54 from Elmendorf Air
Force Base, Anchorage, was £0
make at least two glacier landings
with personnel and supplies for the
Juneau Icefield Research Project
( JIRPj of which the American
Geographical Society is the main
sponsor. With several JIRP mem
bers, pilots and crew were out at
the airport today, waiting for a
weather break.
Capt. F. S'parrvohen is pilot and
Lt. Victor Rudd. Jr., co-pilot. They
are staying at the Baranof Hotel.
GAME TONIGHT
After more than a week’s rain, the
Gastlneau Channel Baseball league
will resume play tonight at 6:30
o’clock with the Moose nine playing
host to the Coast Guard. A win by
the Moose will put them in a two
way tie for second place with the
Guard. A win by the Guard will
leave the teams in their present
order.
BRACELEN-QUINN marriage
APPLICATION IS MADE
Application for a marriage license
was made to Commissioner Gordon
Gray Friday by John Stanley Bra
' celen and Miss Joan Elaine Quinn.
Mr. Bracelon is a mechanic with
Alaska Coastal Airlines and Miss
Quinn a medical technician at St.
Ann's Hospital.
The Washington
Merry - Go - Round
Bv DREW PEARSON
tCopyrlcbt, IBM. or Ball Syndicate, Inc.)
T^SHINGTON — How far the
capital of the supposedly free Uni
ted States has adopted Moscow’s
police state methods is shown in
a highly confidential report in wire
tapping which long has gathered
dust in the files of the Justice
Department. .
The facts in this wire-tapping
scandal read like a detective story.
One of the most lurid wire-tapping
jobs was on the Argentine Ambas
sador, Jeronimo Remorino, and
Nina Lunn Luttrell, granddaughter
of ex-senator Wallace White of
Maine.
The most interesting thing about
this eavesdropping is that it is
done by the metropolitan police,
at the expense of the taxpayers.
Since the District of Columbia is
a Federal area, all the taxpayers
from Seattle to Miami help pay for
this divorce case wire-tapping on
the government’s time.
In the case of the Argentine
Ambassador, Lieut. Joseph Shimon,
who did the wire-tapping, was paid
not only his regular police salary,
but $5 000 by the husband of Nina
Lunn. While peeping at the Ar
gentine ambassador, of course,
Lieut. Shimon was supposed to be
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FOSTER TO LEAVE;
HUGH WADE TO BE
NEW ANS DIRECTOR
Don C. Foster. Alaska Native Serv
ice Director, has been transferred
to Minneapolis, where he will be
area director for the Bureau of In
dian Affairs. He will assume his
new duties September 1 or shortly
after.
Hugh J. Wade has been appointed
ANS director, effective August 20,
according to word received here
from Dillon S, Myer, Commissioner
of Indian Affairs. Wade is Deputy
Regional Director of the Federal
Security Agency.
Foster came here in April, 1944.
to head the Office of Indian Af
fairs, his title being general super
intendent before the reorganiza
tion.
The Fosters will leave as soon as
they dispose of their home at Auk
Bay.
Their son, Don Max Foster, who
has completed his freshman year
at the Eastern University of New
Mexico in Portalis, is working this
summer at Valdez. He probably will
attend the University of Minnesota,
according to his father. The Fos
ters have a daughter, Kara Lee, who
is 13 years old.
As area director with headquar
ters in Minneapolis, Foster will be
in charge of Indian reservations in
Minneapolis, Wisconsin, Michigan
and Iowa of a r.u»nbcr of in
dependent agencies u_uer the dis
trict ofiice.
Before coming to Juneau, Foster
was for seven years at the Carson,
Nevada, agency.
The Wades are long-time resi
dents of Juneau, where Hugh Wade
was with the Federal Bureau of In
vestigation before being named to
Alaska head of the bureau now
known as the Federal Security
Agency in 1937.
He is in Washington, D.C., and
expects to return about August 15.
LEOPOLD TO
ABDICATE IN
SON'S FAVOR
BRUSSELS, July 31—UR—.King
Leopold III agreed today to step
aside temporarily in favor of his
son, Prince Bauduin, and to abdicate
when the Prince reaches 21 next
year.
The King's decision was disclosed
as the crisis over his return from
exile ten days ago threatened to
plunge the nation into civil war.
The vanguard of an army of anti
Leopoldists was reported already
marching on Brussels. Three anti
Leopoldists were killed by gen
darmes last night in Liege. This
climaxed a wave of violence and
strikes which had paralyzed the na
tion's economy.
SUPERFORTS
FOR KOREA
WASHINGTON, July 31 — (^1 —
The Air Force announced today
that it is sending additional B-29
superfortresses to the Far East.
The announcement did not desig
nate the units nor the air bases
from which they will be sent.
Planes from two B-29 groups
were dispatched to the Far East
from U. S. bases July 3.
_
Pilot Is Burned to
Death in Plane
Crash, Anchorage
ANCHORAGE, Alaska, July 31—
i.fl—An unidentified pilot burned to
death yesterday when a small sil
ver-colored plane crashed and
burned near the site* of the new
International Airport, five miles
south of here.
Territorial highway officers said
the victim appeared to be a man,
but no identity was established
The badly burned body was brought
to an Anchorage funeral home.
The plane was demolished.
Woman Fisher
Is Winner in
Salmon Derby
She Hooks 36-Pound, 3
Ounce King in Auk Bay
-Event Successful One
Mrs. A. W. (Thelma) Boddy, a
Juneau housewife, landed the big
one during the fourth annual Gol
den North Salmon Derby over the
weekend to walk away with the top
award.
It is the second year in a row
that a woman has shown the men
how to get results with fishing
tackle. Mrs. John Clements was the
1919 wunner.
Mrs. Boddy—and a crowd of less |
fortunate anglers — faced choppy i
seas, rain, and tide-rips during the
three-day classic as they tried for
the 65 awards offered the best fish
ermen.
The 36-pound 3-ounce king which j
brought Mrs. Boddy a 1950 DeLuxe
Chevrolet sedan was hooked yes-1
terday morning in Auk Bay and |
landed after a half-hour struggle |
by both fish and angler.
The winning fish was the first big
king Mrs. Boddy ever landed, her
husband, A. W. Boddy. said today.
Below are listed the winners of
the top 12 awards, with the weight
of their winning catches:
1st—Mrs. Boddy, 36 pounds. 3
ounces.
2nd—Gilbert G. Bixby, 35 pounds,
11 ounces.
3rd—Pete Schneider, 33 pounds, 5
ounces.
4th—Clifford O. Renzel, 32 pounds,
2 ounces.
5th—D. P. Applegate, 28 pounds,
2 ounces.
6th—Paul Schnee, 27 pounds, 4
ounces. Schnee led the derby with
this fish at the end of the first
day’s fishing.
7th—Elroy Ninnis, 27 pounds.
8th—John C. Willis, 26 pounds,
14 ounces.
9th—R. B. Brown, 26 pounds, 3
ounces.
10th—W. L. Davies, 25 pounds, 1
ounce. This fish w’as the first caught
during the derby. It was taken 25
minutes after the starting gun Fri
day.
Gilbert G. Bixby, who took second
place, entered another fish weighing
26 pounds, but was not eligible for
10th place award because he had
already taken one of the major
awards, the judges said.
11th—Helen F. Worgum, 24
pounds, 8 ounces.
12th—Paul Page, 24 pounds, 7
ounces.
Mrs. Worgum, who took 11th
place, entered another fish weigh
ing 11 pounds, 1 ounce; her hus
band, John Worgum, brought in a
20-pounder.
Jack O’Connor, President of the
Territorial Sportsmen, which spon
sored the salmon derby, said that
there were 41 fish caught which
weighed 20 pounds or more.
There were some little ones
caught, too, he said. Five salmon
weighing between five pounds and
5 pounds, 14 ounces, were brought
to the scales during the fishing
classic.
Alaska Department of Fisheries
men were on duty at the derby, col
lecting viscera from the fish to fur
ther the research program on troH
salmon.
Close to 50 percent of the fish
caught were kings, the rest being
cohoes, O’Connor said. Two dog sal
mon and two humpies were also
qpught by the weekend anglers.
O’Connor said that many halibut,
cod, bullheads and Irish lords were
also included in the catches over
the three days.
The Coast Guard cutter Storis
and the 83-foot Juneau based cut
ter 83524 were on duty in the fish
ing area during the derby.
Presentation of awards will be
made at a ceremony this week.
Where and when the presentation
ceremony will take place will be an
nounced later, O’Connor said.
More than $8,000 was grossed by
the derby, he said. And the greater
part of this will go toward improv
ing fishing and hunting in the Ju
neau area through stocking fish and
game, feeding deer during the j
worst months of winter, and trans- j
planting game to improve specific
areas.
O'Connor expressed satisfaction
with the 1950 derby, terming it “the
best so far.”
JAIL FACED
BY BRIDGES;
REVOKE BAIL
Government Makes Mo
tion, Gives Reasons-De
cision Up Wednesday
SAN FRANCISCO. July 31—(*)—
The government filed motions today
to revoke the $25,000 bail upon
which Harry Bridges is free. It
asked that he be sent to jail.
The motions will be argued Wed
nesday before Federal Judge George
B. Harris who presided at the long
perjury trial in which Bridges was
convicted last spring.
Bridges, president of the CIO
Longshoremen’s Union, was con
victed of lying in his 1945 citizen
ship hearing by denying he was a
Communist. He has since expressed
opposition when some of his union
locals proposed resolutions endors
ing the United States and United
Nations stand in the Korean war.
The motions for revocation of bail
were drawn by F. Joseph Donohue,
special prosecutor for the U.S. At
torney General, who prosecuted the
perjury trial.
Donohue said the motions were
filed because Bridges "poses a threat
to the security of the United States.”
The bail was granted last April
to permit the longshoremen’s chief
to appeal his conviction for perjury,
based on a denial of any Communist
connections when he obtained
American citizenship in 1945.
The San Francisco federal court
ordered his citizenship papers can
celled.
The Justice Department in an
nouncing the move to put Bridges
behind bars while the appeal is
pending said: ,
"The motion is made upon the
grounds that since the defendant
was at layge on bail he has pursued
and will continue to pursue ... a
course of conduct and activities dan
gerous and detrimental to the pub
lic welfare and inimical to the saf
ety and national security of the
United States of America.”
Bridges yesterday was barred
from a radio program in which he
planned to explain his views on the
Korean war.
WEATHER REPORT
In Juneau—Maximum, 53;
minimum, 48.
At Airport—Maximum, 54;
minimum, 46.
FORECAST
(Juneau and Vicinity)
Cloudy with intermittent
light rain and not much
change in temperature to
night and Tuesday. Lowest
temperature tonight about
50. Highest Tuesday near 59.
PRECIPITATION
(Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a.m. today
City of Juneau—0.35 inches;
since July 1—9.93 inches.
At Airport — 0.11 inches;
since July 1—7.04 inches.
STOCK QUOTATIONS
NEW YORK, July 21 — Closing
quotation of Alaska Juneau mine
stock today is 2%, American Can
92%, Anaconda 32%, Curtiss
Wright 10%, International Harves
ter 29, Kennecott 60 Vs, New York
Central 14M-, Northern Pacific 17%,
U.S. Steel 36 %, Pound $2.80 >i.
Sales today were 1,600,000 shares.
Averages today are as follows: in
dustrials 209.40, rails 60.86, utilities
37.78.
EARL BRIGHT LEAVES FOR
KETCHIKAN ON INSPECTION
Earl W. Bright, fleet supervisor
for the Fish and Wildlife Service,
left today for Ketchikan on an in
spection trip and will return to
Juneau at mid-week.
FROM WASHINGTON, D.C.
Louis L. Ray of the U.S. Geologi
cal Survey, Washington, D.C., is at
the Baranof Hotel. Another resident
of the capital who is at the Bara
nof is Arnold C. Orvedal.
AT GASTINEAU HOTEL
A. M. Anderson of Seattle is stop
ping at the Gastineau Hotel.
BRIDGES IS
BARRED FROM
AIR PROGRAM
_
Commentator Sidney Rog
ers Also Gives "Swan
Song," Broadcasting
SAN FRANCISCO, July 31—<&—
Longshore chief Harry Bridges, har
assed by near-revolts within his
waterfront union, was barred yes
terday from a radio program in
which he planned to explain his
views on the Korean war.
The American Broadcasting Com
pany over whose network the pro
gram was to be aired said Bridges’
appearance was cancelled because
it covered a "controversial” subject.
At the same time, ABC's San
Francisco station KGO announced
that it will not renew its contract
with radio commentator Sidney
Roger on whose program Bridges
was to have spoken.
Roger frequently has defended
Bridges, in Bridges’ legal attempts
to retain his citizenship. The Aus
trailian-born labor leader has been
ordered deported on grounds that
he lied about his Communist affili
ations when he applied for U.S. cit- j
izenship.
Roger, in his broadcast today, said
it was his "swan song” and that he
no longer would be heard on the
San Francisco station.
Added Roger:
“Long before the Korean war the
most outspoken liberal commenta
tors went off the air—until I was
the last one left in the country as
far as I know—and this is my last
bic.ideast here.”
A KGO spokesman said Roger
was removed from the air because
his views no longer represented any
significant group in the community.
“They have lied about Bridges,"
Roger said. "Somebody in Washing
ton wants to put him away so he
can’t talk. I, too, have become con
troversial, though my ideas have not
changed.”
Bridges is at liberty on $25,000
bail pending appeal of his convic
tion of perjury.
Only last week Bridges was re
pudiated by one of his longshore
and warehouse locals on the ques
tion of endorsing the United Na
tion’s Korean policy. Bridges, rather
than endorsing the police action,
urged arbitration through the U.N.
F & WS CREWS CHECK
PINK SALMON RUN NOW
With the season for pink salmon
in southeast Alaska due to open
August 15, the Fish and Wildlife
Service now has nine crews in the
field for the purpose of checking
the pink salmon run.
Present dates for the short sea
son, August 15 to September 3, are •
"target dates," only according to
Clarence J. Rhode, FWS regional
director, and should escapement of
pinks warrant any change, an
earlier opening date might be pos
sible.
FWS crews are operating two
traps in SE Alaska for tagging pur
poses. Indications, so far have
shown a good early run of chums,
but a light pink run.
The Kodiak area opens today
after a ten day closure between
the red and pink run seasons. The
pink escapement in that area has
been good, and a good season is
indicated after several bad years,
according to Mr. Rhode.
TREASURER RODEN BACK IN!
OFFICE AFTER BUSINESS TRIP
Territorial Treasurer Henry Roden
is back in his office today after
a business trip to Seattle. He re
turned to Juneau Saturday.
—
CAA MAN HERE
Gordon W. Meyer, who is with
the Civil Aeronautics Administra
tion, came in from Porpoise Island 1
and is a guest at the Baranof Hotel.
OGG OF COAST GUARD
R. B. Ogg of the U.S. Coast Guard
is registered at the Baranof Hotel, i
SEATTLEITES HERE
Among Seattleites newly regis
tered at the Baranof Hotel are Mr.
and Mrs. Eugene L. Hursley, O.
Bengseth, Walter Nettleton, Larry
Baldwin, George C. Nickum, A.
Niekum, A. I^erzie and Gil Rich.
Air Force Plane Leaving
Juneau for Anchorage is
Missing Over Cape Spencer
LATHROP RITES TO
BE HELD THURSDAY
IN SEATTLE CHURCH
SEATTLE, July 31—Off— Funeral
services for Austin E. Lathrop,
Alaska builder and industrialist
who was killed Wednesday, will be
held at 3 p.m. Thursday at the
First Methodist church instead of
the Bonney-Watson Funeral Par
lors as originally scheduled.
The change was made to accom
modate a large number of persons
who expressed the desire to attend
the services for the Alaskan pioneer.
Twenty-nine Pacific Northwest
business and professional men
were named today as active and
honorary pallbearers. They are:
Active pallbearers: Peter Schmidt,
Olympia: B. F. Shearer, Charles
Frankland, Henry F. Waechter, L.
W. Baker and Mark Jensen, all of
Seattle,
Honorary pallbearers: Volney
Richmond, Jr., Charles Black, D. W.
Kluckhohn, Ralph Lomen, Glenn
Carrington, S. E. Stretton, Lawrence
Calvert, Alvin Schwager, Archie
Shields, Josua Green, Guy Graham,
Harold Parks, Col. Fred P. Andrews,
Admiral F. A. Zeusler, Dwight L.
Spracker, R. W. Slater, Ernest A.
Anderson, Dewey W. Metzdorf, A
U. Dickey, D. E. Hewitt, Murlin
Spencer, H. W. Haugland and G.
W. Skinner.
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NATIONAL GUARDSMEN
AT "BATTLEGROUND"
With the stirring film, “Battle
ground,” as inspiration, officials of
the Alaska National Guard made
sure that the audience last night
at the Capitol Theatre would asso
ciate (he picture with their recruit
ing campaign.
Well in view between the open
ing night shows were these uni
formed members of the new 208th
Infantry Battalion. ANG: Sgt. 1st
cl. Clayton Rew, Sgt. Presco An
cheta, Pfc. Wesley Miller and Re
cruits Graham Rountree, Edgar
Lokken and Dallas Casperson.
"Battleground” Is the real-life
story of the 101st Airborn Division
in the Battle of the Bulge.
STEAMER MOVEMENTS
Prince George from Vancouver
arrived in port at 3 o’clock this af
ternoon.
Aleutian from Seattle due Tues
day at 8 a.m.
Princess Norah from Vancouver
due Tuesday afternoon.
Chilcotin scheduled to sail from
Vancouver tonight.
Alaska scheduled to sail from
Seattle Wednesday.
Princess Louise scheduled to sail
from Vancouver next Wednesday.
Baranof scheduled to sail from
Seattle Saturday.
Princess Kathleen scheduled to
sail from Vancouver Saturday.
ASSAULT, BATTERY CHARGE
Harry Vidak, local bartender,
pleaded guilty Friday afternoon be
fore Commissioner Gordon Gray to
a charge of assault and battery.
He was sentenced this afternoon
to pay a fine of $50.
BELLINGHAM COUPLE APPLY
FOR MARRIAGE » LICENSE
Jack M. Christenson and Glenda
Mae Sanregret, both of Bellingham,
Wash., applied for a marriage li
cense today in the United States
Commissioner’s Court.
CIVILIAN COUNCIL
DEFENSE TO MEET
TONIGHT AT 7:45
The Council of Civilian Defense
will meet tonight in the council
chamber of City Hall at 7:45 o’
clock, according to R. E. Robertson,
local director.
FROM HAWAII
Mr. and Mrs. John T. Moir, Jr., of
Lahaina on Maui Island, Hawaii,
are guests at the Baranof Hotel.
ANCHORAGE, Alaska, July 31
IM—Planes of the Ait' Rescue Ser
vice hoped for clearing weather
today to launch an all-out search
for a missing U. S. Air Force C-54
and its six crew members.
The four-engine craft disappeared
Saturday over Cape Spencer, abou'
90 air miles due west of Juneau
Based here with the 54th Squad
Carrier Squadron, the plane wu:
enroute back to its base from thi
Pacific Northwest.
Search planes scoured the Cape
Spencer area during the last two
days without success. Low-hanging
clouds held the Sunday search to
a lone B-17.
The plane vanished without giv
ing any indication of trouble.
Weather condi*ions, however, were
reported bad in the area.
Names of the six crewmen wen.
withheld.
The big plane was last heard
from at 1:53 pin. (4:53 p.m. ESTi
Saturday.
At that time it was northbound
at an al'itude of 9,000 feet and
gave no indication of trouble.
It had about 14 hours fuel sup
ply left. It was not listed as miss
ing until that time had elapsed.
The Alaskan Air Command said
six search planes scoured tiie Cape
Spencer region Saturday.
Making the hunt were two planes
from the 54th Squadron, three
from the 10th Air Rescue Squadron
working out of Elinendorf, and ont
from the Navy base at Kodiak,
Bad weather curtailed the search
yesterday, to one B-17 from the
110th Rescue Squadron, but adul
| tional planes were standing by to
take off as soon as conditions per
mit.
The Air Force said names oi
the c.ew members orobably would
not be released loi 4:; to 72 houix
TEE-SHIRT FLAG SAVES
ANGLERS FROM NIGHT
ON WIND-WHIPPED SEA
A white tee-shirt flying from a
fishing pole saved four Juneau fish
ermen from a night on the wind
whipped waters of Lynn Canal yes
terday.
Ous George, Juneau merchant,
and three other sports fishermen
whose names were not revealed,
were rescued by men from the Sen
tinel Island light station after three
and one-half hours adrift in their
16-foot inboard motor boat,
George said today that they were
fishing in the middle of the channel
off Shelter Island when the boat
ran out of gas with "the wind whip
ping and the sea rising."
They broke up one of the seat
in the boat to make paddles and
tried to bring their boat into the
shelter of North Island, he said.
‘‘But the tide was so strong we
couldn’t do much,” he declared.
"The only way the boat would take
I the sea and tide rips was with its
side to them."
An attempt was made to attract
the attention of an Alaska Coastal
Airlines plane by means of a smudge
but no dry matches with which to
light the smudge could be found,
he said.
“It looked as though we were
going to have to sit it out all night,"
George recalled.
But the tee-shirt on a fishing pole
did the trick.
The motor launch from the Senti
nel Island took the boat in tow to
the light station. There fuel was
supplied and the motor tested thor
oughly, while the fishermen drank
hot coffee.
The craft returned to Tee Harbor
under its own power, with the four
anglers aboard.
IN PRIVATE AIRCRAFT
Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Valentine of
I Pasadena arrived from Ketchikan
yesterday in their Grumman Goose
; aircraft, hoping to find good fish
ing here. They are guests at the
Baranof Hotel.
SITKANS VISIT
Among Silkans stopping at the
Baranof Hotel are D. R. Doyle,
Frank T. Calvin and T. J. Cole.
FROM NEW YORK CITY
Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Schoenfeld
of New York City are at the Bara
nof Hotel.
l!,$. TROOPS
mi me
KOREAN PORI
Are Armed with Armor,
Go Immediately to Front
-MacArthur in Formosa
(By the Associated Press)
Fresh troops of the U.S. Second
Infantry Division landed with armor
in Korea t<xiay and began moving
at once toward the desperately sag
ling, defense lines.
The troops walked ashore at a
busy South Korean port directly
from the transports that brought
them from the United States.
They were no more than in time,
for North Koreans swung the main
weight of their offensive from the
central to the southern sector, where
they punched two wedges in Ameri
can lines.
The Communists captured Chinju,
near the south coast, : pitting the
Americans there and ro-'-.e.g them
to retire along d've gt roads to
new positions It th n 50 miles
from the main Allied port of Pusdn.
“Heat Hell Out of Us”
“They beat the hell out of us,"
-aid an American commander.
Only 11 miles southwest of Kum
chon, main hub of the present de
fenses; Chifye changed hands twice
ind became a no-man's land.
First Cavalry troopers defending
the central sector adopted a
scorched earch policy and put the
torch to hundreds of thatched huts
to smoke out guerrillas and enemy
regulars using infiltration tactic.-..
4 Officers Killed
The Amerirans acted after an
enemy band had slipped up to an
American command post, poked
guns through the Windows and killed
four Americans officers and one
South Korean and wounded eight
Americans. Five of the 15 or 20 raid
ers were killed.
About 20 miles south of Chirye
the Americans also were forced
back further to the east of Kochang,
and in the Kumchon area as well,
despite orders to hold their positions
or die fighting.
Reds Pushing Hard
All along the 70-mile line from
Chinju to Kumchon the Reds were
pushing hard with tank-tipped
columns, but American officers said
Kumchon would be held “at all
costs.”
Gen. Douglas MacArthur's com
munique, issued early Tuesday in
Tokyo, said the present lines ran
from Chinju northw'est to the west
ern outskirts of Hamyang, northeast
to a point seven miles east of Ko
chang, four miles west of Kumchon,
four miles west and north of Ham
chang, one mile north of Yechon
and to the east coast just south of
Yongdok.
On Northern Front
Pressure was reported to have
lightened on the northern front,
though the enemy infiltrated into
Hamchang behind the front lines.
Both1 the Second Infantry Divi
sion and the First Marine Division,
have been enroute from the U.S.
West Coast. The First Marines left
more than two weeks ago, and the
Second Infantry a few days later.
Either would fight as a unit merged
in the U.S. Eighth Army in Korea.
Even if both divisions joined the
three from Japan already engaged
in Korea, along with other unidenti
fied units from Okinawa, the de
fenders still woyld be considerably
outnumbered by the invaders.
Gen. MacArthur’s intelligence of
ficers estimated the North Koreans
have mustered an army of 200,000
men by • frantic mobilization.” U.S.
South Korean forces would be only
about half that.
MacArthur ih Formosa
Gen. MacArthur arrived on For
I mosa for a visit with Generalissimo
I Chiang Kai-shek and his Nation
alist Chinese aides. The trip could
mean that the long-expected Com
munist invasion of Formosa was
about to be attempted. Chiang was
expected to renew his offer to send
troops to Korea, but this offer was
not believed likely to be accepted in
view of Formosa’s danger. Acting in
“self-defense," Nationalist warplanes
attacked 500 small Communist in
vasion boats near Amoy Sunday and
claimed to have sunk or damaged
150. It was their first such action
since President Truman asked them
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