THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE
_ UALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME"
VOL. LXXVI., NO. 11,670_
JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1950
MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
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Mauled_ UN Troops in Retreaton Korean Front
WU SPURNS
SEAT SN U.N.
SEC. COUNCIL
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U.N. LAKE SUCCESS, Nov. 29—
UPh-'The Chinese Communist dele
gation spurned a place at the U.N.
Security Council’s table today—in
protest against the inclusion of the
Korean question on the Council’s
agenda.
President Ales Bebler of Yugo
slavia invited the Chinese Reds to
take their place at the horseshoe
shaped table when the council con
vened. Peiping’s spokesman, Wu
Hsiu-Chuan, remained in his place
at the side of the room. Other
members of the Chinese Red dele
gation remained with him.
The agenda item, as worded,
could place Wu in the position of
a defendant faced with American
charges of Chinese Communist ag
gression in Korea. Wu, in his first
speech in the U.N. yesterday, ob
jected to the Korean item and said
he would not discuss the American
accusation. He also made it clear
the Chinese Reds had no intention
of withdrawing their troops from
the Korean warfront.
Wu’s unyielding attitude has
caused foreboding in U.N. circles
on the chances of localizing the Ko
rean fighting. This feeling prevailed
even among delegations that urged
bringing the Chinese Reds to Lake
Success in the hope of a con
ciliatory agreement could be worked
out.
ACHESON ON
AIR TONIGHT
WASHINGTON, Nov. 29 — LA’S —
Secretary of State Acheson will
speak to the nation tonight at 6
p.m., EST, on the crisis in Korea.
The State Department announced
that the Secretary’s 30-minute ad
dress will be broadcast by the Mu
tual. ABC and CBS networks. Ache
son will speak from his office in the
State Department.
MOTHERS! REMINDER;
CHILD HEALTH CONFERENCE
Mothers are reminded that the
weekly Child Health and Well
Baby' Conferences will be resumed
this Thursday. All mothers who
wish to come and bring their child
ren should phone for an appoint
ment if they have not done so. Con
ference hours are from 1:00 p.m.
to 3:30 p.m. at the Juneau Public
Health Center, 318 Main St., phone
number 218.
The Washington
Merry-Go-Round
Copyright. 1^50. by Bell SyttQicace, Ino.fr
By DREW PEARSON
Washington—Communist ad
vances in French Indo-China, Tibet
and Asia generally are belatedly
waking up some of our foreign
policy planners to what may be
another Pearl Harbor.
In brief, the United States, af
ter suffering the worst economic
disaster in history when the Japs
captured Singapore, may find our
rubber, tin, quinine and other trop
ical products cut off again.
For four years the American peo
ple were forced to walk as a re
sult of the rubber and tire shortage.
Tin cans were also curtailed; while
millions of dollars were spent plant
ing cinchona or quinine trees hi
Latin America. Now, though we are
much better prepared regarding
synthetic rubber, part of this may
happen all over again.
Chief lesson to be drawn from
the Communist threat to our ec
onomic lifeline in Asia is the man
ner in which we have neglected our
own best neighbors right next door
in Latin America. While a few
State Department officials under
live-wire Assistant Secretary Ed
ward Miller have been pushing
Latin-American friendship, actually
much of our financial help to Eu
ropean cartels has hurt Latin Am
erica.
The American public has largely
forgotten the fact that when Col
umbus arrived in America he was
iContinuecl on Page Four)
Risk Capital
Advocated
For Alaska
PNTA Urges Exemption on
Taxes-Communism
Is Denounced
SEATTLE, Ncv. 29—1#)—A resolu
tion to stimulate Alaska develop
ment by encouraging risk capital
was adopted yesterday by the Gen
eral Conference of the Pacific
Northwest Trade Association.
The resolution urged that new
industries in the territory be ex
empted from federal income taxes
for 25 years.
Should a firm’s investment be
amortized in less than 25 years,
the firm would have to begin pay
ing income taxes.
A British Columbia Senator's bit
ter denunciation of Communism
and socialism closed the meeting.
Sen. J. W. Do B. Farris told the
200 Relegates he will “have no
scruples against denying Commun
ists that political freedom which is
the basis of Democracy.”
“No organization or individufl
whose policy is to destroy free
dom has any right to demand that
freedom," he asserted.
He described socialists as “tadpole
Communists.”
The Canadian’s scathing attack
came after the delegates had wound
up official business with the ad
option of 14 resolutions. They al
so asked the continuation of ap
propriations for Alaska develop
ment in an orderly manner until
defense and settlement programs
are complete.
WAGE BOOST
IS HADE BY
STEEL CORP.
PITTSBURGH, Nov. 29—UP!—'The
mammoth United States Steel Cor
poration today made an undisclosed
wage offer to the CIO United Steel
workers. Union President Philip
Murray promptly called his top
policy makers together to consider
the proposal.
The log jam in the current steel
negotiations broke suddenly with
Murray reporting he was calling
both the USW Executive Board and
the wage-policy committee into ses
sion.
“Big Steel” then confirmed it had
made an offer, U.S. Steel officials
would not elaborate on the con
firmation and refused to discuss the
nature of the offer.
The only comment available from
U.S. Steel was this terse sentence
from an official spokesman:
“We have made an offer which is
under consideration by the union.”
Negotiations on the union’s un
disclosed pay demand have been in
progress between “Big Steel” and
the union since early last month,
neither side has ever made any re
port of progress.
WHAT RAISE IS
NEW YORK, Nov. 29-J(.'P>—United
States Steel Corporation will in
crease wages and benefits about 18
cents an hour and raise prices an
average of $6 a ton, the Iron Age
predicted today.
The national metal working
weekly said the company will settle
this week with the steelworkers
union for an average increase of
around 16 cents an hour and fringe
concessions adding about two cents
an hour more to the average wage
cost.
OIL BARGE DRIFTING
NORTH OF KODIAK
Attempts to retrieve the Arctic
Chief, an oil barge standing on end
and drifting south of Marmot Is
land. have been unsuccessful, U. S
Coast Guard headquarters reported
here today.
The 45-foot barge owned by the
Kotzebue Oil Sales is carrying 222,
750 gallons of herring oil and 178.
C30 gallons of soluble fish oil. It
was lost by the tog, John Michael
Sunday in heavy seas. The Coast
Guard cutter, Bittersweet is stand
ing by.
ESC MEET OPENS;
STUDY ABUSES OF
JOBLESS BENEFITS
Policing of unemployment com
pensation requests to avoid abuses
that may be depleting the unem
ployment fund and the matter of
seasonality of occupations in Al
aska—also considered in the light
of depleting the Unemployment
fund—were discussed at the open
ing session of the meeting of the
Employment Security Commission
in the Senate Chamber of the Fed
eral Building Tuesday afternoon.
With Ralph Rivers, chairman and
member of the commission from
the Fourth Division, presiding, and
George Vaara, member from the
Third Division and Robei|t E.
Sheldon, director, present, repre
sentatives of both labor and man
agement spoke on the subjects be
fore the commission—with an evi
dent desire for cooperation.
Anthony Zorich, member of the
Commission from Ketchikan, is un
able to attend the meetings.
Roy B. Erling, manager of the
Fairbanks Exploration division of
the United States Smelting and
Refining Company, was first speak
er in the discussion of abuses of
the Unemployment benefits.
As possible amendments to the
present law, he suggested (1) that
"termination slips” be presented to
each employee at the time he left
his job to show the reason for
termination and that (2) such
termination slips be attached to
every application for benefits.
Mr. Erling advocated that penal
ties for abuses of the law be es
tablished by statute, and not be
left to the discretion of the direc
tor—this for the protection of the
director.
Reduce Benefits
The mining man further urged
that benefits be reduced for men
who quit jobs or are discharged for
cause and, in order to prevent
abuses by employer and employee,
provisions should be made to cover
these three types of cases:
1. The employee who might quit
because his job is made unbearable
by action of a superior.
2. The man who quits because
he is physically incapable of per
forming the work and
3. The employee who quits be
cause of abusive treatment by a
superior.
“These types of termination
should be provided for by amend
ment with protective clauses,” Mr.
Erling said.
“Provisions should be made to
protect the Unemployment Com
pensation Fund for those who are
out of work through no fault of
their own,” said A1 Anderson, ex
ecutive secretary of the Alaska Min
ing Industry. “But I do not believe
people should indiscriminately leave
employment to take a holiday. Un
der certain condition, a percentage
of the benefits allowed by law
should be denied as a penalty for
abuses.”
“It should be the desire of both
labor and management to protect
the fund,” Mr. Anderson concluded.
For labor, Ervin Hill, president
of the Alaska Territorial Federa
tion of Labor, asked that in pro
pounding penalties for abuses of use
of the fund, that the 6,000 unem
ployed in Alaska should not be
discriminated against because of the
few “professional bums.”
“However, we are not in favor of
employees chiseling,” Mr. Hill said.
“I think employees should accept
work when available—but that con
sideration should be given to suit
able and unsuitable employment."
No Chiseling
Suggestion was made by Ward
Gilmore of the Fairbanks Central
Labor Council and Building Trades
that workers should report to their
| unions that they are available for
j work after making initial claim
I for unemployment beneft.
“We don’t want our people to be
] chiselers either," Mr. Gilmore said.
| “We wish to be helpful."
I Present as a representative of
i the regional Federal Secruity of
| fice in San Francisco was Mrs.
j Mary Hutchinson who was called
1 upon by Mr. Sheldon to speak be
! cause “of her familiarity with the
I restrictions of the law."
Because abuses of''the law dis
| credit the whole security sys
] tern, Mrs. Hutchinson said she con
I
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FIRE ALARM 2-1
A 2-1 alarm at 3:05 this after
noon called the Juneau Fire De
partment out to 53 in the Village
to extinguish a roof fire at the
home of Mrs. Elsie Johnson. Dam
j age was reported slight.
Ellender fo
Filibuster
Statehood
WASHINGTON, Nov. 29— UR —
Senator Ellender (D-La) today
tossed the threat of a full-scale
filibuster at the Alaskan statehood
bill.
He told reporters he plans a
“filibuster speech” next week if
Senate advocates win a fight to
bring up the bill for Senate action.
Southern Democrats, with strong
Republican backing, are trying to
block the legislation
Ellender is an old hand at fili
busters, the device of slowing ac
tion on legislation by talking end
lessly. He once spoke for five
days against an anti-lynching bill.
President Wants Passage
President Truman, meantime, was
reported to be insisting on immed
iate passage of the Alaskan measure
as well as the companion bill to
grant statehood to Hawaii.
Delegate Bartlett of Alaska talk
ed with the President at the White
House and quoted him later as say
ing he could not see why anyone
would want to try to stop the bills
for selfish reasons.
McClellan Opposed
Senator McClellan (D-Ark) led
the Senate debate today in oppo
sition to the motion to bring up
the Alaska bill. He said he would
speak most of the day.
McClellan based most of his op
position to Alaskan statehood on
grounds that the territory is not
yet sufficiently developed to un
dertake the responsibilities of a
state. He said:
OilJS .IIJNia nut Hfiiuy
“Alaska has potentialities and it
is highly probably that in the
course of time—and I would like
to see that time hastened—that
Alaska will become sufficiently de
veloped, sufficiently populated, suf
ficiently strong financially that she
can support statehood adequately.”
He also told the Senate “The
nation at this hour is at war” and
that “no one in this government
today” knows for sure whether it
is the beginning of World War III.
Wants Defense Action
The Senate, therefore, he said,
should not be taking up its time
with the statehood issue which
“can contribute nothing" to the
nation’s strength.
Instead, he urged dropping the
statehood issue and devoting full
attention to the defense effort.
BETHEL NAT. GUARD
UNIT AIDS IN RECENT
DISASTER AT BETHEL
Delayed reports just received in
dicate that the Bethel National
Guard unit joined with other mem
bers of that community in giving
relief assistance when the Alaska
Native Service Hospital was des
troyed by fire November 20. In the
face of bitter cold, the guard
members worked until after mid
night providing clothing, sleeping
bags, blankets and cots to pa
tients and employees who were left
homeless by the fire.
Families in the community pre
pared food which the guard unit
delivered to patients in temporary
quarters. The Bethel families also
opened their homes for the doctors
and nurses. After the fire, 14 mem
bers of the unit volunteered to help
consturct a new water system for
the former nurses' home which is
being converted into a temporary
emergency hospital.
Headquarters of the Alaska Na
tional Guard, Juneau, stated that
the Alaska National Guard is a
community organization and ex
pects to serve its community as well
as the nation. This is particularly
true in small isolated communities
such as Bethel where little if any
immediate outside assistance can
be expected, it was further stated.
In furtherance of this policy, the
I Bethel guard unit has organized
a volunteer fire department.
Bethel is located 40 miles from
the mouth of the Kuskokwim River
which empties Into the Bering Sea.
During the winter travel is pos
sible only by airplane or dog team.
The National Guard unit there in
cludes a number of Eskimos amomt
its ranks.
—
DR. MOORE HERE
Dr. Philip Moore of Sitka i in
Juneau enroute to Fairbanks to
; hold a polio clinic. He is stopping
j at the Baranof Hotel.
STATEHOOD FILIBUSTER
THREAIEHS TRUMAN S
SHORT TERM PR06RAM
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WASHINGTON. Nov. 29 — MPI —
Southern Democrats, with strong
Republican backing, waged an all
out fight in the Senate today to
block the bill to grant statehood to
Alaska.
President Truman has asked the
short session of Congress to pass the
j bill and a companion Hawaiian
I measure, both passed by the House.
One Southerner, asking not to be
named, told a reporter the dispute
might endanger Mr. Truman's en
tire program for the session. The
President has asked for rent control
j legislation and big defense appro
priations, among other things, be
fore this Congress expires Jan. 3.
Filibuster Effort Says Lucas
Senator Lucas (D-Ill), bemocratic
Floor Leader, called the fight a fili
bustering effort to talk the Alaska
statehood bill to death. He voiced
concern over its apparent propor
tions.
The anonymous Southern spokes
man suggested that he saw little
point in Senate commutes working
to draft rent control and other ad
ministration measures if adminis
tration forces planned to let state
hood become a long drawn fight.
The Dixie leadership, however,
gave no hint it might be thinking
of offering to trade its support of
administration bills for abandon
ment of the statehood measure.
Southerners Object to Statehood
Southern Senators long have ob
jected to granting statehood to
! Alaska and Hawaii for a variety of
i rep .tons—among them a belief that
* any Senators elected by the new
i states would be likely to link up
j with northern supporters of civil
! rights bills.
To Lucas and many others the
I fight looked and sounded like the
COS! OF
LIVING
SOARING
_
Government Issues Index
Showing New All-Time
High-Wage Increase
WASHINGTON, Nov. 29^-1*—'The
government’s cost of living index
today rose to a new all-time high.
Nearly a million workers whose
wage contracts are tied to the rise
and fall of the index will receive
a pay hike of two to three cents
an hour.
The new index, covering prices as
of October 15, was 174.8 percent of
the 1935-39 base period, an increase
of 0.6 percent since Sept. 15.
It was 0.2 percent higher than
the previous peak of 174.5 in Aug
ust and September, 1948.
Geneal Motors Corp, first of the
major auto manufacturers to adopt
the cost of living formula for its
workers, announced immediately
357,000 hourly-rated workers will
receive an additional three cents
an hour. The boost will be effective
with the first pay period beginning
after Dec. 1.
Approximately 80,000 GM salar
ied workers will receive an addi
tional $15 as their allowance for the
period between Dec. 1 and next
March 1, to be paid at the close
of the quarter next March.
STOCK QUOTATIONS
NEW YORK. Nov. 29 — Closing
quotation of Alaska Juneau mine
stock today is 2%, American Can
96%, American Tel. and Tel. 150 S.
Anaconda 3514, Douglas Aircraft
83%, General Electric 471 >. Gen
eral Motors 45%, Goodyear 53V
Kennecott 68%, Libby McNeill and
Libby 8%, Northern Pacific 27%.
Standard Oil of California 78%,
Twentieth Century Fox 21. U. S.
Steel 39, Pound $2.80%, Canadian
Exchange 95.87%.
Sales today were 2,760.000 hares.
Averages today are as follow in
dustrials 226.42, rails 07 90 utilitic
39.62.
start of a filibuster—the ancient
device of dragging out debate until
the opposition yields.
A Lot of Debate Due
But Senator Russell (D-Ga),
quarterbacking a drive to block the
measure, insisted "there is no or
ganized filibuster.” He conceded,
however, that his forces planned
“a lot of debate” before even this
first round of the battle ends.
At issue is whether to sidetrack
pending legislation and let first the
Alaskan and then the Hawaiian
statehood bills come up for debate
and a vote. Both bills will die auto
matically if they are not passed by
Jan. 3.
Senators generally take it for
granted that the fate of the Alaska
statehood bill is apt to be the fate
also of the Hawaii measure.
Lucas Asks Right of Way
Lucas, who made the motion to
give the statehood bills right-of
way, told reporters he will take at
least another day to test out the
opposition’s strength before decid
ing whether—or what>— new steps
may be needed.
Senator Taft (R-Ohio) announced
he would vote against giving the
statehood bills the rigt-of-way. He
told reporters, however, the Senate
GOP Policy Committee which he
heads has not taken a stand on the
issue.
Both major party platforms ad
vocate statehood for the two terri
tories.
Senators Walk Out on Bill
After the opening speech yester
day in favor of the bill by Senator
O’Mahoney (D-Wyo), Senators
Strayed out of the Chamber until
only a handful remained. The ser
| geant at arms finally was sent out
to round up absentees and assem
ble a quorum. There appeared to be
j little prospect of a vote on even
| taking up the bill before Thursday,
and maybe not then.
O'Mahoney had told his colleagues
that defeat of the statehood bills
would bolster the Kremlin’s claims
i that the United States is a colonial
! power. Their passage, he said, would
j be “a complete answer to Soviet
! propaganda.” He said the Reds are
j spreading the word that the U.S.
i is mainly interested in making
I money in Alaska and Hawaii and
j that "all our talk about self-govern
; ment Is so much delusion.”
O'Mahoney told a reporter he
thought a filibuster was likely.
Butler Says Statehood Danger
Senator Butler (R-Nebi, ranking
! GOP member of O’Mahoney’s In
i terior committee, charged that
statehood for the two territories
would pave the way for “left-wing
ers” to enter the Senate.
He told the Senate the people
of Alaska and Hawaii “are not their
own bosses,” that their elections are
controlled by “radical labor groups.”
And with statehood, he said, these
groups could send radicals to the
Senate.
Butler argued there was not “the
slightest need for haste” on state
hood and that instead of helping
Alaska, the statehood bill would
hurt the territory.
Senator Russell told the Senate
that “if ever there was a time from
a military standpoint” when state
hood should not be granted to the
territories it is now.
Statehood a Mistake
He said it would be a mistake to
place Alaska in the hands of “a
new, untried state government”
when there "is danger of attack.”
Senator Stennis <D-Miss) en
dorsed what Russell said and called
the drive for Alaskan statehood at
this time “shocking.”
Of Alaska’s 500,000 square mile
area, he said, all but 1,500 square
miles is owned by the government.
Better Look to Korea
The Mississippian suggested that
Congress might better occupy itself
with the plight of American forces
in Korea, and observed in conclu
sion:
“If we need some more states let’s
get them from Texas.”
O’Mahoney, floor manager for the 1
bill, asked Stennis if he thought it
possible to reach a vote on the mo
tion today. Stennis said he couldn’t
shed any light on that. He added,
significantly, that “the opposition to
the bill is growing by leaps and
bounds, and I think there will be
further discussion.”
The Senate recessed later in the
day without any action.
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New Plan of
War Must Be
Worked Out
Korean Situation Describ
ed as "Very Grave/'
Says Sen. Tydings
WASHINGTON, Nov. 29 — (AP) —
Sen. Tydings (D-Md) said today
after a conference with Defense
officials that “mass invasion by
hundreds of thousands of trained
Chinese troops” in Korea calls for
a complete new war plan.
Tydings said that at a closed
door meeting with the Senate
Armed Services Committee Defense
officials described the Korean sit
uation as "very grave.” He hinted
the new war plans are being de
veloped now.
The report came chiefly from Lt.
Gen. Alfred M. Grunther, a top
Army strategy expert, and Under
secretary of Defense Robert A.
Lovett after the committee asked
Defense Secretary Marshall for
battlefront details.
Tydings told reporters:
The number of Chinese troops
that has been poured in is about
200.000 and there is another con
tinuing big buildup in Manchuria.
So far a terrific toll of death
has been inflicted upon the Chinese
invaders by United Nations and
United States forces with propor
tionately small losses by U.N. and
U.S. forces. Chinese morale, how
ever, was reported high.
Officials here are weighing all
possibilities, Including military, dip
lomatic and domestic in planning
the new Korfean defense.
A careful watch is being kept in
Europe and, reserves maintained
against a possible move by Com
munist forces there.
At first Tydings said he assumed
that tentative plans included pos
sible use of the atomic bomb in
Korea. Later he revised that to say
he assumed all possible military
strategy was being considered.
NO BARGES
WERE LOST,
BERING SEA
Anchorage Report of Dis
aster in Recent Storm
Denied in Seattle
SEATTLE, Nov. 29—(/PI—All mili
tary sea transportation service!
barges are in safe ports and none
were lost in the recent Bering Sea
storms, the Deputy Commander ol
MST3’ North Pacific operations
says. ,
Capt. M. E. Eaton said an undis
closed number of the barges are in
Kodiak and Whittier, Alaska. Two
others are enroute to Whittier. He
added that it was possible MKTS
cargo might have been aboard
some of the stricken barges, but
that no MSTS barges were in
volved.
Reports from Anchorage earlier
told of millions of dollars of cargo
being lost from barges during an
85-mile gale off the Bering coast. !
• ••••••••••I
• •!
• WEATHER REPORT •
• Temperatures lor 24-Hour Period * ]
• ending G:20 o'clock this morning •
• In Juneau—Maximum, 29; •
• minimum, 21. •
• At Airport—Maximum, 23; •
• minimum, 6. •
m m !
• FORECAST •
• (Juneau and Vicinity) •
• Tonight and Thursday •
• increasing high cloudiness, •
• occasional gusty northeast- •
• erly winds. Low temperature •
• tonight near 20 in town and •
• 5 to 10 in outlying areas. •
• High Thursday near 30. •
• PRECIPITATION •
• (Pttst 24 hours ending 7:30 a m. today •
• City of Juneau — None; •
• since Nov. 1 — 4.21 inches; •
• since July 1—33.24 inches. •
• At Airport — None; •
• since Nov. 1 — 2.07 inches; •
• since July 1—23.12 Inches. •
• •••••••••a
BIG ATTACK
BY CHINESE
REDS MADE
Allied Forces Are Fleeing
South in Zero Weather
to Escape Traps
(By the Associated Press)
Bndly mauled United Nations
troops streamed south today In a
retreat under pressure of a three
pronged attack by 200,000 Red Chi
nese in Korea.
The Allied forces poured across
the Icy Chongchon river in north
west Korea, to escape n Communist
encircling movement. This was the
ixjint where Friday General Mac
Arthur launched his ill-fated end
the-war offensive.
The retreat was carried out in
near-zero weather. Helicopters
shuttled back and forth removing
the seriously wounded from the
front.
Field dispatches said withdrawal
of the Eighth Army's eastern flank
was all but completed. But there
were no immediate reports of the
fate of the 24th Division on the ex
treme west front. It was last re
ported in the Pakchon area north
of the "iver.
Saved From Trap
Lt. Gen. Walton H. Walker, back
at the front after an emergency
top-commander conference with
MacArthur in Tokyo, said the as
sault launched by his Eighth Army
five days ago “probably saved our
forces from a trap which might
well have destroyed them.” He im
plied the early attack by the Allies
threw out the time schedule of the
Communists who have another
200,000 troops being readied on the
Manchurian border.
Tank-Led Reds
At Kunu on the south side of the
Chonghon river, Allied units were
being driven by tank-led Commun
ist assault. This was the first men
tion of armor being used by the
Chinese.
U N. Forces held virtually nothing
east of Kunu. Contact with the U.S.
10th Corps in northeast Korea was
broken.
Hordes of Chinese continued to
pour through the Tokchon gap in
the center of the peninsula. From
here, the enemy has launched a
smash designed to cut off Allied
forces. Spearheads were aimed at
points south and southeast of Kunu.
The Eighth Army rushed up tanks
and troops in an effort to hold open
an escape corridor to Pyongyang,
former North Korean capital.
Salvage Hopes
Military observers said there was
hope of salvaging enough Allied
manpower and materiel to set up a
winter defense line somewhere in
North Korea.
In Washington high U.S. Defense
officials expresed the belief Mac
Arthur has enough machines and
firepower left to prevent a military
disaster. It was up "to the United
Nations to decide whether the su
preme commander will be given
sufficient men and broadened orders
to smash the Chinese offensive.
Reds Not Withdrawing
In the# U.N. Security Council
yesterday the Communist Chinese
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STEAMER MOVEMENTS
Baranof scheduled to sail from
Seattle Friday afternoon.
Princess Louise scheduled to sail
from Vancouver Saturday night.
Denali from westward scheduled
to arrive southbound on Sunday.
OI SHOPPING DAYS
* I TIU CHRISTMAS