THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE
_ “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME”
VOL. LXXVI., NO. 11,669
JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1950
MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
PRICE TEN CENTS
Reds Swarming Against UN A rmies in Korea
STATEHOOD
DUE BEFORE
U.S. SENATE
Action on Alaska Bill Ex
pected Today - Faces
Heavy Going, Report
WASHINGTON, Nov. 29—l/P—A
bill to make Alaska a state faced
heavy going in the Senate today
in the short session’s first test
of White House influence over
the dying Congress. Its fate will al
so determine what happens to a bill
to grant Hawaii statehood.
In the face of a vigorous request
from President Truman for swift
adoption of the two-House ap
proved bills. Southern Democrats
called a morning strategy meeting.
Test of Sentlmcni
Senator Russell (D-Ga), who
called the session, said all South
ern Senators were invited to the
meeting for a test of sentiment and
to chart a couije of action. He
hinted the meeting could touch off
a bitter-end fight against the bills.
The first test on the Senate
floor was scheduled lor this after
noon on a motion to take up the
question of statehood for Alaska.
Friends and foes have predicted
it and the Hawaiian bill both will
pass or both be defeated. The
House considered them one after
the other in an attempt to keep
politics out of the picture. Alaska
is normally Democratic and Hawaii
Republican.
O'Mahoney Fearful
While there is some Republican
opposition to the bills. Senator
O’Mahoney (D-Wyo) indicated he
is most fearful of an attempt by
Southern Democrats to talk them
to death. Since time is short, they
probably could do so if they tried.
The southerners reportedly are
afraid that Alaska and Hawaii
would elect four Senators who
would vote to choke off a filibuster
against civil rights legislation.
Truman's Orders
The decision to proceed with the
statehood bills was made at a White
House conference yesterday. Mr.
Truman also told his Capitol Hill
leaders he wants the short session
to extend the rent control la,w, pass
a new tax bill, and vote more de
fense funds and relief money for
drouth-stricken Yugoslavia.
There was no assurance Con
gress would do sc. GOP Senate |
leader Wherry of Nebraska said he
saw no need to act on anything
except defense funds and taxes. The
present Congress expires Jan. 3,
when the new one convenes.
Congress did no business yester
day, and the House adjourned un- j
til Thursday. A number of commit- :
tees were setting to work, however. I
In his letter to the Senate yes- j
The Washington:
Merry - Go - Round
Copyright, 1940, by Bell Syndicate. Inc.!
By DREW PEARSON
j^ASHINGTON — Judging from
conversation heard on Capitol Hill
cloakrooms, the current session of
Congress may approach the post- j
World War I days of Woodorw Wil
son when it comes to dissension
over foreign policy.
It will be recalled that in the :
November, 1918, elections, Wilson j
lost control of his House of Repre
sentatives and from that time on
opposition to his foreign policies j
increased, resulting finally in the
defeat of the League of Nations
and the Versailles Treaty. Many
leaders of both parties felt that
this injection of politics into foreign
policy paralyzed the nation and
paved the way foi' World War II.
On Capitol Hill today leaders
point to certain similarities be
tween what happened then and
what may happen today.
In November, 1918, for instance,
the United States was winning in
Europe. The Armistice was signed
on Nov. 11, just a few days after
the election, but Wilson lost any
way. In November, 1950, the United
States was likewise on the eve of
victory in Korea. Yet Truman,
though keeping a scant margin in
Congress, lor all practical purposes
lost workable control of the Sen
ate.
And the main issue contributing
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No Pad
Of Death
On Bill
Senate Southern Demo
crats Split on Alaska
Statehood Measure
WASHINGTON, Nov. 28 — (/PI —
Senate Southern Democrats found
their ranks split today and aban
doned the idea of trying to talk to
death bills proposing statehood for
Alaska and Hawaii.
Senator Russell (D-Ga), who
called a meeting of 15 Senators,
told reporters the session produced
“no unanimity of opinion on these
statehood bills.”
President Truman has asked swift
Senate approval of the two House
approved bills.
"No pact of death to kill these
bills resulted,” Russell said, con
ceding that the subject of filibus
tering had been mentioned at to
day's meeting.
Russell said some of the Senators
had announced they will support
the measures. He mentioned no
names and said the Senators would
have to identify themselves. None
did immediately. Russell has been
a leading opponent of statehood.
In response to a question whether
some smaller group still might
launch a filibuster of its own, Rus
sell said:
“There’s always a likelihood of
that.”
Attending the meeting were Sen
ators Russell, Byrd and Robertson
of Virginia; Fulbright and McClel
lan, Arkansas; Eastland and Sten
nis, Mississippi; Hoey, North Caro
lina; Holland, Florida; Ellender,
Louisiana; Maybank, South Caro
lina; Lyndon Johnson, Texas;
George, Georgia; and McKellai\
Tennessee.
The first test of the statehood
bills on the Senate floor was sched
uled for this afternoon on a mo
tion to take up the Alaska bill.
■terday Mr. Truman urged “high
est priority” for the statehood
tills, declaring their adoption would I
“strike a blow at Communism" and j
“speak far louder than words of
our devotion to our national
ideals."
Senator Butler (R-Neb) ranking j
Republican member of the Senate i
Interior Committee headed by O'- ;
Mahoney, said both bills will and J
should be defeated because “Alaska |
and Hawaii are not ready for 1
statehood.”
O'Mahoney Views
O'Mahoney, marshalling friends !
of the bills, said the granting cf!
statehood would be a blow to Com- I
munist accusations that the United :
States is a colonial power.
“Favorable action on the state- ;
hood bills is the most important ,
move Congress can take at this |
time in light of the foreign situa- ;
tion,” he told reporters.
MASONK FUNERAL
FOR C. ENGSTROM
HERE TOMORROW
_ !
Funeral services for Carl Eng- j
strom who died at Tenakee Springs '
Nov. 14, will be held in the Carter j
Chapel tomorrow at 2 p.m. Services
will be conducted by the Masons
and Ernest Ehler will sing.
Interment will be in the Masonic I
plot of Evergreen Cemetery. Pall- j
bearers will be members of1 the local
Masonic lodge here. Engstrom be
longed to the lodge at Cordova. He
had resided at Tenakee since 1941,
first coming to Alaska in 1908 and j
living in Nome, Anchorage and
Cordova. He has no known living
relatives.
STOCK QUOTATIONS
NEW YORK, Nov. 28 — Closing
quotation of Alaska Juneau mine
stock today is 2’L>, American Can
97, American Tel. and Tel. 150r>4,
Anaconda 37, Douglas Aircraft 82’i,
General Electric 487<, General Mo
tors 46'i, Goodyear 59, Kennecott
69, Libby McNeill and Libby 8^,
Northern Pacific 27* i, Standard
Oil of California 32, Twentieth Cen
tury Fox 211 i, U.S. Steel 387*. Pound
$2.80L, Canadian Exchange 96.121 i.
Sales today were 2,970,000 shares.
Averages today arc as follows: in
dustrials 228.61, rails 67.G7. utilities
39.78. j
Dozen Barges, Millions of
Dollars Worth of Material
Lost in Bering Sea Storms
RR to Alaska
Necessary NW
Developmenl
Pacific NW Trade Assn.
Endorses Alaska Tax
Incentive Plan
SEATTLE, Nov. 28—UP)—: Pacific
Northwest Trade Association Dele
gates heard last night that there is
a real possibility that a railroad to
Alaska might start from Edmon
ton, Alta., and by-pass the Pacific
northwest.
Thomas Braidw’ood, Vancouver,
B.C., businessman, said mid-west
interests appear much more inter
ested in the development of the
Canadian north and land along the
Alaska highway than are Washing
tonians or British Columbia resi
dents.
Chicago and Minneapolis-St. Paul
interests are exploring trade possi
bilities along the highway and an
immense amount of American capi
tal investment already is visible in
Alberta, Braidwood declared.
The Vancouver delegate said the
northwest would stand to lose much
of its present Alaska business if the
rail line is constructed north from
Edmonton.
B.C. Railroad Backed
Extension of the Pacific Great
Eastern Railway north through
British Columbia to Alaska was
termed a “war necessity” in a talk
by B.C. Senator Stanley McKeen,
who represented Premier Byron I.
Johnson at the Association's Gov
ernors’ night banquet.
McKeen said he could pledge “all
support” from British Columbia.
Governor Langlie urged delegates
to take greater responsibility in local
and state government, and de
clared that development of “sound
fiscal policies” is essential if we
are “to preserve free governments.”
Governor McKay of Oregon urged
a joint effort throughout the north
west to merchandise products and
tourist attractions.
Faulkner Presents Tax Proposal
A proposal that the federal gov
ernment grant a federal income
tax reduction to all corporations
establishing new industries in
Alaska until their capital invest
ment has been returned was en
dorsed by the industrial section of
the association.
The measure was introduced in
the form of a resolution by H. L.
Faulkner, Juneau Chamber of Com
merce. The Juneau chamber has
already endorsed the measure, and
Congress will be asked to consider
it this coming session.
Reasons advanced for the exem
ption are that risks of doing busi
ness and venturing capital in
Alaska are greater than in the
United States proper. The exemp
tions would, under the measure, be
effective for 15 years in the case
of each new corporation or until
the capital investment had been re
turned, whichever would be the
shorter period. /
The AlasKa Kauroaas jid.uvu.uuu
modernization program is 65 per
cent completed and should be fin
ished in two years, Col. J. P. John
son, its general manager, told the
Association. Johnson said 600 miles
of Alaska highways are scheduled
to be paved. The Kenai peninsula
connection to the territorial road
system will be opened in JOne, he
added.
The Association adopted a resolu
tion urging sufficient federal funds
for Alaska’s civilian and military
developments.
Memorial to John Phillip Herber,
one of the Association's founders,
who was killed November 19 near
Manila, and Capt. Austin E. Lath
rop, Alaska pioneer, who died in a
mining railroad accident, were also
adopted.
UNION OIL MAN HERE
W. H. Schwind. Union Oil man
from Seattle, is at the Gastincau
Hotel.
By LACHLEN MacDONALD
ANCHORAGE. Alaska, Nov. 28—
iJPi—Bering Sea storms have claimed
more than a dozen barges and mil
lions of dollars worth of military
sea transport service cargo this fall
and winter.
Reports received here several
days ago, but delayed pending a
check with the remote seacoast vil
lages, indicates that one barge is
believed to have fallen into Russian
hands. Laden with lumber, con
struction steel and fuel oil. it be
came separated from its tug during
a gale and drifted steadily toward
the Siberian shore.
Nine barges leased by a Seattle
construction firm were ripped from
anchor at one project location and
scattered along 500 miles of coast
line. Four others were separated
from tugs, two grounding in iso
lated and the other two foundering
In the high waves.
Contractors have hired bush pilots
at from $40 to $80 an hour to find
the grounded barges and fly salvage
crews to the scene.
All of the losses apparently have
occurred since Sept. 1, although mil
itary officials would not say so be
cause of security.
In part the losses stem from the
military necessity of defying an
age-old tradition which has closed
the Bering Sea to navigation each
year on Oct. 15. That is the date on
which marine insurance ends on
vessels in the Bering Sea and the
U.S. Coast Guard officially declares
the treacherous waters closed.
This year, however, when the
deadline arrived vessels of the
MSTS were bringing cargo from
the deactivated airbase at Nome.
Others were heading north with
vital construction materials for
new installations being built along
the coast line.
A raging storm on Nov. 10, with
gusts up to 85 miles an hour, caught
many of these vessels at their
moorings and others at sea.
42 CUB BOY SCOUTS
GIVEN ACHIEVEMENT
AWARDS AT MEETING
Cub Scout Pack No. 311 met in !
the Grade School gymnasium at;
7:30 p.m. last evening and held
a one and one-half hour session
of spirited Cub Scout activity. The
program consisted of an impres- j
sive opening ceremony, inspection
of uniforms and roll call of all
cubs. The theme of the month of
November was physical development I
and all boys participated vigorously I
in tumbling, rail walking, and other |
contests. One of the outstanding
features of the meeting was the
presentation of awards for achieve- j
ment. There were 42 awards for
achievement presented to the var- j
ious cubs.
Pack 311 is sponsored by the Ju- j
neau Rotary Club and consists of j
five dens with a total membership |
of 37 boys.
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.
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• WEATHER REPORT •
• Temperatures for 24-Hour Period a
• ending 6:20 o’clock this morning •
• In Juneau—Maximum, 22; •
• minimum, 20. •
• At Airport—Maximum, 23; •
• minimum, 10. •
• •
• FORECAST •
• (Juneau and Vicinity) •
• Cloudy with intermittent •
• light snow tonight and Wed- •
• nesday. Low temperature to- •
• night near 20 and high Wed- •
• nesday near 26. •
• •
• PRECIPITATION •
• (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a m today •
• City of. Juneau — None; •
• since Nov. 1 _ 4.21 incite . •
• since July 1—33.24 inches •
• At Airport — None: •
• since Nov. 1 — 2.07 inches; •
• since July 1—23.12 inches. •
••••••#•••*
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BRUSH FIRES
ARE RAGING IN
ALASKA AREAS
_
(By the Associated Press)
The raging flames of two widely
; separated Alaska brush fires raced
! through a small Matanuska valley
community and threatens a fishing
village on Kodiak Island.
Eoth fires still burned uncontrol
j led at last reports.
A combination brush-forest blaze
| swept through Wasilia Flats in the
1 Matanuska Valley. It destroyed
three sheds, a cabin and a barn.
Two below zero weather ham
| pered a force of 200 men brought
from the Elmendorf Air Force base
j at Anchorage, 50 miles away.
On Kodiak Island, flames fanned
by a strong wind advanced on a
15-mile front toward the tiny vil
lage of Ohkiok. The village of 200
population was less than two miles
from the flames. The million dollar
canneries of Pacific American Fish
eries and Libby-McNeill and Libby
also lie in the path of the fire.
A force of 100 men was flown in
hastily from the Navy base at Ko
diak to man the fire lines.
PLANES MOVE FIGHTERS
Seventeenth U.S. Coast Guard
headquarters here today reported
that CG planes based at Kodiak had
moved 45 fire fighters and equip
ment to Atilak Bay to combat
flames threatening Ahkiok.
The USS Navy Deliver, a tug, is j
at the scene assisting.
If ARRIVE FROM
FAIRBANKS; SIX
FROM SEATTLE
Thirty-three passengers were car
ried by Pan American World Air
ways yesterday. Three went to Se
attle from here; six went through
from Fairbanks; 18 arrived here
from Fairbanks and six arrived
from Seattle.
From Seattle; Lou Berman, D. N.
Dillon, Robert Fuller, William Har
die, Mary Hutchinson and Leo H.
Saarela.
From Fairbanks: Mr. and Mrs.
Ralph Rivers, Mr. and Mrs. R6y S.
Erling, Fred and lone Becker, Her
man Elkstrom, Ivan, Iris and Kay
Frederickson, Andrew Nylund, Pat
rick Murray, Isaac Juneby, Adam
John, Martin Westwong, Harriet
Cooper, Edwin Kjere and T. S.
Baclielder.
To Seattle: H. Everson, Burke
Riley and Gov. Gruening.
HALLENE PRICE IS
SPEAKER, BPWC MEET
The speaker at the BPW club
luncheon meeting Monday noon was
Miss Hallene Price the newly ap
pointed Home Demonstration Agent,
who conducted an informal discus
sion on the growth of the Extension
Service since its beginning in 1855,
Miss Price is a member of the
staff of the University of Alaska.
She will cover the area from Skag
way to Sitka and Petersburg, which
will include about 20 groups. She
has headquarters in the office of
the American Red Cross in the
Shattuck Building at the present
lime.
Miss Price came to Juneau from
Neosho, Missouri.
SOUTH FOR CHRISTMAS
Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Kieley left
on the Baranof for Seattle enroute
to their old home in Sunnyville,
Calif., where they will visit and
spend the Christmas holidays. They
expect to return to Juneau shortly
after the first of the year.
Kieley is a bridge engineer with
the Bureau of Public Roads.
BERGSTROMS HERE
Mr. and Mrs. Carl Bergstrom ar
rived on the Derali after a trip to
the states.
ARCHIE FLIES THROUGH
Archie Ferguson, well known pilot
and trader from Kotzebue went
through Juneau yesterday enroute
to Seattle from Fairbanks.
RIVERS ARRIVE
Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Rivers of
Fairbanks arrived yesterday from
Fairbanks via PAA. Rivers is a
member of the Employment Se
curity Commission in session here
this week.
Charge of Aggression in
Korea fo Be Made Agains!
Commie Regime in China
By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER
WASHINGTON, Nov. 28 — (1PI —
The United States decided today to
charge Communist China with ag
gression in Korea.
Assistant Secretary of State John
D. Hiekerson so advised the Ameri
can delegation at the United Na
tions by telephone.
Hiekerson telephoned Ambassador
MacARTHUR
HOLDS BIG
CONFERENCE
•i
— i
TOYKO, Nov. 28— IjB —General
MacArthur late tonight began a
secret conference with his two top
field generals. He suddenly sum
moned them from Korea.
The United Nations commander
met at the American Embassy—
his official residence—with Lt. Gen.
Walton H. Walker of the U. S.
Eighth Army and Maj. Gen. Ed
ward M. Almond, commanding the
10th Corps in northeast Korea.
The urgent conference began
at 9:30 (7:30 a.m., EST).
Both field commanders had re
turned to Japan separately from
Korea earlier in the evening at
MacArthur’s orders. Their com
mands, in northwestern and north
eastern Korea, were under heavy
Chinese Red attack.
IIILDRES, BOB LARSON
ON VISIT TO STATES
Mrs. Pete Hildre, accompanied
by her son Harvey and Bob Lar
sen, son of James Larsen, left Sun
day on the Pan American clipper
for Seattle. Mrs. Hildre will have
a medical check up in Seattle and
will then visit with Mrs. Sigrid
Furness, formerly Mrs. Sigrid Hil
dre of Juneau, in Ballard.
Harvey and Bob will start off
from Seattle for Los Angeles on the
second "just seeing the country’
trip the two young men have made
in the ast thrde years. They expect
to be outside several weeks. Bob
has been in Anchorage aiid spent
the last week in Juneau.
75 HOMES MAY BE
BUILT SALMON CREEK
C. C. Staples, Director of the
Federal Housing Administration
for Alaska, left on the Baranof
for Seattle where he will undergo
an operation.
He expects to later go to Los An
geles, Palm Springs and Washing
ton, D. C. before returning to Ju
neau about February.
In outlining 1951 contemplated
FHA projects, Staples said that
sponsors were preparing applica
tions on 25 housing units each for
Petersburg, Seward, and Valdez, 25
units and 25 houses for Kodiak, and
20 units for Cordova. They are to
be mostly two-story frame buildings
with commercial space on the
ground floors.
“'Ray Lewis of Los Angeles is con
templating the building of 75 homes
on a property adjacent to Salmon
Creek, near Juneau,” Staples said.
FIRST AID CLASS STARTS
TONIGHT AT HIGH SCHOOL
A standard first aid class will be
gin this evening in the sewing
room of the Juneau High School ]
This class is open to anyone over
18 years of age. It is offered espec
ially to Civilian Defense first aiders
and to persons interested in skiing.
The course will be taught Tuesday
and Thursday evenings from 7:30 to
9:30.
NAT. GUARD PROMOTIONS
Recent advancements of enlist
ed men in Headquarters, Head
quarters and Service Co., 208th
Battalion <Sepi of the Alaska Na
tional Guard are as follows: Sgt.
Robert M. Potter to Sgt. First Class,
Pvt. Carlisle D. Casperson to Sgt.,
Pvt. Lee W. Nance to Pfc., Pvt.
Charles B. Smith to Pfc. and Pvt.
Ralph Treffers, Jr., to Pfc.
FROM ANCHORAGE
David V. Barry of Anchorage is
i registered at the Baranof Hotel.
Warren R. Austin shortly before
today’s U.N. Security Council
meeting at New York. It was con
sidered possible here that Austin
would make the aggression charge
publicly almost at once.
Aggression Charge
This is a step which the American
government has heretofore re
frained from taking on the ground
that to charge any nation with
aggression might set in action an
extremely serious chain of events—
since once an aggressor is so labeled
there is strong pressure to act
against him.
Hickerson instructed Austin to
press for immediate adoption by
the United Nations of the pending
U.N. resolution which would:
(X) Call on the Chinese Reds to
get their troops out of Korea.
(2) Assure them the United Na
tions seeks only peace and Korean
independence.
U.N. Action Demanded
Michael J. McDermott, State De
partment press officer, said in a
statement that the intervention by
Chinese troops is “aggression by
the Communist Chinese regime.”
“The United Nations should take
immediate action on the draft reso
lution before Security Council,”
McDermott said.
In response to a question, he said
“We are prepared to charge them
with aggression.”
Chinese Communists liave been in
Northern Korea more than a month.
During all that time, the United
States government has refrained in
statements before U.N., or even in
formal statements to the press,
from branding them as aggressors.
The charge is regarded by this
government as having a formal,
legalistic meaning — like charging
an individual with “murder.”
CHARGES ARE MADE
LAKE SUCCESS, Nov. 28—
The United States today charged
the Chinese Communists with open j
and notorious aggression in Korea. I
It declared the consequences were j
potentially grave and called upon
the United Nations and the world
to face the facts squarely.
In one of the most critical meet
ings in the history of the Security
Council, Chief U.S. Delegate Warren
R. Austin spoke directly to the
representative of Red China, Wu
Hsui-Chuan, who sat at the council
table as an invited guest.
I
Austin Questions Wu
Austin shot a series of blunt
questions at Wu. He asked:
“Does the Peiping representative
still malntaln(that the 200,000 troops
in Korea are entirely volunteers?
“Will the representative tell the
Security Council how long the Pei
ping re&inie has been planning and
preparing for this aggression? Was
all this being done while the Peiping
radio was protesting the peaceful
intentions of the Peiping regime?”
Wu Refuses Comment
Wearing headphones, Wu listened
intently but took few notes. It was
generaly expected he would ignore
Austin’s questions as well as the
charges of aggression.
Austin called upon the council
to act as "promptly as convenient”
on a six-power resolution demand
ing the withdrawal of the Chinese
Communists from Korea. He added,
however, that “We’ve been told the
Soviet Union will vote against it and
that will mean a veto.”
May Go To Gen. Assembly
It appeared from this remark the
United States may be ready to go
ahead despite the Soviet veto threat.
This would throw the whole issue
into the 60-nation General Assem
bly under procisions of the recently
approved Acheren plan for acting
when the Security Council is stale
mated by the veto.
Russia’s Jacob A. Malik delayed
the U.S. speech for more than an
hour while a capacity crowd list
ened tensely.
Malik Tries First Inning
Malik tried in vain to get the
Council to give the floor to Wu first
to present charges that the United
States was guilty of aggression
against Fortnosa. The Council
voted 8 to 1 against the Soviet
move. India and Yugoslavia ab
stained.
Tlie Soviet Delegate then declared
the Council was too hostile to Red
China and would not be capable of
a fair discussion of the Chinese
Communist charges.
"ENTIRE NEW
WAR" NOW
BIG THREAT
Blunt Truth Is Revealed as
UN Forces Reported
Retreating in Korea
(By the Associated Press)
Thousands of Chinese Reds were
reported today pouring through the
retreating Eighth Army’s broken
lines near the center of the Korean
Peninsula. The war had reached
what may be its gravest crisis.
General MacArthur summoned
his two chief field commanders
back to Tokyo for urgent confer
ences. Lt. Gen. Walton H. Walker,
commander of the Eighth Army and
Maj. Gen. Edward M. Almond,
commander of the 10th Corps in
northwest Korea arrived by plane
in Japan from their separate head
quarters.
Swarms of Reds
A First Corps spokesman said
Chinese Communists were swarm
ing "along every road, every gully
and every ridge line” for a distance
of 35 miles north of Tokchon. This
poised a threat to the Allied main
supply line from 'Pyongyang, the
former Red capital.
Earlier MacArthur had warned
that the non-Communist world
must find a diplomatic solution be
cause of the crushing Red Chinese
intervention that has thrown U.N.
forces into retreat just as they
seemed poised for victory.
“Entire New War”
MacArthur described the situa
tion as "an entire new war.” In an
extraordinary communique he ack
nowledged he is powerless to cope
with the - undeclared Chinese bel
ligerents.
xii'- nmcu line wuD uiukcu near
the center of the peninsula where
furious Red Chinese might attacks
crumbled three South Korean Di
visions. In the Tokchon sector the
Reds in their breakthrough poised
a threat to the former North Ko
rean capital of Pyongyang. The
flanks of American divisions were
dangerously exposed.
A.P. Correspondent Don White
head reported:
Army Driven Back
“The blunt truth is the army is
being driven back by an enemy
obviously much stronger than had
been estimated.”
MacArthur estimated the Chinese
have thrown 200 000 men into the
Korean fighting. He ndded:
“Heavy reinforcements now con
centrated” across the border in
Manchuria are "constantly moving
forward.”
500,000 Reds Massed
j Allied intelligence has estimated
there are 500.000 Red Chinese troops
! massed in Manchuria in what Mac
| Arthur calls a privileged “neutral"
sanctuary which the United Nations
has decided must not be attacked.
With the Eighth Army in retreat
there was no doubt that the Mac
Arthur-planned all-out offensive to
end the war by Christmas had
failed. The United Nations com
mander acknowledged this. He said:
The strength of the Chinese Red
forces in Korea “has shattered the
high hope we had that the inter
vention . . . was only of a token
nature on a volunteer and individual
basis as publicly announoed.”
14 Commie Divisions
United Nations intelligence offi
cers have identified 14 Chinese
Communist divisions along the
northwest Korean front. Field dis
patches show the Chinese are con
tinuing to pour across the frontier
in great numbers.
On the far west front, the U.S.
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□SHOPPING DAYS *
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