U.N. Forces Again
Retire From Woniu
Compiled by A1 Karr
From the Wires of the Associated Press
J ank and artillery-supported U. N.forces drove into strategic
\\ onju Sunday for the fourth time in five days and held its air
strip for three hours, but Communist fire from hill-tops made it
top hot to hold overnight.
^ The Americans retired without suffering a single casualty.
1 heir fire, however, had killed 100 North Korean Reds while
air strikes killed 50 more Reds on a hill overlooking the field. A
strafing attack on an estimated battalion of North Koreans on
the airfield earlier Sunday caused an undetermined number of
casualties.
In the general area south and east of Seoul powerful Red Chinese troop
concentrations have been reported massing for another expected sledge
hammer blow at the U. N. defenses. Major General Robert H. Soule ex
pressed confidence that the re-deployed eighth army could how 9top
anything that the Chinese Reds could throw at it, and even could recap
ture Seoul if ordered to do so.
Bitterly Attacking "American Imperialism," ..
. . . Peter N. Pospelov, editor of Pravda, told a distinguished audience
including Prime Minister Stalin Sunday night that any American plans
to make war against Russia on land in Europe and Asia are "fore-doomed
to failure.”
The occasion was the 27th anniversai’y of the death of the founder of
the Soviet state, Vladimir Ilich Lenin, for which the brilliant assem
(Jfege of mourners came to the Bolshio theater.
American National Security Needs...
.. would dictate its attitude toward Formosa, Ambassador Ernest
A. Gross, deputy U. S. delegate to the United Nations, stated Sunday in
a new statement of U. S. Far Eastern policy.
The U. S. also called for participation by the Nationalist Chinese gov
ernment of Chiang Kai-Shek in any future conference on Formosa. The
declaration, issued while 12 Arab-Asian countries met to frame a new
United Nations offer to dicker with the Chinese Communists for control
of Formosa, was the most outspoken the U. S. has made on the question.
The Death Toll...
. . . from repeated avalanches crashing crashing down Alpine slopes
in three countries for the past two days rose Sunday night to at least
108. Switzerland counted 54 dead, Austria 41, and Italy 13.
The unprecedented series of monstrous snow slides brought tragedy
to dozens of quiet Alpine valleys where whole villages were smashed or
buried. A small hotel at Oberalpsee in central Switzerland disappeared
under an avalanche and it was not known how many were inside.
America s Atom Bomb Carriers,...
. . . six B-36 bombers, roared home Sunday from England and their
first stay on foreign soil.
“We had fog and freezing weather when we left for England, and we
bucked a 1000 mile an hour head wind on the way back,” said a pilot of
the one crew newsmen were allowed to interview.
Drafting 18-Year-Olds. ..
. . . and 27 iponths’ service for draftees will likely be approved by a
Senate services subcommittee, armed with little change in these pro
posals, Senator Hunt (Dem.-Wyo.) said Sunday. Hunt agreed with top
military leaders that these measures are necessary to bolster the na
tion’s defense. ,
The United States Should Warn Russia...
. .. that it would drop atomic bombs on Moscow the first time the Red
Army makes a “false move” in Europe, Dr. Harold C. Urey, Nobel Prize
winner in Chemistry, said Sunday night.
The University of Chicago atomic scientist said he believed that, the
fear of the A-bomb is the only thing preventing the Soviet army from
marching on Western Europe.
“We should realize that the use of an atomic bomb is almost certain to
start World War III definitely,” he said. "We should try to avoid this
war, but if it must come, we should try to be ready for it, which we are
not now.”
Tariffs—The Oldest Issue...
. . . separating Democrats and Republicans—was the primary issue
Sunday as both parties lined up to battle over the tariff issue.
The fight opens today when Secretary of State Acheson asks the House
Ways and Means Committeeto extend the Reciprocal Trade Law three
years without hobbling President Truman's authority to negotiate trade
treaties.
Republicans gave notiee that they want a “peril point” amendment to
keep the President from reducing America’s tariffs below specified lev
els. Democrats appeared confident that they can win a three-year exten
sion of the law “as is.”
Defense Orders Will Get. . .
.... a bigger claim on the output of steel companies under a govern
ment directive expected to be announced today. Reliable sources said
that a National Production Authority order will increase the percentages
of defense-rated business that each steel company is required to take it
if it is offered to them.
Under existing NPA regulations no steel company is required to accept
defense-rated orders for shipment in any one month in excess of certain
percentages of its average monthly shipments during the first part of
last year. These percentages vary from 5 to 25 per cent for different steel
products.
A"Checkrein"on Federal Civilian Employment...
. . . was called for by the Byrd Committee Sunday. The committee
said that employment is climbing at the rate of more than 1,000 a day.
The group, headed by Senator Byrd (Dem.-Va.), proposed that the
National Security Resources Board, Congressional appropriating com
mittees, and the budget director take a hand in determining if future
increases in government are necessary.
Complete American Control.
\ . . of the sea and air throughout the world was called for Sunday by
Senator Taft (Rep.-Ohio), while three Democratic Senators said that
effective aid to Europe is the best hope of keeping the peace.
The News in View
ACCUSED OF BRIBERY and conspiracy in throwing Manhatten College basketball games, five arrest
ed men pose with Bronx District Attorney George B. Deluca (seated right). Arrested men are John A.
Byrnes (left) and Henry Poppe (second from left), and seated from left, Cornelius Kelleher, Irving Scli
wartzberg and Benjimen Schwartzberg. Coach Kenny Norton is right rear and assistant D. A. Edward
Breslin is second right. (AP WIREPHOTO)
SELECTIVE SERVICE HEAD
Maj. Oen. Lewis B. Hershey,
asks congress for an indefinite
extension of the draft law with
authority to induct men from
18 through 25 years. He gave
full support to the universal
training bill sent to congress by
Secretary of Defense George
Marshall (AP WIREPHOTO)
“MISS PIN-ON-GIRL” of the 1951 March of Dimes campaign is the
title given Miss Nina “Honey Bear” Warren, daughter of California’s
governor, who contracted polio last November. Shown at the gov
ernor’s mansion at Sacramento, Calif., and anxious to be the first
contributors are polio victims Danny Smith, 6, of Los Angeles and
Donald O’Connor, 18, of Sacramento. (AP WIBEPHOTO)
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x«»inu HtiLfLEttS alongside a Baltimore, Md., pier la the SS George Washington, a decommissioned
transport. The blaze was described as the worst fire the city has had since a major part of the city
was destroyed in 1904. Unofficial reports estimate the damage would exceed $15,000,000. (AP WIRE
PHOTO)