Apathetic Reds Yield
To Strong UN Attacts
1 Compiled by Dave Cromwell
From the Wires of the Associated Press
Four powerful Allied columns looking for a fight thrust deep
into Communist territory Monday, hut only on the Southeast
flcpik did the Reds aggressively meet the challenge.
In that sector, south of YongwoL, an American platoon was re
ported wiped out by North Korean Reds. There were no details.
An intelligence officer told Associated Press corresponden.
Tom Stene the North Koreans were where “showing a desire to
make and maintain contact” and were “asking for a fight” after
having previously avoided serious action.
.One Red blow, Stone said, was struck early Monday against
elements of the U. S. seventh division.
Even these actions involved relatively few troops despite the
fact that thousands of Reds were reported to have slipped past
allied lines and vanished into the wilderness country to the south.
General Omor Bradley...
... said Monday he hopes the 3,500,000 man strength planned for the
armed forces by June will be all the expansion needed.
The chairman of the joint chiefs of staff gave that reply when asked
at a senate hearing whether military manpower goals would be increas
ed in the next few months. He had told the senators earlier that military
forces of that size “are sufficient in my opinion to avert disaster for our
country.”
Chairman Lyndon Johnson of the Senate preparedness subcommittee
aAjted about the possibility of a higher military manpower goal.
^Bradley called it a difficult question to answer, then said: “I would
hope not but we have to face the possibility that it may have to be in
creased.”
Bradley said too that if congress approves drafting of 18-year-olds for
universal military training and service it might be possible "after five to
10 years” to reduce the 3,500,000 man figure.
As to the capabilities of such a force, Bradley said that in event of war
there might be some bombing of American cities but “there is little real
danger now of the .continental United States being invaded and overrun
so far as we can see.”
The British Air Ministry...
... announced Monday the U. S. Air Force will take over the Royal Air
Force maintenance base at Sealand, Cheshire, in March.
Neither the ministry nor U. S. air force spokesmen would provide de
tails, but other sources reported up to 3,000 American airmen may move
into the base.
Americans are expected to use it for servicing momber and fighter
aircraft engines.
Rescue Workers Dug Frantically...
. . .through mountains of snow Monday to reach survivors of a disas
trous weekend series of avalanches in the Alps which killed at least 177,
injured scores, and crushed whole villages to splinters.
A U. S. Mission...
... left Monday for Tokyo to discuss the possible Japanese peace treaty
with General MacArthur and leaders of the Japanese government.
John Foster Dulles heads the mission. Among those accompanying him
as advisors were assistant secretary of the army Earle D. Johnson; John
D. Rockefeller, III; and John Allison, state department Japanese ex
pert.
The State Senate...
... voted Monday to band the members’ secretaries from the floor dur
ing sessions for one week. After a week is up, then it will decide on whe
ther to do it permanently.
The secretaries went on a sit-down-strike, and would only sit in the
chamber’s balcony, which is intended for guests only.
The ban went into effect Monday.
Other business to come before the legislature included bills to permit
white persons to marry Negroes, Hawaiians, orientals, and Indians to
reduce the term of the members of the State Board of Higher Education
from nine to four years, legislation to stop the selling of cigarettes be
lot^os. and to license all cigarette dealers and a bill asking the legisla
ture to raise $2,000,000 more a year by levying the income tax on utili
ties,. and on corporations which get 95 per cent of their income from
rentals.
Washington, Oregon, and California...
. have set up a pact in Portland for mutual aid in case of enemy
attack.
Civil defense officials from the three states agreed to send police, fire,
medical, and other emergency services to each other if the need arises.
The pact, patterned after a model drafted by the national civil defense
officials, now will go to congress and to the west coast legislatures for
ratification.
Delegates to the meeting said the pact also could be used to send aid
to each other in case of a grave natural disaster.
They added that other agreements, to provide fo rspecific operations,
will be drawn up later.
State delegations were headed by Philip D. Batson, Washington civil
defense director; Burton Washburn, executive secretary of the Califor
nia disaster council; and Louis E. Starr, Oregon civil defense director.
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HEADED FOR HOME at Fort Worth, Texas, one of the huge B-S6 bombers that flew tu England, off
at Lakenheath air base, near London. It was the first trip to foreign soil for any of the Mg planes, capable
of flying 10,000 miles non-stop, The bombers are scheluled to fan out on separate practice missions during
the return flights. Routes they will take are secret. (AP WIRE PHOTO).
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BACK FROM KOREA, Maj. Gen.
Emmett (Rosie) O’Connell urged
th&i “we use the most effective
weapon against Red China—the
A-bomb!” (AP WIRE PHOTO).
FOUND GUILTY of high trea
son by a Burmese tribunal in
Rangoon was Dr. Gordon Sea
grave, America’s “Burma Sur
geon.” He was convicted of aid
ing hill tribesman rebelling
against the Burmese govern
ment in 1949. (AP WIRE
PHOTO)
IN GROUNDHOG FASHION, Pfc. Cyril Kiihel of Cleveland, Ohio,
saw his shadow as he crawled out of his elaborate heated dugout on
Korea’s central front. Kuhel could tell that spring was not just around
the corner as he felt the nip of a 21-degree-below-zerU temperature.
(AP WIRE PHOTO).
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MAP LOCATES approximate positions of Communist forces after
three weeks in each of two invasions of South Korea. Open arrows lo
cate areas where Allies have fought stubbornly to blunt the Red
thrusts, dan. 20 the U. N. forces withdrew from Wonju in the face Of a
three-pronged Communist attack. (AP WIRE PHOTO).
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