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About Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 21, 1950)
Prays for Massacre Victims Army Chaplain Capt A. M. Knler reads last rites for some of the 36 American soldiers found massacred with their hands bound behing them on hill 303 at Waegan, South Korea. Photo by Stanley Tretlck, NEA-Acme staff photographer. (Acme Radiophoto) COVERING THE KOREAN WAR How Aloe's Headquarters Puts Out the Battle News By H. D. QUIGG Tokyo U.R) A swarm of little Japanese ,boys gather at the door of a public information office on the second floor of the air-conditioned Radio Tokyo building. Dressed in white T shirts, long black pants, and canvas slippers or wooden clogs, they jabber and shove waiting importantly to play their part in passing the81 biggest news story since World War II on to a waiting world. Throughout the day they scouted the mimeograph section of the public information office and they know to the second when one of Gen. Douglas Mac Arthur's Korean war releases will be rolling. As an army man comes to the door of the off ice with the sheaf of releases, each boy makes a grab and runs down the hall to his office. There they jam the paper down in front of a writer. It's a mimeographed copy of a single-spaced sheet, and it's headed "General MacArthur's, Far East command, public infor mation office Korean release No. so and so. A press association writer pecks out a bulletin. His boy takes it and dashes downstairs and along the sidewalk 200 yards to the Japanese govern ment teletypes which the press associations use to radio their news to the United States. When the press associations hire a new office boy here now, they don't ask, "What school did you go to?" They ask, "How how fast can you make the 200 yard dash?" In another room of the public Information office, 25 or so cor respondents gather for their daily "briefing" on the war sit uation by spokesmen from Gen. MacArthur's headquarters intel ligence and operations sections and from the air force and navy. There is an International fla vor to the assembled newsmen. This is the hottest season in Tokyo, and they're dressed for it. Some wear civilian clothes, some army clothes, but all have open-collared shirts. Several have on khaki shorts and one wears white knee-length shorts and a white blouse. Several wear gaudy "Aloha" shirts. Randolph Churchill, son of former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, a heavy, sandy-haired, pink-faced man, sits at the side of the room, wearing an orange-yellow sport short, gray shorts, knee-length brown socks and easy slippers. He is a correspondent for a Lon don newspaper. The newsmen stand with low ered heads, scribbling onto note books, clipboards and wads of copy paper. The briefing spokesman stands before a huge map of Ko rea, thumbtacked on wallboard. Tacked over the map Is a transr parent acetate sheet. The posi tions of United Nations and en emy forces are drawn In and labeled in colored pencil red, for the communist, blue for U.S. and Republic of Korea forces. The transparent sheet li known as an overlay. Some times there is even an overlay on an overlay. t "The operation of enemy guerrillas leads to a belief they Intelligence Chief Gen. Walter Bedell Smith (above) former U. S. Ambassador to Moscow, will succeed Rear Adm. Roscoe H. Hillenkoeter as chief of the central intelli gence agency. Gen. Smith was wartime chief off staff to Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower. (Acme Telephoto) may be organized as a regular unit of the North Korean forces, possibly with a communist nu cleus," a spokesman said. "These guerrillas have been training for a long timej" The reporters scribble. The briefing ends. A newsman hurries to his of fice, bangs out a fast paragraph, opens the corner of his mouth and hollers: "Boy San!" That means "Mr. Boy," and It is the way office boys are called around here. The boy seizes the copy and clip-clops off. The news is on its way. Three Minor Fires Controlled in Polk In evidence of the continuous fire hazard resulting from the prolonged hot spell in the Wil lamette valley, three fires were reported in Polk county in the past four days. Thursday a two-acre grass fire was reported at Grand Ronde which was put out by local vol unteers and fire crew members. Friday an eight-acre fire de stroyed grass and small seed growth timber In the Fir Grove area near Dallas. The blaze oc curred on the Fisher Brothers logging lands as the result of a backfire from a power saw. The fire was controlled by Saturday morning. Thursday grass and small trees were burnt in a blaze caus ed by dynamiting stumps near Falls City. Rev. James Royer, pastor at the Falls City church Only 10 Down LLMo?rmc? First Major Victory in Korea Won by Firepower and Guts By ROBERT C. MILLER On the Naktong River Front, Korea, Aug. 21 (U.R) The dead have been buried and the wounded bandaged. So the Monday mornihg quarterbacks took over the battle of the bulge today, analyzing the Americans' first major victory in Korea to find out how 12,000 communist troops were 'wiped out. - There was no single answer. It was a combination of team work, superior firepower and guts that drove the North Ko reans in the Yongsan bulge as far back as the Naktong, killing and estimated 1,500 and destroy ing large quantities of commu nist guns and supplies. There was not much real estate Involved seven miles at most but the effect on both American and North Ko rean morale was tremendous. The Americans proved de cisively that the commies can be liked. . The Reds who got back across the river don't exactly know what hit them. But they must realize that their rosy visions of a victorious march through South Korea are gone and their, iuiure is a DieaK one miea witn American high explosives. The battle was a joint army marine job in which the marines made the most spectacular gains and suffered the most casual ties. , But it must not be forgotten that the army 24th division weakened the North Koreans with 10 days of continuous pun ishment as it was slowly push ed .back from the Naktong line by overwhelming forces, i Ana every giant marine was willing to give a large share of the credit to marine and air Disease Germ Balloons Feared Bly, Ore., Aug. 21 VP) The wartime Japanese balloon bombs may have shown the way for any Asiatic enemy to wage bac teriological warfare on the Pa cific coast. A Sixth army officer hinted of the possibility in a speech here yesterday at a . ceremony de dicating a memorial to six per sons killed by the wartime ex plosion of a balloon bomb. Col. Karl C. Frank, Vancou ver, Wash., said the Japanese balloons were not very effective as a major weapon. Fewer than 1,000 of the some 9,000 loosed into the trans-Pacific air currents fell within U. S. borders. The May 5, 1945, tragedy near here took the only casualties. But the barrage did represent the first use of overseass un- guided missiles. In any future war, ioi. r ranjc aaaea, mey might be used in carrying di sease germs to these shores. Gov. Douglas McKay was also a speaker at the program at the Weyerhaeuser Timber company's tree farm near the Klamath Lake county border. He called for tightening of 'military de fenses during the Koraen war and noted the progress of Ore gon's civilian defense program. The ceremony unveiled a stone monument at the forested spot where a woman and five children were killed. The monument bears a bronze plaque inscribed with the names of the victims and the circumstances of their daeth. It was erected by the Weyer haeuser company. The victims were Mrs. Elsie Mitchell, 26, wife of the Rev. Archie Mitchell of Bly; Jay Gil ford, 13; Edward Engen, 13; Dick Patzke, 14, and his sister, Joan, 13, and Sherman Shoemaker, 11. The pastor was the lone sur vivor of the church picnic group. who was swimming nearby, was the first to reach the scene and fought the blaze alone for some time before the Falls City rural fire protection truck arrived. Rev. Royer took a drink of water and collapsed from exhaustion, He recovered quickly, however, Nothing Down Pay Monthly u'H a . n: i fi SHADES DRAPE RODS ALUMINUM AWNINGS ETer-Tlte Framelesi Screens BAMBOO SHADES Wt 111 with, niftfo, pilot tnS M-iltl rtw ll Vtnctlta blladk ELMER, the Blind Man Call Anytime for Free Estimates Phone J-732S 1429 Rnre St. West Salem We Give SAB Green Stamps Ti.il i'fif 1 . irs to Payl - 3 Years force planes, whose close air sup port paralyzed the enemy and rooted him out of well dug-ln positions with strafing and bomb ing from only 100 feet in the air. There was no "pinpoint" stra tegic bombing from high alti tudes. It was all close-In, visual slugging that gave the Ameri cans a hellish weapon they util ized most effectively. The price was terribly high, measured in tons of shells and high explosives used against the Reds, but cheap in lives lost. For every communist artillery and mortar shell fired at them the Americans tossed back 20. Artillery batteries accumulated mountains of shells; and on hill sides which were objectives of the drive there is scarcely an acre not pockmarked by Ameri can shells. The older inter-service ri valry which many have been trying to eliminate had much to do with our first big win, When the battle started, the marines went in determined to show the army "how it should be done." And the army, battered and stung by five weeks of continuous de feat, had no intention of be ing shown up by the marines. The combined ferocity of the twin drives was just too much for the North Koreans, who fell back in disorder once their thin crust of resistance was broke. The communists have been credited with exceptional mili tary skill in Korea, but they showed an astounding lack of it in the budge. ' iu 55' Captured Rifles Ignoring a dead North Korean soldier Pvt. William Quick, Dayton, Ohio, carries an armload of captured North Korean small arms to a rear area on the Naktong river front. Photo by Ed Hoffman, NEA-Acme staff photographer. (Acme Telephoto) Save with Safety ISAltM FEDERAL Sttlxatate Street Salem n I Nobody knows how many billions most be spent to keep freedom alive at home and abroad. But one thing is certain: the expenditures for defense will be even greater if the enemy's Sixth Column inflation is not checked. Naturally we must have the money to provide our armed forces with all they need. And we must also have money for vital civilian needs. So now, more than ever before in the history of our country, protecting the buying power of the dollar is essential. To protect the value of the dollar, we must make sure that our Government isn't called upon to Keeping America Strong is SAVINGS LOAN Oregon Telephone 2-4139 in) II Capital Journal, Salem, Ore., Reports Sought On Pool Plan Strasbourg, France, Aug. 21 VP) The European consultative assembly's economic affairs com mittee asked today for a per manent link between the coun cil of Europe and the Schuman steel-coal pool plan. The committee voted unani mously, with one abstention, a resolution calling for regular re ports to the assembly on opera tions of any overall authority en visaged under the plan. The resolution also said that the members of a six nation common parliament, which would supervise the authority, should be picked from repre sentatives in the assembly here in Strasbourg. The Schuman plan calls for a common parliament of delegates from the French, Belgian, West German, Dutch, Italian and Lux embourg legislatures. 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