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Evening star., 1950-10-10
preached the Naktong River. F

pfoacneQ the Naktong River. He
couldn't get through.
It was then he met the young
South Korean. On his advice 1t
Hicks hid out in the hills, The
Korean brought him rice every
few days and kept him posted on
war developments by drawing
maps on the ground. Twice he
found the lieutenant fresh hiding
places when searching Red patrols
probed near.
1t. Hicks donned white robe
and a peasant straw hat. He
marched for several miles with his
friend past retreating enemy
Stragglers. Then he met some
South Korean police who took him
to an American command post.
A United States intelligence
major took down his story and
then said:
Gee. you're lucky-we're going
to have a swell meal tonight"
What is it?" asked 1t. Hicks,
hungrily munching some canned
rations.
Rice" said the major. Its
the first we've had in a long time. -
Evening star., 1950-10-10
New Mine Field Is Found
Off North Korean Coast

The Navy announced today that
a helicopter had discovered a
field of 81 mines off the east coast
of North Korea, south of Wonsan
1t was the second such report
of extensive mine fields off the
east coast. Saturday the Navy
reported field of Is moored mines
in that area
The latest field contains both
moored and floating mines. The
Hague convention prohibits float
ing mines.
A spokesman said the latest
field contained some "old- fash
ioned types, possibly of World War
I vintage"
Evening star., 1950-10-10

drove into Red Korea on a north
west tangent.
/ The other wheeled to the vicin-
ity of Panbu, Is miles northeast
of KaeSong. Panbu lies just north
of Parallel 38.
Small Gains Scored.
| Gen MacArthur's war summary
today said small gains were made
against stubborn enemy resist
ance supported by small arms
mortar and artillery fire"
| British and Australian troops
were committed to the advancing
Allied force in this sector, but a
spokesman said he could not say
whether they were inside Red
Korea yet.
In the center of the peninsula,
Gen. MacArthur's headquarters
said, the Reds had their largest
known force-at least 10000 men
spotted along a 30-odd- mile
front between Hwachon and
Yonchon.
This is the area where the ROK
9th and 9th Divisions are stabbing
into Red Korea.
Stubborn clashes were reported
around Yonchon, on the western
side of this salient, and north
and northwest of Hwachon at the
eastern end. South Koreans
seized HWachon, miles north
of the border, several days ago.
( The Reds in these two areas
were reported fighting as two or
ganized divisions.
1 22,856 Taken in 4 Days.
Gen. MacArthur's headquarters
said in four days ending last
Saturday, 22,856 Communist
troops were captured and 1,759
were killed or wounded.
| Headquarters gave this sum-
mary of Red Korean troop casual
ties for the war from June Is
to October Z:
| Killed or wounded by ground
! action or died from wounds or
disease-157,0 900.
! Killed or wounded by air ac-
tion-13,000.
Prisoners-5o,O0O (plus another
! 1000 reported taken since Oc-
itober y tl,2@a
Fifth Air Force fighter-bombers
today destroyed five and damaged
three tanks. They caught the
Red armor in sorties ranging from
fthe Cllorwen area north of Seoul
to WonsaIl. ssrss.ss. =
E WarplaneS struck in support oi
/ ground troops near Kaesong and
/ at Wonsan. gB-29s bonn be
bridges and rail lines in far North
Korea.
| The Communist radio at Pyen-
! gyang said Red forces inflicted
fheavy losses on American troops
in the Kaesong area just south OF
38. It's broadcast of the RED
Army's Monday evening com
munique, heard in Tokyo, also
said the Communists counter-at-
tackled and inflicted heavy losses
ION Allied forces attacking north
OF the border along the east coast
/ 1t claimed seven Allied planes
were shot down-one near Pyon-
gyang Sunday and six one week
ago in the Wonsan area.
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Korea
Continued From First Page.

routing the bulk of the Red Ko-
rean defenders in bitter day anc
night street fighting.
Many Reds fled north anc
northwest of Wonsan. Uncountec
hundreds surrendered. Prisoners
said other holdout groups wanted
to give up but hadn't found the
opportunity.
The Reds made their first ma
jor stand yesterday on ridges
south of Wonsan. Allied planes
Istrafed and rocketed ridgeline
posts and the ROKs stormed ovel
the airfield just south of Wonsar
at 4 am. today g pm. EST yes
Iterday).
They entered the city at II
am. The Reds resisted bitterly
ibut Associated Press Correspond
Ient William Jorden, with the
South Koreans. said the defense
was not as strong as had beer
expected.
+ From Wonsan the South Ko;
treans are in position to swing 9.
miles straight west across thu
marrow waist of the peninsula tt
Pyongyang.
Yanks Fight for Every Yard.
United States 1st Cavalry troop.
who clawed across the border OF
a 25-mile front near Kaeson,
were more than 80 airline mile.
from the Red capital.
Organized Red Korean troop.
blocking the armored cavalry drive
on the main road from Seou
toward Pyongyang and the Soutf
Korean thrusts in the center Of
the peninsula were showing NJ
signs of giving up.
Associated Press Correspondent
Left Erickson reported from West.
ern Korea that Reds holed up il
their preWar defense" chair
forced American foot troopers tx
fight for every yard.
The Reds held mountain posi-.
tions f1anking the main highway
Defenses extended IS miles il
depth. an air observer reported.
Foot troopers. with Allied plane.
raining steel and fire bombs or
the Reds. slugged ahead 212 mile.
into Red Kerea along the mair
highway, to the vicinity of Sim.
chon.
| Two other columns speared our
to the left and right of thi,
| force.
One crossed the Yesong River
10 miles west of Kaesong, smashed
three Red counterattacks ant
Evening star., 1950-10-10
Hurricane Due to Hit
Mexicon Coast Today
By the As.oeieted Press

NEW ORLEANS, Oct. TO-
Winds up to hurricane strength
were expected to lash the Mex
lean coast from Nautla north to
Tampico this afternoon or to-
night as hurricane swirled west
ward across gulf waters.
The New Orleans Weather Bu-
reau in an advisory issued at 4.3O
am. today said the disturbance
at that time was about ITO miles
east southeast of Tuxpan, Mex
leo, and was moving westward
about 5 miles per hour.
Evening star., 1950-10-10
BY the Associcied Press

ATHENS, Greece, Oct. TO-
Athens newspapers today pre-
dicted possible new troubles over
a small island in the Eyros River
dividing Bulgaria and Greece.
Greek and Bulgarian troops
claShed there briefly three weeks
Evening star., 1950-10-10
Greece Expects Trouble With BuIgors Over Isle

ago after the Greeks claimed the
Bulgars tried to build dam on
Greek soil to change the course
of the boundary river.
Press reports said another clash
was likely if the Bulgarians con-
tinued their provocative" atti-
tude.
Evening star., 1950-10-10
Peasants Supply Rice.

That revived him. He got a
meal of rice from a peasant hut,
then walked for two nights across
the mountains. But enemy troops
grew more numerous as he ap-
Evening star., 1950-10-10

Lets be sensible. There is no
shortage of food in the United
States. The President has stated
there is no immediate prospect of
rationing. So let's be sensible.
Don't hoard.
Evening star., 1950-10-10
Budget
Continued From First Page.)

serves" already listed there are
these:
General Services Administra-
ton, $2l.5 million; Housing and
Home Finance Agency, $15,75O,-
600; Commerce Department, $21,-
245, 900; Defense Department, no
cuts in the military functions. In
addition to the $50 million cut in
the civil functions of the En-
gineer Corps, 81 million was cut
from the Panama Canal appro-
priation.
Interior Departmental addi-
ton to the $56,950,000 cut for rec
lamation and power marketing
agencies, there was a $16,062, 900
cut designated as other; Justice
Department, $1.6 million; Labor
Department. $7,622,000; State De-
partment, $7,98O,O00; Treasury,
$2,0O0,500 Independent Offices, in
cluding executive Office of the
President. $40.164,8oO. .+
No cuts were made in the Post
Office appropriations or in the
funds for the foreign military aid
program.
In the executive office, the
Budget Bureau was cut $4,000.
A $40 million cut was made in
salaries and expenses for the
Veterans Administration while
grants to the Philippines for
medical care of veterans were cut
by $2,635, 900.
Fewer VA Patients.
Mr.. Lawton said the $40 million
VA savings results from fewer
patients than had been anticipated
In connection with the Engi-
neers Corps cut. Mr.. Lawton said,
Power projects will proceed at
a rate designed to bring in addi-
tional electrical generation in
accordance with schedules con-
templated in theel9 budget. No
going contracts are to be stopped.
No new starts will be made in the
1851 fiscal year except those certi-
fed by the President as necessary
to the defense program.
Despite the cut in funds for
rural electrification loans. more
than $500 million is available for
the 1851 program. For rural tele-
phone loans $35 million still is
available, permitting a substan-
tial increase over the 1850 oper-
Iations. In the farm housing pro-
gram S47.5 million is left after
the cut of $24.5 million.
OF the $40 million cut for
"other" purposes in the Agricul-
ture Department appropriation,
$26 million is in the conservation
and use appropriation. This will
not require reduction in pay
ments to farmers for the 1850
crop year." Mr.. Lawton said.
For Independent Agencies.
Appropriation cuts for indie
pendent agencies, aside from those
for the Veterans Administration
and Budget Bureau, are:
American Battle Monuments
Commission, SO million; Civil
Service Commission, $500, 900:
Displaced Persons Commission,
5000, 900; Federal Communications
Commission, $4,000; Federal
Power Commission, $1o0, 900; Fed
eral Trade Commission, 100000;
Indian Claims Commission, 81 900;
Interstate Commerce Commission,
100000; National Capital Parks
and Planning Commission, $125,-
900; National Gallery of Art,
S25, 900: National Labor Relations
Board, $4,000; National Media
tion Board, $4,000; Railroad Re-
tirement Board, $19,827,8 800; Sc
curities and Exchange Commits
sion, $1D,o0O; Smithsonian Insti-
tuition, $100,000; Tariff Commits
sion, $4,000; Tax Court, $1,000,
and Tennessee Valley Authority,
SO million.
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slipping than about the danger of getting over The mental attitude usually is Let the cars wait on me"
 That attitude is more than little foolish Pedes- trians who don't drive aren't fully of the fact that rain, sleet fog and snow make it more difficult or in impossible, for drivers to them in time to stop. The visibility from within car is lowered tremendously when it's raining or atmospheric conditions have caused the windows to steam up.
 The safest thing for any pedestrian to do-es- pecially in time of bad weather-is to assume at all times that the driver of oncomng car doesn't see him or her Because, very often, that will be the actual case.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-03-02
The Washington MerrY-Go-Round
Continued from Page One)

I am t0yn between two difficult alternatives:
 1.-Telling the people the truth about the pessimistic world pic- ture and increasing their worry;
 Or 2-Painting a more optimistic picture even if it is not entirely accurate.
 Not that the American people are the ones to duck the truth: Nor to duck worry. In my opinion, they are better prepared to take the viccissitudes of life than any other people in the world. But they like to know.
 They don't like to be kept in the dark They don't like to get the im- pression that those at the helm in Washington are confused or vac cilating. They are not anxious for sacrifices, but they will be will ing to make them-provided they are necessary and provided they can see the goals ahead
 That is why I took the liberty of writing to Dean Acheson the other day. urging that new and more concrete policy be charted, and then explained fully to the American people.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-03-02
T H E SE D A Y s
GEORGE k. SOKOLSKY
THE CLUSTERS

The Sander case in New Hamp- shire not only arouses discussion over the question of mercy killing but also as to the general atti- tude toward the elders. The tradi- tions of civilization are that the elders are to be respected. Honor thy father and thy mother: That thy days may be long," extends itself to all old folks.
 But it was not always thus. Among some primitive peoples, the elders were regarded as a burden on the tribe and they were killed Also, in time of war, they could not be moved readily, or if at tempts were made to carry them from one encampment to another, it slowed up operations. Therefore, they were killed and the excuse was that if they fell into the hands of the enemy, they would suffer a lingering death. Their relatives preferred a quick death for them
 Also, in the time of famine, the savages used to kill the old, so that there would be more food for the young. The old were generally re- garded as useless, they having lived beyond their productive and defen- sive powers. A student of the problem, Peter Kolben, writing in 1731, says this;
 If you represent to the Hotten- tots, as I have done very often the inhumanity of this custom they are astonished at the repre- sentation, as proceeding, in theil opinion, from an inhumanity of your own. The custom, in theil
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Decision Not Easy

Now, I am not proposing to tell you what that course should be. I don't know what it should be. And I doubt if you or Dean at the present time know. It is the most difficult question the Cabinet and the country faces-whether to hold conference with Russia which undoubtedly would be a failure; whether to force an early showdown which might lead to war; whether to continue an ex- pensive battle of economics and nerves on a far-flung front ex- tending from Japan to Norway and from Indonesia to North Africa
 Those are problems which are very easy to discuss in editorial columns or in smoking-car com Eartments where no decisions have to be made. But when the discus sion takes place on the level of the Secretary of State and the Sc. cretary of Defense, where mems lives may be at stake. then my sympathies are with you. l am glad I am not in your shoes. Fur thermore, when these matters are discussed with reasonable frank ness and openness, it helps to ed ucate and inform the country. And that, in my opinion, is the most important thing the Adminstra- tion has neglected today.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-03-02
SOUND ADVICE

Hardly day passes but that Associated Press dispatches report sex crimes. The American Legion in the States is playing vigorous role in the cam- paign against sex crimes Parents aid in this campaign and the Ohio Department of the American Legion recently recommended set of rules for par ents including the following which should be earnestly read:
 Know your child's whereabouts and associates.
 Enforce your curfews
 Report suspicious actions to your Police Depart ment promptly and frankly.
 Train your child to go straight home from school
 Train your child not to accept automobile rides or favors from strangers
 No comment is necessary on these rules other than the statement that they suggestions that every mother and father will do well to follow
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Sincere Cropping

But even though those confer ences failed, they had two all-im- portant effects which made them worth while:
 They convinced the rest of the world of our sincerity in grop- ing, pushing, working for peace. They gave us new prestige in the moral leadership of the world. 2-They inspired the American people and kept our moral fibre from begging down.
 And once the American people lose their moral leadership; once we lose our ability to differen- tiate between right and wrong, then the cold war might as well be | called quits. For in my opinion, ! the example of fair play which we give the world is worth more than all the Marshall Plan money that Congress will ever appropriate. l That is why I think most peo- pie applaud your sincerity in try i ing to prune the deadwood from our military budget at a time when pruning is not fashionable.
 That is also why I think we are fortunate in having under you to- day the highest type military men nave ever seen serving the Army, Navy and Air Forces. As you know have been a vigorous critic of he brass hats in the past. But I am covinced that your top mili- lary men are imbued with higher
 deals and greater devotion to de- mocracy than at any time during my news career in Washington Furthermore, I am sure they would be the first to welcome some way of telling the American people
 just what lies ahead-what wea- pons must be discarded, what wea- | pons we should rely on in the fu- ture, what steps we must take | toward diversifying industry against atom raids; How far we can go III penetrating the Iron Curtain to reach the Russian people; anc whether we face a long 50-year wal of nerves or an early showdown of force oyer the vital question of whether the majority or brutal ity shall rule the world.
 These are some of the things ] the American people want to know and have a right to know. I an certain you are among those wh' would like to help tell them. Sincerely,
 Drew Pearson
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-03-02
ELECTORAL VOTE
 CHANCE DOOMED
 PRESENT SESSION
(By Associated Press)

A proposed constitutional amend ment that would change the meth cd of counting electoral votes in a Presidential election appears to oe dead in this session of Congress.
 The Senate already has passed the bill, but four northern Demo- crats say they will try to keep the bill in the House Rules Con- mittee. Even after passage by both Houses-by a two-thirds vote-the proposed constitutional hang e would have to be ratified by 36 states.
 The proposed change would split up a states electoral votes among the candidates in proportion to their popular votes-instead of al lowing the winner in each state to take alias provided now.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-03-02
"Tax Fatigue"
Cincinnati Enquirer)

Cincinnati Enquirer)
 The Clarksvlle Tribune. published in the Indiana town between the Ohio River and the Great Lakes, town which brides itself being the oldest American commented rather pognanty the other day on the sheer fatigue of the local State and Federal tax bur- dens on the citizenry It enumerated the long list of taxes and deductions other weights upon the productive power of the individual or business Then it made the plaint that too many folk on the public pay roll busy doing nothing
 The newspaper in position to cite an inn mediate example. It seems a government employee, in a government car had driven all the way from Chicago to Clarksville to find out how many new houses had been built there in the last two years. The mission took two days and 600 miles of mileage to obtain information which a three-cent letter could have obtained from the Town Clerk.
 Nor was that the end of it. week later two women employees of the government, driving another government car, arrived in Clarksville seeking the same information. When advised the data already had been obtained by Federal man, they said. "Oh, yes we know about him-but HE from the Gen. srs Bureau and WE are with the Department of Labor
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-03-02
Proved Right Before

I have noted with some amuse- ment the pinpricks of my columnist colleagues. the Alsop Brothers, at your efforts to scale down our huge military budget. And I also re- member those who banned you when you insisted on prepared ness in 1941. Pearl Harbor proved you were right then. and l am hoping that events will prove you right now Certainly the nation admired your courageous fight fol civilian rule in the Navy.
 But all this admirable effort or your part may blow up in smoke
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-03-02
MODERN ETIQUETTE Sy5RERrA Sy LEE

O. permissible person ton?
 course if politely present ar opopsng further conversation But the subject find that the other person is becoming ncensed
 all right the bridge table to hand to his inspection before beginning play?
 nl-breedng. only the the possible gloang good cards
 O. right a bideto-be combine on wedding gift for her?
 especially by doing send gift
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-03-02

if we are immersed in another cut throat arms race with a nation which has no regard for human life and is relentless in it's use of slave labor.
 That does not mean we should hold limitation of atomic-bomb conferences with Russia, merely for the sake of pacifying public I opinion. As a young newspaperman, I attended most of the early arms conference.-the Washington Ma val Conference of 1921 presided over by Charles Evans Hughes; the Coolidge Naval Conference m Geneva in 1927 the Kellogg Pact Conference; and the London Naval Conference of 1880.
 Most of them ended in partial or complete failure. And the Kell ogg Pact to outlaw war, which re- presented mans most cherished dream, dreamt ahead of it's time, later was torn to shreds.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-03-02
Daily Lessons in English v. v L. GORDON

WORDS OFTEN MISUSED say, WAS there" MAN singular
 OFTEN MSPRONOUNCED: preferred first syllable is as LEE
 MISSPELLED Description; DES Discretion DIS.
 Incredible inconceivabe unbelievable
 a times and yours" vocabulary "The incident seemed reftation of the charge she calculating Churchill
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-03-02

way of thinking, is supported by
 very pious and very filial consid- erations. Is it not cruelty they
 ask you, to suffer either man or
 woman to languish any considerable time under a heavy, motionless old
 age? Can you see a parent or a
 relative shaking and freezing un-
 der a cold dreary heavy, useless
 old age, and not think, in pity to
 them, of putting an end to their
 misery by putting, which is the only means, an end to their days?' Civilization is marked by an in
 creasing regard for human life. In this country, perhaps more than anywhere or ever, an improved standard of living has been de- voted to the prolongation of lite
 and to the reduction of the haz-
 ards of old age.
 An extraordinarily large number of men and women, in their sev-
 enties and even eighties, in sour society live useful and active lives, often achieving, out of experience, more than youth can out of it's enthusiasms.
 Yet, among savages, age was not regarded with respect but rather as nuisance And what they called
 old age was what we, in our way,
 would call middle age. Fifty was
 once a very ripe old age, approach ing senility. It is said in Melan- esia, it was regarded as a disgrace if an aged chief were not buried alive.
 The recognition of the right to life, for young and old, for the
 weak as for the strong, is a com
 paratively new concept. Considere
 how we treat our parents with the
 attitude of a Fiji Islander of the
 old days who, when he killed his
 father, did it with great ceremony. quote a description:
 "The son will kiss and weep
 over his aged father as he prepares
 him for the grave, and will ex-
 change loving farewells with him
 as he heaps the earth lightly over him."
 The kissing and weeping marks an advance, for among some saw ages, the custom existed to eat the aged as an act of kindness. Those who speak of mercy gill; ing" and of relieving the aged of their maladies by leaving bottles of pills" on the night table with the warning that one may help, but an entire bottle taken at once will Kill quickly, should remember that they are not novel in their attitude.
 It was an old custom among primitive peoples to kill the sick. Dr. Nansen wrote of the primitive Greenlanders that their moral code
 was ito hasten the death of those
 who are sick and in great suffer- ing, or of those in delirium, of which they have a great horror" The answer of civilization is, of course, thou shalt not kill" It is a direct, swift, sure answer, ana it leaves nothing to private judg- ment. The aged, the physically weak and infirm, can still possess mind ] and spirit and experience. There are no useless" human beings.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-03-02
LOOK and LEARN A. sy c. GORDON

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 ANSWERS
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