The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 28, 1950, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LXXVI, NO. 11,669 JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1950 Reds Swarmin STATEHOOD |No Pac DUE BEFORE | Of Death - U.S. SENATE On Bili Action on Alaska Bill Ex- Senate Southern Demo-| el Today - Faes. | cras it on Alska. KR 10 Alaska Heavy Ggin_g, Report | Siatehogd‘Measure Ne(ess ary Nw WASHINGTON, Nov, 20—(P—A ! Dozen Barges, Dollars Wort WASHINGTON, Nov. 28 — (# — | 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, Scuthern Democrats called a morning strategy meeting. Test of Sentimeni Senator Russell (D-Ga), who calleq the session, said all South- ern Senators were invited to the meeting for a 72st of sentiment and to chart a cowse 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 for this after- nooan on a motion to take up the Senate Southern Democrats found | their ranks split today and nbnn-! doned the idea of trying to talk to | death bills proposing statehood for Alaska and Hawaii | Senator Russell (D-Ga), who called a meeting 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 of bills resulted,” Russell said, con- gates heard last night that there isfp. 0 “toc ceding that the subject of filibus- a real possibility that a railroad tof),i04 ang the other two foundering |eries and Libby-McNeill and Libby tering had been mentioned at to- | day's meeting. | Russell said some of the Senators | had announced they will suppor the measures. He mentioned n |names and said the Senators would | inter Development Pacific NW?ade Assn. Endorses Alaska Tax Incentive Plan SEATTLE, Nov. 28—®—Pacific Northwest Trade Association Dele- Alaska might start from Edmon- ton, Alta., and by-pass the Pacific northwest. Thomas Braidwood, Vancouver, .C., businessman, said mid-west s appear much more inter- Millions of h of Material Lost in Bering Sea Storms By LACHLEN MacDONALD ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Nov. 28— (M—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 vi! MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS —_— ] BRUSH FIRES ARERAGINGIN ALASKA ARFAS (By the Associated Press) | The raging flames of two widely separated Alaska brush fires raced | through a small Matanuska valley | cormunity and threatens a fishing village on Kodiak Island. | Eoth fires still burned uncontrol- |led at last reports. A combination brush-forest blaze swept through Wasilia Flats in the 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 [at Anchorage, 50 miles away. the Siberian shore. On Kodiak Island, flames fanned | Nine barges leased by a Seattle by a strong wind advanced on a construction firm were ripped from |15-mile front toward the tiny vil- anchor at one project location and |lage of Ohkiok. The village of 200 | scattered along 500 miles of coasL;populuuon was less than two miles line. Four others were separated |from the flames. The million dollar two grounding in iso-!|canncries of Pacific American Fish- 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 in the high waves. ‘also lie in the path of the fire. Contractors have hired bush pllom{ A force of 100 men was flown in at from $40 to $80 gn hour to find | hastily from the Navy base at Ko- the grounded bargesand fly salvage | diak to man the fire lines. crews to the scene. | All of the losses apparently have PLANES MOVE FIGHTERS |have to identify: themselves. None ested in the development of the Canadian north and land along the question of statehcod for Alaska. Friends and foes have predicted it and the Hawaiian bill both wil idid immediately. Russell has been ! a leading opponent of statehood. In response to a question whether { Alaska highway than are Washing- tonians or British Columbia resi- occurred since Sept. 1, although mil- itary officials would not say so be- cause of security. Seventeenth U.S. Coast Guard headquarters here today reported that CG planes based at Kodiak had By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER WASHINGTON, Nov. 28 — ® — The United States decided today to charge Communist China with ag- gression in Korea. i Assistant Secretary of State John D. Hickerson so advised the Ameri- can delegation at the United Na- tions by telephone. Hickerson telephoned Ambassador MacARTHUR HOLDS BIG CONFERENCE TOYKO, Nov. 28— (# —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- pass or both be defeated. The some smaller group still might dents. In part the losses stem from the {moved 45 fire fighters and equip- military necessity of defying an' ment to Atilak Bay to combat|Ward M. Almond, commanding the House considered them one after launch a filibuster of its own, Rus- | Chicago and Minneapolis-St. Paul the other in an attempt to keep |sell said: B ‘intveres's are explori‘ng 'jrflde possi- the Bering Sea to navigation each! The USS Navy Deliver, a tug, is politics out of the picture. Alaskgi; “There’s always a likelihood of pflmes along the highway and an year on Oct. 15. That is the date on |at the scene assisting. is normally Democratic and Hawaii | that.” immense amount of American capi- Republican, | O’'Mahoney Fearful 1 While there is some Republican | opposition to the bills, Senator | O'Mahoney (D-Wyo) indicated he | age-old tradition which has closed |flames threatening Ahkiok. . { 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, | 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 which marine insurance ends on| —_— | |18 ARRIVE FROM FAIRBANKS; SIX | FROM SEATTLE| 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 10th Corps in northeast Korea. | The urgent conference began at 9:30 (7:30 am,, 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. is most fearful of an attempt by |pouisiana; Maybank, South Caro- | Edmonton. Southern Democrats to talk them | jing; Lyndon Johnson, Texas; | = to death. Since time is sh they | George, Georgia; and McKellar | B.C. Railroad Backed probably could do so if they tried. ' ennessee, | Extension of the Pacific Great The southerners reportedly a The first test of the statehood |mastern Railway mnorth afraid that Alaska and Hawail|pyis on the Senate floor was sched- | British Columbia to Alaska wWas would elect four Senators who would vote to choke off a filibuster against civil rights legislation. | tion to take up the Alaska bill. | {terday Mr. Truman urged “high- Johnson at the Association’s Gov- The decision to proceed with the 1 est priority” for the statehood |ernors’ night banquet. McKeen said he could pledge statehood bills was made at a White | bills, declaring their adoption would | > € e trike a blow at Communism” and | support” from British Columbia. House conference yesterday. Mr. 1 Truman also told his Capitol Hill| “speak far louder than words of Governor Langlie urggd_ delegates leaders he wants the short session | our devotion to our national | to take greater responsibility in local to extend the rent control law, pass | ideals.” 5 . and state government, an? de- a new tax bill, and vote more de-| Senator Butler (R-Neb) ranking |clared that development of “sound fense funds and relief money for | Republican member of the Senate | fiscal poll R f]nteriu: Committee headed by O’- |are “to preserve free governments.”| the Grade School gymnasium at Governor McKay of Oregon urged | 7:30 p.m. last evening and held drouth-stricken Yugoslavia. There was no assurance Con- | gress would do sc. GOP Senate | leader Wherry of saw no need to act on anything| except defense funds and taxes. Ti‘ne{ present Congress expires Jan, 3,| when the new one convenes, Congress did no business yester- day, and the House adjourned un- Mahoney, said both bills will and | should be defeated becau statehood.” | O’Mahoney Views | is essential if we se “Alaska |a joint effort throughout the north-1a one and one-half hour session Nebraska said he | and Hawaii are not ready for|west to merchandise products and|of spirited Cub Scout activity. The | tourist attractions. Faulkner Presents Tax Proposal A proposal that the federal gov-|of uniforms and roll call the deactivated airbase at Nome. Others were heading north with vital construction materials for new installations being built along through | the coast line. 3 A raging storm on Nov. 10, with | uled for this afternoon on a mo- |termed a “war necessity” in a talk gusts up to 85 miles an hour, caught {by B.C. Senator Stanley McKeen,{many of these vessels | {who represented Premier Byron I.{moorings and others at sea. at their -u]42 (UB BOY SCOUTS GIVEN ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS AT MEETING | Thirty-three passengers were car- Iried 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, R8y 8. rling, Fred and Ione Becker, Her- | man Elkstrom, Ivan, Iris and Kay Frederickson, Andrew Nylund, Pat- | rick Murray, Isaac Juneby, Adam Cub Scout Pack No. 311 met in | |John, Martin Westwong, Harriet| has heen in Anchorage and spent Cooper, Edwin Kjere and T. S.|(he last week in Juneau. | Bachelder. (o L program consisted of an 1mprP.\-im”x:’ f:;‘gz; g'r uf;'::s""' Burke | 75 HOMES MAY BE sive opening ceremony, inspection y o 8. BUILT SALMON CREEK all HILDRES, 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 thrée years. They expect to be outside several weeks. Bob O'Mahoney, marshalling friends | grpment grant a federal income({cubs. The theme of the month of {of the bills, said the granting cf|iay reduction to all corporations]November was physical development | statehood would be a blow to Com- | estaplishing new industries in]and all boys participated vigorously (HALLENE PRICE IS | pocera . i SPEAKER, BPWC MEET Director of the Administration left on the Baranof for Alaska, til Thursday. A number of commit- | MURist accusations that the United | pjaska until their capital invest-{in tumbling, rail walking, and other tees were setting to work, however. | States is a colonial power. In his letter to the Senate yes- The Washington e Merry - Go - Round masomic runeraL o v 31w, ous | £ € ENGSTROM rsmmoron— suna won | HERE TOMORROW cloakrooms, the current session of | Funeral services for Carl Eng- Congress may approach the post-|strom who died at Tenakee Springs World War I days of Woodorw Wil- | Noy. 14, will be held in the Carter son when it comes to dissension|cChapel tomorrow at 2 p.m. Services over forelgn policy. {will be conducted by the Masons It will be recalled that in the|and Ernest Ehler will sing. November, 1918, elections, Wilson | lost contrel of his House of Repre- sentatives and from that time on | hood bills is the most important ! move Congress can take at this | tion,” “he told reporters. ASHINGTON — Judging from | plot of Evergreen Cemetery. Pall- | bearers will be members of:the local opposition to his foreign policies | Masonic lodge here. Engstrom be- increased, resulting finally in the longed to the lodge at Cordova. He defeat of the League of Nations paq resided at Tenakee since 1941, and the Versailles Treaty. Many first coming to Alaska in 1908 and leaders of both parties felt thatl|jjying in Nome, Anchorage and this injection of politics into forelzh | gordova. He has no known living policy paralyzed the nation and | cjatives. on ool i iy | cror OUOTATIONS On Capitol Hill today leaders | | NEW YORK, Nov. 28 — Closing point to certain similarities be- | tween what happened then and | quotation of Alaska Juneau mine 4, American Can what may happen today. stock today is 2% In November, 1918 for instance, 5 97, American Tel. and Tel. 150%, the United States was winning in Europe. The Armistice was signed | sp,conda 37, Douglas Aircraft 82 Interment will be in the Masonic | on Nov. 11, just a few days after | General Electric 487, General Mo- | ment has been returned was en- “Favorable action on the state- | 4orseq by the industrial section of } features of the meeting was the | the association. | The measure was | time in light of the foreign s"’““']‘the form of a resolution by H. L.|achievement presented to the var- | Faulkner, Juneau Chamber of Com- | merce. The Juneau chamber has | aiready 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 / | { i | shorter period. The Alaska Railroad’s $76,000,000 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 Jane, he added. The Association adopted a resolu- | tion urging sufficient federal funds [for Alaska’s civilian and military ; developments. 5 Memorial to John Phillip Herber, lone of the Association’s founders, introduced in|ment. There were 42 awards for Miss Hallene Price the newly ap-| contests. One of the outstanding| The speaker at the BPW club| presentation of awards for achieve- |luicheon meeting Monday noon was | pointed Home Demonstration Agent, ious cubs. |who conducted an informal discu: Pack 311 is sponsored by the Ju- :sion on the growth of the Extensi on | neau Rotary Club and consists of | Service since its beginning in 1835. five dens with a total membership Miss Price is a member of the! of 37 boys. |staff of the University of Alaska. | She will cover the area from Skag- | wi Sitk: 3 c STEAMER MOVEMENTS Vi inctude about 20 sroupe. he| | has headquarters in the office of | i Baranof scheduled to sail from !¢ American Red Cross in the| Seattle Friday afternoon. Shattuck Building at the present | 4(or 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 cponsors 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- Princess Louise scheduled to sail | VM€ from Vancouver Saturday night Mfis Price came to Juneau from | Denali from westward scheduled N¢0SHO, Missourl. | to arrive southbou day. | i nd on Sunday | SOLTH Hoh Gk iBvmias [ Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Kieley left| templating the building of 75 homes on a property adjacent to Salmunl Creek, near Juneau,” Staples said. FIRST AID CLASS STA.RTS TONIGHT AT HIGH SCHOOL tors 46%, Goodyear 59, Kennecott | Who Was killed NOXW‘::;"EWLQSSS 69, Libby McNeill and Libby 8%, |Manila, and Capt. u_shc el Northern Pacific 27%, Standard | FoP, Alaska pxoneer,‘dw e s victory in Korea. Yet Truman, o o california 32, Twentieth Cen- | Mining railroad accident, were ¢ though keeping a scant margin in tury Fox 21';, U.S. Steel 387%, Pound iadopted, Congress, for all practical purposes | 2867, Canadian Exchange 9612 bat. workahle ponenl b fhe Beg: Sales today were 2,970,000 shares. £ Averages today are as follows: in- And the main issue COntributing | g griq)s 22861, rails 67.67, utilities the election, but Wilson lost any- way. In November, 1950, the United States was likewise on the eve of UNION OIL MAN HERE | | W. H. Schwind, Union Oil man | Hotel. from Seattle, is at the Gastineau e ® © o o o o o o o o on the Baranof for Seattle enroute | . ® to their old home in Sunnyville,| A standard first aid class will be- ° WEATHER REPORT ¢ Calif, where they will visit and|gin this evening in the sewing ® Temperatures for 24-Hour Perioc @ |spend the Christmas holidays. They} rocm of the Juneau High School i ® ending 6:20 o'clock this morninz @ expect to return to Juneau shortly | This class is open to anyone over . In Juneau—Maximum, 22; ¢ after the first of the year. |18 years of age. It is offered espec- ® minimum, 20, e Kieley is a bridge engineer »\xthhally to Civilian Defense first aiders . At Airport—Maximum, 23; ® the Bureau of Public Roads. | and to persons interested in skiing. e minimum, 10, . i | The course will be taught Tuesday . . RGSTROMS HERE and Thursday evenings from 7:30 to . FORECAST e Mr. and Mrs. Carl Bergstrom ar- | 9:30, . (Juneau and Vieinity) e rived on the Derali after a trip to| e ® Cloudy with intermittent ® the states, 2 NAT. GUARD PROMOTIONS | light snow tonight and Wed- © | Recent advancements of enlist- e nesday. Low temperature to- © ARCHIE FLIES THROUGH led men in Headquarters, Head- ® night near 20 and high Wed- * Archie Ferguson, well known pilot | quarters and Service Co. 208th ® nesday near 26, e and trader from Kotzebue uemisattallon (Sep) of the Alaska Na- . o through Juneau yesterday enroute|tional Guard are as follows: Sgt. . : RECIPITATION ¢ o Seattle from Fairbanks, | Robert M. Potter to Sgt. First Class, | ® (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a.m. todsy @ | Pvt. ‘Carlisle D. Casperson to Sgt., ® City of. Juneau — None: RIVERS ARRIVE | Pvt. Lee W. Nancé to Pfc., Pvt. ® since Nov.’l — 421 inches; ® Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Rivers of | Charles B. Smith to Pfc. and Pvt. '- since July 1—33824 inches ¢ Fairbanks arrived yesterday from | Ralph Treffe Jr, to Pfc. i’ At Airport — None; ¢ Fairbanks via PAA, Rivers is a —_ ® since Nov. 1 — 207 inches; © member of the Employment Se- FROM ANCHORAGE since July 1—23.12 inches. ¢ curity Commission in session here, David V. Barry of Anchorage is | ® ® % 0 0000 0 0 this week. | rezistered. at the Baranof Ilutel.g | i Warren R. Austin shortly before today's UN. 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: (1) Call on the Chinese Re 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 7 ) immediate action on the draft reso- | lution before McDermott said. In response to a question, he said “We are prepared to charge them with aggression.” Chinese Communists have been in Northern Korea more than a month. Security Council,” 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—P— The United States today charged | the Chinese Communists with open | and notorious ‘aggression in Korea. It declared the consequences were{ 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. Austin Questions Wu Austin shot a series of blunt questions at Wu. He asked: “Does the Peiping representative still maintain that the 200,000 troops in Korea are entirely volunteers? “Will the representative tell the | Security Council how long the Pei- ping refime 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 veio 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 US. speech for more than an hour while a cgpacity crowd list- ened tensely. Malik Tries Firsi 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 Formosa. The Council voted 8 to 1 against the Soviet| move. India and Yugoslavia ab- stained. The Soviet Delegate then declared the Council was too hostile to Red 1 China and would not be capable of a fair discussion of the Chinese g Against UN Armies in Korea Charge of Aggression in Korea fo Be Made Agains! wAR” NoW Commie Regime in China )G THREAT ENTIRE NEW \Blunt Trulhmfievealed as UN Forces Reported Refreating 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 ‘nonhwest 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 land 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. 1 “Entire New War” | MacArthur described the situa- tion as “an entire new war.” In an extraordinary communique he ack- nowlpdged he is powerless to cope with- the - undeclared Chinese bef- ligerents, The Allied line was broken 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. AP. Corresgondent 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 added: “Heavy reinforcements now con- centrated” across the border in | Manchuria are “constantly moving forward.” 500,000 Reds Massed 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 announced.” 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 US. | i 2 | it it | A SHOPPING DAYS Communist charges, 2 TILL CHRISTMAS