Lincoln Journal Star from Lincoln, Nebraska • Page 1

FOUNDED IN 1881 Onmln Jiturtial LINCOLN 1, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1950 FIVE A-Bomb Use Considered ST a TI MliJS Chinese Shift Offensive to Two Divisions Of U.S. Troops Are Cut Off Lull On Northwest Front Continues Unexploined TOKYO. Communist C'hina auddpnly shifted its offensive to northeast Korea Thursday and cut off the entire U.S. First marine division and part of an army division in a furious new two-way assault. The Chinese reds sliced across supply roads behind the marines and two iTKirnents of the U.

S. Sev- Steelworkers Get 16 e-Hoiir Increase PITTSBURGH The CIO United Steelworkers Thursday nccepted an averuKC hour wage i( ase for 000 employes of United States Steel Corp. At the same time. U. S.

Steel announied that steel prices will be increased about percent due to higher labor costs. The wage increase, effective Friday, is expected to set a pattern for the entire steel industry employing about a million U.S W. members. THE WAGE OFFER will boost steelworkers average earnings to $1.88 an hour. U.

S. Steel announced the price increases outside the hotel room door where the big wage policy committee approved the pay boost in a three-hour meeting. A COMP.ANY spokc.smnn gave reporters a statement by U.S. Steel President Benjamin F. iPairless w'hich said: increase of about 11 pcr- jjcnf in the employment costs of United States steel will approximate $125,000,000 per year.

on current tonnages, this is equivalent on a per ton basis to approximately percent of the present average price of a ton of steel." Fairlc.ss the increased steel do not apply to tin mill take effect Friday. -10 Kearney Girl Dies In Car Mishap The state patrol reported the death of Phyllis Wise. Kearney when the car in which f.he was riding sideswiped a tree at west edge of Kcarnrv on S. 30 about midnight Wednesday. The patrol identified the driver of the car as Wayne Graham.

20, Kearney. Miss Wise was the 23rd traffic fatality of the month and the 275th for the year in Nebraska. A year ago the figure was 31 for November and 233 for the year. Claims Founder Of Beech Aircraft Co. WICHITA, Kas.

Walter Beech. 59. founder and president of the Beech Aircraft corporation. died Wednesday night. He had been active in aviation for more than 30 years.

enth division and at the same time launched a heavy frontal attai'k against the northernmost leatheinci ks on the west side of the Chosin reservoir. The Chinese were believed part of a new Chinese army gmup perhaps 100,000 strong in northeast Korea. The Chinese army in the northwest suddenly broke off its bloody all-out offensive after afiparently encircling the Second division and hurling the rest of the allies back toward a new western defense line half-way between the Chong- chori river and Pyongyang, THE BIXK of the 100.000 Eighth army troops already were believed to have reached the new defense line some 20 to 30 miles above Pyongyang, former capital of communist North Korea. An Eighth army sixikcsman Thursdav night that the western front remained all day, with most United Nations units out of contact with the enemy. Only an allied attack against a road block south of possibly an attempt to relieve the Second divi.sion—and a few minor skirmishes were reported.

BUT ALLIED bombers and fighters swept over the communist lines in a never-ending stream to bomb, strafe and rocket the enemy. More than 580 Chinese were reported killed in raids. The aerial armada hit again and again at Chinese reinforcements moving down from the Manchurian frontier. B-29 perfortresses dumped 64 two-ton bombs on bridges across the Yalu river border at Chongsonjin. Other planes bombed Yalu bridges at Manpojin and Chi-an.

An ominous lull settled over the ridges and valleys in the northwest. No one in authority even pretended to know' the reason for the slackening of the communist drive. AERIAL reconnai.ssance reports of Chinese reinforcements swarming south from Manchuria indicated the reds may merely be regrouping for new- attacks. On the ea.st-ccnti al front, other Chinese forces swept around the allied flank and cut off the U.S. First marine division and two regiments of the U.S.

Seventh division around i Chosin reservoir in a heavy attack from the south. The marines and army troops were believed in no immediate danger, however. They were being supplied by air and helicopters were flying out their wounded. It was believed- they could tight their way out without too much difficulty if they I chose. Marine officers were op- I timistic.

Northeast Truman Warns U.S. Fighting in Korea Red China Korea Own Security, Survival Officiala on HamHungC A YANKS TRAPPEU IN RESERVOIR Allied force.s (1) ill Korea have withdrawn to defensive positions (jagged line) south of Cfioiigchon river as Hed Chinese assaults have all but stopped in that sector. In the Changjm reservoir sector (2) rtd drives cut off U.S. marines on the northwest side from those on the south. The Chinese have set up road blocks between Koto and Hamhung (underlined), a mam U.S.

supply icnter. Wirephoto Thursday.) U.S. to Take Red China's Aggression to U.N. Noor T. F.

TSIANG, poker-faced Chinese nationali.st delegate to the United Nations, bitterly rlc- nouncerl charges that the United States was guilty ol aggression Korea. Russia Certoin to Veto Got out of Korea Order LAKE SUCCESS, N. Y. (UP). The United States will take the is.sue of communist aggression to the floor of the United Nations general assembly Friday, an authoritative source indicatc(i Thursday.

Russia vvas certain to veto a security council re.solution ordering rt-d troops out of Korea when Illness lakes Dick Hutton, Athlete Dick HuUon. former University of Nebraska football and track athlete, died late Thui.s- day morning after an extemlod illness. His home formerly was in A Tlie Weather Lincoln and vicinity: Cloudy tonight and Friday; low temperature 29 tonight. Slightly warmer with high near 44 Friday. Light to moderate northeast winds becoming east to southeast Friday and increasing.

Montly cloiidy tonlKht snd poMibly a little In the panhandle and estreme nnrth tonight and light and north eentral erlday. Not so edd tonight exrept near western border of panhandle. Siunewliat warmer eJttrenw east turning colder panhandle Friday. I. 0 1 tonight S5 northeast to to S2 west and sotith.

Highs frrlday 35 to 40 west and to 45 southeast. Iowa: t'loudy tonight and Friday with snow- beginning north and rain or snow south lute tonight or Friday. No major teniperaliire ehange. I a to 22 north to 20 to 25 south. Highs Friday 25 to 50 nnrth to 52 to 30 south.

Kansas: Cartl.v cloudy tonight and Friday becoming rloiidy west and north- central Friday with imsslbly light snow extreme northwest late Friday. Not so cold west and south tonight. Warmer east and southcentral Friday and turning extreme northwest Friday after- I.OWS tonight 28 to 52. Highs to go oO narthwest. I TEMPERATIRKS (Official I'.

S. Weather Bureau Readings) MAJ. GEN. Edward M. Almond, comjnander of the Tenth corps, said the red besicRers were drawn from elements of eight to I ten Chinese communist divisions in the northeast was just twice that of Wednesday.

It indicated that Red China has moved perhaps 300,000 troops into North twice as many men as Gen. Douglas is constantly reinforcing them from the safety of Manchuria. official spokesman dodged questions Thursday on whether allied headquarters believes the Chinese communists will be able to drive the United Nations armies out of Korea. HOWEVER. HE indicated the answer may be given in a briefing Friday by Maj.

Gen. Charles Willoughby, intelligence chief. All night and early Thursday nnt and gouth to 4ft morning bitter bayonet and gren- ade fighting raged in zero weather the allied behind it. But at mid-morning, the enemy broke off contact. 10 ----------------------China May Hear of wJisHINGTON.

The of America" has made facilities available to the United Nations for broadcasts to China and other parts of Asia. A state department announcement Wednesday said west coast transmitters are being used to give China and Asia full coverage on United Nations developments. BEN C. LIMB, foreign minister of the Republic of Korea, read an attack on Wu Hsiu- Chuan, Chinese communist representative, at a U.N. council meeting at Lake Success.

it comc.s up for a vote Thursday afternoon. Ambassador Warren K. Austin, chief U.S. delegate planned t(' carry the eouncil into a night session, if the order to the Peking government. THE UNITED States hopes to take the issue to the veto-free assembly with the backing of the other nine members of the security eouncil.

Only India was considered a doubtful vote. Informed sources said that the Indian delegate. Sir Benegal Ran. had long held instructions to abstain on any vote on the matter, hut had asked New Delhi for instructions to sup))ort the out-ol-Korea" resolution alter Gen. Wu warlike on Tucsilay.

It was understood that only a formal decision by the state department w'as aw'aitcd before the United States puls the Chinese cominunist case before the general When it goes the 60-nation group, it was expected that the issue would be slated in much stronger terms than the current resolution before the security council. THAT MEASURE, on which the United States hoped to get a 10-1 vote Thursday, merely calls upon all counlrie.s—with the finger implicitly pointed al Peking from assisting or encouraging the North Korean authorities. to prevent their nationals, or individuals, or units of their armed forces from Riving assistance to the North Korean forces and to cause the immediate withdrawal of any such na- Hiitton teams tluuout Neb. An out.stand- ing a llback during flu' seasons of 1046 1 0 4 8. Hutton a regarded as one of the lastcst ball carriei the inidrile west.

was a sprinter on Erl tiack the same period. Hutton played one si'ason at Peru Slate Teachers collcgt' before enrolling at Nebraska He graduated cum l.iudc lOli). Because of his illnc.ss Hutton was forced to resign his lO.iO coaching post at Ord, high school. He had been for weeks, illness was as cancer. track campaign liis senior year was also cut short upon the advice ot his jihysician but he later recovertHl suffi- tionals, individuals or units which jYiently to return to school.

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AUSTIN, U. S. delegate to the United Nations, looked disgusted as he kept speaking in rebuttal to Wu Hsiu-Chuan, red Chinese who charged that the United States has been the aggressor in Korea. (AP Wirephotos Thursday.) might presently be in Korea. Whether the assembly be asked to brand communist China formally an aggressor had not I yet been decided by the United States.

The Russian veto will open the door to consideration of the issue. Under the Achc.son ant i-aggression machinery adopted early in this se.ssion, the assembly may recommend action against aggrcs- I sors whenever a veto iircvents emergency action by the security council. That same legislation calls on member countries to maintain units of their national defense forces to fight aggression under the U.N. flag at the direction of I the assembly. 10 ------------MacArthur Order Bomb Used WASHINGTON.

The white house said Thursday President news conference remarks about the atom bomb did not mean that Gen. Douglas MacArthur himself can order the use of the bomb. The white house said that under the law the atomic bombs are in custody of the atomic energy commission, and only President Truman himself can order the use an atomic bomb. received his degree last June. He was honored at the recent Iowa football the 1950 varsity dedicating the game in his honor.

The student card section also paid tribute to the ex-Husker afhh'le, Hutton, 26 years old, was married. Potsy Clar'K, athletic director and coach in 1948 was out of town Thursday, but Jolin Bentley, sports publicity director, voiced sentiments of the athletic department about Hutton. was one of the linesl kills we ever had here, a high-tyfie student, a sportsman, a great competitor, and a fine boy in every possible respect," Bentley said. ----------KV- ---------GI Casualty Total ill Korea WASHINGTON. (UP).

The defense di'paruncni Thursday announced a new of 31,028 American casualties in the Korean lighting thru last Eriday. The figure thus does not include losses in the new critical phase of the war. The new total is an increase of 1,032 over that announced thru i Nov. 17. Hi fib Time Sen.

Hreirsler W.A.SHINGTON. Uongress meinhcrs divided Thurs- tla.v in their reaction to Piesi- tlcnt Tinman's itqiort that use of atomic bond) against Uhi- cominuiiist.s is being con- sidei cd. Senator BicW'tcr Me v. ho ha been urging of atomic bo.nbr, said "it's high ought it against anti ammunition told think it wouitl a thousaml of troops III the next two SENATOR Milhkin a the joint congressional atomic committee, took a and more cautious Th.if the sermus weapon that could be used," Mil- lildn sfiirl. not boused short dire nt'd'ssily.

It may i be that we the dire ncces- 1 sity. It should not be used im- I petuou.sly." I Senator Young N. op- i posed u.se of the atomic bomb I against Chinese com munist troops. should be used only against renP.v important and permanent targets," Young said. i not the present case from the facts we get." SEVER.AL SENATORS pointed out that United States use of the might invite even force retaliation use of the most powerful weapons (or a attack upon thi.s country, probably inchaling Washington.

said that did not worry him. Marshall Road Building Slam Is Answered Another Story on Page 17 The attack of Farm Bui can President Marshall of Elmwood the state highway inability to match availalile Icdcral funds for road building was aiisw'crcd Thur.sda.v i by Fred Khctsch. state engineer. read Mr. statement with consideiahle con-! Klictsch said.

tig- ures he refcrri'tl to were to the at their request without coinmf'nt as to whose re- it is to provitle the iH'Ci'ssary matching funds, nor did wc m.ike any conjectures with regard to the use of such funds." I THE STATE cngiiH'cr said, "for most part it has le- spotiMhilily of the slate" to pro- the matching money, 11 not concerned witli the amount matching funds viflod nor wc concerned with the sources of funifs. Kliet.sch pointed out that no law cities, counties, villages rind inihvifiuals to mati'h federal funds. "Each of these has received small a 1 of matching funds in years past; however, the great bulk of federal aid highway funds used in the state have always been matcht'il w'ith state KLIETSnr NOTED that "Mr. Marshall places the responsibility on the counties for matching funds for construction federal aid secondary roads. If he will read Section 66-424, Revised Statut('s of Nebraska, 1943, he will find that law requires that six jicrccnt of the share of the state gasoline tax Large Buildup of Forces Of America Is Pledged from Truman grimly warneil a); B'oHHors that tiie States is roiisiderinK usinji the atumie bomb in the Korean war pledjjjt'tl a large build up of F.S.

armed force.s. Mr. Truman charged that the communist assault in is Hu.s.'iaii-in.spiicd and Tax Bill Is Approved Yieiii Billion Year WASHINGTON, iT). The ways and means committee Thursday agreed on a mi.se profits tax bill rsti- ni.ited to yield $3,400,900,000 a yi'ar. It wtiuld be retroactive to last July I.

As the bilP.s estimated falls of President goal of $4,000,000,000 annually. This results from ing of the tax base originally proposed by the administration. Chairman Doughton N.C.), told reporters the measure, de- to siphon off what Mr. Truman ralU'd busi- human of But ex- hope that it without A- Iwimb. Be vowi'd that the foices will not ali.tndon iH'causc aggression successful in Kotea, we c.ui it sprrtul thru Asia and Em ope to this Empha izmg the gravity of the rnsis.

Mr. said in a Truman Text On Pa fie PH'SS confen'iu'O statenuml that; "We are fighting in Kon'a for our national stnurity anil CALLING FOR national unity and he down the of the new communist aggH'Ssion a program to meet 1. shall woik in the United Nations for coii- action to hall this aggres- in Korea." shall intensify our ef- 2. will be mlroduced forts to help other strengthen their in order to the threat of ag- gres.sion el.sewhere," 3. shall rapidly inrreuse our ow'n military strength." Mr.

Truman said he soon will ask for ammint.s” mone.y increase the size and effectiveness of this arriu'd and a amount the atomic energy cornmi.s.sion. in the liousc Friday. The bill, still subject to final committee vole, provides: An earnings credit on profits of 85 perrent. based on the best three out of four years of a 1946-49 base pc- no(t. The figure represents a modification of the iiriginal proposal I for a more stringent 75 percent HE SAID he'wiU confer allowing business to hold with repul.liean and demo- back 85 percent of its average cratic cimgressional and eaining.s at normal 45 per.

cent corporate income tax rate insteafl of only 75 percent. An excew profits tax of to give "urgent to these aptirnpria- 5 ask thi'm his hope that Pommt on all earnmgs World war HI can averted. The 75 percent fig- Atid he pronnsi'd unrelenting ef- ure i the that Proposed fort bv this iiincnl to avoid by Secretary major cmflii t. Snydt'r. of the Treasury a He said it is than evi'r to inciease military strength ol the fu'O Id a very because the new in "is only of a w'orld-wide patlein all nations ot the wurld, tcit.il tMininss.

an UK $3,400,000,000 revenue, as CHARGING THAT the Chi- by the committee nese into Korea may be cut some due to is soviet-inspired, Mr. Truman in ecial eases such A of 67 percent on the total tax liability of business. Thi.s means that the government overall tax all federal income, surtax and profits not exceed 67 (jcrcent of a corporation's saifl' hope that the Chinese people will not continue to be torci'd ved into si'i ving the ends of Russian policy in Asia Mr. Truman laid down the basic U.S. policy to meet the crisis in a (list Insure about the A-bomh made verbally to news conb'i quc''tions.

vvas vvlu'tlu'r M.ui- churia would be That, Mr. Truman said, would on aclion NatioiiN. And once UN. acts, he afldcd, Gen. Douglas MacArthur will whatever steps are nece.ssary to nu'ct the military Askt'd if this included the u.se of the atornie bond), tiie prc: i- dent said it the freedom to use 'A catiou al tins coimn.and.

REPORTERS asked the resident about ttie atom bomb and aid that there always has active tion f)f Us Then Mr. Truman fervently that he it would not necessary, because of terid)le'cttccts not ordy on combatanu. but on civilians too. A.sked whether U.e use of the revenue be used exclusively in bomb would be conlmed tu mili- utilities, railroads, the aircraft industry and for relief purposes. All Waul I GhriHliiiaji I the construction of federal feeder roads of the state." Snow Migiil Hit PaiiliaiKilc Area No snow is expected in Lincoln Thursday, tho there may be a little snow in the panhandle and tlie extreme north Thursday the w'eather forecast said.

low Thursday night will be near 29, and elsevvherc in the state lows will range from 25 in the norlheast to 32 in the south. i i'riday will be slightly warmer I in Lincoln and the extreme eust- i ern part of the state. Highs in i Lincoln wxll be near 4L BALTIMORE. (Th. Stuart Gary fiirmal stateimud.

Bis 32 day: old, i.s going to have all his iceRi pulled out. He has two. Stuart was born with two fiont teeth poking thru hts lower gum Like tvvn little nce- dle.s, irritutod bis tonguo ami him consi.lerable un- liappmess. it was always under con- arc wc to lil he was He said he would have to sve how this thing (the situation) out. MR.

TRU.MAN also made clear that the policy again.st nccepi- ing the offtr of nationali. Chinese has not change t. vvas not lie su'd, tl hope th.it su- a tour.vc would involvement of tho world in a third World war. That jiolicy, he said, He said it still is the policy to keep Foimos.i neutralized. Foi- mosi is the big island off the China coa.st where Chiang Kai- nationalist government set headtiuarters when forced by the communists to flee the China mamland.

tnry objectives or whether it might bo used against cities, Hie president declined to say. Asked W'hetiier he would seek U.N. approval of the use of the bomb in advance, tbc president shook his head and said thing before the was action against the Chinese He then added that use of the weapon would be up to the military men in tho field. Our com- mnndcrs, he w'ould have charge of the use of all weapons. (Hut by law.

u.se of the A-bomb must be authorized by the president.) THE PRESIDENT was questioned at some length about the prospects for full mobilization in this country. He would not supply any specific details other than.