Show NEWS UN flag 0 flown in korea gen macarthur named commander of international forces in area J 1313 EDITORS Tows when opinion loti is are expressed in these theae columns they ors ar tho those sr of western newspaper unions news new anai anamisis aal rii isis ana aai not necessarily of i NIB UNITED NATIONS fights aggression there are moments in the march of current events th that at make history in the eyes of many political observers such a moment occurred recently when secretary general of the united nations trygve lie picked up the three by live five toot foot blue and white UN hag flag and handed it to warren R austin chief U S delegate to the UN and asked him to send it to general douglas macarthur the Se security cuilty council had lust just authorized the UN flag be flown alongside national standards in operations erat ions against the red korean invaders and as ho he handed banded the flag to austin he said bring at it back acla when I 1 the lob job Is done on these words hinge the hopes of the tree free world observers saw IV id them a belief that the united nations effort in korea will bo be successful 1 and at last a world organization g aniza tion has been formed forme a that that will endure and protect the minorities for generations to come observers were particularly impressed because it climaxed firm a and nd positive action by the community of nations to secure world peace up to this point the united na eions had 1 Pern demanded the withdrawal of communist invaders from south korea 2 quickly endorsed the united states action of sending aid to south korea and called upon all members of the united nations to render assistance to carry out the police action against the communists 3 appointed general macarthur commander of international forces in korea the historic flag which lie handed to ambassador batistin was the one that flew over the headquarters 0 of f dr ralph bunche during his successful mediation of the arab israeli war it is the visible symbol of the first military sanctions ever levied against an aggressor by a world organization THAT SMELL not tho the russians F four our towns in illinois and three in iowa provided the nation with a chuckle but it was not funny at at the time at least to residents of those towns A foul smell crept through moline east moline selvis and rock kock island ill and then spread across the border teto into muscatine Muscat lne i bettendorf and davenport Day erport iowa some residents went aniol hysterics one man insisted to selvis police that the russians are flying over and gassing us citizens were forced from their beds and from taverns pollee police switchboards were jammed with calls and firemen kept on a near e emergency basili scores of moline residents jumped into their cars and drove in their night clothes to high elih ground and fresher dr air when the excitement died down investigation disclosed the odor resulted from a leak in a tank of arm being hauled through the area on a truck headed west Ent alarm is an or dorant used to inject a smell into natural gas normally odorless to permit detection of leaks it is not injurious but can cause nausea reorganization novi new plan killed president Tr plan to create a new department of health education and security has be been killed by the house it was inci dentally the tha first time this session the house has rejected a reorganization plan tle the senate has killed six the house adopted to 71 a resolution of disapproval of the measure it was killed apparently by opponents who argued it would be a step toward socialized meal medicine 11 democrats who supported the plan however denied it had any bearing on socialized medicine they said only congress could bilag this about by passing necessary legislation RETAIL TAIL PRICES up another notch the korean situation kasnot was not the only worry of americans during the past week or so living costs went up another notch with the prices of at meat and bread being increased in retail stores I 1 cocoa coffee sugar hides and tn tin continued upward cotton soared to 15 a bale and cattle went to the hi highest gh est price level in a year it is ull all blamed on on the korean war but other factors entered in UN flag ff ag the blue and white lias flag of the united nations has been sent cent to korea to be flown by troops battling the communist i invaders from north korea gen douglas macarthur has been named commander in chief of the united nations forces KOREA the tide flows military observers still watching the soviet union for any signs 0 of f open participation in the koi war v ar were of the opinion the has begun to flow against the gres sors during the first two weeks of the conflict south korean and american troops acting under orders of the united nations took a beating but as the battle went into the third week american arms guns tanks and planes and US soldiers stemmed the rush of the communist armies at a point some 50 to 60 miles south of seoul capital of south korea which fell into the hands of the ln invaders aders a few days after the sneak attack ai american and communist troops met at first american troops were forced to withdraw before red bed tanks and atthe at the moment when it seemed the invaders might break through again US big guns and tanks plus fresh toot foot soldiers poured into the area the attack was stopped and many observe observers rs believe lie lieve the counter attack will come as the stream of supplies increase A big factor in the blunted communist attack was the U S british and australian air forces fighters and bombers carried out continuous attacks upon tanks roads and bridges they ripped open communist positions with low flying rocket and machine gun attack the big bombers blasted away at supply lines and communication centers their blows were felt by the invaders and will spearhead the inevitable counter attack meanwhile american divisions swithin the un united I 1 ted S tates states were being readied to move to the far east general macarthur had at the beginning of the conflict four divisions in hi japan he has already drawn upon them and troops within n the country will replace those from japan plus reiff reinforcements 0 re 0 ments for the battle area TRUTH CAMPAIGN counteract propaganda for years communist propaganda has been spread around the world but no one seems to know just how much of the story of democracy has reached the enslaved peoples of the world now the state department has announced plans for a great campaign of truth to counter Mos cows broadsides broad sides of propaganda against the united states and other democratic nations secretary ot of state acheson told a bout about the plan in testimony before a senate foreign relations subcommittee GeTie general ral eisenhower Elsen hower also testified before the committee declaring truth could almost be classified ss as our T bomb truth bomb in tills this warfare general marshall who also testified said he Is firmly convinced that we must confine ourselves to me the truth and that we must meet the soviet procedure in what is culled called their conquest of the minds of people acheson told the senators the communist campaign of vilification jeopardizes the security of the united states and is a threat to the security of the free world the cynical aggression of communism in korea and the false hoods that have preceded and accompanied compa nied it make inescapably clear the importance of the campaign of truth he said MANPOWER draft in in effect the recently enacted draft law has been put into effect president truman ordered an expansion of the fighting forces in view of the korea situation through enlistment or the draft immediately after the presidents order spokesmen for the army navy and air force said they would be happy to get all their required manpower through enlistments alone if possible whether or not enlistments will fill the armed forces needs will be determined within the next two weeks just how much the armed forces will bo be expanded has been kept secret presumably it could run as high as men bringing the 95 services to there is also the possibility that reserves will bs be called up although spokesmen for the services said none will be ordered to duty at present without their consent A spokesman for the pentagon said the enactment of the draft law was necessary to meet the situation in korea and constitutes a first step to build up to full operating strength the units of the tha army navi navy and air force forca to be used in the korean operation to provide further maintenance and support and to replace units to be moved to korea just how far the united states will go in building up its forces depends entirely upon developments in the far east and other danger points military observers report inke aau 11 fusil two items of railroad news were in the public mind one bad and one good the switch mens union agreed to end its strike against four midwest and western r railroads a il roads the fifth continued its walkout but returned to wark after president truman ordered the army to take taka over the switchmen made no bones about why they were calling off the strike As they put it we are calling it aff because of the threat of direct government action truman had scored again the day before he had told his weekly press conference at washington that the union had better halt the strike or else evidently the union like that or else on the bad side two high speed santa fe railway streamliners stream liners streaking eastward side by side one traveling at 90 miles an hour and the other seventy bumped mid midsections sections in it a freakish ac accident c I 1 de nt nine dead and 75 injured were carried from the twisted m metal etal cars in the illinois collision JUMPING JACK JACK sets chute record mgt john J jumping u m p I 1 n g jack set out to break the tha worlds record parachute leaps in a single day which chedid he did with 07 drops if he proved anything else it was the fact the human body will take tak al a lot of punishment and nd that some people seem to get pleasure out ov of risking their necks the sergeant with the aldef aid of his buddies of the A airborne divi slon sion made drops in 10 hours an average oi of one every six minutes ile he twisted his ankle and sprained his knee on the jump and slowed down long enough to have his bis leg taped after each jump a jeep and a pickup truck met him the jeep rushed him back to the piper cub plane which took him aloft again while the truck took his chutes to the hangar where his bis six buddies were kept busy re packing them the sergeants only complaint during the endurance test was he would be all right if he could sur vive the jeep rides korea 14 0 amft M SW KM M A 0 so lad 0 J U US S infantry and artillery rushed into korea in an effort to stem the communist advance later reports indicated good results from increasing supplies of big guns and troops COLOMBIA five successive earthquakes in colombia some miles north cast of bogota Is reported to have hall killed persons injured some and left homeless ten towns in north central colombia were reported deitra destroyed with property damage estimated at approximately additional damage and loss of of life may be revealed when a final survey ivey of the area Is made |