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Retreat How Long? How. Far? Can We Stop?
With Korean Reds | pushing “toward Taegu, correspondents were told to close their press camp and leave the city. The writer was one of those ordered out and in the following vivid article he tells how it feels to retreat, - :
By am G. LUCAS, Scripps Howard stan w riter TAEGU, Sept. 7—They say you can get used to it and maybe you can, but this much I know—a man's first retreat is an awful thing. _ Here you are a: part of the greatest nation on earth and suddenly you're running away.
You're running from a nation which
didn’t exist five years ago when yours
cause you and that great country behind “you aren't strong enough to stay. It's not pretty, even though the old-timers "who have retreated many times since June 25 take it in their stride. It's not pretty even though they assure you the Com-. mies may not arrive for another three days. It's not pretty because you've never retreated before, because in’ the last war we only knew one direttioff —ahead. . You'll get away all right. Never worry about that. That patch on your left shoulder ‘says United Nations War Correspondent and makes you a minor grade
And where will you run the next time? question with you. Retreat how long and how far? Will you keep running all the way back’ to San Francisco? To Denver? To Albuquerque. El Paso, Ft. Worth, Houston, Cleveland, Washington or New York? Can you stop there? Or must vou keep on running from this faceless something on the other side of Taegu? And what about those who watch you run? =< What about those silent little people who stand in
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Var Contr Hi Flooding State On Marine Lion's Den
Orders in 2 Weeks | Applause Deafening When President i
Nearly $3 Million + - Tells Them of Decision on Korea
By HAROLD H. HARTLEY ‘WASHINGTON, Sept. 7 (UP)—President Truman
thicker and faster to Indiana. them in person he hopes there never will be any “misunder-| nearly §3 million in the last two i weeks. standing” ‘between: them again. They call for everything from Mr. Truman yesterday apologized. to the Marines for his canned pork -and gravy to swim «ynfortunate choice of language” avy's ic e.” “Navy's police fore * Truman to broadcast Fireside
suits. Typhus vaccine. 66,000 bottles, Today he made an unsched- Chat Saturday night, Page 9; uled visit to the convention of Photd, Page 28.) |
“the Marine Corps League here, i “We in the Marine Corps “adDelegates who only yesterday mire courage, especially personal were. shouting criticism of the! courage,” said Gen. Cates as he President for his statement introduced the President to the war buyers ordered 10,800 bottles turned into applauding support-| cheering delegates. of ergonovine maleate tablets for ers today. The Chief Executive] Mr, Truman, grinning and se in childbirth in military hos- barged in unexpectedly, accom- waving his hands, charmed the Bie |panied by Gen. Clifton B. Cates, once-angry League members with! And add to that 77,000 bottles commandant of the Marine Corps. his opening remark: “You suc-| of insulin injections at a cost of! |easded IB Sitjcing me Jver Bere. a i e esident went on in a Os from the U. S. Rubber You will Be Wise, homey way that there are inc- |
CE eres 325.000 warts ot If You Need Space; wasHiNGToN, sept. 7 (UP) | It's Grand for Size,
sturdy swim suits. That's under-| (UP)—The Marine Corps | i a shouted gavel-banging argu-
standable. There’s more than 5000 League today voted down after | miles of water between here and Go See See This Place! ment a resolution to add more | (gold braid to their already re-
Korea. Kingan Co. got an order for splendent officers’ uniforms. Delegate C. S. Minneci of Chicago led the opposition, contending that it was getting where an ex-Marine in full regalia could be mistaken for a hotel doorman.
Co. with ville, ] ““And’in the same order the government bought 560,320 packages.. of surgical sponges. Sounds bad. And from El Lilly & Co. the
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There's nothing the Army isn't! buying. Airplane heaters from Stewart-Warner for $32,000. And "150,000 dozen cans of cherries from Stokely-Van Camp. You can almost smell the jples | in| the field kitchens. = Allison has orders for more than $1 million worth. of jet = gine parts, Load-bearing platforms,” cops city 6000 pounds, were bought!
dents sometimes that appear to, be “almost the end of -the World {when they Happen, but they turn out in" the end to be good for. 'all concerned.” {© Then turning to the more ‘serioug side, he said that the thing he wanted most was “3 unified: ‘effort for peace.”
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utgoing plane if you can get, who hear the shouted tumult and confusion that can't be avoided when those who thought they were secure at noon If worst comes to worst someone will move are.told to start running at 4 p. m..? What are they thinking about the proud Americans With any kind of break vour skin is safe for a while = who took over their rice paddies and started building bar-
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They Detested It and It's Mud, but They - Had Battled for It and Now Must Yield
This is the story of the evacuation of an ‘an American alr base in Korea at -the height of the Red drive on Taegu. Scripps-Howard | Staff Writers Jim G. Lucas and Jerry Thorp, both of whom were | there, were invited to sit in when the men were told they must leave. This is their account of what happens to fighting men faced with the necessity of giving up something they have made with, their own hands. -
JIM LJ d On TH P, Ww rit BIE RR FORCE PAs Koren. 80 a Tyer put down his As and walked into the rain. “This is it,” he said. “I've got to tell them.” Pete is Col. A. W. Tyer, Natchez, Miss., commanding | the base at Taegu. An hour earlier he had received his orders, with the Reds hammering at the outskirts of the | city. His field was to be abandoned. | : : Working night and day, Pete and his men had built | Time: 10:05 a. m, Flag flies thi field. They detested the mud and the slush. They | upside down Jn Statehouse. At gripped about the backbreaking task assigned them. But | ship — they loved it. It is difficult for an outsider to understand. flaps of a sodden, drab | sa; nC Col. Tyer walked through the flap | 10:07 pall
tent at the far end of the strip. The 37 officers present snapped to attention. Something was up, they knew, and | they had more than a suspicion what it was.”
THE ‘COLONEL leaned wearily against the center pole. “The decision has been made to evacuate this airfield,” he said. wl was-se-quiet-the- raindrops. sounded like, small arms fire. Pete plunged ahead as if trying to punish himself. " “My men .will have first priority. We'll get them out first and then worry about anything else. I'm C. O. of this field and I'll stay with a handful of men. - But don't worry about me. I'll look after my lily white hide.” The shock began to wear off. The men laughed a little, too loudly. A rivulet of rain coursed by the colonel's. feét, nipping at the slush of his boots.
“Most of you are going,” he said.” “We're going to kéep some of you here —cutting to the bone—be brutal Time: 10: 07 a. m. Quick about it. We will eat maybe two meals a day, if we're check ravealed no distress, ship” or otherwise, in Statehouse.
Thucky. Leave us not kid ourselves. No one's going to eat three. The men who stay will work night ‘and day, and 1 don't want to hear anyone, complain aboyt how tough it is. However hard is on us, the Reds are doing damned well and they oi it a lot toygher.
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Feeney Rejects Union ‘Offer, For Garbage Strike Talk
Mayor Feeney today refused to way be considered a refusal to meet with union representatives discuss local problems with local (of striking garbage workers but employees. loffered to see strikers ak individ-| “I do not see where ‘anything uals, could be gained by meeting with The request to meet. with city you personally,” the Mayor told ‘officials was wired to the Mayor Mr. McCabe. : today by Patrick ‘McCabe, inter- ‘Also Rejects Offer {national representative of State, The offer to meet with union’ iil {County and Municipal Employees’ representatives was also rejected — S—— Union (AFL). Meanwhile-Mr. Mc-! by Oscar Barry 8r., president of Ro WwW Howard Cabe said a general meeting of | the Sanitation Board. a y id the employees will he held "at 2 In another letter to members p. m, a, of the striking union, the Mayor Talks to Truman The Mayor declined 0 on grounds urged workers to “get the facts’ WASHINGTON,: Sept. 7 Roy W. Howard, president of deal with union organizers or out- city will accept employment ap- The Indianapolis Times, had a 45-of-town representatives in any plications from strikers but minute conference with President ‘| coud not offer them a guarantee Truman yesterday which covered xd jobs because some Te- a broad field of world affairs, * were hired.
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thing you're running from. But what about those who cast their lot with'you? The Korean police who guarded the press billet and Kim, the boy who, for one dollar a week, washed your clothes, made your cot bed and brewed your coffee when you came back from the front. Where will they run? 3 Running away isn't good for a man inside. It's no Ignger an impersonal thing you read about in the newse papers, hear on your radio or—as I did nly a few weeks _ back—watch complacently and with much tongue clucking on a television set. It's you, Jim Lucas, 1st lieutenant in the Marine Corps Reserve and Scripps-Howard staff writer, running for your life—running.a little harder than anyone eise because this is your first time and vou're not sure whether it's the real thing or a‘false alarm-—running and hoping desperately you don’t look the fool and coward you feel. I can also tell vou this—vyou want to know the reasons You promise yourself vou'll find out when vou get home-=-not “for a news story or an editorial but because you want to know who did this to you and who made it
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"Abandon Waegwan; 1st Cavalry Falls Back
70,000 Reds Hurled at Northern Line; Air Force Claims Bag of 6] Tanks
By EARNEST HOBERECHT, United Press Staff Correspondent ] TOKYO, Friday, Sept. 8—The most sustained Commu» | nist offensive of the war slashed to within artillery range
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8 of the! apout 6000 men had pe last two days it had Knoked ‘out the United Nations ¢ damaged 61 Red tanks. frees Yongchon and ove hon the massive Communist as-| were ar behind - sault with at least 70.000 men he defense lines. and were reand two tank brigades posed the Ported nr a Dosition to envelop most serious threat yet to our | 1Megu from the rear or encircle the American and Korean ReKorean beachhead which today had shrunk to about half the size al lf xiaw Honan: lof Connecticut. :
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{alry withdrew to a point about t : - | seven miles north of Taegu Thurs-’ hel Enda oy i Thursday) | day night, | night. Glve Up Waegwan Jt was a heart-breaking retreat for the Americans after the their bloody but ansuccessful a fight to capture a neight (Hill heart-breaking battle. 518) northe~* of Waegwan | At the eastern end of the 45- which domin the sector, i mile northern front, United Press| . United Pr. s Correspondent Correspondent Robert Bennyhoff| reported that the Communists | (Continued on Page 8 —Col. 0 had launched a -hedVvy attack]
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