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• Th. Weather Hawks Lose, 13·70 , SM. teOr ana IhlN., win... 8lewly cleariDr Tbe Rawkeyes spotted the North MOIIday. m.h ....1'. I.; _&ern WUdcats 11 points Saturday nla'M low. IS. IUch Suurda,.. Wore they lost a furious battle there, 13- SI; low. n. ,.. Game story on pare 4. 9 at oman Est. 1868 - AP Leased WIre, AP Wirephoto, UP Leas~ Wire - Five Cents J.:Jwa City, Iowa, Sunday, January 14, 1951 - Vol. 85, No. 85 eorresp0ndent Says War UN Troops . • ' .Still· Cling Truman To Ask $16-Billion Boost In Korea Neann'g End To Wonju I (IEDITOIS' NOTE: Don WbUeb,.tI. J\ ..o(!l. te. Prell ",ar a.rre.,eudent. ilia. TOKYO (/1') - Unitcd Nations JeIC ,.t.r.e4 'rem the ',ott-n. "'... e.rlnl' 'reut linn .r Ken• . W .. tte."e." , ..... le. ....... ,en.nal opinion apd tm,ru.!JlehJl .( 'be 'I,ttl .r the US hreel t. ata, troops clung grimly to tne road In Taxes 10 F·ight Co.nmunism II " ..... ) By DON WHITEHEAD 'Action Organization' controlling Wonju saUent in cen NEW YORK (A")-American iroops and their United Nations tral Korea. But llanking Reds bat allies ore heading towa1'd a mass evacuation from the Korean cockpit Condemns Rotary tled deep into the Sobaek moun Biggest Tax of war. tains to within 65 miles of the old Overwhelming numbers of Chinese and North Korean Red troops Pusan beachhead. are driving them into the southeast corner of the peninsula. And the As Anti-Catholic A series of aHacks by 8,000 to In Peacetime bleak, bloody story of Korea is approaching an end. VA'rICAN CITY ([PI - The 10,000 Korean Reds failed to Tbese are the hard faets of II. sUuatlon now clouded In eeDSOl'lhlp. powerful Catholic .Action Organ- budge the U.S. Second division lI.S. History Many militllry men in Korea and mo ~ t war correspondents who izatlon said Saturday that Rot- from its bullet-shaped perimeter have followed the army for the past five months look upon an ary International "has Masonic that points northward deep into "r.. 110. "k. a.rYl_ Red-held territory. WASHINGTON -Capitol lUll evacu lion as Inevit:lble. origins" and pointed out that heard today that President Tru Great Debate Freemasonry among ' Catholics Is Allied troops withdrew dur man will uk tor the biuest In, the nl,M from one strate It is surprising to one just returned from Korea to find a punishable by excommunication. peacetlme tax boost in history ~c hill (poSlilbly 2U) which crtat debate in Washington. over whether we should 01' should not a least '16-'bIW~-which, U The organization. in an article tbe, recaptured Saturday just !tay in Korea. The defense department says no policy has been congress approves, mi&ht mean in its official organ Quotidiano, 10Utb of Wonju. ehanlM and that the army intends to stay. a 30 percent or more aeneral in said Rotarian morals are "only a With the Second division'S A crease in the present tax load. Thll debl\te i. academic. The only question II whether we disguise of Masonic lay morals." merican. French and Dutch fl .ght taD hanr on el'en If we want to. It Is Iral'lcally simple as that. H COl'llress approves, the na The article. explaining the de ers holding fast two miles south of tion wUl be launched on the The Communi ~ts outnumber the UN forces possil;lly up to gree forbidding all priests from the transport hub of Wonju. the heaviest spendinr program ever five to one. Rotary membership. listed the Reds increased their movement laid down without 3. formal dec And the Reds are. In a position to increase these odds against following reasons for the church southward over the snow-choked la~atlon of war. Ibe Eighth army almost at will with millions of manpower in action; mountains on the Allied east Moreover. the COlt 01 armlnr )larichuria and In China. 1. Rolar, hae maeonle orlclDl. flank' apinl& Co..aunlat .,,,eulon The Chinese have made it abundantly clear since they cntered 2. In many eountrles It (Rot A spearheading column of 2,000 may 1t4. 6·mlDlen or JIIOre per the Korean conflict that they intend to drive the UN forces out of ary) Is found In the best relat Communists Ciltered through thc ..... W the federal lax rolla, frigid wilderness to a point four Korea. Ions with maeonry. brlncm. Ute total number 01 miles east o! Tanyang-t~e deep One American officer said to me recently: "Now it's a question 3. In lome plaees. it hae ae- tasparen te uoan4 "-million. 8umed an atUtude openly hos est penetration of U.N. lines sincc Most of the money will go to of saving face 01' saving hides-and we'd better save our hides. the Red counteroffensive carried We'll need 'em in the Cuture against these people." tile .. Catholicism. build up U. S. defenses-planes, 4. Rolarlan morals are only a across the 38th parallel two weeks Military Necessity ago today. tal'lok&, ,uns, atomic development .. dls,nlse of Masonic lay mora'" and a torce of 3.462,OO() men and He meant the military nece~sity of saving the UN army from The article quoted speeches This column was 75 air miles destruction tar outweighed the political considerations involved. south qf the parallel and a bout 65 'women in unlform-and to gird made by Rotarians in certain .non-Cpnununlst Allies against Some officers-army, navy and airforce-believe the UN forces countries in an attempt to prove miles north of Waegwan, pivot of the old Pusan perImeter which Russian aggression. ran pull back into a right perimeter around Pusan and hold out its contention that Rotary Is Cut Non Delenle indefinitely. " • sometimes "anti-religious and ag U.N. forces held in early days of the war. ' Mr. Truman already has prom But other military men-and I am sure they are in the majority nostic." ised con,ress that non-defense -reason this way: A high Vatican cource. asked t< project!! will be cut to the mini KOf'ea. II not the place tor t.p.e US and her alUes to make comment on the article, said the World Situdtion mum and that other money will a major war effort al'ainst eonununism. Even If _ could hold Catholic action organization's ob be soent 'only for urgent needs." • beachhead. which is doubtful, then the AlUes merely would servations were "eeneral" and qid 'at a Glance At the ' lame time he wants de be tradln, manpower with the Reds-pourln, more troOPI Into not apply to every single Rotary fense spendinIC. which now runs a flrht already lost. club. LONDON-EIsenhower arrives a t the rat-e of abou t $2()..bl1llon "We could kill Leven, eight or 10 to one and still not come out The source said local bishops atter a tour of five capitals in a year, to hit $~5-blllion by the must decide whether it is pennis which he found nine divisions 'end ot next December. ahead," one officer said. "We just can't fight these people on a ready to join his Western European manpower basis because there are too many of them." sable for Catholic laymen to re· , In his economic message Fri main members of Individual cha. army, compared with the 90 he Out o! the Ko rean nightmare have come some valuable lessons day tbe President figured that pters. led at the end of World War II. .over a two-year period, from last of war that tnJy be the salvatiol'\ of future Allled armies. Korea may LONOON- A Tass dispatch 'Jldy 1 to JunQ. 30, 1952, the U. S. yet prove .to be the It'aining ground which opened the way to broadcast early today by Moscow ~~uld :. t;Omml~ .ltselt to spend Mute victories. Warehouse Blaze radiO, says the cease-fire plan .$14o-bUlion for "primary nation , For in ~orea, tho American army learned for the !Irst time what adopted by the UN political com al security programs." It means to kight an enemy usi ng massed manpower. And the anny, mitte!! sidesteps two big issues , T. 'pa, lo~ it be wants taxe8. marines, airforce and navy developed a teamwork with lessons Kills Four 'Firemen in Korea: Proposal for the im taIIetI ' •• - blllioa laa& year: learned in combat. ' mediate withdrawal of all for (AP w.t.... '., hlke4 apln, ne tipra 01 $15- eign troops from Korea, and Six Mouths Aco CHICAGO (A") - A foul'th fire VISmNG PRESIDENT TRmlAN, Robert (I,arry) McKenzie Jr. 12, Kuckvl\1e, N. Y.. reported 'tile billion baa been mentlone4 In man died Saturday from injuries provision for the cessation 01 President "was pleased .. meei me." Larry Is the March or Dim 5 poster child of 1951. He was strlek- Only a little more than six months ago, the first American troop~ defe.... lpendln, Is W be put sufCered in a $1.5-million river Ameri<;an aggression against Kor en with poUo In 1949. were rushed into Korea. They were green troops. They were soft on a par-ae-we-,. bula. warehouse fire and explosion that ea and China. ." That would be, by far, the big !rom occupation duties in Japan. They were youths who had joined was viewed by an estimated 5- UNITED NATIONS - General the army little expecting they ever would be called on to fight. gest tax boost ill the nation's million television viewers in many assembly's political committee history. The late President Roo In platoon, and company and' battalion strength they went up parts of the nation .