European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 24, 1950, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes August 1950 victim of of fighters destroyed by air Force a Russia made North korean Lank stands useless amid shattered frontline reporters facing new fear of uncertainty by Bob Considine 23 a been a Tough Battle for the the most gruelling have Ever More of 1hem have been killed than have representatives of any other unit in the those who have not been killed have been thrown out o or have come Down with the inevitable fruit of the filth of they never had i x they have never been dirtier thir Stier or More of the Bain of a belly the Only yaks in the Korea fighting Are the kind tha they Are but it is a kind of fright they have never sex theirs is a kind of Fri n la or fright piled on fright they do not know what is going to and when they come out o Korea from time to time and try to get the dirt and despair out o their hearts in Tokyo they sit around with a Beer and try to put it in As Tough a lot of us Over there had it Al most As Tough in in other Carl of the Gill Edge c h n r a c t e r s of the War reporting mused the other night at the correspondents but we Al ways knew what was going to Hap we always knew our Side would win somewhere 11 was the thing that kept everybody but its different in this he nobody and you cant help getting the sicken ing feeling that might blow this and that if we do we Wil never get these people Back again in their hearts they associate us with the paleface who dominated and exploited the asian countries for 1 have yet to meet a correspondent who did not feel that Luck was running for the Eino air Force Captain de have sown child o m a h 23 Richard of West a fighter Pilot during world War ranked today Ai b Eood Man in an emergency of sit Iris now stationed at Offut air Force base near was driving his a former army nurse and an exp Ilant to a Hospital when she ordered him to Stop the she announced the baby is Shangraw went to work with his life As he delivered a 6 Pound 9j ounce Mother and daughter Are both doing Well at the base lion of feeling Lucky in War i inscrutable tied up with the verve and High rolling of the Force Yot Are this korean thing has no Virv and there hns been More High tailing than and the correspondents Are perhaps the most sensitive barometers obtain i have yet to meet one we shared even remotely the optimism of Washington and Tokyo in respect to the they think it Wil go Over into the which i a cruel time in som already have ordered their while sleep Duaei leu some of the correspondents who come Back from Korea sleep like dead men in their stifling Tokyo hotel or club and appear a Day or two later in heavy dec you see them sitting alone in the midst of More Garru Lous men who have not seen wha they have and they Are inclined to stare a of into it surprises them to hear them selves always talking about the whereas in he last War there was More talk of what would happen when they got to Paris or Rome or Berhn or and their grave doubts Well up in them and they suddenly times interrupting someone else they will say things like if we cant beat those miserable Little reds what would happen to us if we had to fight the big one and fight him on his terms new army helmet this Luw army helmet in ado of plastic is stronger and tighter than the present steel a Dinu to army the new helmet will undergo sex Ltd Sive Field tests before the army makes a decision on whether to adopt plagued by Steep muggy heat by Robert Bennyhoff 23 cans in Korea still curse the mugs hell and Steep Hills As they did in world War ii in the South Pacific and the they still complain about dust and the eternal moving around they just As they did Europe and North there still dig Ging Foxholes everywhere they but one difference in this fight is Fiat sometimes you Donl to dig your frequently you can got a South korean to for this Doest apply to soldiers m the Battle mines but in areas close where civilians have not yet been cleared out and which have been the practice is to hire a native to dig a foxhole Eor for during a month in Korea i had at least 10 Foxholes dug Tor to by South koreans a Cost of 500 30 per the South korean larger than an american Dollar Bill and made out of Slicker the sol Dier usually buys about s5 which makes a wad in his pocket the size of a maj korean watermelons wan can be used to buy such As the oversized korean when f in s t reached Korea you could buy three or four of these for 100 but now the Price has zoomed As High As 500 wan per you also can buy peaches and but most have been Green so there is a yellow Melon which looks like Squash but tastes like a Green h o n e y d e w medical officers 1teep warning sol Diers not to eat these things but they do and nobody has died the biggest difference Here is the almost total Lack of what used to be called or romancing Between soldiers and native in past wars this was almost whether the women were allies or in there is virtually none of during the month i roamed around South Korea i never saw one Soldier fraternizing with a korean or anything remotely approaching the koreans Are not As clean As the you almost never see a korean girl Between the Ages of 14 and 21 along roads or in medics have also warned thai the venereal disease Rale is extremely High among former us envoy Dies 23 Edward minister to Greece in died Capps helped Athens Moil goes through american korean Battlefront mailman carrying letters from Ilsi negro troops Iii defeating red Poppa Gan d a it Chi by John 1hgi1tower negro troops fighting the United nations in Korea helping to win More than strategic hilltops struggle with in the opinion of Washington psychological War fare experts they Are also helping to win the Battle a g a i n s t communist they Are dramatic that the fight to smash red aggression in Korea is not a White mans this is an important Point for the no communist Al and one shortly will be bolstered the addition to in forces of asian the Philip Pines Are sending men and Siam communist Aims to understand Why these forces Are so from the additional military they it is necessary to take a look at the Aims and methods of communist propaganda As it is now being Laid Down in a steady barrage from piping and the major aim of this propaganda is to split the no communist world and particularly to split off the nations of Asia Western striving for this the communists have used claim that forces in Korea Are the tools of Yan Kee argument that the White mans guns and bombs Are More people of Asia in oppressions for the Conijn Are trying to draw a line in the struggle is application an listed soviet method of attack the that goes Back far beyond Jug the of the r e a no fighting the have on the negro problem when they v to cover their Bari Sion or when drive a among their people Inthis country they wanted to draw a Coloreine unfavourable to the this recently has cropped up in their intensified pain entering around the 1 according to state ment the department a policy covering its counter pro that simply to Teli truth about negroes in the u to be sure it is the to emphasize their acid a cohosh i c and Korea reporters to Unish Owilder Tokyo Spon dents in k o r e a have b e end authorized to nations they and just below the shoulder of the the carry the letters in and underneaih1 War War they designed by the committee of by Rader Winget new Cost of the korean fighting is being Laid on the shoulders of every one in the and the worst is yet to the economic Impact of the fight ing already has rippled put into every Home and every the already has asked for in new funds for requirements More billions will be asked heavy new taxes on business and personal income will have to be levied to help raise these huge inflation is the main thing he american civilian As a result of the korean prices Are and there is a general ush to get it you that Rush to buy already has be gun to taper off in some notably at the re to h consumer department store sales hit heir Peak in late july and then tarted a return to a Normal but the scramble to buy grown to such proportions that n or business standards apply some Gray have sprung an y have withdrawn their Price schedules until situation clarifies batiks have refused to lend Money s t t e g i is one name applied to Anticipatory accumulation of inventory is another Call it controls Why the heard is fear of impending government control arid of is the memory of acute shortage sin world wat shortages that hit and producer alike but Short Ages Haven appeared Soiree a major Industry will be Able produce All needed War materials without drastic cutbacks civilian peacetime production can for the steel for is Backbone of War is a around 100 Ceat of Capaci in Aii d turning out n tons record instead of needs be met i Fryni civilian needs that Niobe emphasis1 on on More freight and fewer munitions reason there a Stampede v steel before manpower is the ques St but Are stronger last in 1944 we had Ajab Force persons1  in the armed f we have a labor Force poo including Only and Vin used a tidied women and retired would