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University Daily Kansan Monday. February 9. 1953
UN Planes Smash Troops, Industries
Seoul, Korea—(U.P.)—United Natoins warplanes, following up a huge night raid on a red army supply center near Pyongyang, swarmed over both coasts of North Korea today to bomb and strafe an industrial area and a troop concentration.
Three Air Force wings and one Marine air group joined to plaster the industrial area at Chinnambo on the West coast. The UN planes destroyed nine buildings, damaged seven and touched off at least three secondary explosions.
Pilots reported they turned the area into a ball of smoke.
Meanwhile, B-26 light bombers attacked a troop concentration near Yonan in Eastern Korea. Pilots reported 75 per cent coverage of the target.
American Sabrejets and Australian Meteor jets conveyed t h e fighter-bombers but no Communist MIGs came out to oppose them.
Other UN dive bombers flew close-support misisons along the front.
Today's attacks followed a raid on
a 50-acre Red army supply center near Pyongyang last night. B-29 pilots said they left the center "cratered and smoking" after the attack, in which they dropped 220,000 pounds of bombs on 150 buildings and supply stacks.
The 8th Army reported only minor action along the 155-mile front. The Reds attacked a small outpost in the western sector. UN soldiers pulled off the position after a 10-minute fight and directed artillery fire on the Communists. The 8th Army had no immediate word on the outcome of the attack.
Celebrating the North Korean army's fifth anniversary the Reds mounted a propaganda barrage from five separate loudspeakers on the western front.
Police Still Seek Armed Convict
Wichita — (U.P) — Officers in the Wichita-Norwich areas remained on the alert today for a California fugitive reported seen in Norwich yesterday. Patrolmen, however, believed the report might have been a "false" lead.
Baldwin is wanted in San Bernardino, Calif., for murder, kidnapping, grand theft, and burglary.
The highway patrol, sheriff's forces from two counties, and Wichita police converged on an area early last night in the search for Leonard J. Baldwin, ex-convict seen in Norwich.
He is considered "extremely dangerous," and is believed to be armed with two submachine guns and three revolvers.
A service station operator told the patrol he saw a two-tone ranch wagon described as the type driven by Baldwin and bearing "orange and black" license plates (similar to those of California).
Baldwin was reported seen Thursday at Guymon, in the Oklahoma Panhandle.
Taft Says No Frontal Attack To Be Used in Korean War
Washington—(U.P.)-Senate majority leader Robert A. Taft said today a direct frontal attack on enemy troops in Korea apparently is not under consideration as a means to end the war.
After a White House legislative conference with President Eisenhower, Sen. Taft told newsmen he favors a naval blockade of Red China and thinks that Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek's Chinese Nationalist forces on Formosa should raid the mainland.
Sen. Taft said Gen. Douglas Mac-Arthur, before he was removed as supreme commander in the Far East, developed a there-point program which Sen. Taft favored then and still favors. Sen. Taft said he thinks the plan would have brought a successful end to the Korean war.
He said the Communists appear to be too well entrenched in Korea to be overrun by frontal attack.
He said he could see no advantage to United Nations forces bombing enemy bases across the Yalu river in Manchuria so long as a frontal ground assault in the Korean war area is apparently ruled out.
The MacArthur plan, he said, embraced bombing of Manchuria, material aid to Chiang Kai-Shek's Nationalist troops so they could raid the mainland, and the naval blockade of the mainland.
Without a frontal attack in Korea, Sen. Taft said, there would not be much point in bombing Manchurian bases. But he said he still favors the other two points. He said he thought the blockade would be desirable "if it can be worked out without too great international complications."
"It must be worked out with as much unity and unanimity as possible with our allies," he said.
UN Shells Top World War II
O.S.H. KOREA, GEORGIA—(U.P.)—United Nati-
tion artillery has fired more shells in the 31 months of the Korean war than it did in all of World War II,
American ordnance officers said today.
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