Marines Repulse Red
Attack Near Panmunjom
SEOUL, WPt—U.S. Marines slug
ged it out with 175 Chinese Reds
today just east of Panmunjom,
where United Nations and Allied
liaison officers opened talks on an
• exchange of sick and wounded
prisoners of war.
The bloody skirmish erupted a
scant half-mile from the neutral
corridor—the route which Allied
armistice officers took to Pan
munjom a few hours later.
The Marine patrol which en
countered the Red company called j
immediately for Marine, tank,
rocket and artillery fire. The
blazing IV2 hour battle left 19
Chinese counted dead, 16 esti
mated killed and 28 estimated
wounded.
The Reds pulled back after
fresh Marines rushed forward to
join the original patrol.
Bad weather grounded most
Fifth Air Force warplanes, but
some^wept through overcast skies
and blasted Red positions.
Turkish Sub Sinks After
Collision in Dardanelles
ISTANBUL, Turkey, iff) — The
former U.S. Submarine Bumper,
now a Turkish underwater vessel,
sank in the Dardanelles after a
collision Saturday morning and a
Turkish naval spokesman said at j
least 70 men perished.
Col. Asim Shinik, Navy chief of i
staff, said the submarine Dumlu- 1
pinar, down 228 feet after a col
lision with a Swedish merchant j
ship had 96 persons aboard.
Appeals for rescue from the
sunken submarine, he said, indi
cated that 22 survivors were trap
ped in the hull. But he said there
was not much hope for them be- !
cause the submarine was badly
damaged and a swift current and
the deep water hampered rescue
operations.
Five persons were on deck at
the time of the collision, and
were saved, but one of the five
died later from injuries.
NO SABRES LOST LAST WEEK
SEOUL, iff)—U.S. Sabre jets de
stroyed one Communist MIG and
damaged three others Saturday,
while on the Ko&an ground front
Allied infantrymen beat back two
Chinese attacks.
Sabre pilots found MIG tar
gets in sweeps over North Korea
for the first time in five days.
The Fifth Air Force, in an
nouncing Saturday’s bag, did not
mention Sabre losses. But in a
weekly summary the Air Force
said no Allied planes were shot
down in air combat during the
week ending Friday night.
Six MIGs were shot down, one
probably was destroyed and eight i
were damaged during the week,
the summary said. Two Allied
planes were listed as lost to
ground fire and five to “other
causes,” presumably mechanical
trouble.
The term “whalebone” is in
accurate, since it is not bone, but
the horny roof-plates of a whale’s
mouth.
Geological Survey To
Drill For Water In
Anchorage Area
WASHINGTON, MB — The De
partment of Interior expects to
learn this year how much ground
water is available for use in the
Anchorage, Alaska, area.
A gasoline - powered turbine
pump capable of discharging 200
gallons a minute from 150 - foot
depths will be used to test likely
looking water sands in the area,
the department has announced.
Previously available pumping
equipment wouldn’t discharge
water fast enough to test the for
mations to their maximum capa
city.
Despite incompleteness of pre
sent information the department’s
Geological Survey estimated wells
yielding a million gallons daily
or more could be drilled in the
area for community ot industrial
use.
Two such wells were dug by
Survey personnel last summer.
Oddly enough, according to Dr.
William E. Wrather, Survey head,
water from these wells is warm
enough to be considered a source
of heat in sub-freezing tempera
tures but cool enough to be used
advantageously in ' cooling pro
cesses. The temperature ranges
from 36 to 38 degrees Fahrenheit.
WEATHER FORECAST
Compiled by the
U.S. Dept, of Commerce Weather Bureau
Increasing cloudiness tonight
with snow and blowing snow
continuing thru Tuesday. Easterly
wind 20-30 mph. Low tempera
ture expected tonight 15, high to
morrow 24.
Nome data last 24 hours as of
7 a.m. today: High temperature 7,
low -11. Max. wind 16 mph from
the east. Sunrise at 5:01 a.m.,
sunset at 7:09 p.m.
Temperatures a year ago today:
high 30, low 23. Extremes this
date since 1907: high 41 in 1940,
low -24 in 1943.
Other stations, 7 a.m. today:
Station Temp. Weather
Barrow 14 Part cloudy
Kotzebue -12 Clear
Wales 8 Part cloudy
Gambell 16 Snow
Nome 4 Part cloudy
Unalakleet 6 Clear
Bethel 16 Cloudy
McGrath 1 Clear
Anchorage 31 Clear
Fairbanks 16 Part cloudy
Whitehorse 30 Cloudy
Edmonton 42 Part cloudy
Juneau 39 Cloudy
Ketchikan 40 Cloudy
Seattle .41 Cloudy
San Francisco 53 Cloudy
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