The Press: Rising Toll

After five weeks of war in Asia, the toll of correspondents stood at six dead, one missing, one prisoner, three wounded.

Among them were these new casualties:

¶ Near Yongdong, Korea, Gerassimos (“Mike”) Gigantes, 27, a Greek-born correspondent for Hearst’s International News Service, the London Observer and Radio Athens, was ambushed in a jeep by North Korean machine gunners. Wounded in the hand and thigh, Gigantes (who used the byline “Philip Deane”) was captured.

¶ Half an hour out of Tokyo, a C-47 Army transport with 26 men aboard crashed into the sea. Among the 25 lost were four war correspondents bound for the front: James 0. Supple, 34, of the Chicago Sun-Times; Albert Hinton, 46, of the Norfolk (Va.) Journal and Guide and other Negro papers ; Stephen Simmons, 32, of Britain’s Hulton Press (Picture Post) ; and Maximilien Philonenko, 33, of the French Press Agency.