OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS*_
VOL. LII. No. 135 NOMErALASKA, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1950 ' Per Copy—15c
NEWS IN BRIEF
FAIRBANKS, (P)—Mrs. Henry
Oschner of Fairbanks was noti
fied by the defense department
Monday that her son, Samuel D.
Inghram. 20, was killed in action
in Korea. He had been in military
service three years.
The family lived at Lewiston,
Ida. before coming north in 1942,
He is believed to be the third
Alaska killed in Korea.
SEATTLE, (P)—With little in
the way of height among his men,
Coach Bill Morris started yester
day on a search for speed and
cleverness as he opened drills for
the University of Washington
Freshman basketball season.
Two score candidates answered
his initial call Monday.
All but a half dozen of the
squad are from the State off Wash
ington. Coming from the farthest
was Harold Leeper, Anchorage.
SEATTLE, (P) — Dusk hunting
in Washington State during the
first 10 days of the season has
been the best in a decade, a sur
vey of sporesmen’s organizations
showed yesterday.
SAN FRANCISCO, (/P) — Navy
Secretary Francis P. Matthews
left Monday for a 20-day survey
of military stations in the Orient
and the Pacific. His plane was
expected to reach Honolulu Mon
day night.
Matthews said he would confer
with General MacArthur and with
Vice Admiral Charles T. Joy,
commander of naval forces in the
Far East, but whether jointly or
separately, he didn’t know.
On the return flight. Matthews
will check on Alaska defenses, he
told newsmen.
Matthews expects to return to
» Washington, D. C., about Dec. 1,
by way of the Aleutians and Alas
ka
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WASHINGTON, (/P)~The armyj
today announced a call for 40,000
draftees in January.
The new call brings the total
army request to 250,000 since the
outbreak of the war in Korea.
The September and October
draft requests were for 50,000 men
in each month. The November
figure mounted to 70,000 and fell
to 40.000 for December
All men brought into the serv
ice through the selective service
system to date have gone to the
army. The navy and air force con
tinue to depend upon volunteers
to build up their manpower.
BERKELEY, Calif. (JP), A sharp,
four-minute earthquake, presum
ed by volcanic action in the Mount
Lassen area, was reported Mon
day night by the University of
California seismograph station.
Don Toacher, assistant seismol
ogist, recorded the quake at 6:36:
34 p.m., centered about 200 miles
from Berkeley, probably near
Mount Lassen, the only active vol
cano in Continental United States.
Lassen, 10,577 feet high, was
once believed extinct. It erupted,
however, in 1941, and since then
has been the scene of hundreds of
explosions of steam and ash.
Strikers Fight To
Halt Operators
Going To Work 1
(By The Associated Press)
Massed pickets struggled again
with Philadelphia police today as
they tried to block non-striking
telephone operators from reach
ing their jobs in a Bell Telephone
Company exchange.
After five minutes of pushing
and shoving, police drove a wedge
in the picket line and about 15
workers slipped into the building.
Police sent for reinforcements
after the line reformed and block-!
ed other non-striking workers J
outside the building.
The new flare-up came as the'
partial coast-to-coast telephone
strike neared the end of its first
week with tension mounting on
picket lines.
The tension reflected the strike’s
inconclusive effect on national
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U. S. S. R. & M. CO. DONATES
BUILDING TO SCHOOL BOARD
Through the courtesy of the U.
S. Smelting, Refining, and Mining
Company, represented by Carl
Glavinovich, an army building,
twenty feet by one hundred and
twenty feet, has been donated to
the Nome Public School for use
| as an annex to the present school
building. This will greatly relieve,
temporarily, the overcrow d e d
condition which exists in the
I school and will maek room for
three class rooms. The Board of
Education, on behalf of the citi
zens of Nome, wishes to take this
opportunity of extending to the U.
S. S. R. & M. Co. their hearty
vote of thanks.
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New Steamshipline
To Serve Alaska
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SEATTLE, (£>)—The Post-Intel
ligencer said today a new ship i
line to serve Alaska from Seattle;
and Tacoma, Wash., will start op
eration about Feb. 15.
Heads of the as yet unnamed
line are now in Washington, D. C.,
to purchase two ships from the
maritime commission, the paper
said.
The directors were identified as
Col. L. B. de Long, president of
the Ocean Tow Co., and E. W.
Hundley, veteran Seattle-Alaska
steamship man who as vice-presi
dent will handle traffic.
Hundley told a P.I. representa
tive in Washington the company
plans to start with weekly freight
service, stepping it up as business
warrants.
The ships sought are the Asa
Lothrap, now tied up in Olympia,
Wash., and an undentified vessel
laid up at Wilmington, N. C., both
are 2.300-ton motor vessels.
Hundley promised “chea per
and faster” cargo service by use
of portable cargo vans adaptable
to both rail cars and trucks for
hauls inland the paper said.
The Lothrop served under char
ter from the government to Alas
ka Freight Lines, with which de
Long and Hundley formerly were
connected. '
Boy Scout Finance
Campaign To Start
The annual Boy Scout finance
campaign in Nome will kick off
with an early morning breakfast
tomorrow at Scotty’s, according
to campaign chairman Bud Har
per. Harper was busy today re
cruiting team captains and work
ers for the annual money-raising
effort, with abdlit 20 men expect
ed to gather tomorrow morning at
7:30 for breakfast and for the dis
tribution of information and mate
rials for the campaign. Assisting
Harper in planning and recruiting
workers is Rev. Robert Treat,
Don Lyle, Don Hurlbert, Capt.
Stanley Morgan, and field execu- j
tive Duane Force of Fairbanks.
The slogan for this year’s cam
paign is “Backing Alaska’s Boys,”
with each person making a contri
bution being given a small lapel
button bearing this inscription
across a map of Alaska, with a
tenderfoot Scout badge in the cen
ter.
Money contributed by Nome
merchants and employees will be
used to provide the services of
the Alaska Council to the Nome
Cub Scouts, Boy Scouts, and ex
plorers. Through the funds col
lected, several trips a year are
planned this year from Fairbanks
by the field executive there, and
at these times, materials and in
formation concerning the most
successful methods of operating
the Boy Scouts of America pro
gram are brought to Nome Scout
leaders for their use.
The annual campaign will also
make it possible for the profes
sional leader from Fairbanks to be
present and assist Nome volun
teers with the annual summer
camp for the Boy Scouts.
At present Nome has two Scout
units, one being the Cub Pack
sponsored by the Federated
Church, for boys 8, 9, and 10. This
group had one of its regular pack
meetings last night at the church,
*»here additional com nitteem*n
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Bridges Plans
All-Leftist Union
SAN FRANCISCO, (/P) — Harry
Bridges plans to unit unions oust
ed from the CIO on charges of
communist domination into a
third, all-leftist national labor or
ganization, according to the San
Francisco Chronicle.
The newspaper said that pur
pose was indicated in Bridges*
call Monday for a national labor
conference in Washington, D. C.
Nov. 28. Joining in the conference
invitation weer nine other left
wing labor chiefs.
Although other unions were in
vited, the call is “obviously** di
rected to organizations purged
from the CIO for alleged Red
leanings, the Chronicle said.
The convention idea was put
forth by Bridges at a New York
meeting two weeks ago. His own
international longshoremen’s and
warehousemen’s union rec o m -
mended such action for the “mu
tual protection” of the expelled
unions.
Find Crashed
Canadian Plane
In French Alps
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GRENOBLE, France, (JP) —
French mountain guides yester
day located the shattered wreck
age of a Canadian airliner which
apparently dashed head-on into
an Alpine cliff with 51 passengers
—mostly Canadian Holy Year pil
grims—and crew of seven.
Their first radioed report indi
cated none of the crash victims
was likely to be found alive.
The guides, pushing toward the
scene through rain and snow,
messaged back that they had spot
ted the wreckage near the verti
cle north face of Mount l’Obiou j
range.
The plane crashed Monday
night.
Photographs of Pope Pius XII,
who had blessed the Pilgrims
shortly before they took off from
Rome Monday for Paris and home,
were found scattered in a forest
several miles from the scene of
the crash—apparently carried by
mountain gales.
Scraps of a diary written by
one of the pilgrims told of the
audience with the Pope and of
reciting the rosary imploring the
mercy of Heaven before boarding
the plane.
The radio message from the
guides said: “The airplane seems
to be completely destroyed.
“The wreckage of the fuselage
is scattered in a mass of fallen
earth at the foot of the north wall
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12-Inch Snow, Bliz
zard Hit Fairbanks
FAIRBANKS, (/P) — An Arctic
blizzard struck Fairbanks Sunday
night, and by yesterday had piled
up more than 12 inches of snow
in giant drifts that blocked roads
and snarled communications.
Snow-bearing winds in excess
of 50 miles an hour whistled in
from the northwest on the heels
of a warm front that had raised
temperatures to 24 degrees above
zero.
The weather bureau said the
blizzard swept across interior
Alaska from northern Siberia.
Between midnight and 8 a.m.
Monday the snowfall here was
9.6 inches and continuing. The all
time 24 hour record of 15.5 inches
was set in January, 1937.
Telephone service was disrupt
ed in many districts as lines
snapped under the heavy weight
of snow.
The storm hit within an hour,
of the time a plane of the U. S.
Air Force 375th Weather Recon
naissance squadron was talked
down” in a Ground Control Ap
proach landing at the end of the
outfit’s 375th flight over the north
pole.
FAIRBANKS, </P) — Tempera
turec were back to normal yester
day—a frigid 25-30 degrees below
zero. The drop in mercury brought
an end to the snow which had
fallen to a depth of 12 inches the
day before.
Korean Situation
At A Glance - - -
Tuesday, November 14* 1950
Old man winter held the Ko
eran war in his grip today. Near
zero weather paralyzed the front.
Correspondents said both United
Nations and communist forces
spcmt their efforts in trying to
keep warm.
The South Korean Capital Di
vision beat off a tank-led com
munist attack on the snow-cov
ered east coast. The South Kore
ans secured their beachhead on
the Orangchon River, 90 miles
from the Soviet Siberian border
with the help of eight inch guns
of the U. S. cruiser Rochester and
rockets of marine planes.
Elsewhere there were only nib
bles at the communist lines bol
stered by an estimated 90,000
Chinese in quilted uniforms.
Many of the Americans still in
summer-weight uniforms shivered
as the ice-tipped winds swept
down from mountain peaks. The
temperature was six above zero
on the northeastern front. The U.
S. Eighth Army was rushing Arc
tic clothing ta the chilled troops.
Communist soldiers resorted to
mines and booby traps to slow up
the Allied advance but winter was
doing a more effective job.
(/P) correspondent Don White
head said the arrival of winter
caught American forces unpre
pared. Ice hung from canvas wa
ter coolers. Fuel oil froze in tent
stoves. There were more Ameri
cans attired in cottons than in
woolens, Whitehead said.
Parka-clad U. S. Marines on the
central front pushed over ice and
snow and approached the Chang
jin reservoir.
Farther east, two regiments of
the U. S. Seventh Division drove
over icy roads in sub-zero weather
against 40-mile an hour winds.
On the northwest front U. S.
First Cavalry captured high
ground on three sides of the
walled city of Yongbqon after a
48-hour battle.
In the air war two B-29’s were
damaged in attack by six Soviet
built jet fighters. The suporforts
were striking at bridges spanning
the Yalu River to prevent further
communist Chinese troops and
supplies from reaching Korea. The
B-29’s made forced landings at
Kimpo airfield to get medical
care for injured crewmen. One
B-29 ran off the runway damag
ing four other planes.
At Lake Success, a U. S. spokes
man said the United Nations se
curity council probably . would
discuss the question of Chinese in
tervention in Korea tomorrow or
Thursday. A Red China delega
tion is due to arrive at the end of
the week.
No U. N. member appeared
willing to champion Tibet's plea
for assistance to repel Chinese
communist invaders.
The two governments most di
rectly concerned—India and Na
tionalist China — both take the
same attitude that the conflict is
a civil war not subject to U. N.
jurisdiction. Tibet has for a long
time been attached to China, with
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