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VOL. LH. No. 113 NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER^25^1950_ ___Per_Copy—15c
Korean Situation
At A Glance - * -
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Saturday, September 23, 1950
(By The Associated Press^
United Nations forces increased
their pressure on Seoul from two
directions today while communists
seeking to hold the South Korean
capital brought up reinforcements
from the southern beachhead.
Moscow dispatches said the de
fenders of Seoul were in a bad
way.
The Red reinforcements joined
three North Korean regiments and
a “rehabilitation battalion,” the
latter composed of troops who had
been imprisoned for desertion and
other military offenses. This bat
talion is expected to be sacrificed
recklessly.
Marine columns were driving on
the capital of 1,00,000 inhabitants
from the north and southwest as
Allied forces on the southeastern
front made their greatest gains of
the war.
U. S. infantrymen, driving south
from the city and north toward
it from the old Pusan corner of
the peninsula, fought within 85
air miles of each other.
A U. S. intelligence officer said
elements of the Korean communist
Ninth Division, which previously
had fought the U. S. 25th Division
on the southern sector near Ha
man, reached Seoul Friday.
The Reds had swept northward
before the tank-led U. S. Seventh
Division troops seized Suwon and
its airfield, 20 miles south of Seoul
Friday evening.
The northern prong of the
drive on Seoul, including South
Korean Marines, was in the capi
tal’s outskirts within two miles of(
the heart of the city, Associated
Press correspondent Reiman Mo- j
rin reported.
The southwest arm took the bat
tered suburb of Yongdungpo, on
the south banks of the Han River,
and pushed on.
Red disorders within Seoul were
reported increasing. Refugees said
people weer refusing to work or1
fight for the communists and as
result scores were being shot. 1
Thousands of communists in the
southeast sector were facing a,
trap but the swiftly advancing Al
lied troops, 5,000 already having,
been cut off. Low-flying planes
harassed them in good weather.
But some of the planes made
the tragic mistake of attacking
friendly troops. Associated Press
photographer Gene Herrick re
ported American planes inadvert-1
entlv strafed and fire bombed ele
ments of the British 27th Brigade.
Gen. MacArthur’s summary,,
covering operations up to Friday:
midnight, said United Nations
forces on all fronts inflicted 5,920
Red casualties and captured 685. j
A Pravda correspondent in Ko
rea reported to Moscow that the
“situation is very serious in Se-1
oul.” He said brigades of workers
are using cement, streetcar rails,!
stones and beams to build barri
cades in the threatened city. Hej
$aid pillboxes and tank points dot;
Seoul.
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Monday, September 25, 1950
Marines and Doughboys slugged;
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Delegate Bartlett
Visits Nome
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Delegate E. L. (Bob) Bartlett'
arrived yesterday straight from!
Washington, D. C., having left’
when Congress adjourned.
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He stated that the last bill to go j
through before adjournment was;
the Nome School bill which gavej
Delegate E. L. "Bob" Bartlett
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$35,000.00 to the building pro
gram, as reported in Friday’s Nug
get
When questioned about the
Statehood Bill he stated that it
was on the agenda to have early
consideration when Congress re
convenes, and if voted upon he
predicts that it will be passed
with, a good majority.
He stated that he expects there
will be filibustering from the
south and some Republican oppo
sition.
He also stated that Col. Cham
bers, the fore-runner and investi
gator for the special sub-commit
tee on defense, who are coming to
Nome on Oct. 15th, is already in
Alaska and should be in Nome
very soon.
Mr. Bartlett plans to bd present
at tonight’s public defense meet- j
ing to hear first hand how the
peopie of the Second Division feel
about being placed where they
are in the defense program for
Alaska.
Mr. Bartlett leaves tomorrow
foi a short visit in Fairbanks af
ter which he goes to Anchorage. -
Mr. Bartlett regrets that his trip
to Alaska is abbreviated due to
the lateness off the adjournment
of Congress.
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PRINCE RUPERT, B. C. (/P)—
Two men were lost Thursday
night when the seineboat Scrub
capsized in a storm off the Queen
Charlotte Islands.
The body of George House was
recovered and Ralph Sandy was
presumed drowned. The 47-foot
craft, operated by Canadian Fish
and Cold Storage Co* of Prince
Rupert, was salvaged from Skide
gate Bar today.
All six crew members were
from Bella Bella, an Indian settle
ment near Prince Rupert. The
four saved were skipper Peter
Jackson, Ed Hunt, Charles Hop
kins and Clarence Martin. They*
were taken to a logging camp.
Congress Takes
Slap At Truman
In Closing Hours
WASHINGTON, (/P)—Taxes on
swollen business profits, state
hood for Hawaii and Alaska and
possibly rent control 'look like the
big issues when Congress returns
to Washington two months from j
now.
Even those problems may be
too big to handle in a quick ses-1
sion between Nov. 27 and the
Christmas holidays.
They were the major left-overs
when weary lawmakers knocked
off work late Saturday with a slap
at President Truman—a thumping
rejection olf his veto of a stiff an
ti-communist bill.
The bill was put on the law
books vyhen the Senate voted 57
to 10 to override the veto. That
was 12 votes more than the two
thirds majority needed. The House
had overturned the veto within
an hour after Mr. Truman sent it
to Capitol Hill Friday afternoon.
The vote there was 286 to 48.
The Senate vote came late Sat
urday after a small group of Sen
ators had talked against the bill
almost around the clock, waging
what they acknowledged was a
losing fight.
Senator Langer (R.-N.D.) col
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Sen. Jenner And
Columnist Pearson
In Wordy Battle
WASHINGTON, (JP) — Senator
Jenner (R.-Ind.) called columnist
Drew Pearson a “revolving S.O.B.”
Saturday because of an attack
which he said Pearson’s column
would make on him Sunday.
Addressing the Senate, Jenner
quoted the column as saying he
was “put in the Senate” by “the*
former treasurer of the Ku Klux
Klan in Indiana, Bob Lyons.”
When Pearson heard about Jen
ner’s remarks he said the Senator
apparently could dish out criticism
but couldn’t take it.
Jenner said Pearson made the
attack because of the Senator’s'
criticism of Defense Secretary |
George Marshall.
“This Drew Pearson,” Jenner j
said, “is a self-appointed, self
made, cross T’d, dotted I’d, dou
ble-documents super-superlative,
evolving S. O. B.”
Jenner said he considered the
attack “a real achievement” since
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criticisms by Pearson “have gen
erally been reserved for Presi
dents of the United States.”
“Think of it,” the Senator added,
“two American Presidents were
unable to find any other* words to
describe this propaganda-peddling
prostitute than by calling him a
S. O. B.”
Pearson retorted:
“After launching one of the
most unfair attacks at General
Marshall ever aimed at a public
figure, calling him ‘A living lie*
and ‘a front man for traitors/ Jen
ner now rants, raves, and winces
when his own operations are ex
posed. A hit dog always howls.”
Congress Has Voted
100 Billion Dollars
WASHINGTON, (^P)—A seven-1
teen billion dollar emergency
money bill to help meet costs of
re-arming this nation and its
friends was an President Tru
man’s desk Saturday in practical-;
ly the same form he had favored.
It was one of the last enactments'
of the vacation-bound Congress.
Stripped of a tight ban on eco
nomic aid to foreign countries,
trading in military goods with the j
Soviet bloc, it boosts to approxi
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mately sixty billion dollars the
cash and contract authority voted
since the first of the year. (
And it raises to more than one
hundred billion dollars the cash
and contract authority, including
national debt interest payments
and other fixed costs running to
about $8,000,000,000 a year, voted
since the 81st Congress convened
in January, 1949.
The emergency defense bill was
cleared Friday after a brief but
hot Senate fight over an amend
ment that would have denied U.
S. economic help to any nation
whose trade with Russia or her
satellites includes arms, arma
ments or any article that could be
used for military purposes.
Mr. Truman personally had at
tacked the amendment as one
which he said would hurt Free Eu
rope more than it would Russia.
The House refused to approve
the amendment and toned it down
to give discretion itt the matter to
the national security council,
headed by Mr_ Truman.
NEWS IN BRIEF
JERUSALEM (^—Israel’s Arab
population of 165,000 is steadily
moving toward local self-govern
ment.
The department for minorities
in the ministry of interior has just
authorized the establishment of
local governing councils in five
Arab villages. About 100 of these
councils are to be formed event
ually.
ANCHORAGE, (/P)—An airman
shot himself fatally here Wednes
day and was identified officially
as Pvtt. William Hill, 38, of Mary
ville, Tenn.
Public relations officers gave
despondency as the apparent
cause of Hill’s act. Hill, attached
to the Tenth Rescue Squadron,
leaves his wife, Mrs. Mary Pearl
Hill, of Maryville.
SEATTLE, (#>)—Fines totaling
$182.50 were levied against three
firms and an individual Friday for
Alaske shipment of meat which
did not meet federal inspection
standards.
Federal judge John C. Bowen
fined Allied Stores Corp. $125 for
shipments to Ketchikan and Cor
dova last February. He dismissed
the charge against Clifford Farsje,
an Allied Stores employee.
Covey Bros, were fined $40 for
a shipment from Renton to Cor
dova, and William R. Jones must
pay $15 for meat sent from Seat
tle to Seward.
Judge Bowen ordered a token
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PUBLIC » \G
TONIGHT
School Auditorium
8:30 P.M.
SPONSORED BY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
MAYOR S. ANDERSEN, Chairman
OPEN DISCUSSION ON
Military Defenses of the Area
Civilian Defense In Second Division
Preparation for Visit of
Senatorial Committee on Defense
In an all out co-operative program to stimulate interest in
the state of defense in the Second Division, and to develop the
Civilian Defense program, the Nome City Council has postponed
their meeting for tonight and other civic organizations will be
repreesnted to take part in the program.
Preceding the meeting the picture “Alaska U. S. A.” will be
shown, starting at 8:00, so that all those who have not seen the
film may do so before it is shipped out.
Plans will be formulated from the expression of the public
tonight for the important meeting to be held soon with Col. Cham
bers and the meeting to follow in October, with the special Sub
committee of Congressmen who are coming to investigate de
fenses.
Delegate “Bob” Bartlett has stated he will be present for the
meeting.