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VOL. LIII. No. 12 NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, * JANUARY 29, 1951 _:_^er Copy—15c
iMEWS IN BRIEF
SYDNEY, Australia, {&)—New
Guinea’s volcanic Mt. Yamington,
which killed some 4,000 Papuans
and 35 Europeans in a tolowoff
eight days ago, staged a second
violent eruption within 36 hours
today.
No furthr loss of life was re
ported in either explosion. A gov
ernment expert said he 'believed
the volcano has spent its main
force. For an hour Saturday night
and Sunday morning a towering
cloud of pumice dust was pushed
25,000 feet into the air.
LONDON, (/P)—Influenza con
tinues its deadly path in England
and Wales, bringing death to 1,009
persons last week, the health min
istry announced Saturday.
The deaths, covering the 126
great towns of England and Wales
including London, were an in
crease of 213 over the preceding
week.
WEST POINT, N. Y., (£>>—Gen.
Dwight D„ Eisenhower landed Sat
urday at 11:28 ajn. at Stewart Air
Force Base near here, returning
from a 21-day military fact-find
ing tour of Western Europe.
NEW YORK, (/P) — The New
York Cotton Exchange suspended
trading in futures Saturday pend
ing clarification of the govern
ment price order.
WASHINGTON, (/P> — Coal in
dustry sources indicated Saturday
they expect early exemption from
Friday night’s freeze order, to
permit recently arranged wage
and price increases to go into ef
fect.
The industry had agreed to a
$1.60 daily wage increase for coal
miners and had planned to put
coal price increases into effect
February 1 when the wage in
crease was to become effective.
BALTIMORE (A*)—A Baltimore
publisher, who regularly turns
over all profits from his newspa
per to the March of Dimes, has
donated to the polio fund $180 in
prize money he won on a radio
quiz show.
The published is Robert P.
Fleshman, editor, reporter and
entire staff of "The News Hound,"
a mimeographed weekly. He is
eleven years old.
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ANCHORAGE, (jP) — Fishing
union leaders predicted Saturday
there would be little fishing done
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Lifting The Lid
At Juneau
Saturday, January 27, 1951
(By Jim Hutcheson) !
JUNEAU, {/P)—Rep. Jack Con
right, Anchorage Democrat yes
terday introduced in the lower
house of Alaska’s 20th Legislature |
a memorial to Congress proposing
a 30 per cent federal income tax
reduction for Alaskans.
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Conright said it is a “generally ■
recognized fact that the cost of!
living in Alaska is much higher j
than in the States.” He cited as ,
supporting evidence, a bill intro- j
duced in Congress under which
the 25 per cent pay differential for
federal employees in Alaska
would be tax exempt.
Rep. Stanley J. McCutcheon,
Anchorage Democrat, was named
chairman of the rules ccrroittee.
He was selected shortly after his
return from Washingon, D. C.,
where he attended the Palmer air
port hearing.
He asked the privilege of speak- '
ing from the House floor next
Tuesday. I
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Meanwhile, there were indica
tions that the Senate will keep a
check on the Territory’s budget
for the coming bi-ennium. Four
members named to the budget
framing committee are outspoken
critics of Gov. Ernest Gruening.
They are chairman John Butro
vich (R.-Fairbanks); Gerrit Snider
(R.-Anchorage; Howard Lyng (D.
Nome) and James Nolan (D.
Wrangell).
Monday, January 29, 1951
JUNEAU, (£>)—The 20th Terri
torial Legislature opens its sec
ond week today with House com
mittees already considering ten
bills.
The Senate, late in organizing,
has received only three.
One House bill almost certain
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All Wages, Prices
Not Frozen
WASHINGTON, (/P)—Price and
wage stabilization officials set to
work today on the delicate and te
dious job of releasing some of the
pressures behind the dam they
built last Friday to hold back liv
ing costs.
Their task is to remove as
quickly as possible the acknowl
edged inequities which resulted
when the government on Friday
night froze most prices at peak
levels between Dec. 19 and Jan.
25 and all wages as of Jan. 25.'
The Wake Stabilization Board j
prepared a statement expected to j
announce that large groups of em
proyees are exempt from the j
wage freeze. These would include i
4,000,000 federal, state and muni
cipal workers and also employees
of very small firms—all exempt
from stabilization during World
War II.
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There are whole industries ex
empted from price controls under
the defense production act, too.
These include newspaper and pub
lishing fields, radio, television and
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Working Out Wage,
And Price Freeze
Enforcement Plans
(By Max Hall)
WASHINGTON, (/P)—The gov
ernment ordered a long-expected
temporary freeze of prices and
wages Friday night and then
turned Saturday to the mountain
ous -task of making the controls
work.
The Office of Price Stabilization
headed by (Michael V. Di Salle,
flashed an S.O.S. to -the FBI and
other bureaus for help in enforce
ment.
President Truman ordered all |
federal agencies to pitch in as
needed.
One official said the OPS plans
a “ruthless enforcement effort at
the outset.”
Oddly, at the same time, the
OPS enforcement chief suddenly
resigned. He is Rear Admiral
John H. Hoover, retired naval of
ficer. His reason for quitting was
not clear.
The twin freezes were welcom
ed by many men in Congress and
in business—but labor leaders
raised a big portest over the wage
freeze. They want flexible con
trols that will permit lagging
wages to catch up.
The Wage Stabilization Board,
which didn’t order the wage
freeze and took no responsibility
for it, renewed its work Saturday
on a flexible formula to replace
the freeze.
In a dramatic and turbulent set
ting, nearly exhausted officials
gave out the pews of the freezes
piecemeal. The process lasted
from 6 p.m. until nearly 1 o’clock
Saturday morning.
But most prices were frozen at
the highest level of the period
from Dec. 19 through Jan. 25—last
Thursday. Since very few things
have dropped in price during that
period, the general effect is to
freeze Jan. 25 prices.
Wages and salaries were simply
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Alaska Visitors
Assn. Elect Officers
And Make Plans
Plans to publicize Alaska’s out
standing tourist attractions and to
build up facilities to handle an in
creased tide of travelers in the
North advanced this week with
selection of its first slate of offi
cers by the newly organized Alas
ka Visitors Association.
Robert E. Ellis of Ketchikan has
been elected president; L. A.
Moore of Anchorage, first vice;
president; A. L. Kaye of Fair
banks, second vice president;
George Sundborg of Juneau, sec
retary; and Phil Johnson of Fair
banks, Juneau.
The officers, who are to serve
only until permanent organization
of the Association is perfected,
were selected by an executive
committee of 12 members who in
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MARCH OF DIMES CAMPAIGN
ENDS TUESDAY NIGHT
The March of Dimes committee
headed by Pete Reader and Elmer
Straub, have announced that the
campaign for funds will be com
pleted on Tuesday, Jan. 30, which
is the late President Roosevelt’s
birthday with a public dance at
the Nome High School.
The committee states that a
good orchestra has been obtained
for the evening and the admission
price has been set for only 50c so
that everyone can afford to go.
The National Foundation for In
fantile Paralysis is making its ap
peal this year for $50,000,000,
which will be used to fight what
its President Basil O'Connor
calls “Public Enemy No. 1 on the
list of epidemic diseases which
threaten the health of our home."
The local committee and their
wives are to be complimented for
the effort they have put into rais
ing funds for this all-important
cause.
The dance starts at nine o'clock
Tuesday evening.
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Korean Situation
At A Glance - - -
Saturday, January 27, 1951
(By The Associated Press)
TOKYO, (;P)—Gun-toting South
Korean sailors drove ashore at In
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chon in the cold grey dawn today
and raided the port of Seoul for
four hours.
To the east, Allied tanks and
troops drove through ankle deep
snow within less than 13 air miles1
of the old South Korean capital.
The tank column leading off
two Allied corps of American,
Turkish and South Korean foot
soldiers thrust four and one-half
miles north of Suwon, site of Ko
rea’s best airfield.
At its northernmost point of ad
vance, the column was only 14
road miles—less by air—from Se
oul.
The South Korean commandos
killed 40 Red Koreans at Inchon
and captured two. They met no
Chinese.
The raiders swarmed ashore
under the guns of the American
Cruiser St. Paul, the Canadian de
stroyer Cayuga and the U. S. de
stroyer Hank.
The swift-striking raiders suf
fered no casualties.
The Northward thrust along the
main road to Seoul, “heartbreak
highway,” began Thursday morn
ing. Two U. S. Eighth Army Corps
—the First and Ninth — jumped
off in a limited offensive and re
captured Suwon and Kumyang
jang.
An {A3) field dispatch said the
column was meeting only moder
ate resistance. Allied troops forg
ed ahead along a 40 miles front.
“We have hit fairly good enemy
positions but apparently have not
yet run into their main line of re
sistance,” a divisional officer said.
United Nations troops fought in
the pre-dawn darkness Saturday
with Red patrols that had sneak
ed back into Suwon. Guns flashed
in the night but the town' was re
ported cleared of Reds by day
light.
Allied warplanes and artillery
pounded small pockets of Reds in
dug-in hill positions.
The Allied drive along the west
ern front was the first big push
since Chinese Reds jumped into
the war in late November and re
versed General Mac Arthur’s “end
the-war— campaign into a long
retreat.
At Lake Success, the United
States stood pat today on its de
mand for a quick United Nations
vote condemning communist Chi
nese aggression in Korea, despite
a bewildering welter of new
“peace plans.”
Backed publicly by President
Truman and both the House and
the Senate, the U. S. delegation
said it would oppose any substan
tial changes in its resolution
which, as now constituted, tags
Red China an aggressor; asks the
U. N. collective measures commit
tee to consider the next step; and
create a three-man commission to
seek ways of ending the Korean
fighting and achieving U. N. aims
in that country by peaceful means.
Both Canada and Israel offered
new ideas yesterday designed to
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