VOL. LIII. No. 20 NOME, ALASKA FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1951 Per Copy—15c
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NEWS IN BRIEF
WASHINGTON, </P), Announced
U.S. combat casualties in Korea
rose to 48,035 today, an increase
of 647 in a week.
The total, which reflects notifi
cations to families through Feb. 9,
included 7,245 killed in action, 31,
315 wounded and 9,395 missing.
Of those on the wcrunded list,
826 have since died and 83 of the
missing are known dead, raising
total U.S. combat deaths for the
campaign to 8,154.
The missing total also includes
912 who have since returned to
U.S. military control and 111
known prisoners of war, leaving
8,289 currently missing.
SAN FRANCISCO, (£>)— Globe
wireless reported today it had
heard a relayed distress call from
the Swedish motorship Christen
Salen that it had broke in two in
the Pacific off the east coast of
Japan.
Globe said the U. S. military
sea transport Marine Phoenix re
dioed it was on the way and would
arrive in six hours.
WASHINGTON, (/P)—Secretary
of the Interior Chapman yester
day appointed Donald R. Wilson,
Woonsocket, R. I., as district di
rector of the interior department’s
public workrs program in Alaska.
Wilson will be stationed at Jun
eau. Now on an extended vacation
in the United States, Wilson was
c'ty managr of Anchorage, Alaska,
from June 1943 to June 1950.
John D. Argetsinger, district
engineer of the public works pro
gram, has been in charge of the
Alaska office. He will remain
there as district engineer, Chap
man said.
Congress has authorized a five
year $70,000,000 public works pro
gram for Alaska. Applications for
more than that amount of con
struction already have been re
ceived. Congress has appropriated
S10,000,000 to start the program.
TOKYO, (iP)—Keishi Tonegawa
was not one to let Tokyo’s heavi
est snowfall in 15 years keep him
from his job.
The 15-year-old copy boy in the
Associated Press Tokyo* bureau
went to the railroad station at 7:00
ajn. as usual. The trains were not
running.
Keishi started walking. He
reached the office seven hours
and 20 miles later—just in time to
turn around and go home. By
then, trains were running.
LOS ANGELES {JP)—A 15-year
old girl became a mother of twins
Wednesday, making grandparents
of her father and mother, both at
the age of 32.
Mrs. Barbara Solomon, Haw
thorne, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Charles Brannen, gave birth to
premature babies.
The twins, weighing four
pounds, 11 ounces and four pounds
seven ounces, were placed in in
cubators.
WASHINGTON, {/^President
Truman said yesterday he does
not intend to replace Ingraham
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|C. of C. Animal
j Dinner Meeting
Very Inspiring
The annual dinner meeting of
the Chamber' of Commerce held
at the Bering Sea Club Wednes
day evening was an inspiring
meeting of this group of active,
far-visioned businessmen of the
area and their visitors.
Following a delicious turkey
dinner toastmaster and president
A. Saario called on secretary Po
1 t for the announcement of new
directors chosen for 1951, who are
Boyd Harwood, H. F. Harper,
John McNees and Don Hurlbert;
after which he gave a resume of
the many activities of the Cham
ber during the past year.
Superintendent of the Nome
School Wm. Angell, gave a short
history of the American school
system, which is the oldest public
school system in the world, and
i told of the exceptionally fine rec
ord the Nome School has, the
proof being in the children who
leave this school and find them
selves well placed in any school in
the States.
Territorial assayer, Dan Jones,
reviewed the many important
| metals that are found in this area,
several of which are listed among
j the important and strategic types
' such as antimonyand beryllium.
He stated that the antimony
| which is a by-product of the gold
| industry at Big Hurrah in the Sol
omon area is now worth $500.00 a
! ton.
Beryllium to be found in the
j Sawtooth range north of us, is
now $3000.00 a ton. He also men
tioned the chromium, iron caps,
bismuth, etc., found here, as well
as the copper deposits of the Ko
buk, Noatak; and graphite at
Imuruk Basin.
He stated that the government
is continuing its work this season
in studying the tin, which at York
ad Wales there is an estimated
four million pounds.
Two million tons of ore have
been blocked out and a possible
four million tons can be consid-1
ered in addition to this.
Sheelite, which is now selling |
for $3.00 a pound, is available fofr
the finding in many of our
streams, and the all-important
uranium, it has been disclosed,
recently is in our Haycock district.
The figures on coal are fantastic
but reveal the immensity of the
projects for the future. An estim
ated six trillion tons of coal in a
150-mile area at Lisbcrume awaits
capital and financing, and accord
ing the Dan, “a faith in the future
of the Second Division.”
A tglk on roads by Richard Lee,
Jr., was the logical sequence to
mining, and as Mr. Lee explain
ed “goes hand in hand with devel
opment of the area.”
He urged the Chamber to con
tinue its work on the Nome-Solo
mcm road for three reasons: 1st
to open the mineral potentialities;
2nd as a link in the highway sys
tem of America and a step toward
the Nome-Fairbanks connection,
which is no longer a dream but a
necessity; 3rd a vital means of
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Korean Situation.
At A Glance —
Thursday, February 15, 1951 .
(By The Associated Press)
U. N. farces now down thou
sands of Reds to break the back,
momentarily at least, of the mas
sive drive to the vital road on the
central front. Throughout Korea
the enemy suffered 10,593 casual
ties in one day. Allied hold the
ground on the 20-mile line be
tween Wanju and Chipying, but
expect continued assaults by the
Reds without regard to loss of
manpower.
Gen. Eisenhower leaves again
for Paris to try to build up West
Europe’s defense. Representatives
I of five European powers meet in
1 Paris to confer on the French-sup
ported plan for pooling European
armies to be put at Eisenhower’s
i disposal.
In Hong Kong, China observers
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LATEBULLETINS
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(Special to The Nugget)
JUNEAU (/P)—The Senate pass
ed Anderson's Senate joint memo
rial for a road from Nome to Solo
mon-Council Road. The memorial
| is to the Secretary of the Interior
I and others. It urges the budget
Bureau to approve and Congress
to pass supplemental appropriation
to be expended in accordance with
previous recommendations and
the request of the Alaska Road
Commission. The Senate approv
ed after Senators Anderson and
Lyng described the road as vitally
needed.
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WASHINGTON. (JP) — The Of
fice of Price Stabilization has an
nounced it would employ thirty
persons in Alaska to enforce price
controls.
The Alaska office, headed by
Frederick G. Hanfords, will be in
Juneau. The staff includes price
executive, business analyst, com
modities branches, economic, legal
and information departments.
Want to Send Four
More Divisions To
Western Europe !
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WASHINGTON, (^—Adminis
tration plans contemplate that six
U. S. army divisions—triple the j
American forces now in Europe—!
will serve with the combined Al
lied armies being organized to de
fend Western Europe against pos
sible communist aggression.
Secretary of Defense Marshall
gave the figure, which means
sending over four additional divi
sions, to the Senate foreign rela
tions and armed services commit
tees yesterday. He said he did it
“reluctantly” but in belief it was
better than to have a debate over
uncertainties.
Marshall gave no over-all figure
as to numbers of men. But an
American army division consists
of about 18,000 men. In addition,
support elements — supply and
m a i n t e nance, communication,
transportation and other .units—
are needed to keep combat forces
in a state of readiness.
The United States now has in
Europe the First Infantry Division
and a constabulary force—equiv
alent to a second division—train
ed and equiped for field combat,
yet the last official indication cff
troop strength was about 97,000
men. Thus more than 60,000 men
of the present force presumably
are in support elements.
The Senate committees are con
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ICEBREAKER BURTON ISLAND
VISITS KING ISLAND
The Ice Breaker M. S. Burton
Island, which was the first boat
to ever visit Nome in the winter,
when it called here year before
last, has just, returned from a trip
to King Island and report that all
is well on the Island, and the
hunting is well under way.
Several Polar Bear have been
caught to date.
The Burton Island does not plan
to call into Nome on this trip due
to weather conditions.
“MIND IF WE MAKE A SUGGESTION?”
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Lifting The Lid
At Juneau
(By Jim Hulchefon) ,
Thursday, February 15, 1951
JUNEAU, {JP)—Alaska lawmak
ers returned tojroutine legislative
problems today, the bitter House
dispute over the proposed reap
pearance of a former legislator at
a closed door session apparently a
closed issue.
The House reversed itself yes
terday and voted 12 to 11 against
inviting former Rep. Marcus Jen
sen, a severe critic of government
affairs, • to appear at the closed
door session.
Today committees of both Hous
es were at work on numerous bills
preparing them for action on the
floor.
Senate and House committees
also were working steadily on the
major job of framing a territorial
budget. With few bills getting
through the Senate, it was be
coming increasingly clear that
earlier predictions that the budget
would be the main task of the
legislature were running true.
Caustic remarks were tossed in
the territorial House yesterday
before the 12-11 vote withdrew
the previously tendered invitation
to Jensen. Jensen was to have
appeared today on the basis of a
13-11 “aye” vote Tuesday.
Rep. Wendell P. Kay, Anchor
age Democrat, who gave notice
Tuesday he would move for re
consideration, withdrew the no
tice yesterday. However, Rep.
Jack Conright (D - Anchorage)
picked it up and the proposal was
defeated 12-11:
Rep. Stanley J. McCutcheon,
Anchorage Democrat who had
been Jensen’s special target in
numerous accusations about gov
ernment affairs, abstained from
voting. He said any decision of
the House was satisfactory to
him. » " <
There were arguments yester
day against “digging up dead
horses,” “airing dirty linen,” and
“tossing more dirt onto what is al
ready piled up.”
Speaker William Eagan (D-Val
dez) left the chair to make an ap
peal against Jensen’s appearance
on the ground that he made
“headlines and insinuations that
terrible things were going on in
the territorial government” for
many months but never found
enough to support court action.
Kay suggested Jensen might
have something constructive to
offer but said “if he only wanted
to wash dirty linen I think he
would be severely castigated by
the House.”
After Egan talked against invi
ting Jensen, Hep. Glen Franklin
(D-Boundary) expressed the .belief
the speaker was “being misled
somewhat by personal feelings.”
“There may be something else
Jensen has that would be of value
to us as legislators,” Franklin
said, adding, “we could always
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SPECIAL
Nome beat Cordova to
lay 33 to 24, in the Fiur
ftendezvous Tournament.
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