OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOL. LII. No. 136 NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1950 _____ _Per^Copy——15£
NEWS IN BRIEF
WILKES-Barre, Pa. <#>) — John
Prebovich has a mind like an ele
phant when he goes bear hunting
—he seldom forgets.
Last winter, Prebovich and a
companion beoame lost in the
woods. Stumbling round in the
darkness, he tripped over an ob
ject which he at first took for a
boulder. The obstacle grunted and
walked away—it was a bear.
Yesterday, Prebovich went bear
hunting at the spot where he had
tripped over the bruin last year.
He came back with a 450-pound
specimen.
FAIRBANKS, (/P) — By five
votes, Republican House candidate
Alden Wilbur nosed out Democrat
Tom Jones in the ice and snow
delayed vote from the remote vil
lage of Anvik.
Heretofore they had been tied
in the race for the fifth Territori
al House of Representatives seat
from the Fourth Division.
The only change possible now
would be from a recount now be
ing made at the capital in Juneau.
ELLENSBURG, Wash. (/P) —
Larry Hightower brought his
wheelbarrow home yesterday.
As the ex-cowboy jockeyed his I
one-wheel contraption into the
center of town it marked the end
of a more than 20,000-mile jour
ney that began July 4, 1946. The
jaunt covered every state in the
Union and branched out into Can
ada and Mexico.
“I just figured a wheelbarrow
never had gone anywhere,” High
tower explained. “Can’t say that
now though.”
BELGRADE, Yugoslavia, (.P)—
The official news agency Tanjug
announced last night that 94 per
sons were drowned Wednesday
when a crowded ferryboat burst
its cables and overturned in the
Sava River.
Tanjug said so far only 17 bod
ies have been taken from the wa
ter. The disaster occurred near
the village of Orasja where the
river divides the Yugoslav Repub
lics of Bosnia and Croatia.
FAIRBANKS, (ffi) — When the
Alaska Coachways bus stopped at
Eileson Air Force Base gate yes
terday, everybody but one man
got off. The one man was Eugene
Doherty, 46, a boiler fireman. He
was dead erf a heart attack. A sis
ter, Martha Doherty of lone, Ore.,
survives.
JUNEAU, (/P)—‘Taku” winds,
sweeping off frigid Taku glacier
at 50 to 60 miles an hour, severe
ly damaged a cannery at nearby
Douglas yesterday.
Aluminum siding was torn off
and sent flying through the air,
rendering timid anybody trying -to
get close.
Douglas and Juneau stockhold
ers own the cannery.
WASHINGTON, {JP^Dr. G. M.
Sinclair, president of the Uni
versity erf Hawaii, said he found
President Truman “jbst as enthus
iastic as ever” for statehood fori
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U. S. Rearming
Japan To Meet
Red Threat
(By Keyes Beech)
Chicago Daily News Foreign Serv.
TOKYO—Japan quietly is pre
paring for war under American
leadership.
Five years after its surrender
this country of more than 80,000,
000 people is being rearmed by its
conqueror to meet the challenge j
of’ communist expansion in Asia.
The nucleus cff the new Japan
ese army—officially known as the
National Police Reserve—was cre
ated by General MacArthur four
months ago after the outbreak of
the Korea war.
Today 75,000 reservists -r- the
equivalent of four army divisions
—are in training at 31 different
camps.
More than half of these reserv
ists are veterans of the Second
World War. Many saw combat in
the Philippines, Burma and China.
They need little training except
for physical conditioning.
Among them are 5,000 former
officers. Career officers — gradu
ates of Japanese military nad na
val academies — are barred be
cause they were purged by occu
pation directive. But hundreds of
cadets whose training was cut
short by the war’s end are eligi
ble.
MacArthur’s headquarters two
weeks ago made 3,000 career of
ficers available by depurging
those professionals who had no
military training or experience be
fore Pearl Harbor.
Many of these military career
ists, eager to be back with the
troops, immediately headed for
the Police Reserve. They accepted
depurging as a signal from the oc
cupation that they were needed in
the jobs for which they were
trained.
Although this was news, noth
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Scout Jamboree
Pictures Shown
Colored slides of the Alaska
troop’s participation in the Second
National Jamboree at Valley
Forge this summer were shown to
all boys in the grade school and
high school Tuesday afternoon by
Midnight Sim District field execu
tive Duane Force and Alaska
Scout executive Maurice Powers.
The slides show participation of
the 37 Alaska boys and their five
leaders in the six-weeks long trip.
Nome was represented by Scout
Ralph Bingham who flew from
Nome to Fairbanks and joined the
delegation there. The trip to the
States was made by way of the
Alaska Steamship Company, with
Scouts being required to earn all
or part of their way.
The slides were also shown to
Rotarians at their weekly lunch
eon Thursday, since they we^e in
strumental in seeing that Nome
was represented on the trip. The>
next national jamboree will be
held in 1953, acording to Powers;
who accompanied thevgroup this
summer.
Scout Finance
Drive Meets With
Good Response
Twenty Nome businessmen are
doing their “Good Turn” for the
boys of Nome this week by help
ing with the annual Boy Sccrut
finance campaign under the gen
eral chairmanship of Bud Harper.
Following an early-m o r n i n g
breakfast yesterday, attended by
workers and several Boy Scout as
sistants, the volunteer crew start
ed contacting Nome businesses
and individuals. By 5:00 p.m.
Thursday $431.00 had been turned
in to the auditing committee, with
exactly half the workers not yet
1 having made their first report.
Most of the ten reporting were
holding out cards which required
further contact, Harper reported.
A special colorful pin, used in
similar campaigns all over Alaska
this year for the first time, was
distributed to all Nome residents
contributing. Money raised in the
campaign will be used during the
coming year to bring professional
assistance from Fairbanks to the
Nome Cub Scout, Boy Scout, and
Explorer leaders and committees,
and to provide the other services
of the Alasak Council. The new
field executive for the Interior
will also be able to assist Nome
scoutmasters in the operation of a
week-long summer camp here,
thus enabling Nome boys to have
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Cachet To Honor
PAA Pacific Flying
The U. S. postoffice department
will carry special airmail covers
November 22 on Pan American
World Airways anniversary flight
commemorating 15 years of trans
pacific flying, the airline an
nounced today.
Collectors should send self-ad
dressed and stamped airmail en
velopes in another envelope to:
‘-Anniversary Flight, Pan Ameri
can World Airways, Box 151,
South Sian Francisco.” Letters for
the anniversary flight must reach
this address by November 21.
Pan American will affix an an
niversary cachet on the covers.
They will be delivered td the San
Francisco post office and dis
patched in a special pouch aboard
the 15th anniversary flight to
Honolulu. At Honolulu, the cov
ers .will be backstamped and re
dispatched to San Francisco for
air delivery to the addressee.
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CLEVELAND, Tenn., (AV-Gen.
Jonathan Walnwright says he
fssors that if a major war comes
with Ruasia, she would invade
this country through Alaska and
along the west coast of America.
Gen. Walnwright spoke hero
last night at a banquet given in
his honor by the Disabled Amer
ican Veterans.
The famous Bataan commander,
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referring to the present conflict in
Korea, added, "1 am worried
about tlie possible outcome of this
—I call it—a little two-bit war
with Russia." ,
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,A Name
For A Church
After fifty years of service in a
community, a church has usually
permanently established its name,
but the f a m iliar “Federated
Church” has so far gpne by four
different names and may yet have
another. Dating from the very
earliest days of Nome, it was
first called the Union Church for
a very brief time. There was a
sudden rush of thousands of peo
ple—and clergymen, and the
church became the ‘^Pioneer Con
gregational Church.” With a gift
of $3,000 from New England in
1902, along with generous local
contributions of money and labor,
the building was erected and
called the ‘Tilgrim Congregation
al Church.”
In 1913 the Methodist Church,
then housed since 1906 in the
building now known as the La
vinia Wallace Young Mission,
formed a federated arrangement
with the Congregational Church,
and was named the “Federated
Church.” That had an alternating
arrangement ctf ministers from
the two denominations of two
years each until 1921, when it was
agreed that the clergymen ought
to stay at least three years be
tween boats. From that time on it
became increasingly difficult to
secure ministers, with several pe
riods recently when no minister
from the Congregational church
could be secured.
In 1948 the matter of an ade
quate ministry for the Nome
church came before the Alaska
Committee of the North American
Home Missions Council, and a
year’s study was given to the mat
ter, with a committee sent to
Nome' to study the program and
future. In the summer of 1949 it
was determined that the Metho
dist church should be charged
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Charge U. S. Plane
Buzzed Soviet
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Hospital Plane
BERLIN, (JP) — The Russians
have charged—and U. S. authori
ties quickly denied — that an
American jet fighter endangered
a Soviet hospital plane carrying
French communist leader‘Maurice
Thorez to Moscow by swooshing
within 10 yards of the craft.
Gen. Vassily Chuikov, chief of
the Soviet forces in Germany,
sent a formal protest to U. S.
high commissioner John J. Mc
Cloy Wednesday night. It asserted
; the jet fighter threatened the Sov
iet plane despite Russian advance
notice of the flight.
A U. S. air force spokesman at
Frankfurt said the hospital ship
had failed to contact the Rhine
Main airport when it approached
en route from Paris to Berlin last
Saturday. He declared the U. S.
plane then approached the craft
—not closer than 500 feet — to
identify it. •
Thorez, meantime, arrived safe
yl in Moscow, according to the
communist party newsp a p e r
Pravda. 1
Korean Situation
At A Glance —
Thursday, November 16, 1950
(By The Associated Press)
U. N. troops advance unopposed
three miles on frozen 30-mile
northwest front through sleet #
storm. In northeast, U. S. Seventh
Division units gain five miles over
wintry terrain on Pungsan front.
Further northeast, South Korean
Capital Division smahses Red at
tack on Myongchon front, gains
two miles. U. S. Marines encoun
ter sizable Red force near Chang
jin reservoir.
Korean spokesmen are expected
to back up Gen. MacArthur’s
charges of Red Chinese interven
tion in Korea at U. N. Security
Council meeting. The Chinese
communist delegation is not ex
pected to arrive at Lake Success
until Nov. 24.
Friady, November 17, 1950
U. N. forces make slow and cau
tious advance over most of the
250-mile North Korean front. U.
S. Seventh Division reaches with
in 20 miles of Manchurian border
southwest of Kapsan. U. S. 24th
Division patrols gain six miles in
northwest. Red guerrillas open up
“second front” in Allied rear.
The U. S. state department ra
dio is beamed toward communist
China and repeats President Tru
man’s assurance that U. S. has no
intention of invading Manchuria.
At Lake Success Russia threatens
to veto U. S.-backed resolution
demanding Red China withdraw
troops from Korea.
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German Re-Arma
ment Issue Still
Deadlocked
WASHINGTON, (/P) — Another
effort to break the German re
armament deadlock and get on
with organization of a combined
defense force for Western Europe
is scheduled in London next
month.
The North Atlantic Military
Committee expects to get together
about Dec. 4 with the North At
lantic Council of Foreign Minis
ters* deputies, now in session
there.
The military committee, com
posed of top ranking military of
ficers of the North Atlantic treaty
nations, and the council of depu
ties are seeking a German rearm
ament plan on which the U. S.t
France, and the other member na
tions can agree.
A deadlook between U. S. and
French proposals for using West
ern Germans led the North Atlan
tic defense ministers last month
to postpone further steps toward
organizing Western Europe’s de
fenses and appointing an Ameri
can—expected to be Gen. Dwight
D. Eihenhower—as their supreme
*
commander.
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Dean Alexander, who was
taken to Anchorage for (treatment
on her injured shoulder, returned
home with her mother, Mrs. Hous
ton Alexander, and Is reported
Reeling fine again.