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VOL. LII, No. 77 NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, JUNE 30, 1950 Per Copy—15c
NEWS IN BRIEF
TOKYO. (/P)—Lt. Gen. George
E. Stratemeyer, commander of
the Far East Air Forces, said yes
terday no North Korean planes
were being flown by Russians.
He issued the statement in de
nial of reports published in the
United States that many of the
northern planes had Russian pi
lots. These reports weer not car
ried by the Associated Press.
VALLEY FORGE, N. Y. (yP) —
Thirty-seven Boy Scouts from
Alaska returned yesterday to ac
tivities of the National Boy Scout
jamboree but they had a whale of
a few hours Wednesday.
Rumor spread about the camp
ing grounds that the Senate and
House has passed the Alaska
Hawaii Statehood bills and they
were awaiting President Truman’s
signature.
The Alaskan Scouts started
work immediately on a tremen
dous scaffold to hang Texas in ef
figy as the largest state.
Then came the truth—the Sen
ate insular committee was the
only Congressional group to act
on House-passed bills to grant
statehood to Alaska and Hawaii.
TOKYO, (yP)—A North Korean
radio broadcast asserted yester
day that 27 U. S. bombers blasted
Pyongyang, the communist capi
tal. There was no confirmation of
this report. American warplanes
are under orders to confine their
fighting to the skies over South
Korea.
The Pyongyang radio as heard
here said 300 bombs were dropped
ranging in weight from 100 to
1,000 pounds.
FAIRBANKS, Two civil air pa
trol planes and a helicopter from
the Tenth Rescue Squadron are
searching for John Patrick, about
40, missing since Monday.
Patrick, a carpenter, reportedly!
was on a hiking and prospecting
trip but was not carrying a gun.
Carpenters have been on strike
here.
Patrick’s wife, Ethel, and two
children live at Sunnydale, Calif.
ISTANBUL. Turkey, (JP) — The
Turkish army’s chief of staff to
day denied reports of Russian
troop concentrations on the Turk
Russian border.
“If there was such a thing, you
would not have seen me busy with
maneuvers here,” Gen. Nuri Ya
muo told newspapermen.
The Turkish army, equipped |
with modern American arms, held
military maneuvers yesterday 42,
miles west of Ankara.
NEW YORK. f/P) — The civil
aeronautics administration an
nounced that a passenger had
been sacked out of a plane over
Accomac. Va., early today.
The report said a rear cargo
door of a plane owned by the Ar
gonaut Airlines blew open and
air currents pulled out the pas
senger who was standing near the
door. The passenger was identi
fied as James Trotter, of Miami
Springs, Fla., one of 20 passengers
aboard.
Allies Recapture
Kitnpo Airport In
South Korea
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(By The Associated Press)
Behind the pounding of seven
American superfortresses, South
Korean forces stormed back to the
offensive yesterday and rcoccu
pied strategic Kimpo airport. 16
miles west northwest of fallen
Seoul.
While American bombers were
blasting communist North Korean
invaders out of the field, U. S.
and Korean strategists drew their
main battle line along the Han
River and ordered it held at all
costs. About 25,000 troops on each
side face each other along the line
which extends from a point just
southeast of Seoul westward to
the Yellow Sea and communist
held Ichon. The communist drive
southward has not yet crossed the
river.
The 75-mile battle line protects
the American air beachhead in
Orea and field headquarters of
Gen. MacArthur’s officers. Mac
Arthur’s officers said they believe
jthe South Koreans can hold it
now.
MacArthur, back in Tokyo after
a 15-hour flying visit to the front,
appeared heartened by the stiff
ening resistance he saw and the
morale of the Koreans, who
cheered him. The Southerners ap
parently were recovering from
the initial shock of the communist
invasion. Infantry units once cut
off by the Red tank attack which
enveloped Seoul were being re
grouped swiftly to join the coun
ter-offensive. U. S. warships hit
North Korean naval and ground
units near Inchon, the port of
Seoul, to aid the Southern forces.
The South Koreans moved in—
at least temporarily— on Kimpo
airfield just after two American
bombers blasted the communists
out of the field. To the southeast,
Seoul, South Korea’s capital ap
peared for the present firmly in
Red hands, with street fighting
virtually at an end.
American bombing and supply
operations were stepped up with
the entrance of the B-29 super
forts into the mouting offensive.
Other B-29’s bombed targets near
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BULLETIN
WASHINGTON, (/P) — A bill
giving miners on public land
three more months to complete
their annual assessment work was
signed yesterday by President
Truman.
Basic mining law requires that
the claimants to mining rights on
public land perform $100 worth of
work on his property each fiscal
year. The fiscal year ends tonight,
June 30.
The measure signed yesterday
signed yesterday gives the claim
owners until October 1 to com
plete the work for the current fis
cal year.
It does not apply to other years.
To obtain the additional time,
the claim owner must give notice
by July 1 that he intends to take
advantage of the new law.
Stalin Ilad Heart
Attack June 2
SALEM. Mass.. (/P)—Col. Rol
and W. Estey, U. S. A. R., writil
today in the Salem Evening News,
said Premier Stalin suffered a
heart attack. June 2, while on aj
plane flight hound for Chuvash.
Estey said he received the in
formation from sources in Europe
and that it had been turned over
to our intelligence agency.
The colonel wrote the plane
was enroute for a conference in
the town of Chita, approximately
100 miles north of the Chinese
border.
.‘The heart attack apparently
was of such a nature,” Estey
wrote, “it seemed wise to return
him to Moscow and permit his
impersonator to proceed on the
trip.”
A former O.S.S. officer, Estey
said that during the May 31 dem
onstration in Moscow Stalin be-1
came fatigued and his double
again took his place.
Estey said he received a letter
June 21 from Europe containing
this message: ‘(Watch Formosa or
Chosen before one July.”
He explained Chosen is some
times used instead of Korea.
Estey said his friend had the
information six days before the
aggression leading to the belief
the communists in North Korea
jumped the gun.
WASHINGTON, (/P) — A bill
calling for government construc
tion of a $7,000,000 cement plant
in Alaska has been introduced by
Senator McCarran (D.-Nev.‘.
The bill would permit the gov
ernment to operate the plant, or to
sell or lease it for cement produc
tion.
U. N. Builds Up !
Powerful Fleet In !
Korean W aters
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NEW YORK, (/Pi—A powerful
United Nations fleet is building up
in the West Pacific to aid com-,
munist-invaed South Korea.
British Commonwealths have
rallied behind Britain with offers
of ships to help the U. S. fleet.
Australia announced her naval
units in Japanese waters—a de
stroyer and a frigate—were avail
able to support American forces.
New Zealand also voiced readi
ness to make her navy of one
cruiser and six frigates available.
They are now on maneuvers near
Fiji and are understood to be in
constant touch with their head
quarters at Wellington.
Britain already had placed her
For Eastern naval forces at the
disposal of the U. S. commanders.
The British have 22 or 23 ships in
Japanese waters, including an air
craft carrier with 40 fighter
planes and an unspecified number
of land-based navy planes.
The United States now has 18
warships in the far Pacific. Thir
teen of these are in the Seventh
Fleet, which President Truman di
rected to protect Formosa. They
include an aircraft carrier and a
heavy cruiser.
In Japanese waters are a light
cruiser and four destroyers.
The U. S. navy alsa was assem
bling a second large-size Pacific
task force to closely support the
Seventh Fleet. It is to include the
27,000-ton carrier Philippine Sea,
two cruisers, a squadron of de
stroyers nad a full seatrain of sup
ply ships, permitting long-range
missions if necessary.
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1950 Fourth of July Program
10:30 A.M.—PARADE _ . .
Marching Units will assemble in front of Federal Building to be
gin march to City Hall.
10:45 A.M.—CHILDREN’S COSTUME CONTEST
(In Front of City Hall)
Chairman: Mrs. Nell Muncy. Assisted by Mrs. Don Travis
Prizes will be awarded for the following:
(1) Best Independence Day Costume.$5.00
(2) Cutest Costume (limited to ages 2-10 years) .$5.00
(3) Best Native Costume .$5.00
(4) Most distinctively decorated vehicle with occupant... $5.00
11:30 A M —PATRIOTIC EXERCISES:
(In Front of City Hall)
Invocation .Chaplain Fricke
Address of Welcome .Mayor Steve Anderson
Preamble to The Constitution .Miss Irene Gray
Address of the Day .Lt. Col. Donald C. Jamison
Master of Ceremonies .Theodore C. Duffield
Program Chairman .James M. McLean
Lester Bronson
(Special appreciation to the Fire Department and to Chief Laws for
the arrangement of the speaker's platform).
12 Noon—FREE ICE CREAM TO THE CHILDREN
(To be distributed by Chief Laws at the City Hall)
1 P.M.—CHILDREN S SPORTS !
Chairman: Lud Urick
Assisted by members of The American Legion
Prizes
60-yard Dash (Boys 13 to 16) 3.00 2.00 1.00
30-yard Dash (Boys 8 to 12) 3.00 2.00 1.00
25-yard Dash (Boys 7 and under) 3.00 2.00 1.00
50-yard Dash (Girls 13 to 16) 3.00 2.00 1.00 j
21-yard Dash (Girls 8 to 12) 3.00 2.00 1.00
25-yard Dash (Girls 7 and under) 3.00 2.00 1.00
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Truman (Irdrrs
Use Of l . S. I roops
In Korean \\ar
fBy The Associated Press4
President Truman today author
ized the use of American infan
try against the communist invad
ers in the Korean War. He did
this as Tokyo military sources re
ported Red tanks lancing at least
15 miles south of the vital Han
River defense line.
The American headquarters po
sition at Suwon was threatened in
the new communist thrust against
the thinly defended line.
Gen. MacArthur’s headquarters
confirmed that the invaders made
a breakthrough southwest of
Seoul.
President Truman, apparently
acting on the recommendation of
Gen. MacArthur, authorized him
“to use certain supporting ground
units” in efforts to stop the com
munists.
MacArthur has an army
strength of 123,000 men in his
Pacific command.
Under the President’s author
ization, the U. S. Air Force may
fly on specific missions into Com
munist North Korea if necessary,
and the U. S. navy will blockade
the entire coast line of Korea.
U. S. warships already have
been shelling communist pos
tions, and air force planes ha- e
been on forays against North Ko
rean air force bases wherever
they could find them.
The President announced his
grave decisions to his cabinet,
joint chiefs of staff and ranking
members of Congress, shortly af
ter the defense department re
ceived advices on the break,
through.
The Han River line south of
Seoul has been thinly defended
by Koreans, pending the arrival
in greater strength of American
heavy weapons. The defenders
lack artillery and tanks. A breach
in the line threatens the concrete
airstrip at Suwon, the only field
in the area which can handle the
big planes ferrying in supplies
and ammunition.
Earlier reports said South Ko
rean defenders, aided by Ameri
can warplanes, had re-entered the
suburbs of South Korea’s capital,
Seoul, and had driven out Com
munist tank forces. The reports
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Fiscal Deficit Hits
S3.500.000.000
WASHINGTON, (/P)—The gov
ernment finished fiscal 1950 to
day, and near.complete figures
virtually guaranteed a budget
deficit below $3,500,000,000.
The treasury, promising to have
final data available Monday, re
ported the government was $2,
103,773,000 in the red on fiscal
1950 operations through .Tune 23.
Today’s outlays alone, however,
were expected to add at least one
billion dollars to the deficit total.
Final day spending will include
a payment of more than $700,000,
000 on the $250,500,000,000 feder
al debt.