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NEWS IN BRIEF
FAIRBANKS — Coach Lud
Urick of the U. of A. expects to
depart soTnetime during the sec
ond week in February with eight
or nine Polar Bears on a two-week
basketball tour of Southeastern
Alaska.
Coach Urick recently wrote let
ters to several of the Southeastern
cities in an attempt to line up a
schedule of games for the pro
posed two weeks jaunt. Last week,
as favorable letters began coming
in from several of the cities, Urick
and' his boys received the go
ahead from the Administration
and the ASUA, which both gave
their financial support to the plan.
Most of the towns have guaran
teed all or part of the gate receipts
to help defray the expenses erf
taking the hoopsters on the tour.
JOPLIN, (jP)—Charles (Gabby)
Street, former major league base
ball player and manager, died
yesterday. He was 68. Street, man
ager of the St. Louis Cardinals in
the early 1930’s, had been in a
weakened condition since an op
ertion 1st summer.
PASADENA, Calif., (iP)—They
believe in Santa Claus here.
A jury Monday found Venthor
Williams, 48, innocent of reckless
driving on last Dec. 21 when, at
tired as Santa Claus, he drove
down the main stem in a carefree
manner. He proved to police that
he wasn't drunk but they filed the
reckless charge against him.
“Those cops don't know plain
Christmas spirit when they see
it,” William testified. The jury,
however, did.
BOSTON, (#>) — The second of
Boston’s famous Allen quadrup
lets died early yesterday morning
at Children’s Medical Center.
Timothy, who weighed two
pounds and three ounces at birth
last Friday, died of respiratory
trouble doctors said.
Karen, who weighed slightly
over one pound, died Sunday
night.
They withheld the sad news
from their mother, however, be
cause, the doctors said, “She was
still broken up over Karen’s
death.”
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OTTAWA (/P)—Canada defense
minister Brooke Claxton, an
nounced in Parliament Monday
night a $5,000,000,000 three-year
defense program providing a
40-squadron air force of more
than 3,000 planes.
The proposed military expendi
ture overshadows anything Can
ada has ever known in peacetime.
It amounts to more than a quarter
of Canada’s World War II costs.
The program places the accent
on air power as Canada’s major
contribution to Gen. Dwight D.
Eisenhower’s Atlantic Alliance
forces.
NEW DELHI, India, (/P) — The
top of a 70-year-old clock tower
split in half here today, fell with
a crash into a teeming bazaar
street, and killed four men and
one woman. Eleven others were
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Lifting The Lid
At Juneau
| (By Jim Hutcheson)
I °
Tuesday* February 6* 1951
The House unanimously ap
proved a joint memorial by Rep.
C. Chester Carlson, (D.-Cordova),
after the Senate had okayed a
joint resolution by Sen. Elton
Engstrom, (R.-Juneau). Both asked
the U. S. Senate to refuse to rat
ify a Japanese treaty unless a
safeguard is included against re
jcurrence of prewar encroachments
by Japanese fishermen. Since each
is a point measure, approval of
the other House is required and
they probably will be joined in a
single measure.
Meanwhile competition between
two legislative investigating bills
continued as the House judiciary
committee reported both bills to
the floor without recommenda
tion. The measures then were re
ferred to the House ways and
| means committee.
One of the bills, by Rep. Glen
Franklin, (D.- 4th Div.) proposes
a special four member investigat
ing group. The second measure,
by Rep. Wendell Kay, CD .-Anch
orage), proposed a seven-member
legislative council for an overall
study of Territorial affairs and in
vestigations would be only one of
its several possible functions.
The House approved a memori
■ al by Rep. Jack Scavenius, D.-An
1 chorage, recommending early Ter
ritorial action toward an airfield
at Egegik.
Reps. W. W. Laws, (D.-Nome),
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Eighty-One Die In
Railroad Wreck
! _____
WOODBRIDGE,, N. J. (/P)—A
bright red commuter train flashed
toward Jersey’s north shore resi
dential area last night. It was
making good time.
Then . . .
A quiet section of town, a tem
porary wooden trestle and a
grinding, tearing crash in the win
try night.
Silence—just a billowing cloud
of dust and dirt mingled with
searing steam from the Pennsyl
vania Railroad express—followed
by piercing, chilling cries.
Eighty-one persons died. Those
who escaped considered them
selves lucky.
Mrs. Isabella Carlington of Ash
bury Park is one of these.
“I was thrown out of the win
dow, smashing my face and landed
in three feet of mud. A man’s leg
way lying alongside of me and I
got up and fled,” she said.'
Mrs. Josephine Brydon of South
j
Belmar, clutching a bloodied rag j
to her face, said she was saved
“by landing on a pile of dead.”
They talked as acetylene torch-1
ese bit their way through twisted ;
metal in the glare of floodlights.
“It happened so quickly that no
body had itme to shield their
faces,” Leslie Cavanaugh of Sea
Girt added.
“I saw many nearly cut in half
by glass splinters. . . . The man
next to me lost his arm ...”
Tie-Up Easing As
Some RR. Strikers
Return To Work
(By The Associated Press)
The critical and costly tie-up of
the nation’s railroad transporta
tion appeared easing today as
more striking switchmen joined
in the back-to work movements
which started yesterday.
However, there was not a full
scale return across the country
marking the end of the “sick call”
walkout which started on Jan. 30.
Indications were that the crip
pling week-long stoppage was
nearing an end in most parts of
the country.
Several bright spots appeared
on the troubled rail front follow
ing the first major break yester
day when thousands of switch
men returned to work.
Service was normal on major
lines in the New York and New
England areas. It was near nor
mal in many other cities. And
many carriers expressed hope for
, formal service soon as the back
to-work movement spread from
city to city.
But there were some dark spots
too, in the overall picture.
No improvement was reported
in the Seattle area.
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Gabrielson
of the Lomen Commercial Co., left
today with Pan American for a
! visit in the States, a combined
business and pleasure trip.
V
Terrific Atomic
Blast Breaks Las
Vegas’ Windows
LAS VEGAS, Nev. *(>P) — Win
dows shattered in this southern
Nevada city yesterday as two sep
arate shocks from the fifth atomic
test in 11 days rocked the city.
Police reported big show win
dows in two automobile agencies
spintered by sound waves.
A window in a garage also
cracked.
Clete Roberts, Los Angeles news
commentator who saw the mid
Pacific atomic tests at Bikini,
watched yesterday’s from the
hamlet of Cactus Springs, on the
edge of the government’s 5,000
square mile testing radnge.
“This was bigger than Bikini,”
Roberts said.
There were no reports of injur
ies, residents having been fore
warned of the possibility of glass
breaking shocks.
In Los Angeles, some 300 miles
distant, windows rattled in resi
dences and on the campus of the
University of California at Los
Angeles, at 6:12 a.m. (PST) — 24
minutes after the flash. Sound
travels about 1,000 feet a second.
Scientists have said that sound
waves might be felt as far away
as 1,000 miles if proper atmos
pheric conditions were present to
permit the concussion to bounce
off clouds or air strata.
Television cameras picked up
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Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Carrington of Seattle left New York City .
by Pan American Clipper last month enroute to Holland to attend
the wedding of their daughter. Miss Donna Carrington. The Car
ringtons are well-known throughout Alaska. He is the owner of
equipment stores in Nome, Fairbanks and Anchorage, as well as
in Seattle. He is a member of the Alaska Committee, Seattle Cham
ber of Commerce; Alaska-Yukon Committee, Seattle Historical
Museum. He has been active for many years in Territorial affairs
and is one of the founders of the Pacific Northwest Trade Associa
tion. The Carringtons planned to travel in Europe for several
weeks before returning to the U. S. in April.—Pan American Photo
Korean Situation .
At A Glance --- •
'
i Tuesday* February 6* 1951
(By The Associated Press)
Allied tank columns chewed
; into the main Red defense lines
i south of Parallel 38 today ani&
ground ahead against Chinese re
sistance that stiffened with the
dawn of their lunar New Year.
United Nations air, naval and
artillery barrages paved a fiery
path for the attacks. Allied foot
soldiers slogging behind the tanks
wiped out nests of Reds.
The Chinese threw tanks into
the battle for the first time in this
phase of the Korean War. They
rushed reinforcements south form
Seoul over a plang bridge span
ning the Han River. There were
indications that this was the big
effort to salute the outset of the
new “Year of the Rabbit”
On the western front a daylong
battle raged northwest and north
east of Anyang, a town nearly
nine miles south of Seoul.
On the central front, American
| troops blasted a hole through a
i Red battalion on the Hoengsong
Hongchcrn road. Then South Ko
rean regulars rolled through the
gap to a point only 25 miles from
the old Parallel 38 border.
There were these two omens:
The Chinese, observing the start
of their New Year of the Rabbit,
trundled up tanks for the first
time in the current phase of the
war. They also poured reinforce
ments across the frozen Han River.
Perhaps these were replace
| ments for the 57,000 killed or
wounded Red troops an 8th Army
officer claimed the enemy has suf
fered in less than two weeks. Per
haps it was a desperate effort to
fend off the mauling U. N. jabs.
Perhaps it heralded the long-ex
pected Chinese push south of
Seoul. The next 48 hours might
tell the story.
A Tokyo dispatch said Gen.
Douglas Mac Arthur is believed to
have recommended to Washington,
that Chinese Nationalist troops be
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CHAMBER OF
COMMERCE
Plans for the Chamber of Com
merce dinner were announced by
Larry Galvin at the luncheon yes
terday. He states that the dinner
is scheduled for Wednesday,
Feb. 14th at the Bering Sea Club
and tickets would go on sale im
mediately for all those who are
interested in the welfare of the
Division. Tickets are available at
Polet’s, N. C. Co., Nome Drug,
Nome Motors, Nome Hardware. A
good program is planned he said.
Special recognition was paid to
Floyd Wheeler who leaves this
week to be awarded a gold medal
for his heroic work in rescuing
two King Island natives from the
ice last spring. This employees
award by the Department of Com
merce will ibe given him at Wash
ington, D. C.
James Walsh announced that
there is a possibility that a 20th
Century Studio movie troupe will
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