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_OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—LZSMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOL. LII. No. 92 NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 4, 1950 • Per Copy—15c
NEWS IN BRIEF
BOWLING GREEN, Md., (/P)—
The Bowling Green volunteer1 fire
company’s baby contest Aug. 16 is
being planned down to the last de
tail.
Seven experienced baby-sitters
will be on hand.
And there will be a booth, man
ned by trained personnel of a dia
per service, to deal with all even
tualities.
SEATTLE, i/P) — The polling
place in the union-jurisdiction
election being conducted among
non-resident Alaskan salmon can
nery workers will be open tomor
row and Monday, the regional of
fice of the National Labor Rela
tions Board announced yesterday.
Cannery workers retu r n i n g
from Port Moller and Ugashik are
voting now. The polling place will
be open from 9 a.m. until noon
each day.
The Alaska Fish Cannery Work
ers’ union (AFL); Local 77, United
Packinghouse Workers’ union
(CIO); and Local 7-C, Internation
al Longshoremen & Warehouse
men’s Union (CIO), are compet
ing in the election.
FAIRBANKS, (JP)—A one-cyl
inder motor scooter was Ronald
Bulstrode’s vehicle as he headed
down the Alaska Highway Wed
nesday toward his home on Long
Island, N. Y.
The 26-year-old car p e n t e r
hoped to be the first to travel the
northern highway by scooter. He
expressed confidence that “if ev
erything holds together” he will
complete the 4,500-mile trip by!
September.
Bustroed has worked on the
Eielson Air Base since March. He
has a wife and four-year-old son
at home.
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PARIS, (JP)— Henry Parkman,
56-year-old Boston lawyer, sol
dier and military government ex
pert, yesterday became the Mar
shall plan’s boss for France.
Parkman, succeeding Louisville
publisher Barry Bingham as chief
of the European Economic Coop
eration mission to France, was
sworn into office yesterday morn
ing. He will have the diplomatic
rank of minister.
WASHINGTON, (/P)—The army
announced today it will call out
62,000 individual reservists dur
ing September and October, “with
or without their consent,” for 21
months of duty.
They will come from a pool of
about 185,000 enlisted male, re
servists who are not members of
the organized corps units. They
will be used primarily to bring
the National Guard and organized
reserve units to full strength.
ANCOUVER, (/P)—Earlscourt, a
boarding house here, has lost its
star boarder. Bachelor Paul Mar
mette—at 92 British Columbia’s
oldest railway pensioner — has
moved from the boarding house
after 55 years continuous resi
dence there. He will be cared for
at a nursing home.
High And Low
Mourn Passing Of
Capt. A. E. Lathrop
SEATTLE, iff)—'The people of
the Pacific Northwest—the bar
ber and the banker, the industri
alist and the housewife, the law
yer and the janitor—paid final
tribute yesterday to Austin E.
Lathrop, an Alaskan who was one
of them.
They came from all walks of
life, and from far places, and si
lently and reverently filed past
his casket to say their goodbyes to
a man wh had made his fortune,
and had made history, as an in
dustrial builder in Alaska.
Then “Cap” Lathrop, who had
died in an accident July 26 while
working at his coal mine at Sun
trana, was laid to rest in a grove
of dogwood and fir trees at For
est lawn cemetery beside his par
ents and two sisters.
The service, which had been
transferred from a funeral home
to Seattle’s big First Methodist
Church because of the number of
| people who wanted to attend, was
! impressive in its simplicity.
The more than 600 persons
gathered in the church in the city
i in which Austin Lathrop started
his almost legendary career 61
years ago, heard him eulogized
by the Rev. Cyrus E. Albertson as
a man of courage and of daring,
who had that most important of
all things—“Faith in himself, in
the future of this great section of
the continent, and in his God.”
“The development of this great
Northwest and of the great north
land has been led by men of
faith,” he said. “All these years,
Austin E. Lathrop, with countless
others, have had faith that this
was the land of tomorrow.” •
These friends, some of whom
had pioneered with the big,gray
haired kindly man in Valdez, in
Cordova, in Anchorage and in
Fairbanks, also heard it said that
Alaska has never known a greater
sorrow of its own. And even the
years and the passage of time will
find hardship in replacing his loss,
and softening the sorrows we ex
perience here today.”
The service was the second
held for “Cap” Lathrop. Hundreds
had jammed the Empress Theater
in Fairbanks for a memorial serv
ive last Sunday.
“Cap” lay in a big, bronze cas
ket at the foot of the altar. Par
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ISRAEL TESTS
AIR RAID SIRENS
JERUSALEM. (jP)—Israeli au
thorities are testing Jerusalem’s
air raid sirens. Police clear the
streets when the warning blast
goes and require all Israelis to re
main indoors until the “all clear”
! is sounded.
BULLETIN
LAKE SUCCESS, (/P)—'The Se
curity Council yesterday rejected
Soviet Russia's demand to con
sider seating of Red China in the
United Nations ahead of the Kore
an problem by a vote of 8 to L
Russia standing alone with Yugo
slavia and India abstaining.
U. S. Tank-Led
Battalion Gets 22 -
Miles Behind Reds
(By Don Whitehead)
An Advance U. S. Command
Post, Korea (^P)—This is the amaz
ing story of a U. S. battalion that
fought it sway 22 miles behind
the enemy lines, battled again and
saved a regimental command post
from destruction in a savage
struggle yesterday morning.
There hasn’t been anything
quite like this daring adventure in
all the Korean war. The officers
called. it “a reconnaissance in
force” and it proved for the high
command:
1— That the enemy line can be
breached by a hard-hitting tank
led force.
2— That the enemy i£ building
up strong forces around Chinju
for the drive eastward toward
Masan an dthe vital port city of
Pusan.
The enemy dropped leaflets be
hind the American lines near Ma
san yesterday morning urging na
tives to stay in their houses. The
leaflets said the Red forces were
preparing to attack in great force
and4 drive the Americans out. “We
will liberate you,” the Reds said.
The battalion’s thrust into the
enemy lines left no doubt the
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C. of C. Dance
Tomorrow Night
There wjll be a dance at the
High School Gym tomorrow night
sponsored by the N.WA Chamber
of Commerce. All types of danc
ing will be done to the lively mu
sic of Carmen Peterson and his
musical assistants.
Everyone is urged to attend this
function, as entertaining dance
music will be furnished for both
the young and the old.
Admission is $1.00 and the floor
will be open for dancing at 9:00
p.m.
STUMPING Tl
Distinguished
Guests Entertain
Rotary Club
Several distinguished guests
were at the Nome Rotary lunch
eon meeting yesterday noon at the
Bering Sea Club. Father Hubbard,
Father Murphy, Rev. Jordan Det
zer, C. C. Tanner, M. B. Vincent
and Larry Hagen of the Standard
Oil Co., Frank Metcalfe, Highway
Commissioner, William Trafton,
Highway patrolman and Ernest
Schoenfeld, New York importer.
Mr. Metcalfe explained the use
of the funds collected from the
Motor Fuel Tax of which the Sec
ond Division will be allotted $30,
OOg this year through the A. R. C.
. William Trafton, stated that he
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Showdown Battle
Looms For Alaska
Steam And Cooks
SEATTLE, (JP) — A probable
showdown loomed today for the
Alaska Steamship Company and
65 member sof the CIO-Marine
Cooks and Stewards Union fired
by the company yesterday for re
SEATTLE, (JP)—The CIO Ma
rine Cooks and Stewards Union
officials agreed to provide stew
ards for the steamship Alaska and
to permit the screening of men by
the Coast Guard security officers
ended the stalemate which de
layed the sailing of the vessel for
more than 24 hours. The vessel
is rescheduled to sail at 2:00 p.m.
today. The agreement worked out
with union officials from San
Francisco not i only agrees to the
screening, but provides the union
will furnish replacements for any
men not approved by the Coast
Guard.
fusal to undergo a security check.
The scheduled sailing of the
steamship Alaska this morning
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Korean Situation
At A Glance —
Thursday, August 3, 1950
(By The Associated Press)
Newly arrived U. S. Marine and
Second Division Army reinforce
ments pushed into the front areas
in Korea today to use 47Vfe-ton
Pershing tanks in the show-down
battle.
The front had shrunk as much
as 18 miles in places as a result
of a general three-day Allied re
treat to shorten lines until the
time for a counter-offensive.
Heavy North Korean artillery
fire began falling on the main
north-south road east of the Nak
tong River at a point only 14
miles southwest of Taegu, . now
the chief inland defense hub.
The Naktong, the main new de
fense line, flows north and south
to withi na few miles of the south
coast where it swings sharply east
through swamps and rice paddies
to within five miles of Pusan, the
Allied base port.
In that coastal gap before Pu
san 24th Division infantry and
tanks still held heights they seized
yesteray in a bloody counterat
tack within 40 miles west of Pu
san.
Two Red divisions supported by
half of a third still smashed at
American positions in that sector
with mortar, artillery and infan
try tanks.
An American infantry-observa
tion force surprised the Reds by
penetrating almost to Chinju, 55
miles west of Pusan, fought a
roaring road battle and returned
with information that the com
munists were building up for a
big attack in the area.
The only other actual fighting
reported anywhere on the front
was at Yongdok at the opposite
end of the line on the east coast
90 miles north of Pusan.
The Third South Korean Divi
sion was still attacking there after
driving the Reds three miles north
of that town battered to bits by
navy guns.
However, a communiue from
Eighth Army headquarters in Ko
rea said considerable North Ko
eran troop movements were ob
served in the central sector where
the U. S. First Cavalry Division %
withdrew from fire-gutted Kum
chon Wednesday.
The French government was re
ported debating whether to send
a battalion of troops to fight un
der the U. N. flag in Korea. She
has to defend Indochina, however.
For the second successive day
Chinese Nationalist warplanes set
off from Formosa apparently for
targets on the communist main
land. The Nationalists resumed
air activity after a visit to Gener
alissimo Chiang Kai-Shek by Gen.
Douglas MacArthur. V. K. Well
ington Koo, Nationalist ambassa
dor to Washington, said MacAr
thur’s visit was a possible step
toward ending the neutralization
of Formosa which President Tru
man sought when he ordered
American military aid to South
Korea.
A briefing officer at Gen. Mac
Arthur’s headquarters in Tokyo
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