Axel Osberg, of the firm of
Mansen and Osberg, arrived yes
terday with Pan American and is
looking over the work his com
pany is doing on the breakwater
project which is being handled
under superintendent B. P. Ger
ard.
Kirk Jackson left yesterday for
Bellingham, having been called
home due to the illness of his
father.
C. J. Carlson, well known old
timer who has been here for the
past month with his son, H. C.
Carlson looking over mining prop
erty in the Solomon area left yes
terday for his home in Tacoma.
The fire department was called
out yesterday to Second and Met
tler Way where some children had
started a fire in an empty build
ing belonging to Jack McCumber.
It was quickly extinguished.
MOSCOW, (/P) — The Literary
Gazette Saturday claimed an
American Cruiser was sunk in a
sea battle off Korea.
The publication said “fierce
battles took place in the region of
Samchok where units of the Peo
ple’s army (North Korean) are op
erating together with partisan
units. In a sea battle in the region
Rush Infantry To
Aid In Korean War
WASHINGTON (IP)—The army
has started dipping into the small
five-division mobile force station
ed in the United States to hasten
help for American forces rocked
by an onrushing North Korean
army.
The decision to order the 2nd
Infantry Division based at Fort
Lewis, Wash., and an unspecified
number of smaller units from
•other organizations to the Far
East came less than 4wo weeks
after the United States had step
ped into the Korean conflict to as
sist South Korea in repelling the
invaders from the north.
It was indicative of how the
timetable has quickened as un
happy reports came into the Pen
tagon from the front.
An announcement issued simul
taneously yesterday at Washing
ton and San Francisco said that
“the 2nd Infantry Division and
two units of anti-aircraft artillery
have been alerted for movement
in the near future to the Far East
command.”
of Chuminchina an American
cruiser was sunk.”
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Returning Sunday, July 16th <
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Chicken Every Sunday
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Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
FROM SEATTLE
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Teller, Wales, Shishmareff, Deering, Keewalik
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60-Year-Old Man
Scales Mt. Logan
Second Time
CORDOVA, (/P)—A gray hair
ed, 60-year-old OBostonian, who
was among those making the first
ascent of 18,850-foot Mt. Logan
25 years ago, conquered the peak
against June 17—the second time
it has been scaled.
He wanted to see* if his legs
could “still take it.”
For Norman H. Read, Boston
and Manchester, Mass., it was six
days short of 25 years since he
and five others fought their way
to the top of the foribidding
mountain, highest in Canada and
second by only 450 feet to Mt. Mc
Kinley on the North American
continent.
Read and Andre Roch, his com
panion from Davos, Switzerland,
returned here Saturday with the
story of their climb. They were
51 days on ice where there are
no insects, animals', or birds. They
battled incredible snowsto r m s
that threatened to destroy them.
Then in the face of overwhelm
ing odds, they climbed both of Lo
gan’s peaks.
The snow and ice capped moun
tain rises high just inside the Yu
kon Territory to the north of Yak
utat, Alaska, between Cordova
and Juneau.
Read, Roch and an Alaskan
guide, Severet Jacobsen of Chi
tina, Alaska, made plans carefully
but everything went wrong.
They left Cordova May 8 by
plane and landed on Ogilvie Gla
cier near the mountin. A second
plane was to drop supplies but
when it arrived strong winds scat
tered the food and equipment
over an eight mile area.
Wearing only what they had on
when they left Cordova, Read and
Roch waited 18 days in their lit
tle tent at the 7,000-foot base
camp for new supplies to be flown
in.
They started their climb May
36, pulling heavy sleds behind
them. For 12 days they lived
above 14,000 feet in temperatures
cf 15 below zero. They had work
ed their tortuous way to the 17,
500 foot level when a three-day
storm struck them.
Jacobsen, who had gone back
for supplies, was cut off from the
advance base and Read and Roch
decided to go on alone. They had
carried just four days* supplies to
this advance point and all they
had to eat was a little soup, rai
sins and chocolate.
Early June 17, the two men
started the final ascent. They
plodded 50 yards, then had to rest,
plodded another 50 and rested
again as they fought for oxygen
in the rarified air.
Up and up they climbed until
they reached the lower of two
peaks, just 50 feet below the high
est point. They went down the
other side and climbed the high
er pinnacle, between the peaks
they left a low weather thermom
eter, along with supplies they dis
carded as they made the final
push.
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TRUCK CRASHES FRONT OF
SILVERMAN BUILDING
One of Nome’s few and far be
tween car accidents took place
early Saturday morning when Le
Rue “Whitey” Overaas of the U.
Sv Weather Bureau, who was ac
companied by Anita Harris of Ga
lena, reported to be driving in a
truck belonging to the Weather
Bureau, crashed into the Arctic
Shop on the comer of Front Street
and Division, tearing out the side
of the building and breaking one
of the. large show windows, an es
timated $800.00 damage it is re
ported.
Jack Lencer, watch maker who
has his shop in the building, and
who lives at the rear, had gone to
bed after listening to late news
broadcast of the war.
The accident occurred about
one-thirty Saturday morning and
the occupants of the truck were
taken to the hospital for minor
injuries.
Some folks refuse to stay quiet
when their freinds are being crit
icized—they join right in.
Now Is The Time
Not To Be Afraid
SEATTLE (^P)—Mayor Dorothy
McCullough Lee of Portland told
an international women’s conven
tion Friday night that “now is the
time we should be afraid of being
afraid.”
• t
She told the concluding session
of the American Federation of So- A
roptimist clubs that women must
overcome the fears that have held
them back. Fear of criticism, she
said, was one of them.
“If women were in policy-mak
ing position in the government,”
she said, “the business status of
women would improve.” \
The convention attracted nearly
1,000 delegates from each of the
48 states, Alaska, Canada and
England.
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mandeville
of the Modern Cleaners, who have
been vacationing in the States, re
turned home yesterday with their
daughter Pamela.
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