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VOL. LII. No. 103 NOME, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, AUGUSTS, 1950 Per Copy—15fc
NEWS IN BRIEF
SACRAMENTO, (/P) — Mather
Air Force Base will not field a
football team this fall. It has
dropped its entire schedule in
cluding a game with Eielson Air
Base, Alaska.
BUENOS AIRES, </P) —Argen
tina devalued the peso yesterday
for the second time in 11 months.
The open rate, which closed Mon
day at 9.02 to the dollar, opened
yesterday at 14.25.
The last Argentine devaluation
was in October, 1949, when the
value of the peso was cut in line
with the devaluations of curren
cies throughout the world which
had been touched off then by the
cheapening of the Briitsh pound.
ANCHORAGE, \JP) — The first
Alaska mayors' conference open
ed here Monday.
The first topic of discussion was
the Alaska public works program.
A forecast was made that more
authority would be granted Alas
ka public works field officials to
enable them to give Alaskans ans
wers when they need them.
VANCOUVER, B. C. (/P)—Three
persons aboard a plane forced
down near Finlay Forks, B. C.,
150 miles north of Prince George,
have been found unharmed.
The trio were Mr. and Mrs. J.T.
Wallwork and their two-year-old
son Jimmy, of New Westminster.
They were flying from Grande
Prairie, Alta., to Prince George
when the plane was forced to
land.
POTTS VILLE, Pa., UP) — A
lightning bolt travelled 430 feet
along an underground wire and
exploded five charges of dynamite
killing two miners.
Harvey Reiner, 32, of Donald
son, Pa., and Harry Hartz, 35, of
Tremont, were working in an in
dependent mine when the freak
accident occurred. The dynamite
exploded in their faces.
SEATTLE, Mrs. Susie T.
Long, 77, widow of a veteran dep
uty United States Marshal in
Alaska, died Monday. She lived 30
years in Alaska during the tenure
of her husband, Thomas Long. He
died in 1946.
In addition, Mrs. Long had lived
in the Philippines four years,
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America’s Weapons
((/P) Newsfealures)
The Skyraider, a Douglas-built
aircraft designated as the AD-3
by the Navy. It has a service
ceiling of 33,500 feet, wingspan
of 50 feet, is 33 feet long and
has a speed of 350 miles. per
hour.
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Shriners Arrive In Nome For Ceremony*
Scheduled to arrive today are five officials of the Nile Temple of the Shrine to hold a "Smile
with Nile" ceremonial here this evening.
The initiation will be preceded by a dinner at the Bering Sea Club.
9 In the group are J. H. Fletcher, Nile potentate (center) with left to right—R. L. Von Lossow, di
rector; H. Dan Bracken, Jr., chief rabban; Glen Carpenter, assistant rabban, and Frank Ostrander,
Nile recorder. In November the same group plan to fly with Pan American to Tokyo for ceremon
ials in Japan. General Douglas MacArthur is himself a member of Nile Temple.
Capt. Stan Morgan is president of the Nome Shrine Club, Joe Wallace, vice-president; Norvin
Lewis, secretary; and treasurer Karl Dewey. —Photo Courtesy Pan American Airways.
Harry Bridges
Union Expelled
From C. I. O.
WASHINGTON, <£>)—'The CIO
executive board yesterday expell
ed the last two of 11 unions it
marked for purge a year ago on
charges of hewing to the commun
ist party line.
They were the West Coast Long
shoremen’s and Warehousemen’s
Union, headed by Harry Bridges,
and the Marine Cooks and Stew
ards, headed by Hugh Bryson.
Bridges’ union was kicked out
first by a 41 to 2 vote. The dissent
ing votes came from J. W. Robert
son, vice president of Bridges*
Union, and Bryson.
Next Bryson’s union was oust
ed, 41 to 1, with Bryson casting
the only opposition vote.
Bridges and Bryson could ap
peal the executive board action to
the CIO convention in Chicago
Nov. 20, but it is highly unlikely
that the convention would upset
the board’s move.
The convention last year au
thorized the removal of all leaders
and unions found to be following
communist policy.
Included in the ouster of the
75,000 longshoremen was the re
moval of the Fishermen and Al
lied Workers, headed by Joseph
Jurich, of Seattle, which had
merged two months ago with the
Bridges union.
A three-man committee investi
gated Bridges’ activities of the
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Air Forces Study
Alaska Defense
FAIRBANKS, — Army and
air force troops afl Ladd and Eile
son Air Force Bases were engaged
yesterday in testing whether they
could stand off a theoretical en
emy who has held portions of
Alaska since Aug. 15.
The war games stretch to the
edge of the Arctic Circle. The
problem, as devised by military
strategists, involves the capture of
Nome, Galena, and McGrath by
airborne forces of the “enemy.”
Now the enemy is grouping his
forces for an all-out push on the
two strategic air fields. The role
of the aggressor forces is being
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NAVAL COURTESY
FRIGHTENS BAY CITYITES
SAN FRANCISCO, (JP)—Naval
courtesy—firing of 72 shots—sped
San Franciscans to telephone
newspapers “What’s all the shoot
ing about? Is it the Russians?”
It wasn’t.
The French sloop Francis Gart
ner, from Tahiti, started it yes
terday with a 21-gun salute to
the U. S. navy and a 15-gun greet
ing to the commandant of the
Western Sea Frontier. American
replies used up another 36 rounds
—and frayed some local residents’
nerves.
The French consulate said the
Gartner will leave within a week
to escort smaller war vessels and
freighters to an unannounced
port.
Truman ‘Explains’
To Mac Arthur
About U. S. Policy
WASHINGTON, ^(—President
Truman yesterday sent Gen.
Douglas MacArthur a statement of
American policy on Formosa, and
also a commendation of the gen
eral’s direction of the Korean
campaign.
Mr. Truman’s move, following
up his week-end order for Mac
Arthur to withdraw a statement
on Formosa, appeared to have a
two-fold purpose although there
was no official comment.
1. To clarify MacArthur’s own
understanding of the whole situa
tion and give him an implied re
minder not to get out of step
again.
2. To esse the stin$ of the inci
dent to the General and also help
maintain MacArthur’s prestige in
the Far East.
Presidential secretary Charles
G. Ross gave out Mr. Truman’s
message without comment and re
fused to answer questions as to
why Mr. Truman sent it.
The text of Mr. Truman’s let
ter:
“I am sending for your informa
tion the text of a letter which I
sent to Ambassador Austin dated
August 27. I am sure that when
you examine this letter, and the
letter which Ambassador Austin
addressed to Trygve Lie on Aug
ust 25 (a copy of which I am told
was sent your headquarters that
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Korean Situation
At A Glance - - - N
Tuesday, August 29, 1950
(By The Associated Press)
Blazing battles erupted today at
both ends of the curling 120-mile
battle perimeter in South Korea.
United Nations forces beat back
heavy Red attacks on both ends
of the line, but the communists
were reported building for a giant
offensive—their supreme bid to
drive the U. N. forces into the sea.
On the east coast anchor of the
flaming 45-mile northern front,
Red forces knifed three miles
southwest of United Nations lines
and set up a threatening road
block on the vital highway con
necting the port of Pohang with
Yongchon. But the Pohang sector
still was controlled by American
and South Korean troops, who
have pushed back elements of the
20,000 attacking Reds in the Kigye
sector, nine miles to the north
west of the port, and have retaken
Kigye.
While the communists exerted
heavy pressure all along the
northern front, the southern front
flamed with furious action.
American Negro infantrymen and
South Korean troops turned back
a North Korean bayonet charge in
hand-to-hand combat. Red bayo
nets wiped out one American ma
chine gun nest.
The battalion of Reds assaulted
Bald Sobuk hill west of Masan.
After two unsuccessful attack, the
Reds surprised the American
troops and a wild battle ensued—
so close that U. S. supporting
weapons could not be used for
fear of hitting Allied troops. A
portion of the defending force
was cut off for four hours, but re
inforcements got through and at
noon Tuesday the mountain top
remained in Allied hands.
On the central sector of the 45
mile northern front, elements of
the 20,000 Reds on the attack in
the Uihong area rolled back South
Korean Six Division troops four
miles to a point 18 miles north of
Taegu, the main Allied forward
base.
Indications pointed to an im
minent grand-scale Red offensive
at all points around the 120-mile
defense perimeter, with possibly
the entire North Korean army
committed at the same time, in
a supreme bid to crack through to
Pusan, the Allied supply base at
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erica’s Weapons
■ [{IP) Newsfeatures)
The U.S.S. Mackensie, typical
destroyer with 2,425 tons stand
ard displacement. It has a speed
of 35 knots, a main battery of
six five inch rifles and five 21
inch torpedo tubas*