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OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS_
VOL. LIII. No. 41 ‘ NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, APRIL 6, 1951~_-_Per Copy—15^
NEWS IN BRIEF
SCOTTSBLUFF, Neb., (^—In
side the city hall, Mayor Victor R.
Blackledge was busy signing the
payroll voucher o f Patrolman
Tom Cowan.
Outside, Patrolman Cowan was
busy, too, putting a ticket on the
mayor’s overparked car.
SAN ANGELO, Texas, \JP)—
Famed flyer Eddie Rickenbacker
urged renewed and strengthened
faith in God, saying “we must re
capture and sustain a living
Christianity in all things if we are
to be victorious.”
He was honored Wednesday
night with the Christian Athletes
Foundation award.
COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa, (/Pi
Prisoners ate steak last night as
the sheriff gave a party at the
Pottawattamie County jail.
i Sheriff Gay Stuelke took that
way of expressing his thanks to
31 inmates for their whole-hearted
co-operation in a jail cleanup,
paint-up project.
SEATTLE, (£>)—When the cable
ship Lenoir, operated by the Al
aska Communications System,
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Alaska Buildings
To Be Made
* Fire - Resistant
WASHINGTON, (Jf>) — Interior
Department officials have assured
the House Appropriations Com
mittee that new construction in
Alaska is being made fire resistant.
Testimony made public today
indicated the point was a touchy
one with committee members dur
ing a hearing on requests for
$8,000,000 to replace properties
lost in separate Alaska fires this
» winter.
The requests include $4,500,000
by the Interior Dept.’s Office of
Territories to replace buildings
and equipment destroyed at the
AlaskaRailroad’s Anchorage shops
Jan. 15; and $3,500,000 for a Bur
eau of Indian Affairs’ Hospital at
Bethel. The latter was destroyed
Nov. 20, 1950.
4K Committee members questioned
witnesses repeatedly concerning
the precautions being taken to cut
down the fire danger.
D. H. Nucker, executive officer
of the Office of Territories, testi
fied that in addition to fireproof
construction for most buildings,
the new shops would include sep
arate buildings and forebreaks.
He said it was planned to build
, six separate buildings, each hand
ling a single phase of the rail
road’s work, rather than simply
replace the two structures de
stroyed by fire.
Such operation, he said, would
give greater efficiency of opera
^ tion as well as lessen fire danger.
He estimated that it would save
“not more than $100,000 or $200,
000” to consolidate the buildings
as before.
Bethel Hospital More Difficult
W. Barton Greenwood, execu
tive officer for the Indian Affairs
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NOME ROTARY TO BE
WELL REPRESENTED
AT CONFERENCE
The Rotary Club of Nome will
be well represented at the An
nual Conference being held in Se
attle next month.
Members of the local group who
will attend the meeting were an
nounced at yesterday’s meeting
as Capt. St§n Morgan, Jack Dil
lon, Larry Galvin, Bud Harper
and Dewey Goodrich.
Guests at yesterday’s meeting
were Emil Fisher, Dave Belcher
and Sgt. Robert Lossee.
14 U.S. Division^ To
Be Sent To Europe
WASHINGTON, (/P)—Resident
Truman today described the Sen
ate’s troops-for-Europe resolution
as “further evidence that the
country stands firm in its support
of the North Atlantic Treaty.”
The president hailed the resolu
tion in a statement at a news con
ference and then brushed off
questions about a provision his
leaders in the Senate fought
against bitterly. This was the dec
laration that Mr. Truman should
not deploy more than the four
divisions to Europe “without fur
ther Congressional authority.”
The president has taken the
stand he has full constitutional
power to send American troops
wherever he believes their pres
ence will best serve the nations
interest.
In effect, the Senate declara
tion that he should get Congres
sional approval amounted to a
challenge of that position.
The 4 divisions, about 100,000
men in all, are expected to start
moving to Europe soon. They will
join there the two already as
signed from occupation forces to
Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower’s
North Atlantic defense force.
Last N.Pacific Sailing Ship
Will Not Sail This Year
SEATTLE, (JP)—The last of the
North Pacific sailing ships, the
3-masted schooner C. A. Thayer,
won’t be making her annual trip
to the Bering Sea this year.
However, it is no safe bet she
has made her last voyage. Many
epitaphs on the Thayer—built in
1895—have been written before.
The owner, sharp-spoken Capt.
J. E. Shields wouldn’t say either.
“She’s not going this year, that’s
all there is to it,” the captain
barked.
Instead, he’s sending north this
week a modern 400-ton motorship,
the Nordic Maid. It will be
manned mostly by men who form
erly sailed on the Thayer, includ
ing Capt. Shields, son of the owner.
The Nordic Maid will not fish
for cod, as did the Thayer, but
for giant king crab.
One crew member summed up
the reaction to sailing aboard the
modern ship:
“The Thayer Is a good ship and
she may not be finished yet. In a
way I hope not. I hate to see her
go. But I have to admit it’s going
to be nice to go north on a faster,
more comfortable ship. Ym one
of these modern day seamen and
I like my comforts at sea.”
Blowing A Hot Trumpet
PITTSBURGH, PA. — Dorothy Langstaff appears to be giving out
with a few hot licks on this trumpet-like glass instrument But there s
more than hot air to the picture — it shows actual glass shop work at
Gulf Oil research laboratories, where Dorothy is blazing a new career
for women. When Dorothy began as an apprentice, old timers predicted
no woman could make the grade as a craftsman in the skilled scientific
glass field. Today, at 26, fellow workers acclaim her the nation s top
woman glass blower.
ALASKA MILITARY
TO BUILD QUARTERS
FOR 726 FAMILIES
SEATTLE, (/P)— Living quar
ters for 726 families are included
in the imposing array of Alaska
military bid openings listed for
this month.
The bid openings, as listed by
Seattle sub-office of the Alaska
district Army engineer, are:
April 10—Row-type quarters for
184 families at Ladd Base and 112
families at Eielson Base.
April 12—Post engineer facili
ties and paint-storage building,
Fort Richardson.
April 17—Quarters for 104 fam
| ilies, Ladd Base.
' April 17—Quarters for 104 fam
ilies, Fort Richardson.
April 20—Quarters for 316 fami
lies, Ladd Base.
I April 24—Gymnasium and in
door training facilities, Ladd and
Eielson Bases. Indoor training
building , Fort Richardson. Re
frigerated warehouse building, Ft.
Richardson.
April 26—Ordnance shop, Ft.
Richardson.
April 27—Engineer, quarter-mas
ter signal, repair freight equi;
and combined shop building, Fart
Richardson. |
PIONEER CARD SERIES
PROMISES EXCITEMENT
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With only two more games left'
in the 'Pioneer Card Series, tomor
row’s games will be exciting ones
for those participating in this an
nual event which will start at
eight o’clock tomorrow evening at
the Pioneer Hall.
The committee stated that those
who are not participating in the
tournament are welcome to play
and enjoy the fun as there are al
ways prizes for the evening’s
games as well.
The last game will be on Sat
urday, April 14th.
Suicide Ends
Final Chapter in
Torrid Love Story
HOUSTON, Texas, (£>)— Dr.
Robert C. Rutledge, Jr., who killed
his wife’s seducer, chose death
to a prison cell.
His 70-year sentence confirmed
by the Iowa Supreme Court and
his freedom on $40,000 bail near
an end, the handsome 30-year-old
children’s doctor wrote a last love
letter to his beautiful wife. Then
he executed a carefully planned
suicide.
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The weapon was carbon mon
oxide and the time indefinite. But
the setting was the couple’s fav
orite spot in the countryside.
“Love is fleeting,” he wrote the
blonde, statuesque Sydney. “For
get about this. . . . Time will cure
a lot of grief.”
Rutledge’s body was found in
his automobile late yesterday.
There was proof it had been there
all day, probably all Wednesday
night.
His suicide was the last act in
a case that included murder—of
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'Byron Hattman—and* one of the
most torrid and sensational trials
in the history of American law.
The lives and loves of Rutledge,
his wife, and Hattman were un
folded in a Cedar Rapids, Iowa,
courtroom in 1949.
There Sydney testified she was
forced to submit to Hattman after
a boat ride and drinking party in
July, 1948.
The defense argued Rutledge
was defending the sanctity of his
home; the State, that Rutledge
lay in wait in a hotel room,
knocked Hattman out with a blow
on the head and stabbed him
“with surgical precision and skill.”
“I love you,” he ended the letter
to his 25-year-old wife, who had
to be given sedatives for serious
shock.
Red Mass Attack
May Be Fouled By
Surprise UN Drive
By the Associated Press
Thursday, April 5, 1951
United Nations troops pushed
eight miles into North Korea to
day along a 40-mile stretch of the
western and central fronts. It was
the. deepest penetration of the
current Allied drive.
The Allied attack is an attempt
to catch the Chinese with their
spring offensive showing.
The Allies are driving for the
rugged terrain in central Korea
where the Communists are repor
ted massing nearly 500,000 combat
troops for a big push expected to
start at any moment.
Allied intelligence reports said
the Chinese intended to throw in
huge quantities of man-power dur
ing the approaching rainy season,
knowing that Korea’s mud will
bog down the UJS. Eighth Army’s
machine-based warfare.
But the U.N. ground command
j er, Lt. Gen. Matthew B. Ridge
way, decided not to wait for the
| Reds to strike. On the theory that
j the best defense is an offensive,
I he decided to strike first. Ridg
| way, a live grenade dangling from
his familiar paratrooper harness,
went along with his border-cross
ing troops.
A U.S. Eighth Army commun
I ique said the Allied task force met
only light resistance in its prob
ing attack in the vicinity of Chail,
nearly eight miles north of the
38th Parallel on the Uijongbu
Kumhwa road. The force dis
persed an estimated company
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“Enemy” Has Toehold
In West Alaska
ANCHORAGE, {JP)—A force of
“enemy” bombers theoretically
attacked major Alaska installa
tions yesterday as part of “Opera
tion Firestep”, a war maneuver
testing the Territory’s defenses.
Some 20 attacking bombers, pro
tected by overcast skies, struck at
Elmendorf Air Force Base here.
Other attacks were reported at
Fairbanks and Kodiak.
Defending forces admitted some
of the installations were “dam
aged”. Intelligence officers also
reported “aggressor” forces had
a toehold in western Alaska, but
they refused to say where.
Meanwhile, married and single
women connected with the mili
tary at Anchorage, Fairbanks and
Kodiak were asked to take part
in a test evacuation in conjunc
tion with the exercise. The test
will be held Saturday.
NENANA ICE REPORT
The* ice at Nenana is now 43
inches thick.
The opinion on the time of the
break-up has shifted somewhat
the last week or so due to the
warm weather Nenana has been
experiencing. Opinion seems to
be half and half, stated Don Clark,
tar a late April break-up and dur
ing the first ten days in May.
For tunes and dates Nenana ice
mored in file pest turn to page 5*