OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS_
VOL. Llii No. 64 ~~ NOME, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, MAY 30, 1951 Per Copy-^IiT
Top Last Alaska’s
Unclimbed Peaks
FAIRBANKS, (/P)— Five Uni
versity of Alaska students have
conquered one of Alaska’s last un
climbed peaks.
Dr. Terris Moore, university
president, said yesterday the suc
cessful assault On 12,300 -foot
Mount Hess overlooking Tanana
Valley near Fairbanks was made
last week.
It took the students 18 hours to
reach the summit of the mountain,
frequently described as Alaska’s
Matterhorn, but weather condi
tions on the steep slopes delayed
their return for two days, Dr.
Moore said.
The university president brought
back news of the climb from the
base camp at Portage Creek, where
he landed in his own plane.
He said the mountain - tamers
were Russell Paige, 22, Grand Junc
tion, Colo.; Edgar Huizargn, 27,
Petersburg, Alaska; Howard Bow
man, 23, Lake Clark, Alaska; Rich
ard Holdren, Jr., 29, Mendotagn,
111.; and Elton Thayer, 23, Fair
banks.
VIORIAL DAYJ
Suspend Alaska
Steam Rate Raises
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Until September 21
SEATTLE, {IP)—Rate increases
asked by the Alaska Steamship
Company have been suspended
until September 21.
The Federal Maritime Board
took the action, and ordered hear
ings prior to the September date.
The increases would have in
cluded a general boost of approxi
mately 20 per cent for Southeast
ern Alaska, a 10 per cent passen
ger fare increase for all of Alaska
during the tourist season, increase
in rates on fisheries products to
Southwest Alaska, the Alaska Pen
insula and Bristol Bay, and in
rates on ore.
Eddie Cantor Enters
Hospital For Treatment
NEW YORK, (iP)—Eddie Cantor
entered Doctor’s Hospital Monday
for treatment of a ruptured blood
vessel in his vocal cord.
Officials said the 58-year-old
comedian would remain in the
hospital about ten days.
Airline Capt. Charles Blair, In P-51
Attempts Non-Stop Hop Over North
Pole, From Norway To Fairbanks
OSLO, Norway, (TP) — Airliner
Capt. Charles Blair set out for a
planned non-stop solo flight over
the North Pole Tuesday in the
converted P-51 Mustang fighter in
which he set the non-stop New
York-to-London record last Jan
uary 31.
Fairbanks, Alaska, is his des
tination.
Carrying the first polar air mail
— 3,000 letters — Blair took off
from Oslo’s Gnrdermoen air base.
He planned to land at Bardu, in
northern Norway, for refueling,
then leave immediately on the
non-stop hop of 3,300 miles across
the top of the world.
Blair, 41-year-old Pan Ameri
£-—
can Airways veteran from Port
Washington, N. Y., again is flying
the Excalibur III, the single-seated
fighter in whioh four months ago
he crossed the Atlantic in 7 hours
and 48 minutes. That hop smashed
all records for the New York to
London crossing.
The letters he carried will be
auctioned in New York for the
benefit of the Damon Runyon
Cancer Fund.
From Fairbanks, Blair plans to'
| fly non-stop to New York.
He said he expected to make
| the hop to Fairbanks in 10 hours.
Due to international time changes,
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Bitterly Fighting
Reds Bog Down
U. N. Task Force
(By the Associated Press)
South Korean troops stabbed
forward a dozen miles Tuesday
against little or no opposition to
seize the east coast port of Kan
song, 26 miles inside North Korea.
Other United Nation forces on
the central front gained control
of an important ridge overlooking
the escape route for thousands of
Korean and Chinese Reds at the
eastern end of the Hwachon Res
ervoir.
The Reds fought bitterly to de
lay the Allied troops on the moun
tainous central front but gains of
as much as three miles were scored
by powerful Allied tank and ar
tillery supported task forces.
Two Chinese divisions were
wiped out in a four-day battle on
the central front south of the 38th
parallel the U. S. Eighth Army
said. The Chinese lost 18,000 men
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Clothing of Prominent
Negro Minister Set Afire
NORFOLK, Va., UP) — Police
were searching for additional in
formation today in the mysterious
burning of a prominent Norfolk
Negro minister Saturday night.
The Rev. Joseph H. Mann, for
16 years pastor of the city’s Union
Congregational Church, told of
being forced at gunpoint to accom
pany two white men to a house.’
The minister said a fire was
started against the house, and the
men threw him into’ the flames.
A passerby spotted Mann’s cloth
ing aflame and rescued the min
ister by throwing a sweater over
him.
However, Mapn suffered severe
burns and his condition was de
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scribed as serious.
LOS ANGELES, (ff)—The wild
dash of a runaway box car through
the heart of the industrial dis
trict Sunday killed one motorist
and injured 13.
The car rammed into a line of
autos parked on a crossing, kill
ing Mrs. Leona Moon, 26-year-old
housewife. Five automobiles were
completely demolished.
CHET MILLER OLDEST
IN FIELD FOR 500-MILE
MEMORIAL DAY RACE
By Dale Burgess
INDIANAPOLIS, (/P) — Chester
J. (Chet) Miller’s idea of training
for his 15th Indianapolis 500-mile
CHET MILLER
Trains by Golfing
Memorial Day auto race is to play i
an occasional round of golf.
The 48-year-old Glendale, Calif,
driver — eldest in the field —
watches tolerantly while the
youngsters do pushups and
squeeze rubber balls to strengthen
their arms and shoulders.
“I need to save my energy for
the Memorial Day race.” Chet ex
plains.
“I used to go in for calisthenics
and all that muscle-building stuff.
But at my age, it would just make
me tired. Anyway, this big Novi
I’m driving takes a delicate touch
—not manhandling.
“Anytime it should happen to
get away from me, I’m not going
to fight Jt. It wouldn’t do any
good.”
He spend the entire year with
race cars but drives only in the
Indianapolis race. The rest of the
time he upholsters other people’s
cars.
Air Transport Associates, Inc.,
Offers Carry 1,000 lbs. Mail Daily
To Alaska For One Dollar A Year
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(AP Special Washington Service) <
WASHINGTON, (/P) — Air
Transport Associates, Inc., a non
scheduled air carrier operating be
tween Seattle and Alaska — re
peated its two-year-old offer today
ta transport 1,000 pounds of mail
to Alaska daily for a dollar a year.
Amos E. Heacock, ATA presi
dent, issued a statement saying
the company would petition the
Civil Aeronautics Board for im
mediate consideration of its ap
plication for *a certificate.
Approval, he said, would en
able ATA to carry the mails be
tween Seattle and Anchorage and
Fairbanks, Alaska, for a dollar a
year. The saving (to the Post Of
3>-—
flee Department would be ap
proximately $3,000,000 a year,
! Heacock said.
The dollar^a-year offer was
made also to the Post Office De
| partment.
Heacock explained he was re
j newing his petition, originally
filed in May, 1949, as a result of
■ the CAB’s action last Friday
! awarding a Seattle - Anchorage
mail route to Pacific Northern Air
lines and a Seattle-Fairbanks route
to Alaska Airlines.
The two lines, together with
Pan American World Airways and
Northwest Airlines, receive most
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Noted New England
Financial Baron Dies
GROTON, Mass., (/P)—Frederic
C. Dumaine, head of the New
Haven railroad and Yankee finan
cier whose shrewd and bold busi
ness moves made him a multi
millionaire, died yesterday at the
age of 85.
Despite his years, he had come
into business in his Boston office
three days a week. He smoked a
pocketful of cigars daily and for
years had gone horesback riding
before beginning his business day.
He was a noted New England
financial baron for 50 years.
SAVANNAH, Ga., (/P)—An at
tendant jat a white funeral home
heard snoring in the mortuary.*
He figured he should be the only
person there at 4 a.m. Sunday
capable of snoring.
Police answered his call and
found the quaking attendant on
the sidewalk.
They went inside and discov
ered a man fast asleep on the
chapel bier with three bottles of
beer.
The attendant was relieved. The
man was jailed on a drunk charge.
Asks Approval Of
$10 Millions Alaska
Public Works Fund
fAP Special Washington Service)
WASHINGTON, (ff) — Senator
Magnuson (D-Wash.) said today he
has urged the Senate Appropria
tions Committee 'to approve the
full $10,000,000 requested by the
Interior Dept, to carry out a pub
lic works program in Alaska.
He told a reporter he had ap
peared before the Senate commit
tee to urge reinstatement of $3,
000,000 cut from the public works
item by the House.
The $10,000,000 allocation for
matching funds is decidedly neces
sary, the Senator said, if housing
and other facilities are to be pro
vided for personnel needed in con
nection with Alaska’s defense pro
jects.
“The buildup in population in
Alaska is being slowed and health
is being endangered in many in
stances,” Magnuson said, ‘^because
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