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Nome, Alaska, Monday, April 16, 1951
DANGEROUS COMMITMENT
Senator Robert Taft, of Ohio, who disagrees with
the foreign policy of the Truman Administration, which
has been endorsed by Governor James F. Byrnes, says
that the United States should not undertake commit
ments that are beyond its Capacity.
No one can dispute the logic of this statement.
Nevertheless, ohe of the most dangerous “commit
ments” that the United States can make is to assume
that if it permits Soviet Russia to overrun western Eur
ope, the free institutions of western civilization can be
maintained.
There may be danger, as the Ohio Senator suggests,
in the expenditure of American money to assist the
' western nations of Europe. Nevertheless, there is, in
our opinion, greater danger in any policy of setni-isola
tionism, based upon the erroneous belief that what
happens across the Atlantic is of no concern to the
United States.
NATION RUNS SHORT OF NURSES
The United States needs at least 63,000 additional
nurses, declares Miss Ruth Freeman, of Johns-Hopkins
University School of Nursing. She points out that the
Army Nurse Corps is having difficulty in recruiting a
3,000 quota.
According to the lady., one of every ten girls gradu
ating from high school must be recruited for nursing
• service if the nation’s needs are to be met. These cannot
THE GAUNTLET
be filled by using the 205,000 nurses now inactive be
cause 87 % are married, 57 % have dependents under
eighteen and 10.0% are over fifty years of age.
A SOURCE OF WORKERS
The employment of women in industry has in
creased nine times between 1870 and 1950, according to
Miss Frieda S. Miller, director of the Women’s Bureau
of the Dept, of Labor, who points out that, during the
same period, employment of men increased only four
times as much.
Miss Miller says that the 39,000,000 women not
now in the labor force constitute this country’s largest
labor reservoir. Not all are available for employment
but improvement in working standards have made it
possible for many women to work.
Draft-UMT
In Senate - House
Committee
WASHINGTON, {JP)—'The con
troversial Draft - UMT bill, de
signed to provide military man
power for the defense buildup, is
now in the hands of a Senate
House conference committee.
The House passed its version of
the legislation by a 372 to 44 vote
yesterday after staving off a GOP
drive to add o restriction on send
ing troops to Europe.
The measure was then sent toj
the conferees for ironing out dif
ferences between it and a Senate
bill passed last month.
The major differences in the
two versions are these:
1. The Senate voted to drop the
minimum draft age to 18; the
House to 18Vfe. •The present mini
mum is 19.
2. The Senate voted to extend
the period of obligatory military
service from 21* to 24 months; the
House stood pat for 26 months.
3. The Senate put a top limit of
4,000,000 on military manpower;
tfre House imposed no ceiling.
4. The Senate gave President
Truman authority to institute a
program of universal military
training when drafted men no
longer are needed for military ser
vice as distinguished from train
ing. The Senate bill would make
qualified 18-year-olds liable for
UiMT service for six months at
$30 a month. The House fought
over UMT and then settled by ap
proving creation of a bi-partisan
5-member commission to make a
report to Congress later on UMT,
with no inductions permitted un
3 Plane Accidents
In Fifty Minutes At -
Elmendorf Field
ANCHORAGE, f/P), Three plane
accidents within 50 minutes at El
mendorf Field Saturday caused
major damage to a B-26 light
bomber and two F-80C jets.
All crewmen escaped injury.
An internal explosion directly
over the field resulted in a power
failure in one of the jets dam
aged. The pilot, Lt. Robert H.
Luedeka, cranked down the land
ing gear manually and brought
the plane in to a dead stick land
ing. He managed to get the gear
locked just as the plane hit the
runway. Firemen doused the fire j
in the craft.
The second jet accident occurred
as Lt. Bendel W. McDonald lost
control of his plane as he brought
it in for a landing. The jet veered
off the runway and plowed thru
a snowbank.
The B-26 was heavily damaged
when its left landing gear col
lapsed after a landing ahd during
taxiing. The pilot was Lt. Arthur
H. Garibaldi.
The pilots ail are serving with
the 57th fighter interceptor grorup.
I » m r •>*« — f 'to . *§ fS»
Nick Simeon of the Glue Pot
who is recovering from a recent
operation returned home yester
day after an absence of several
weeks.
less Congress passes a UMT law.
5. The Senate bill requires four
months of basic training before an
,inductee may be sent into a com
bat area; the House bill says there
should be six months.
| 6. The House bill extends the
! draft law three years; the Senate
^extends it indefinitely. The pres
ent law expires July 9.
Democratic Leaders To
Show “Every Respect”
To General MacArthur
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WASHINGTON, (/P) — House
Speaker Rayburn (D-Tex.) said
he and other Democratic Congres
sional leaders assured President
Truman today “We are going to
extend every courtesy to General
MacArthur.”
Mr. Truman said last week that
he regarded it as “fitting” that
Congress should hear an address
from the five-star general.
Rayburn talked with reporters
after Mr. Truman’s regular Mon
day morning conference with his
Capitol Hill lieutenants.
Washington-Alaska
Income Taxes Exceed
Quarter Billion Dollars
Collections of federal taxes this
year in the Washington-Alaska
district have exceeded the quar
ter-billicm dollar mark* Internal
Revenue Collector Clark Squire
reports in Tacoma.
So far this year the collections
and deposits total $250*055,805 as
compared with $163,735,611 for
the corresponding period in 1950.
This is an increase of $86,320,000
or 52.7 per cent.
The amount of taxes collected
by the withholding method in
creased from 4lVt millions to near
ly 71 millions.
Refunds totdlihg nearly 20 mill
ions have bfeeh scheduled for
372,008 individual income tak
payers in Washington and Alaska.
Don Ford of the U. S. Weather
Bureau is on a two weeks leave
and left for the States to spend
his vacation.
Hospital News
Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Tveter
are the parents of a son, Robert
Louis, born April 14th and weigh
ing 7 Vz pounds. Mr. Tveter is
with the U. S. Marshal’s office
here.
Mrs. Joe Hunt has been dis
charged from the hospital.
Mr. and Mrs. C. Mickelson*
owners of the Service Cleaners
who have been' enjoying a pro
longed vacation in the States re
turned yesterday with Pan Am
erican.
Grant Jackson of the M and M
Bank who has been in the States
on business returned yesterday.
Mr. Jackson was granted a di
vorce from Laura Jackson, whom
he married 18 years ago in Seat
tle. They have one daughter.
“Saboteurs”
In Anchorage
ANCHORAGE, <>P)—The start
ling ease with which saboteurs
could work in war time wa£
brought home here last night as
“saboteurs” succeeded in theoreti
cally wiping out vital power in
stallations.
Allies Make Slow
Gain in N. Korea
Saturday* April 14, 1951
TOKYO, {JP)— South Korean
Marines today controlled almost
all the Ongjin Peninsula on the
west coast of Korea.
The ROKs operated in the area
several days with the aid of the
Korean Youth Corps then drove
northward almost to Chimiahif>o,
YelloW Sea port for the Red Kor
ea capital of Pyongyang.
Lt. Gen. James A. Van Fleet
arrived Saturday in Korea and
took over command of Allied
grouhd forces from Lt. Gen. Mat
hew B. Ridgway. Ridgway left
soon after and landed after dark
at Tokyo's Haneda airfield.
Ridgeway relinquished command
of the 8th Army after his trdops
smashed eight heavy Red counter
attacks. Chinese and North Kor
eans pulled hack frorii their futile
asisatiltS Friday On the central and
western fronts after losing ah es
timated 4,275 killed and wounded.
It was the heaviest Red loss in
a single day for weeks.
Saturday U. N. troops were
smashing northward.
The GI’s, supported by a thun
dering air and artillery bombard
ment, seized “Gibraltar Hill" and
routed remnants of a Red Korean
division from strohg entrench
ment.
Powerful U.N. farces followed
up the attack and chased the flee
ing Reds to the outskirts of Yang
gu. Then they poured a hail of
rifle bullets into the city, seven
miles north of Parallel 36 on the
southeast tip of the Hwachon
Reservoir.
A reinforced tank-infantry col
umn rumbled toward Yanggu
from the south. The column
clanked through mine fields and
by-passed roadblocks.
Yanggu had been crowded with
Red troops and supplies. It once
was considered the east-central
anchor of an extensive Red con
centration.
Allied artillery caught two boat
loads of Reds trying to escape
across the reservoir. The shells
sank the boats and about 100 Reds
were drowned.
The US. Eighth Army said the
Reds were putting up stiff oppo
sition north and northwest of Yon
gong on the western front.
The Communists battled des
perately for dominating ridge posi
tions. Van Fleet, taking over his
new command, told war corres
pondents:
“This is a great honor and tre
mendous responsibility. I shall
give my best to merit the confi
dence both of my superiors and of
my juniors.”
Monday, April 16, 1951
There was no letup on the war
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front. Allied troops punched out
small gains all along the 150-mile
North Korean battlefront against
Communist resistance that was
bitter in some sectors and spotty
in others.
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it easy fora man to be a gentleman.
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