OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
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VOT, T,III~No. 113 NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, SEPT. 24, 1951~ _ Per Copy—15^
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Quartz Creek
Field Will Be
Boon to Miners
Tony Schwamm, director of avi
ation for the Territory of Alaska,
recently announced the award of
j a $80,400 contract to the Grant
Mining Company of Coffee Creek
for the construction of 3450-foot
airfield at Quartz Creek in the
Kougarok area. This is approxi
mately 60 miles north of Nome on
the Seward Peninsula. The strip
will be able to handle DC-3 air
craft.
This new airiieia will anow
mining companies to send fuel and
heavy supplies into the area for
about five months during the sum
mer at a considerable reduced
rate than in the past, Schwamm
declared.
This large producing mining area
is being served at the present
time by a railroad maintained by
the Alaska Road Commission. This
railroad normally does not operate
until August of each year, due to
the ice conditions. Mining firms
operating in the area have to send
fuel and heavy equipment in on
the few trips the railroad makes
each year. Maintenance cost on
the railroad is estimated at $60,
000.00 annually.
A 40-mile road, connecting with
the new airfield, starting at Quartz
Creek, ties in with many mines in
the area and the upper Kougarok
mining district. This road, which
was constructed by the ARC, will
simplify delivery to the different
mining locations.
“This new airfield will encour
age new development in this area
by making the entire district more
i accessible and economical to reach
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Italian Premier
Addresses Joint
Session Congress
WASHINGTON, (JP) — Premier
Alcide de Gasperi of Italy told
Congress today that a United Eu
rope would be able to* take care
of its own defense.
He addressed a joint session of
the Senate and House a few hours
after arriving for three days of
talks with President Truman, Sec
retary of State Acheson and other
top officials.
De Gasperi expressed appreci
ation for the stand taken by sev
eral members of Congress in favor
of revision of the Italian peace
* treaty.
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“As free men,” he said, “We
wish to tell you we are grateful
to you because, by demanding
revision of our unfair peace treaty
you have acknowledged that an
effective and staunch alliance can
not exist without equality of
rights and full recognition of the
independence, sovereignty and
dignity of a nation.”
De Gasperi’s arrival here co
incided with reports that the
United States, Britain and France
are drafting a joint declaration of
their plans to change the arms
limitation provision in the Italian
peace treaty.
Communists Told
Kaesong Unsuited
For Further Talks
TOKYO, (/P) — The United Na
tions command told the commun
ists today that Kaesong is unsuit
able as a site for any future
Korean armistice negotiations.
Allied liaison officers gave these
reasons in a note handed Red liai
son officers at Kaesong:
1. Kaesong is too close to the
main Red supply line, under at
tack by Allied warplanes.
2. Red and Allied ground forces
| are in constant maneuver around
the five - mile Kaesong neutral
zone.
3. Uncontrolled partisan groups
responsible to neither command,
are active in the area and could
take action at any time which
would again cause a breakup of
talks.
Ridgway proposed some other,
more incident-proof site for the
conference in a note to the com
munists Sept. 6. He since has made
clear that he wants better working
conditions established for negotia
tors before he agrees to resump
tion of the conferences.
58,000 Reds Killed Or
Wounded In Five Weeks
i U. S. EIGHTH ARMY HEAD
QUARTERS, Korea, (JP) — Gen.
James A. Van Fleet today said
his Eighth Army has killed or
wounded 58,000 communist sol
diers in Korea in five weeks from
Aug. 18 through Sept. 22.
The figure represents almst six
Red divisions.
Van Fleet said 2,800 Reds were
taken prisoner in the same period.
Since the Allies pushed off on
limited offensives in Eastern Ko
rea they have captured enough
materiel Jo equip nearly a full
Red division, the Eighth Army
said.
During this period United Na
tions losses have been compara
tively light. U. N. troops have
smashed forward up to 15 miles
and captured scores of important
hills.
The Allied picture was not so
bright in Monday’s ground action.
North Korean Reds launched a
fierce counterattack and drove
t
American infantrymen off the
highest peak on * “heartbreak
ridge” in Eastern Korea.
Tea Honoring School
Teachers To Be Held
Next Friday Afternoon
A tea sponsored by the parents
of school children, honoring the
teachers of the Nome School, has
been announced for next Friday
evening, Sept. 28, from 7:30 to
9:30, in the school auditorium. <
All parents and other interested
citizens are cordially invited to
take advantage of this opportun
ity of meeting and welcoming the
teachers, many of whom are new
to the community.
Heading the committee is Mrs.
Paul Carlson who personally
sponsored a welcome tea for the
teachers last year. Several of the
mothers have volunteered the re
freshments for the occasion.
Power Shortage
Due to Drought
Threatens N.W.
PORTLAND, (/P) — The big
search for new sources of electric
power is underway in the drought
stricken Pacific Northwest.
The search was touched off last
week when the Defense Electric
Power Administration ordered
cuts which resulted in a 10 per
cent reduction of power to the
area’s booming aluminum indus
try.
Then Saturday the apparent
seriousness of the situation was
emphasized when Mobilizer Char
les E. Wilson told the aluminum
producers to prepare plans for the
possible removal of some of the
Pacific Northwest plants to areas
of assured power supply.
This has been one of the driest
summers in the history of the
area. And not enough rain has
fallen to swell the Columbia River
which with its huge hydro-electric
generators is the source of much
of the Pacific Northwest’s power
supply.
Among suggested solutions is
I ‘"brownout” of the Pacific North
west, calling for outdoor lighting
and advertising signs to be shut
off, the power saved then to go to
the aluminum industry.
King George Confident of
Recovery After Operation
LONDON, (£>)—King George VI
was reported in good spirits today
and confident of recovery from a
major lung operation.
A morning medical bulletin said
the king ‘‘has had a restful night.”
It came after a Buckingham
Palace source had reported that
the king ‘‘made it safely” through
the first crucial night after his
operation yesterday morning.
Anxious Britons, who had
prayed for the safety of their be
loved monarch, got no indication
of the king’s exact condition in
his battle against the after-effects
of the surgery.
NAIROBI, East Africa, {lP) —
The Aga Kahn has instructed all
of his Ismaili Moslem followers in
East Africa to pray every day
for a week for the health of King
George VI.
Operation To Separate
Twins May Be Fatal
ROCK ISLAND, 111., (/P) — It
may be impossible to separate
Rock Island’s Siamese twins, born
Sept. 16 joined at the tops of
their skulls.
Doctors studied X-ray pictures
of the tiny boys and said that an
operation to sever the fibrous
matter which connects the young
sters may be fatal to one or both
of them.
The parents of the children, Mr.
and Mrs. Royt Brodie, said today
that if separation would result in
death for either of the babies, they
would prefer not to permit the
operation.
PARIS, (/P) — Butcher Charles
Quesnil committed suicide by gas
today, leaving a note saying:
“I just can’t stand the damned
people in this neighborhood.”
Chinese Accuse
U.S. Training Jap
Army In Alaska
HONG KONG, W)—The Chi
nese communists are accusing the
United States of training 85,000
Japanese prisoners of war in
Alaska and the Aleutians for in
corporation in the U. S. Army.
The charge was made yesterday
in» an official New China News
Agency dispatch from Peiping. It
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also said the U.S. “is planning to
send a million Japanese into Al
aska under the disguise of im
migrants.”
It appeared the communist
charge was designed to: counter
act the effect in Asia of Russia’s
refusal to repatriate Japanese
prisoners; and implement Pei
ping’s campaign against the Jap
anese peace treaty signed in San
Francisco this month.
The Peiping dispatch said that
at the outbreak of the Korean war
the Japanese troops were incor
porated in the U.S. paratroops and
Marines and assigned to bases
near the North Pole. The Jap
l anese, it added, were at all times
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under strict military police guard.
Geological Survey
Able To Predict
Volcanic Eruptions
DENVER, (/P)—The U. S. Geo
logical Survey reported Saturday
night that a nation-wide hunt for
uranium has been quietly con
ducted from its Denver offices.
These other developments also
were reported by G. D. Robinson,
acting chief of the Survey’s gen
eral geology branch, and Lincoln
R. Page, geologist in charge of the
Survey’s reconnaissance section.
1. Progress has been made in
predicting volcanic eruptions thru
research in Denver and field work
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in Hawaii and the Aleutians.
2. The work shows possibilities
that old craters, lava flows and
outbreaks may be linked to badly
needed defense-vital deposits of
copper, lead, zinc and even
uranium.
3. An ocean - spanning tidal
wave warning network has been
created around the shores of the
Pacific.
Robinson said the survey is
studying rock specimens from all
over the nation in an effort to pin
point needed ore deposits that can
not be readily detected from sur
face structures.
With bases in Hawaii and the
Aleutians the volcano scientists
have accurately predicted the time
and place of two eruptions in
Hawaii and narrowly missed an
other.
SUNDAY BASEBALL
National League
Brooklyn 6—Philadelphia 2 .. ..
New York 4—Boston 1
Pittsburgh 3-0—Cincinnati 0-2
St. Louis 9-5—Chicago 3-2
American League
New York 6—Boston 1
Detroit 9—Cleveland 1
St. Louis 8—Chicago 7
Philadelphia 12-8—Washington
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$1,510,000 Damage
Suit Against Head
Of Alaska Airlines
ANCHORAGE, (JP)—A $1,510,
000 suit was filed in Third Dis
trict Court Saturday against R.
W. Marshall, chairman of the
board of Alaska Airlines.
The amount, a record-breaker in
court annals here, was sought by
Arthur W. Stephenson. He charged
damaging statements were made
about him by Marshall while
Stephenson was an officer and
executive of the Alaska Airlines.
Since then he has been dis7
charged, according to an earlier
complaint filed against Marshall
by H. W. Bowman, who described
himself as a minority stockholder
in the corporation.
Stephenson’s complaint listed
three causes of action. He asked
$250,000 actual damages and
$250,000 punitive damages for
each.
In the other action pending
against Marshall and Alaska Air
lines, Bowman accuses Marshall
of nonfeasance, malfeasance and
fraud in discharging certain duties
as chairman of the board.
In the Stephenson suit, he al
leged damaging statement were
made within hearing of a group
of pilots. Stephenson contended
the defendant knew the state
ments were false and were “made
with malice with intent to injure
and harass the plaintiff and dam
age his position.”
In the Bowman suit Marshall
is accused of “entering into a
conspiracy to bilk and cheat the
corporation by selling to it
through the Aer« Exchange, Inc.,
and Utilities Equipment Co, pro
perty at excess value for the di
rect benefit of Marshall.” The
suit alleged Marshall was a ma
jority stockholder in the two com
panies named.
Marshall is scheduled to appear
in district court here Nov. 21 to
show cause whe he should not
be restrained fom discharging his
duties as chairman of the board
pending outcome of the case
which seeks his removal from of
fice by court order.
Tito Declares
Ready to Defend
His Country
TITOVO UZICE, Yugoslavia, (/P)
— Yugoslavia’s Premier Marshal
Tito described Stalin today as “the
greatest meddler in world his
tory,” and said the Soviet leader
is “bent on an imperialistic cam
paign of conquest in the Balkans
unrivalled even by old Czarist
Russia.”
Tito’s blistering attack on his
one-time ally was his first major
broadcast address in more than a
year, and the first since his op
eration early this year for a kid
ney ailment.
Tito, now referred to by Mos
cow as Soviet Russia’s enemy,
said military experts in commun
ist Yugoslavia know all about war
preparation of the Cominform
which ousted the Yugoslav party.
He said “We are ready” to defend
the nation’s independence.