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VOL. LII. No. 115 NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1950 Per Copy—15c
NEWS IN BRIEF
WASHINGTON, (JP)—President
Truman signed a bill Wednesday
providing that receipts from the
fur seal fisheries and other wild
life in the Pribilof Island of Alas
ka shall be used to develop wild
life resources of the Islands.
Heretofore the money was turn
ed into the treasury.
ANCHORAGE, (/P) — A C-47
plane from Ladd Air Force Base
rushed an iron lung here Tuesday
night for Mrs. Lester Lambert,
who is suffering from an undiag
nosed malady.
Her physician prevailed upon
Col. Levi Browning of the Fort
Richardson U.S.A.F. hospital to
contact Ladd because the Richard
son lung was in use. The one at
Fairbanks was the only other
available.
Mrs. Lamber, mother of two
children, has been ill for two
weeks. Her condition yesterday
was termed serious.
TACOMA, (/P) — A policeman’s
bullet, fired at a fleeing soldier,
struck and fatally wounded an 18
year-old California girl on a
downtown street last night.
The victim was Margot Gran
ell of Los Angeles.
She was shot in the neck when
the fleeing soldier, wanted on a
forged check charge, leaped into
the automobile in which she rode
with her sister, Mrs. Herbert Ca
macho of Tacoma.
The young girl was dead on ar-!
rival at a hospital.
Police declined to reveal the
names of the two officers partici-!
pating in the shooting or of the|
soldier they were pursuing. The’
soldier was caught.
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EDMONTON, Alberta, (JP) —
Snows and drenching rains have
snuffed out a chain of some 100
forest fires which blazed across
Canada’s northwest this week. Of
ficials said the danger now is over.
The giant rash of fires, which
attracted attention throughout the
continent, stretched from the Sas
katchewan border across northern
Alberta and 300 miles north along
the Alaska Highway.
Smoke from the flaming wood
lands caused a vast pall that
spread thousands of miles east
ward, blotting out Monday night's
eclipse of the moon and creating
a haze as far away as New York.
CHICAGO, (/P)—Five days after
an atomic attack on Chicago,
housing for 25,000 homeless per
sons would be erected under the
city’s civilian defense plans.
Defense officials from 15 states
and 20 cities, Hawaii, Alaska, Can
ada and Great Britain were told
of emergency housing plans Wed
nesday during a critique on mea
sures plotted to meet a hypotheti
cal attack on Chicago.
Paul Gerhardt, Jr., city architect
and head of the city's protective
shelter sub-committee, said that
the all clear signal after an attack
would send an army of nearly 10,
000 builders into action.
Seven sites for erection of emer
gency shelters have been desig
nated.
Ezzard New Heavy-,
Weight Champ; !
Outpoints Louis
(By Jack Hand)
NEW YORK, (/P) — Joe Louis
knew yesterday that they never
come / back.
Ezzard Charles, a vastly under
rated heavyweight champion, bur
ied the ghost of Louis Wednesday
night at Yankee Stadium in 15
cruel rounds. It was the same
story that Jack Dempsey and Jim
Jefferies learned years ago. You
can’t beat father time.
Puffed up to 218 and shaky in
his timing, Louis absorbed a
bloody beating in his unfortunate
bid to become the first heavy
weight champion ever to recap
ture his battle. He missed by plen
ty.
The 27-year-olcl Charles did ev
erything but knock out the bewil
dered Joe Louis of 1950, a 36
vear-old man whose iron fists had
rusted away. Joe groped blindly
toward the top rope in the 14th to
save himself. He probably would
not have lasted many more rounds.
“I just didn’t have it,” he said
in his dressing room, swabbing his
swollen-shut left eye with an ice
pack.
‘•Just didn’t have it in any de
partment.”
He didn’t have to say so. It was
obvious. Only in the 10th round
when he hurt Charles with a flash
of the Louis of old did he excite
the crowd of 22,357 that paid a
gross of $205,370. Some 25,000,000
more watched on television.
Charles fought a brilliant fight
to earn the unanimous vote of all
three officials. Referee Mark Con
gave him a 10-5 edge, Judge Joe
Agnello 12-3, and Joe Frank
Forbes 13-2. The OP) card had it
1- with one even.
It is too bad that Louis* failure
will take much of the overdue
credit away from Charles. The
lean 184Vfe pound Cincinnati Ne
gro, previously recognized as Na
tional Boxing Association champ,
now is also certified in New York,
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North Korean Communists Cease To Be
Organized Fighting Force
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Thursday, September 28, 1950
An Allied commander said to
day the North Korean army is in
complete rout and no longer exists I
as an organized force.
The appraisal was made by Lt. \
Gen. Walton H. Walker, com-!
manded of the U. S. Eighth Army, i
as remnants of the once-powerful1
150,000-man communist army re-j
treated toward the 38th parallel
when the North Koreans launched \
their attack June 25.
As U. S. Marines mopped Up de
i stroved Seoul. South Korean cap
ital, fast-moving armored Allied'
! units further carved up commun
ist forces in South Korea.
Walker said all Red forces south 1
of the Pusan-Taejon-Seoul high
way winding diagonally from,
southeast Korea to the northwest!
will be annihilated. Any possibil
ity of organized communist re
treat from the south was removed
Tuesday by the joining of armor
ed columns pushing up from Pu
san and down from Inchon. This j
line joining the old beachhead
with the Allied second front is
now secure, Walker said, and the
Reds are firmly trapped.
The Allied commander warned,
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BULLETIN
Lt. Gen. William E. Kepner,
commander in chief of Alaska,
will be heard at 9:30 p.m., tonight
over Radio Station AFRS, Marks
Air Force Base. The general's
speech was recorded in Anchor
age on Thursday, September 21,
as he spoke at the Anchorage Ro
tary Club luncheon.
The record was furnished to
AFRS, Marks Air Force Base by
the joint public information office
of Elmendorf Air Force Base, Ft.
Richafdson, Alaska, and contains
a timely message on the military
plan for the defense of Alaska,
which should be of great interest
to the citizens of Nome.
U. S. Forces To
Defend All Alaska
Says Gen. Kepner
ANCHORAGE, OP)—'The armed
force are going to defend all points
ip Alaska in the event of attack,
Lt. Gen. William Kepner told a
Rotary Club audience in his first
local speaking appearance last
week.
Although he did not mention it
by name, Alaska’s commander
apparently was refuting claims
that Nome, on the Bering Sea,
would be maintained there for
Nome’s Marks Air Force base
has been inactivated, but an an
nouncement told Nomeites a crew
would be mainttained there for
regular winter scheduled landings
and for “emergencies.”
“I dor not believe an enemy
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Gen. Dean, 24th
Div’n Commander
May Be Alive
With U. S. First Cavalry Divi
sion. Korea, (/P)—Reports to U. S.
Counter-Intelligence Corps officers
held out a glimmer of hope yester
day that Maj. Gen. William F.
Dean may be alive.
He has been officially listed as
missing since July 20 when his
doughboys last saw him fighting
Red tanks with a GI bazooka team
in Taejcrn.
The CIC said three South Ko
reans who escaped from the pri
son stockade at Chongju before it
was dynamited by fleeing Reds
reported they overheard commun
ist officers making plans last Sat
urday to move the former 24th Di
vision commander from Chongju
to Seoul.
Seoul is about 70 miles north of
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INDIA AND PAKISTAN STUDY
TWO POSSIBLE RED INAVSION ROUTES
Korean Situation
At A Glance - - -
—
Friday, September 29, 19S0
*By The Associated Press)
South Korean troops chased the
I communist invaders of their U. N.
I
sponsored Republic all the way to
the dividing 38th Parallel today.
Shells fell on ridges along the
| boundary where the Reds were in
: headlong flight.
A U. S. Eighth Army spokes
man said South Korean spear
heads that had approached the
parallel weer ordered to halt there
for regrouping.
He did not comment on what
, their orders might be after they
j completed regrouping. Two South
Korean forces were very close to,
if not actually on the line which
divides South and North Korea.
The forwardmost force was on
the eastern coast and firing artil
lery shells into communist posi
tions astride the border.
A surge of optimism swelled
I throughout the hon-commun i s t
world with this news: The first
armed intervention of the United
| Nations had completely crushed
| an aggression and the future of
the world organization seemed
brighter to many.
Gen, Douglas MacArthur, who
1 commanded the United Nations
i
forces, personally restored liber
ated but tortured Seoul to Korean
President Syngman Rhee in a
brief ceremony which ended with
the U. N. commander leading in a
mass recitation of the Lord’s
Prayer.
Hundreds of civilians lined the
streets as MacArthur and his staff
arrived for the ceremony. Many
seemed too stunned by the awful
battle, which had scarred and
blackened the city, to realize fully
what had happened.
With South Korean forces
reaching the 38th Parallel, the big
question was: Will they cross it?“
Associated Press correspondent
Leif Erickson flew over the area
in a U. S. Fifth Air Force plane.
He reported that the ridge where
Red Koreans might make a stand
along the parallel was about two
miles inland from the Sea of Ja
pan coast. Fires burned in a vil
lage 12 miles north of Parallel 38.
Military and political observers
in Tokyo had said Allied forces
might be ordered into North Ko
rea and push on to the borders of
Red China, within only about 100
miles of the Soviet port of Vladi
vostok. The 38th parallel itself is
not a legal boundary, but was sim
ply the dividing line between oc
cupation zones of U. S. and Soviet
forces after the Japanese defeat.
But the Russians created a com
munist regime in the north.
In a speech during the Seoul
ceremonies, Bernardo Africa of
the Philippines, present head of
the U. N. commission on Korea,
said “This artificial separation
can no longer be countenanced.”
He called for a fully united Korea
under a democratic government.
United Nations delegates in
New York shifted into high gear
to keep up with the swift victories,
with optimism growing that U. N.
decisions on the future of Korea
would make the country a show
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