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VOL. LII. No. 131 NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1950 Per Copy—15c
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NEWS IN BRIEF
JUNEAU, (/P) — The United
States maritime board has sched
uled a hearing on frozen fish rate
increases at Ketchikan Nov. 27.
Governor Gruening was advis
ed of the arrangement in a wire
from Territories director James P.;
Davis. The Governor had protest
ed strongly against holding hear
ings outside Alaska and has asked j
for an addition hearing in the Ter
I
ritory.
Ketchikan is the home of the
p r i n c ipal complainants — The
Ketchikan Cold Storage Co., E. C.
Phillips and Son and Polar Fish
eries.
A Seattle hearing, originally
set for Nov. 15, probably will be
held Dec. 11.
NEW YORK. (/P) — Air Force
secretary Thomas Finletter says
the United States leads the world
in strategic air power, which ha
calls the greatest single deterrent
against world aggression.
Continued supremacy in all air
power categories, he told a Wing
Club dinner audience Friday
night, ‘ccruld enable us to control
the aggressive notions of a land
power.”
TOKYO, fi^P)—General MacAr
thur’s spokesmen said Saturday
that travel of U. S. military de
pendents to Japan will not be re
sumed “at this time.”
However, he said dependents
who left established homes in Ja
pan for temporary visits in the
United States will be permitted to
return.
Control over the entry of de
pendents to all Pacific areas has
been transferred from the Joint
Chiefs of Staff to local command
ers.
Dependent travel to Guam and
the Philippines is expected to be
resumed without delay. Entry into
Okinawa will be determined by
available housing.
SEATTLE (/P)—Alaska Airlines
showed a profit before deprecia-!
tion of $374,098 for the first 11
months of its fiscal year, Ray
mond W Marshall, board chair
man, said Saturday. The previous
fiscal year showed a loss of $1.
322,565.
SAFFORD, Ariz. (IP) — Radio
station KGLU received a short
but emphatic protest Friday.
“For Heaven’s sake,” it said,
“either plan another tune of give
it a different name.”
The card was signed Mrs. Irene
Goodnight.
WASHINGTON (jP), Mrs. Perle
Mesta and Madame Bonnet ar
rived at the same cocktail party
yesterday with the same hats.
Mrs. Mesta is U. S. Minister to
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Both Parties
Predict Victory
WASHINGTON, (/P)—Here’s a
quick run-down on tomorrow’s
national elections.
About 52,000,000 people are ex
pected to vote. If they do, they’ll!
set a record for a non-Presiden
tial election.
Thirty-six of the 96 Senate seats
and all 435 House seats are at
stake. And this year the people
of 33 States have to elect govern
ors.
<Maine has already elected a
governor and three House mem- j
bers).
Democrats and Republicans1
have both spent around a million
dollars each in this year’s cam
paigns.
At this moment in the Senate
the Democrats outnumber the Re
publicans, 54 to 42, or 12 more.
The Republicans need a net gain
of seven to get control.
In the House the Republicans
49 more members to grab control. |
To do this they must keep their
present strength of 169, fill their
own three vacant seats, and pick
up 46 from the Democrats.
Among the 48 States right now
the Democratic Governors out
number the Republicans. 29 to 19.
In the 33 Governorships being!
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Early Murder Trial
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For Assassin
WASHINGTON, (/P)—An early
murder trial, possibly in Febru
ary, appeared in prospect Satur- j
day for Ascar Collazo, Puerto Ri- \
can gunman wounded Wednesday
in the wild and bloody attempt to*
kill President Truman.
Federal investigators said they
saw nd need to delay the trial for
many months to permit the check
ing and rechecking of all angles,
particularly the question of whe
ther Collazo and a slain compan
ion had accomplices.
U. S. district attorney George
Morris Fay said the case may be
presented to the grand jury next
I week Preliminary arraignment
has been set for Nov. 21.
Fay said he expects to move for
a nearly trial as well as a quick
indictment. A trial in February
was regarded as probable.
Collazo, a Puerto Rican nation
alist, faces a possible death sen
tence for the slaying of White
House policeman Leslie Coffelt.
Collazo and a companion, Griese
lio, tried to shoot their way into
Blair House, the temporary Tru
man residence. *
Torresola was slain in a furious
gun battle with White House po
! licemen and secret service agents,
including Coffelt.
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War May Be Imminent
In an extraordinary communique to the United Na
tions, General MacArthur referred to “alien commun
ist forces” and branded their intervention in Korea as
“one of the most offensive acts of international law
lessness” in history.
The U. N. commander’s communique said “a great
concentration” of communist divisions was massed in
Manchuria. He called this threat “a matter of the grav
est international significance.”
Sources close to him spoke even more ominously.
They said the start of a third world war may hinge on
Red China’s reaction to MacArthur’s accusation.
Communist China might no answer MacArthur, they
said, except by sending in more Red divisions.
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SEOUL, Korea (#>) — American
troops in northwest Korea this af
ternoon recovered a half-mile of
ground lost to a morning com
munist attack and fought bitterly
for no gain in the northeast
KANSAS CITY, (/P)—President
Truman had a long telephone con
ference today with secretary of
state Acheson on the worsening
situation in Korea.
Associates, unquotable byname,
said Mr. Truman was deeply con
cerned over the movement of Chi
neen communist troops into North
Korea from Manchuria.
Officially, however, the Presi
dent maintained silence on this
development as well as on Gener
al Douglas MacArthur's com
munique denouncing it as "one of
the most offensive acts of lawless
ness" in history
Presidential secretary Charles
G Ross said that Mr. Truman had
been "filled in on the whole situ
ation" in his talk with Secretary
Acheson.
against an enemy newly identified j
by General MacArthur as Chinese j
Reds.
Elements of two U. S. divisions j
holding the bridgehead area north j
of the Chongchon River near Ko-!
rea’s west coast recovered the ter
ritory lost to the Reds six miles
north of Anju.
They had been shoved back an
estimated half-mile by two bat-.
talions of communists who attack-'
ed in darkness at 4:30 a.m., but
weer finally halted at 7 a.m.
An earlier enemy feint at the
bridgehead Sunday night had been
stopped cold by American artil
lery, while Australian troops of
the British Commonwealth bri
gade also halted a stab by two
Red companies in a heavy fire
fight.
Despite these to-and-fro strug
gles, the northwest flank was de
scribed as relatively quiet Mon
day. compared with the big ac
tions of last week that caused a
50-mile American withdrawal.
Five Russian-made Yak fighter
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planes ineffectively strafed part
of the South Korean Six Division
on that front near Kunu late Mon
day.
In the northeast, U. S. Marines
beat back a bitter Chinese coun
ter 1 attack in slashing, hand-to
hand combat Monday just south
of the power reservoir. The Ma
rine drive towards that dam fail
ed to gain ground for the fourth
consecutive day, U. S. Tenth Corps
headquarters announced.
In the farthest northeast sector,
elements of the South Korean cap
ital division plunged 18 miles
north of the tow nof Kilchu, put
ting them 105 miles from the
frontier of Soviet Siberia. This
was the only appreciable Allied
gain of the day.
Elements of the U. S. Seventh
Division, also in the extreme
northeast, dug in on the frigid
south banks of the Ungi River and
sent out patrols to seek the enemy
in 2-below-zero weather.
This generally grim picture of
the Korean War, after victory
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WA SHINGTON, (JP) — The
United States may tell Communist
China to stop sending troops to aid
the Korean Reds or face destruc
tion of the great Suiho Dam, a
major source of power for China.
The report that such a warning
is under serious consideration
came simultaneously with release
of a special communique from
Gen. Douglas MacArthur, United
Nations commander in the Far
East, noting the presence; of "alien
communist forces" in the Korean
fighting.
Any such threat against the
power installations presumably
would be accompanied by assur
ances that if the Chinese commun
ists refrain from further interven
tion the agreements under which
Manchuria and Korea share the
Suiho power will be observed and
maintained.
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had been well within grasp of the
United Nations’ forces, was attrib
uted by Gen. MacArthur, the U. N.
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Statehood Issue Of
Hawaii Election
HONOLULU, OP)—Statehood is
the big issue in tomorrow’s elec
tion in Hawaii.
The big race is for the Territo
rial Delegate’s seat in Congress.
Both parties have stumped for
statehood.
The Democratic claimant, Wil
liam B. Cobb, says a Democrat
could turn the trick for the Terri
tory. The Republicans say Dele
gate Joseph R. Farrington practic
ally has clinched it already. They"
say a Farrington defeat would be
repudiation of Hawaii’s expressed
desire for statehood.
Hawaii’s proposed State Con
stitution is up for ratification
Tuesday. It also hinges on the
statehood question.
Its drafters say overwhelming
approval would show the other
States that Hawaii really wants
statehood.
Steel Pay Hike
Talks Near End
PITTSBURGH, UP)— The U.S.
Steel corporation and the United
Steel Workers union (CIO) today
enter what may prove to be the
final round of wage negotiations
for the company’c 155,000 produc
tion and maintenance employees.
Any wage boost granted the U.
S. Steel workers would have an
effect on:
1. Pay talks the union is con
ducting with other steel firms.
2. The prices of hundreds of
products manufactured from the
steel companies produce.
Philip Murray, who is president
of bothe the steelworkers union
and the CIO, will head the union
delegation, has indicated he wants
a “healthy and substantial” wage
hike for the million members of
the steelworkers union who now
average $1.70 an hour. Industry
and union sources say they be
lieve he has asked U. S. Steel to
grant the workers 25 cents an
hour.
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ARCTIC CLUB CARNIVAL
VERY SUCCESSFUL
The Arctic Club Carnival Com
mittee had a busy night Saturday
with the school Gym packed with
young people enjoying the games
at the many concessions all
around the room.
There were fifteen games in
progress at all times as well as
fortune telling which was done by
Leah Levers.
Washington Ollana of Teller
Mission took home the top prize
of a new 45 rpm. electric portable
record player and Jackie Muller
carrie daway the deluxe children’s
coaster sled.