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VOL. LIII. No. 15 • NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1951 Per Copy—15c
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NEWS IN BRIEF
OKLAHOMA CITY, (JP)—Lloyd
Marshall Mayfield was reluctant
to abandon his warm bed Friday
idght to brave the sub-freezing
weather.
Not even for the police would
Mayfield budge, although two of
ficers waved an assault and bat
tery complaint signed by his wife.
“If you’re going to take me,
you’ll have to take me like this,”
Mayfield bluffed.
The officers obliged. He was
booked at headquarters—shiver
ing in his shorts.
BELGRADE, Yugoslavia (^P) —
One Yugoslav was sentenced to
death Saturday and 15 others to
prison terms ranging from six
years to life, on charges of plot
ting to overthrow the Tito regime
and restore exiled King Peter II.
The death sentence was impos
ed on Dusan Ilic, 29, former offi
cer in the Chetnik forces during
the German occupation.
ANKARA, Turkey (/P)—1Turkey
has decided to send 600 more
troops to Korea, bringing to near
ly 6,000 the number of men she
has fighting with United Nations
forces there. The new contingent
is slated to sail Feb. 16.
ROME, (/P)—Official circles re
port Premier Alcide de Gasperi
will meet President Truman in the
United States before the end of
February.
The informants said De Gas
peri’s trip will be made after he
confers on Feb. 12 and 13 with
French Premier Rene Pleven. Ple
ven visited Mr. Truman »in Wash
ington last week.
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Auto Industry May
Be Shut Down By
Railway Strike
(By The Associated Press)
The railroad switch-men’s strike,
now in its second week with no
general back-to-work movement
in sight, threatened today to shut
down the entire automobile indus
try.
Auto industry sources said car
making may have to stop if the
walkout continues another week.
With 125,000 auto workers now
idle nationally, they predicted the
layoffs may soon rise to 600,000.
Scant relief from the paralyzing
, effects of the strike was evident.
Besides the auto workers, thou
sands of other industrial workers,
were idle and hundreds of plants
were shut down.
Only six trains were scheduled
to leave New York’s huge Grand
Central Terminal today. Commut
er services of both the New York
• Central and the New York, New
Haven and Hartford Railroads are
tied up there. Some 70,000 daily
commuters are affected.
But the situation was brighter
at New York’s Pennsylvania sta
tion. The Pennsylvania Railroad
restored its 183-train commuter
service to New Jersey. Of a nor
mal force of 407 trainmen, the
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I Oil Land Development Being
Planned Near Cordova
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(Anchorage Times)
Applications for oil leases cov
ering more than a half million
acres in the Katalla-Yagatagaarea
along the Gulf of Alaska south
east of Cordova, were filed in the
Land Office recently by Ben G.
Gellenbeck, partner with William
T. Foran in the Northern Devel
opment Co., of Tacoma.
Gellenback filed 225 applica
tions certified checks totaling
more than $120,000 covering the
WILLIAM T. FORAN
federal leasing fees of 25 cents an
acre. The filing was recorded im
mediately after Gellenbeck’s ar
rival from Tacoma.
Gellenbeck said the 225 appli
cations represent the “largest
block of unitized acreage ever as
sembled in the history of the pe
troleum industry in the North
American continent. He was en
j thusiastic over the prospects of a
great oil development that could
become one of the world’s major
producers.
The Northern Development Co.,
is serving as attorney for the 225
lease applicants and will negoti
ate with oil companies relative to
exploration and drilling opera
tions. Applicants for the leases re
side in 14 states, the District of
Columbia, and Alaska, Gellen
beck said.
He said that geological work on
BULLETIN
WASHINGTON. (/P)—A bill to
draft into military service railroad
strikers holding occupational de
ferments was introduced in Con
gress today. .!
Rep. Andrews (D.-Ala.) present
ed the bill in the House as the j
strike, completing its first week,
tied new knots in the nation's
transportation system.
More trains were cancelled,
more plants were shut down for
lack of materials or shipping fa
cilities and new thousands were
thrown into idleness.
A "total deadlock" in negotia
tions in Washington aimed at set
tling wage-hour issues behind the
walkout was reported by a mem
ber of the National (Railway) Me
diation Board.
Thomas Bickers, board secre
tary, said: "I've been in the busi
ness 32 years and I've never seen
any more stubborn case. We're
still trying to break the ice.
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the area has been completed by
Foran, geologist of Fairbanks, and
George C. Martin and A. G. Mad
dren of the U. S. Geological Sur
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i vey.
“Only aerial mapping remains
to complete the basic geological
picture of the entire region,” he
! said.
The Katalla oil lands, long rec
| ognized in Alaska as a potential
producing area, were withdrawn
from entry in 1910. They were re
leased in 1947.
Gellenbeck said the geologists
have found that the region is the
j only geologic setting north of Cal
ifornia that afforded commercial
. production of oil. Small wells
■ have been operated in the area for
; a long period. *
“This is the largest block of
; unitized acreage in a promising
potential oil province ever assem
bled in the history of the petrole
um industry on the North Ameri
can continent,” Gellenbeck said.
“I sincerely believe that today
will be recoguized as an import
i ant date in the history of Alaska.”
The Katalla-Yagataga petrole
um area is situated about 55 miles
j southeast of Cordova and extends
' along the shore of the Gulf of
• Alaska from Controller Bay to Icy
BEN GELLENBECK
Bay, a distance of about 110 miles.
It was first brought to the atten
tion of the petroleum industry by
Thomas White, a prospector, who
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INTERESTING ARRANGEMENT
OF PLANETS THIS WEEK
(By Olaf Halverson)
There is a beautiful and almost
spectacular arrangement of three
planets in the southwestern sky
soon after sunset. They are align
ed in a tandem formation, or a
straight line, toward the setting
sun. The highest bright planet is
Jupiter followed closely by Mars
which is rather dim because it is
on the opposite side of the orbit,
and the lowest but increasingly
bright is Venus.
This week will show an inter
esting movement of these planets.
By Wednesday, Mars which is
rapid in its movement will be tip
close tor Jupiter. By Sunday Venus
will be almost up by Jupiter.
The moon also will add to the
beauty of the sky and will assist
in pointing out the planets. On
Wednesday the moon will be dose
to Venus. On Thursday the moon
will be close to Jupiter and Mars.
Lifting The Lid
At Juneau
(By Jim Hutcheson)
Saturday, February 3, 1951
JUNEAU, (jP) — Competition is
developing in~ the controversial
legislative investigating field.
An alternative is toeing drawn
by Democratic opponents of Rep.
Glen Franklin’s four-member in
vestigating committee measure.
Chairman Wendell P. Kay, An
chorage Democrat, said Franklin’s
bill will be reported to the floor
by the House judiciary committee
Monday'With proposed amend
ments “to safeguard against pos
sible abuses of the McCarthyism
type.”
Kay was to introduce an alter
native bill today for creation of a
legislative council of seven mem
bers. He described it as “sort of a
little Hoover Commission sort of
group.”
He said the bill would propose
the council study all aspects of
government between sessions, con
duct investigations, and recom
mend streamlining of government.
It would have four House and
three Senate members, with at
least one from each Division and
no more than four from one polit
ical party.
Kay and Stanley McCutcheon
of Anchorage are judiciary com
mittee members expected to sup
port the council proposal instead
of Franklin’s.
Kay said he wanted to get the
council bill’ in before Franklin’s
reaches the floor so the House can
consider the two bills together.
Franklin’s bill has been in com
mittee for more than a week.
The House yesterday postponed
for two weeks final action on the
bill for licensing all real estate
brokers and salesmen after re
buffing attempt which author
Kay said would “cut the heart
out” by eliminating the license
forfeiture provisions.
The bill would require examin
ations by real estate men and li
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Triman Demands
Drastic Increases
In All Taxes
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WASHINGTON, (IP)—1The Tru
man administration asked Con
gress todoy to add four per cent to
federal income tax rates, double
the tax on gasoline and sharply
boost levies on cigarettes, automo
biles, appliances an dother items.
The program, which woiild hit
the pocketbooks of millions of tax
payers, would nearly triple the
excise tax on automobiles and
more than double the tax on tele
vision and radio sets, refrigerators
and other appliances.
Three cents' a pack tax would
be added to the excise tax on cig
arettes, making the total 10 cents
a pack. The excise tax on whis
key would go up about 60 cents a
•fifth and the tax on an ordinary
bottle of beer would be raised 1.3
cents.
The proposed increases would
mean a boost of 13 per cent—from
7 to 20 per cent—on auto levies
| Korean Situation
At A Glance - - -
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Saturday, February 3, 1951
(By The Associated Press)
A U. S. Army official indicates
! that the Allied forces are less than
! seven miles south from Seoul.
! Communists pour more reinforce
ments into the line south of Seoul.
Intruder planes smash at traffic
clogged highways and enemy con
centrations. Temperature drops to
25 below ^ zero. :rV -
The Peiping radio broadcasts a
statement toy Red China’s Premier
that U. S. “and its accomplices”
blocked the road to peace with
the U. N. resolution branding the
Peiping regime an aggressor. It
called the resolution “illegal, slan
derous,, null and void.”
Chou En-Lai, the No. 2 man in
communist China, said in the Pei
j ping broadcast statement that the
i Red regime “will absolutely pay
no attention” to the U. N. “good
offices” committee set up to try
to find a basis for peace.
The Soviet press in Moscow
quoted the Peiping newspaper,
saying the resolution “completely
closes the path to a peaceful solu
tion.”
The Indian foreign ministry
spokesman says India will leave
the mediation of the Korean fight
ing to other nations.
At Lake Success, the United Na
tions, ignoring the Peiping blast,
adjourns for the first free week
end in a month.
Monday, February 5, 1951
The biggest Allied tank force
of the war wallops Chinese Red
concentrations in “hell of a bat
tle” five air miles south of Seoul.
Two other tank-infantry columns
simultaneously stage killer raids
to upset "possible Chinese time
table for Chinese New Year offen
sive Tuesday. Allied war fleets
bombard enemy along both coasts.
United Nations diplomats today
were to resume their search for
peace, or at least an armistice in
Korea, and at the same time con
sider whether to try to use a club
on the Chinese they labelled ag
gressors. While the 14-nation col
lective measures group considers
possible sanctions against Peiping,
assembly president Nashrollah
Ntezam is trying to form a three
man good offices committee to
seek a negotiated settlement.
and 15 per cent-—form 10 to 25
per cent—on television and radio
set. The tax would be imposed on
the manufacturers' price.
The present $9 a gallon liquor
tax would be hiked to $12, the $8
3 barrel beer tax would jump to
$12, the seven cent a pack cigar
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ette tax would go up to 10 cents
and the gasoline tax would be
doubled, going from one and one
half cents a gallon to three cents.
Secretary of Treasury Snyder
outlined these proposals to the
House ways and means committee
as part of the administration's
first-installment ten billion dollar
tax boost.
The plan calls for a four billion
dollars increase in individual in
come taxes, a three billion hike in
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