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NEWS IN BRIEF
ANCHORAGE. Alaska. (/P) —
The Forty-Ninth Star quotes an
air force spokesman for Gen. Wil- j
liam Kepner as denying reports
that the Alaska Commander once;
termed Marks Air Force Base at
Nome as undefendable.
The spokesman told the weekly
publication General Kepner plans
the defense of every point in Alas- j
ka; "the material removal from
Marks doesn't mean Nome is being
written off."
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ANCHORAGE, (7P> — The air
force has announced that Capt.
Lemuel W. Purdum III, 29, of
nearby Fort Richardson was pilot
of a C-47 missing since last Mon
day night. The craft vanished on
on a flight between two Alaskan
air force bases, Eielson and El
mendorf.
WASHINGTON, i/P)—The inte
rior department said last week
that the population of trumpeter
swans actually are increasing.
Many of the birds unaccounted for
may merely have moved to breed
ing grounds further north or to
remote areas, the service said.
Increasing numbers of trumpet
ers. the wildlife service said, have
been seen in recent years on win
tering grounds in British Colum
oia and Southeastern Alaska.
LONG BEACH, Calif. (/P), Wait
ress Mary Sue Carney overslept
today and thus shattered a roman
tic dream.
The milkman who delivers milk
to the cafe where she works has
brought her a lovely red rose
daily for the last ten days.
The same milkman also delivers
to her home.
Her alarm failed today but she
was awakened by the milkman’s
bottle-rattling.
She peeked out the window and
learned where the roses came!
from—her own garden.
WASHINGTON, (IP) — Authori
tative quarters reported Saturday1
that Robert H. Denham is being*
eased out of his job as general
counsel of the National Labor Re
lations Board.
Though Denham declined to
comment, it was learned that the
White House was preparing to an
nounce his resignation shrotly.
WASHINGTON, (/P)—Presiden
tial assistant John R. Steelman,
Friday night called on the nation
to “draw in its belt, work more,
save more and pay more taxes.”
The fight in Korea is “only an
incident” in the strategy of com
munist imperialism and there can
be no relaxing after victory there,
Steelman told the National Asso
ciation of Women Lawyers.
WASHINGTON, (/P) — Stagger
ing under a load of “must” legis
lation, Congress late Friday night
gave up hope of starting an ex
tended vacation last week-end. In
stead, both Houses recessed until
today.
Senate-House conference com
mittees scheduled new meetings
Saturday on a $4,508,000,000 tax
bill and an emergency appropria
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O’Mahoney Calls
For Consideration
Of Statehood Bills
WASHINGTON, {JP) — Senator
O’Mahoney (D.-Wyo.) said today
the “psychological time” has ar
rived for the Senate to act on
statehood for Alaska and Hawaii.
In a Senate speech he reminded
campaign-conscious collea guesi
that the controversial issue—on
which President Truman has
asked action—still is hanging fire.
He said action on House-ap
proved statehood bills would coun
ter Russian propaganda that the
United States is fostering “colon
ial imperialism” in the Pacific.
The statehood issi^)—likely to
be debated at length—was only,
one of several which plagued law-,
makers bent on getting out. of
Washington while there is still
time to convince the folks at home
that they ought to be re-elected.
A Senate-House confe rence
committee was about ready to
give its formal approval to a com
promise version of an anti-sub
versive bill which some of Mr.
Truman’s friends on Capitol Hill
were urging him to sign.
Both Houses still have to pass
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Commerce Dept.
Suspends Lee
1 WASHINGTON (/P)—Commerce
department officials said today a
department loyalty board has
made an adverse finding against
Michaen Lee, and he has been sus
pended from his $10,000 a year
job in that agency.
The finding, handed down with
out announcement September 8,
already has been challenged by
Lee. His attorneys are preparing
an appeal to secretary of com
merce Sawyer, officials said.
Lee, 42, was born in Manchuria
of Russian ancestry. He was head
of the Far East branch of the de
partment’s office of international
trade before his loyalty was put
under question first in October,
1948.
Before the adverse loyalty board
ruling, secretary Sawyer had
asked Lee to “resign or be fired”
on grounds that his continued em
ployment was detrimental to the
department aside from loyalty
questions.
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AMERICA’S
WEAPONS
((^P) Newsfeatures)
KELLETT XH-10. a twin-en
gined transport-type Air Forces
helicopter, is all-metal, has a
cruising speed of 90 miles per
hour, cruising range of 350
miles. It can carry 12 men.
Bartlett Blasts
News-Miner Editor
For “Talking”
FAIRBANKS, (jP)—Editor Wil
liam Strand fired back Saturday
at Congressional Delegate Bart
lett’s reference to him as being
linked with the controversial Sen
ator Schoeppel <R.-Kans.) speech
in Congress.
“Since when is it a crime to ask
for information?” asked the Daily
News-Miner editor.
Bartlett has issued a statement
in Washington Friday in which he
named Strand as one of those,
from whom Frank Bow, aide to |
Senator Schoeppel, solicited infor- j
mation in preparing the controver-,
sial attack on interior secretary
Chapman.
“It was my pleasure while in
Washington, D. C., recently to talk
to Mr. Bow among quite a num
ber of federal officials,” Strand
replied Saturday. “Our conversa
tion was concerned with the sad
state of public affairs in Alaska at
the present time. Mr. Bow is not a
subscribed to the Daily News
Miner. Therefore he was not con
versant with such glowing chap
ters in the story of the present
Alaska administration as the Pal
mer land deal.
“I atempted, with a few well
chosen words, to bring him up to
date on that and other recent epi
sodes in the government of the
Territory.”
“The only reputations blasted
belong to those in the Territorial
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Electricians Union
Sparking For
Wage Boosts
(By The Associated Press)
Wage disputes by two big elec
trical unions with two of the na
tion’s largest electric companies
dominates the major labor devel
opments.
One company—General Electric
—reached agreement with the un
ions, ending the threat of a coun
try-wide strike. The second—
Westinghouse — was threatened
with a strike.
The two unions and General
Electric agreed to a new contract
providing a wage boost of 10
cents an hour and other benefits
for some 105,000 workers. The
agreement also ended a strike of
40,000 CIO workers.
The same two unions—the CIO
International Union of Electrical
Workers (IUE) and the Independ
ent United Electrical Workers
(UE) rejected Westinghouse’s of
fer of an eight cents an hour pay
boost.
The UE ordered a strike vote
for the 22,000 Westinghouse work
ers it claims. The CIO union,
which claims 45,000 workers,
called an emergency meeting of
its strategy committee.
A Westinghouse spokesman said
the company “has no present
plans” to increase its wage offer,
which included “an improved pen
sion and social insurance pro
gram.”
Suntrana Coal
Miners Strike For
Higher Wag es j
FAIRBANKS, (/P) — A miners^
walkout to back up a wage in
crease demand shut down the
main operation of the Healy River
Coal company at Suntrana Friday.
The mine was the-biggest Alas
ka industrial operation of the late
“Cap” Austin E. Lathrop, who
was killed in an accident there
July 26. It is about 150 miles south
of Fairbanks.
More than 60 employees left
their jobs.
Company officials said the new- j
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White Challenges
Gruening to Debate
On Administration
FAIRBANKS, (/P) — Republican
chairman Albert White made the
kickoff in the party’s Fourth Dis- |
trict “all-out campaign” with an
open debate challenge to Governor
Gruening “or any of his satel-!
lites” on the conduct of Alaska’s
government.
The Juneau party leader spoke,
at a weekend Republican dinner
rally here.
He alleged there has been “cor
ruption, misfeasance and malfea
sance” in the Territorial govern
ment and cited instances which
ha said proved it.
In his debate challenge, White
said:
“I shall pay for the hall and for
transportation expenses. If the
governor is unable to accept this
challenge, I offer to pay travel
expenses of one of his local satel
lites ... to debate the same ques
tion.” j
He cited numerous instances in
which he said present and former
legislators have received pay from
bureaus, departments or commis
sions which they helped to create
while in the legislature, and add
ed:
“This practice, if not illegal, is
certainly morally wrong.”
Alaska’s general election will be
held October 10.
AMERICA’S
WEAPONS
((/P) Newsfeatures)
57 MM. RECOILLESS RIFLE
can throw a 2Va-pound shell
4,300 yards. It uses either high
explosive or armor-pier c i n g
shells, weighs 44 pounds, re
quires a 5-man crew.
Korean Situation
At A Glance —
Saturday, September 15, 1950
(By The Associated Press)
United Nations forces, spear
headed by tank-driving U. S. Ma
rines rolled into the suburbs of
Seoul, South Korean capital, to
day after capturing Kimpo air
field, 15 miles northwest of the
city.
The South Korean Republic’s
radio at Pusan said the U. N.
forces captured the Yongdunpo in
dustrial suburb of Seoul at 5 p.m.
(Korean time).
The broadcast said South Ko
rean Marines, as well as U. S.
Leathernecks, were engaged in vi
olent street fighting with Korean
Reds, while other units of the U.
N. forces were advancing toward
the heart of Seoul.
Another big Allied offensive
kicked off all along the 120-mile
perimeter of the old southeast
beachhead in a drive intended to
put the squeeze on the commun
ists from the north and the south.
U. S. Second Division troops
drove through heavy rains and
deep mud to east east bank of the
Naktong River, four and one half
miles from their starting point.
Front line reports said the Ko
rean Reds were pulling back
westward in a “general exodus”
and in “vast mad confusion.” A
Division spokesman said the hills
were littered with - North Korean
dead.
Elsewhere on the 120 mile front
other Allied forces hammered out
gains from one to three miles.
Six Red tanks threatening to
delay the drive on Seoul were
knocked out. Carrier planes “in
force” covered the advance.
Field dispatches said the Allied
forces had established a line across
the Inchon Peninsula. Behind the
advancing Marines were some 40,
000 men, pouring ashore with
their equipment. South Koreans
were mopping up Red remnants in
the port city of 300,000 population.
Inchon was captured quickly
Friday after American troops and
South Koreans stormed ashore,
first of Wolmi Island, which is
connected to Inchon by a cause
way. They stormed the beaches
under a tremendous naval and air
bombardment and swiftly slashed
two miles into Inchon.
Inchon’s port facilities already
have been put back into opera
tion. Troops and a flood of equip
ment flowed ashore Friday night.
The startegy planned by Gen.
MacArthur of July 12 was pro
ceeding on schedule. MacArthur
said the big pincer movement
would cause the Korean Red army
to “disintegrate” sooner or later.
He obviously gambled that Red
China or Russia would not fight.
The success of the Inchon land
ings was credited in a large mea
sure to the daring of six Allied
destroyers and a blunder by the
Reds.
The destroyers were ordered to
cruise slowly by Wolmi Island to
draw fire from shore positions.
The Red guns at first were silent,
! then made the mistake of opening
up on the “sitting ducks.” This
revealed their position to the
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