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VOL. LII. No. 104 NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1950 Per Copy—15c
NEWS IN BRIEF
NEW YORK, (IP) — Northwest
Airlines, Inc., reported yesterday
its net profit for the quarter end
ed June 30 was $153,241, equal to
five cents a common share. Net
for the like quarter of 1949 was
$1,913,885, or $2.19 a share.
The air carrier reported a net
loss of $3,458,396 for the first half
of 1950, against a net profit of
$430,915, or 25 cents a share, in
the 1949 first half.
President Croil Hunter attrib
uted loses early this year to the
expense of breaking in new strato
cruisers and to unfavorable wea
ther. Northwest now is experienc
ing a record-breaking volume of
business and revenues.
With U. S. 25th Division, Korea,
(/P)—Some one in American head
quarters decided it would be clev
er to put a loud-speaker on the
North Korean lines and urge to
Reds to surrender.
Somebody in North Korean
headquarters thought it would be
clever to place a loudspeaker be
fore U. S. lines and tell the Amer
icans to go home.
Both loudspeakers opened up
simultaneously Wednesday night,
about a mile apart.
The score: 0-0. Nobody surren
dered. Nobody went home.
LONG BEACH, Calif. (JP)—Fire
did considerable damage to the
bedroom of officerW. M. Gibson’s
daughter.
He suspected a short circuit in
the electric record player.
While investigating, he picked
up a charred record, the last play
ed on the machine.
Its title?
“I don’t want to set the world on
fire.”
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WASHINGTON, (/P)—President
Truman has asked Congress for
$7,500,000 to begin reconstruction
of the Turnagain Arm road in
Alaska. A budget bureau message
Wednesday said that engineering
surveys on 20 miles of a 70-mile
stretch between Mile 58 in the
Chugach National Forest and An
chorage have been completed, and
contracts can be let soon.
It is planned to complete work
on the whole stretch by Dec. 1,
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America’s Weapons
U/P) Newsfeatures)
A 240 mm. howitzer of the
U. S. Army. It was the largest
mobile gun used on the Italian
front during World War II. The
white streak leading from the
breech of the gun at the right is
the firing lanyard.
“Day of Great Hope”
FIVE YEARS AGO TOMORROW...
HOSTILITIES ENDED officially in World War IL when General Douglas MacArihur staged
this scene on the Battleship Missouri.
Fairbanks Sending
Miss Alaska 1950
To Atlantic City
FAIRBANKS, (JP) — Alaskans
think they are sending the only
candidate to the Miss America
contest who can climb a mountain,
make a mukluk or smoke a fish—
and has done them all.
She is 22-year-old Maxine Co
thern, pretty, pert and talented.
The far northern climate doesn’t
give much opportunity for display
of some of the other attributes of
a potential Miss America, but she
has ’em.
As Miss Alaska, the New Mex
ico-bom beauty sets out by air
liner today for the Atlantic City
Board Walk.
Miss Cothern has been an as
sistant to the home department
director at the University of Alas
ka. She is an expert cook and
craftsman, and one of her many
sidelines has been swapping ideas
with the Eskimo women.
Dark-haired Miss Alaska was
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“Want To Buy A
Car—It’s Stolen”
YAKIMA, Wash. (/P)—Mayburn
W. Bringle just couldn’t seem to
sell a 1949 model sedan to Brem
erton used car dealers. He talked
and talked and finally lowered the
price to $200*
No soap. The third dealer called
the police who held Bringle for
\akima authorities. He had told
the dealer:
“It’s stolen, but you can get a
new title to it.”
The judge did the talking in
Superior Court yesterday. He as
sessed Bringle not more than ten
years in the penitentiary for auto
theft.
Constellation
Crashes In Egypt
Killing Fifty-Five
CAIRO, (^P)—A Transwold Air
line Constellation plane carrying
55 persons, 23 of them Americans,
crashed and burned yesterday
north of Cairo, killing all aboard.
The airline announced there
were no survivors among the 48
passengers and seven crewmen.
Reports from the scene said the
plane was so badly burned that
only a small section of its remain
ed intact.
The bodies of the victims, many
of them notables and representing
a dozen countries, were so badly
charred that identification at once
was impossible.
Officials of the district govern
or’s office in Behaira Province
placed the scene of the crash nearj
Etay Baroud, about 75 miles
northwest of Cairo. Eyewitnesses
said they saw the big four-engine
“Star of Maryland” plummet to
earth in flames.
Five of the crew of seven on
board the plane, bound from
Bombay India, to Rome, were
Americans. The other two
were French. Eighteen of the 48
passengers were Americans, and
the remainder represented 11
other nationalities. Two passen
gers were Indian Nationals en
route to a United Nations meeting
in Paris. Another passenger was
the Egyptian movie star Lilianne
Cohen, whose screen name is Ca
melia. She is known as “the Lana
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STORES CLOSED LABOR DAY
Nome will observe Labor Day
on Monday by the closing of busi
ness houses all day.
The Nugget will observe the
holiday also. There will be no
publication on Monday.
Gulf Hurricane
Does Small Damage
No Casualties
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NEW ORLEANS, (IP) — The
freakish Gulf hurricane that
swept inland Wednesday night
near Mobine, Ala., appeared to
have delivered its heaviest punch
at Panama City, Fla.
No loss of life was reported, and
the storm apparently caused lit
tle damage elsewhere.
Mayor Carl Gray of the coastal
resort in extreme northwest Flo
rida said in a radio broadcast a
dock was destroyed by high winds
and tides. Several other docks and
beach property were damaged he
said. 3,500 persons were evacuat
ed from low ground to Red Cross
shelters.
A tornado—believed an off
shoot of the storm—seriously in
jured two persons and wrecked a
dozen houses at Apalachicola, Fla.
Another hurricane grew in size
and intensity in the far eastern
Carribbean yesterday. The wea
ther bureau at San Juan, Puerto
Rico, reported winds of hurricane
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Alaska Bases Will
Have Special
Bomb Shelters
(Alaska Weekly)
ANCHORAGE —Bomb shelters
and slit trenches are to be dug
throughout the Elmendorf Air
Force Base and its adjacent hous
ing areas, the base newspaper,
Sourdough Sentinel, said here.
The defense measures were an
nounced at a staff meeting of the
57th Fighter Wing, the publication
reported.
Location and type of construc
tion for the shelters is under study
now, it was announced.
Korean Situation
At A Glance —
Thursday, August 31, 1950
(By The Associated Press)
Death-dealing guns of U. S.
Pershing tanks, and a fiery rain
of explosives from air and sea
stopped 26,000 North Koreans to
day in their drive on Pohang, east
coast port whose capture by the
Reds would have opened the way
for a final drive to throw United
Nations forces out of South Korea.
The big American tanks were
reported to have rolled four miles
north of Pohang after the fiercest
battle of the 10-weeks-old war. At
the same time, South Korean
troops stalled a companion com
munist drive nine miles north
west of Pohang at Kigye.
The communists paid a ghastly
price in blood for the yardage
they picked up and then lost out
side rubbled Pohang. The drive
was stopped just a mile and a half
outside the No. 2 port of U. N.
forces in Korea.
In eight hours, a thousand or
more Reds were killed or wound
ed in a frantic effort to take Po
hang before the month of August
passed. They failed to carry out
this order of the communist North
Korean government, which had
told them to take the port by Aug.
81 at all costs.
The air force said it killed 1,200
Reds in two days in this eastern
sector of the Allied northern wall.
The Reds spent lives recklessly,
but stout resistance by South Ko
rean and GI units, backed up by
the 90 mm. guns of the Pershing
tanks rushed to their support,
held the precious line guarding
the route to Pusan, main U. N.
base 65 miles south.
It was apparent this was the
supreme Red effort. A break
through at Pohang would signal
the final push for 150,000 Red
troops ringing the 120-mile battle
perimeter of the Allied beachhead.
Raking fire from U. S. warships
in the harbor mowed down the
Red attackeds like wheat before a
scythe. Planes belched flaming
daeth at them, but still they came
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America’s Weapons
((/P) Newsfeaiures)
The 81 mm. mortar. It will
shoot 4,000 yards, using either
high explosives or white phos
phorus smoke shells for smoke
screens. It can be fired as fas as
crew can operate it.