THE NOME NUGGET .
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NOME. ALASKA
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Entered as second class matter October 14, 1943, at the postoffice
at Nome, Alaska, under the Act of March 3, 1679.
Nome, Alaska, Friday, August 25, 1950
SAM HUXLEYS TO DEPART M. A. F. B.
Sam Huxley, Fire Chief of Marks Air Force Base, and
one of the most experienced men in his field in Alaska,
has announced his transfer to Fort Greeley at Kodiak,
where he will hold a similar position.
Sam Huxley has given of his time and experience in
assisting Nome in fires and with its fire problems and
it is with regret that the community sees him leave. His
department has co-operated well with the local Fire De
partment and through this co-operation much property
has been saved and serious disaster avoided.
The good wishes of the people of Nome go with Sam
Huxley and his wife.
ARE YOU OVERWORKED?
LISTEN—There are 365 days in the year and of these
you eat and rest two-thirds of the time, leaving you 121
day to work. There are 52 Sundays in each year, 52 half
days or Saturdays 1(A hours each day for lunch (includ
ing an allowance for sickness) and you take two weeks
holidays. If you add all these up, you will find it will
leave one day a year to work and this being Labor Day,
nobody works.
—Author Unknown
SPACE FOR TIME AND BLOOD AND LIFE
It would not hurt the readers of The Nugget to digest
the observation of the New York Times when that news
paper points out that what our fighting men are doing
in Korea is the buying of time by the giving of space.
And, “what is space?” asks the editor. It is the “blood
of men thrown into a battle for which they were not
prepared, without the weapons they needed.”
And, "what is time?” continues the New York editor,
it is “help coming from far away; the willing-support
of more than two score nations.”
Is that all? The answer, unfortunately, is in the neg
ative. Some of the brave young men will yield in battle
the "mcst precious gift a young man has”—all the years
that might have been his, if honor, duty and bravery
were not his shield in a world not yet perfected. j
PRAYER
More things are wrought ]
by prayer
than this world dreams of
—Tennyson.
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Korean Situation
At A Glance
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the Russians have been supplying
the North Koreans ever since the
outbreak of fighting, adding that
“nobody believes the North Ko
reans are manufacturing their own
war materiel.”
Sherman told the ship's com
pany on a U. S. 7th Fleet aircraft
carrier that U. S. warships ham
mering the North Koreans on the
coasts are only the advance guard
“until more help can come.”
American destroyers yesterday
made their second bombardment
of Chonji on the North Korean
east coast, starting fires which
could be seen for 10 miles.
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U. S. Marine airmen said they
killed 300 North Korean soldiers
in a rocket and strafing attack on
troop concentrations north of Tae
gu. B^29’s again hit traffic facili
ties of the North Koreans in the
rear, mangling rail lines along the
east coast and hitting the main
western railroad running toward
the battlefront. The Superforts
also smashed at one of the largest
chemical plants in East Asia at
Konan in North Korea, dropping
290 thousand-pound bombs. They
met no opposition in the air.
The southern and eastern bat-,
tlefronts were relatively unchang
ed. In the south U. S. 25th Infan
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try Division troope renewed an at- j
tack to win positions on a domin-1
ating ridge at the outter approach-1
es to Pusan, main U. S. harbor on |
the southeast coast. Advance
units of two Red divisions rained
heavy mortar and small arms fire
on the 25th infantrymen, possibly
in advance of a fresh Red attempt
to break through in the south.
On the eastern front, South Ko
rean troops moved north from the
Pohang-Kigye area against stiff
but localized resistance.
The Naktong river bridgehead
of the communists southwest of
Taegu still was being contained by
U. S. 24th division troops.
On the southwest coast, South
Korean marines landed on the is
land of Uido.
Friday, August 25, 1950
A 6,000-man spearhead of a ma
jor communist push attacked to
day after intense artillery prepar
ation north of Taegu. Other Red
forces to the east threw a heavy
tank-led attack at South Korean
forces, pushing them back as
much as 3,000 yards. The double
attack posed a twin threat to Tae
gu, United Nations forward base,
and Pusan, the main U. N. supply
base in South Korea.
Behind tanks, the forward
troops of a 20-000-man Red force
force lashed against the South Ko
rean Sixth Infantry Division six
miles east of Kunwi and 25 miles
north of Taegu in what Gen. Mac
Arthur’s headquarters considered
the beginning of a major effort.
The South Koreans were reported
holding, after the Reds made a
“slight penetration.”
But to the east a South Korean
! regiment withdrew up to 3,000
yards—from more than one to al
most two miles—near the moun
tain city of Kigye, nine miles
northwest of Pohang port. There
i were no details on the size of the
enemy force here.
The main iunje was at Chongo,
25 miles north' of Taegu on the
central sector. This is on a good
road leading to Yongchon, 28
miles to the south. Yongchon is
astride one major road leading
westward to Taegu and another
I leading southeast to Pusan.
Behind the 6,000-man striking
force on the northern front were
at least two full communist divi
sions—the Red First, which led
much of the 240-mile drive down I
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the Korean peninsula, and thej
Red eEighth. The first had been
kept in position to exploit *a break
through.
At the same time other North
Korean forces only 12 miles north
of Taegu threw a tank-supported
attack at the Allies in the.Kum
hwa area, battling for the bloody
corridor to Taegu where they had
been thrown back repeatedly be
fore. On this front Allied airmen
battered at a communist wedge
formed by infiltrations, whittling
ti down from 1,000 men to an es
timated 200. It had threatened
supply lines of the U. S. 27th in
fantry “Wolfhound” regiment.
In this sector, geenrally 12 to 15
miles north of Taegu, counterat
tacking South Koreans retook
most of the ground they lost ear
lier in the day. A spokesman said
no major defense position had
been lost in actions along the right
flank of the 27th regiment, where
South Korean Sixth Division ele
ments were under constant Redj
pressure. The spokesman added he
did not think there was anything
to worry about in this area. Front j
reports said the line here remain- j
ed generally stable, and that U. S. I
forces advanced slightly north- j
ward at some points to straighten;
lines.
An ominous threat to the ap
proaches to Pusan still loomed on
the southern front. Intelligence re
ports said air and artillery smash
er on the southern coastal front;
had slowed the Red general at-1
tack, but it was expected tonight
cr tomorrow night against the 25th
Division.
There was close fighting on the
southern front west of Masan—so
close that U. S. Negro infantry
men were using hand grenades.
The Reds were using tanks in* lo
cal assaults west of Masan, which
is 27 air miles from Pusan, while
apparently building up in their
rear for a major attack.
A captuxed communist general
order showed the North Korean
command had ordered death to
anv soldier who retreats. In view
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of this, the U. S. forces stepped up
the distribution of propaganda
leaflets offering safety to those
who surrender. Capture of Red
troops has become relaitvely eas
ier in recent days.
• While the Reds have apparent
ly shifted two or more divisions
eastward in the north for another
thrust of Taegu, they still may
have six other envisions in the
areas around Taegu, or another
60,000 men. Their attacks, how
ever, have bogged down against
successful Allied holding actions.
Guns of United States heavy
cruisers blasted the Reds at two
points on the east coast yesterday.
One cruiser moved more than 150
miles north of the 38th parallel to
shell 200 loaded railroad box cars
at Songjin, and the other gunned
I Red troop concentrations in the
Pohang area.
B-29 Superforts unloaded 600
1 tons of bombs on industrial tar
gets at Wonsan and Hungnam in
North Korea and on rail facilities
ir. the battle area. F-80 jets hit at
a Pyongyang, North Korea air
field, after a hunt for elusive Red
planes which attacked Allied na
val forces.
Some 1,500 British infantrymen
marched aboard the British cruis
er Ceylon and the aircraft carrier
Unicorn at Hong Kong today,
bound for the Korean front to
fight beside American and South
Korean forces.
At Lake Success, N. Y., Russia’s
Jakob A. Malik, U. N. Security
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Two Fisherriien
Safe After Two
Shipwrecks
KODIAK, (£*) — Two Seattle
fishermen survived two ship
wrecks and existed 12 days on six
cans of food washed ashore before
being picked up by a Kodiak
based coast guard flying boat 4 %
Wednesday.
They were Carl Hartley Teuber,
50, and Levi H. Burkholder, 53.
They had their first solid mean
since August 11 here Wednesday
night.
They gave this account of their
harrowing experience:
On Friday, Aug. 11, their Della f
II, a 39-foot fishing vessel, swamp
ed in Paule Bay on the Alaska
Peninsula as they attempted to
salvage the Della I, a sister ship
wrecked earlier.
Later a sudden storm and heavy
seas sent the Della II to the bot
tom, washing it up on the beach
alongside the Della I. The two
men managed the save one skiff.
Next day six cans of food wash
ed onto the beach from the wreck
age. That was their “chow” there
after.
They spent the next several
days wet and cold, huddled on the 1
beach near their skiff.
On Sunday, Aug. 20, they left
Paule Bay, hoping to reach the na
tive village of Kanatak, some 30
miles to the westward. They row
ed their skiff one whole day,
spending the night of the beach.
Tuesday they continued to row
until spotted by a plane. Earlier,
the Mainland Fisheries cannery at
Kukak notified the coast guard
the men were missing.
Fog and poor flying weather re
duced search efforts until Wed
nesday.
The two fishermen expressed
their gratitude to the coast guard
air pilot E. P.~ Ward, East Point,
Ga.; co-pilot G. W. Wayne, Bos
ton, Mass.; and crewmen Kenneth
Bright, Denver; Charles G. Graff,
Chicago, Daniel M. Nemirow, Har
rington, 111., and Paul H. Cocn
ran, Anacortes, Wash.
The Fire Department answered
a call this afternoon from the „J
Alaska National Guard building. ?
The alarm was caused by an over
heated stove and no damage was
reported.
Council president this month, was
expected to throw the Formosa is
sue into council discussions of the
Korean crisis this afternoon.
At Taipei, Formosa, Chinese Na
tionalist leaders said Red charges
of U. S. armed aggression in For
mosa were a Soviet propaganda
weapon aimed first at opening a ^
new propaganda campaign against
the United States in Asia, and sec
ond, to counter Nationalist China’s
charges of Soviet aggression. It
also would have the effect of di
verting attention from Korea and
jonfusing the issue in the United
Nations.
The new communist move was
oponed by the Red China govern
ment, which sent a message to the
U. N. charging the United States
with aggression and announcing
an intention to “liberate” Formo
sa. The U. S. Seventh Fleet has
been ordered to guard Formosa
from invasion.
In Washington, observers said
the odds were against the Chinese* f
Reds carrying out the threat to
“Liberate” the big island fortress
of the Nationalists. There was an
inclination in some quarters to
look upon the Red Chinese move
as designed essentially for propa
ganda purposes.